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

Bez from Happy Monday's - as you would expect lovely but completely off his head! Would hardly keep still for a photo! ??

John Virgo funny and pleasant

Sam Torrance lovely man, let me and my friend jump the queue at the bar at a golf event

Mike Reid (Frank Butcher from Easties) hilarious and very friendly.

Can't recall every meeting any nasty celebs. Not that any of mine are exactly A list!

Who have I met?

Dudley Sutton (Tinker Dill off Lovejoy) - wonderful character, lovely man
Richard Whiteley (RIP) - intense, but took an interest in me and was friendly and generous. VERY short
Noel Fielding - funny and polite
Most of The Fall apart from Mark E. Smith - nice people
Neil Hannon (basically my hero) - self-deprecating, dry wit, exactly as you'd expect
Clare Higgins (stage actress, has been in a few films) - very gregarious and generous

I'll call out Scroobius Pip (heavily bearded rapper) as a legend.

A friend and I really really pissed off a guy from Interpol at a festival once, but that's because we were having an obnoxiously graphic conversation while we were all eating, so I don't think he can be blamed for his reaction.

I met a couple of fairly famous cricketers... Paul Collingwood is a solid chap, Andy Flower is as quiet and focused as his public persona would suggest.

Zadie Smith was once very rude to a friend of mine at uni. That is the only celebrity dickitude I can think of.

Alan alda - fab, and sweet!

Michael ball-smiley. Took q long time chatting to fans.

Sandy toksvig - even brighter in RL -very friendly.

HFW - arse! Has pissed off locals no end in river cottage area by characterising them as kind of friendly peasants in the media - they are neither... Well to him, now!

I met Jon Bon Jovi once through my work and he was lovely - really down to earth, very pleasant and normal. Was with his wife who was also lovely and ordinary. They weren't rock star types at all.

Courtney Love, I am told, is everything you'd expect. A friend of mine (years ago now) worked at her daughter's summer camp. They did an end of season performance and Courtney Love staggered in late, mostly off her face. Disappeared into the toilets for a suspiciously long time part way through again and came out even more out of it.

James Martin - horrible person. Refused to shake my hand when we met in a professional capacity and was rude about his fans.
Prince Charles - very nice, funny.
Jack Straw - consistently nice and polite to everyone that met him (he lived near me)
David Cameron - agree with the pp who said he was charismatic. He was in parent mode at the time and was great with his kids.

I love this thread. Some celebrities have a kind public persona so I'm glad to hear they are lovely in real life. Others confirm my already low opinion of them. The best, though, is reading about people who seem grumpy but who are actually very kind.

OhMyGodILoveThisThread!

I am ex telly so have worked with my fair share of celebrities and more very mediocre non celebs.

My faves are:

Matt Baker - just lovely
Ant and Dec - really great and good fun too
Louise Minchin - very normal and sweet
Brian Blessed - so funny and also very knowledgeable about lower league football, we had a great chat about it
Melanie C - genuinely very nice
Andi Peters - he brought me muffins occasionally, plus his knowledge of and enthusiasm for the industry is amazing

My least faves:

Ulrika Johnson - nasty, self obsessed and painfully thin
Melanie Sykes - she had a reputation that preceded her and lived up to it

Thankfully most are nice! I did meet AH in passing too, he seemed very pleasant, I wish I'd worked with Michaela Strachan now!

And, AIBU to say I am pleased to hear the rumours about Katherine Jenkins I've heard seem true? Gethin Jones is a dude so I was always on his side (so to speak) when they split.

Joan Rivers - warm, friendly, and swore like a sailor with a stubbed toe. Loved her

Another one who been to a flog it viewing and see paul martin. He is a very sweet guy who apologised when someone in the queue not realising they were filming stepped back into paul martin!. Paul martin had to keep redoing that shot and was so sweet and just nice! I do think he is a shy guy. He was also very gentle and kind to anyone coming up to him. Became an even bigger fan after that!

Darcy bussell was lovely and smiley to my daughter when we met her in a park with her children.
Holly Willoughby was cooing all over my baby in a cafe - she was pg at the time (I didn't really know who she was as didn't have a tv , just thought she looked vaguely familiar !).

Robson Green - lovely down-to-earth polite
Denise Welch - same, friendly (and friends with RG), nice, normal
Jimmy Nail - arrogant, unpleasant and thought he was the big 'I am' in Newcastle
Paddy Macaloon (sp?) from Prefab Sprout - lovely, good tipper.
Denise van Outen - standoffish and unfriendly (but she was v young at the time so may have changed!).

Used to see nick Clegg and Miriam D-G around a lot - both v focused on their (v sweet) children. She's stunning - always felt a bit sorry for them trying to keep normal family life for their children when they didn't exactly blend in at the school gate.

Met Bill Nighy once - exactly as you'd hope - wry, charming, funny, friendly and ever so self-obsessed in that actorly way.

DH knew ed milliband as students - he was called 'Ted' then!

I saw Bill Nighy in an outdoor cafe just off Piccadilly once. He was with someone who left him sitting there alone, so Nighy started signing quite loudly as nobody was paying him enough attention. I've thought of him as a bit of a nob ever since.

A friend lost his Taxi licence and took to chauffeuring..

He said:

Frank Skinner - very nice, chatty and considerate.
Harry Hill - complete tosspot.

I LOVE this thread and am completely obsessed! Some of the goss I'm taking with a vat of salt however. I can't understand how LDC's antics could have stayed covered up. His lawyer can't be THAT good!

Dieu - maybe he just pays well !

AH lives down the road from me and is a friend, he came to my wedding and although I don't see him much now, I sometimes bump into him at the shop! His wife is also totally lovely and I used to babysit their kids!

I have met Phil De Glanville's wife, she was lovely, never met the actual man though but he's supposed to be really nice too.

My mum knows Jason Gardner who is also lovely.

I have also met Jeremy Guscott, he was a bit arrogant.

That should have been spelt Jason Gardener, the sprinter

True, redshoe!

Ben shepherd- nice but smaller than I thought quite chatty and interested in the charity I worked for
David Cameron- taller then I thought and actually pleasant to talk to quite charismatic
Jermaine Defoe - absolute arse, miserable and rude
Dick n Dom- crazy and funny
Ant and Dec- small but friendly!
Michael ball- very tall and friendly, jolly

My cousin met Mo Mowlan through his job and was bowled over by how lovely she was.

I met Julie Andrews recently and she was really charming and polite to everyone and posed happily for numerous photos.

I've got a Michael Ball story.

He came into my office reception and was very nice and chatty and happy. He reached into his inside suit jacket pocket to pull out which I presume a piece of paper to refer to. Instead he pulled out some photos thinking they were the piece of paper. Without looking and whipping them towards me I'd caught enough of the images, kind of racy ones! Not pervy just kind of drunken night out maybe. Lots of leg and a sofa, people posing! My face was and he quickly realised and stuffed them back in his pocket embarrassed and apologised. We had a little giggle.
My bf at the time said he was a peev and he wanted me to see them, I said I don't think so lol!

Dh works in tv. Has just been working with some people who have been doing a documentary about our most famous female marathon runner. They all agree she is the worst sporting celebrity they have ever had the misfortune to work with. Ever. By far. I was really disappointed to hear this, as I truly admire her otherwise.

Mintyy say it isn't so. [Sad]

I don't want to believe you Mintyy. :(

My Dad met Princess Ann many times and I really think he would have left my Mum for her. He thought she was wonderful.

Not sure if Princess Ann would swap her hubby for a short, bald bloke though.

Minty nooooooooo!