Celebrities - both nasty and nice! Part 2

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A continuation of this thread, which is far too good to just die now that it's reached 1000 comments!

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2359336-Nastiest-celebs

Every time I see 'AH' I think someone is mentioning Mandy Holden.

It's taken me two days to get to the end of these threads. And I can disappointingly reveal that I have never met Anthony Head, the Beckhams or Princess Anne.

Stories from friends and me:

Anthony Head - friend worked with him on a theater production. He was the only one of the actors who was at all friendly to the backstage crew. They used to go drinking with him and all loved him.

Freddie Flintoff - DH met him in a bar in India and later at an official reception. Said he was lovely and great great fun. No off switch.

Nicole Kidman - FOAF knew her about the time she met TC. Scarily ambitious and made a bee-line for him by all accounts.

Alan Davies - FOAF used to be mates with his girlfriend and loathed him. Rude, grumpy and obnoxious apparently.

Ben Fogle - DH worked with him on a charity initiative and said he was lovely. My DS loves him as he was v friendly and nice.

Andy Murray - am sure he's shy but mate who used to work for the BBC on the tennis said he is v surly and unpleasant to work with. Federer on the other hand is a darling.

Same friend says Gary Lineker is horrible and well known for his womanising. Also not nice are Alan Hansen, Adrian Chiles and John Inverdale. Her favourite is Clare Balding who is wonderful and absolutely loves it when live TV goes wrong as it 'challenges her'.

Same friend also worked for Esther Rantzen years ago and agrees she is a horror.

Another friend worked at MTV with Cat Deeley and Edith Bowman and is good friends with both of them. DH met Cat and says she is lovely. I met Edith and, well, she isn't.

Michel Roux Junior is a lovely lovely man, as is Gordon Ramsay. Although another mate used to work in Aubergine when he was there and has lots of salacious stories about him.

A friend who used to produce the home doing up programme on ITV despises Carole Vorderman. Apparently she is just awful.

Will try and think of more but my favourite celeb story is DH's one which has no judgement on the niceness or not of said celeb.

He was once staying in a hotel in NYC. One morning, extremely hungover, he walked to a lift and pressed the call button. The door opened. He walked in. Noticed lots of big guys and a much much smaller guy in their midst. Looked up and went 'Fuck me James Brown!'. James Brown pointed his fingers at DH and said 'Yeah'.

Whoever asked about Chris Jarvis, I think would be in with a chance.

Remembered another, a friend of mine worked in a recording studio he said Robbie Williams was nice enough.
He also said Christopher Lee was in too and he was fantastic, happy to chat and have photos. He allegedly said he didn't like Michael Caine and was disparaging of Sean Connery and how he treated his wife.

'Fuck me James Brown!'.

Wahahhaaaaas, that is the best quote ever!

I met Chris Noth in Istanbul during the height of his Big fame. He was so lovely, chatted with us and posed for several pix

However Alan Shearer was a dick when I used to serve him in clubs many moons ago. Horrible man, Robbie Williams was too.

All of Steps were adorable!

Also met Katie Price a few times and she was really nice and down to earth and professional. Subsequently I don't believe anything I read about her in the papers.

Do you think Anthony Head has Google Alerts?

My SIL's son is a friend of Patricia Hodge's son.

Lovely family, apparently.

My parents were at a party with John Hurt in the 1970s. Apparently he was great fun and got so drunk that he was literally under the tables!

I met Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) several years ago. The poor man was trying to relax poolside and I was in a group of bridesmaids plus bride (we were doing pre-wedding photos). He was lovely and a really good sport! He is in a few posed shots, us in our gowns and him in his swimming trunks!

My friend is a cameraman and he's told me about various actors he's worked with, none come to mind except that Tom Cruise is really lovely apparently. Friend has worked on a couple of movies with him and he is really nice and respectful to everyone on set. He is insanely high energy as well and never anything but smiling and happy... except for one occasion. Friend was on working on location with him in Iceland when the news that Katie Holmes had filed for divorce came through, apparently that him him really hard. Everyone felt really bad for him, despite the Scientology craziness he's very popular among film crews.

Met Gazza and Jimmy five bellies once, he was very taken with DD and tried to pick her up, alas he couldn't and DD was a tiny five year old at the time. He looked really really ill though was sober. DH and I both came away feeling desperately sad and neither of us would have been surprised at news of his demise. This was twelve years ago or so, I can only imagine what he's like now. Terribly sad.

Rainbunny - Eddie Vedder, my hero! ! Am so jealous! Oh please tell me more!

Notnob - I always liked him but after meeting him I deeply wished he was my dh! It was a hotel in San Diego (La Jolla) where I met him. He grew up in San Diego so apparently he takes vacations down there with his family fairly often. Seeing him in the flesh - he is HOT!

It's good to see how supportive AH and his wife are of public transport, trains, busses, it would be nice if they could extent their support to the West Highland Line, stunning views, well worth the ride [hopefull]

Ooh where to start

Looked after Ellen McPhersons son for the weekend as she was a guest where I worked
Had Sunday lunch with Roger Taylor at his house and swam in his pool
Met Brian Ferry, Brian May

There's more but can't remember as was all when a young 18 yr old servant/nanny!!

Noblooming - but what we want to know is -were they lovely - or hideous

Gazza lives down the road from me and he's always wandering round the town centre. He's very friendly, but it's really depressing to see anyone laid so low.

Worked near Australia Zoo many years ago and regularly saw Steve and Terri Irwin. He was universally loved there by the staff, her not so much!

Jamie Redknapp is a bit of a knob, but his dad is lovely.

My brother met Zara Philips and Mike Tindall. Apparently they were lovely.

I have never met AH though

I used to live very close to John Taylor's parents in the 80s(Duran Duran) and considering there were often lots of teenage girls outside their househouse they were the loveliest kindest people. When JT appeared he was always lovely too. Happy days.

I once made a cappuccino for Paul Weller and he was very polite, quiet but not at all starry.
When I took my oldest daughter to the ballet one evening when she was about 9, Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee were in the queue. We were stood behind him and they turned around and started to talk to my daughter. Debbie told her she hoped she enjoyed the ballet, Paul offered her his autograph and she politely declined. There resulted in a lot of sniggering throughout the queue.

When I was a teenager I met Jeremy Irons, he was awful, he looked at me with utter scorn when I started going on about Brideshead Revisited and Anthony Andrews. I mean I know he was probably sick of teenage girls by that stage but would it really have killed him to at least pretend to be pleasant. His wife Sinead was lovely and very chatty, asking all about our trip to Stratford and the theatre.

FOAF used to work with Cat Deeley at the beginning of her (CD's) career and said that she was very friendly, professional and highly ambitious.

Bobby Charlton - met him, very embarrassingly, at the launch of a new Lada...(my parents drove them for years ) where he was the celebrity guest. He was absolutely lovely and coped admirably with my dad in full talkative mode!

Ellen McArthur - tiny and lovely. Gave a talk on her experiences and was not phased one jot by my late FIL sitting on the front row with a black eye and a huge dressing on his nose (he'd fallen the day before), even though we were slightly mortified!

A couple more obscure celebs have been encountered in my professional life and were lovely but cannot name due to patient confidentiality.

I took have never met Anthony Head.

My name is MrsTodd and I have never met Anthony Head

However!

Frank Bruno - lovely, friendly, chatty, exactly as you'd expect
Nigel Kennedy - cute and very flirty
Joanna Lumley - just the nicest celeb in the universe. Utter charm itself. Everything you'd want her to be!
Sir Ben Kingsley - surprisingly gorgeous (I was 19 when I met him), utterly charming and very funny/flirty
Gazza - met him just on the cusp of fame. Cripplingly shy.
Robert Plant - held the door open for me once. Scarily tall with Rock Star spandex stripey leggings and 'blouson' combination on.
Sir DerekJacobi - quite delightfully kind and understanding when, while reciting Shakespeare for an audition, I fell of the edge of the stage and landed on top of him as he tried to catch me
Sir Anthony Hopkins - held door open for my parents when they were back home in Wales. He was very patient when my Mam chirped away happily telling him all about the folks back home and what they were up to! Turned out she 'thought he looked very familiar' and decided that he was a chap she was at school with!
Sir Anthony Hopkins #2 - my friends Grandad was blind and stepped into the road, only to be pulled back by someone just as a taxi was about to hit him. Having stopped to check that he was okay, the mystery saviour walked away. A bystander stopped Grandad and exclaimed "Oh my God! Anthony Hopkins just saved your life!"

I conclude that Anthony Hopkins is also a top celeb. I wonder if it's something to do with the initials AH?

Brilliant post, MrsTodd!

Haven't yet read both threads in their entirety, but isn't there supposed to be a show of hands of all those who've slept with Russell Brand?