Rude "famous people"

[acornfed]

We have a famous designer at my kid's school, born to a very wealthy family. Her kids are nice
She can be very unfriendly but inconsistently so - will often blank people one day and be friendly the next. Acts quite haughtily with the teachers. At times very abrupt.
She doesn't have to be friends with us civilians - that I fully understand. But what's with the rude behaviour? What's going on there? The school mums are a pretty innocuous bunch and I'd like to think we are friendly and welcoming.

Years back me and a ex and my eldest DD had been to a arsenal game and were heading to euston via the tube ... I smacked bang into someone ... apologized and he was lovely , so chatty talked to my daughter asked if she'd been to the game etc said bye at the top of the escalator ... star struck ex couldn't believe I hadn't recognized George Best

@Walkingthedog46

New job on Reception - man comes in (who turned out to be a famous author, but I didn’t know who he was at the time). He just said ‘I’m expected’. When I said ‘what name is it please?’ He replied ‘don’t get funny with me, dear’. The person he had come to see appeared at that moment and took him off, so I had to ask a colleague who the hell that was.

Oh FFS. I am dying to know who that was. Please PM me!

My friend lives in Rye and was taken aback to look out of her front window one day to see Paul McCartney taking a photo of her house.

My brother parked his car on a side street (also in Rye) once and a bloke came back to his van parked ahead and yelled pleasantly, "Oy, mate, can you shift back a bit? Thanks." Also Paul McCartney.

I read once that two people in the public eye who consistently get bad press are Heather McCartney (ex-wife) and Cherie Blair. However, apparently, on meeting them in the flesh, people always change their minds about Cherie and report how friendly and pleasant she is, but they don't about Heather.

A friend of mine was very very famous for a few years. We couldn't go for a drink in our local without spending two hours doing autographs and selfies. I was stunned how gracious she was about it. I can completely understand how celebrities might sometimes be grumpy if they just want a few moments peace to live a normal life and have a coffee with a mate. I knew, watching her, I'd hate to be famous. She was so patient and friendly all the time. I'd have accidentally been a cow every time I felt tired or preoccupied.

I met David Beckham when he was buying a blue baby outfit, pre Brooklyn in Selfridges, he was very small and quite shy, but very pleasant.
Sara cox and Graham Norton, lovely.

Jo from steps in about 2018, really rude and superior.

I'd been told she was difficult, I just want expecting Mariah Carey levels of diva-ish behaviour from her. She said "do you know who I am?!" At an 18 year old nightclub worker. Probably not, no.

I know someone who has met Dolly Parton, absolutely lovely apparently. Same for Trent Reznor.

@Branleuse

Imagine having to be nice to every bloody stranger no matter how many times a day you get harrassed because everyone recognises you off the telly.

I watshed the billie eilish documentary a few months ago and it really made me think about the pressure some people are under to always be at their best and act like every strangers mate

I think that’s absolutely true, and I would never judge any vaguely famous person on a snapshot of their behaviour any more than I would someone whose behaviour wasn’t scrutinised. The famous writer I mentioned upthread wasn’t someone I met in passing, but spent time with on a number of occasions over a few years, and she was fairly consistently grating.

@krustykittens

I interviewed Laurence Llewelyn Bowen once and he was very charming, even though my questions were pretty boring - I heard the poor sod on the radio the next day answering the same bloody questions!

I haven't read most comments so maybe others have added stories about him being awful, but my parents went to an event through my dad's work that LLB attended once and my mum said he was really lovely. I never have anything to add to these sorts of threads usually!

Also, I'm sure some of the parents at my kids' school think I run a bit hot and cold. Truth is I'm autistic and mildly face blind. I often don't recognise people and some days I'm in sensory overload while waiting at the school gate and just keep myself to myself...

@sqirrelfriends who’s Jo from Steps?

Margaret Atwood visited our school and I was assigned to look after her. She was a delight and was patient in answering the students' questions. One of our English teachers who is always lording it over everyone tried to impress by asking obscure critical questions but MA was fair and even handed until she eventually said that perhaps instead of criticising her work, the teacher could have a go at re-reading the novels and would then have a better understanding of the themes. I wanted to stand up and cheer. Teacher is still a knob.

Do you think she meant Jo(O'Meara) from S Club 7?

@acornfed

I kind of see that you mean *@LubaLuca* . However she doesn't act like someone who is having an off day. It's more than that. If anything we give her more space as we don't want to seem like we want to be her friend

You answered your own thoughts there. I wouldn't want to talk to you either if you give her more space as you don't want to seem like we want to be her friend!!

@DazzleDrops that has to be Kate Middleton’s mum. You can tell she’s an arsehole

DD served Bob Mortimer and Paul Whitehouse in the pub she works in the other week (along with the crew of Gone Fishing) and said they were lovely. Bob quite shy and softly-spoken, and very sweet.

I met Graham Norton just post Father Ted when he was trying to break out as a comic and presenter etc and he was nervous and delightful. Ali I did was swish my pass so he could get through to a studio and he was hopelessly grateful

Slightly off topic but I learned yesterday that he is Jenny Packham’s sister. Maybe she is the designer the OP referred to and they are both bloody rude?

They're definitely not from a wealthy family.

@acornfed

We have a famous designer at my kid's school, born to a very wealthy family. Her kids are nice She can be very unfriendly but inconsistently so - will often blank people one day and be friendly the next. Acts quite haughtily with the teachers. At times very abrupt. She doesn't have to be friends with us civilians - that I fully understand. But what's with the rude behaviour? What's going on there? The school mums are a pretty innocuous bunch and I'd like to think we are friendly and welcoming.

Sounds like most people at the school gate tbh.

@Inthesameboatatmo

I used to work at Holland and barret in a posh Surrey town. Eamon and Ruth walked in one day ,he was fairly ok but she was such a nasty bitch it was unbelievable. Mick Hucknall on the other hand would chat for ages like he had known you for years such a lovely man.

I found her to be the complete opposite. I was in a shopping centre 2 years ago and she was there with a small camera crew waiting to start filming.

I was sat with my young dc who were having something to eat. My 6 year old daughter didn't know who Ruth was but asked why their were cameras. I said they were recording something for TV and my daughter smiled at her (as she would do anyone) and carried on eating. Ruth came over to her and totally engaged with my daughter and they chatted and giggled for about 5 minutes. She politely declined the cold Happy Meal frie my dd offered her We thought she was lovely.

@PurpleFlower1983

On the flip side I met Angela Lansbury and she was absolutely lovely, so chatty and friendly.

I'm so glad.

There's no Jo in Steps, so she must have meant Jo O'Meara from S Club, as a PP said... and I'm surprised she attempted any kind of condescension after what happened in the Big Brother House. I thought she'd gone into hiding.

I met Matt Lucas as a kid, when he was on TV but before he was properly famous. I didn't recognise him but my friend did. He indulged us very nicely, laughed when I admitted I didn't know who he was, and very very politely declined my offer of a very sticky sweet. He left us all feeling very happy.

His ex wife probably disagrees

Probably so, but why single out Ewan McGregor? There are probably several other famous people mentioned on here in glowing terms who are less than perfect in their private lives.

@WowIlikereallyhateyou

I met David Beckham when he was buying a blue baby outfit, pre Brooklyn in Selfridges, he was very small and quite shy, but very pleasant. Sara cox and Graham Norton, lovely.

David Beckham isn’t ‘very small’.

[quote Dita73]@sqirrelfriends who’s Jo from Steps?[/quote]
From S Club 7? Quite an easy mix up to make.

Jo O'Meara did Celebrity Big Brother in 2007 and said it ruined her life. They didn't edit out the bad stuff she got involved in.

Rachie1973
Chris Packham. Sat at a bar (we lived in same village) at the actual bar eating. People queuing next to him to order drinks and food were rudely told he wouldn’t be signing autographs! No one had asked!

Eleanor Tomlinson from Poldark is lovely though. We met her at her uncles funeral (my DH best mate) and he’d never mentioned they were related!

Chris packham is on the autistic spectrum.

My money is on the Fennel sisters. Either Coco or Emerald - their dad is Theo Fennel.