To ask what it’s like to have a famous DH?

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I’m just being nosy really, I bet there’s a few posters on here with partners who have achieved some level of fame. And no I don’t expect anyone to reveal identifying information!

What is it like though, knowing that random people admire your DH? Does it make them cocky, or make you feel uncomfortable when other women take an interest in them? I think I’d find it quite exposing and difficult tbh. I have a friend who was in a similar situation with a musician for three years and I know she found it hard.

LarryGreysonsDoor
I think the reason no one on these threads says who they are or who their DP etc is is because we would all say ‘who’ and it would shatter the illusion that they are famous.

That would be me - it's pointless me reading threads on here about celebrities etc because I've invariably never heard of most of them and that goes for a couple of names mentioned on here.

I also think meline went out with Benedict Cumberbatch.

I’ve recently split with a semi famous athlete. Honestly it was bloody nightmare. Women throwing themselves at him, everyone after him for a little bit of fame to be able to say “oh yeah I know him we’re great friends”, people swarming around him. I’ve walked into places with him to hear someone shout oh look its X (him) and then sadly say oh and Y (me) is here too. It’s destroyed my self confidence and the whole relationship was a head fuck

Following with interest as I’m crushing on a famous person at the moment - this thread is doing wonders for my fantasies of dating them

@GidgetGirl
If we are playing guess the DP if I say Cabbage am I along the right lines?

@thefairyfellersmasterstroke Nope, not a James!

@Veronicat I presume not, but then I don’t know as much about his stuff than a lot of his fans do. I think I should stop answering guesses in case someone gets it right!

I think, and I have recently NC'd, that the reason that people don't want to out their more publicly known partners is because they value privacy much more, having less of it than other people.

Not so much a problem for me and my DH, who is a writer in the entertainment industry of some renown who, yes, you may possibly have heard of but probably haven't. Nobody ever hassles us for autographs. They hassle all our mates though.

My DH has almost certainly met, and possibly worked with, @GidgetGirl's DH.

Ahhh. I thought you may live up the road to me.

@jamoncrumpets Heh, now I want to know!

Dh is a bit famous in his field but most people wouldn't recognise him unless they were interested in what he does. He has been in the daily mail, the mirror and take a break. He has been asked for autographs but only at work events, not randomly on the street. It doesn't make much difference to me except when he made a throwaway comment to a journalist once and some of the comments on the article weren't very nice.

I think @RonnieOnions is married to Eddie redmayne - he lives in a village near where I grew up and often shops at Waitrose in town with his wife!

Gidget - are you also in comedy?

I've got a friend who has one child who is an A-list celebrity. I think life is difficult for them and their partner. (The partner is also famous in their own right.)But they don't get a lot of/any privacy. On the surface everything is lovely - in a Hello-magazine sort of way. Plenty of money. They look gorgeous. They are talented and fortunate. In reality they both have health worries at the moment, which are putting a strain on them individually and also on the rleationship.

@RiddleyW Nope - my career couldn’t be more different to his.

Ah! I thought I had it there but not Richard Herring then.

I did not go out with Benedict Cucumberpatch. Actually, I think he’s weird-looking on screen, too. And moves in far more elevated circles than I do.

It must be awful to have a famous family member and see them being torn apart by the media, spied on, gossiped about etc. That would upset me terribly.

@Meline, be careful, the Cumbercrazies will come for you now

I'm glad my DH is just an ordinary bloke with an ordinary job (although in his head he is a bona fide rock star). I'd be in the Daily Mail sidebar of shame on a weekly basis, as I'm photographed buying yet more gin in Aldi with no make-up on wearing a Primark sundress and flip-flops.
I couldn't be doing with all the attention, the need to always look polished and well-groomed, being watched all the time.
I'll stick to my very dull (yet insanely happy) life, thanks.

I wouldn't mind the income of a rock star mind you, and I'd have been delighted if either of my sons had successfully auditioned to be in One Direction and now had 52 million in the bank...

Tbh I admire the partners of people in the public eye because they put up with some shit. To top off the papers making up bull they then have to deal with the trolls that believe what the papers say. It would piss me right off.

@Meline was it Cillian Murphy?

Being followed around, people tipping off the media that you and the family were at the cinema, eating a McDonalds afterwards. That you must have a drink problem because the OH was spotted in Aldi buying four bottles of gin (home made sloe gin anyone). Your OH kissing your friends/family goodbye after a night out, pic taken, you cut out of it and the media suddenly have a scandal, pity it was your then mortified sister he was saying goodbye to.

Someone in my family was married to someone you've probably heard of (TV, films etc). When they split up because he cheated on her with someone else famous it was incredibly traumatic for her with paps door-stepping the family home when she was with the dcs and the 'sordid details' being splashed in the press.

A little bit of red carpet treatment and glittery invitations are so not worth the downsides of intrusion into their privacy.

Sexykitten2005 you’re spot on with that.
My DP is in the music industry and it attracts the worst people.