Have you met a celebrity villain?

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Someone that is controversial in the media or comes across unpleasant on TV or whatever?

What were they like in real life?

AIBU to think there might be some surprises and some of them will be a persona on TV or whatever?

I also found Eamon Holmes one the rudest people I've met and totally devoid of intelligence or humour

I work in the NHS testing eyes. I have had to examine a high profile murderers eyes while he leered at me.
Just awful

Chatted to David Dimbleby in a queue in a shop in Dorsey ( I know he's not a villain) he was lovely.

Came across Jimmy Saville multiple times as a nurse at LGI Leeds. One night we ( friend and I) came downstairs in the nurses home to find him sat in nurses home reception which he frequently did. My friend was complaining about her room. He started wittering on talking nonsense and my friend ( from Todmorden) told him to shut up.

Another time years later he was hanging around the cafe in Roundhay park and he approached my young daughter to tell her how lovely she was. I grabbed her hand and moved her behind me. Dirty perv.

Another time in the local Chinese he was sat in reception with a lady friend. He looked me up and down and stared at my legs. My DH told him he was a dirty old bastard. He grew up in Leeds and had heard about his peadophilia !

@DinosaurDiana

Andrew Lancel. Something off about him. Just because someone is found not guilty, doesn’t mean they’re not.

I had to google him to remind me. I presume he edits his wikipedia as the child sex charge is not mentioned there (but the footnote remains).

@Hyacinth88

I work in the NHS testing eyes. I have had to examine a high profile murderers eyes while he leered at me. Just awful

That made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up

I was in a queue outside a tiny Edinburgh Fringe venue with Jimmy Carr. A group of women asked Jimmy if they could have a photo. He said “of course” and posed for them obligingly. The show was good , and it was surreal to hear Jimmy’s distinctive laugh just a few feet away. So, from the little I saw of him, he seemed nice.

@ScribblingPixie

I used to buy flowers from Buster Edwards, one of the Great Train Robbers, when he had his stall at the back of Waterloo Station. He was always pleasant & it made buying a bunch of daffs quite a unique London experience.

I was rushing through Waterloo Station on my way to visit to very elderly aunts in Surrey. I realised I had no present and dashed out to buy flowers from BE's stall. My aunt who was very religious thought the flowers were beautiful until I told her where they came from. Her face fell. I'm almost certain that they went in the bin when I left!

Met Noel Edmunds at a sporting event in mid 90's
He developed toothache badly and was scheduled to be at the event all weekend so on the Saturday morning the tooth got worse apparently and I ended up driving him to local village dental surgery open on a Saturday morning

He was the rudest person I had met - not a please or thanks for the lift which was requested by event organiser...Noel was with his family and had no 'staff' with him so I was asked to help - arrogant, 'small man' complex dominated.

I served Nasty Nick from big brother in a bar when I was at uni, circa 2003

He didn’t tip

I was in the same pub as Prince Harry in 2017. He was on the next table to me having lunch with a friend (cheeseburger, full fat coke)

Pretty much everyone in the pub had clocked him but everyone left him alone.
On the way out of the pub, he walked past most of the occupied tables and said a quick
‘Hello, enjoy your lunch’ to everyone, which was lovely. Everyone looked pretty startstruck!
He could have shinmied out and ignored everyone

@FortunesFave

Not entirely sure what you thought you were posting with this

FortunesFave Sun 14-Mar-21 00:36:13

<strong>ReverendRicketyCricket</strong>

<strong>I've met Nigel Farage. As disgusting in real life as he comes across in the media. Also - deathbreath. Vile individual.</strong>

Rose West isn't a celebrity!! Ffs.

Please take a minute or so to show me where I said anything of the sort. You won't be able to do that so maybe spend another few minutes getting a grip and sorting yourself out. Jeez.

It was a tiny show by a little-known comedian, sorry if that wasn’t clear.

@baroqueandblue
That is my experience with her. You can take it or leave it. I really wanted to like her, but she was throughly unpleasant. There were reports of her being unpleasant to members of staff on Suits before she got married. She was nice to her co-workers I assume because she didn't consider them to be 'beneath' her.

I found that the some of the Americans that I dealt with were frankly rude and condescending. They treat the "help" and "staff" very differently over there.

I have no idea what Piers Morgan is like. I've never met him. I can see that he definitely is bitter that she 'ghosted' him years ago and I will agree that he needs to stop going on about her. Typically I think that some of the things that he comes out with in the press are vile, but on this occasion I agree that she isn't as nice as she pretends to be.

As for her "chucking stuff on the floor" - I didn't say that, I said "dumping". Again, I had lots of customers who would just drop things after taking them off the rack to look at. And if you don't believe me then you've never worked retail.

I worked in a 'naice' shop and I've had drinks thrown at me for refusing to do returns, I've had people leave their own soiled underwear in changing rooms and an idiot who left a bag of weed in the pocket of their return. Thankfully I left retail a few months after MM came in and I've not had to deal with anyone as hideous as that since.

There were also lots of really nice celebs, e.g. Cara Delevigne, Binky Felstead and Reese Witherspoon. 95% of the celebs were super nice, but that makes the ones who were dicks stand out even more (I'm looking at you Vanessa Phelps).

He’s not a villain in any way (as far as I’m aware - although there were some rumours that he was the subject of a super injunction a few years ago) but Hugh Bonneville is apparently an absolute delight and incredibly generous with his time - I knew someone who went to an Agatha Christie fan/convention type thing that he was a guest at and he stayed overtime and delighted everyone with his stories and kindness.

Take your child abuse jokes somewhere else vegan

I sort of met Kate Winslet and she was a twat. In a park near London with my niece in a pushchair. I was walking on the left side of the path, she on the right. Plenty of space between us (probably a metre) and she said "You really shouldn't bring that into a park, people walk here".

I met Paul Hollywood at a food fair thing when helping a friend run her stall. It was a charity stall and he complained it all cost too much (£2.50 for a cake, £3 for a huge slab of brownie) and told us we shouldn't have bothered.

Stephen Fry however is lovely, he was ahead of me in a queue in a cafe on Christmas eve. He stepped to the side when I was ordering asked if he could pay for my order. We chatted about our plans for Christmas. It was like talking with an old friend.

Oh also, possibly mentioned this before on Mumsnet, my husband was behind Jeremy Paxman (possibly a villain?) in a breakfast buffet queue and he offered up the last sausage to my husband, saying he’d have some bacon instead.

@sagaLoren

I've met quite a few in my time. Gordon Ramsey, Simon Cowell, James Cordon, Kate Moss, Kevin Spacey, Helena Bonham-Carter, David Walliams.

James Cordon was the worst. I won't say too much about exactly what he said to me in case it identifies me but yeah...it was incredibly inappropriate and his wife/girlfriend was stood right next to us.

Gordon Ramsey seems like a nice guy but is not a nice guy to work for. The obnoxious shouty chef persona is not just for TV.

Kevin Spacey was creepy. Didn't surprise me at all when the revelations about him came to light.

I won't say too much about exactly what he said to me in case it identifies me

A friend of mine did some work for Craig Revell Horwood and said he was so nice and thoughtful to everyone, as opposed to a lot of famous people they had worked with who were very demanding and ungrateful.

Many many years ago I got felt up on the dance floor by Sir Philip Green, who was as repulsive as he seems.

I was next door neighbour's with Jason Gardiner from dancing on ice. He was really lovely. Very quiet and polite. A few of the female ice skaters lived with him, perhaps while filming.

@baroqueandblue

How convenient that after this week's revelations and tantrums we have a thread populated by lots of people saying how vile MM is and how saintly PM is - sometimes in the same post Oh, and how genuinely lovely members of the RF with form for racism are in 'real life'.

You can call me paranoid, I don't care. People can manipulate the internet and convince you of anything. Like, Savile and West and other dangerous, criminal psychopaths can sit neatly next to opportunities to sanctify PM and denigrate MM. I ask you

That's what I thought. RF PR team working overtime. One poster overplayed their hand by saying Meghan threw all the clothes on the floor without hanging them up

Some of my pupils were presented with an art prize by Rolf Harris. he was tall, cold and aloof.

I worked in a 'naice' shop and I've had drinks thrown at me for refusing to do returns, I've had people leave their own soiled underwear in changing rooms and an idiot who left a bag of weed in the pocket of their return. Thankfully I left retail a few months after MM came in and I've not had to deal with anyone as hideous as that since.

Unlucky!