What is the worst experience you have had with a celebrity?
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Best ever. The Fonz. Henry Winkler. ( Multi award winner here for the best celeb ever )
Bumped into him a good few times at Heathrow.
Somehow - he has all the time in the world to talk to his fans. ( He does Panto and writes load of kids books now ).
Worst: Ant and Dec. ( ish )
Many many years ago.
The problem was not Ant and Dec. But their appointed security team.
They were very polite and quite embarrassed about the whole thing.
But to see the event - was just surreal.
To set the scene.
A plane full of live in Scotland, work in London types - were boarding the appropriate BA flight to get us into Glasgow at a semi reasonable hour.
And and Dec were also boarding the plane - ( again ..... very nice guys )
The problem was their security team ( I guess they were brand new to the contract )- as they were running around in a ludicrous James Bond style with headsets going... "next section clear" "Roger... clear" etc .... then shouting to the boarding passengers " Stand back.... Step away.... Sir... Stand back.."
3 of the guys doing this charade were within 30 feet of us .... we could all hear their supposed radio chatter.
And as we were all in the queue for Priority boarding - or normal passenger boarding... it just looked like a Mike Myers parody.
Bear in mind this was over 20 odd years ago - but you could still see the "WTF" look in their eyes.
What is the threat??? A load of rather knackered business types who just want to go home.
On the plane - And and Dec were sat next to me.... and they were ( short... they are tiny) very nice - as I have found most celebs - just nice people, who have a high profile job.
To be honest - I could count on two hands the number of celebs I think were utter a
holes.But - Could I put up with the autograph ( now selfie) culture day in, day out.
Honestly - I think I would end up being a rather obnoxious celeb compared to what's out there.
There was a great thread where somebody met Jason Plato and they weren't too impressed by how he reacted to them, Jason Plato himself rocked up and gave the other side of the story: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
Page 8 is where Jason makes his appearance.
Page 8 is where Jason makes his appearance.
Edited by eybic on Monday 2nd March 10:12
I saw Ryan Gosling at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
Thales said:
I saw Ryan Gosling at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.
He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
That almost sounds LA enough to be true He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”
I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying.
The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.
When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.
My wife saw Cuba Gooding JR in a resturant in the Valley a few years back, she was unfailingly polite, didn't interrupt him at his table or meal or anything, and said something along the lines of loving his movies and his work... he was a real *ss in his response to her and downright rude, she called him on it, and he didn't much like being put in his place in front of his crew.
I've only met a handful of well-known (or kind of well known) people. None of them have been aholes
Ben Fogle - he was alright but he was in work mode and so was I, so there wasn't much room for small talk as I was just on hand to assist him and his mate/producer through the airport.
Sir Peter Blake - again at work at the airport, but I had a bit more time to chat to him and he was very down to earth
Andi Peters - met him twice, completely separately. Once in M&S in Kew, and another time on a BA flight from Manchester. But I didn't really see the need to bother him more than saying "hi" as we were on the plane
Finally, Bill Goldberg, WWE wrestler, he was at Goodwood a couple of years ago and had a chat with him for a few minutes in the paddock area, he'd just crashed something on the hill but was still happy to talk for a few minutes and posed for a photo, even though my mate thought he was Steve Austin. He's not as tall as I had imagined him to be but his arms were the same size as my legs.
holesBen Fogle - he was alright but he was in work mode and so was I, so there wasn't much room for small talk as I was just on hand to assist him and his mate/producer through the airport.
Sir Peter Blake - again at work at the airport, but I had a bit more time to chat to him and he was very down to earth
Andi Peters - met him twice, completely separately. Once in M&S in Kew, and another time on a BA flight from Manchester. But I didn't really see the need to bother him more than saying "hi" as we were on the plane
Finally, Bill Goldberg, WWE wrestler, he was at Goodwood a couple of years ago and had a chat with him for a few minutes in the paddock area, he'd just crashed something on the hill but was still happy to talk for a few minutes and posed for a photo, even though my mate thought he was Steve Austin. He's not as tall as I had imagined him to be but his arms were the same size as my legs.
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