Do you work with the famous ?

[welshjohn]

I use to work for Virgin.and got invited to a summer party at Richard Brandon's house.he was such a friendly bloke was great fun laser clay pigeon shooting with him...funny thing before we were about to get on the bus to go home he stopped us.and said you can't go until you load all the spare beer and food on.it..must of been about 20 crates of bud and god knows how many pizzas and burgers..

[chilistrucker]

Toured with some bands and artists, most have been fine, some are really nice and very 'normal.' Its often their 'vip' guests that appear to be a little bit up themselves. Sometimes pre tour we get told some strange requests but i often think these come more from the management than the artists themselves.

[alock]

welshjohn said:

I use to work for Virgin.and got invited to a summer party at Richard Brandon's house.he was such a friendly bloke was great fun laser clay pigeon shooting with him...funny thing before we were about to get on the bus to go home he stopped us.and said you can't go until you load all the spare beer and food on.it..must of been about 20 crates of bud and god knows how many pizzas and burgers..

Didn't he buy the house next door to his home just for parties?

[CarAbuser]

Studio117 said:

it only smellz.

I love that website.

It's not been as funny recently, lots of things that are just bizarre rather than funny.

Nothing as good as the 'Trolling of Wannabe Pornstars' masterpiece.

[CubanPete]

I've met quite a few through work. Generally all sound and down to earth. The ones that have an entourage (irrelevant of famousness or money) tend to be the cocky ones.

[Mastodon2]

CarAbuser said:

I love that website.

It's not been as funny recently, lots of things that are just bizarre rather than funny.

Nothing as good as the 'Trolling of Wannabe Pornstars' masterpiece.

I see you too, have traversed the depths of the internet - perhaps you've only seen Just Tha Tip? It's a right old laugh, is that site.

[Blown2CV]

I've worked with a lot of people who've ended up on the news, if that counts.

[Issi]

Not me but one of our builders fitted a 15k kitchen for a footballer in his new house, apparently the wife didn't like it and so they changed it for another 15k kitchen.
When the builder asked what he wanted to do with the immaculate and unused kitchen, he was told just take it away and do whatever with it.
So our builder just fitted it elsewhere and made another 15k!

[OzzyR1]

Issi said:

Not me but one of our builders fitted a 15k kitchen for a footballer in his new house, apparently the wife didn't like it and so they changed it for another 15k kitchen.
When the builder asked what he wanted to do with the immaculate and unused kitchen, he was told just take it away and do whatever with it.
So our builder just fitted it elsewhere and made another 15k!

Not unusual.

I work in what's now known as "ultra high end" residential property in London, suppose they had to make up a different name to distinguish it from normal high-end property.

Often the places we see are barely used. Beautiful fixtures and fittings but the existing owner has hardly lived there.

When a new owner buys, they like to make their mark. That unused £300k kitchen goes straight in the skip. At that level, it's not in any way poverty-spec stuff but that's how it goes.

The stuff I've seen put it by one client and replaced by the next is beyond belief. Almost makes me think that some people have too much money but then I remember they're paying my bills.

Que sera sera.

[z4RRSchris]

makes me cry when that happens, but it if their gaff after all.

[Mike22233]

Issi said:

Not me but one of our builders fitted a 15k kitchen for a footballer in his new house, apparently the wife didn't like it and so they changed it for another 15k kitchen.
When the builder asked what he wanted to do with the immaculate and unused kitchen, he was told just take it away and do whatever with it.
So our builder just fitted it elsewhere and made another 15k!

15k? That's not very unusual

[Shnozz]

I helped a mate out with a move and make over on a footballers pad not so long ago and that was a £100k makeover to transform a rented pad to their taste. When it's a weeks salary though I guess it really isn't much of a big deal.

[Cupramax]

Mike22233 said:

Issi said:

Not me but one of our builders fitted a 15k kitchen for a footballer in his new house, apparently the wife didn't like it and so they changed it for another 15k kitchen.
When the builder asked what he wanted to do with the immaculate and unused kitchen, he was told just take it away and do whatever with it.
So our builder just fitted it elsewhere and made another 15k!

15k? That's not very unusual

Sounds like a B-sting builder, 15k for a footballers kitchen? more like 100k or more.

[Issi]

It could have been much more, can't remember the exact figure but I thought that 15k was what I was told.

[Mike22233]

Issi said:

It could have been much more, can't remember the exact figure but I thought that 15k was what I was told.

They spend more than that on a night out

[98elise]

Cupramax said:

Mike22233 said:

Issi said:

Not me but one of our builders fitted a 15k kitchen for a footballer in his new house, apparently the wife didn't like it and so they changed it for another 15k kitchen.
When the builder asked what he wanted to do with the immaculate and unused kitchen, he was told just take it away and do whatever with it.
So our builder just fitted it elsewhere and made another 15k!

15k? That's not very unusual

Sounds like a B-sting builder, 15k for a footballers kitchen? more like 100k or more.

Yup. You could easily spend 7k in B&Q on an average kitchen. Just doubling the size doubles the cost. Once you start looking at high end or bespoke stuff then it gets very expensive.

A mate had a good size kitchen done a few years ago. It looks like a show room, and has some nice gadgets but was in the region of 30k. I wouldn't say it was football player spec by any means though.

[rich83]

I was working with Seth Macfarlane today... does that count?

[PoleDriver]

I used to work in the recording industry fro the early eighties until the early nineties. I met many famous people and, you'll never guess, they are just normal people! Very few had over-inflated egos, at least not when they weren't performing!
I do suspect, however, that many of today's manufactured acts have a very different idea of their own importance!