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Patriciathestripper1 · 14/07/2017 18:08

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 Shock
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?

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MikeUniformMike · 16/07/2017 20:13

I have heard that Alison King is pleasant and not at all starry.
Liz Dawn is awful.

Pariswhenitdrizzles · 16/07/2017 20:15

Oh no Jammy - sorry to hear that :( that's awful.

DaisysStew · 16/07/2017 20:18

I'm surprised by Jason Orange, I met him years ago when I worked in a carwash and he was lovely. Chatted for 20 minutes and it was only after he left that someone told me who he was (in my defence it was about 6 months before the reunion so he hadn't been on telly for years).

The Corrie cast used to come in a lot. The lad that played Jason Grimshaw was really nice (I fancied him like mad and had to hide in the loos when he came back for his keys) but Rita was awful - I was actually told by my boss that no one was to even look at her for too long (her request) and definitely not ask for an autograph.

Roy Keane used to drop in on the way to collect his kids from school, I was too scared to ask him for an autograph. But Rio Ferdinand is a legend. I was off the day he came in but he signed loads of autographs and even posed for a picture with all the lads Envy

BabychamSocialist · 16/07/2017 20:23

According to DB, Bob Monkhouse was one of the nicest people working in showbusiness and nobody had a bad word to say about him. He was deeply interested in TV, knew the names of everybody on the crew and still remembered them years later.

DB recalls that he was a good mentor to a lot of younger comedians as well, and he apparently recorded every single thing on the main tv channels from about 1965 until he died. Lenny Henry's first TV appearance only exists because Bob Monkhouse recorded it!

JustadaftProfessor · 16/07/2017 20:27

Bob Monkhouse's archive also led to the creation of several home media copyright laws.

He was also in adverts after he died talking about being dead.

limitedperiodonly · 16/07/2017 20:37

I'm an infant teacher and I live VERY close to the very small village school where I work. I almost think of myself as a fake celebrity 😂😂😂There is not a day that goes by where I don't see a child I know outside of school hours and I would not DREAM of ignoring them or being rude (likewise with their parents). As I said, manners cost nothing.

Funny you say that Bloodyhellfire. No need to blush - I get what you mean about being a local celebrity Smile.

I had a secondary school teacher who was by a country mile the most popular teacher in school, and boy, did he court it.

But he would blank pupils who greeted him in the street and then go through this pantomime of: 'Oh, no. You've mistaken me for my twin brother.'

He did it to me once. I wasn't a particularly savvy 13 year old but I knew it was him and thought he was it was weird and a bit nasty. It wasn't funny. It was done to embarrass. Who does that to a kid on a Saturday morning in Tesco saying: 'Hello Mr O'? The response is surely: 'Hello Limited. See you on Monday.'

It only happened the once. Every other time I ignored him. It hasn't traumatised me Grin but it was arrogant and strange.

SavageBeauty73 · 16/07/2017 20:40

Patridge

Sue Cook is a family friend. She's absolutely lovely and kind.

Dawndonnaagain · 16/07/2017 20:41

Savage, do you know her brother?

SavageBeauty73 · 16/07/2017 20:44

Mackenzie Crook - incredibly shy.

Billy from Eastenders - I thought he was a dad from school so said hello to him in Tesco's. I then realised who he was but he was gave a friendly smile. We then kept bumping into each other in the aisles until I decided to go another root.

Sarah Lancashire - absolutely charming and kind. Her husband was lovely.

limitedperiodonly · 16/07/2017 20:45

Bob Monkhouse was one of the first famous people I ever interviewed. I was working on a magazine with a really long lead time so phoned him up for a feature called: 'My perfect Christmas' in August. It was a tough gig.

He rattled off a rather racy story about when he and his wife battened down the hatches during a storm while at their holiday home in Barbados and waited for rescue to arrive. He was so nice.

As was Barbara Cartland for the same feature who told me about the Christmas Eve ball about 100 years ago when she was proposed to by three dashing young cavalry officers.

I'll never have a word said against them Grin

SavageBeauty73 · 16/07/2017 20:45

The typos on my phone! Sorry.

I have met her brother but not for years. She's friends with my parents.

limitedperiodonly · 16/07/2017 20:46

Michael Winner was really nice too. No one ever believes it.

SavageBeauty73 · 16/07/2017 20:59

The actor from El Dorado was hammered in the pub (years ago) chatting to me and boyfriend. He bought us loads of drinks. Then as soon as my boyfriend went to the loo he became totally sleazy.

HelenaDove · 16/07/2017 21:00

Bob Monkhouse is supposed to have had an affair with Diana Dors. I have no idea if its true though.

Dawndonnaagain · 16/07/2017 21:06

Thanks Savage, just wondered. On the tentative links thread I posted that I used to go out with someone whose sister was married to a famous guitarist...

AnneSansTete · 16/07/2017 21:08

Ooh I also remember going to Guildford Lisa once and there were a couple of big blocked hanging out in the car park. As I was walking towards the entrance one of them came over and quite aggressively said 'No photos!' while his mate glared at me. I was a bit intimidated but just headed to the Lido entrance.

The nice guy on the till was chuckling and told me it was Alex Reid (of Katie Price fame) and that him and his mate had been there for about an hour, they were supposed to be doing a celebrity opening of the gym attached to the Lido. They'd got the day wrong and instead of going home we're just standing in the car park being stroppy.

FreudianSlurp · 16/07/2017 21:09

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Roussette · 16/07/2017 21:09

Bruce Forsyth - yes, have to confirm he's horrible. Me - 7 months pregnant and huge at Wimbledon Tennis. He came pushing through a door and literally knocked me over and just stepped over me without a backwards glance just muttering and irritated that I was in the way!

Judith Chalmers (anyone remember her?). Spent some time with her and she is just lovely.

David Attenborough - I worked with him and he is as lovely as you imagine, just a true gent.

Kate Garraway - lovely and chatty

Jessica Ennis - same... lovely and friendly

John Major was lovely. My DD1 and I met him on a walkabout in Cornwall. She offered him a bite of her pasty (she was always cheeky and still is) and he bent down on her level, thanked her and said he was going to buy one of those delicious pasties later!

SavageBeauty73 · 16/07/2017 21:12

Dawn - John Williams is a nice guy. They divorced many moons ago.

uokhunni · 16/07/2017 21:16

I met Michael Sheen in a service station once getting coffee, he was lovely and encouraged us to get a selfie. Still swooning!

casualobserver · 16/07/2017 21:16

I've met a few celebs through work. Fiona Bruce was lovely, holding a door open for me when I was pushing my dd in a pram. Pete Waterman is nice, happy to chat to anyone. Gordon Brown was really polite and interested in people. Camilla Parker Bowles was charming and so dainty in the flesh. Paul Martin was ok, but a bit vain, he kept checking his hair in whatever piece of glass he passed.

Dawndonnaagain · 16/07/2017 21:18

Savage, never met him, they were married at the time (I am old)! Grin

redshoeblueshoe · 16/07/2017 21:28

I spilt a drink over on 10cc's table Blush
they were very nice about it in my defence I was very young

limitedperiodonly · 16/07/2017 21:36

Dianne Abbott was really nice. She introduced herself as: 'Hi, I'm Dianne,' when it was obvious who she was.

Second the John Major niceness. My husband met him hanging about in the John Lewis gardening section and he said: 'Oh, has your wife banished you here while she looks at Christmas cards too?'

Luncharmstrong · 16/07/2017 21:37

Darius is a friend of my cousin's.
I've hung out in his company for hours at a time on several occasions.
He is an utterly adorable man. So mannerly , which is not a surprise as I have met his parents too on many occasions.

Beautiful people , inside and out.

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