Celebrities you've met...the good, the bad and the ugly! #2

[Howdyhi]

Roxanne Pallet! I was at a Jason Manford stand up gig at MEN arena in Manchester around 2010 and were were in the foyer before being allowed to go into the actual arena. I was waiting for my boyfriend and I was quite dressed up. She was near me and I recognised her from her emmerdale days. I looked at her and smiled and I swear she gave me the dirtiest look up and down ever and wouldn’t stop staring at me. I could feel her staring at the corner of my eye and I looked again and she was still staring in a really bitchy way so I asked her what her problem was. She said something along the lines of “I’ve not got a problem, don’t speak to me”. My boyfriend came over and I quickly told him what had happened and he said if you’ve got an issue, please speak up and called her a silly bitch She then moved away.
I don’t think she was as well known back then, I only knew her through emmerdale. She had an AWFUL vibe about her and I just felt the nastiness oozing out of her. I believe every single story from ex cast mates and celebs of bad encounters they’ve had with her. She made me feel so self conscious and like dirt and we hardly even spoke.
She was very small and petite, pretty but overpowered by bad vibes if that makes sense!

 

[lauraloves]

Roger Daltrey of The Who- such a down to earth man.

Me and my family were on holiday in Majorca about 10 years ago, and we were all sitting outside a restaurant when my stepdad went off for a walk to have a cigarette. He came back, we were all chatting away having a nice time when suddenly Roger Daltrey walks past and goes "alright Steve! How's it going??!" and we were all gobsmacked that apparently, my stepdad knew Roger Daltrey (and that we actually saw him too). What actually happened was my stepdad saw him when he went for a cigarette and asked him if he'd do him a favour, to act like he knew him, which Roger happily agreed to. To this day I think he is such a legend for going along with it. He could've just been like "Nah sorry" but he actually did it.

 

[LadyAlys]

I worked in airport security, sometimes in the VIP areas.
Here’s a few that I remember…
Penelope Cruz - lovely, friendly and sat on the floor , playing with her little boy.
Andi Peters - friendly and funny ( he used to fly in the UK a lot and knew many of us by name)
Rihanna - rude, off hand, had many minions to carry her handbag, hat and make sure that no-one spoke to her.
Amanda Seyfried - so pretty and really smiley and nice.
Status Quo - jokey and friendly
Madonna - quiet but friendly and said thanks to us. I was surprised at how small she is.
Edward and Sophie - friendly and carried their own suit covers and a hat box.
Daniel Craig - tired and scruffy but still very handsome and very polite.
Paul McCartney and wife - low key, stood on the platform waiting for train to other terminal with everyone else, said hello and smiled.
Venus Williams - rude
Usain Bolt - huge! Friendly and polite.
Rudest were business people and Middle Eastern royalty - they also had obnoxious, badly behaved children!

 

[EllenDeGenerate]

Frank Bruno - lovely guy who took time to have photos and a little chat.

An aside : My brother met him on their sun holiday years ago. He was very kind to my nephew, and posed for photos. My brother said he was a gentleman. When they got home, they got a beautiful photo enlarged and professionally-framed, of Frank and my nephew standing at the waters edge together. Its such a happy image, and how I like to remember my smiling beautiful nephew - he died in his sleep a two years ago.

 

[HaggisInMyBin]

José Mourinho in a hotel bar in about 2003/4. I didn’t know who he was initially but he came across as quite considerate and engaging.

It was midweek and I’d just got back to the hotel I was staying at for work. Went to the (really quiet) bar for a sandwich and glass of wine and as I was finishing a large group of ‘boys’ turned up in track suits. I’d been sitting at the bar so waited while they all got served by the understaffed bar staff and then some bloke in a suit apologised for the disturbance they were causing, unbeknownst to me settled my bill (that was on a company account anyway) and had a glass of wine served to me as an apology.

It wasn’t until 2 days later when the same barman came back on shift that he told me who he was. I’ve never been a football fan but since getting married to one, I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for José.

 

[Whatnowhun]

I met Hugh Jackman in London about 3 years ago. Literally the nicest man ever. Spent ages talking and seemed genuinely interested in chatting. He smelt amazing too *swoon*

 

[JakeM]

Amelle Berrabah - lovely. Met her a few years ago and she was very chatty, she also said I had lovely eyes. She is tiny in real life!
Jenny McAlpine - also lovely. Sister has met her a few times and said she is always very friendly.
Noel Edmonds - vile. Came into Co-op and said 'Excuse me, if anybody touches, talks, or even looks me, I’ll leave!'. He couldn’t handle the lack of attention and furiously left after less than 2 minutes.
Antony Cotton - awful. Very unfriendly towards staff and thinks he’s better than everyone.

 

[People-huv-tae-know]

LONG post, but here goes - I've only ever had two celeb encounters, and they were with:

Vic Reeves and family - they have a holiday house in my home town, and I walked past them once. He seemed OK and quite unassuming, Mrs looked quite full of herself. My OH works on the trains and has met Reeves and, in his words, he's a "pompous old git". Also was in Manchester years ago, and we stopped outside this random restaurant to look at the menu, and who should be sat with friends directly opposite me but Rebecca Adlington. She seemed very happy, and genuinely normal. Nothing starry or "look at me" about her.

As I said, my OH works on the trains and has met quite a few "celebs". He hasn't had any bad experiences, but he said Sandi Toksvig was "nice, but condescending", Aggie McKenzie of "How Clean is Your House" fame told him quite abruptly to not believe anything he read when he asked where Kim Woodburn was (as a joke), Jacob Rees-Mogg/Nigel Farage were both twats, the former especially, and Paul O'Grady is absolutely lovely, but thinner in real life. The guards used to let him have a cheeky cig out the back of the train. He also saw Richard Osman walking through M&S in St Pancras, and he really is frightfully tall in real-life, apparently.

A friend of a friend used to work in the catering department of the Principality Stadium in Cardiff and served Enrique Iglesias once - he's very nice, so I'm told. Also, my mother's best friend ever has met Posh and Becks. He was nice and friendly, she to a much lesser extent. My Mum's friend said that, although Posh was genuinely nice, she seemed very aloof, distant and that she'd rather be anywhere but there (and it was in a football capacity too).

Also - does anyone remember years ago the loathsome Amanda Holden called out a tile company on Twitter because they accused her of being some princess who wanted the work done for nothing? It's TRUE! A friend works in pest control and was once called to her house to rid her loft of some rats. She made it quite clear that she expected it to be done for free, and had no qualms in asking him if he knew who she was (to which he replied, "no, but should I?"). She absolutely wanted those tiles done for sweet FA.

Quoting this as I know the family who owned the tile company (now sold) and it is 100% true about Holden. Holden was an entitled bitch about it and expected her tiles to be free after the wrong ones were delivered by mistake. The owner made it into a huge joke after she pulled the 'don't you know who I am card' and even did a sale themed around her name for new customers. She even wanted a customer service advisor to be sacked for making a jokey response on Twitter. She has no sense of humour. I think they handled it really well and pulled Holden down a peg or two in the process. They even got extra business afterwards which was good because they have a critically ill disabled child in addition to other wee ones so extra money always helps.

 

[scarlettgal99]

Graham Norton. Funny, friendly, polite and down to earth. So glad as I love anything he's on.

 

[buttheyneverblindme8]

LONG post, but here goes - I've only ever had two celeb encounters, and they were with:

Vic Reeves and family - they have a holiday house in my home town, and I walked past them once. He seemed OK and quite unassuming, Mrs looked quite full of herself. My OH works on the trains and has met Reeves and, in his words, he's a "pompous old git". Also was in Manchester years ago, and we stopped outside this random restaurant to look at the menu, and who should be sat with friends directly opposite me but Rebecca Adlington. She seemed very happy, and genuinely normal. Nothing starry or "look at me" about her.

As I said, my OH works on the trains and has met quite a few "celebs". He hasn't had any bad experiences, but he said Sandi Toksvig was "nice, but condescending", Aggie McKenzie of "How Clean is Your House" fame told him quite abruptly to not believe anything he read when he asked where Kim Woodburn was (as a joke), Jacob Rees-Mogg/Nigel Farage were both twats, the former especially, and Paul O'Grady is absolutely lovely, but thinner in real life. The guards used to let him have a cheeky cig out the back of the train. He also saw Richard Osman walking through M&S in St Pancras, and he really is frightfully tall in real-life, apparently.

A friend of a friend used to work in the catering department of the Principality Stadium in Cardiff and served Enrique Iglesias once - he's very nice, so I'm told. Also, my mother's best friend ever has met Posh and Becks. He was nice and friendly, she to a much lesser extent. My Mum's friend said that, although Posh was genuinely nice, she seemed very aloof, distant and that she'd rather be anywhere but there (and it was in a football capacity too).

Also - does anyone remember years ago the loathsome Amanda Holden called out a tile company on Twitter because they accused her of being some princess who wanted the work done for nothing? It's TRUE! A friend works in pest control and was once called to her house to rid her loft of some rats. She made it quite clear that she expected it to be done for free, and had no qualms in asking him if he knew who she was (to which he replied, "no, but should I?"). She absolutely wanted those tiles done for sweet FA.

 

[E84Blair]

David Dickenson...complete tosser.

 

[JarvisCockerSpaniel]

David Walliams, awful, rude and slimy and no time for children at all off camera or when no one important is watching.

amanda Holden- bitchy little schoolgirl

Simon Cowell- very professional and gets the job done. Polite but very brusque when tired. Pays out thousands in parking and smoking fines because he doesn’t like being told what what to do or where he can do it.

 

[TheCatsMa]

My Dad was on a flight with Toby Maguire. He said he seemed pretty awful, even pinching one of the air hostesses bums

 

[Howdyhi]

Who was she with?

She was on her own when I saw her. She was probably waiting for someone like I was. Unless she went on her own because it wouldn’t surprise me if she had no friends.

 

[Pipsy]

You'll be so shocked. Billy Bragg is an insufferable twat.

 

[AManWalksDownTheStreet]

I once met Sir Ian McKellen. He came into my school to give a little talk to the drama students. Had really piercing eyes. I got his autograph for my Nan. He signed it “Be good”, not realising it was for her

I’d love to think he did and was just being a bit flirty with her
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Ronan Keating...absolutely horrid.
Nasty piece of work.

I once read an amazing anecdote about him, where he wound the window of his limo up on the hand of a fan asking for an autograph and the fan’s mum just stormed over and slapped him in the face. I really hope it was true.

 

[Foxvint]

Not met but dealt with her on the phone in a work capacity- Kelly Osborne. Absolutely lovely, polite, patient and accepting of inconvenient pain in the arse info that would've had plenty of people famous or not throwing a tanty. I soooo wanted to say thankyou for being a friend to Amy Winehouse but that would've unprofess.

And Coleen Rooney is a sweetheart I wont hear a bad word about. Her and Wayne do so much quietly for Claire House kids hospice and always have. Makes me laugh when ppl chat wham about how she must only stay with him for the money. She's got 4 kids with him- she'd be getting the money regardless. She's just a genuine family first woman and she'd love Wayne if he was a lollipop man.

 

[FoxyBingo]

Frank Bruno - lovely guy who took time to have photos and a little chat.

 

[TheFreak]

Russel Howard- prick

 

[princessmaire80]

Calum Best is indeed very lovely. Beautiful manners and very charming.
I have met Ronan Keating, but it was at a signing so he was nice. I’ve heard others say he’s a nasty piece of work though.
I’ve met so many famous people- I think I’ve mentioned a fair few on various threads so it’s probably easier just to round them up as it were.

Lee Ryan- as mentioned above, lovely guy. I’ve been following him for years and he knows me now. He once stopped my wheelchair having a nasty accident and was incredibly lovely to me when I had cancer.

Duncan James- absolute queen bitch. I do not like the guy. He’s sweet as sugar if he thinks he’ll get something out of you, though. Usually having his enormous ego massaged.

Jamie Redknapp- lovely but an absolute flirt.

Freddie Flintoff- also lovely but shy to the point of being abrupt. I read in his book that he’s anxious around people who he thinks might like him, and he can come across abrupt for that reason. The first time I met him I was so nervous I was almost in tears (I suffer with severe social anxiety) and I think he clocked that too. Actually funnily enough it was exactly one year today that I last met him when I was in the audience for Top Gear.

Danny Dyer- he’s an absolute geezer. I met him after his show at the Harold Pinter theatre and although he nearly set fire to my wig with his cigarette when he hugged me, he’s very lovely. Has time for anyone who wants him but seems genuinely bemused by all the attention he gets.

James Arthur- an absolute sweetheart who genuinely loves his fans, but he can be hard to get near. Doesn’t seem to like it when others are ‘more famous’ than him as he’s used to being the centre of attention. However if you can grab his attention he’s a darling.

Lee from Steps- he’s a bit arsey. Lovely to look at, but arsey.

Chris Ramsey- love him to bits. Used to have some mental convos with him but ever since that very unlovely wife of his got ideas above her station he’s not like he used to be. I saw him at the NTA’s but I don’t think he recognised me.

Roman Kemp- we are distantly related so my experience is probably a little different but harking back to the days before I told him and I was just another fan, he’s always in a huge hurry but will stop for a quick autograph or photo for anyone who wants it. He’s very sweet too.

Stephen Mulhern- he’s weird. Not keen on him at all. My mate is utterly obsessed with him and he’s nice to her when he’s got his persona on but the rest of the time he pretends to be talking on the phone and he isn’t, he just thinks he’s better than everyone.

Ant and Dec- Dec is a darling. He’s lovely. My relatives lived near him when he was growing up and when I spoke to him about them he remembered their names without me telling him. Ant is weird. Not keen on him either.