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?

Neil Morrisey was next to me on a plane last year. Got drunk really quickly but kept asking for more. Kept swearing and having conversations to tell everyone how important he was. When we landed he screamed because his car wasn't there, went to kick his bag and fell on his arse.
Never seen anything like it.

Sadly Sean Hughes was a bit of a dick. I was sitting next to him at an athletics meet and he kept getting really stroppy if I had to get past him. It's a whole day and I was pregnant - I only had to go past a couple of times but he huffed and muttered .

Peter Stringfellow was as oily as you'd think.

I've meet several who were lovely.

Huge Bonneville is lovely. Juliets Stevenson is brilliant and so professional. Felicity Montagu is lovely and so kind and spent some time saying how nice Steve Coogan was. Freddie Mercury was quiet, charming and throughly nice. Chris Robshaw is staggeringly polite
The young women from Made in Chelsea seem to struggle to stand upright and speak at the same time

Patrick Moore. Properly grumpy. He was feeling ambushed when I met him so he gets a certain amount of grace, but I was 16 and he properly thoroughly bollocked me, so loses it.

Diane Morgan. I was disappointed by that.

John Craven. Don’t really want to go into the details, but just no.

Annie Lennox. Diva.

Jeremy Kyle. You’d imagine that though.

(Is this thread potentially libellous?)

I shall balance it. Dame Judi Dench is wonderful. Just as wonderful as you’d imagine. Maybe more. Sir Tony Robinson is also absolutely lovely. Jane Horrocks is really ace. Max Beasley is really lovely and laidback and good fun. Chris Evans also very warm and nice. Met lots of Coronation Street actors and pretty universally ace - laidback, friendly, happy people.

My favourite ‘meeting’ a celeb story is when I was in a lift with Johnny Vegas. A tiny two man lift. Just me and him. Me desperately trying to not screech, YOU’RE JOHNNY VEGAS!!!! No eye contact made. It was painful. He’s not very tall.

David Jason and Sarah Lancashire were two of the most unpleasant people I've ever met, famous or not.

I did... but I didn't have a clue who she was. She was quite brusque and rude, but her mum was utterly lovely preg for second time initials CD
Maybe she thought people were looking at her, but I didn't have a clue who she was.

Penelope keith - horrible
Shane ritche - nice
Tony bennett - nice
Pete stringfellow - sleazy
Paul nicholas - lovely

Aw, my brother did panto with Sarah Lancashire (a million years ago) and she was really lovely!

I smacked Rod Stewart in the bollocks with my handbag and he was very nice about it. He was the most orange human I had ever seen.

Barbara Windsor, I was about 10 and she was in the VIP tent with me and she refused to sign an autograph in my book.
Never forgiven her and disliked her since.

@haba - I had an encounter like that in a tv studio canteen once. An actor from a soap. He wasn’t mean to me. He just spoke to me with the assumption that I both knew and approved of who he was. Over familiar. Very self confident. Projecting to the room. In make up so clearly talent.

Absolutely no idea to this day.

I was once totally alone by a swimming pool when Jonny Wilkinson walked in, dropped his dressing gown and got into the jacuzzi AND I DID NOT GET IN TOO!

I'm such a twat

Lots of celebs are absolutely lovely but this is about the horrors - maybe I just got unlucky. I didn't

Rufus 27 :-) thank you that's my bedtime reading sorted

I met Gary Lineker at a cash point once and he was lovely, made a self deprecating sort of joke (but was very orange)! I went to a reception at Buckingham Palace, met some people from various soaps I didn't recognise who were, apparently, famous. Spoke to Prince Edward (very nice guy as I dug a bit of a hole for myself making an unfortunate comment), Gordon Brown (not so nice, but was actually Chancellor at the time, so presumably, busy) and Michael Howard (surprisingly nice) and got presented to the Queen as part of a group but didn't speak to her (she is very small). That it. Im not very observant so generally don't spot people.

I've met many through my work. Both genuine celebs and those who thought they were celebs (famous for being famous, or one-shot flash-in-the-pan). The genuine celebs were much like 'ordinary' people: some really nice, some ghastly, most somewhere in between.

Some of the nicest celebs I've met were Michael Palin, Helena Bonham-Carter and Lloyd Grossman. All a pleasure to work with and to socialise with (albeit professionally- I would have loved to be friends with them outside of work).

I had dealings with one particular celeb in the 80s, near the beginning of her fame, when she was kind and polite. She was impatient, but restrained. I had dealings with her 15y later, in another company. (I doubt she recognised me.) She was incredibly rude, demanding, insulting - still impatient, but definitely did not restrain her impatience. I was quite shocked at the change.

Cauliflower- my colleagues told me after who it was (and then had to explain because I don't watch television). Maybe they were staring?

Hollygolipo not Del boy!

A hotel i worked at did the bookings for the local theatre
loads of people cant remember most of them but Lenny Henry was lovely
Jim Davidson was so far up his own arse he could give himself a tonsilectomy
The band Chicago were super guys and gave a lady who had been to the show the night before an impromptu song in the restaurant
Elaine Paige gave us a list a mile long of brands of vegan food she would and would not eat
Cynthia Payne (madam sin) was amazing
Wayne Sleep is tiny
Lorna Luft (judy garlands daughter) was very sweet
The guys from league of gentlemen were weird as they are on telly
The celebs from the antiques road show were just normal people

I've met many celebrities through work and agree with the post above that the real celebs are generally really nice and the z listers are often awful.

Very jealous of pagwatch meeting Freddie Mercury though. I worked with Roger Taylor son and met Brian May and Roger Taylor there but would have loved to meet Freddie.

The Hoff is ok, very businesslike but friendly enough.

Una Stubbs, Esther Ranzen, Russell Grant and the now late Keith Chegwin were all lovely to me.

Craig Revell Horwood was amazing with my daughters, a really lovely man.

Lisa Riley is also truely nice and actually asked my daughters about themselves.

I saw Andy Murray in an airport being besieged by autograph hunters and he signed loads of them, had loads of photos taken etc. Seemed nice. I resisted the urge to go talk to him as he clearly just wanted to get home. I know he has a reputation for not being nice to media etc, but he seemed nice to all the ladies approaching him.

David Jason. One of the most nicest, non-assuming celebs you could meet. Total gent.

Haba ..trying work out who CD is

I've had quite a long conversation with Angela Rippon and met Dale Winton (ooh, the glamour) and thought they would be a bit naff but were completely lovely and unstarry.

Also met the actor who plays James Wilmott Brown in Eastenders years ago and he was lovely too!

Met plenty of others but these are the ones who are surprising.

TopBitchoftheWitches, one of the people you mention was the one who shocked me with the unpleasant change.

James Nesbitt - a total arse.

Jeremy Edwards - nicest guy in the world, I met him in the early days of Hollyoaks. The guy that plays 'Tony' was really nice and friendly too.

Emma Thompson - as lovely, kind & chatty as you'd imagine.

Amy Winehouse - Pre drugs, the loveliest person.