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

Ben Affleck while in the press area of a film premiere - amazingly sweet and friendly and spent time talking to fans, even though it was absolutely tipping it down.

Ohhhh! Him from the Gold Blend ad. Well I know who he is - but blimey - weren't those ads like 25 years ago? Anyway. Now I know. But if I fell over his prostrate arse in the street I probably wouldn't recognise him now!

I see Helena Bonham-Carter and Jimmy Carr (not together) quite often when out and about, both smile & say hi.

Gwyneth Paltrow used to take her son to kickboxing and would sit there playing on her phone like the rest of us mere mortal parents.

Met Boris a few weeks ago. He was EXACTLY as he comes across. Mind you it was a public event so it's not like I saw the 'real' BoJo.

George Osborne is v thin in RL.

Once shared a lift with Jude Law, even thinner and peaky looking with yellow skin.

Today I think I saw the architect bloke from the North East who presents renovation man, George someone (?), he had a tan and nice round cheeks!

Mark Little (Joe Mangel from Neighbours), he was lovely, very down to earth. He was a regular in a pub I used to run when he was in a West End show, we became quite friendly and he got me tickets to his show.

Zane Lowe, also a regular in my pub when he was at Xfm. Really nice guy.

Chris Evans, twice. The first time he was an up his own arse twat, a few years later when I met him again he was a lot less nobbish.

Woody Harrelson, my friend was going out with his PA. really nice guy if a bit odd. He let my friend stay in his house when he was in LA.

John Hurt, again lovely guy.

Prince Charles drank in my pub once but I was on holiday so didn't see him.

Phil Vickory - nice.
Matt Dawson - not very friendly.
Josh Lewsey - bit of a twat.
Martin Bayfield - he got changed in my bedroom.
Ben Kay - the nicest of all of them.
Warren Gatland
Lewis Moody

Oh, and Nigel Farrage drank in my pub once. A few years ago though, didn't have any interaction with him but he was certainly holding court with all those around him.

A bit obscure now but little boots aka Victoria. Knew her before she was famous through her old band, she was adorable and took both dh and I plus our two young children backstage at Leeds festival. She was such a tiny little thing. Not sure what she's doing now.

Another slightly obscure one is the band brother (you'd probably recognise the music more than the name as it's used for TV intros a lot). I've known the boys through many band incarnations and they have always been lovely. Still speak to Lee occasionally even though he's now finding some success in the USA he's always got time for a chat.

I don't get twitter, but Antony Head has written about us

Dan Osborne really stood out as polite and took time to take photos and chat.

Yes... But considering the recordings that have come out I would put him firmly in the 'nasty' pile.

We did Escape to the Country a couple of years back with Nicki Chapman, and she was absolutely lovely.

From the brief unrepresentative minutes of meeting them:

David Walliams used to frequent a club I did and was known for being a creepy, pervy dickhead. His reinvention as smarmy grannies' fave amuses me greatly.

David Mitchell was a rude prick. Eddie Izzard is weary of people though also a bit shy. Looks at your knockers. Neil Hannon was dry, egotistical but very friendly and charming. Paul Merton was shy and polite when I met him. Jaime Winstone is a filthy mouthed sweet heart. Charlie Brooker is extremely lovely.

I have met a few minor celebs (a couple used to be more major then they are now but still not A-list or anything) and they have all been Lovely.

Haven't met Brian Blessed but a mate of mine and DH's did and as we knew he was going to (at some Cambridge university thing) and asked him to get us autographs.

Well, our friend texted us to say "Sorry Brian didn't sign autographs for you. Oh btw, I emailed you about something can you check your emails as its important."
Turns out instead of autographs he had got us a special video message starting with "Hello Drama and DH sorry you couldn't make it today" and ending with "GORDON'S ALIVE!"
So BB must be a lovely person!

(Ps I haven't met AH either, but my friend lives near Bath - methinks a trip on the train to visit might be in order....)

Dieu 1000 is the maximum number of posts on a thread. After that you have to start a new one. Applies across the boards not just on aibu.

I had a dream about Anthony Head last night because of the last thread. He was very nice in it. Obviously.

Omar Sharif - so, so charming I wished he was thirty years younger or I was 30 years older. Just wonderful.

Peter O' Toole. Mad as cheese but great company

Mandy Rice-Davis - cold as ice with a cat's bum mouth.

Michael Palin - very shy and had very good dress sense. I loved his suit. And him

Gary and Martin Kemp - I would drink their bath water. Polite and lovely.

John Major - very dry wit and twinkly eyes.

Peter Cook - beautiful eyes, drunk but charming.

Princess Diana - looked like a man in drag. HUGE hands, feet and shoulders with a slack mouth.

Barbara Windsor - calls everyone darling and her laugh is great.

Robert Smith from The Cure - looked like Robert Smith from The Cure with the hair and lipstick et al. He let me go in front of him at a supermarket queue because I just had a sandwich and he had a basket full of food. I just stared. He must have thought I was a rude twunt.

Patsy Kensit - lovely and kind. I knew her Mum as well who was just a 'Mum' personified. Gentle, quiet and you just knew she would give a great cuddle . She died too young. Patsy Kensit looks like her mum.

alleypalley Josh Lewsey is a twat? I always thought he'd be a good laugh. And I so would...

My name is BigBeads and I have never met Anthony Stewart Head

Alrighty then, some actual encounters, some observed;

Matt Dillon: Hung out for a bit once years and years ago, he was a total doll. So gorgeous, and very unstarry and good fun. Unlike...

Bono: Giving it the full 'you are in the presence of a ROCK GOD' in a tiny country hotel bar whilst the rest of us studiously stared into our pints and pretended we couldn't see the leather clad midget in heels stomping around in front of us.

Thom Yorke: A good friend of mine tried to get an autograph off tortured genius Thom Yorke*TM once. In fairness, we all told her it was not going to end well, but it was for her little brother so she wanted to ask anyway and she was pissed and yes, it didn't go well.

Gary Barlow (circa Relight My Fire years): giving it SOCKS on a block in Ministry of Sound one night. Gurning like a loon, but then weren't we all

Jeremy Irons: Spied on a regular basis wafting up and down Grafton St like the next incarnation of Sir John Geilgud. Painful. Whatever Mumsnetter nearly took him out on an escalator, I applaud you! (His wife is smashing though).

Dude who was Billy in Neighbours: once winked at me in a whole 'wassup?' manner whilst I was sitting outside a bar in Melbourne. Infuriatingly none of the three people with me saw this happen. But it did, IT DID!

Princess Anne: She was just, what can I say, a total pro. I was representing a lottery funded charity project that had been built in the arse end of nowhere, and she came in, chatted like billyo with everyone, clearly had done her homework, and then she and I proceeded to have a good bitch about the eejits on Castaway. Or as she put it "As my daughter says "what a bunch of "wusses"". You could feel the air quotes Never once made anyone there from top to bottom feel like it was anything other than her pleasure to be there. I've had a massive girl crush on her ever since.

SWINTON!: Tilda Swinton sort of gliding towards the first class lounge in Charles De Gaulle. It was almost like seeing an alien she's so 'other'. She's tall but extremely graceful and languid. Adding to the effect was that she was wearing an exquisite off white silk trouser suit that draped 'just so' with an oxblood trilby and matching oxblood leather bag which was nearly bigger than her. DH and I just gazed and gazed, we couldn't help it

BigBeads your use of "SWINTON" makes me wonder if you're a fan of Go Fug Yourself?

Emma..what did ah say about us. He owes me a visit as im one of only 10 mntters who not meet him!!!

AH has thanked us all!

twitter.com/anthonyshead/status/591002767130497024

Is he coming in for a webchat then? I only actually remember the coffee ads mind.

Thanks is not enough - can we track his phone ? Or is he willing to travel all around the country to meet us all ?

Sparkling - did you not watch Buffy

nope-i have never seen a single episode. His other half is brilliant-work with animals. more my thing.

I wish someone would pull the "don't you know who I am" thing with me because there is a good chance I could in all honesty say "nope, I have no idea". Anyone on British TV (but not elsewhere) whose fame peaked before 2002, anyone from a boyband (except RW or GB), from a girlband, a soap star I wouldn't know unless they've been on Strictly or Masterchef Celebreties.
I'd recognize AH from 100 yards though (Whedonista here).

I have never met Anthony Head but am totally charmed both by all the stories of how gracious he is and how he has responded on Twitter.

BigBeads's story means that I now have a real appreciation of Princess Anne - previously, I had regarded her as just another member of the royal family but she does sound very gracious and hard-working.