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?

Yes limited I loved that re DDL.

Also nice re JPG, you wouldn't expect that, particularly with what you hear of him in the press.

I have seen Linda Robson many times around Islington. I have never spoken to her but she is always getting stopped. She is exactly how you see her on the tv. No airs and graces, warm and chatty.

I used to be mad on Sting back in the day, can't stand him now. He was doing a tour and playing at Royal Albert Hall. I was working in a shop in South Kensington, not far from RAH. You guessed it, on the very day I was going to see him, he came in. I served him, I was Joe Cool. Never let on I was a fan. Bit surreal seeing him on stage later.

I would never ask anybody for a autograph or even approach them simply because they are famous. I would speak to them only if it was a natural conversation. I think it was Cher who said that people do not want to see celebrities but they want celebrities to see them and notice them. I think there is a grain of truth in that.

I would be gutted if Michael Palin was an arse but he has been mentioned up thread and he was a nice guy. Anyone met Michael Ball - he seems nice on the radio.

Dean Gaffney had a go at me in a nightclub a few years back.
Apparently he thought I was different to the other girls and so he couldn't believe it when I'd gone to the papers and done a kiss and tell on him. He was really quite annoyed which is fair enough I suppose......

.....except I'd never met him before that night, had never gone to the papers about him and had certainly never slept with him in order to have anything to go to the papers about.

His face when I told him I was not who he thought I was was a picture!

Did anyone actually watch the programme about Barbara Windsor last night? I did and everyone on it seems to think she was a 'darlin' ' !! 😁

My cousin met Sean Bean while on holiday once and say's he was very down to earth and gorgeous as you would expect....swoon

I don't understand why people think (or assume) that because someone makes a career out of being an actor, singer, or performer, that they should be super friendly with people in their day to day lives, and must at all costs, stop to make conversation with every fan. (or person who stops them!)

Someone sees a famous person and runs gleefully towards them, and is very excited because they are a bit of a fan of this person. But for the celebrity, it could be the 100th time that week they have been hounded, and they are just fucked off with it. Even celebrities have 'off days,' and issues and problems, and they don't 'owe' any fan anything.

Some may say that this is what they kind of sign up for - but they only sign up to act and sing and dance or whatever, they don't deserve to be hounded, and then have people cuss when they don't give them attention/autographs/photos etc.

I am a big fan of a particular American celebrity, and one particular blogger, (who tries to get as many pics as he can with celebrities,) was hounding him when he was with a family member and a friend, walking around a zoo. The blogger was most insistent this celebrity poses with him, as he OWES his fans. The celebrity in question got security to make him leave him alone.

Cue a blog the next day about what a rude and ignorant bastard this celebrity is, with cries of how he isn't even talented. Blah blah blah...

Yet I met this very same celebrity - in person - a few months later, and chatted to him for 5 minutes, and he was, by a country mile, one of the sweetest people I had ever met. Cute and funny and lovely to talk to.

So yeah, I re-iterate, celebrities don't owe anybody anything. So people saying 'so-and-so refused to talk to me and have a pic taken with me' are just being ridiculous and entitled imo. These celebrities don't owe you anything.

Mentioned this thread at work earlier (pharmacy) and one of my colleagues told me that Frankie Dettori built our Rimmel makeup stand. He'd come in for a prescription and saw my colleague struggling to put the stand together so he got down on the floor and gave her a hand. He was apparently very lovely.

Also just remembered that Jonathan Ross came into the little museum I worked in as a teenager (one of those history of the local town places with models and things that tell you the story as you go around). He was with his children and wanted us to close the whole place so they could go around alone. My manager said that would be fine, as long as he was prepared to pay for all the admissions we would lose in the hour it took him to go around up front. We let 7-10 people in every five minutes so it would have been a pretty hefty amount! He was very 'don't you know who I am?!' about it, but in the end they went around like a normal group and thoroughly enjoyed it in spite of the other patrons...

I don't think anyone on this thread is saying famous people owe it to them to be nice. They are just talking about encounters. I'm sure the general public can be annoying. Paparrazzi and interviewers can be vile - I've done it myself too but only when someone's got my back up.

Again, it's not about them being 'super friendly', it's about basic manners.

Brian Clough, not just nasty but smelly. Actually said "do you know who I am?"

Agreed - it's about basic manners and not treating people like dirt just because you are a celeb.
Bet there are loads of teachers out there who could say they never get to be 'off duty', answering to 'hello miss/sir' wherever they go and are recognised. Parents even asking them about their kids! Heaven help them if they were to say 'F off, this is my own time'.
P45 time......

Having said that I've never approached a celeb - just seen how they've behaved to others when out and about. Some delightful, some crass.

Ian Smith (Harold Bishop from neighbors) is so lovely, even though he told me off for "still smoking" every time he saw me!

David Tennant - really nice guy, looks very thin in real life, wanted to take him home for a good dinner

Mr Tumble was very arrogant when I met him

Cobbled together from my own experiences and those of family and friends:

Jimmy Tarbuck - lovely
Stanley Kubrick - lovely, made DF a cuppa
Roger Moore - a bit up himself and rude Tom Jones - very arrogant
Grant Shapps (MP) - charming
Jimmy Carr - very polite
Kris Marshall- very good natured when we collided on Oxford St and he got tangled in my shopping bags
Anna Wing - absolute love, nicknamed me
Adam Woodyatt - very arrogant but possibly having a bad day as everyone else says he's lovely
Charlie Dimmock (at height of fame) - rude bitch
Ian Wright (footballer) - lovely
Neil 'Dr' Fox - sleazy bastard, very insulting and rude when turned down
Lacey Turner - very sweet and friendly
Michelle Bass (BB5) - quite shy
Jane Wood - lovely
Kacey Ainsworth - absolute sweetheart
Esther Rantzen - very self absorbed and rude
Michael French - bit of an oddball, but a great guy
Stefan Dennis - very friendly and down to earth
Krishnan Guru-Murthy - very nice and down to earth, good conversation about TV production industry (XP was a cameraman who idolised him)

Peter Kay visited where I worked a couple of years ago and was very rude and obnoxious to the staff. Was really disappointed as I was a fan prior to that.

I used to absolutely love him until a friend's husband worked with him on a show and said he's well known for being a real knob to the other acts, goes out of his way to throw them off their stride so he looks better by comparison. Don't know if it's true but it did put me off him!

Agreed, I wouldn't go up to a celebrity if they were just enjoying a picnic at the park with their kids (saw a massive rock star doing this very thing and he gave me that sympathetic parent look as I was wrestling DS in to husband pushchair)... but a lot of these people are rude to staff and people they work with.

Cilla Black, I was told by my Grandad, refused to even share a lift with production staff so they had to get out if she got in.

So not just a case of "arsehile because you interrupted my day by asking for an autograph" but more like "arsehole because you exist in my godly presence"

DP and I were wandering through Amsterdam last year early-ish on a quiet stretch of canal. We spotted Michael Portillo (by his red trousers and Bradshaws Guide under his arm) walking nearby. He made his way over to us and began a friendly chat ("have you been here before?""why do you like it here?" etc ). A production crew soon followed and they did an interview with us for Great Continental Railway Journeys. Michael was very polite and professional and happy to chat.

limitedperiodonly
You seem to know a lot about celebrities having interviewed them. Are you a household name yourself?

I know she doesn't deny it anymore but Helen fielding IS Bridget Jones. She came out to a book signing with a tray with 4 glasses of white wine on it. By the time I got to her she had drunk most of the wine and spelt her own name wrong when she signed my book.

I don't agree with stopping celebs either but I have stalked (from a safe distance) Tim McInnerney around waitrose and my friend didn't want to bother Richard Hammond in a furniture store so just sniffed his hair instead

Michael Bublé was staying at the same hotel as a friend and I a few years back. He came into reception after a show. A male fan went charging over and got him in a headlock while shouting to his wife at the other side of a massive reception to run over for a photo. Bublé understandably refused a picture and disappeared into his lift. The bloke (English, we were in Holland at the time) then moaned loudly about how rude Bublé had been. Twat.

The following day my friend and I sat in the almost empty hotel bar with Michael and a couple of his staff (my friend knew his PA). He couldn't have been more charming and was very gracious to fans.

I can vouch for Jeremy Paxman, he often collected his then young daughter from school, my daughter was in the Year below, and he was normal and friendly.
My mum met Michael Palin twice, once for some hours and he was sooooo lovely. John Cleese was arrogant.
I've always thought that Camilla P-B is probably a hoot and really lovely.
As others have said, I'd never approach someone famous in their own time, it must be so annoying and for all anyone knows they could have had bad news about family or be running late, but if they don't stop and gurn for a selfie with a stranger they are "up themselves".

Timefortea - Michael Ball is always lovely to fans - very generous with his time.

As the late Sir Roger Moore said "it's so much easier to be nice"

Neil Fox - what Rhoda said, in spades.
Jackie Stewart (and possibly a very young prince harry with him) - never forgotten a big grin and his extreme smallness so he wasn't in the way anyway!
Steve Redgrave - very polite and non starry under a rather stressful situation. So now a lifelong fan.

And getting tangled with Kris Marshall is brilliant!

Jamie Oliver- sweetheart. Couldn't have been nicer.

He was filming in my school and my entire class was being moved to a different room. I was lagging behind and spotted him in the library so wandered over to say hi. Then went late to class and told the others I'd met and got his autograph.
They FLEW to him, never seen 16yr olds put makeup on so fast then practically weep over him. I stood laughing outside as it all went on and he called me over to introduce him to my 'friends' 😂😂
Saw him a few times round the school after that and he always remembered me by name and asked if he needed to hide from my classmates 😂

Babs on the other hand, my dad worked at the airport and saw her several times. Each time she was incredibly rude, swearing and clicking her fingers at the lowly people. Bitch