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?

Craig Cash, lovely man and very down to earth.
Dan TDM - sorry! Very sweet and seemed very vulnerable. Just wanted to mother him.
I refuse to believe Robbie Williams is odd. Would really love to meet him.

Who is Lloyd Owen? I might be more interested if he (or Paddy from Emmerdale, who featured in your other post) were utter twats instead of “really nice”.

Didn’t they do ANYTHING wanky at all? Next time you meet a “really nice” (very minor) celebrity, try to get them to act like a twat. Maybe set up a sting, like the Fake Sheikh did with Tulisa. Or get them to admit that they are best mates with Nigel Farage, SOMETHING!!

Then come back and tell us all about it.

Er ok
I am not the only one who posted about only nice celebs they have met. I have met plenty of knobs in real life but none of them
famous.
Ah and obviously Lloyd Owen is not famous as you have never heard of him, silly me

Jared Leto was lovely, surprisingly down to earth but his eyes were mesmerising!
Peter Andre was really nice as well x

Am related to some who were big in the 90s. One is very nice albeit in a sort of self-conscious way, a bit like Tyra Banks is with the models on ANTM. Grand entrance and 'look at me being all magnanimous'. Sounds bitchy of me and maybe it's just my cynical Brit interpretation of American genuineness. They're okay, really but, the 'persona' gets a bit tiring.

Another is basically very, very unpleasant to their spouse and anyone who knows them well enough for them not to be 'on'. It will come out eventually I hope.
I do wonder whether their very high-strung personalities are really what got them where they are though. They are both very forceful and energetic. I don't know if 'nice' people are that successful in very competitive fields unless they're hugely talented.

Nettles your petulant demands are reminiscent of the z listers I mentioned on my first post.

Perhaps you should have identified alleged celebrity Lloyd Owen by naming the character he plays, like you did with Paddy and Eric from Emmerdale?

I’ve referenced your posts for the following reasons:

1. You’ve ignored the OP

1. You’ve ignored the subsequent posts gently pointing out that the thread is about celebrities who aren’t very nice.

1. The people you’ve identified are just yawn. Of course Roger Black was ‘more than happy to pose for a photo’; he’s desperate for more TV presenting work, see? Lee Mack probably seems like ‘a lovely guy’ when you asked him for an autograph (do correct me if you’ve been close friends for years) but how can you possibly tell what he’s really like from one short encounter?

I find that threads like this follow a pattern. The OP asks for tales of celebrity twat-dom. the first 20 or so follow the brief (Cilla Black, Barbara Windsor and Bill Oddie normally feature) then one will say, “...but on the same day, I met Michael Palin...” (always Michael Palin! Why?) “...and he was the nicest man I have ever met in my life”.

Open season is now declared, and loads of posters rush in to boast about having met minor celebrities. About a quarter of the posters stay on brief, but the thread is soon swamped by tales of people having met Michael Palin (again), Joanna Lumley (always) and Princess Anne and declaring them delightful, on the strength of two minutes’ conversation at most.

Then we get boastful stories of people having had a drink with some D list pop star, comedian or X factor contestant after meeting them in a hotel bar after their show and having hugged them etc etc. Which is just boring. It’s like being stuck with the pub bore whilst an entertaining conversation you want to join is going on at the next table.

The OP intended it to be a funny thread with stories of famous people behaving like arses, which we can all get on board with. There have been some crackers, but it always gets derailed by the thread filling up with mundane stories of somebody meeting a minor soap actor in the queue at Tesco’s for two minutes and insisting on telling us all about how “lovely” they were. I DON’T CARE. Start another thread about “really nice” celebrities if you want, though.

I’m not a patch on David Platt, Weezol.

@hollygolipo @hollygolipo SARAH LANCASHIRE?? What did she do?

My local choral society performed with famous baritone Jeremy Huw Williams (i guess he only a celeb in the classical world, so not really a celeb as opposed to well known or notable in his field?). He was lovely. really nice guy.

helen shapiro. ok, she not really mainstream celeb anymore. she does sing but not pop music. she sings in a very niche industry- jewish and christian contemporary songs. but she was very famous in the 60s as a child pop singer with an amazingly big voice. i saw her at a hebrew music performance and asked or an autograph as i like all her stuff. she was so down to earth and easy to talk to. i a a bit shy with strangers but had no trouble speaking to her

Ok Nettles or you could just scroll past rather than filling up this thread with rants which were also not what the Op asked for- just a thought, and yes I actually do know Lee Mack well.
Sorry Op I apologise for me and on behalf of others on here who have mentioned that have met celebs in the queue at Tesco or something similar and have dared to use the word "nice"

The poster who mentioned Bill Oddie. I can believe that. He does struggle with depression quite badly and he strikes me as being the kind of person who could be quite gentle and kind at times but also quite grumpy at others. Kate Humble had a hard time dealing with him on Springwatch when they worked together due to him starting to have one of his breakdowns :(

Ed Miliband- lovely
Jeremy Corbyn- really lovely

peachgreen I read Moab is my Washpot, Stephen Fry's autobio of his youth and he mentioned as a child being so shy and not liking himself much he could not speak to a teacher he had been asked to give a message to by another teacher. i could relate to that a lot because i feel that way about myself and yet like him i can come across as very much a "performer", very outgoing. also like Bill Oddie, he another one with bipolar.

sorry nettletheelf my posts on here do not qualify either, i guess. am bowing out now.

My employer is good friends with Olivia Colman, absolutely lovely!

Amanda Holden is taller than I thought, and cooler than on BGT. Lovely, our kids had fun.

Who is Lloyd Owen?

Actress Hayley Tamaddon is a total cow, and thinks she's something special, shes vile and also a bully.

I remember driving through Rhyader (a small town in midWales) years ago, stopping at traffic lights and seeing a familiar bloke so I waved 'hi' it was only later that I realised that it was Stuart Cable from The Steriophonics, I cringed for ages later, however I had met him years earlier in a golf club and spoken to him then, not that he would ever remember me 😂 RIP Stuart 💙

Sorry Stereophonics doh, really bad spelling - sorry Stuart 😢

Nice ones ( and some are not popular here)
Nicola Sturgeon- lovely and very shy
Alex Salmond- really lovely man
Mhairi Black- very down to earth and great fun. Likes a bit of Karaoke
Billy Connolly- really nice
Steve Davis- I actually banged right into him as I wasn't looking where I was going. He was very nice about it.
Robbie Coltrane- he was lovely, but was a few years back.
Nicholas Lyndhurst- very shy guy
Russell Grant- very luvvie, but charming.
David Emmanuel- lots of dahlings but very nice.
Utter knob list:
Eddie Izzard
Lulu- so up herself, my grandfather knew her as a child. She was just a wee Glasgow lass but fame went to her head.
Alex Higgins ( snooker player)- total twat.
Jimmy Saville- utter sleaze.Touched my DD's hair as she walked past.
Ken Barlow off Corrie- never met him, but spoke to him on phone. Very much "Do you know who I am? " Fecking rude man.
Gazza- at height of his fame. Complete arsehole.
Dermot O'Leary....am keeping schtum

Very strange thread.

I never get why people need to blow their trumpets about "famous people they have met".
Does the famousness importance rub off?

And how can you determine in a few moments whether someone is a knob or not?
I am sure Hitler could be utterly charming at times, equally nice people have off days, in a rush, frustrated, not well etc.

This thread is the equivalent of a wheel trim boast.

Well I don't bring it into conversation about who I've met ( no A listers for me). I really couldn't give a stuff about zelebs.They are just normal people who do higher profile jobs IMO.
But I find it interesting what people's opinions of them are away from the glitz of TV/ Media etc.

But you have just brought it into this conversation? I don’t get it.

How do you know that Nicholas Lyndhurst is a ‘very shy guy’? How does Steve Davis qualify for your ‘nice’ category simply because he didn’t kick off when you bumped into him? What does that bring to the thread, apart from giving you an opportunity to tell us that you have met minor celebrities very briefly?