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Nice and not very nice celebrities who you have met (merged)
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Glenn A
19-04-2015
Originally Posted by 80sfan:
“It could have been worse... Travis could have done one of his rants instead. A very strange man indeed.”

A grade A bore, not very pleasant, like a few of the Radio 1 guys in those days, but not all of them, of course, I did meet Mark Page the same day I met Peter Powell, a totally down to earth man from Stockton who seemed pleased to be on home turf and happy to sign autographs.
I remember a family friend who was in the RAF in the seventies at Leeming, which was where the pilots do their basic flight training, and he said Prince Andrew was a complete and utter snob who looked down on the ranks and only associated with the officers. He did meet Charlie in the late seventies on a visit and said he took time to talk to everyone from the squadron leader to the LACs on the base.
Westy2
19-04-2015
Originally Posted by 80sfan:
“It could have been worse... Travis could have done one of his rants instead. A very strange man indeed.”

Must admit when I saw DLT at a Classic Gold event in West Bromwich nearly 20 years ago, he seemed pleasant enough on stage, but the only thing that springs to mind nowadays is that the station promotional pens they were giving out didn't work!
davelovesleeds
20-04-2015
Originally Posted by Glenn A:
“ 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.”

A former colleague of mine also met Peter Powell at a Radio 1 Roadshow and said pretty much the same.
Really down to earth and plenty of time to talk about music
montyburns56
21-04-2015
Originally Posted by Ann_Tenna:
“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.
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I've never met Mr Lennon, but everything I've ever heard about him has suggested that he was rather unpleasant person.
Heston Veston
22-04-2015
Originally Posted by montyburns56:
“I've never met Mr Lennon, but everything I've ever heard about him has suggested that he was rather unpleasant person.”

He had a cynical, snarky attitude, possibly an artificial construct to balance against Paul's 'Mr Nice' persona, but with some truth behind it. This resulted in some of the mean-spirited behaviour mentioned, but I think he mellowed a bit in his later years (Yoko's influence?), to the point where he would happily stop and chat to a fan and sign their copy of his album.
MoJo-Girl
22-04-2015
Unfortunately, I was the poor soul who had to endure Titchmarsh on a plane. A truly awful man and I wouldn't wish him on my worst enemy!
Ann_Tenna
22-04-2015
Originally Posted by Heston Veston:
“He had a cynical, snarky attitude, possibly an artificial construct to balance against Paul's 'Mr Nice' persona, but with some truth behind it. This resulted in some of the mean-spirited behaviour mentioned, but I think he mellowed a bit in his later years (Yoko's influence?), to the point where he would happily stop and chat to a fan and sign their copy of his album.”

That's possible.

He signed an album cover for Mark Chapman, though, didn't he? Still, Chapman was a lunatic. I often wonder if John Lennon said something or acted in a certain way that set Chapman off.
pmw_hewitt
22-04-2015
I think you may very well win this thread, Ann_Tenna - not only did you meet someone very famous but also whilst they were, in a sense, making history. In Lennon's defence he was off his face on Lord-knows-what at the time. I don't think he was a particularly bad person, but he was that unpleasant mix of self-important and self-hating.

Yoko, I've never actually heard a bad word about from anyone that has met her on a superficial level. Again, I don't believe the tripe about Yoko being a bad person at all. As I said earlier in this thread, I did meet her earlier this year after she hosted a talk about her new book. She politely declined photos and autographs, as it was getting late and she wanted to rush off to get some dinner, but the most surprising thing about Yoko is how shy, unsure and softly spoken she is in person, completely the opposite of what you'd expect from the media-fuelled "dragon lady" persona.

It's well known that Yoko is fiercely intelligent, manipulative when she wants to be, and has a marked talent for money-making and negotiation, but she has never come across as a particularly confident, extroverted person. She was also wonderfully self-deprecating both times I've seen her.

Sorry to ramble, but I find her an endlessly fascinating person - and I like her music, too. She's massively overdue a reappraisal.
sheila_p
22-04-2015
I met Ken Hom on Monday. He was a delight.
The Prumeister
22-04-2015
Originally Posted by sheila_p:
“I met Ken Hom on Monday. He was a delight.”



I am so jel - I absolutely adore Ken Hom. A wonderful cook and a lovely, humble Man.
sheila_p
22-04-2015
That's exactly how we found him, Pru. Gorgeous man, very humble, very accommodating and he cooked especially for my friend who is a veggie.

Can't say enough about him that is good

He's on a promotional tour at the moment. Look out.
lewismacf
22-04-2015
Ant and Dec are two of the nicest guys you could meet
The Prumeister
23-04-2015
Originally Posted by sheila_p:
“That's exactly how we found him, Pru. Gorgeous man, very humble, very accommodating and he cooked especially for my friend who is a veggie.

Can't say enough about him that is good

He's on a promotional tour at the moment. Look out.”



Aww, that's lovely to hear - that he's the same in real life I mean.

Oooh, will do; we have a lot of his recipe books at home. Would love to meet him!
MrTheD
23-04-2015
Originally Posted by pmw_hewitt:
“I think you may very well win this thread, Ann_Tenna - not only did you meet someone very famous but also whilst they were, in a sense, making history. In Lennon's defence he was off his face on Lord-knows-what at the time. I don't think he was a particularly bad person, but he was that unpleasant mix of self-important and self-hating.

Yoko, I've never actually heard a bad word about from anyone that has met her on a superficial level. Again, I don't believe the tripe about Yoko being a bad person at all. As I said earlier in this thread, I did meet her earlier this year after she hosted a talk about her new book. She politely declined photos and autographs, as it was getting late and she wanted to rush off to get some dinner, but the most surprising thing about Yoko is how shy, unsure and softly spoken she is in person, completely the opposite of what you'd expect from the media-fuelled "dragon lady" persona.

It's well known that Yoko is fiercely intelligent, manipulative when she wants to be, and has a marked talent for money-making and negotiation, but she has never come across as a particularly confident, extroverted person. She was also wonderfully self-deprecating both times I've seen her.

Sorry to ramble, but I find her an endlessly fascinating person - and I like her music, too. She's massively overdue a reappraisal.”

My sister, for years, has done music lessons at Dovedale primary school in Liverpool (the primary school which Lennon and Harrison attended. In that time Yoko Ono has been incredibly generous with the school in terms of both with time and money,

She has visited the school on multiple occasions to open various things or for special celebrations, at one stage donated £25,000 to the school and also rather brilliantly donated a huge 'walking piano' to the school (I've heard that it is the actual one used in the movie Big, but I can't be certain of this).

Considering she met John once he had moved to London and has no reason to feel any ties to his childhood home and school, it is incredible that she has always kept it in her thoughts and helped when possible.

I agree, a re-appraisal of her is definitely overdue, and the above should go some way to showing the class of the lady.
kazmartins
23-04-2015
Originally Posted by MrTheD:
“My sister, for years, has done music lessons at Dovedale primary school in Liverpool (the primary school which Lennon and Harrison attended. In that time Yoko Ono has been incredibly generous with the school in terms of both with time and money,

She has visited the school on multiple occasions to open various things or for special celebrations, at one stage donated £25,000 to the school and also rather brilliantly donated a huge 'walking piano' to the school (I've heard that it is the actual one used in the movie Big, but I can't be certain of this).

Considering she met John once he had moved to London and has no reason to feel any ties to his childhood home and school, it is incredible that she has always kept it in her thoughts and helped when possible.

I agree, a re-appraisal of her is definitely overdue, and the above should go some way to showing the class of the lady.”

What a lovely thing for her to do - as you say she has no direct affiliation with the school, so this is very good of her. Maybe they should do an award in HER name for the most musical child in the school
gigalo
23-04-2015
Jessie J... Didn't want to be recognised, all while shouting this fact at the top of her lungs for all to hear

Russell Brand...Never had an opinion on him, though never understood the lothario tag he was given in his early days. That all changed as he was charming and all round a decent guy

John Cleese... Very chirpy and conversed briefly

There's more due to my line of work but can't think of them all in one go
dodrade
24-04-2015
Has anyone met Keanu Reeves? He came across very well on a radio 5 live interview a couple of weeks ago.
Poppy99_Poppy
24-04-2015
Originally Posted by gigalo:
“Jessie J... Didn't want to be recognised, all while shouting this fact at the top of her lungs for all to hear

Russell Brand...Never had an opinion on him, though never understood the lothario tag he was given in his early days. That all changed as he was charming and all round a decent guy

John Cleese... Very chirpy and conversed briefly

There's more due to my line of work but can't think of them all in one go ”

Jessie J is the very embodiment of the phrase that empty vessels make the most noise.
Eddie Badger
24-04-2015
Originally Posted by dodrade:
“Has anyone met Keanu Reeves? He came across very well on a radio 5 live interview a couple of weeks ago.”

He visited a theatre in my town a few years back. People said he was very modest, polite and courteous to everyone.
angelafisher
24-04-2015
Originally Posted by Ann_Tenna:
“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.”

What a fantastic memory! Lovely.
Julia_Webb
24-04-2015
Originally Posted by Ann_Tenna:
“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.”

I thin he's pretty gorgeous full stop!! Think it's the eyes and the voice. His son isn't bad either
Beautiful_Harv
24-04-2015
Originally Posted by Poppy99_Poppy:
“Jessie J is the very embodiment of the phrase that empty vessels make the most noise.”

that's brilliant
tigragirl
24-04-2015
Originally Posted by Ella Nut:
“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.”

I must admit if he said that anywhere within my earshot my response would be to turn to him and say " yes, I can see you are a very rude, small man who probably has a very small penis" and turn back away again.
mintchocchip
25-04-2015
Originally Posted by Julia_Webb:
“I thin he's pretty gorgeous full stop!! Think it's the eyes and the voice. His son isn't bad either ”

I have a bit of a crush on him too. Even in the Hunger Games!

He's got this magnetism to him.
Radiomaniac
25-04-2015
Seriously, Ann_Tenna, you have a fantastic way of telling a story - I was well and truly lost in your descriptions, very enjoyable.

And Donald Sutherland - I've always thought he was gorgeous, lucky you!
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