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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.

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Doubledenimrock · 10/10/2021 11:12

Most of the people mentioned on this thread are at best c list. If I saw them out I would treat them as any other citizen.

CallmeHendricks · 10/10/2021 11:14

I may be in a minority here, but I just DO NOT GET why people ask celebrities for autographs.
Just why? Is it for some reflected glory? Are they going to show others and say, "look, I don't know this sleb at all but they've written their name on this random piece of paper."

TheUndeadLovelinessOfDemons · 10/10/2021 11:15

[quote forgotmyusernamagain]@LastToBePicked I do agree

Privacy and boundaries should not be crossed , favours or friendships forced , expectations manipulated of any of the people mentioned here

However, just to be polite , wave at school gate , please and thank you when services provided seem to be most of our wishes

I'm afraid the minority may spoil that and be the instigator of some of these behaviours

Imagine not even being able to thread your eyebrows or sweaty moustache without some stranger screeching at you 😂 [/quote]
It's not quite the same, but I have friends with DID. One of the alters is an introject of a fictional character. I remember him snapping at me once, "I'm not a caricature!" I was just being careful as I didn't want to offend him and he took it the wrong way. He'd been treated like a caricature way too often, so was thoroughly fed up with it. I would think that this is like being famous, people expecting you to be "switched on" when you're taking your DC to school.

DrSbaitso · 10/10/2021 11:20

@CallmeHendricks

I may be in a minority here, but I just DO NOT GET why people ask celebrities for autographs. Just why? Is it for some reflected glory? Are they going to show others and say, "look, I don't know this sleb at all but they've written their name on this random piece of paper."

Just a memento from having met them. Or perhaps an intention to sell it.

ElvisPresleysSideburns · 10/10/2021 11:24

@Nocutenamesleft

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

Plonker.

Came on to say Chris Packham. So full of his own importance!

He was staying at the same hotel as us a few years ago. He barged passed us in reception, knocking my then 2 year old DS over. He didn't apologise and I still haven't forgiven him!
Also kept demanding to be served before anyone else in the restaurant.
Horrible.

Doubledenimrock · 10/10/2021 11:24

As for Marcus he is a famous young guy with a social conscience which is great. If he isnt constantly smiling when out and about in his private life that's fine and completely normal behaviour

RickJames · 10/10/2021 11:24

A cousin is retired now but she spent her career at a music label. Her absolute favourite celeb ever is Iggy Pop. He has a wonderful warm personality and is well mannered and caring.

She said that a lot of the pop stars were way more difficult and badly behaved than the rockers.

Puffalicious · 10/10/2021 11:26

To the PP objecting to Kirsty Allsop being not terribly good at her job: the details are that she does none of her own research, she has a huge team who find properties/ suggest lay out changes/ interior designers etc, whereas Phil does his own research.

Also for her series where she did up her own cottage, much of the production budget paid for the work. Wouldn't we all like to buy a lovely, country cottage and get paid for it to be done up?

Not saying she's not got talent- she obviously worked her way up as an estate agent- but now she let's everyone else do the work and just sits saying yay or nay.

HarlanPepper · 10/10/2021 11:27

@CallmeHendricks

I may be in a minority here, but I just DO NOT GET why people ask celebrities for autographs. Just why? Is it for some reflected glory? Are they going to show others and say, "look, I don't know this sleb at all but they've written their name on this random piece of paper."

Same. Also see: asking for photos. Whenever I've seen a famous person I've studiously ignored them even if my stomach is doing backflips! If I've had to interact with one (during my brief waitressing career, for example) I've done my best to treat them with the same impersonal courtesy as any other customer.

I do think a lot of the examples on this thread could easily be put down to someone having a bad day, which surely happens to us all, but is the one thing a famous person is not allowed to do (tiny violin and everything, but you know what I mean). Obvious wastes of skin like Piers Morgan excepted, naturally.

Quire · 10/10/2021 11:27

@DrSbaitso

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.

Or next to Danny DeVito.

DrSbaitso · 10/10/2021 11:31

Or next to Danny DeVito.

Someone needs to do a double page spread, or foldout, of loads of slebs in false perspective with each other.

yourestandingonmyneck · 10/10/2021 11:32

Puffalicious
Someone mentioned Kirsty Allsop: my cousin is a TV producer and worked with her for a full series. She is, indeed, petty, full of herself, demanding, superior, rude and pretty crap at her job.
Bag her all you like but Kirsty Allsop is brilliant at her job. There's a reason why she's a constant presence on TV.

@50ShadesOfCatholic I'm not sure I'd agree with that. I wouldn't say Kirsty is on tv because she has any talent or skill or is good at her job. I would say she is tv because she is very watchable, but not necessarily in a good way. I think she has an immense level of self-confidence and is very ballsy, even when she's got completely the wrong end of the stick, and I think a lot of people find that very interesting to watch because most people aren't like that.

speakupattheback · 10/10/2021 11:33

I met a charming woman in a dress shop, we chatted as you do. I mentioned my DD - who was in the changing room at the time - wanted to be an actor. Turns out her son is an actor. Cue conversation instigated by me about insecurity of industry, no money etc and might I have seen her son? Oh possibly, she said, it's Ben Wishart. I had no idea who he is. My DD otoh leapt from the changing room and practically kissed her feet.

So I can tell you that Ben Wishart's mum is absolutely lovely

yourestandingonmyneck · 10/10/2021 11:34

@1AngelicFruitCake

I met Matt Lucas and David Williams in their Little Britain heyday so very famous. David was fine, got the job done but no extra warm or that personality he has onscreen. Matt on the other hand spoke to so many people he didn’t have to, was so warm and friendly and smiling at everyone.

Yes, I have met Matt Lucas once and he was lovely.

WeAreTheHeroes · 10/10/2021 11:35

I met a lot of soap actors, sportspeople and their family members in previous jobs. I don't remember anyone being rude or off with us. There was one young woman with a baby on her hip who came into the shop I worked in who seemed to expect to be recognised. After she'd gone we were wracking our brains to work out who she was. Anyway, she became a regular customer and is the wife of a famous cricketer.

octopusrus · 10/10/2021 11:35

Friend of mine got chatting to the bloke next to her on a treadmill in the gym in the late 80s, she commented that he was good at running and they had a long chat - turned out it was Linford Christie

blueshoes · 10/10/2021 11:36

@Hubblebubble100

I saw Ronaldo coming off the United bus just before he moved to Real Madrid.

There was just me and a father with a young son, guessing about 9 years old, standing by the hotel as it was heavily raining (I had just chanced upon the bus but the father and son were soaked so could tell they’d been waiting for a long time).

Ronaldo was the last to get off the bus and the father said “Ronaldo please can we have an autograph?”

Ronaldo just stared at the man, who again repeated the request. He stared again, then turned and marched off. It seemed so cold as there was virtually no one else around and it was a clear snub to the father and son. Poor kid looked heartbroken.

This is so sad.

CallmeHendricks · 10/10/2021 11:37

DD's boyfriend grew up with Tom Holland (Spiderman) as family friends. He won't let DD meet him because she will go all ridiculously "fan-girrl" over him!!

Figgit · 10/10/2021 11:38

Surprised at some of the earlier posts about Cheri Blair. I’ve met her a few times over the years - both randomly and at professional events. She’s always been lovely.
My DH had a rather embarrassing repeat encounter with David Baddiel (the embarrassment all DH’s) and DB was very nice and polite when he could so easily have been rude or cross in those circumstances.
Have also been to funerals where famous sportspeople have been asked for autographs. I’d forgive anyone for being rude in that situation.
People do change their behaviours around famous people - it must be very disconcerting and I done know how you’d deal with that day in, day out. Can you imagine having to be ‘on’ all the time in case you’re recognised, in the supermarket, at a medical appointment, or just when you’re having a bad day?

DrSbaitso · 10/10/2021 11:40

@speakupattheback

So I can tell you that Ben Wishart's mum is absolutely lovely

I saw an interview once with Hugh Grant in which he said his mother was at a dinner party once and it came up that she had two sons. She was asked what they both did and replied, "One is an investment banker, the other is a Hollywood actor."

"Oh, really? Which bank?"

DrSbaitso · 10/10/2021 11:46

(Did you mean Ben Wishaw? Somehow I'm not surprised that he's got a lovely mum.)

LovelaceBiggWither · 10/10/2021 11:47

Someone upthread mentioned Michael Rosen as not being nice. He's a close friend of a friend and he is lovely!

Roald Dahl on the other hand deserves all the oppobrium possible.

TroysMammy · 10/10/2021 11:48

I'd love someone famous to say to me "Do you know who I am?" I'd shout out "is there a Doctor about because this person is suffering memory loss as they don't know who they are."

Hotfootit · 10/10/2021 11:48

John McEnroe jumped in and pinched the taxi I hailed in NYC. I was gobsmacked at his cheek.

WeAreTheHeroes · 10/10/2021 11:51

@TroysMammy

I'd love someone famous to say to me "Do you know who I am?" I'd shout out "is there a Doctor about because this person is suffering memory loss as they don't know who they are."

DP actually had a very similar experience as a sports ref with the son of a well-known sportsman and did ask the medic on duty to take a look at the bloke.

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