Ian Paisley is a nice guy in real life. I don't like his political manner (historically, anyway, but he's mellowed with age), some of his ideas are a bit loopy, but he's a kind man with a brilliant sense of humour.

I don't know about the wife beating but Big Daddy was hated by most of the wrestling fraternity. And yes, Giant Haystacks was a really nice guy.

I heard that too, but I think that my source wasn't as close to the action (as 'twere) as yours was. He said that Haystacks resented the fact that he was portrayed as the arch-Heel, while Daddy was beloved by all children, but since it provided him with a reasonably good standard of living he just gritted his teeth and got on with it.

I know a Catholic family who used to live in his constituency. They have said on several occasions that, although Paisley was a crackpot and a hate-monger in the large, when it came to being a constituency MP he was incredibly hard-working and scrupulously fair and generous to all his constituents, irrespective of their religion or political persuasion.

Same family also say that Paisley Jr is, on the other hand, urbane, polite and reasonable on the surface - and a nasty piece of work underneath.

This ^^^ reads like a spoof letter in Viz. What has the Job Centre got to do with this reminiscence?

The poster was just saying that working in a Job Centre, you can come across some difficult characters but Lulu was worse than any of them. I agree, it's a bit of a dodgy connection but I get where they're coming from. Heard plenty of similar descriptions of her.

Re: Lulu. Many years ago she was in the same restaurant as my Nan and Aunt and she was as nice as pie to them. Seems like they caught her on a (very rare) good day!!! She chatted away to them and had their picture taken with them.

Sorry - I know that's completely different to what everyone else has put here - but at least I'm not singing the praises of Cilla

If there is a camera in sight she is lovely, Other than that up herself, Camera she will hug and talk to her fans, No camera she looks right through them

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i see people say things like ''he or she is nasty for not signing''. Of course it sucks for the person who got declined but no matter how highly paid and famous a person is they deserve a private life and i can only imagine if I'm a restaurant and fans keep coming up to me whilst I'm eating for pictures etc...i will politely decline after a while.

Some stars though are great with signing for fans. Will Smith I've read is really good and hardly ever declines and Johnny Depp as well.

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I saw her when I went to recording in White City she came out with her hair in curlers and was wonderful and chatty found her very nice

Celebs who act nice in the spotlight but are horrible in person.

All of them! Or 99% of them anyway.

And 99% of us would be the exact same in their position (or would be in danger of being judged that way given the constant interruptions into our lives and having people opine about every little detail of our life no matter how private).

Fame wouldn't be for me.

I met Carl once too and he was lovely, and very handsome in real life!

Met Robbie once years ago and he was lovely.
Met Ryan Giggs on a flight once, we swapped tales of our mutual fear of flying, poor bloke hates it as much as I do.
Met George Michael in London in the early 90s and he was so lovely, really chatty and friendly, and funny.
Met Marc Almond who was a really sweet guy, seemed shy but lovely.
Met Ian McCulloch and Pete de Freitas from Echo and the Bunnymen, Pete was much friendlier than grumpy Mac...
Had a flirty moment with Adam Ant back in the day, he called me a 'naughty girl' - he was soooo handsome when he was young.

She seems very up-herself on camera as well. I don't like her at all.

I thought that was more too do with his corporatism. Ive not heard stories about him. Unlike Peter Kay.

Giggs cheated on his poor wife with multiple women including his own brother's wife and then tried to sue the newspaper who exposed him. He is an absolute monster, I wouldn't feel sorry for him.

My ex, who comes from Wallsend, told me Alan Shearer isn't such a nice guy in real life. He was having his house renovated and wouldn't even let the builders use a drinks machine in hot weather and is notorious for being mean, letting the PA buy an evening paper for him is one well known story.

According to my mother, Rolf Harris.

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I don't think the world is actually that binary - I don't feel sorry for him but I can accept that someone who is nice to his fans is also perhaps not quite so much of a gentleman in other areas of his life. Or it could be that he is savy enough to be nice to his fans and someone who uses his charm on everyone for less innocent purposes - i.e a bit of a Mr Whickham type. Maybe he's a nice guy in some aspects and has problems saying no (and I am not implying that this means his paramours are the ones that start things - the no could be the no he needs to say to that part of his id).

Yeah, what he did or didn't do to his wife is kind of irrelevant to what I was saying, he was a pleasant enough bloke who was very sympathetic to me when I was bloody terrified on take off. He and his wife were sitting in front of us, and he turned around to talk to me when he realised how nervous I was, telling me how he hates flying too. He sat with the blind down and ear phones in watching something on his laptop for the rest of the flight. He seemed a friendly enough bloke tbh, and his private life is not my business.

Pleasantly surprised to read that.

I guess the general public only ever saw him being obnoxious back in the day..........although we did see him mellow somewhat in later years.

Not surprised about his son though.

Not surprised by that. Even as a GA fan, I have heard countless stories that she is stuck up. However it is the so called the least GA fan faves Nicola and Nadine who were constantly sweet and attentive to fans.

I've heard The Saturdays are really down to earth,friendly and lovely women