Rude "famous people"

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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.

I was on holiday in Ireland, talking in the pub with an Irish friend who lived there. He introduced me to his friend (I didn't ask him to) whom I recognised from a drama that had been on TV maybe a month earlier. I said "nice to meet you, you were great in x" and I honestly thought he was going to hit me. His anger was frightening. He didn't say anything, just glared and I stumbled away. Saw him out walking by the sea the next day, tried not to meet his eye and friends I was with said "jesus who is that, he gave you such a filthy look".
I know he probably thought he was "home" and safe from "fans" but he wasn't and still isn't very famous, the drama had only recently been on TV and it's not as if I'd badgered to be introduced. His seething anger was just so OTT & I was genuinely scared.
He does usually play violent arseholes and when I saw him playing a decent person in a film last year, my brain just said NOPE.

Ian Taylor - Ex England hockey goalkeeper and Olympic Champion - total arse humiliated me when I was serving his private function room at a sports event. ( no one will know him but at thetime he was big in the sporting world)

Did not do it once but all bloody afternoon - in the end my hero - Ian Botham told him to shut it and came up at the end and asked me if I was OK.

@PieonaBarm

Peter Kay, rude, arrogant, obnoxious but Johnny Vegas is absolutely lovely! Served them both when I worked for an electrical retailer.

Michael Buble has a potty mouth but is generous with the Haribo (according to my DH anyway!)

A friend of mine has met Johnny Vegas and says the same.

I was so glad to hear this as I've always liked him.

Elle Mcphearson, vile person.
Bob Geldof, horrible, always shouting at his kids when they were young
Trinny, off her head and rude
Cris Eubank, weird vibes, quite camp.
Fegie, stunning when she was younger, very polite.
Diana Ross, fabulous

@friendlycat

I was in Waitrose just before covid hit unloading my mini trolley that did contain loo roll and the last item sanitary pads. The smiley check out girl smiled to the person behind me and said “haven’t seen you for a while”. He replied “no I’ve been in LA”.

I turned to look and saw Noel Gallagher smile at her and then me as he put his sour dough bread and bits from his basket on the conveyor belt next to my Always Ultra Nights. I packed quickly and left but thought what a nice man.

20'ish years ago he engaged me in a chat in Harrods menswear queue. He sparked up the short conversation - not me. He was lovely. (Probably helped that I didn't make any reference to who he was and didn't ask for an autograph).

@Walkingthedog46

Was it Martin Amis?

Glad to hear Johnny Vegas is a good man. Always seems down to earth. I think he still lives in St Helens at least part time.

@Doodar

Elle Mcphearson, vile person. Bob Geldof, horrible, always shouting at his kids when they were young Trinny, off her head and rude Cris Eubank, weird vibes, quite camp. Fegie, stunning when she was younger, very polite. Diana Ross, fabulous

Aww, I quite like Chris Eubank. Always found him sweetly sincere and very determined to be his own person.

Zoe Ball. Bitch. So disappointing.

Fairly famous sportsman. At a theme park with my mum and sister many years ago. He was very loudly berating a young girl serving him in a gift shop over a bag I think it was and he actually said "don't you know who I am" ... of course, she didn't. We all said yes , you're a very rude man! He stormed off shouting.

My brother spent a couple of days with Will Smith through work - said he was absolutely brilliant, lovely guy.
A friend taught Kate Middleton at Marlborough. Remembers Kate as nice, quiet, hard working and sporty. Her mother though was a nightmare apparently, very rude and demanding of teachers.
I met Michael Palin once at a work event - very friendly and unassuming.
A friend sat next to James Corden at a dinner party - said he was very arrogant and unpleasant.
Another family friend flew a plane for Julia Roberts back in the ‘90s. Apparently she was a nightmare!

Interestingly one of the reasons Hugh Bonneville is so awful is that he moans all the time about how people come up to him thinking he’s Alexander Armstrong and how offensive this is because he (Hugh Bonneville) is more famous.

I had to take him to events several times for work reasons and he moaned constantly the whole time about people taking his photo (they weren’t); and how women are always propositioning him but none of them are as attractive as his wife (injunction-gate emerged shortly afterwards which was eye-opening to say the least).

He also refused to speak to one of my young colleagues who was seated next to him at dinner, because he discovered she was an aspiring actress and he said he “didn’t want her to get any ideas”

@steponthetightrope

Zoe Ball. Bitch. So disappointing.

Yep! I met her in about 2001, or whenever it was she first started dating Norman Cook. DH was a club promoter then. We were all in VIP in Fabric. She couldn’t stop arselicking the male DJs, and was a complete cow to all the girls. Proper “I’m a cool girl not like those other girls” behaviour. Yuck.

@forgotmyusernamagain

Paul Weller

Never met him but led to believe he's a bit of a knob

I met him quite a few times, and he was very nice.

Samantha Cameron had a child at the same school as my friend’s DC. Apparently she was really nice and down to earth, joined in the new parents groups etc.

@steponthetightrope

Zoe Ball. Bitch. So disappointing.

By contrast Norman Cook is lovely. I met him many years ago post-Housemartins but pre FatBoy Slim. A friend has a lot of contact with him. He does lots to support her school (for free) and goes above and beyond.

I've met a few 'celebrities ' through work, none who were too bad. The worst was Steve Coogan, although to be fair to him he was just a bit distant and abrubt, not overly friendly but did say please and thank you during his stay.

Best were Sir Ian McKellen, who on being greeted as Sir Ian boomed 'lovely to meet you, just call me Ian' (he is known as Just Call Me Ian in my house now!), and Russell Brand, who unlike his on screen persona is one of the quietest, peaceful and genuinely interested in others person I have ever met.

I thought it was that Johnny Vegas was not nice?

Would love to know who the angry Irish actor was? No reason to keep his identity private!

@HeraInTheHereAndNow

I knew Robert Carlyle would be lovely! Always fancied him since that stripper movie. Can’t remember what it was called 😊

My DH is his living image. A friend of Robert Carlyle thought he was him then chuckled ' No, you're taller!'.

I'd always had a crush on Robert Carlyle, so it figures I fancied DH on sight! We're also in Glasgow so see him around from time to time.

I met her once before she became famous, she was very nice and I imagine that she has not changed much.

@SirVixofVixHall Agree with Paul Weller. I used to work in a music shop and Paul was a regular. He was charming, funny and very polite. Very striking looking too.

Tamsin Greig was an absolute gem. Loved her.

Sharleen Spiteri and Joanne Froggert barely interacted with me when I served them (not at the same time). No smile, just blank faces.

Bobby Gillespie is a bit odd.

Huh

Matthew Horne was quite offhand when we met him.

She is cool and so is her husband.

Showing my age here.
Many, many years ago I was driving in SW London with my then BF. It was in the days before standard AC in cars and it was a really hot afternoon so all the car windows were down. We were stopped at traffic lights. I didn’t realise how far my voice had carried when I commented, that the bloke in the car next door looked just like Phil Lynott (RIP) from Thin Lizzy. This beautiful deep Irish brogue replied, “That’s because it is!” He gave me that wide smile, waved and blew a kiss before the lights changed.

A similar thing happened again few years ago when myself, DH and our adult kids were by the pool at a Florida holiday resort people watching. We started this silly game of pointing out famous lookalikes when my DS spotted this incredibly skinny, very leathery tanned man with long grey hair. We all agreed he was a brilliant Lou Reed lookalike - then we realised it was the man himself. I was a bit pathetic and swam close to where he was topping up his mahogany body to earwig and yes, he was chatting loudly to someone about his latest album. Lots of “Hey man” and “cool” just as I would have expected from him.