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.

My mother met Bob Geldof on a flight to New York. She didn't know who he was.

She said they chatted the whole flight, he spoke fondly and proudly of his children and gave my mom a few business contacts in NYC.

It was only after the flight my sister told my mom who he was

He is now known as Saint Bob

My dd works in a museum and presents events aimed at children.
Often celebrities bring their dc and my dd treats them like any other family, focusing on the dc and ignoring the celebrity status of the parents.
I would totally understand any celebrity being grumpy if they have taken their dc out and getting hassled by the public.

@notHarris

Has anyone met Anton Du Beke or any other Strictly dancers? Would love to know what they're like. I absolutely love Anton and will be gutted if he's horrible.

I have heard from a camera man on Strictly that Anton's willy is absolutely HUGE and sometimes he has to tie it to his leg. True, I promise!

Yes I know Anton via my work. He's funny, charming, cheeky and very polite. I find him very gentlemanly and exactly how he is on TV.

Hooray! He can keep his spot as my favourite judge then

Rob Beckett & Jack Whitehall are lovely.

In fairness, I think it was well known that Victoria Wood was cripplingly shy and felt massively uncomfortable with people constantly approaching her.
Still disappointing that she was actively rude though

Also, this is someone turning up at her place of work, who shouldn’t have been there, so perhaps some justification for being pissed off

I know Clare Balding - she’s lovely. Massively hard working and incredibly kind.

I did get the sense that 'teethgate' was a horrible blunder and one of those excruciating, mic-drop moments that was regretted the instant it was out of her mouth. Not an excuse, but I've certainly never known Balding to be otherwise in the habit of making deeply personal comments about people's physical appearance. I'll bet she was mortified: the jockey was very gallant about it, though.

The comment about Packham's supposed 'self-diagnosed' ASD is unnecessarily unkind. By his account he was diagnosed in his forties.

Re. Cilla Black - there was a website hosted by airline cabin crew some time ago which was a variation on the theme of this thread. CB's name constantly came up as an insufferable arsehole despised by every staff member she encountered.

According to the same site the York sisters were models of politeness, and the names George Michael and Kylie Minogue kept coming up as lovely company and a joy to be with.

NB. Don't care how bad a day Peter Kay was having. Swearing at young kids is just not cricket.

On the flip side I met Angela Lansbury and she was absolutely lovely, so chatty and friendly

So glad to hear this. I have absolutely no interest in celebs and couldn't care less about meeting them but Angela Lansbury is a true legend in a world where the title is bandied around far too frequently. Can you tell I love her

Re Clare Balding, she said afterwards that she thought his teeth had been damaged during a fall rather that just misshapen ( would still not make it right but not quite as bad) he did actually get his teeth fixed and said afterwards that he wasn’t offended

@Halfpace

I agree that it’s deeply unreasonable to expect any celebrity to be permanently polite, warm and smiling. Alan Rickman was remarkably rude to me at a charity event (I was there in a professional capacity), but he’d just done some endless ‘meet and greet’ thing where fans donated to the charity to have a minute with him, and he’d probably got to the end of his endurance. I mean, it was unpleasant at the time — I was only in my early 20s and felt very dismissed — but I don’t imagine one interaction somehow sums up his character.

Actually, Alan Rickman was well known in the business for being genuinely horrible to work with as a technician or anyone else who wasn't a star. So this is absolutely typical of him and that interaction is definitely representative of his character.

@SunShinesBrightly

Yes, didn’t have to search far... First one I found - Kissing and signing a girl’s bare bum on stage. (Ullevigatan, Västra Götaland County). Grim.

Are these post marriage? He always makes out that he’s reformed since meeting his wife

What a nasty, gossipy thread this is. Ugh.

Imagine if your family members were being dissected and found wanting. I doubt if much of it is true, perhaps a few grains and then massive embellishment.

What do you get out of this?

Alan Shearer is just as he comes across on TV. He basically told the press to piss off so he could talk to a young partially sighted girl who had been waiting to meet him. Top bloke.

Susan George is lovely.
Mary Berry really lovely.
Prince Charles is twinkly
Charlie Watts lovely.
Jo Whiley lovely.
Boris Johnson as you'd expect ...

Eammon Holmes = rude and dismissive
Bobby Brown = nice, friendly and chatty
Pamela Anderson = really lovely and patient
Justin Hawkins (The Darkness) = off his face and rude. The rest of them were lovely
Vogue from Gladiators = really lovely and quite shy

This wasn’t all at the same dinner party btw

I’ve absolutely no idea what you mean by star suckers.

Sorry, that was in relation to a completely different earlier post (it's the name of a documentary, but may or may not have been what was being alluded to) - but I realised afterwards that it looked like it was something additional (and random) to do with Ted Heath, which it wasn't.

You can relax. She’s not a designer (she always stresses that it’s her mum that is) and she’s nice and very self-deprecating

@LyingWitchInTheWardrobe

What a nasty, gossipy thread this is. Ugh.

Imagine if your family members were being dissected and found wanting. I doubt if much of it is true, perhaps a few grains and then massive embellishment.

What do you get out of this?

And yet you've returned to it and posted on it several times today.

Bruce Forsyth was lovely. What you saw was what you got. When he said "see you upstairs for a drink after the show" he meant it. And his wife is so beautiful.
Rosemary Conley is very nice. Quite a sad woman. Difficult husband I gather
Cilla was apparently quite rude and up herself. Floor staff on Blind Date weren't keen.

Cant remember if ive commented...
Shane richie - unnecessarily rude and wears A LOT of make up
Tony Blair nice seems a tad shy cherie much more confident of the two both very nice
Tony Hadley an absolutely lovely man
Prince William a bit of a prick unattractive and acted bored Kate was lovely, attentive and unbelievably beautiful in RL

@darklindor

'Do you know who I am?' is known as doing a Danny in this house, as many years ago we heard Danny La Rue say it on live radio. He was so obnoxious we were roaring with laughter.

Only older MNers might know who I'm talking about.

No!

Not Danny La Rue!

I LOVED Danny La Rue. And I was jealous as hell of his legs.

Bruce Forsyth was lovely. What you saw was what you got. When he said "see you upstairs for a drink after the show" he meant it.

Was he as handsy and patronising as he frequently was with female (and sometimes non-British) contestants on his gameshows - right there on camera?

IIRC, he was often quite condescending to elderly contestants (nowhere near Barrymore level, granted), but he seemed to lay that aside as he got older himself.

Adding to the Victoria Beckham love. DH has met her several times through his work and he and his colleagues all love her. Won't have a word said against her. They like David Beckham too but that isn't a surprise as he doesn't get a hard time in the press.

My grandad met Danny LaRue and said he was great. This always made me laugh because my grandad couldn't stand him on the telly prior to this, but wouldn't hear a word said against him after meeting him!

Harry Kane - Down to earth, unassuming, nice, quite gentlemanly really.

Kevin spacey - Creepy.

Jameela Jamil - extremely confident, very good eye contact, direct in conversation, not friendly but not rude either.

I have met lots but just wanted to add those not mentioned much. But agree with PP below, Tony Hadley is a nice man.

I met Lady Dianna (princess?) once and she was remarkably striking, calming and had the most beautiful smelling perfume. I was so drawn to her at the time. Never felt that about anyone else.