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.

waterlego and yellowbanana, I feel bad about being coy! You are both right or very close. It's Torn Wrench's partner. I just can't bring myself to type the real name, but you got it!

As I said, the most disturbing thing for me is how nice she comes over nowadays (OK, it's 40 years ago that I knew her). Makes the point that a media persona is not the real person - they've worked very hard on it!

(On another topic....I still feel, though, that we shouldn't bother famous people when they're off duty and trying to live their lives. People have a right to a private life, and if you approach them asking for autographs or selfies, frankly, you have to accept the consequences. )

Once met Jude Law through work. He was really friendly as was Martin Kemp. Saw Thandiwe Newton at an event once. I was with a friend and she was walking towards us. I hadn't noticed her but my friend said she rolled her eyes and sighed loudly as we approached, clearly expecting us to stop her for a photo. When we simply walked past she looked aghast. Later that morning I made a comment and she responded in a pleasant way, so I think it was more about the fact that she didn't want to be stopped for being a celeb.

Piers Morgan was lovely actually and ranting about his kids teachers

That doesn't sound very lovely.

A deceased comedian.

Creep. Met with my friend in the venue he'd performed at. He sat at the table with the two of us and told extremely graphic stories in a strong West Country accent about all the women he'd shagged (presumably behind his wife's back). At one point, reached over and grabbed my breast like it was the natural next step in the conversation. Acted offended that I was not receptive- like I should be pleased because he was famous. And older than my dad. Then as we got up to leave he tried to snog my friend.🤢🤢

I've heard similar stories about him. I don't want to write his name because his family will still be mourning him I imagine and it seems tasteless of me, but I think I've given a big clue.

I’m a lurker not a poster, but I can’t resist adding my utterly shit twopenneth to this thread.

As a child, I met Jimmy Savile at a weird churchy jamboree at Holme Pierrepoint. He shook my hand and called me Gladys - still not sure why, perhaps it was my massive coke bottle glasses - and I got huge creepy vibes off him.

Michael Rosen came to our primary school for a ‘inspiring poetry session’ which was basically him in the hall, talking at us. This was the 80s; that was what passed as teaching at the time. Afterwards, he went to the staff room and all us children lined up outside, desperate for his autograph with all the fervour of youth. I was clutching my much loved copy of You Tell Me. Anyway, one of the teachers poked his head round the door and instructed us that
Mr Rosen would not be signing anything. I was actually quite gutted, but to be fair, I wouldn’t have wanted to endure 100 over-excited 10 year olds, if I was him.

My more recent celeb-adjacent stories don’t get any better. My husband is a history buff so we go to a lot of talks (basically grown up versions of the Michael Rosen event). I was a primary teacher, and I used to travel around with a small badger toy, our class mascot, and take photos of him doing ‘interesting’ things. Over the years, I’ve shamefully coerced several historian celebs into posing with it, ‘because the children will love it!’.

Max Hastings was bemused, but a good sport, and pretended to talk to the badger. Martin Bell was brilliant, and let me take quite a few photos because the light was so bad. Stanley Johnson (I know, I know…) was actually really game as well.

Paddy Ashdown was possibly the most prickly, and I think he thought I was tricking him into some bizarre gonzo stunt, as he insisted that I should also be in the photo and he held up a copy of his book, practically hiding my badger.

I nearly approached Jon Snow at Gatwick, but he got pulled over by security and they started going through his hand luggage. He had some pineapple print boxer shorts in there. It didn’t feel like the right time.

Obviously my class of ten year olds couldn’t have cared less about these fabulous photos that I had sold my pride to obtain.

Ooh - just remembered another one. I worked with a woman who'd worked for the BBC in Manchester with Michael Parkinson. Said he was vile - regularly having tantrums if people didn't jump when he gave his orders. My brother in law had dinner with him, in a group of 4, as a young solicitor and got totally ignored by Parky. He got the strong impression that the charm is reserved for people he thinks are important enough.

Not a nice man, but then, personally, I never liked him. If you watch his interviews now he comes over as horribly fawning and star-struck and you can see him slavering over the poor women he interviewed. So sexist, patronising and....pervy.

I think Lulu has done a Dorian Gray. She looks great but her 'personality' on the Jubilee settee was just so off. She came across terribly.

Michael Owen! His whole family live on an estate in Northwales and in a previous life I worked for school admissions.. his kids didn't match the catchment criteria for the school they wanted so they 'rented' a house opposite the school and applied from that house,
Got in. Loads of complaints.

He screamed at me down the phone 'DONT YOU KNOW WHO I AM? when I asked him for 3 bills to prove he lived there 🙃

It made the news that he lied about where he lived btw this isn't a gdpr violation honest!

Off to name change now

Katy’s, was Barbara Windsor’s apparent rudeness during her later years? She was living with dementia for a very long time.

Sorry, Katya

Jools Holland was absolutely awful. Really snappy and rude.

Noel Gallagher was nice and approachable. Liam Gallagher was NOT.

Martin Clunes was very, very nice.

my friend has worked with Johnny Rotten and says he’s lovely.

@peachy3 James cordon? He's awful in real life

@Sidekicksimone please stop lurking and start posting, that was a hilarious read

Sean Lock?

No, this was about 20 years ago perhaps a little more. I think she only spoke to people of importance.

Oh forgot to mention, you know who is really lovely, Keith lemon and Kara tointon (think that's how you spell her name.)

@Offandonagain got to be Jethro

Reading through has reminded me of a few others.

good one - Andrea McLean - met her while at an awards ceremony with work. She wasn’t on our table but she was going around chatting to everyone and being attentive and just making people feel at ease.

Ian Mckellan is also great bumped into him around a set when they were filming in my home town, and he went out his way to be nice and engage with people

Gordon Ramsay - met him in Nottingham when he was out and about doing kitchen nightmares - he has a tv personality but in person he’s an amazing guy, kind, generous and really know how to speak to kids and make them laugh.

another bad experience other than Pat Sharpe which I meantioned shocked me was John Barrowman. I saw him snapping at some people (don’t know what was said) and to be honest he could have been having a bad day, just didn’t expect him to be that person

M late dad was a session musician in the 60s and 70 and knew a lot of people from the Merseybeat era growing up.
I remember him telling me that Van Morrison was an absolute gobshite.
Cilla Black " all voice, no class, rude "
Lads from The Seekers, Gerry and the Pacemakers and the shadows ( who he knew through his cousin) all good craic.
Tom O'connor , his dad and my grandad were friends, absolutely lovely man.
My uncle did some driving for events
Rolf Harris - swore like a navvy, strange vibe ( this was 10 years before the allegations came to light )
Pat Roach , humble, took some of the crew , including my uncle, out for a few pints.
Stuart Hall, creep.

He had some pineapple print boxer shorts in there. It didn’t feel like the right time.

This cracked me up 😂

Alan Shearer gets a bad rap where I'm from - everyone seems to have a story about him being a dick in our local.

However, back in his heyday, he came to open a a unit in a send school where I worked. He stayed and chatted for a short amount of time and one of the kids, who had been really excited to meet him, it transpired had confused him with david beckham. AS just played along as the kid asked him about posh spice and the kids - he just answered questions about the spice girls as though he was becks. No sign at all that he was offended at not being properly recognised and no mocking the child for making a mistake. The kid went away happy with the interaction and I've always thought that says something about Alan Shearer too.

Julian McDonald?

Craig Charles is awful and I can't wait for it to all come out in the wash what he's been up to. I'd advise anyone to steer well clear!

Thanks @CulturePigeon

I also met JK Rowling at a 50th party. She was absolutely luminously beautiful and ethereal, pregnant at the time, and sitting with her husband in a little village hall where the party was being held. She did seem quite unapproachable though, perhaps shy, but we were very conscious of not 'bothering' her.