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Barbara Windsor

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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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triplesalco · 23/07/2017 10:01

I've met quite a few celebs but the one that surprised me was Prince.

I was a massive fan and kinda expected him to be rude but I was wrong. He seemed to be quite shy. When he started talking he was funny, clever, seemingly humble and heartbreakingly beautiful (imho).

Frizzcat · 23/07/2017 10:05

triplesalco thank you, I loved Prince

TheProdigalRhubarb · 23/07/2017 10:06

I met Feargal Sharkey a few weeks ago. I was a bit star struck as I adored him when I was a teenager, but he couldn't have been lovelier. Seemed very normal. Still got the cheekbones.

allaboutthatsass · 23/07/2017 11:25

DM was talking to someone who does camp america type things, says a lot of celebrity children go to them, and they have no idea how to look after themselves, not even knowing how to wash themselves properly. She mentioned the Jolie-Pitt children in particular as being very spoiled.

allaboutthatsass · 23/07/2017 11:37

I've met several scottish politicians and celebrities in work contexts.

Nicola Sturgeon - cannot abide the woman. Full of her own importance. I'm not an SNP supporter but there are some of her MSPs who are actually nice. She is not.

Kezia Dugdale - really nice - and I'm not a labour supporter.

Lorraine Kelly - also really nice and natural, posed for pictures quite happily.

Jackie Bird - cannot stand the woman, another self important one.

Gazza (when he was in Rangers) - such a nice nice man, friendly to everyone he met and that's part of the problem I think, people take advantage of him.

Coisty - love the man

Princess Anne - very nice

Prince Charles - also nice

President Obama - despite everyone wanting to talk to him, crowding around him and him clearly being tired, he still makes you feel he is interested in you. Michelle is equally lovely.

Trump - lovely...just kidding, he's a much an idiot as he appears.

RockyBird · 23/07/2017 12:32

Coisty

Ugh

Was at a party where no one could get into the toilet because he was in there shagging someone he was not married to slimy git.

augustusglupe · 23/07/2017 19:10

I'm so glad to hear Bob Monkhouse was nice! He always reminded me of my Dad, who died when I was 25... my dad was the image of him actually, even some mannerisms were the same.
So pleased he was as I imagined Smile

Clawdy · 23/07/2017 20:14

Can't somehow see Gazza as a "nice, nice man" when I remember him breaking his wife's arm and head-butting her. Hmm

HenriettaTurkey · 23/07/2017 21:21

Interesting reading...I can add the following for good measure - all of whom have been mentioned before.

Johnny Morris was LOVELY. Met in an airport departure gate and he was sweet, unassuming, humble - but a little sad.

Tony Blair - it was during the Mayoral campaign when he was PM so he was in full 'engage with public' mode. But we were on a tube train so, Londoners being Londoners all blanked him!

Richard Branson - felt like telling him my boobs don't talk...not so good at eye contact!

Charlie Kennedy - just so lovely. So sad when I think about him.

BusMum79 · 23/07/2017 21:41

Agreed. I have met a fair few celebs through work, and Charles Kennedy stands out as one of the nicest people I've ever met. I interviewed him in a café on the campaign trail and - as I recall - he ordered us a doughnut and a Diet Coke (was ravenous and v grateful!).
Another total legend was Lionel Richie- who was very nice and normal, despite being a megastar.

BabychamSocialist · 23/07/2017 21:44

augustusglupe

Is that the Jane Horrocks who gleefully advertised Tesco (and made bundles of cash doing so) but then said she'd never shop there because it's "full of chavs"?

Never liked her since that!

BabychamSocialist · 23/07/2017 21:48

My mum has never gotten over the fact that Harrison Ford helped her with her shopping in some obscure part of Wales we were on holiday in. Apparently he goes on holiday there too!

I've kicked myself ever since for not being with her!

mintich · 23/07/2017 22:06

Am friends with someone on itv crew. He says Ant and Dec are genuine, exactly how you see on tv and always socialise with the crew unlike other stars.
Paddy McGuiness is apparently friendly, but mostly with the girls on Take Me Out Wink

mintich · 23/07/2017 22:16

I also met Jonny Vegas who was lovely!

BoysofMelody · 23/07/2017 22:18

mini a friend of mine worked with him, commented how nice and down to earth he was.

HelenaDove · 23/07/2017 23:20

An Audience with Billy Connolly on ITV4 +1 now I still laugh just as much at this now as i did as a 12 year old when i watched it with my dad 32 years ago.

BoysofMelody · 23/07/2017 23:24

Candice Brown (last year) - I nearly knocked her out at a train station, I apologised and she completely blanked me!

I wonder if newly annointed z-listers are more likely to be arsey than the properly famous?

Oh my wife met Natalie Portmanteau queuing up (like a civilian) for a gallery exhibition and she was properly nice and chatted about art with folks next to her in the queue.

augustusglupe · 23/07/2017 23:29

Babycham Yes, one and the same Wink

CauliflowerSqueeze · 24/07/2017 00:23

Friend's dad worked with Nigel Havers and confirmed he's an utter arsehole and really hated.

Can't tell you how disappointed I am that Peter Kay is a rude tool. Seems to be confirmed by so many. Really puts me off him.

Lulu was a total bitch to my mum's friend at a concert, screaming at her to fuck off.

Nice to hear there are some who are lovely to fans though.

HelenaDove · 24/07/2017 01:08

Samuel West seems really nice from the interviews hes done and i follow him on Twitter.

Anyone here come across him?

salsmum · 24/07/2017 01:25

The hairy bikers are lovely very down to earth and just as they are on t.v.

riceuten · 24/07/2017 01:55

he was weeping and saying something outrageously self-centred like "it is really sad what happened to X, because they were related to me"

Isn't that more or less every single episode of Who Do You Think You Are.

weeps at great great grandfather dying

riceuten · 24/07/2017 02:20

I am always mystified about collecting autographs - no idea why people do this, and no idea why people kick off when celebrities refuse to do it - would YOU give people a signature people could use to forge a document with ?

"Celebrities" don't owe you - or anyone else - anything. It thermodynamically agitates my urine when I hear people say "Who do they think they are?". The implication being that they "owe you" for their stardom and lavish lifestyle that derived from the 3p your CD purchase gave them, or indeed the £10 from a concert ticket.

user1498911589 · 24/07/2017 03:14

*Cilla Black wouldn't allow airline crew to speak to her. Everything had to be done through her husband, eg he'd say "Miss Black will have a gin and tonic now".

This may well be an urban myth, but apparently one member of the flight crew got so exasperated by this performance that s/he retorted 'i always knew you couldn't sing, but I didn't realise you couldn't fucking speak either'*

😀

thegirlwhowaited · 24/07/2017 03:17

Thrilled to hear that Mark Rylance and Greg Davies are lovely. I worship them from afar.

Lulu is the word for female genitalia in this house. Can't think why...