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 was working my way through the thread WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll but if only I'd waited not only was there a response but quite the discussion about it! I'm embarrassed I didn't just hang on but curiosity got the better of me.
Thank you for responding; have to agree with you about Miss Margolyes not being able to read the room.

I don’t think it is his as we are both on the same boating forums on FB and regularly comment on the same threads. He has a Princess called Mitchie after his wife.

Years ago my aunt had stopped at a service station on a motorway to check some minor car trouble she was having. Paul Daniels came over to her and helped, she didn't realise it was him but commented to him that he looked familiar but she couldn't place him.

She said he was so charming and helpful though it wasn't until later that she realised who he was.

Ah, thanks, @Matildatoldsuchdreadfullies - so glad to hear that about Shaun.

Met Noel Edmonds many years ago and he was very pleasant but oh was he interested in a local beauty queen. I got the impression he was a bit of a ladies' man, however the beauty queen looked a lot like his wife so maybe he just has a type.

I worked for a large mobile phone company so met a few famous folk through helping them with their accounts (not the A listers cos they had their own dedicated handlers) I met Aled Jones who was lovely, came in with a friend and their conversation was pleasant and funny, came across as all round good person. Sarah Harding was fine and so much more stunning in person than in photos!
Various minor pop stars and soap actors came and went without too much to note about it.
But opera singer Russell Watson was hands down one of the nastiest customers I've ever had the misfortune to deal with. He came into the shop for a simple task which was easy and quick to do, but it was like he was looking for someone to shit on that day as he extended the whole thing by being a deeply nasty and unpleasant as possible. Stormed out of the shop even though I was doing as asked (shop was empty at the time), sent his bouncer in to carry on being unpleasant, came back sent his bouncer out and took the whole interaction as far round the houses as it is possible to go. It was like being a mouse being played with by a particularly mean cat. Every time I got to the point where we were done and he could go, he would kick off over something else. His ego and entitlement were so vast it would have blotted out the sun and he poured it all into being an absolute arsehole.
A task that was ten minutes tops took an hour, I was the kind of assistant who often got thank you letters from customers because I always took really good care of people. He was so vile that about 2 years later when it was in the news he'd got a brain tumour, I'm sorry to say I thought 'well at least it's got someone who deserved it this time'

He was so vile that about 2 years later when it was in the news he'd got a brain tumour, I'm sorry to say I thought 'well at least it's got someone who deserved it this time'

Jesus Christ

My comment was aimed at the poster smearing Sir Keir and by inference attacking Johnson ......without actually bringing some celeb goss to the table.

A friend of a friend has worked with Nick Cave and said he is a demanding bastard with a short temper who expects staff to be on call 24 7 when it suits him.

I love that!! What a sport.

Helena Bonham-Carter

I don't know whether she thinks it's endearing, but it's just really jarring and extremely unsubtle. There's a big difference between 'not mincing your words' and just having no internal filter whatsoever.

This is exactly it. It reminds me of being college age, when lots of us were becoming sexually active for the first time and some peers couldn’t stop showing off and telling anyone who’d listen about what they’d been doing and who with. ‘Hey look at me everyone, I’ve been having loads of SEX and one night stands and everything because I’m so grown up and cool’

Given that (I assume) Miriam has been having a lot of sex for a lot of years, you’d think she’d have grown out of this sort of talk by now. It makes me cringe. I wish I hadn’t witnessed her telling Graham Norton that the sight of Laurence Olivier had made her ‘cream’ in her knickers. Just too much. 🤮

I wonder if Miriam ' tells these stories ' just for shock tactics.
It also seems weird that these tales are encounters with men when in reality she is gay.

He was so vile that about 2 years later when it was in the news he'd got a brain tumour, I'm sorry to say I thought 'well at least it's got someone who deserved it this time'
wow - you do realise a brain tumour can affect a person’s mood and personality?

I met Jason Mohammed (BBC tv / radio presenter) once while out walking the dogs with DP. He was lovely and we had a very normal chit chat about dogs. I'm awful with faces so I had no idea who he was until DP told me afterwards!

Without a doubt. She absolutely lives for the shocked gasps stunned faces that she receives when she tells these stories.

Was that the same show as Wil I Am.
Because that was a car crash of a show.

He's been mentioned a lot but has anyone met Boris Johnson? Nearest I've got was being a volunteer during the 2012 Olympics. Got to stand in the Mall and watch the parade afterwards. One of the group I 'worked' with saw Boris processing down the Mall and called out hello to him. Boris looked appalled and speeded up hastily.

Agree with PP upthread. I thought Miriam Margoles didn't go for the men so can only assume the stories she tells are pure shock value.

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Yes, of course.

Would it turn them from lovely/normal to awful a good 2 years+ ahead of discovery? I don't know. I don't know the man, maybe he's an absolute delight, but he was so nasty he would have stood out even if he wasn't famous, and this is what the thread was about, worst celeb you've ever met.

In the cold light of day I would never wish serious illness on anyone, ok, maybe Putin... so my thought of 'couldn't have happened to a nicer person ' is very uncharacteristic of me, but I shared it to convey just how unpleasant my encounter with him had been. Its not like this method of story telling is well suited for the finer details when you're trying to be succinct.

Maybe his future brain tumor made all the difference that day. Maybe the experience I had is typical of him, that's for someone else to know, I can't.

I'm not sure this belongs in here as it's far from "worst" but someone else mentioned Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen and it reminded me of something always makes me smile when I think of it!

We worked with him a good few years back, and although I didn't meet him myself I'm told he was generally decent - a few difficult requests but nothing out of the ordinary for our clients (we're a building contractor). What amused me though was we got a Christmas card from him and his team - it was quite large, at least double the size of standard card and he had signed it in thick black pen, corner to corner to get his signature as big as possible! We got another card from them the following year and his signature was far more subtle, I do wonder if someone had a word!

Probably for the same reasons that Madonna does - trying to stay relevant through shock value based on sex while ageing. Perhaps it brings in appearance fees for her she wouldn't otherwise have.

@Offandonagain Sean Lock????? Not a chance!

@BorderlineHappy Agree that the Will.I.Am episode was horrendous. I can’t remember if it was the same one, but I do remember that Matthew Perry was sitting next to Miriam and looked DEEPLY uncomfortable when she mentioned her vaginal secretions.

And yes, as others have said, Miriam is a lesbian so none of it makes sense, unless she is actually bisexual or didn’t discover her true sexual orientation until later in life.

I know one of the prop hands who worked on this production and yes, this is true. He said they did feel a bit sorry for the audience getting the odd splash.

Given that (I assume) Miriam has been having a lot of sex for a lot of years, you’d think she’d have grown out of this sort of talk by now.

There is the school of thought that the more you talk about it the less you're getting.

I do find her behaviour rather pathetic but she must have her reasons.