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?

I've met Sean Bean twice and he was a sweetheart on both occasions and very down to earth.
Paloma faith is exactly as she comes across very kooky/lovely she told me my daughter was beautiful
Joss stone is horrible! I've witnessed her tut and snarl at a little girl of no more then 7 when she asked her for an autograph

I love Alex Polizzi, she gorgeous, that voice - swoon!

And yes, I could be persuaded

Sean Bean was a right sleaze to someone I know.

Emmelinelucas - I am beyond jealous at the list of authors you have met - many of them are present on my bookcases.

A friend who used to work in the theatre tells me that Bernard Cribbens is a total knob.

But which Chris Evans, LadyCassandra - Captain America or the ginger DJ?

Am glad Alex Polizzi is nice. I would totally buy a run-down B&B just for the pleasure of hearing her call me "darling" in a disappointed voice.

Pam St Clement (Pat Butcher in Eastenders) is apparently very nice, she used to come into a shop I worked in although I never met her all the other staff that had met her said she was very nice. One of the staff passed out in the shop whilst Pat was there and she sent a card and chocolates I think to say get well soon.

I've come across Dawn French a couple of times in my old job and she was lovely and chatty even though she didn't need to be as I was a total nobody.

Miranda Hart and I have a friend in common and I've been on a few nights out with her years ago, just before her TV career took off and she was charming, funny and very self-effacing.

Stephen Fry - friendly and chatty (although the presence of young extremely handsome boys may have played a part).

Bonnie Langsford - sweet, sweet lady who seemed genuinely shocked at being offered preferential treatment.

H from Steps - Not anywhere nears as irritating as you'd think and quite sweet when he wasn't 'on'.

Patrick Stewert - a real gem.

Emma Thompson - Bonkers but lovely.

Matt Lucas - funny and totally unassuming.

Horrible ones - Anna Friel, rude and up herself (I know someone that worked for her for a little while, he used to add thinks to her lunch iykwim as payback for vileness). Patricia Routledge is apparently a nightmare and I've never heard a good word about Cilla.

Ugh. Imagine being Anna Friel and reading this and thinking "Ah - so THAT'S why my food always tasted odd when X used to work for me...."

The ginger one!
It was Warrington after all!

My friend who was cabin crew in first class with BA has told me some great sleb stories.

According to her:

Princess Michael of Kent awful, crew not allowed to address her directly. Her hubby fab though.
Cilla awful, but no surprise there
Madonna travelled in first along with a huge entourage. Her children and their nannies travelled in economy.

My grandad was a cabbie and had no time for Gloria Hunniford. She swore like a trouper in his cab. Every time she came on the telly he'd say "she's no lady" and change the channel. Billy Connolly was in the cab of another driver he knew, with a companion. The pair of them were trying to remember where somewhere was. The driver knew and told them. BC replied "who the fuck asked you?".

The celebs I've met have all been lovely.

I've had lunch with Gloria Hunniford and she was utterly charming, friendly and very funny

Ah maybe Bear Grylls was only nice to my kid's scouts because we are (or were, I dunno if he still lives there) very local to him . He brought his kid along as well who joined in everything - my son was really excited as he won Bear Grylls' son at some activity or other. He did indeed fly in by helicopter.

Granda probably got her on a bad day. His dislike of her used to make me giggle. He was old fashioned about women swearing. It would have been at least 30 years ago. She probably ripped her tights or something, dropped an f-bomb, and my granda held it against her ever since .

Rumour has it that the Queen has said about Princess Michael of Kent “Oh she’s far too grand for the likes of us”!!

I was at a dinner party years ago held by a Major who had previously worked at Balmoral. He was in the stables and overheard the Queen, who thought she was alone, swearing good naturedly at her horse that had shat on her shoes or farted in her face or something. She apparently called the horse a "fucking fucker".

Her Maj should have known better than to stand at the business end of a horse

DH, I and colleagues, have met the following through work:

Joan Collins, very organised and expected you to be too, but very nice. Our office was doing a charity fun run and had a poster up about it. A couple of days after she had been in, we received a donation for the charity and some signed items so we could auction them off to raise more funds.

Pierce Brosnan, lovely, asked by the computer to provide ID, more than happy to do so.

Deborah Meaden, not the greatest experience, although she does a lot of local charity work.

Chris Cbeebies Jarvis, met him on a number of occasions as related through marriage. Lovely, but his first name is really Martin, which took some getting used to.

Simon Cowell was very nice to a trainee who was star struck and out of her depth, when she had to cover for a colleague.

Madonna is nice, but super efficient according to friend who dressed her for a video shoot.

Richard and Judy very nice, Richard very chatty, Judy more subdued but pleasant.

She always maintained that the Queen Mum wasn't as nice as the media made her out to be.

No, she wasn't. My dm always said that the reason the QM could, apparently treat a Duke the same way as she'd treat a dustman was because in the QM's eyes, they were both socially inferior. As indeed was everyone not in the Royal Family and the QM was much more of a Toxic Granny than she was a Dear Old Lady.

My dm used to be a guest at events where Royalty tended to pop up Sansarya. Hence her ability to observe them in action and her argument with Princess Margaret came about when PM ordered my dm to cut along and fetch her a drink. DM suggested that PM's legs hasn't observably dropped off so she could get her own drinks. A brief "Who Do You Think You Are?" type tiff ensued. Concluded with my dm telling her she was bloody rude.

Remembered another one. Was enormously pregnant, trying to heave myself off a train, and Ainsley Harriot was a total gent and helped me. (Didn't realise who it was until after I'd got onto the platform and looked properly.) Was wearing a hat, is enormously tall, and much, much better looking in real life than on telly.

Archery a friend of mine received similar assistance from Rick Witter from Shed 7. His band's music still honks worse than a week old corpse regardless of how nice he is.

Re: Princess Michael of Kent.

There have been several stories about her teaching music, as plain Mrs. Kent, at a primary school in Hull for a number of years.

The primary school in question was once attended by Reece Shearsmith.

No Tanith that's the Duchess of Kent (of Wimbledon fame) not Princess Michael. I'm sure Princess M would never voluntarily mix with the hoi polloi!

Oh, Compost, I can assure you it didn't get me watching "Ready Steady Cook"! But I have felt warmly towards him ever since, though.

My DH was best friends with Anthony Head when he was 6/7/8 years old. I keep telling him to get in touch but he won't. According to my MiL, AH was a delightful little boy.

You aren't helping, grovel! There doesn't appear to be any dirt at all on AH! (Because he's adorable.)

I haven't met many celebs, but here goes:

Bill Webster from Corrie (Kevin's dad) - lovely
Fizz from Corrie - pushy and irritating
Sean Wright-Phillips - lovely
Steve McManaman - lovely and phwoargh
Robbie Fowler - quiet and polite

My exDP met Liam Gallagher many years ago, when he was married to Patsy Kensit (Liam obvs, not exDP). ExDP lived not too far from where the Gallaghers were born, so they had a short chat, Liam was absolutely fine then exDP asked for a photo. Liam said yes, no problem and asked Patsy if she was going to be in it as well. She pouted and said no chance, and he told her to straighten her face and get in the photo For that alone, I reckon he's alright.

Peter Kay was with his family at a table near us in a restaurant. We were out for my brother's birthday and two of the people in our party were totally pushy actor-wannabes, so they did no more than go over to Peter Kay's table, while he was eating, and start chatting with him! He didn't ask them to leave, or tell them he'd speak to them later, so to my total embarrassment, the wannabes did no more than pull chairs round from the unoccupied table behind his and sit and carry on the conversation. I was mortified on their behalf (as well as annoyed that they had ditched my brother apparently for the heinous crime of not being famous) but I couldn't believe how polite Peter Kay was and just took it in his stride.

An acquaintance used to be cabin crew in first class and allegedly Lisa Stansfield is a proper bitch.