Rude famous people thread 2

[IntermittentParps]

Just read the whole of the first one and it's not taking new fecking messages!
I wanted to carry it on as I love sleb threads I don't have a life

I'd be GUTTED if Joanna Lumley or Glenda Jackson were horrible.

I've always felt, totally irrationally, that Dominic West would be a tit.

Dolly Parton MUST be lovely.

David Walliams gives me the serious creeps and I'm glad to read it's not just me.

Mine:
John Humphrys: twunt. Argumentative, combative, rude for the sake of being rude. Loathed him.
Graham Norton. 'met' him years ago in a room full of people, admittedly, and talked in a small group with him, but he seemed funny, sweet, surprisingly shy. He had to sort of make an entrance into our boardroom and when he opened the door and saw how many people had crowded in there to meet him he looked genuinely taken aback and a bit shaken, which I liked him for.

Desperate to know who the 'don't get funny with me, dear' author from the last thread is!

Yes, that it exactly. I don't see her as warm at all.

Didn’t really meet him as such but I have a vivid memory of seeing Dennis Healey and his wife on the way to France on a ferry (showing my age - I was just a kid). He had to walk down past a long queue of people waiting for the cafeteria and said a really pleasant good morning to so many - seemed like a nice gent

@Eaumyword.theyve got an open marriage they've both admitted it

Fair enough, as long as it suits them both I suppose!

I don’t think you can judge JL based on
Her acting or her public persona. She plays a part to be public facing .

Agree with pp about her fabulous humour ; she is dry and self deprecating. As well as Charming and warm. I saw the show she was in and met her backstage and then went onto the post show party; so was with her a long time.

She treated everyone equally from the stage hands, theatre door man, acting peers, fans and the waiters at the party. I became a real fan after that evening.

A friend was a chauffeur.Wayne Rooney is as tight as tuppence and was forced by Ferdinand and Gerrard to cough up to give him a tip .Owen Hargreaves very nice and a good tipper.
Richard Madeley was rude but Judy Finnigan was very nice to my mother

[quote cameocat]@IntermittentParps Joanne lumley is pretty fabulous in real life. Advises to always enter a room hips first as this is the most flattering (if you're tall and willowy like her!)[/quote]
Much as I love Joanna Lumley, I can feel hysteria rising just thinking about me trying that. Imagine trying to walk hips first! How does that work> 😂🤣😂🤣

Earlier this year I went with a friend to have a posh picnic and opera in Surrey. We both dressed up (my Matalan frock looked much smarter than expected!). We were both looking round where to enter for our seats. Joanna Lumley saw us, came over to help and was lovely and friendly and totally natural. She is a trustee of the opera house.

@Purplepeoniesdroppingpetals

Didn’t really meet him as such but I have a vivid memory of seeing Dennis Healey and his wife on the way to France on a ferry (showing my age - I was just a kid). He had to walk down past a long queue of people waiting for the cafeteria and said a really pleasant good morning to so many - seemed like a nice gent

I met Dennis Healey at a Christmas sing along at friends' of my Grandparents once. He was lovely but not much of a singer!

@TurnipTales

I sold Jeremy Paxman a shirt a few years ago. He was lovely, warm and struck up a conversation with me. Can't remember what we talked about, but vividly remember how nice he was

My mum chatted to him in a park in Oxford and she said he was really friendly

Maybe Neil Gaiman was the rude author.

This is fabulous.

@lescompagnonsdeloue

Am I the only one who finds Joanna Lumley really annoying?

I've never rated her as an actress but the work she did on the Ghurkha Justice campaign was great.

Aled Jones - absolutely horrible person. Full of his own self importance and thoroughly mean.

@uggmum Can you tell us more?

Morgan Freeman is really low key and funny. Also helped in my community once in a really awful situation (search for a missing child).

Richard Branson is quite a laugh and brilliant with children. Peter Gabriel was completely delightful to toddler age DS, who was racing around his legs.

Mel Smith was once very sweet to me at a party. Saw me having a row with my bf and swept me off to dance with him.

Richard Dawkins is as egotistical as you imagine him to be.

I was a bit rude to Prince Phillip and he was rude back

I used to work with a man who had severe learning and physical disabilities. He was a very small man who used a wheelchair. I took him to a Garden Fete once that was opened by the WWE Wrestler named Giant Haystacks. He weighed 311 kg and was 6'11" tall. He was walking round chatting to people and came over to us. My client looked terrified for just a moment then held up his arms. I wasn't the only person there who had tears in my eyes as that very gentle giant knelt by the wheelchair and allowed my client to squeeze him very tightly round the neck, then gave him a kiss on the cheek, before holding his hand and chatting to him, not minding that he wasn't getting more than noises in reply.

I was late back from my lunch break one day and ran straight into a very tall, very handsome man. It was Rupert Everett and he was super nice and apologised for not looking where he was going. I have also met Dermot O'Leary a couple of times and he was really lovely.

Howareyouflower what a lovely story thank you for sharing

I always think it's funny that people come onto a thread (sometimes several times) to tell everyone that they think it's a horrible thread and that everyone on it should be ashamed of themselves. Just hide it and forget about it.

For my part I've only met Dara O'Briain (sp?) but he was lovely, very nice and unassuming - just as I had hoped.

Cilla Black at a Christmas panto. On stage she shrilled "How shall I kill him?" to fellow cast member. An adult from the audience shouted "Sing to him"....... audience howled with laughter. She was not laughing but the cast were. Said it all.

@CuteGirlsWatchMeEatEther

Maybe Neil Gaiman was the rude author.

I was thinking Jeffrey Archer ?

@Ihopeyourcakeisshit

A couple of years ago my friend was on a quiet beach in Greece, only one other couple on it. The woman came over asking what my friend was drinking and when she was told diet coke, said 'oh I don't think so' and dragged her off to share a bottle of wine. She and her dh spent the next few hours getting quietly sozzled with Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell. Delightful company apparently.

That'd be my worst nightmare. The clingy holiday couple, don't care if they're famous, leave me alone!

The story about Giant Haystacks made me cry!! What a wonderful man!! I love this thread 😊

That is indeed a lovely story about Giant Haystacks. It reminded me my grandma used to babysit Big Daddy (another wrestler!), no idea what he was like.

Morgan Freeman is really low key and funny. Also helped in my community once in a really awful situation (search for a missing child).

How nice