Barbara Windsor

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Apparently the whole country is waiting to celebrate her birthday (according to ITV)
Well Dh certainly isn't!
He was a big fan when he was a lad, and went to see her in a pantomime.
Waiting at the stage door after the show for an autograph with other star struck youngsters, she came out and told them all to Piss Off and clear off home
He said she was the most horrible, rude person and that he never watched her in anything again.
Which celebs have you met that didn't match up to the pedestal you had them on?

John Noakes was absolutely lovely. Thank god, because I really couldn't have dealt with it if he'd been awful. Equally, Derek Griffiths (of Play School) fame was an absolute delight. Emma Thompson was lovely and had a lot of time for everyone, as did her mum Phyllida Law (who doesn't suffer fools gladly!)

Ooh Dee03 I used to live there too!!

Vinnie jones came for a meal in a restaurant I was working at. Very lovely & came out the back into the kitchens so the kitchen staff had a chance to meet him. He also gave a generous tip. Also met Warwick Davies at a convention when I was young, lovely too

Dd spilt coffee on Paul McCartney while she was serving drinks on the Eurostar a few years ago. She was mortified, but he joked and helped clear it up.We've all loved him ever since!

Sorry to hear Bruce Forsyth is horrible I have admired him for years it's burst my bubble

Has anyone met Mary Berry? I'll be gutted if she's not lovely.

Many years ago I met Joe Strummer - I was star struck and said something ridiculous; he was funny and very kind.

Isn't it the law on these threads that we get the story of the poster who's Mum punched Ronan Keating?

That story is gold and I will never get tired of it.

Who punched who now?!!!!

redexpat Apart from totally wanting to know who your sister is - I don't quite understand what NL meant? Was that a burn? It must've been some time ago cos - OLD. A man with a good sense of humour doesn't seem like a bad thing to want though? I'm confused....

JonSnowsWhore - it was mainly actors from the Watch, who were all very funny. Podrick was really sweet. Ian Whyte was really quiet, shy and kind (he dwarfed me as I'm 4'11" and he's about 7'2" or something). Julian Glover was so interesting.

I'm so envious of the poster who's met Nick Rhodes and thrilled to hear he is nice. I've been in love with him since I was about 13

For all the people who said Zoe Ball was nice, she must take after her dad as Johnny came to a chip shop I worked at as a teen, he was filming something for one of his shows, and he couldn't have been more pleasant. He chatted to the two of us who were the youngest there for ages and said he hoped we liked maths at school. I'd never been a fan previously but was very star struck.

We saw Alan Davies in a pub in Leeds once (he was in a play at the Grand) and he was very pleasant.

On the other hand I used to work in the slightly rough inner city area of Leeds where Liz Dawn (Vera from Corrie) hails from and without fail no one who's known her had a good word to say about her. She'd been back there to film a documentary about her life and was super rude to the woman who lived in her old house.

I also met Jimmy Savile many times as he was as creepy as you'd expect.

Bill Clinton was very charming and quite short. It was a very random meeting in Barcelona, just after he'd stopped being president I think he was there to do a speech.
He had a significant entourage, but otherwise he was just sightseeing like everyone else. He was wearing a vile hawaiian shirt though.

gingergenius johnny morris was a friend of a family friend and when said friend knew i was a johnny morris fan, he arranged for me to meet him. I was introduced and he ignored me, threw the autograph book at me that had been given to him to sign and stropped off in a sulk. he wouldn't speak a word to me.

i was quite sad but the friend said that he was 'tired'. My parents thought he was hilariously rude but the family friend was mortified.

sad times.

Iver I met Joanna Kumley last month. I was at an event, chaperoning a group of children, but unusually we weren't hidden away, but part of the entertainment. I also met Princess Michael of Kent, but more excited by ?Joanna Lumley. She was delightful. Very polite. Princess Michael also spent a while talking to my daughters.

David Essex is gorgeous, no longer has the long hair, but still has gorgeous sparkly eyes and a great sense of fun

Joe McElderry was lovely, I teased DD2 (6) and upset her, so he gave her a cuddle. All the older girls were swooning, DD2 was "meh"

Jimmy Nail was a bit stand of gush, but amazing.

Philip Hammond is very polite, has his feet on the ground.

AnnWiddecombe was very serious, hard working and very appreciative of other people's efforts. DD1 did panto with her, AW gave each of the girls a little Christmas gift.

Michael Praed is still as gorgeous as he was in his Robin of Sherwood days.

Jason Gardiner is very hard working, polite but not chatty, would rehearse until perfect.

I liked Anthea Turner, she was very pleasant with me, but a bit clumsy, not good in high heels!

The Mum vs. Ronan showdown is an amazing story! Hopefully someone on desktop will find it, it's great.

Jimmy Nesbitt was at the table beside us at a meal out last year (OX, Belfast- 10/10 would recommend) and was lovely. Pissed but lovely, even when he and his GF had a massive row and she stormed off home in a cab. Talked to DP for ages about his job, spoke really enthusiastically about his involvement with local charities.

Saw Christian Nairn (Hodor from GOT) in buying blinds with his mum. He said that he had electric blinds in his bedroom and the novelty of flicking the switch in bed and seeing them open still hadn't worn off- still humble! Also saw him in Lakeland before that. He was not buying a doorstop, unfortunately.

Personally I wouldn't ask anyone for a photo or autograph and I wouldn't randomly go up someone and start talking to them. They're still people at the end of the day, probably having a bit of down time, just trying to go about their business. And let's face it, what are you seriously going to do with that autograph or picture? Kids and super fans excepted.

I've had some turbo super famous people as patients and I REALLY WANT TO TELL YOU who was scared and cried in my chair. But I shan't.
I'm not certain if they were nice or not because fear and apprehension do strange things to people...

Love celeb stories!! Keep 'em coming!

The whole of boyzone and Louis Walsh just before they became huge in a music festival in my family's home town in Ireland. They were all lovely and very young then.

Jimmy Carr several times, the first time was outside in the car park before his show and he stood and had a chat with myself and my friends for a good few mins then picked us out in the audience for a few jokes.

Robbie Williams and his mate Jonathan Wilkes (Wilkes lives locally) both seemed nice enough.

The diy sos team came in to the sports shop I worked in as a teenager and all of them were lovely especially Billy, though Nick Knowles was more interested in the golfing equipment than anything else.

Then a few minor "celebs" whilst helping with the pride event in my town, X factor's Marcus Collins was an absolute darling and looking forward to meeting another X factor alumni Sam Bailey in a couple of weeks

LongDistance

Don't say that about Gregor Fisher (Rab C Nesbitt)!

I love Rab and Mary Doll!

My friend works in the film industry and said Tom Cruise is really lovely, incredibly professional, always on time and never treats anyone as a minion.

Years ago I fell off my bike (I am an inept cyclist) and a jogger stopped to see if I was ok. I was so embarrassed and flustered that it was only as he jogged off I realised it was Daniel Craig.

Comedian Brian Connolly compared a charity event for the cancer unit of my local hospital, lovely man.

Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee regularly gave time to attend local school fairs and were always generous with their time.

Philip Schofield shops in my local Waitrose and is by all accounts thoroughly unpleasant to staff, his wife is lovely though.

A boy in one of the classes I teach wrote a letter to Len Goodman inviting him to our school. He received a lovely personalised hand written letter apologising that he couldn't make it due to filming in America. How sweet

"He was not buying a doorstop, unfortunately."

Haha Craic, brilliant!

Roger black, lovely and happily posed for a photo
Lloyd Owen who was in Monarch of the Glen and also Miss Potter was also lovely, very tall and very handsome.

Barbara Windsor is vile.
Prince Andrew - hugely arrogant.
Prince Charles - cuts dead anybody who disagrees with him.
Jimmy Saville - had misfortune to be staying in same hotel with him. He made my skin crawl - long before his perversions became public.
Alan Tichmarch - have been told he treats TV crews like dirt.
Jim Davidson - another skin crawler.

David Tennant and Rod Stewart - a good example to others.

I met (and in his defence) hassled Jarvis Cocker for an autograph or something... he told me to fuck off... I loved him even more!!!

Cilla did a surprise surprise at my infant school when I was there - I don't think she interacted with any of us kids.

Ronnie Wood not very nice.

Dave Grohl was, is and always will be a dream (even though I was a gibbering wreck - I went the other way after my Jarvis encounter!!).