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.

John Leslie, tv presenter in the 90's came to Manchester to host a Party in the Park type thing, me and pal were 15, she was very pretty and when we went back stage to meet him he ended up snogging her face off. To her as a 15 to this was a massive coup he was handsome and famous AND going out with Catherine Zeta Jones at the time, so this cemented her status as Gorgeous in our school. However he was a grown man dating a high profile celeb snogging teens at work, so from that pov it was massively creepy, he was all paws and slimey as f* and I'm not surprised he was named as the rapist of Ulrika Johnsson later on.

I've just been horrified for the past 20 minutes thinking Martine had wanked off a tramp 🤣🤣🤣🤣 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

OMG. I'm crying!!!

@TopCatsTopHat almost 20 years ago (I think) before the drama came out about John Leslie, I worked for an architects and our marketing person was talking in hidden voices/codes about she knew who it was and afterwards confirmed yes it was John Leslie.

Forgot - also used to see Gilbert and George and Tracey Emin in pubs in Commercial Road - all seemed lovely. SIL has met a few famous artists in her job, Grayson Perry, Andrew Lloyd-Webber (Pre-Raphaelites which is her speciality) and some others and said on the whole, all very nice.

You're being far too sensible! 😄

If everyone I've ever met were asked what they think of me, a third would say lovely, a third would say awful and a third would say alright.

We met Justin Lee Collins and his wife and children on holiday in Cornwall a year or so before his downfall. He and his wife were utterly lovely. We were staying at the same hotel and spent a bit of time with them over the course of a week. You really can't judge people from a brief encounter.

I worked with Ronnie Corbett and he was genuinely one of the loveliest people I’d ever worked with. Him and his wife were both really sweet.

Shush, child.

You might want to fact check yourself. Starmer was DPP in 2009. A local CPS lawyer in the South East gave the local decison on four cases brought to them. That's perfectly normal. I was a DC at that time, and a case like that, even involving a celebrity, wouldn't have gone higher than the local CPS lead. It's not about who you are, it's about what you've allegedly done.

Even right wing extremism cases I investigated only went to a regional level for terrorism - it's not normal for the DPP to get involved in decison making - that rests with the highly qualified and experienced lawyers working throughout the organisation.

Saville at that time wouldn't even have been likely to be in a briefing note to the DPP given it was 4 allegations - not uncommon in sexual offence cases.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/60213975

who are we talking about here?

Pathetic using a Boris attack line in a thread like this. Really desperate.

*Sidekicksimone · Today 07:05

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.*

At the time Michael Rosen was going on a lot about private school education and how comprehensive school pupils were disadvantaged etc. (this would have been 8 or 9 years ago) my DS wrote to him asking if he'd come and speak at his school (a comprehensive). Michael Rosen wrote back saying it would cost £1000+ plus expenses. I guess he got a lot of requests, but........

Neil Morrissey drinks in one of my locals and is a friend of a friend so I've chatted to him on occasion (usually outside having a fag😏). He's as you imagine, a bit of a cheeky chappy, but very sweet. Plus the friend who's friends with him is a good judge of character, so if he gets on with him he's OK by me.

We've got a few Eastenders actors living in our area. My husband has met Masood the postie in the park while both were on dog walking duties. The first time my husband met him, he (my husband) mentioned he'd seen in in a local fringe theatre with Les Dennis. He was impressed with that, as most people know him for EE....my husband said no he leaves this to me😄Masood got his dog after making a fuss of ours a few times and it was our dog that inspired him to get one.

Perry Fenwick also lives locally, I've seen him in the street and in the pub. He seems nice enough, always happy to say hi. When I saw him in the pub I was so surprised I said ''Oh hi Billy!'' and he replied ''Hi Jane'' (presumably a nod to Jane Beale, she was in it at the time.)

Sorry this was for worst, and I gave good examples!!!

When all of this blew up the former chief prosecutor - can’t remember his name - confirmed that because of the processes in place at the time, the Saville case wouldn’t have been referred to Starmer but handled by a senior case manager at the CPS. After the investigation Starmer himself changed the process so that such cases would be brought to the attention of the DPP in future. That being the case, why insinuate that there was a cover up ? It was Boris bluster intended to take the heat off himself and it didn’t work.

I met Jude Law in a coffee shop in Primrose Hill.
He was standing behind me when I was paying for my coffee. I couldn't remember my pin, then dropped my purse. He picked it up for me .
God , I was so embarrassed but he was so charming and gorgeous in real life. That smile 😍😍

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@vera99 hardly desperate. Boris is such a train wreck that he leaves himself wide open to criticism from every possible angle.

I worked with Ronnie Corbett and he was genuinely one of the loveliest people I’d ever worked with. Him and his wife were both really sweet.

Worked WITH him, though - not FOR him. In what capacity? Even the nastiest celebs we all hear about are nicey-nicey to people they consider their 'equals' and 'superiors' and when it can help their career. It's a completely different matter whether they treat a waitress with respect and kindness or scream abuse at her and shout "Don't you know who I am?!"

Incidentally, I really think some of these celebs who play the "Don't you know who I am?" card can't be all that bright, as it really isn't the 'gotcha' that they seem to believe. The very fact that you have to ask it is proof that you aren't as famous or important as you think you are. Can you imagine the Queen ever feeling the need to say that to tip somebody the wink as to who she is?

YY @WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll - I used to know a woman who worked on doors and she once had to tell one of Bananarama (I think it was Keren) that her name wasn't on the list, so she wasn't coming in. Bananarama woman then tried "Do you know who I am?" and my friend replied "Kind of, didn't you use to be famous?" and Bananarama woman just stood there, jaw on floor, while simultaneously not being admitted to said club.

@StThomasAqAintWrong

The self-confessed vagrant sexual wellbeing assistant was Miriam Margolyes.

Not Martine McCutcheon, Marshall Mathers, Michael McIntyre, Maurice Micklewhite, Mickey Mouse, Mr Miyagi or anybody else with the initials MM - which seemed to cause a little confusion!!

@FetchezLaVache

BOOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!

Jimmy Tarbuck attended a golf event at a hotel where I worked and warmly shook my hand with both of his hands when I served his pint. I said "it's great to meet you - I am a huge fan ..... of your daughter". He laughed heartily and said "ah, she's a good girl Liza'

Interesting - my brief encounter story shows James Corden in a better light than other anecdotes on here.

I was on holiday in Mallorca and almost ran into him when I walked round a corner. We made eye contact and it must have been obvious that I recognised him - he gave me a perfectly friendly smile. So I've been under the impression that he's quite nice!

Whoever was asking about Shaun Williamson…

At the time he’d recently been on a cbbc show (Hacker). One of my dc asked him for his autograph, and shoved a tatty torn off scrap of paper in his face. He started to sign, and then asked them to hang on whilst he run back to his car to get a photo to sign.

When he returned my youngest dc (then 3), stared at him with disdain, and said in the type of dismissive voice only a very young child can manage, “you used to be on tv.” Fortunately, he found it funny. And he was lovely to the dc who’d asked for his autograph.

We had very similar with him in Reading services on the M4. He came across as lovely even after we had made an effort to ‘ignore him’!