Ed Balls!!

As it happens he was there also.

Met the Bercows a few weeks back, the thing Sally is the ugliest speakers wife in history, her face made me boak, the speaker was rude and demanding and needs to realise that pissing of the people serving him coffee is never a good idea.

I see quite a few lying corrupt scumbags/mp's on the trains these days.

It's a shame to hear this about Mart Pellow. I once waited for someone else at the stage door of Chicago and I saw him sign and pose for photos with fans, looking very happy to do so.

In fairness to Terry Wogan, he gets paid a nominal amount for doing CIN because it's against the Equity (actors/TV performers' union) rules for people who work in the industry to do TV broadcasts without being paid.

I know...after seeing him on the tv, I thought that he would be so nice...dont know if we had caught him on a bad day but he was just so rude and obnoxious....nothing to what I was expecting. i think it was the fact that he literally PUSHED this girl out of his way that really shocked me....I called a friend who I knew used to be a HUGE fan of Marti and told her about my experience and she replied that she had gone off of him aaaaaaages ago because she had also met him and he was off his face on something and could barely string a sentence together....she was brokenhearted.
Sometimes its great when you meet your idol....I always liked Simon King and Springwatch so was delighted when he turned out to be as affable and charming in person as he was on tv....but when that "star" shatters that ideal that you have of them its quite hard to forgive and say "Oh...maybe they just had a bad day"....you end up questioning the reason why you liked them so much in the first place and start to look for "clues" in interviews etc to confirm that yes...they ARE horrible....must say that I dont think I would like to meet Marti again....it was my own fault for sticking him on a pedestal for 16 years and ignoring folk who HAD met him and had horror stories...ah well...ya live and learn!

That doesn't surprise me. A mate of mine works in theatre he has hold he heard amongst the theatre workers grapevine that Steele alienated the stage crew so much on the production of "Singing in the Rain" he was starring in that the rain tank had to be locked to stop them deliberately peeing in it. Michaela Stratchan on the other hand was adopted as everyone's little sister and the crew wouldn't tolerate a bad word being said about her.

Most of my celeb knowledge is second hand and from my friend but Tori Amos played our student hall bar just after her first hit single (they got very lucky in signing her to do so just before she came famous) and she happily signed autographs for ages afterwards.

Had a few celeb encounters with work. Most tend to be absolutely lovely, only ever had a bad experience with a couple of them. Rhys Ifans held the door open for me at the National. Said thank you and then realised it was Rhys Ifans. Met Derren Brown on my 18th birthday and he was absolutely lovely. Met Rob Lowe a couple years ago and he was also very nice. Most recent encounter was when I met Benedict Cumberbatch in Cheltenham. Absolute delight, and we had a long chat about poetry as he was doing a poetry reading there. His parents are also a delight.

The most difficult encounter I had was with Will Self. Pretentious and simply arrogant.

[quote=katmobile;62029112]That doesn't surprise me. A mate of mine works in theatre he has hold he heard amongst the theatre workers grapevine that Steele alienated the stage crew so much on the production of "Singing in the Rain" he was starring in that the rain tank had to be locked to stop them deliberately peeing in it.

Got to tell my mum about that....she will crack up laughing and say that he deserves it, the miserable ****!

Nigella Lawson was horrible. I had to the odious task (along with 2 others) of tying her into a corset before filming when I worked on her TV show. Not a nice person at all, so full of herself!

Are you sure he didn't hypnotize you into thinking that?

He could have accepted a minimal amount - say a tenner - and given the rest to CIN.

Lily Allen is surprisingly amicable, according to a friend of mine.

My brother J bumped into Andrew Lloyd- Webber -literally- in the gent's toilet at Wembley Stadium. ALW was coming through the door as J was going out and they bashed into each other, J said he was very charming and apologised, but my brother recognised him instantly and was dumbstruck!

Absolutely. I can't believe nothing happened when this was leaked, Wogan must have cursed the day that happened!

I hope he enjoys spending the money he gets from the event... buying a few new wigs maybe?

Shame.

I've read that the people in the village she went to live in, who initially regarded the idea of a pop star in their midst with horror, absolutely love her. But that's not first hand knowledge.

Lily Allen's lovely. I met her about 2 years ago whilst shopping up London. She was so down to earth.

I met Julian last week in Glasgow and he was lovely.
I was struck by how quiet and shy he was.

I met Ade Edmondson years ago after a Bottom Live show and he was brilliant. Stood for ages chatting, signing autographs and posing for photos.

Ironically it was Rik Mayall who avoided the fans by sneaking out a different door!

Met Steve Vai on Saturday after his concert. One of the nicest guys ever

Didnt think MPs were meant to travel first class any more - interesting !

I was a researcher on Wogan in the late 80's, nice guy, never had any issues at all

I can't imagine why anyone would care

Years ago at the height of his fame Timmy Mallet had been a special guest at a fete I went to with my young children.
But he was quite sharp tongued to anyone who went up to him and asked him for his autograph.
But to be fair to him he was a bit swamped with eager kids going up to him and I suppose all celebs, like the rest of us, are entitled to having a bad day.

Just remembered another Marti Pellow story. A friend of mine who lives in Belgium now went to see him concert he did there back in the 80s or maybe early 90s. Anyway, thinking the audience couldn't speak English she said he was very insulting to them. After that day, she was no longer a fan.