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 don’t believe a word of this. Brown and Harding don’t know anything that they haven’t already said.

I'd heard something similar from a friend and posted it on the other thread, but a lot of people felt that as she was Nicole Kidman she had a right to be like this. Very rude, stand offish and totally up herself.

James Corden, Gavin and Stacey era. Embarrassingly rude.

Agree. I'm not a friend of Jess, but I see her all the time on a casual/say hi to basis - she is private but a really nice woman.

Shirley Bassey … James Cordon … Gary Linekar…
Nope.

Now Stephen Mullhurn, Anton Du Bek and Joanna Lumley on the other hand.

Just lovely 🥰

My DH works very closely with him and has done for years. He’s an absolutely bloody lovely man.

That is such a lovely story @JemimaPuddlegoose !

I haven't met anyone famous unless you count Cider with Rosie author Laurie Lee ( come on, it's practically a classic!) He was pleasant and to me seemed exactly like an author and poet should, I was 9 or so.
My partner is a film extra and has good things to say about Michael Caine, Hugh Grant and Craig Reville Horwood. He said he met Ryan somebody who was nice,turns out it was Ryan Reynolds,who he had never heard of. (For someone who works in that industry he's clueless)

equilaSunriseforme · 08/06/2022 08:50
Icepinkeskimo · 08/06/2022 03:58
Nicole Kidman, she was something else, rude egotistical and to top it off grabby, if something was free she wanted it. Self entitlement was taken to a whole new level in the 6/7 weeks I had the complete displeasure of working with her.
How disappointing.

😦 She's my cousin's wife...disappointing indeed.

No horror stories but...

Taika Waititi- Very nice, energetic but absolutely liquored up to the heavens (later on a few friends who were there said it was probably coke as well.) It was at a Jojo Rabbit premiere, I was there as press, and I actually ended up sitting next to him outside the theater when he was alone randomly. All throughout the introductions/socializing that night it was clear he was imbibing, which was very acceptable at this event, but it was so excessive that he was making the people he had to present the movie with visibly uncomfortable on stage.

I was going to do a casual "I really enjoyed the film!" before leaving him alone, but then I noticed he was swaying left and right, eyes completely glazed over, staring into the middle distance, and he somehow just looked so wasted that I automatically assumed he was incapable of speech. I went from being a little starstruck to fully just watching to make sure he was okay until one of his people/friends came over to get him. He seemed to snap out of it then and immediately became friendly-flirty with the person as they wrangled his body away.

Nic Cage- Met a few times in casual situations, amazingly sweet but surprisingly shy. Seems almost like he's "blank" when he's not acting, which is maybe why he's both so great and so unpredictable at it?

Ian McEwan is genuinely lovely. I'm going back to 2001 (!).

David Beckham also remember being lovely, you used to be able to stand at the front of Old Trafford on Sundays and get players autographs. He was the only player who went around everyone.

Matthew Kelly and Ian McShane I've met briefly but they seemed nice too.

I'm pretty bad at spotting celebrities out and about though. On a trip to London, my husband said I almost tripped over Jeremy Paxman. I didn't notice 🤣

Jimmy Carr was the nastiest man out there. Went to watch 8 of 10 cats being filmed years ago and he shouted at everyone and made such rude comments about how long it was taking.

James cordon was so rude when I saw him in 2020

When we first moved to our current house, Eddie the Eagle was our neighbour. A lovely men, he came to tea. We were keen skiers in those days and we had a great chat. So sorry that he moved away.

My mum's best spoonerism was calling Phil Jupitus "Jill Poopitus".

I always found his manic mugging for laughs annoying so he's been Jill Poopitus to me ever since.

Viv Albertine from The Slits - lovely, 80’s Matchbox B Line Disaster - band all lovely, Pete Dougherty - lovely, Nils Frahm - lovely, Tony Hadley/Nik Kershaw - lovely, John Taylor/Nik Rhodes - lovely. Bob Mortimer/Vic Reeves - lovely.

Not so lovely - Holly Vallance, Simon Le Bon.

I am not sure anyone will know who he is but Kunt (Kunt and the Gang) is exceptionally lovely! As in above and beyond and very aware. I was a 20 something woman surrounded by middle-aged blokes and one of them was talking to me not very nicely. I was waiting to buy a CD after a KATG gig. Kunt took me aside, thrust a handful of his CDs into my hand and said to take them for free-I insisted I paid for them and he said somewhat sternly- 'No, go now, I don't want this lot kicking off and he's not a nice man (beckoning at the one who'd been talking to me)'.

He also gave me and my friends a lift to the pub after a different gig, even though he was about to embark on a 5 hour or so drive back home. We saw him leaving and shouted goodbye and mentioned we were struggling to find a taxi.

Honestly a lovely man.

Oh and I haven’t heard great things about Gok Wan…

I don't know who it was but I remember a similar thread some years back where a poster mentioned that she'd come out of a shop and walked straight into David Beckham, as in collided with him and her shopping went all over the floor-and he apologised to her (although it was her fault) and helped her pick it up. I've always felt kindly toward him since reading that.

George Takei, really really nice. Garrett Wang 😍😍😍. Marina Sirtis lovely and totally hilarious.

Gemma Collins is the most vile human being I've ever had the misfortune to come across in a work setting. She tried to get someone thrown out of the location we were in because he'd dared to look in her direction.

The nicest by far was Sir Tom Jones. Rocked up at an event with no entourage and did everything asked of him with a big smile and can-do attitude. Made all the had-beens in attendance who were throwing their weight around – Blue, Geri Halliwell, some idiot who came third in Big Brother – look like utter knobs.

Met Paul Hollywood in Canterbury one day, he parked next to me in his Aston Martin with PBAKE numberplate . I made a lighthearted comment about not being very inconspicuous and he laughed had a chat, said he was going to hire a suit for the TV awards thst evening. Seemed very nice, not very tall

Alan Rickman wrote very favourably about Cilla Black in his diaries. Interesting as he’s clearly very perceptive, knew her & he isn’t positive about everyone.

Worked in West End in late 80s early 90s used to see lots of celebs. Depeche Mode, struck me how short they all were. Lots of newsreaders. Kenneth Williams used to walk past me everyday but I never realised who he was st first. Martin Jarvis he was a character

Ah yes agree! She’s absolutely lovely.