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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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cattreatsanddragrace · 04/09/2023 11:13

Chippy4me · 04/09/2023 11:13

OP why did you not say something to her at the time?

I don’t understand that if she was so rude you happily sat by and watched and didn’t say anything but now want it to go viral.

Cause I'm a coward!

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Chippy4me · 04/09/2023 11:14

Well obviously it’s going to end up in the daily fail or sun because the journalists use these forums to look for stories.

EmmaGrundyForPM · 04/09/2023 11:15

Am I the only person who hasn't got a clue what side you "should" be served from?

Chippy4me · 04/09/2023 11:15

Then I don’t think you should have started a thread or plan to go to the press about it.

The poor waitress needed someone supporting her.
Not someone trying to get their 5 mins of fame.

Verbena17 · 04/09/2023 11:16

I’d also say he’s more than a z list celeb.

No need whatsoever for her to be rude to the pub staff - maybe she was having an off day and decided to be an arse. Maybe she was showing off in front the other couple or something.

HufflyShuffly · 04/09/2023 11:17

cattreatsanddragrace · 04/09/2023 11:12

Hah, thankyou! Some people are responding like I've kicked a kitten.

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It matters. You might think it's funny but already on the thread you've got people Googling her and suggesting she be tweeted to inform her that she's being watched.

On the basis of something anonymously said online. You benefit from anonymity but she's been publicly accused of something that no-one here knows it's true.

Because once it's 'out there' it becomes true and people start invading that person's life.

Dita73 · 04/09/2023 11:17

Might have known Bradley Walsh would be involved somewhere. That bloke’s bloody everywhere these days!!

pinkyredrose · 04/09/2023 11:20

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

You'd let that slide would you? How very grand of you.

JanesBlond · 04/09/2023 11:20

flapjackfairy · 04/09/2023 10:57

I would consider Bradley Walsh a bit more than a minor celebrity myself !

I’ve never heard of him and didn’t recognise him when googling! Slightly disappointed it wasn’t someone else 😂

JudgeJ · 04/09/2023 11:20

icelollycraving · 04/09/2023 10:09

In a pub?! What a bloody moron.

But does Ms Minor Sleb know which way to pass the port and madeira? That's the real test in 'Spoony's!
We were once sitting at a table near to Freddie Truman, the cricketer for you youngsters, he was speaking loudly but with only a slight Yorkshire accent, not a bit like his Eeh-bah-gum TV voice!

imagiantwitch · 04/09/2023 11:24

This doesn’t surprise me, as Bradley Walsh is actually a bit of an arse in real life too!

Tellerium · 04/09/2023 11:24

EmmaGrundyForPM · 04/09/2023 11:15

Am I the only person who hasn't got a clue what side you "should" be served from?

To be fair I only know because of working in silver service in my 20s.

Ijustdontcare · 04/09/2023 11:25

Am I the only one that apart from the serving from one side thing the other complaints are pretty genuine? How late was one starter after the other 3? More than a couple of mins and I would be asking where it is. Ditto for prawns being overcooked and rubbery.

Womencanlift · 04/09/2023 11:25

Chippy4me · 04/09/2023 11:13

OP why did you not say something to her at the time?

I don’t understand that if she was so rude you happily sat by and watched and didn’t say anything but now want it to go viral.

Agree with this. Knowing how hard it is in hospitality right now I would have said “who do you think you are. If you want silver service don’t come to a country pub”

Obviously the staff are not going to say anything so other people need to have their back - celeb/celeb wife or not

StanleyGoodspeed · 04/09/2023 11:26

What was Bradley Walsh doing while she was behaving like this?

whynotwhatknot · 04/09/2023 11:27

sounds awful who talks to people like that-i guess bw just sat there and said nothing

StanleyGoodspeed · 04/09/2023 11:28

aww I quite liked BW, what a pair and she sounds like a right uppity cunt🙄

Womencanlift · 04/09/2023 11:28

These are the type of MN posts I hope the Daily Mail pick up. Just because the man you are married to is a kind of comedian doesn’t let you have the right to treat people like shit

PorridgeOnToast · 04/09/2023 11:29

Were YOU the waitress @cattreatsanddragrace ??

She sounds awful tbf

LunaNorth · 04/09/2023 11:30

I guessed straight away who it would be.

FullFatPhil · 04/09/2023 11:32

Just look at how posters are talking about her now OP. Vile.

I would ask where my starter was if it hadn't appeared and definitely wouldn't eat dodgy prawns. Would you?

As for the telling the waitress which way to put the plates down, well, maybe she was about to knock over their drinks or something. "If you come round this side and put the plates down it'll be easier and you won't knock into our things/brush past us/be at risk of knocking drinks over" etc.

Sounds like the type of place that saves money by employing kids and not enough of them. I doubt staff training is high on the agenda.

HufflyShuffly · 04/09/2023 11:33

LunaNorth · 04/09/2023 11:30

I guessed straight away who it would be.

Out of all of the thousands of celebrities you knew straight away it was Bradley Walshs wife?

Astonishing.

FullFatPhil · 04/09/2023 11:33

"I guessed straight away who it would be."

Eh? On the very loose description of a "minor celeb" which it turns out he's not since it's Bradley walsh, one of the highest paid tv presenters at the moment 😆

LunaNorth · 04/09/2023 11:34

IKR?

I must be psychic.

Mamadothehump · 04/09/2023 11:34

EmmaGrundyForPM · 04/09/2023 11:15

Am I the only person who hasn't got a clue what side you "should" be served from?

Came here to say the same! I had no idea it was a thing!!