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?

So I have met Piers Morgan through work and I have always found him to be tidy, nice enough and friendly.
I have an opposite of that who is Lenny Henry, rude rude rude. Would totally ignore you if he could.
Princess Anne is soooo lovely and down to earth. And tiny!

@Hobnobswantshernameback

Am I missing something? Are EdMilliband and Philip Pullman villains?

I started my post by saying they were not villains, sorry to offend your sensibilities! I thought it was interesting share my experience about people who others may have pre-conceived opinions about. It’s a thread on mumsnet, not a exam where I haven’t read the question properly. 🤷‍♀️

You haven't offended my sensibilities
I just thought given the thread title maybe I had missed something about these people
Fuck sake
I asked a question

Wagatha Christie is Coleen Rooney. She's generally regarded to be a nice woman so that's surprised me.

Vardy doesn't have a good name but she wasn't known as Wagatha so can't be her.

London marathon back in the eighties, ran past Saville and his entourage. Also went to a party in the eighties at a really nice house, owned by one of the BrinksMat villains.

@Hobnobswantshernameback

You haven't offended my sensibilities I just thought given the thread title maybe I had missed something about these people Fuck sake I asked a question

Yes you have missed something. This is a thread which has evolved into people chatting about their experiences of well-known people they have met. This is how conversations work, people start off with an interesting question, various people add their experiences, the conversation develops, and the original topic moves on. For fucks sake, right back at you!

I worked for Robert Maxwell (briefly, very junior role !) many years ago.
He was quite a scary presence.
I also (by sheer dumb bad luck) worked for another Fraudster.
He was charming, absolutely charming. And wrecked many lives.
Financial 'villainy' but villany none the less.

Jack Nicholson does that count? He’s played the joker.

Craig Revell-Horwood. Total gent, very charming.

@Branleuse

one of my best friends had her tits complimented by Dean Gaffney. Does that count?

He’s got form! He once came on to me as well. Apparently he does it a lot

I met Peter Sutcliffe once in the 90's. He was in broadmoor at the time but paid us a visit with armed prison officers/nurses. He was chilling. The coldest eyes ive ever seen and smirked alot.

I was driving through Glen Coe. I approached a bend and started getting a terrible pain in my head. There was a cottage and I realised it was Jimmy Saville's house. After I had passed the pain went. I cannot for the life of me explain it. Thankfully I haven't met him, seeing his house was bad enough!

@Hoppinggreen

I knew Harold Shipman professionally. Nice man and very concerned about patient welfare ( not being sarcastic he genuinely seemed to be very caring compared to a lot of the GPs I worked with) , his wife was a little odd though

I wouldn't feel bad about that. He's been diagnosed as a psychopath, they can fool anyone who isnt a trained psychologist. He's very clever and charming enough to be able to lie to your face and pretend he is as lovely as Santa Claus.

Poor Piers Morgan!

I mean, he's loathsome - but not in the same category as Jimmy Savile...

Stuart Hall, attempted to buy me a gin and tonic and offer me a lift. I was 13.

@Becca19962014 do you mind if I ask why your aunt blamed herself? How awful for her to think that way.

Simon Cowell was genuinely lovely when I met him.

Laura Whitmore is a horrible, up-her-own-arse cow bag! I know loads of people who know her. I was only loosely acquainted. But honestly, most people don’t have a nice word to say about her. And deservedly so.

Not surprised about people’s gut feelings about Jimmy Savile.

My mum was a teen in the sixties and lots of her friends used to go to see TOTP getting recorded. It was always Jimmy that would come on to them and make them feel a bit special. One girl thought she was dating him, got the train into Manchester to see him after school and at the station, he was cross because she’d changed out of her school uniform, When the allegations came out she rang me and said, “he did it you know.”

I agree with other posters Nasty Nick was extremely polite and very nice when l met him .It was before BB too. So many moons ago.
Princess Anne was lovely to us nurses & very slim when she came to my local hospital to open the new Childrens unit.

@Ccccchanges

I have met a number of senior politicians from both parties - most of them are absolutely lovely incl. Michael Gove and some who have the worst reps in the media.

A certain one who shares a surname with a film was incredibly pleasant to me, but has form for being v rude, and ones purposely shut a door in my OH’s face...

Matt Hancock?

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

Tony Blair (Witch Project).

Rolf Harris, rude , obnoxious and unfriendly (when I was a child)
Gary Glitter weird and full of himself (when I was a student)

I haven't ever met a villain, real or otherwise, but when I worked in police admin I was reading statements and generally sorting paperwork on a murder investigation. A prostitute was murdered and men who had been in the vice area that night were asked to come forward to avoid police knocking on their door. I read a well known persons statement and then the statement of the prostitute he had picked up. The investigation was very sad, the death very violent, but reading those two statements was a very funny moment in a horrible week. I know more about him that I ever wanted to. This was over 30 years ago and I think he's retired now, you certainly don't hear much about him but there were things I'd heard that always came to mind when he appeared on TV.

My husband met several celebrities in the course of his police work, politicians and RF and the person who stood out for him was Mrs Thatcher. He said she was the only one who made a point of thanking him very sincerely for the arrangements he'd made. He said another well known, much more popular politician, made him feel that if he'd taken a bullet for him he'd have kicked his dying body out of the way.

For alot of it I'd imagine it might depend on the day. If I was a celebrity the man who accidently knocked my arm spilling a cup of hot coffee on me would I say I was a demented bitch. I was miscarrying a much wanted baby at the time and trying to get home from a weekend away. It was a very early miscarriage but I was distraught and I was vile to him. He tried to apologise and my husband told him it was ok and DH took me in his arms and I sobbed. The poor man must have thought I was a totally deranged. We all have off day, me more than most perhaps.

Know people who work on showbiz who all say Gordon Ramsey is a delight.

My mum knows Rebekah Brooks, formerly of News of the World. She is absolutely lovely!