Have you met anyone famous

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And felt so let down by them in real life such as were they a arse?

Becks is a shagger, Posh is friendly and strict about her kids having good manners

ha! I knew the mullet would be Pat Sharp!
and I guessed the Corden prank had been edited.
Please tell me elder arrogant Strictly pro is Brenda rather than Tony Beak!

Very nice, friendly, down to earth celebrities I have met and chatted to: Dermot O Leary, Olivia Coleman, David Mitchell, Grace Jones, Sophie Ellis Bexter, Frank Skinner, Toff from Made in Chelsea, Neneh Cherry. Only (fairly) unfriendly celeb I met was Ricky Gervais.

I won't have this about Becks. he very famously once stopped in his fancy car at a roundabout near me when no one else did and helped a woman change a tyre on her car in the rain.

Ooh ooh. I also waited by the stage door to meet Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen last year. Patrick S was lovely and warm and accommodating of everyone. Ian M was grumpy and sullen and clearly didn’t want to be there. I’m assuming he was having a bad day. I don’t want him to be a grump.

Oh yes, don't know how I forgot, but i also met Samuel L Jackson and he was v charismatic and charming to the point where I felt quite star struck even though I was fairly used to meeting famous people through work.

Forgot to say Anthony Head was simply delightful. He was seriously impressed when ds2 showed him the sign language sign for vampire!!!!

I once asked Christopher Biggins where the toilets were.
And I also met Harry Corbett and Sooty.
That’s all.

Oh Christ, we’re back to “I met somebody off Eastenders and they were divine”.

No Joanna Lumley yet (small mercies).

Bring out your celebrity wanker stories! Read the OP, which is really quite specific.

Iv worked with many , most are lovely but Phil schofield was an arrogant arse

Whoopi Goldberg was amazing and she signed our Land Rover she used during a film, we spent 8 Weeks filming for a movie and she was so nice

I told Liam Gallagher to fuck off once. Does that count?

Cannot believe whoever said (miles upthread) that Michael Palin was awful. Just no. His reputation precedes him and I've met him in person too, at a book signing. He's lovely.

Also met Rik Mayall twice - so smiley and obliging getting his pic taken with us.

A girl on the tube once told DH that he looked like Alan Rickman and DH has never stopped talking about it.
So Alan Rickman is, indirectly, an annoying knob.

Rev Ian Paisley. Softly spoken, polite and courteous. No, I couldn't believe it, either....

OK Nettle this is just for you. I hope it meets your requirements.

Neil Pearson was a pain in the neck in the Drop The Dead Donkey years, early 90's IIRC*. He appears in a number of lists for this time period apparently.

Back then, the place I worked was the only coffee shop for miles. Starbucks was unheard of outside Seattle.

He kept ordering a latte then sending back because it was 'wrong'. On the third return, my colleague gently referred him to the 20 choice coffee menu to check it was actually a latte he wanted, (as what he was huffily describing was not a latte but a cappucino).

Menu thrown down, 'Do you know who I am?' demanded loudly enough for the whole place to hear.

My colleagues' response of 'No. Should I?' was a delight. It caused him to leave in a dramatic swirl of cashmere fury.

*Disclaimer: maybe he was a method actor and was in character. I had not and have never seen DtDD.

I know someone who was friends with sid vicious. He was lovely apparently.

Only had positives
Brad pit really lovely
Mark Hughes the footballer now manager really nice man
Paddy and Eric from emmerdale really nice again
Lee Mack- lovely guy

Ooooh I've got a contentious one: Stephen Fry was a bit of a pompous knob when I encountered him in a pub once (I didn't speak to him or even try to, but he was at the other end of the table with everyone falling all over him and being extremely pretentious about it) ALTHOUGH he was also very awkward so I could believe it was shyness. Also I could be biased as I'd been waiting at the bar for about 20 minutes when Fry swooped in; all the bartenders flocked to him immediately and it was very annoying.

At the time he was dating the actor Steven Webb and he was even worse - when Fry left early, Webb spent the rest of the evening talking about him in a very loud voice as if to make sure we were all aware that they were dating: "Well STEPHEN says... When STEPHEN AND I were in New York" etc etc. Yuck.

Took the DCs to a Tom Fletcher book signing. He barely made eye contact and looked as though he really didn't want to be there. Was a bit gutted as I'd been a fan for a long time (alas I'm a fan no longer!). Thoroughly disappointing.

Met Sam Bailey (X Factor) through work - absolutely up her own arse.

Oh forgot to add the guy who plays David Platt in Corrie is a knob. I used to compete at some acting competitions he did and had regular run ins with him. While everyone else pandered to him, I told him where he could go shove his pompous arse.

Most of the ones I actually look up to have all been lovely. My work means a lot of phone interviews and they're always lovely to chat to. The cast of The Magaicians are some of The sweetest ever.

I can second you on David Platt. I had the misfortune to be on a Ryanair flight with him and he gave off an aroma of foisty cellars as well as being a diva.

Also forgot these
Roger Black- lovely and was more then happy to pose for a photo
Lloyd Owen- really nice, very tall and very handsome

Peter Bowles: Utter gentleman.
Wayne Sleep: Entitled little so and so.
Grant Bovey: The less said the better. Condescending bastard.
Kevin Spacey: Came across really well, so very sad to hear what an utter cock he really is.