A friend of mine used to work as a receptionist for ITV and obviously has met a lot of celebs. Most of them have been completely normal folk - a handful of them have treated her like a piece of poop, but one stood out as being lovely...

She was on a break one day and was walking down one of the many long, long corridors. There was a man behind her and every door she went through, she held it open for him. He said thank you each time and then they started giggling because it became so repetitive and awkward. As the corridor was quite long, they got chit chatting and having a laugh and a joke. Although he was very famous, he was down to earth and lovely. He asked about her job and if she liked it etc. She made a comment about being "only a receptionist" but he stopped her and told her that no job is lesser than another - if you do a job well, you will succeed and be happy in life.

As they parted ways, the man said to my friend that it was a pleasure meeting her. She blushed a little bit and they said goodbye.

Ever since that day (until the time she left), this guy would say hello to her by name (she was sat on reception) and at Christmas, he always included a card for her.

That man? Mr Simon Cowell.

You wouldn't think it would you from him. That's class

I think if any celeb was rude to me they'd get a mouthful. I always remember a quote 'admire the art not the artist '

Who used to be... a receptionist for a record company.
Good on him.

I stumbled on this site/thread looking for stories about Brian Clough and thought I'd post this.

Way back in 1995, I met a girl who said she had a date with a guy, who had been a big soap star in the eighties. No real names, to protect the innocent, but he played a Jack the lad type, TV hard man on a popular evening show based in Granadaland. Said girl and I, had a fling lasting a few months which ended in a mature and amicable manner and we remained good friends. Anyway, on a rainy November evening a few weeks after we split, the phone rang. Here is how the conversation went:

Me: Hello
Jack the lad type: Is this Jordan?
Me: Yes
Jack: It's Jack
Me: Who?
Jack: Jack the lad
Me: errr.......(trying to recall who he was) Right...OK....
Long dramatic silence.
Jack: I believe we have a mutual friend.
Me: That's nice mate. Is there anything else?
The wannabe gangster, knit wit, then started rambling on about wishing a friend of an acquaintance a happy Christmas on his behalf. I just laughed and said that I had never met the person and had no plans to do so. Finished by saying 'This ain't normal mate!' and hanging up. That's when the calls from the taxi firms confirming my non-existent bookings started.

I think he had hoped that I would go off on one, or panic about how he got my number because I wasn't in the directory and only recently had the phone installed. It was obvious that he had hooked up with my ex and lifted it from her address book. Called her months later to see how she was, he answered, shouted "it's that ****ing Jordan!" and threw the receiver across the room. Total twunt, would not even take the time to stamp his face out, if it was on fire.

Anyone met Brian?

Son of 'Poison Ivy'? No. He sounds a right plonker.

That's instantly who I thought of!

EDIT - just had an idea - was this idiot an 'art' at being a 'wolf' in sheep's clothing?

I would. There have been quite a few posts here about nice he is but I think I know why you would find it surprising.

Hmm, his wasn't really a hard man character. Am thinking maybe son of Swamp Duck.

Possible I suppose, but didn't they make appearances well into the 1990s?

True. I just don't remember his character being a hard man type but son of Swamp Duck was. However I would believe it of Poison Ivy's son.

That doesn't surprise me at all. A family friend works regularly with him and his team and says he treats his staff incredibly well and is always really interested in how their families are. His wife had to have an operation and he gifted her a huge beautiful bouquet of flowers and a Michael Kors bag on her recovery.

The same family friend worked on something with Warwick Davis in and said he is a very attention seeking man full of his own self importance who is very short tempered.

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Originally Posted by dekaf
Son of 'Poison Ivy'? No. He sounds a right plonker.
That's instantly who I thought of!

EDIT - just had an idea - was this idiot an 'art' at being a 'wolf' in sheep's clothing?

I've never been a regular viewer, it took me two Google searches to find out who Poison Ivy was Dekaf? It's not him though, sorry.

Poison Ivy's son always had an arrogant air about him off-screen back then I thought.

I think I might have to find a list of 1980s Corrie characters tomorrow!

Blast! The only other one I can think of is who Ella Nut suggested. He certainly played the 'hard man'.

That's sweet but he still helped to destroy music.

And Saturday night tv!

Dated in 95, he wasn't in it at the time.

I've never heard anything bad about him from fans tbh. He comes across as quite nasty and rude on TV, but he seems a lot nicer off camera.

Exactly!

So no dice!

Isn't that just his TV persona though?

Mmm. I'll keep on scratching my head about this!!

Even if it is, that won't help the people he insults. I watched some old auditions on Youtube the other day and he called one of the contestants fat for no reason at all. It's a good job he doesn't act like that all the time.

His TV shows are so well-known and follow the same (scripted?) format I think anyone who goes on ought to know what they are letting themselves in for.

Not that that excuses rude comments though

Pun intended?