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Nastiest celebs...

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flamingoland · 19/04/2015 18:12

Very trivial discussion (so I know I am being unreasonable already Grin ), 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?

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Idontseeanydragons · 19/04/2015 19:23

I forgot Bez!!
Met him buying a Big Issue in St Anne's Square - he handed the seller a fiver, asked how he was doing and told me I was a 'good bird' for buying one myself Grin absolutely off his tits on something but very very sweet GrinGrin

HalleLouja · 19/04/2015 19:24

These are from when they were young but:

Naomie Harris was lovely.

Judge Rinder totally nuts and hilarious.

A friend told me that Katherine Jenkins was very focussed on being famos when she was younger.

GinPleaseThankYou · 19/04/2015 19:24

Jim Davidson - utter cunt.

Chris Tarrant - lovely.

Angelina Jolie - also lovely.

Watchatalltimes · 19/04/2015 19:24

Gordon Ramsey was really lovely to me and not like the way he is on TV. My DM has met Robert Hardy and got his autograph, she says that he is really sweet. The worst person I have met is the guy who played Lofty in Eastenders, he was so grumpy and acted like he didn't want to be there (it was at a Day Centre I worked at btw).

Mrsbobdylan · 19/04/2015 19:27

I met Janet Street after her one woman show a few years ago. She was lovely and gossipy-told me Trinny and Susannah were awful in RL.

I wanted to ask her to be my bff.

PlanetMJ · 19/04/2015 19:27

Oooh, loving this thread.
I lived in Sydney at the same time they were filming the Matrix there and met Keanu Reeves in a bar as someone in my group knew someone in the group he was with. I was with a very camp gay friend who was in his 60's at the time, fairly tiddly and THOROUGHLY over-excited about meeting Keanu who spent ages talking with my friend and being absolutely charming and lovely. They spoke at length about all the places Keanu must visit while he was in town and he even made a note of some of them and promised to go.

I had never really found him particularly attractive in films prior to this but in real life he was absolutely beautiful looking.

Gatehouse77 · 19/04/2015 19:28

Sam and Zoe Wanamaker - both lovely
Angela Rippin - lovely
David Seaman - lovely but not very chatty
Graham Taylor - lovely
Ted Heath - lovely
Todd Carty - perfectly polite
Maureen Lipman - saw her being a lovely mum to her daughter who was upset, so lovely!
Steven Berkoff - looks scary but was polite and genuine
Eddie Large - really funny and lovely

EthelDurant123 · 19/04/2015 19:28

Someone I know is a postman who delivers in one of those enclaves of London bursting with well known folk. He used to get fantastically well with Tom Conti, and has recently become actor Mark Rylance's postie. Mr Rylance, apparently, is a legend. He also likes Iain Glen from Game of Thrones.

Harriet Harman MP, who he's known for a while, is not a pleasant lady. A champagne socialist with a bad attitude. He loathes having to ask for a signature from her.

NickiFury · 19/04/2015 19:29

Christian Slater. Absolutely lovely. I went to see him in "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest". I was about two weeks off giving birth so he called me to the front of the line for autographs and was chatting to me about my baby, when was she due etc. I told him he was brilliant in the play and he looked delighted as though it really mattered that I thought that. I was totally star struck for ages after.

Jason Orange was a complete twat to me and my dc. Can't stand him now.

cosytoaster · 19/04/2015 19:29

Prince - the purple one (me): really odd and a chronic body odour problem

Am gutted (about the body odour, the oddness doesn't surprise)

londonrach · 19/04/2015 19:31

Just realising how small the world is. We could walk past mntters and not realise!

NickiFury · 19/04/2015 19:32

David Schwimmer - pompous twat. Also saw him in a play and waited afterwards to see him. He huffed and puffed about having to sign anything to do with "Friends" as many people had turned up with that kind of memorabilia (not me obviously Wink).

EvilTwins · 19/04/2015 19:32

I was I a play recently with Michael Brandon (Dempsey & Makepeace) and he was absolutely lovely.

NickiFury · 19/04/2015 19:34

Michael Brandon was my first massive crush. I used to scour the papers on my paper round for anything to do with him and then rip it out and still deliver the paper Blush. Loved him.

Tryingtokeepalidonit · 19/04/2015 19:34

About 20 years ago my dad was invited to join an international fundraising committee, he sat next to the scruffiest man in the room and had a great conversation. It was only later during the formalities he realised his new friend was the Duke of Westminster.

AmandaTanen · 19/04/2015 19:34

Lorraine Kelly is not as cheery and polite in real life.

FarFromAnyRoad · 19/04/2015 19:35

Love this thread!
It's many years since I've had much to do with 'celebs' but in my youth I was, if anything, overexposed - good in a way as they ceased to inspire awe and so I was able to make judgements on them.
Brian May - loveliest chap ever. I'm still a bit in love with him!
Liberace - ghastly spitty mincey old queen - but fabulous make up!
Rod Stewart - polite, disinterested
Elton John - polite, off his head
Shirley Bassey - was nice enough to me in the same way that a Buddhist wouldn't go out of their way to kill an insect!
Princess Caroline - perfectly charming
George Benson - ditto
Liza Minnelli - was lovely, charming, utterly false

I'm sure there were loads of others. Upthread someone mentioned Dean Gaffney - what a total arse he was about ten years ago. Honestly thought he was God's gift. And Daniella Westbrook - rude rude rude.

ahbollocks · 19/04/2015 19:35

koala
Prince charles was opening a train station or something when I was little, I got to be the cute kid welcoming them Grin
This is how beans convo went
Me - hello prince charles have you have lunch yet?
Pc - no have you?
Me - ive had beans on toast and then my dad and me came here to look at the trains
Pc- oh I like beans!
Me- are they you favourite? Do you like brown sauce?
Pc - yes I suppose they are
Me - you should probably have your lunch soon you know.
Pc- I certainly hope I do
Me- there's a cafe on platform 3

And then went to find my dad Blush

Angiefernackerpan · 19/04/2015 19:35

My df's mate is an electrician who was doing some work in Helena Bonham Carter's house. She was really friendly & chatty, and when she heard he has a Harry Potter obsessed daughter she invited her round the next day. She spent loads of time with her and signed all her dvds and stuff.

She really went out of her way, made the little girl's year!

Cocolepew · 19/04/2015 19:35

George Best was lovely.
All of Teenage Fanclub were lovely and very patient with me perving getting albums signed .
Beautiful South, nice
Dave Grohl, nice.
Courtney Love, cunt.
My mum meet Lewis Collins years ago, he was at a Mess do at my dads barracks. She loved him at the time but she said he was "a moody , whiney tit"

MrsTerryPratchett · 19/04/2015 19:36

I've gone through every famous person I've met (lots) and could only come up with one complete knobber - Marilyn Manson.

Utter, utter rude, selfish, egocentric twunt.

StandoutMop · 19/04/2015 19:36

I used to pass Ricky Gervaise in the street in London quite a lot, early days of The Office.

On two occasions he was shouting at someone else in the street in a derogatory fashion, much to the amusement of those with him. One victim was a homeless guy, the other a female office worker. Don't think either had done anything to deserve the public humiliation.

Same era I used to see matt Lucas around too. He was always on his mobile in the street, usually loudly telling whoever he was talking to he couldn't come because he was FILMING then but he seemed sweet, unlike RG who came across as a bully.

Welshmaenad · 19/04/2015 19:36

Oh, probably means nothing to anyone outside wales but Lucy Owen (nee Cohen) the newsreader is the nicest woman ever. Met her at a real nappy event when my dd was tiny and again years later and she remembered us and was really chatty.

kennyp · 19/04/2015 19:39

michael caine held the door open for me and was lovely
i honked my horn at michael winner when he was driving down kensington high street and he waved back (therefore lovely)
used to write to jilly cooper and she always wrote back (lovely)

anthea turner - rude pooh-head and extremely patronising (just like she was portrayed as in the paper)

thought i saw jack whitehall coming out of my local shop yesterday. i nearly said "bloodyhelljackwhitehall!!". but it wasn't jack whitehall. although i can imagine he's really nice IRL. (odd that he would be in a local shop in east east london, i thought later)

ElleBellyBeeblebrox · 19/04/2015 19:39

Her who was Connie off Holby City- up her own arse.
Ronnie Corbett- disappointingly grumpy.
Tim Armstrong (lead singer of Rancid)-divine.