Celebrities - both nasty and nice! Part 2

[Sansarya]

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

Oh, another one - more stories, yay [

My mum was a teacher (retired now) and worked at a secondary school in Newcastle (this is relevant) where a lot of the kids came from a deprived background.

Anyway, one day a visit was arranged for Jimmy Nail. The kids were beside themselves with excitement - local boy done good type thing, and it was in the late eighties so at the height of his fame.

Anyway, come the visit - he was a rude, arrogant and generally unpleasant for the entire time he was there. Barely a word for the kids who were so excited to see him. Have disliked him ever since.

I saw AH in his corset at Rocky Horror too. He was still is very lovely.

I bang on about this but I met George Ezra before his fame and he was a sweetheart. I have also had a cuddle with Paloma Faith (again prefame) and have passed the time of day with half of Mumford and Sons. Not bad for a nearly 60 year old.

LivinLaVidaLoki he is delicious. Still raging no one witnessed it

Sansarya Well spotted. I am a devout Fugger. Am so impressed ASH tweeted back to you, in fact I'm beetling over to Twitter to follow him this very minute.

Doesn't surprise me Flippinada. I'm so glad he's vanished from public life. What an arsehole!

I've met Jimmy Carr several times through work, he's lovely, did some filming at my work with Paul O Grady and he was nice, very friendly.

Met Westlife and Louis Walsh, most of them were friendly, one or two of them a bit off but I put that down to the fact they were very late!

Nicest surprisingly is Simon Cowell, that I wasn't expecting!

Griff Rhys Jones' a cock too. 20 or so years ago, I, along with about 3 others waited on his table at a Soho restaurant. It was his birthday and he had about 20 people present. He pissed off about 1.30am without thanking any of the restaurant staff, or apologising for keeping them about an hour late and left about a fiver tip for all of us. Tight fisted Wanker!

I saw Bill Oddie being very rude to a girl in Leeds station who asked whether he was Bill Oddie. He told her to eff off. What an arse!

I also saw Lisa Riley at a station (King's Cross this time, rather than Euston). She looked hung over, and mildly disappointed that nobody was approaching her.

Bill Oddie was rude to my DH too, Financeprincess. He wondered who the short bearded man was next to him at a traffic island and only realised who it was when BO muttered something at him and walked off scowling.

Michaela Strachan was lovely to my brother when he was in the studio audience of a show she was presenting when he was little. She was nice to all the visiting children, even when the cameras weren't on.

Princess Anne - worked for her charity and met her a few times and was very nice, always knew what she was talking about and speaches were without notes. She was lovely to the people the charity helped but had no time for the press.

Gavin Henson was on the phone to DH at 11 oclock the night before he and CC were taking their new boat on holiday. Things werent working.He could have pulled the big I am, but just introduced himself as the owner which saying who he was and was very understanding and perfectly polite, considering the problems.

Peter Snow was very sweet, but a little vacant. he needed a lesson on how to run the generator on his boat. He bought his 14 year old daughter along to explain things to him. His car broke down on the way because he didnt put enough petrol in it. We gave his dd a lift to the station as she had to get somewhere urgently afterwards.

Mcfly have been lovely to dd when she met them and so was Karen Millan. Apparently Harry smells lovely.

H from steps called DD a cheeky monkey after we saw him in Joseph.

sourdrawers agreed. The worst aspect for me is that the kids were r really excited about seeing him and he was so bloody unpleasant.

That's bad enough but a lot of these kids didn't have a whole lot to get excited about in life, iykwim. And he couldn't even expend the effort to be nice to them. Arsehole.

Oh yes Bill Oddie, I forgot about him. My B.I.L house sat a place next door to him in Hampstead once. B.I.L said he was a sour-faced, hostile prick. Always shouting/moaning at his wife.

Alain Roux, at his restaurant The Waterside Inn. It was my 40th birthday and DH took me there and we stayed over night. He is the most amazing, generous man:

DH noticed on a little card on the dresser "if you are interested in seeing the kitchen, please contact Reception to see if a visit can be arranged".

The message came back - yes, but it has to be RIGHT NOW. It was about 6pm and I guess they were gearing up for dinner service.

We trotted down to the kitchen, shook hands with the man himself, and looked around the area of the pass. I thought that was it, but no - he took my arm and gave us a personal 30 minute in-depth tour of his kitchen, full of all his sous-chefs and commis chefs frantically getting ready for service. They all took the time and effort to explain what they were working on and how it fitted into the menu for that evening. It was magical. I felt like hte luckiest Masterchef contestant!

At the end of the tour he gave me a signed copy of his latest book, and at the end of the meal there was a special pudding with Happy Birthday Hearts on it and 2 glasses of champagne on the house.

And to top it all off, Heston Blumenthal was at the next table, celebrating his birthday with his family. He was very gracious to all the people who asked for a photo / autograph.

Anton Du Beke is lovely, really lovely in RL. He is also really skinny

I spoke to Paul Merton a couple of times, he was always very pleasant and considerate.

My mate asked Robbie Williams for his autograph in a hotel once. Robbie replied, "Fuck off, are you gay or something?"

Joe McElderry - Absolutely lovely! A credit to his generation.

Also, the poster in the other thread who gave the story about Jay from The Inbetweeners; what a strange story! I bet you were glad to get away from him!

I used to work for an airline and met some Z list divas, but none as bad as Anna Ryder-Richardson. She insisted on boarding last on a flight from Edinburgh in case people recognised her and then sat po-faced and cross for the whole flight.

Just remembered another one from many years ago.

Donna Air (if anyone remembers who she is - used to be in Byker Grove and got married to an Aspinall) having a big strop down the phone at someone in Newcastle Central Station. She was wearing a pair of see through plastic high heels.

Paul Heaton and Dave Rotheray are both very pleasant chaps.

ItsallkickingoffPru you've just reminded me of something. ExH used to live next door to Michaela Strachan when he was little. She was younger than him and his brother and they were awful to her, used to throw worms at her and picked her!

They must have encouraged her love of nature, Every

That bloke from Blue Peter (whom Ulrike J accused of raping her) was incredibly rude and aggressive to my Ex and I at a party once. My Ex stood up to him and Blue Peter prick backed down. What a nob he was.

Donna Air is going out with James Middleton now flippinada, s she is almost royalty!

I have another one, seriously don't know how I forgot about it but my mum has just reminded me.

My parents used to work in a bar in their younger days. One night the act playing in the club had his amp so loud that when he played his guitar solo he smashed almost every glass in the place... That man was Jimi Hendrix. They said he was a very lovely, down to earth man and he paid for the damage.

My dad also met Muhammad Ali. Another nice man apparently

Yeah, I just looked her up. Fancy that! She was in the same class as my sister at school.