Creepy and disturbing I'd say.

Certainly when offending, yes.

In everyday life, many may seem normal and charming.

Agreed but not necessarily unkind.

Well...put it this way, lots of the fans in the audience traveled very far to see Taylor. The TV studio was in London and some traveled from Scotland (one girl was even from Paris and got a Eurostar here and planned her entire UK trip around attending this show).

I just feel like the fact that she couldn't spare a few mins to speak to the audience, like Jordin did, just goes to show how fake her whole act is when she is in front of the camera. And extremely, extremely vain of her to keep checking her make up every second of the bloody day.

A lot of audience members, after leaving the show, was quitedumbfounded, especially the far travelers. I mean, we were all expecting some kind of interaction with the guests of the show as it was an intimate small set. But anyway, it did completely change my view of her and now I feel she is extremely strategic about her public image. Whilst Jordin Sparks on the other hand, surprised us all with her low-key maintenance.

Yes that does seem very unfair I agree with you. I just think many of these celebrities are so self obsessed and live in a world where they are surrounded by "yes men" that they forget about the real world.

yes and people think he's really genuine but he just isn't

Hands up those who ever saw the words "rolf, harris, creepy, disturbing" in the same sentence before June 2014?

OH works for the prison service, and says that the frightening thing about sex offenders is how normal they are. The creepy, weird offenders are usually in for drugs-related offences. By and large, the rapists and child abusers are just your average-sort-of-bloke-down-the-pub.

I worked beside one and apart from constantly boring people about his church activities he seemed normal. Came as a big shock when he didn't turn up for work one day and then we saw the local papers.

I guess that means the "charming" Ted Bundy was framed.

I met Pixie Lott for a second time today, the first time was a pre-arranged meet and greet at a gig, but this was just a case of me waiting by a stage door and being lucky. I was delighted that she was just as lovely as the first time despite not being 'on the job', and she even remembered my name which came as quite a shock!! I know she gets a fair bit of stick but I think she's a shining example of someone famous who talks to fans as equals and is very grounded.

Judging solely from book signings, have "met" Henry Winkler and Michael Palin and both were, as you'd expect, extremely nice. The store staff said Henry in particular had been before and was exceptionally pleasant. Only other minor experience (and this really IS minor) was when i was eating lunch near a pub in Manchester city centre. The actor who played Gary Mallett from corrie was having a drink with someone in a beer garden and i spotted a man with a telephoto lens lurking nearby. i thought it would be a kind act to tip Gary off only to be greeted (before i had had chance to explain why i was approaching him) with words to the effect "i wondered how long it would take before you plucked up courage". i stuck to my guns and told him why i was talking to him but gave him a withering look and turned on my heels as soon as i had done so. a very minor victory in my book against a very minor celeb but i still enjoy having had the moral high ground.

Well done you!

I had to google this bloke to find out who he is. What an arse! Or was it a VERY long time ago? Nobody would recognise him or be bothered about him!

Did you give him the chance to finish what he was saying though? I wouldn't say what he'd said was 'not nice'. From that I'd have thought he was probably flattered that you'd 'recognised' him.

I was talking to a retired pub landlord last night who used to own a pub in Preston and Jimmy Greaves and Ian St John stopped on the way back from Scotland for a meal. Turns out they were as amusing and friendly in real life as they were on television and constantly ripped each other to shreds for the amusement of the regulatrs. Nice to hear a good story about the late Greavsie.

Soap actors, from what I've heard on here, can be nasty in real life. I've heard Anthony Cotton can be a jumped up diva. However, once they leave Coronation St, most are never heard of again as they are one trick ponies.

Jimmy Greaves is still alive after suffering a severe stroke last month.

The encounter with Gary from Corrie was about 15 years ago i think! Would appear i am certainly a person to bear a grudge and to be fair he did sort of mumble thanks (if not sorry) once i had told him about the photographer. Another equally fleeting encounter was with Kirsty Wark. My son and i were at the Lowry theatre at Salford Quays and she was making a tv show at the time in another part of the building and walking past with a large group of tv people, all in a rush and looking very stressed. Anyway Kirsty (i feel like we are friends) almost came to a stop as my son and i walked past and gave `Ted and i the nicest, warmest smile. Possibly ludicrous to judge on such a fleeting encounter but she really did seem nice. (Media City is a good spot to see celebs generally - have seen most of Breakfast TV people there - Steph McGovern stands out as having smiled nicely as i walked past. Have seen her a corporate speaking event and she came over very well there as well, professional and friendly. ditto Simon jack (ex bbc breakfast and now radio 4. He made a joke about Salford in his speech (near Oxford) and i took him to task (a bit) in a break and he was very pleasant. Made an obvious but complimentary comment about Carol Kirkwood who he also said was v nice but "mad as a box of frogs".

There's a programme about Cilla on ITV3, so must be a repeat. Made me laugh that she was superimposed over images of Liverpool - believe it or not - to recount her former years. There'd probably be a riot if she turned up for real!

Sorry, nice to hear he's alive and the story I heard last night was just as I expected.

I saw Pixie Lott last night in Puttin' On The Ritz at Newcastle's Theatre Royal. Great show, and Pixie looked great, although her songs Mama Do and Cry Me Out, while performed well, were slightly out of place in a show celebrating the classic musicals. Nice girl.

He isn't dead!

I went to see the show too last Thursday and that was partly because I wanted to see Pixie and Trent dance live. Not only did Pixie look great, but she was really enjoying herself on stage and could not stop smiling during her first routine with Trent I don't know if she did this the night you saw her, but at the end of the show when the full company was on the stage, Pixie couldn't resist the urge to start jumping up and down and spinning around. The curtain came down and back up and back down again, twice and she was still doing it

I have to agree with you that I was actually taken aback when the opening of "Cry Me Out" came out of the loudspeakers as soon as Pixie came onto the stage with assistance to sing the song at the "cotton club". Something much more appropriate would have been much better. I remember reading an article that she gave to the Daily Mail that she was very aware that her music appealed to a "narrow" audience and that by doing SCD, she gained a new fan base.

Oh and by the way, I ended up going around when the show had finished to find the stage door to see if I could get a chance to meet her. Found the stage door and there was a small but dedicated group of fans waiting for them to come down. Pixie was the last to come out of the four and she was really excited to see children there by saying a big hello and doesn't she have such a lovely accent. She was extremely polite and took her time to talk to her fans, take selfies and sign programmes and tickets. I did feel standing there trying to get my turn a bit out of place

My turn came and I got her to sign my programme and got not one but two lovely pictures with her. One of the fans ended up taking the pictures after I couldn't figure out how to take a selfie nor could she I said to her I came down from where I live in east-central Scotland and she responded by saying "where's that". She was intrigued I reckon but when I told her I had been planning to see the show in Glasgow, she apologised for not being able to do those shows. I told her not to worry about that. What a lovely caring girl she is. I have a lot of time and appreciation for her.

Glad to hear you got to meet her Thom001, she does indeed seem very sweet. The stage door, if I'm right, is on the very aptly named Shakespeare Street at the side of the theatre. Yes, I do seem to recall her jumping up and down on Saturday night also, during about three or four curtain calls. You came a long way all the way down from Scotland, mind-that's commitment for you! Hope you liked our Theatre Royal-regarded as one of the finest theatres in the country by actors such as Sir Ian McKellen no less, and one of only 9 Grade I listed theatres in the country.