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.

Yes! In addition to him giving me the creeps, Walliams kids books are absolutely shite. 😂 You can see he’s trying to channel Ronald Dahl but I just find them beyond irritating. We are a Tom Fletcher children’s book household (incidentally, met him when I was a teen and he was absolutely lovely!) 😂

@WeasilyPleased

I once was supposed to have a meeting with a very famous elderly "actress" who arrived an hour and a half late. The next day her publicity person, who I knew well, told me she was late because the taxi that was sent for her had an Asian driver and she refused to go anywhere until a white driver turned up. I gave despised her ever since.

@WeasilyPleased - I will be very upset if the very famous elderly actress turns out to be either Dame Judi Dench or Prunella Scales Please could you put me out of my misery and use initials to make guessing easier if you don't want to give the full name? Thank you.

@Shuttheblinds so pleased to hear that.

John Leslie, ex PR colleague of mine met him a few times at events said he was an utter letchy creep and when the drama about sexual assault came out she told us and wasn’t surprised.

acornfed
I can believe it. A lot of the parents are successful in their own fields eg neurosurgeon and one ITU doctor. Probably have no real interest in celebrity but find it odd to think someone would want to be friends with them for status. Very different spheres. If one of them was a junior fashion intern or something that I could understand. But why be rude to non famous people who are just "normal folk"?!

Well, anybody can have an 'off' day where they're bothered with their own life trials and tribulations - whether you're a surgeon or a teacher or a secretary. The thing is, all of those roles are anonymous unless you have daily dealings with them. Celebrities aren't anonymous, are they?

Look at this thread. Look at all of the posters who've assured this and that about people in the public eye. These celebrities, adored or otherwise, can't go about their business without being observed, nudged at, commented about, asked for autographs, selfies, any number of other things. The people asking for them are only doing so because of celebrity/wanting something/someone to talk about.

I feel sorry for celebrities of today because a) it's not the good old days of MGM where people weren't so mawkish and attention-seeking and b) the celebrities were actually good at their job. Now there are so many, running the gamut between genuine skill and talent in their art... and those who just dive into any camera shot doing anything they will get paid for, with no discernible skill.

So, TLDR - people who get star-struck don't behave well and celebrities (genuine or otherwise) don't appreciate the grasping/being approached. Even the smiling ones may have been avidly noticed many times that day. Rude or just plain fed up?

It's a job that I would hate.

@youvegottenminuteslynn

I had a stand up row with Vanessa Feltz at a work event I was managing once. The epitome of do you know who I am? "Yes, you're Vanessa Feltz". Then 'I want to speak to whoever is managing the event.' "You already are, it's me." Asked her to please speak calmly as there were kids around and she was making people uncomfortable as well as being aggressive. Aaaargh she was honestly insufferable and I try to never say anything negative about people I've worked with / come across at events (I'm a PR) but it was unbelievable!

Can't comment on whether she is pleasant or an arse, but I met her at a charity auction once where she someone had offered to double his bid if she posed for a selfie with him.

She agreed to do it - it would have been awkward otherwise - but was obviously petrified and looked like she would throw up. I was really quite worried about her.

Sometimes female celebs are put in positions that are not OK.

SIL has met Dominic West through her work, says he’s a complete rude prick.

Said this on another thread but parents have met Sir Lenny Henry in bar after pub theatre play he’d been in. Very rude didn’t want to speak to them, they were disappointed.

@whatwasIgoingtosay

Martin Shaw is a neighbour - he's lovely and friendly and kind.

He's lovely, I was once in the queue in front of him buying fireworks at a very dodgy looking shop! Queues remind me of ages ago being in the security queue at a provincial airport trying to think from where I recognised another couple of people in front of us, some soap maybe. There was a disturbance and the wife of some footballer was objecting to having to wait, Don't you know who I am etc etc. It was only later that I realised that the other couple queuing patiently were close relatives of HM the Queen!

@LyingWitchInTheWardrobe

acornfed I can believe it. A lot of the parents are successful in their own fields eg neurosurgeon and one ITU doctor. Probably have no real interest in celebrity but find it odd to think someone would want to be friends with them for status. Very different spheres. If one of them was a junior fashion intern or something that I could understand. But why be rude to non famous people who are just "normal folk"?!

Well, anybody can have an 'off' day where they're bothered with their own life trials and tribulations - whether you're a surgeon or a teacher or a secretary. The thing is, all of those roles are anonymous unless you have daily dealings with them. Celebrities aren't anonymous, are they?

Look at this thread. Look at all of the posters who've assured this and that about people in the public eye. These celebrities, adored or otherwise, can't go about their business without being observed, nudged at, commented about, asked for autographs, selfies, any number of other things. The people asking for them are only doing so because of celebrity/wanting something/someone to talk about.

I feel sorry for celebrities of today because a) it's not the good old days of MGM where people weren't so mawkish and attention-seeking and b) the celebrities were actually good at their job. Now there are so many, running the gamut between genuine skill and talent in their art... and those who just dive into any camera shot doing anything they will get paid for, with no discernible skill.

So, TLDR - people who get star-struck don't behave well and celebrities (genuine or otherwise) don't appreciate the grasping/being approached. Even the smiling ones may have been avidly noticed many times that day. Rude or just plain fed up?

It's a job that I would hate.

Why do you feel sorry for them? Most of the celebs here are only where they are in their lives because we buy their records, books, watch their TV shows etc. No skin off their noses to be pleasant to people.

Yes, you can have an off day and people can be annoying and rude re wanting autographs, photos etc but no need to be rude, unkind or do a “do you know who I am?”.

I saw someone say Andy from CBeebies wasn’t nice but we met him at breakfast on a hotel when my eldest was OBSESSED with Andys Dinosaur Adventures and he was super lovely, incredibly attractive and very, very tall! 😂

He did a one man show at our local theatre; the ladies in the box office were gushing for months about how lovely and charming he was!

The Queen - she was very nice, very polite and very good at small talk!

Sir Ian McKellen, very nice man, very generous and sincere.

Walliams, just urggh, every spidey sense I have was screaming to keep away from him.

@Oldnews that doesn’t surprise me at all . Don’t know how she got so famous to be honest !

DS1 encountered Joan Collins at a charity ball at the Dorchester a few years ago.
This was our subsequent WhatsApp conversation. “Asked me not to touch her though”

@JumperandJacket

Also lovely- Peter Capaldi who lives near me and whom I see around all the time. Famous locally for the fact that, any time a child gets excited to see him (the Doctor) he gives them a salute or a mysterious look, in character, which is unbelievably kind given how often it must happen.

Oh thank goodness. He's one of my weird crushes. Find him very attractive.

Gonnagetgoing I feel sorry for them because they've done their part - made these things available (books, music, films) yet still they are expected to provide more and more and people can be outrageous.

I think celebrities (even the utterly crap ones) deserve a peaceful life when they're not working.

@WimpoleHat

I saw someone say Andy from CBeebies wasn’t nice but we met him at breakfast on a hotel when my eldest was OBSESSED with Andys Dinosaur Adventures and he was super lovely, incredibly attractive and very, very tall! 😂

He did a one man show at our local theatre; the ladies in the box office were gushing for months about how lovely and charming he was!

Honestly- I didn’t have a crush on him before but after I met him…oh lawd! 😂😳 He was really lovely - blushed through the whole conversation! He was absolutely wonderful with my little boy as well - pretty much got in character of “Andy” and chatted lots of Dino stuff! Considering it was 7:30 in the morning, his attitude and patience were unexpected and a real treat!

I guess it must get tedious if people are mithering you all the time but hey, they wanted to be rich and famous!

I was at school with a well known and much loved comedienne. She’s a few years older than I and I guess it’s kind of “in reverse” but she was so utterly dreadful that to this day, I have to switch off/over if she comes on.

A snob and a bully. All I see in her persona, her “act” is the horrid girl she was, all those years ago.

Okay, I told my cousin's story now I'll tell a couple of mine.

James Nesbitt - we were in the lido in Brixton and he looked at me. Cold Feet was on the telly at the time and I thought "hey, I know you!" But I couldn't place him so I just smiled back. He kept smiling and I was feeling really embarrassed because I was sure I knew him so we exchanged pleasantries and then I swam off. About 5 mins later I was even more embarrassed because I realised I didn't know him and it was just because I saw him on telly every week. DUH! I didn't find him attractive at all on telly but he looked lovely and friendly in real life.

Amy Winehouse - adorable and tiny. So much fun, beautiful manners and so intelligent and well read. Had a lovely hour drinking with her once discussing all sorts. When she hugged me her face was in my boobs, im 5'7" she was absolutely tiny.

Lulu - smoking outside a restaurant. She wasn't mean to me but she was going insane ripping the shit out of whoever she was on the phone with. I would normally have acknowledged a fellow person but she was going mad so I just pretended I didn't exist!

My dad never liked Jamie Oliver for some reason.

I had no opinion either way - until I took DS to a second cookery class at one of the Jamie’s cafe/shops.

He was waiting for his food to come out of the oven when Jamie Oliver came into the store for a meeting, and was standing talking to someone when DS sprinted over and sail ‘Hello Jamie Oliver, I’m kittenson’ (and put his hand out to shake as he’d been taught at school).

Well, Jamie stopped chatting, and spent a long time speaking with the kid, asking him about what he was doing, ‘testing’ him on how to make pasta, just being really nice (I guess having loads of kids teaches you that).

In the end I took a I took of them, and thanked him profusely. When DS was leaving he got a goodie bag (Jamie said for you to have this).

I was so impressed that he took time to chat to a little boy, and made him feel so important.

Richard E Grant sitting alone for lunch. Me and my four 40 something friends were looking but not looking and he caught one of their eyes and just gave a sweet smile and nod - of course he knew we knew who he was but we were trying (and apparently failing) to not be obvious (Anne Robinson was at another table so it was like celebrity lottery as we were outside London).
I was out with my four kids and a Chelsea footballer came in with three grown women and an assortment of young kids. I thought (not knowing who he was) phew now we won't be the only noisy family. My teen boys were besides themselves in awe but the shocking thing was his younger kids made not a peep. My two youngsters were still the loudest in the place.

Not met any arseholes but can confirm that Jason Donovan is lovely, he jumped up from his seat to help me wrestle dds pram out of the door when I was in that hazy newborn state and completely uncoordinated. He asked how old she was and how I was doing, I walked away thinking he just have been someone I knew and then it twigged about 20 m down the road who he was!!

I did similar to David Tenent coming out of a tube station when I was late for work - shot past him, greeting him with ahi how are you, gotta go bye’ type thing than about half an hour later realised that I only knew him from the telly as Dr Whoa d he wasn’t in fact a friend!

@Pantaloony

A friend met Michael McIntyre who turned out to be right up his own arse. She was gutted as she loves his shows and he comes across as so nice but he was so rude and stuck up. She said he was a celebrity she wished she never met in real life.

Interesting you should say that.
He's all over the Saturday's Daily Fail, plugging his latest memoirs and-despite DM's best efforts- he really does show himself to be a complete Tosser! Hellbent on one upmanship to anyone who ever doubted his genius. Really bizarre actually. Even his pose on the TV Guide says, I'm a conceited twat, but I'm richer than all of you!
In my opinion..🤐

Oh and we had Joanna Lumley as a ‘star turn’ at an event we hosted.

She donated all her fee to charity and turned up early (and asked exactly what was required - names of people she should specifically address - took time to speak to us plebs...). She stood patiently as men queued up to have their photos taken with her (they were puddles on the floor!) and she was just so lovely. Very beautiful, poised, charming and polite.

She stayed well after her ‘clocking off’ time and seems to be having a nice time (so more Mike a guest than a paid attendee - although o think she knew one of the Big Bosses).

Good old school ‘professional’.

re: Marcus Rashford's PR
I doubt one bit that he is rude, this is just a random comment from a random poster. Also if PR is able to hide a person's character I am sure Harry's PR would have done wonders for him.

You can lead a horse to water! Some people either have terrible advisors/PR or think they know better.