Worst celebrity you have ever met part 2

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Starting a new thread as last one wasn't accepting new posts.. Years ago I was a young dancer and background singer .. Very shy starting out on the job I loved (age 16 ) Jim Davison was on the Sunderland Empire about 2002 ish.. He was awful.. Moody! Shouty! Miserable, Rude.😭 I danced and sang in a lot of shows afterwards, and the much bigger stars were absolutely lovely.. But he is the one I remember most.. Awful man!.. I have worked with the Nolan Sisters and they all were so lovely.. I really understand how Linda (she was so kind and lovely to me, as were all of the sisters) did not like Jim Davison when she was in Big Brother (that was not the man he acted like on that show) Out of all the 50+ lovely celebrities I worked with over 15 years(some quite famous stars) , this is the one I remember most as the most horrible one.

I am friends with a very well known sportsman. Catch him on an average day and he's absolutely lovely and would be friendly and kind to fans. Catch him on a day when he's focused or injured etc and he'd be a right grump. I know I'd be exactly the same. Very few people are sweetness and light all the time.

When I was a kid, my mum's friend had an adult daughter with learning disabilities who absolutely adored Cliff Richard. She and her mum wrote to him once via his fan club to ask for an autograph, and for years afterwards, he would periodically send her things in the post - signed photos or records, tour memorabilia etc., always with a little handwritten letter. I think he sent her Christmas cards as well. She was very sheltered by her parents but she absolutely lit up when she was showing us something new he'd sent her.

Ah, good to hear that about Daniel. I'm not a fan of his myself, but maybe he just isn't the most naturally charismatic or bubbly person in public. I suppose you could have said the same about Roy Orbison (when comparing the shyness, not so much the singing, that is ).

My cousin is a make up artist and used to a lot of fashion shoots and shows. When the Corrs were pretty big (late 90s?) she was one of the staff on tour. Corrs themselves all absolutely lovely, very down to earth...Simon Le Bon (who was at one of the shows and went backstage afterwards) was apparently VILE. Very rude and up himself and sleazing all over Andrea Corr, who was very politely trying to tell him to fuck off without being rude.

Gary Lineker got one of my friends thrown out of a nightclub about 20 years ago for literally no good reason that we could fathom at the time. Hadn't made any comments / jokes etc but did politely tell one of his 'entourage' off for bashing into her and spilling her drink.

Nice one - Wayne and Colleen Rooney - were in an almost empty Monkey Bar at Sandy Lane in Barbados many years ago. I was there with a friend and didn't want to disturb them, but the barman assured me that I should (and gave me some paper to ask for an autograph for my brother). Cue a lovely 10 minute chat about handbags with Colleen (we mutually admired each others) and Wayne complaining about his sunburn (he was VERY red tbf). Lovely couple and when we went to get our bar tab later they had paid it for us!

I'm gutted at this I thought he was a really genuine guy.

Love reading all these. I've met a few celebs over the years, mostly all nice.

Johnny Depp - by far the loveliest celeb I've met. He took the time to really listen when I spoke to him, like you knew he was actually listening. Held my hands while I spoke to him. He seemed very humble. Smelled of alcohol, that's probably expected when he's about to do a gig.

Alice Cooper - fine, friendly enough

Joe Perry - a little standoffish, you get the vibe that he knows how much of a rockstar he is, not unexpected really

Cate Blanchett - quiet and unassuming, but we did meet in a public bathroom so didn't properly speak to her

Judi Dench - really lovely, happy to sign an autograph and have a chat. Just a nice person. Have met multiple times.

Maggie Smith - she was with Judi, they holiday together. Again, very nice and gracious.

Robbie Coltrane - it was my Dad who met him, they had a conversation about fishing and was decent enough guy. However, don't ask for a photo or autograph! That's what pisses him off.

Backstreet Boys - met briefly but from what I could tell -
Nick - needs attention, likes to be the center of attention
Brian - pumped full of energy, total pocket rocket, easily distracted
Howie - quiet and lovely, kind eyes
Kevin - so tall! And lovely to speak to
AJ - humble and kind

Jimmy Savile - ugh, he opened the new pitch at my old primary school. Very much full of himself. I have a photo of him with his hand on my shoulder (I was 17)

Myles Kennedy from Alter Bridge - quiet but nice

Jaret Reddick from Bowling for Soup - funny and friendly

Nicola Sturgeon - chatty and interested

Prince Charles watched me playing my violin at the national MOD, didn't get the chance to meet him properly though

Glen Michael (from Glen Michael's Cartoon Cavalcade in the 80s/90s) - so lovely and kind

My friend met Jack Black and Kyle Gass and said they were hilarious

Helen Flanagan is awful! She was incredibly rude to a colleague - on the other hand I spent an afternoon with Alesha Dixon once and she was just the nicest human!

I met Mariah Carey, she was lovely.

I've met Bon Jovi several times and they were ace.

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were also nice.

I've met loads.

This is absolutely hilarious!

@fatfrenchprick Tanya seems nice on TV was she horrible?

I’ve met Prince Charles in a work context. I’m not a royalist but I quite liked him. He came across as down to earth and had a lovely handshake - firm, strong and dry!

Also met Larry Mullen a couple of times. Friendly enough.

No excuse for his behaviour but don't most 5* hotels do room service at almost any time?

I'm gutted at this I thought he was a really genuine guy.

I've not met him myself, but I think he's matured quite a bit. It must be very difficult to be an ordinary unknown person who suddenly comes to prominence on The X-Factor or similar and find yourself surrounded by fans.

From the overnight celeb's pov, I wonder if it maybe feels a bit like when people win the lottery jackpot and suddenly everybody loves them and wants to fawn over them; although there's obviously a difference between when people already knew you and didn't care before and when they didn't know you before you hit the headlines. It must be scary and uncertain for them as well.

Either way, within reason, I think we need to make some allowances for people in the 'toddler phase' of fame. If they're still surprise-surprisingly nasty to everybody they meet after decades in the spotlight, that's a different matter entirely, and much more difficult to exscouse

Greg Wallace - arrogant and self-centered

Gino D'Campo - also arrogant and very sweary

I agree with those saying you can’t judge if you’ve just accosted someone on a day off. I’ve never met any celebrities as any I’ve seen I wouldn’t dream of going up and disturbing them - even ones I love like Domhnall Gleeson who I kept seeing in my local Tesco for a while.

I’m in Ireland and apparently celebs like coming here as generally they do get left alone.

Martin Kemp was one of the celebs at our graduation ball- right at the height of his Eastenders fame. My housemates and I posed for a photo with him, we were all huge Eastenders fans and were a bit drunk and giddy meeting him. He was absolutely lovely and took it very well when I accidentally touched his bum 😳(moving my arm for the picture)

Haven't really met many celebs, but we did meet the guy who plays Les Battersby on holiday whilst waiting for a bus, it was just as news of his alcohol problems was coming out I think. His family were so lovely and chatty but he was quite quiet and just held back from the chat a bit. I can totally understand that he didn't want to chat with strangers at that point though.

Probably an inferiority complex of the z-list-ers who don't have any actual skills/ability other than being famous and being in the right place at the right time.

I can see people mistaking focussed training for rude as well. Like if a friend came upto me at the gym I'd stop and chat (soo not an olympian y'know) but I could see that someone training seriously wouldn't do that. You go up to talk to them whilst they're on a rowing machine or treadmill and they can hardly talk back but maybe sort of smile and nod but basically just carry on doing what they're doing.

He was never my cup of tea, but I did bump into him in a menswear shop in London years ago. He was joking around with the bloke on the till and throwing comments back at me and the other couple of people in the shop.

I was a bit eye-rolly about it at the time as it seemed so showy and attention seeking, but in retrospect I really appreciate the effort he made to be nice - he made everyone smile and it was just a sweet, funny interaction, especially for the staff. It must be bloody exhausting to be so ‘on’ all the time when you’re recognised everywhere you go.

michael caine was a hoot
michael winner was also a hoot
david gandy had disappeared up his arse so couldn't be a hoot
yazz (the only way is up yazz) was an arse
nicky clarke was an arse too

Never met anyone famous. Some siblings have met famous people over the years.
Bob Geldof - irritable, grumpy not friendly. Always has been like this.
Van Morrison - the same, if anything even worse.
Angela Lansbury- lovely, friendly charming. Sibling met her at a wedding.
Jeremy Irons- tried to get into a small music festival without a ticket whilst queue jumping with ‘ Do you not know who I am’. He failed much to sibling and friends’ amusement.
Dara Ó Briain ( comedian) great laugh. Good fun. Sibling in the same pub.
Elvis Costello - friendly enough.
Various Irish tv/ radio presenters - Ian Dempsey, Gerry Ryan, Gay Byrne and Ray Darcy.

To be honest, on balance, I'd rather have Phill Jupitus with his grumpy stand-offish manner in private, but who nevertheless has never (to the best of my knowledge) had hundreds of thousands of people demand that he be tried for horrendous war crimes.

That's very easy to say when you've not been personally subjected to the Phil Jupitus Death Stare ™ @WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll

This doesn't surprise me - I was more surprised at people saying how nice she was.

She's always struck me as a nob (but to be fair to her, I have never met her so am just picking up TV vibes)

Another friend met Will Young and said he was an utter arse.

I can confirm this was also my experience. Incredibly rude and obnoxious.

My auntie knew her from living close to her in Glasgow. Always described her as ‘a wee gobshite.’ Not very nice at all apparantly.