Originally Posted by Stunty:
“I saw the behind the scenes on ITT and the runners certainly did seem like butlers. Anything that needed doing for the 'stars' was done by them, from ushering them out of their chauffeur driven car in the morning, to running to the cafeteria/restaurant to get their lunch.”
That's not what a butler would do though. And the runners did much more than that (for example, chasing around to make sure X or Y was ready and was where they were supposed to be at the right time).
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“Even the celebs said they could not manage without them ..... sure seemed like a bit of a butler come dogsbody to me.
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Seemed more like a PA/secretary/gopher/dogsbody than anything like a butler - they certainly did not wait on them hand & foot, neither did they dress them, hold doors open for them, turn washroom taps on & off (as they apparently do at the Savoy in London so my old boss once told me from his personal excperience). Although perhaps people here have had first-hand experience of what a butler does .... ?
Last edited by mossy2103 : 23-10-2009 at 18:39