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Minor celebs wife being rude in pub

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cattreatsanddragrace · 04/09/2023 09:28

Went to a country pub yesterday with my partner. Nice little place in the Surrey countryside, part of a chain, not fine dining. Very busy as the weather was really good, some stressed looking teenage girls trying to serve everyone. Kids play area in the garden and a bar in the garden area for drinks. We were sat on the patio attached to the restaurant.

A minor TV celeb, his wife, and another couple were sat across from us. The wife of the minor celeb complained a few times (that I heard).

First time: That one of the starters came out fractionally behind one of the others. (It was busy, there were four of them, the waitress can only carry two plates?!)

Second time: that the prawns in their prawn cocktail were inedible. (To be fair, I'd let this complaint slide as I didn't eat the prawn cocktail. It could have been bad). The waitress apologised and had a new dish made for them.

Third time: and this is the one that got me. The mains came, and the waitress went to put the plates down. The wife of the celeb laughed and stopped the waitress, and told her that "you don't serve plates from that side" aka the waitress was stood on the wrong side of her putting her plate down. She made the waitress go round the other side and put her plate down. This wasn't a silver service Michelin starred restaurant where you might expect such things. Just a standard pub.

So my (lighthearted) AIBU - do I sell this story to the Daily Mail and name and shame?

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Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 04/09/2023 09:59

True story from Texas

Cop stops car being driven erratically . Ask driver to get out and take a breath test

Driver : ‘ Do you know who I am? ‘

Cop: ‘ I don’t need to see your ID yet, sir’.

EyOopDucky · 04/09/2023 10:00

It shows her ignorance to try and correct the poor girl.
Bet they'd all dribbled in it before bringing it though

Traceyislivid · 04/09/2023 10:01

The power just goes to peoples heads.

Bobbotgegrinch · 04/09/2023 10:02

Why does it matter that she was a celebs wife? What's wrong with "Woman rude in pub" as your thread title? Why define this woman by her husband?

Disclaimer: I know I'm ranting unreasonably here, but literally just finished seething at Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart's interview with "Nick Cleggs wife" and there may be some transference of rage going on.

Jackiebrambles · 04/09/2023 10:02

What a cow, name and shame!

TiredMotherMum · 04/09/2023 10:04

Can you tell us who it was without telling us? 🤣

Sparklesocks · 04/09/2023 10:04

She must enjoy feeling ‘served’ by staff and wants to put them in their place. Always a mark of a bellend.

TotalOverhaul · 04/09/2023 10:05

mrsjoyfulprizeforraffiawork · 04/09/2023 09:42

Long ago, when I was at school, some of my classmates lived in Chigwell and told us about the behaviour of the wife of the very famous world cup winning football captain, who also lived there. Once, she walked into the baker's, where there was a queue, and walked straight to the counter. When challenged, she said, "Do you know who I am?". Queue replied, "Yes! Get to the back of the queue!"

DH and I were once queuing for a trendy art exhibition that only let a few people in at a time. Madonna walked to the head of the queue because she was Madonna and was sent to stand behind us. I did admire the ticket collector.

TheLongGloriesOfTheWinterMoon · 04/09/2023 10:07

Tatslookawful · 04/09/2023 09:48

That story I’ve heard as per Cecil Parkinson’s wife & Kate M’s mother. Etc. People make them up.

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I've heard that one about so many slebs I can't even remember the number!

The one I do remember supposedly doing it was Richard Madely.

I mean, they might all be true, but...

Fairyliz · 04/09/2023 10:07

I’m an old bat; the negatives being grey hair, wrinkles and aching limbs.
The positives are I can say anything to anyone now, so I would probably have said something to bitch woman.

Twiglets1 · 04/09/2023 10:07

YABU if you don't name and shame her on Mumsnet!

ThickSkinnedSoWhat · 04/09/2023 10:08

I'd sell it not for the money, but to show up what an absolute tosser she is tbh. Not a friend of that high pitched love-herself 40 year old who's name escapes me but wanted a free cake recently are they? Sounds like they'd get on well 😅

TheFutureMrsWolowitz · 04/09/2023 10:08

I went out for lunch with a woman from my bookclub who did the plates thing. She made the waitress take the plates away and do it again.

That told me everything I needed to know about her. That she was a cow.

CoffeeCantata · 04/09/2023 10:09

I think the operative word here is 'minor'. It's always the minor celebs who behave like this. If this woman was properly grand, she wouldn't give a flying f what side her food was served on, I bet. It's because she's just had a taste of the high-life and being such an important person, at least in her social circle, that she thinks she's Marie Antoinette.

Yuk - why do people never learn. It's such a naff cliche, isn't it? Someone having their 15 mins of fame and throwing their weight around, humiliating those who they think are beneath them?

Incidentally, it reminds me of a well-known story about Maggie Thatcher. Whatever you think of her politically, there are many stories of her kindness and consideration to 'the little people' (not my view, btw!). A young waitress once spilled gravy down Mrs T at a banquet and was in tears. Mrs T went out of her way to console her and make sure she was OK. People can surprise you.

icelollycraving · 04/09/2023 10:09

In a pub?! What a bloody moron.

BiscuitsandPuffin · 04/09/2023 10:11

OP this sounds a bit like a case of "good servant bad mistress" as they say in Lark Rise to Candleford, where maybe her early jobs involved her getting told off a lot about doing food service correctly until she got really good at it, and it's just stuck, so she now comes across as a massive twat.

GasPanic · 04/09/2023 10:12

TotalOverhaul · 04/09/2023 10:05

DH and I were once queuing for a trendy art exhibition that only let a few people in at a time. Madonna walked to the head of the queue because she was Madonna and was sent to stand behind us. I did admire the ticket collector.

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To be fair I think there comes a time when people get so famous that actually having them out in public poses a serious security issue, both for them and the public.

Crowds of people fighting to get their autograph, potential kidnapping etc.

However I think if that is the case the celeb really should arrange in advance to come in quietly via a side entrance rather than walk to the front of a queue.

Rockandchips · 04/09/2023 10:13

A bit off thread but I saw Alan Rickman in a queue in a post office. He was just standing there looking gorgeous and no airs and graces.

JustAnotherUsey · 04/09/2023 10:13

She sounds like an ex waitress!

Whichwhatnow · 04/09/2023 10:15

Tatslookawful · 04/09/2023 09:48

That story I’ve heard as per Cecil Parkinson’s wife & Kate M’s mother. Etc. People make them up.

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I mean I wouldn't be surprised about Cecil Parkinson tbh. No idea what his wife is like but I couldn't be with a man who had an affair and abandoned his resultant kid (I went to school with Flora for a bit) so maybe just as bad as him

foolishone · 04/09/2023 10:15

This story is shit without naming and shaming.

VyeBrator · 04/09/2023 10:16

Is this one of those silly threads where you want everyone to beg you to tell who the minor celeb is?

Woman was rude in pub, big deal.

No wonder the Daily Mail is so popular if this is some people's idea of entertainment.

AppleDumplingWithCustard · 04/09/2023 10:16

mrsjoyfulprizeforraffiawork · 04/09/2023 09:42

Long ago, when I was at school, some of my classmates lived in Chigwell and told us about the behaviour of the wife of the very famous world cup winning football captain, who also lived there. Once, she walked into the baker's, where there was a queue, and walked straight to the counter. When challenged, she said, "Do you know who I am?". Queue replied, "Yes! Get to the back of the queue!"

Got to have been Tina Moore.

Superfood · 04/09/2023 10:16

Whichwhatnow · 04/09/2023 10:15

I mean I wouldn't be surprised about Cecil Parkinson tbh. No idea what his wife is like but I couldn't be with a man who had an affair and abandoned his resultant kid (I went to school with Flora for a bit) so maybe just as bad as him

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The point is not whether or not he or his wife were dicks, but that people tell the exact same stories over and over again about loads of different people.

Superfood · 04/09/2023 10:18

Even the daily mail wouldn't print this. It's extraordinarily boring and I guarantee that "minor" is doing some very heavy lifting here.