Nastiest celebs...

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Very trivial discussion (so I know I am being unreasonable already ), but I am reading a thread about nasty celebs from 2008 (google brought me there) and really enjoying the gossip... AIBU to ask who the nicest and vilest celebs are who you have met in real life?

Through a friend I know Marc Bannerman. Not A-list famous or anything, but still on the telly from time to time. He's got a bad reputation and has done some silly things, but he is quite honestly one of the sweetest, kindest people I've ever met, and he's great with kids. He made me a bacon sandwich once so he gets extra points for that!

I've also met James May, and Robert Bathurst. Both lovely! Oh, and Frankie Dettorri, but I was very young and didn't know who he was except he rode horses!

DM was friends with Eddie Grant (of Electric Avenue fame - sorry if that's now in your head!) and used to drink in the same pub as David Bowie many years ago. Says both were very nice!

Went to school with Christine Bleakley and she is absolutely lovely.
Alex Ferguson and his son Darren are really nice too.

I know Marc Bannerman (through a friend of a friend) too Coodle and I concur that he is lovely

(through a friend of a friend) *through a friend

Richard Armitage. Lovely and even more beautiful in the flesh.

I met Trevor and Simon at a Sci Fi convention. They were lovely :-)

(I'm the weeping angel from Doctor Who!)

I worked in a very posh hotel in a very nice part of the world, and met a load of famous folk.

A LOT of footballers, most of whom were lovely and bought drinks for all the staff, the loveliest was Frank leBeouf. I had no idea who he was, 2 French guys I worked with at the time could hardly speak they were so star struck, but he was just lovely and chatty, and handsome, and his wife was stunningly beautiful and lovely.

Also lovely were Martin O'neil, Carol Smilie, the guy that plays Charlie in Casualty, Robson Green. Oh and David Prowse, and Kenny Baker were lovely too. Oh and Jinky Johnson was a flirt, all 4 ft of him!

My DH met Robbie Coltraine on a flight to London and said he was the nicest man you could wish to meet, found out what my DH does for a living and was full of really genuine interest and questions. DH was very concerned about his size though, he said he is very tall, but took up almost 3 seats on the plane and as they walked to the luggage carousel together was very quickly out of breath.

Clint Eastwood on the other hand, was a prick. He was staying at the hotel I worked in and was NOT happy as he had wanted to stay in another hotel but it was full. He insisted that we kept other guests away from him, which in the bar I worked in was difficult, and when I said excuse me to him (so I could serve his very young lady friend her drink) he SIGHED rolled his eyes and made a big dramatic show of moving his (very long) legs out of my way. His Dr (yes his Dr) apologised profusely for him and tipped us VERY generously. His Dr was a lovely man!

Brilliant picture loveaspiring! Love Simon's expression.

shadownot too surprised. When M Phillips teaches it is v public so he has to be on best behaviour. I imagine you have heard the Andrew Nicholson stories? Vile man, v successful but at what cost to the horses?

I find that comedians are usually unbelievably lovely or a total nightmare. Dawn French, Lenny Henry, Eddie Izzard, Ross noble, Ed Byrne, Phil Kaye, Rob Brydon, Jerry Sadowitz, Bill Bailey, Simon Pegg. All Lovely. Steve Coogan, mark lemarr, Vic reeves (introduces himself as Jim, which I thought would mean he was going to be ok), David baddiel. All dicks. Maybe they were having an off day but it was all in social situations where they could easily have buggered off home if they wanted.

My mate worked with Steve backshall and says he's the worst person she's ever had to deal with. Proper diva.

Neneh cherry, lovely. Tricky, idiot. Justine Frischman, moody. James Lance, lovely. Damon Albarn, grumpy (but gorgeous), Gerard Butler, arse. Richard Branson, lovely. Simon Amstell, ace.

People I would be devastated to hear ARENT lovely; Mel & Sue, Mr Tumble, David Attenburgh. If anyone knows horrible stories about them, I don't want to hear it!

I met Jimmy Saville as a child. Friendly but weird (obviously). Gives me the creeps just thinking about it now. Frank Bruno was there too, he was lovely.

I was in the same class at primary school, from reception to year 6, as Kirk Norcross from TOWIE. He was thick as shit and in year 2 had a nosebleed all over my Take That pencil case.

Went to see Jimmy Carr at a small, local gig and left XH alone in the venue bar while I went to the ladies. Came back and he said to me 'do you see the bloke over to the left?' I looked over and there was a vaguely familiar man just staring at XH. I said 'the one staring at you? I recognise him; who is he?' XH said 'it's Jay from The Inbetweeners! He's been staring at me the whole time you were in the toilets!' He kept staring at XH so in the end we went and found our seats to get away from him. Turns out he was sitting diagonally behind us and continued staring when he got to his seat!

Anjou: I don't believe Stevie B is a diva - noooo!!

Unbelievably so, I'm afraid cocktailqueen! Demanding, huffy & rude. (I'd love to give more details but better not as it might make my friend identifiable!).

Maybe Anthony Head should open an academy teaching other slebs to be twinkly eyed and gracious.

Hardly a surprise but late fil came across Rupert Murdoch quite often in his working career and he was apparently a complete bastard.

I forgot this one. Two of my sons were in a christmas play and Mark Addy (Robert Baratheon in Game of Thrones) was in the audience. He came up to chat to them afterwards. The younger one didn't know who he was but the older son, a GoT fan, was totally starstruck. My husband said he was a lovely man.

Two Terrys mentioned here already, both book-signings - Terry Pratchett and Terry Deary. Both absolutely wonderful. TP had a queue round the block at our Borders, but gave everyone time, and was friendly and made each signing personal.

Oh and another one. We were in the front row watching Simon Callow in a one man show. He did a book signing afterwards. Very charming, funny and friendly.

Oh yes and another signing - in the late 1990s, my autistic son was obsessed with On The Buses. Going through town I spotted Olive from On The Buses (Anna Karen) and someone else, Melvyn Hayes I think it was, signing photos to raise money for charity. Anna wrote something very sweet on her photo for my son.

Those are all nice ones.

I used to work for Jade Jagger. She is horrible. Really horrible.

A friend of a friend once met Justin/Mr Tumble and said he is very rude and arrogant.

Met Robbie Williams skulking around outside our Toys 'R Us while his friend shopped inside. Completely down to earth, he said he wouldn't go in because of what would happen if he was recognised ... and with that place, he had a point!!

Princess Margaret had some major honorary position in the Girl Guides - god knows why - so while involved in a huge Guiding event I was surprised that everyone had a story about how she'd offended them. She was due to come on a visit, and sure enough she turned up - and offended everyone

Wasn't Steve backshall rumoured to be a diva on strictly and didn't get on at all with his dance partner behind the scenes ?

He came across really nice from the clips though

Friend of mine once got locked out of her first floor flat and asked Simon Callow to hold a ladder so she could clamber in through the window!

Anna Friel. Met her several times when I worked in a shop and she is lovely. Really chatty and polite and so pretty. Complimented my hair once.

Served Abi Titmuss years ago and she tutted at me and walked off when we no longer had an item in stock which she'd seen the week before.

Ben Freeman (was in Emmerdale) and his wife (used to be in Hollyoaks) - really lovely. Chatty and funny. He came in a couple of times buying things for her and was clueless so would use our help picking things out. Very polite and his wife is stunning.

I also met frank Bruno and he was very nice and happily signed an autograph.