That's a lovely story. I have heard lots of nice things about Darius

It reminds me of a story about Dave Grohl. He met a fan with Cerebral Palsy, and was lovely to her. A few years later he met her again, remembered her name and invited her to see them do a video shoot.

I encountered Vanessa Feltz once. This was when she was at the 'height' or her TV fame. She did the 'yes, it's me' thing, but I found it funny so I laughed and she actually laughed too.

And I heard on 'The Wright Stuff' this morning that she's coming back with 'Blind Date'

A small part of me died when I heard that but at least there'll be no obligation to watch (and I wouldn't! ).

I thought that video was going to end with Cilla shouting at the guy filming to leave her alone!

Melinda Messenger: She was like my first real crush when I was 6 or 7 I think. So my dad took me to see her when she was on some promotional big bus tour thing in Brighton for the sun newspaper. When she arrived all these middle aged men got a bit excited and I ended up get crammed up against the railings and could not breathe. Melinda must have seen me getting squished and asked her security to come get me. So they carried me on to the bus with her where she gave me a big hug and kiss and gave me her autograph and loads of free promotional stuff, She was really friendly and down to earth as I remember and its about 16 years later and I still have not washed that cheek she made a young boys dream come true that day and I still watch her on Cowboy Builders....

I've met Danny Baker and Eddie 'the Eagle' Edwards and both were rude, arrogant and totally up themselves.

On a brighter side, I have met Simon Shepherd, who was just lovely, and my grandparents lived next door to Allan Lamb, the cricketer, and we used to see him and his family a lot when I was younger. He was lovely, and so down to earth.

I wish 'celebs' would remember how much the fans do to keep them in the public eye, it wouldn't hurt to be polite.

Reminds me of when George from Seinfeld cut up his Mars Bar with a knife into little pieces before eating it!

Met Cheryl Cole and she was not at all interested in being nice to people, or speaking to anyone was really surprised tbh.

However I have met Alexandra Burke and she was lovely standing for pictures and speaking to everyone for a good while making sure everyone had pictures and autographs, just lovely.

i meet vanessa once and she was nothing but nice to my mum and i very lovely lady

In lieu of my first counselling session due Keavy Lynch's abuse on twitter making me depressed, I decided on some catharsis.

https://twitter.com/TattyTeddy100/st...246976/photo/1

I have heard so many stories about her being horrible. Not that you can believe everything you read, but still. So many people who have met her say she is unpleasant.

How reliable is it though? - I don't have a particularly high opinion of Lennon as a human being but it's well known the dead can't sue and people will write any old gubbins about them as a result. I read a particularly vindictive biography of a dead musician I admired much of which was debunked without refering to the vindictive biographer by a later biographer who had much more access to said musicians' inner circle but whose debunking of the said musicians' own myths said he wasn't writing without being afraid to critise.

I've studied history and you always have to bear in mind the possible biases and agendas of whoever writes about subject - always!!

Shirley crabtree springs to mind.

Stories please!

You're an outright liar. :sleep:

Superb. Old posts are often hilarious.

Keith Lemon is the other way round - very humble off camera, but obnoxious when he's grooming his victims on tv.

Alan Hansen and Arsenal midfielder Mikel Arteta (met him during his time at Everton), both nice guys, came across as down to Earth fellas.

On a side note, I wouldn't judge a person on how they react to an autograph hunter.

this

whilst i hate to see people declined autographs imagine being a superstar like beyonce, ronaldo, messi, johhnny depp etc and being asked to sign autographs nearly every hour. it would get tedious and i would refuse to myself

There's a lot of truth in that. Once of my acquaintances is a sports star who achieved greatness a few years ago. We're not big friends but I see him from time to time, and we've been on nights out. He's quite a quiet man in real life and he was reasonable in signing autographs and posing for pictures while we were out, however, when it's become excessive, he has turned people away. I don't have a problem with that.

Dickie Bird punched my gran's cat.

Mentioned the chat about Cilla Black being horrible to my dad who told me he went into a restaurant just as Ian Paisley was leaving.

He asked the waitress what he was like and she said he was really nice, unlike Cilla Black the previous day

Barbara Knox from Corrie. The woman is so up herself and snooty...the opposite of lovely "Rita".

Russel Brand is absolutely lovely. Happy to talk to anybody, sign lots of autographs and take lots of photos, I also got to slap his arse and he proceeded to put it in my face. Really funny guy.

Lulu is very difficult. She is under the elusion she is some A List diva. I once worked at the job centre but I have never come across anyone as difficult as her. Not that Lulu was in the job centre, my meeting with her happened elsewhere lol

I knew someone once who'd been a wrestler back in the day (yes, bizarre, I know). He alleged our Shirl was horrible and a wife-beater (apparently), but that the "villainous" Giant Haystacks was the loveliest man you could hope to meet.

Sadly, I know no more than that...