Meeting Your Idols and Being Disappointed

[strawberrisc]

Today I almost met somebody who has been a big figure in my life. It took ages to pluck up the courage to speak to them and I was totally dismissed. I wasn’t being a “gushing fan” and it was a setting that was laid back. Everyone else was lovely. Have tou ever met someone you admire and wish you hadn’t?

I bumped into a friend of mine today who works for British airways first class cabin crew.
She confirmed cilla black was vile!

Ulkrika was beaten in public by her then boyfriend Stan Collymore at the Auld Alliance pub in Paris. It was 1998. I know because I was there (at the pub not with them so didn’t see what happened).

Norma27. Bonds nightclub by any chance?as I too met Dwight there too a few times.

Close to bonds. Stoodi bakers mostly

I bumped into a friend of mine today who works for British airways first class cabin crew.
She confirmed cilla black was vile

I also know a cabin crew member who said Cilla is vile.

How can someone who comes across as so friendly and down to earth on TV be obnoxious in real life? It's mad!

I wonder if anyone who has been on Blind Date will be on soon to confirm. It does seem that Cilla has two very different personalities

I have a friend who went on Blind Date many years ago. She said that Cilla was very pleasant and down to earth.

Another with a friend who was an airline steward. Cilla was indeed renowned for being really nasty.

Agree on John Barrowman.
Years ago he was queuing behind me in Peter Jones. Told me (totally out the blue) DD1 was a gorgeous baby- in a sweet gushing way.
Clearly a great guy.

Btw can someone tell me who was the fantasy writer mentioned a few pages back? I am a fan and rather curious!

Sent you a PM, Yamayo.

I met Anna Friel about 3 times back when I worked in retail. She is very lovely and chatty. As is Christine Bleakley. Abi Titmuss on the other hand looked at me like I was an idiot when I explained that something she wanted wasn't stocked in our store but she was adamant she'd seen it the week before (we definitely didn't stock it)

I have a friend who is former BA 1st Class cabin crew who said the same about Cilla.

Maybe Cilla was ok but hated cabin crew? Maybe Bobby had a fling with an air hostess?

My pal says Princess Michael was way worse than old Cilla.

I know a famous who many people seem to idolise.

He’s an arse. His speciality is being very very charming to those he deems worthy of it (people he thinks cultivating will be his gain), but to those that aren’t he makes it clear he can’t be bothered.

He’s an arrogant arse.

That said, other celebs i have met have been absolutely lovely.

John Barrowman was absolutely lovely when we met him. He was in a play and we met him after, lovely and very Scottish

lovely and very Scottish

Er, are you sure you mean John Barrowman? He's American!

Actually he really is Scottish! Born in Glasgow and only moved to US when he was 7. If you listen carefully the Scottish accent comes out on certain words :)

Wikipedia says he was born in Boston, Massachusetts!

Definitely born and brought up in Scotland, and teased for his accent when they moved to America.

Oh that's strange... says he was born in Boston in the "quick info box", but later says he was born in Glasgow.
Get it sorted, Wikipedia!

John Barrowman is Scottish born to Scottish parents amd moved to the US for his dad's job. He consciously 'learned' an American accent to avoid being bullied, but still speaks with a Scottish accent to his family.

I met the actor Pete Postlethwaite once. He was jolly. No other word for it. A happy bloke who was clearly enjoying life. Pleasure to deal with. A mate of mine was Ronnie Corbett's paperboy back in the 1970s. He said RC was a nice bloke and good for a fiver at Xmas.

There are loads of stories of Cilla and husband being arses. Pisses me off that they erected a statue of her in Liverpool.

Actually, I’m afraid I’m a dissenter on John Barrowman. I met him this year at a convention and felt very brushed aside by him when getting an autograph. I bought a bunch of his favorite biscuits which he was gratefully receiving from others but he barely acknowledged me and put my photo aside quickly and just started talking to the people behind me. I promise I was nice. My sister commented afterwards that she was really annoyed at how he’d reacted.

It was Rory McCann who plays the Hound.
I watched this unfold too. However to be fair she (and others) did say that the whole meet and greet was horribly organised and stressful, with RM and others being treatwd like cattle with no breaks, and the general consensus was that everyone else who met him at other comic cons found him to be lovely.