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.

@YouokHun

We had a celeb mother at one of my DC’s school, Davina McCall. I am mentioning her because it’s all positive. She was a bit insecure and I think wanted very much to be liked but she was lovely, and super kind and open. What wasn’t so lovely was that having a celeb in the school fucked up the dynamic and it was the behaviour of some other parents around her that was cringing to observe; falling over themselves to snuggle up to her. I think she found it quite embarrassing. It wasn’t great for one of her DC who was a nice kid but had too much social power, again because all the sharp elbowed parents were shoving their DC in her direction.

I was pretty happy when Davina left but not because of her but because it settled down a lot after she went and the flash set went back to being the everyday wankers they normally were instead of the star-struck super-wankers they became. Perhaps the parent you mention @acornfed is somewhat wary of people changing their behaviour around her?

I knew her long before she became famous, yep she is very cool.

It wasn’t Lou Reed - sorry! It was Iggy Pop!!! Doh!! 🤣🤣🤣

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@footballfootball

Frankie Detorri - arrogant twat

I’ve never actually met him but I’ve read his autobiography and even in his own chosen words to be read by anyone, he sounds incredibly arrogant.

@youvegottenminuteslynn

Just thought of another unexpectedly lovely one - Russell Brand. I think I was lucky to work on a project he was involved with after he got clean and sober. He was very kind, eager to be helpful and actually told a Pervy guy from another agency to stop trying it on with one of my team because she was clearly uncomfortable.

I'm so pleased to hear that . I listen to his podcasts on you tube and thing he is such an incredibly intelligent man. So much time for him

@youvegottenminuteslynn

I keep remembering people who were in person just AWFUL.

Two words. James. Corden.

Unbelievably rude. Like unreal.

Was following the thread to see how fast Corden got bought up! Really obnoxious, smug and disrespectful character.

DH & I met Johnny Vegas in a St Helens hotel a few years ago. He was absolutely lovely. He'd just finished doing a gig and must have been knackered, but he spent ages chatting and joking to us and other family members and posing for photos.

DH met Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn & Alex Langlands (Victorian Farm, Edwardian Farm etc) when they came to film a programme where he volunteers, and said that they were all v friendly and down to earth. He chatted to Ruth during one of the filming breaks and told her how much I enjoyed her work (I'm a huge fan!).

A friend was also really complimentary about Tom Burke (Strike, The 3 Musketeers). He was in a play in her town and he came to talk to her drama students. She said she would not expect him to as he would have been incredibly busy with rehearsals, but he spent ages talking to the students and answering all their questions and being really encouraging to them. Lovely chap.

Ian Beale from Eastenders is a miserable sod!
He used to come in the supermarket I worked in quite often.... other customers would obviously get excited to see him and he would often just ignore people :(

I'm glad Tom Burke was nice, I liked him in Musketeers and he was in something else recently but I can't remember what it was now.

And someone else has heard of Judi Spiers - she used to be on TSW (a forerunner of whatever the south west ITV is called now (westcountry?) and I did a school event that she presented. I have her autograph somewhere - I was about 10.

Never really met anyone well-known for long enough to talk to them although I did have a chat with runner Jo Pavey a couple of years ago. Also for those who remember Brookside in the 80s - the actor who played Ralph who shared a house with Harry Cross was lovely.

I don't believe the one about Marcus.R. for a second.

There's probably a few people who don't like him because as a 23 year old lad, he shows more heart and compassion then they possibly could. He also showed up a load of out of touch, crusty tories, who tried to belittle him on twitter.

@foxgoosefinch

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”

Hugh Boneville saying the women weren't as attractive as his wife? Well he hasn't always thought that has he. I can't even look at him anymore.

Should add that in contrast, Olivia Coleman was as lovely as she comes across and have also met Peter Kay who was genuinely happy to chat to fans for hours. Which more than make up for Corden!

Jimmy Carr is a lovely man. Worked with him quite a bit & just pretty easy going.

Someone mentioned Marcus Rashford earlier on so felt I should add for balance that I’ve worked with him a few times and he was always a dream. Thoughtful, kind and really generous with his time when stopped by fans (which happened every 30 secs).

I tend to cut famous people a bit of slack. They never know if people are genuinely friendly or just wanting to get something to post on Facebook/Mumsnet.

I once witnessed Jimmy Nesbitt having lunch in a local cafe with his two kids (just like I was) having to put up with his lunch being interrupted to deal with a selfie hunter/autograph hunter. It's so rude.

Ditto Micky Flanaghan. We were both in a DIY shop buying drain cleaner or some such other boring shite, and he had to put up with a grilling from the shop owners on when he would next be on tour etc.

It must get very very tired after a while.

@JumperandJacket

Genuinely as nice as you think- Michael Palin. I met him at a party and he was absolutely lovely and very sweetly and modestly introduced himself to people by saying, “hello, I’m Michael” as if everyone didn’t already know.

He has been a crush of mine for as long as I can remember! He's almost as old as my dad, but even when I was young, watching Monty Python, I thought he was lovely, and nothing has ever changed my opinion. I just love him!

In contrast to a previous poster's experience, my family's experience of Peter Kay is that he's wonderfully friendly and kind. My mum in law met him not long after her husband had died. She had taken my mum to a spa on some voucher or something. She was in the hot tub and looked up as two men were approaching the hot tub, and as Peter Kay got in, she realised who it was. She will talk to anyone and told him her son had made her sit through all his dvds. He was absolutely delightful. Talked at length about my father in law, how my mum in law was coping etc - very open and down to earth. At the end, he offered her tickets to the show he was performing in. When they (she took my mum and sister too) went to the show, she was taken back to his dressing room, where he greeted her by name, with a huge hug, and a big bouquet of flowers. Absolutely lovely.

@HeraInTheHereAndNow

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.

Was that JS?

Jimmy Carr is a lovely man. Worked with him quite a bit & just pretty easy going.

Ditto! He was really nice and a bit shy, I feel like he might have imposter syndrome a bit and seemed surprised at the kerfuffle around the event. Refreshing. Also had super long eyelashes I remember!

I don’t believe the Marcus detractors for a second.

you're a thouroughly unpleasent person

To be fair @Doodar it's not something this poster hides at all 😂😉

re the whole being hassled thing, i get it but sometimes we genuinely havnt heard of them and they still behave like luvvies, and we normals sometimes have no idea who they are!

I was once in a pregnancy yoga class and a "new girl" came in with her partner (it wasn't for partners) who spoke to the teacher in hushed tomes for a while. I thought nothing of it but smiled at her as she sat down. she gave me the total brush off and and spent the rest of the class being very guarded/giving out unfriendly vibes which was sad and weird.

I had never watched abfab, only later realised she's the one with 'the voice' . sorry love I had no idea who you were and pardon me for ooh smiling.

@youvegottenminuteslynn

Jimmy Carr is a lovely man. Worked with him quite a bit & just pretty easy going.

Ditto! He was really nice and a bit shy, I feel like he might have imposter syndrome a bit and seemed surprised at the kerfuffle around the event. Refreshing. Also had super long eyelashes I remember!

Yes! I remember saying to a colleague he was much cuter than I ever thought. Nice energy about him.

@amprev

I'm going Claire Sweeney as the Brookside fertility clinic one! Also gutted about Marcus Rashford! I bought his book for all our year 6's when they left in July!

I once accidentally said good morning to Noddy Holder because I thought I mistakenly thought I knew him and we had a giggle about it together.

She wouldn’t have been there pre mobile phones, her son is about 8?

I've always thought Clare balding was really unpleasant, especially after she poked fun at the National-winning jockey about his teeth. Have never met her but she gives off bad vibes.

Through work I've met lots of celebrities. A few I can think of based on this thread.

Nice -
Gordon Ramsay - really charming
Fiona Phillips
Kate Garraway
Jimmy Nesbitt
Gregg Wallace - I know, I know.... nice but needy
The Johnsons - Rachel and Leo. Really nice. Boris (Al) too surprisingly, but in some ways quite shy.
Michael Gove - impeccable manners
Bill Clinton - very charismatic
Jade Goody
Eamonn Holmes

Not so nice -
Miriam Margolyes - rude
John Bercow
John Torode
Caron Keating
Lorraine Kelly
Geri Halliwell
Naga Munchetty

And utterly horrible
Nick Knowles

I was brought up in a wealthy-ish area which for a time was favoured by celebs (including the Beatles, or some of them). I had holiday jobs in retail, and celebs would come in from time to time. Generally they were like other folk: most perfectly civil, a few rather up themselves. Some plainly accepted that with fame comes recognition, and an acceptance of that. The rudest and most unpleasant was a micro-celeb, the local Tory MP, who was breathtakingly rude when he came in. Quite funny really, 'cos he knew my Dad but didn't realise we were related ... Dad and I never enlightened him. Didn't get my vote when I turned 18.

Dick Emery used to put on impromptu turns, and clearly adored performing.