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Rude "famous people"

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acornfed · 09/10/2021 18:49

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.

OP posts:
CallmeHendricks · 10/10/2021 10:42

[quote Dita73]@DazzleDrops that has to be Kate Middleton’s mum. You can tell she’s an arsehole[/quote]
I agree there are few other people it could be, but why can you "tell" she's an arsehole? She looks perfectly pleasant to me and surely it's not in her (or her daughter's) interests to be vile to people, especially considering the PR initiatives that the RF are operating these days?

Stirling2701 · 10/10/2021 10:43

Mariella Frostrup - she was rude and arrogant when my daughter met her. A friend met Una Stubbs (RIP) and said she was very rude and dismissive to her.

ivfbabymomma1 · 10/10/2021 10:44

I've met lady gaga & gordan Ramsey & both were lovely

Bettysnow · 10/10/2021 10:44

An old friend of mine is liam neesons cousin. Apparently hes really kind, friendly and down to earth and doesn’t expect special treatment from anyone

DrSbaitso · 10/10/2021 10:45

David Beckham isn’t ‘very small’.

I haven't met him but he may well be smaller than he looks on camera...lots of people are. He's 5'10" so about average height for a man, and footballers don't tend to have huge builds.

Apparently Beyonce and J Lo are quite petite, but they certainly look impressive on camera! Obviously very fit, in shape and stunning but I don't imagine either of them being little slips.

andyoldlabour · 10/10/2021 10:45

David Beckham isn’t ‘very small’

He certainly isn't, he is 5' 11"

Ohhelppp · 10/10/2021 10:46

A good friend of mine is an actor on tv. They see speaking to fans (or any random person who feels they want to stop and chat to them) as very much part of their job. We’re such good friends that they’re completely honest with me and they have never once complained about being stopped and/or stared at wherever we go. It’s not by many people, admittedly, but it irks me a bit as it takes up my time as well and we don’t see each other that often.

leavesthataregreen · 10/10/2021 10:49

@shallIswim

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
I've met him too and he was always polite. Comes across as a really sweet man.
Malbecfan · 10/10/2021 10:51

I have taught children of Hugh F-W and Katie Hopkins. He was very nice, quite shy and trying to remain incognito. Amazingly given her behaviour, KH was also pleasant & polite. Her dad is the most lovely chap ever. I was in M&S when DD1 was a baby and DD was squawking for a feed. Jennifer Saunders was in there and kindly offered to help me get to the cafe. She also admired DD so I'm a lifelong fan.

DD2 was a finalist in a Politics competition and went with her team to the House of Commons. John Bercow was absolutely delightful to her. As it was the day of the US election in 2016, she asked him who he thought would win. His reply was that as Speaker he couldn't hold an opinion but as John, he hoped Clinton would win. DD was most impressed.

TheUndeadLovelinessOfDemons · 10/10/2021 10:54

@2Two

Cherie Blair was absolutely fine when I met her. I think Chris Packham is allowed quite a lot of slack given his autism.
I have autism and don't agree. You learn how to act and what to say. It's false, but it's an effort to be polite. Please don't cut me any slack.
Nocutenamesleft · 10/10/2021 10:56

I worked in the music industry for over 20 years.

I wouldn’t name and shame. But to be honest there are some lovely people out there

You tend to find. The quicker they got famous. Think X factor type things. The worse they are.

starfishmummy · 10/10/2021 10:57

Slightly off topic but I learned yesterday that he is Jenny Packham’s sister.

Are you sure about that Grin

Waternoice · 10/10/2021 10:58

@Yaya26

Nothing to add as I don't know anyone famous. I hold my breath reading threads about rude famous people.

I think Id cry if Mary Berry was mentioned. My faith in humanity would be shattered! I want Mary to adopt me.

A very close friend worked with her extensively and confirms she is indeed lovely, and also gave a lot of recognition to the work her assistant did on the cookery books they developed.
Thulian · 10/10/2021 10:59

I tripped on a step in a bar and was caught by Archbishop Rowan Williams. He was lovely. But a crap archbishop, unfortunately.

I always think he seems like a lovely kind person who might not be entirely convinced about christianity :o so in that sense it didn't seem like the right job for him. But I liked it when he was AoC as he always had very wise words (still does). Speaking as a total atheist though!

saraclara · 10/10/2021 10:59

I have autism and don't agree. You learn how to act and what to say. It's false, but it's an effort to be polite. Please don't cut me any slack.

Some autistic people can. Others can't. Given that everyone is constantly told that no two autistic people are the same, it's odd that you are claiming that we should see every autistic person as belong capable of the same masking behaviour that you are.

Quire · 10/10/2021 11:00

@DrSbaitso

David Beckham isn’t ‘very small’.

I haven't met him but he may well be smaller than he looks on camera...lots of people are. He's 5'10" so about average height for a man, and footballers don't tend to have huge builds.

Apparently Beyonce and J Lo are quite petite, but they certainly look impressive on camera! Obviously very fit, in shape and stunning but I don't imagine either of them being little slips.

You know who looked weirdly small in the flesh? Arnold Schwarzenegger, whom Google tells me is over 6 ft.

He was wearing swimming trunks — I was working in a hotel near the Kennedy compound when he was married to Maria Shriver, and there was something wrong with their pool/hot tub, so at one point they used to come over and use the hotel’s — and looked strangely shrunken. Clive James was bang on about him looking like ‘a brown condom filled with walnuts.’

He seemed perfectly pleasant, mind you.

Onelifeonly · 10/10/2021 11:00

Many media people live in the area where I live so I have encountered many actors, comedians and tv journalists over the years. I wouldn't want to intrude on their private life, and nor do the vast majority of others, so if required to speak to any, I act just as I would with any other person I do not know. Otherwise I walk past as if I haven't noticed. I imagine that's what most celebrities would prefer.

The only one I recall being rude was a very well known ex member of the Eastenders cast. I don't blame them though. I was at a hotel on a work conference and one of my colleagues saw them at the bar. She is really pushy and insisted on questioning this person about their role in the soap when they clearly wanted a quiet drink. They have since been actively involved in fund raising for the local secondary school one of my DC went to, where their child also attends.

The only one I passed slight judgement on was a tv journalist who has since had a meteoric rise. I saw them a few times at the local playground with their kids who are similar in age to one of mine. At the time the kids were very young (under 5) and this person paid them no attention at all, always being glued to their phone, making what seemed to be work related calls.

As for the OP. I'm sure there any many other parents in the playground who would like an offer of friendship. Plus nice friendly groups of mums can be daunting for many of us. I was treated kindly by many people in the "group" at my DC's primary school, and did socialise with them at times, but the close connection of some, the reason for which was never entirely clear to me as kids were in different years etc, always felt intimidating. I was not sure who liked who or how well they knew each other, so always felt 'other'.

Thulian · 10/10/2021 11:03

Re smallness, I know a quite famous pop star who was very big a few years ago. When I saw her in RL after seeing her a lot on TV, she looked tiny. She is petite but I mean tinier than I'd remembered - and I know her! It must be something to do with seeing people on screen that they often seem small in RL.

Dita73 · 10/10/2021 11:04

@CallmeHendricks ok then I KNOW she’s an arsehole
As for the designer it has to be Sophie Conran

forgotmyusernamagain · 10/10/2021 11:04

I've seen 2 people who I was surprised at how slim they were in real life

Jimmy Carr
Audrey Roberts

TedImgoingmad · 10/10/2021 11:05

@Teddicus

I once had the honour of being called a ‘little shit’ by Michel Winner. To be fair, he wasn’t known for being nice but still it was a bit of a shock given I was just doing my job. Oh, and he literally asked ‘Do you know who I am?’
MW inherited a load of shitty residential properties and carried on as a - more or less - slum landlord, long after he was rich enough to be otherwise. Total knob.
DrSbaitso · 10/10/2021 11:08

I guess when you're used to seeing them shot in such a way that they dominate the available space on screen, it can be a surprise to see them to scale in reality.

Nocutenamesleft · 10/10/2021 11:09

@Toomuchis

I had this at school. Couldn't work out why this person was hot one day and would blank me the next. Was friendly but inconsistently so.

She's deaf. I didn't know until later ( and with a bit of me persevering in the face of weird blanking incidents) that she couldn't hear me if I was behind her or if she didn't have her hearing aids in, or was low on battery after being on call overnight. She is also shy (I can imagine that other people feel unpredictable because as far as she is concerned she is pretty polite but as far as they are she's inconsistent).

Your designer person might be a raging bitch, but she might also be someone who struggles to process, or who has a mental health issue or who just can't hear your when you pass the time of day.

Her being famous doesn't matter in this - there is no obligation for people who are well known in their field to be "on" at your request, or to be a better class of human.

We are all imperfect. And beautiful in our variations.

Ha. After working in the music industry for so many years. I’m also now deaf pretty much

People always think I’m rude. It’s made so much harder now with masks and screens.

I got sent a message the other day at how rude I was to someone’s child. Apparently she’d asked me for a sweet. I didn’t hear her at all. I did see she was talking. But I didn’t lip read as I didn’t think she was talking to me!

So. I get this alllllll the time. Mac Donald’s drive throughs are the worse. Screens. Masks. Far away.

There’s a deaf mask you can get. Which means I could lip read. But no one wears it. Which is a real shame.

Nocutenamesleft · 10/10/2021 11:11

Though chris packham came into my very old work and said the famous:
‘DONT you know who I am!’ Line.

Plonker.

nordicnorth · 10/10/2021 11:12

@sqirrelfriends

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.

There is no Jo in steps.
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