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.

Brad Pit, lovely lovely lovely.An utter gentleman.
Noel Gallagher, very small, quite shy, polite, unassuming.
Tom Baker, flirty, kind twinkly.
Marti Pellow- dismissive
Stringfellow- dismissive

Jonny Vegas, lovely
Gail Ported, lovely
Juliette Lewis, mad but lovely
Alan Titchmarsh, very friendly
Leona Graham, really friendly and down to earth
Wyatt Wendalls, very friendly

@blameless Your mention of Sir Trevor reminded me of Anna Ford. I don't live in the UK, but in the 80s spent a reasonable amount of time there, and for some reason admired her greatly. I also thought she was a stunning looking woman.

I haven't given her a thought in decades, but oddly enough I was only thinking about it the other day. Can you tell me anything about her? I think she worked at ITV (perhaps not, I don't really know.)

@ChinstrapBobblehat

A while ago I listened to a podcast with the comic actress Diane Morgan (who sounds really lovely, incidentally). She said that when she was young she absolutely idolised Victoria Wood, and later managed to blag an invitation onto the set of one of her shows, where a friend was working at the time.

Diane said she was introduced to Victoria during a break and was completely starstruck, gushing about what a massive influence and inspiration she was, and Victoria Wood just stared coldly at her and said nothing at all before walking off, leaving her feeling quite humiliated and awful.

No matter what the extenuating circumstances, there’s no real excuse for that kind of twatty behaviour, and I’ve never thought of Victoria Wood in the same way since. Which makes me feel a bit sad, actually.

Exactly the same thing happened to a friend of mine with Victoria Wood.

Gina Ford is a gem. I worked for her, briefly, and she is one of the kindest and most generous people I’ve ever met. Paid me on time, gave tips and holiday bonuses, and just generally treated the people around her well. I felt more like a guest in her home than a worker, and my job was pretty menial. I walked away with huge respect for her.

@SteppinOutwithMyBaby Anna Ford worked at both ITV and the BBC. She retired in 2006. She is 78 and lives in Gloucestershire

My mum worked with Judi Dench in the 1960s. She was so lovely that Mum still talks about her all these years later! In fact, I don't think Mum has ever had a conversation that didn't include the words, "When I was working with Judi..." .

Mine are old school. Absolutely lovely - Alexandra Bastedo (stunningly beautiful too even in her 60s as she was then) sadly no longer with us, and Hyacinth Bucket herself, the wonderful Patricia Routledge. Cilla was the worst!

Martina Cole?

I heard that Cilla Black was pretty awful

Designer - Sophie Conran?

Well, given you all "give her more space because she's a sleb", perhaps you're all giving off mixed messages to her as well.
This. You treat her differently so she's probably on her guard plus as someone else said people don't act at their best every day on the school run. You're just reading into her more than you would anyone else

Ps horrible thread, any human being can have an off day, I'd hate to know someone somewhere was naming and shaming me for it

@MrsFezziwig I think Victoria wood was notoriously shy though probably didn't mean to be rude.

AdobeWanKenobi

And? I can post on any thread and can give my opinion on the clearly unreasonable expectations and demands that some people think they have. It's mawkish and stalking behaviour and I'm really wondering why some people behave like this in real life and feel entitled to do it.

Kathy Burke.
Just SO fantastic, relaxed, fun and real....met at a supper thing with a publisher friend of mine, complete effortless evening, she was on top form and exactly what you would hope for and expect...made me feel a bit like that oft quoted quality 'like the only person in the room worth talking to' and I absolutely know I wasn't! Just kind and funny - love her even more now

@Gumbomambo Russell grant ?!

I don't think you can tell much about anything from a brief meeting. A colleague of mine met Spacey out walking her dog and they had a lovely chat about dogs. This was before everything came out about him.

However my nice ones from brief meetings are Su Pollard and Johnny Vegas. Also the late politician Dennis Healy.

Sue Perkins is lovely. My DP has worked with her and would go out of his way to talk to her if he met her in the street (which he has done!) and normally he is not standoffish but fairly antisocial. SP is genuine / remembers him etc. / very funny.

[quote lollipoprainbow]@Gumbomambo Russell grant ?! [/quote]
It this is the astrologer that was rude to the waitress and asked if he could read palms, from the description it absolutely is Russel Grant.

I came on the thread to specifically hear about Sally Phillips (so pleased to hear she was lovely as she comes across as being very genuine) and Alan Rickman. But gutted to hear he was rude to non-stars.

I do think shyness needs to be taken into account though. I can feel confident and friendly sometimes and shy anxious at other times and it really affects how I interact with people. I know the neighbours and other parents at school think I’m rude as I don’t always smile and say hello. I get lost in my own head though and automatically tune the world out.

About Stella McCartney, just googled and her kids are still secondary and primary school age. I seem to remember she had then later on. They're 16, 14,13 and 10 ! Still don't think it's her though

A cousin met Johnny Vegas at their local pub in London and he was lovely, a bit shy, and very friendly. He went back with their group to the flat for more drinks. This was about 15 years ago.

What was wrong with Caron Keating?

When I was at Uni a friend asked Alan Bennett to speak at an event she was running.

He declined but sent a lovely, funny, handwritten postcard explaining why.

My partner also had some dealings with Gyles Brandreth who was lovely.

Professionally, I have met Martin Keown - perfectly pleasant and polite.