Just listening to BBC Essex with Gerald Main talking his about his 35 years in radio and discussing celebrities he had met during his radio career.
He mentioned Cilla Black.
She came into the studio all grumpy and moody, not very friendly,but as soon as the red light came on - the mic was live, she completely changed "Hi it's Cilla here".

Yet more confirmation she is two faced.

Watching a 1980's edition of Top Of The Pops recently reminded me that a work colleague at that time had met BA Robertson and found him to an absolute top man. Very friendly and welcoming with time to chat and have a few laughs.

I've met most of these at conventions so may well not be the way they are in real life:

Patrick Stewart - nice, polite but didn't talk much. Heard he doesn't like signing events and he was obviously popular so had a lot to get through!

Scott Bakula (Quantum Leap) - lovely, asked how I was and chatted even though I wasn't getting anything signed myself (I was queueing with my partner).

Benedict Cumberbatch - quite a quick signing and photo session as there were lots of people to get through but he made time to say 'hello, how are you' etc and gave me a hug.

Matt Smith - lovely, chatted a bit, asked if we were having a good time.

Bernard Cribbins - he was brilliant, really funny - said he was pleased I was getting a Wombles picture signed and talked for a while about who our favourite Wombles were.

Dylan Moran - met him outside a gig with a bunch of annoying teenage mates who ran up to him and 'tagged' him. He humoured us and spoke to us even though I'm not sure I'd have blamed him for telling us to piss off!

I met Sam Heughan (Jamie Fraser from Outlander) a few years back at the Royal Exchange in Manchester. He was very nice but seemed shy at the time. It was on the same occasion that I met Will Young.

Only met two bad celebs:

Vic Reeves at the Hop Farm in Kent. Stuck up and rude.
Alan Titchmarsh outside Morrisons on the Isle Of Wight. Very rude and pushed in the queue stating 'don't you know who i am?'

Geoffrey Hughes we met on the IOW Ferry. Sat with us on an empty boat all the way over telling us stories of Corrie, etc. Great guy sadly no longer with us


I have had a load of phone conversations with celebs in a previous job. While i was warn some were awful, i had no problem with them:

Keith Allen (he was drunk, it was 9am, he thought i was trying to take out his daughter)
Lily Allen (amazing)
Michael Winner (he was polite and chatty)
Janet Street Porter
Max Beasley (Very funny guy)
Gary Lineker (Polite and funny)
John Terry (he was training on the pitch at the time but was thankful for the rest!)

There are many more, but some stand out more than others.

Met the Chuckle Brothers in a hotel lobby in Birmingham and they were more than happy to pose for a picture. I don't have the pic any more as the only camera we had was a phone camera years before phone cameras were any good.

Met Nicola Bryant (Doctor Who's Peri - companion to the 6th Doctor) who was very pleasant as was Red Dwarf's Norman Lovett who I met at the same event.

There's at least one other story somewhere on this thread/site about him being on a plane and using this exact phrase. Seems like a right cretinous individual.

Geoffrey Hughes - bless him and yes, very sad he has gone.

Yes, he was a real gentleman. I always feel a bit sad that he is pretty much only remembered for his roles in Coronation Street and Keeping Up Appearances, when he had such a wide repertoire of roles on stage and tv.

That said, I saw an interview recently on Youtube where this was put to him, and his response was basically as long as people enjoyed watching him act, he didn't care whether they remembered him for Corrie or Shakespeare.

Talk of the IOW ferry reminds me that I met David Icke on the Red Funnel ferry. He sat next to me and bought me a cup of tea! It was when he was LibDem before his conversion! Nice man!

I also met Alan Titchmarsh in M&S in Newport and he was fine.

As a promoter I've met both Alan Carr and Paddy Mcguiness.

Alan was backstage at an event and a nice enough guy, not quite down to earth but he was ok.

Paddy Mcguiness was brilliant. Backstage he was chatty and one of the lads. After the event he came along to the "kebab shop" before going back to the hotel. Excellent guy who we still keep in touch

I've also met him quite a few times in a professional capacity where I'm paying him (student night promoter) and I have always had a completely different experience with him, always been totally fine

Surely he could have just walked across!

Nick Jonas is alright, nice guy, a lot hotter in person.

Maisie Williams was having an off day I think.

Nick Luck, amazing, hadn't heard of him before, but such a good sense of humour

Russell Brand was Russell Brand, went through the audience taking photos with anyone who asked much to the staffs disgust

......confirmed.

To be honest when I've seen her interviewed she does seem to be quite precocious so it wouldn't surprise if that was her normal behaviour.

I spoke to him for quite a while after a show he did in Chorley (the year before last). He's great! Pleased to talk to anyone at all after his show. Going to see him soon in Southport too. Can't wait!

Election time is coming up and I wonder how many people have met the major politicians. I did speak to someone who saw Harriet Harman at a Labour conference and she didn't seem comfortable with the hoi polloi.

I used to work in hospital radio in the eighties and the chairman met Savile in Bournemouth and said he was totally false, spoke in superlatives and seemed totally bored when he attended an open day. Also he said DLT was a complete big head and a bore when he met him.

Neither of these surprise me.

Savile, apart from the recent revelations, always struck me as a boring egomaniac. I can remember when he used to host TOTP, and he thought he was bigger than the groups he was introducing, same as DLT used to think he was bigger than the show.
OTOH Carl met Peter Powell( seventies and eighties Radio 1) and said he was a complete gentleman. I met PP at a Radio 1 roadshow and found him a totally down to earth man who was interested in what I did and what bands I liked.

I met John Lennon and Yoko Ono when they were doing their bed-in/peace thing in Montreal in 1969.

I was fourteen at the time. A couple of friends of mine and I happily ditched school that day to go downtown to the Queen Elizabeth Hotel to wait to meet him.

We were die-hard Beatles fans, and our favourite Beatle was John.

When we met him, though, it was like a slap in the face, a real wake up call, because he couldn't have been more of a jerk. He was terrible, insulting everyone...talk about his "peace". I later learned that he was into snorting heroin at the time. I was a naive fourteen year old and didn't know squat about that.

He was a dick, but oddly, Yoko Ono was very nice. She gets a lot of flak, but she was very pleasant to us, spoke with us and smiled. She was a gracious woman.

There are pics on a Canadian site of our meeting with John Lennon and Yoko if anyone wants to see. Let me know and I will post the link for you.

Back in 1975, a boyfriend and I were sitting at our local watering hole, seedy rock and roll dive, and Art Garfunkel was sitting at the table right next to ours. The tables in this joint were pushed together. He was sitting right next to me. He was there as a band that he was promoting was playing that night. He was very quiet, and focused on the band. During breaks, he just stared straight ahead.

One girl recognized him and approached him. She had a piece of paper in her claw, and a pen. "Can I get your autograph for my mother?" she asked him.

I thought it was a hoot! Her mother! Since Art Garfunkel was so quiet, I didn't know how he'd react, but he was very nice and signed the girl's paper and addressed it to her mother.

When the boyfriend and I left the club, perched on the boyfriend's motorcycle, almost ready to roar away into the night, I looked at the club's entrance/balcony as we were ready to go. Art Garfunkel was standing there, and caught my eye, and gave me a huge smile and waved at me.

Oh! I went to the Festival of Festivals in Toronto in '78, I think it was, and I got to dance with Donald Sutherland. Some might laugh, but trust me, this man looks so much better in real life than he does on film. He was wearing a black velvet jacket that evening, he's very tall, and his hair! It was shiny light blond. He looked fantastic.

We had to buy tickets to get booze. I drank a couple of screwdrivers, and my friend (same friend who was with me when I met Lennon) bet me that I wouldn't have the guts to ask Donald Sutherland to dance with me. Of course, I was up for the challenge, but I made my friend stake over a couple of her booze tickets lest I humiliated myself.

I drank another screwdriver and approached Donald Sutherland and asked him to dance. What a nice man, a perfect gentleman. He took me into his arms and we danced together -- to this day I can't remember the song we danced to. He was super. He asked me what work I'd done lately, as if I was in films. I don't know if he was pulling my leg or not. "I work at Traveler's Insurance company as a secretary!" I babbled nervously. He laughed in a mellow way.

Really nice man.

Sounds like you nearly pulled!!

Get your mind out of the gutter, you!

It was a nice dance!

It could have been worse... Travis could have done one of his rants instead. A very strange man indeed.

Goodness me, yes! DLT's self righteous puttings of the world to rights, which often lasted five minutes or more! Remember them well! He just seemed take himself so seriously and get so worked up, when he did that.