That's quite random. I haven't heard about her in ages!

I've always been curious if anyone has met her son Rupert Penry-Jones or his wife Dervla Kirwan. I've come across some people who say Rupert is nice while others have said he's not.

^

I've been watching To the Manor Born. She seems like a nice lady in an interview that I watched on YouTube. I only found out her son is Rupert Penry-Jones last year.

My sister met Peter Andre today, she's not stopped talking about it, and she's over 50!

brill how was he?

nooooooo! what was she like

I always thought that he was married to Polly Walker, but it turns out that she is married to his brother.

He's her son. Well I never did!

Well, brace yourself for a barrage of stories about how wonderful she is.....


http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2...k-dies-aged-72

I've met a few at work.

Colin Firth, Eamonn Holmes, Kirsten Dunst and Dara O'brien were all very pleasant and stopped to have a little chat, Rowan Atkinson was the complete opposite and totally blanked me when I was talking to him and has done each time he has passed through my workplace. Just to clarify, I was speaking to him as it is part of my job to do so, not as if I stopped him in the street and said "OMG YOU'RE ROWAN ATKINSON".

Ah, the 'Diana effect'.

I met Sylvester McCoy yesterday, albeit very briefly. A really nice guy : )

I'm hearing quite a lot of that for Rowan Atkinson and some will say it's shyness however when it's so frequent and of a certain age. Is that really an excuse?

Yes - it has already started on the thread about her death - the (many) stories about how vile she was couldn't possibly be true...

I gigged with Archie Kelly (Kenny Senior in Phoenix Nights) last week. Wonderful guy, and great comic.

To be truthful, I've made many barbed comments about Cilla in this thread but I feel genuinely sad that she has died. Not particularly liking someone in their lifetime is a world away from feeling genuine ill-will towards someone or making nasty comments on the day they die. She has a family and many friends in the business who must be pretty shaken up at the moment. I hope that, in her last few days and moments that she didn't suffer and, to some point, felt content that she had a life completed. She hadn't looked well the list time I saw her on TV (think it might have been when she was doorstopped for a comment about Rolf Harris's prosecution).

[quote=dorydaryl;79148528]To be truthful, I've made many barbed comments about Cilla in this thread but I feel genuinely sad that she has died. Not particularly liking someone in their lifetime is a world away from feeling genuine ill-will towards someone or making nasty comments on the day they die. She has a family and many friends in the business who must be pretty shaken up at the moment. I hope that, in her last few days and moments that she didn't suffer and, to some point, felt content that she had a life completed. She hadn't looked well the list time I saw her on TV (think it might have been when she was doorstopped for a comment about Rolf Harris's prosecution

I don't change my opinion of someone just because they're dead.

Many, many years ago, I met Johnnie Depp when he was just starting out. Used to chat to him once a week. It was during his "Jump Street" days. Polite, almost shy, but once he got used to you was really nice.

During the same time frame, Brian Adams used stop for tea in the same shop café as me. Smiled and he'd smile back.

Don't know how they both are now, but in the '80s they both seemed sweet and normal.

Judi Dench - lovely, spoke to everyone that was waiting and wouldn't leave until everything had been signed.
Helen Mirren - ditto, even had a chat with me asking if I'd enjoyed the play and did seem genuinely interested (Oscar winning actress though!).
Bill Nighy - slightly more restrained, although it was the final night of his play. Still posed for a photo so I can't say more than that, a very kind man!
Imelda Staunton - slightly more shy, although she will have been exhausted after her performance.
Carey Mulligan - had a conversation with every person waiting in line and had photos too. She even hugged some of us! Incredibly kind and endearing.
Michael Ball - exactly as he is on TV/radio, very warm and chatty.
Michael Crawford - again, quite chatty and posed for photos.
Penn and Teller - both such gents, waited in the foyer of the theatre for about an hour getting selfies with everyone. Never seen anything like it!

Although I've never met Ms Black myself and I don't want to speak ill of the dead, it just shows that ladies who've been in the business for years like Dench and Mirren can be incredibly affectionate towards fans. Very classy and professional - the opposite of Cilla!

Rowan Atkinson IS a pompous buffoon, unfortunately.

Ever seen him in real time? He's not very tall at all, and looks like he's been tangoed.

David Mcintosh?

His page is full of hate.

My brother is a graphic designer and works with Vivienne Westwood.
He speaks very highly of her.....
says she cycles to work everyday and is soft spoken.
Throughout the years they both became friends and invites him and his wife (who has a job in in his office) to go with her to theatres, restaurants etc.
Viv is very down to earth - I chuckled when he told me that once when she cycled to meet the queen in Buckingham Palace the guards at first didn't recognise her and took awhile for them to allow her in LOL

Her majesty and the fashion designer drank beer together in one of her visits for a chat with the monarch.

Yes, the queen LOVES beer!!!

In his place of work he meets lots of celebrities and liked COLIN FIRTH.
They shared a taxi ride in London with my brother's eccentric boss and Patsy Kensit amongst a few others (I think) to go somewhere -

Ditto on Vivienne Westwood. Not a snob, like many less talented fashion people, and very sincere about climate change. She could very easily put her feet up and live a life of luxury now, but she is involved - and tells everyone not to buy too many clothes and not to wash them too often or throw them away when they rip, as holes etc. add to the character!

As I'm in here - Adam Ant is wonderful, except when he's ill (he's bipolar) or very stressed.

Gary Kemp is charming and lovely.

Brian Eno - nice but a bit dull for someone who used to wear feathers, make amazing music and apparently shag anything in a skirt.

I've met a lot of people in the business and most are fine, but are a little bit nicer to fellow artists. Those I've mentioned are genuinely nice regardless of rank, they spoke to me when I was doing well and associated with someone famous, and they still talk to me now and are genuinely interested in how I'm doing.

Rik Mayall was another - I can't say the same for his colleagues.

Lily Allen sweet to me, and apparently much nicer than her arsey dad.

I've met, and seen around, a lot of soapstars, they're always the ones trying to show off, with exceptions such as Kellie Bright, who was nice, polite and unshowy on my flight last month. She's one of the more talented actresses on Eastenders.

Gray O'Brien - Tony Gordon of Coronation Street - in a pub in Dumbarton, outside Glasgow. Warm, approachable and with a young family in tow. Nice guy.

I've always found it interesting how people who bumped into Cilla in the street tended to find her friendly enough, whereas people who were working for her in some capacity - whether in TV or as flight attendants, for example - consistently named her as the worst person they ever worked with. Interesting.

On the Rowan Atkinson subject, my dad met him once when they were both guests at a motoring event. They were paired on the same table and my dad tried to strike up conversation. As far as I know, Atkinson chatted back but was very quiet and rather awkward. Dad does say that as Atkinson was leaving, though, he made a point of waving goodbye to my dad as he went. I don't know about him really - he's either extremely pompous and hides it by pretending to be shy, or - as I think is more likely - he's extremely shy and hides it behind pomposity so people are more likely to leave him alone. Still no excuse for him to ignore people who are supposed to be dealing with him though, as mentioned above.