A freind of mine was the chief steward on a BA flight and Cilla woudl not answer him when he asked would Miss Black like champangne ect, her then Husband would answer for her, no Miss Black would not like any ect ect. This went on the whole flight so my friend at the end of the flight said to her > i Knew you couldn't sing but i didn't know you couldn't talk.

Nice one!

Nice

Ronnie Corbett
Frankie Vaughan
Bobby Moore
Franz Beckanbauer
Frank Bruno
Bruno Brookes
Evander Hollyfield
Steve Cram
Harry Carpenter
Ernie Wise
Mary Parkinson
Chris Evans
Armstrong and Miller
Bob Champion
Pierce Brosnan
Harry Hill


Not so Good

Gary Lineker
Jimmy Tarbuck
Lester Piggot
Terry Wogan

I met Gary Linneker years ago at a publicity event for Clic (Cancer and Leukaemia in Childhood). He's one of the nicest people I ever met. He spoke to everyone and signed autographs. He signed my sons football shirt and a tellytubbies annual for us! I believe he does a lot of charitable work for cancer charitities. It's a cause close to his heart as his son had leukaemia as a child.

Omg lucky woman. Where was it?

Daniel Radcliffe and Kris Marshall.

Both lovely.

my friend who lives in Vancouver met Colin Firth when he was filming out there & she said he was really friendly (and gorgeous) and spent time chatting to both her & a friend

I like this thread.I warm to the nice celebrities and groan to the nasty ones! The ones that are nasty tend to be from poorer backgrounds and maybe this is a contributing factor to their nastiness.But I'm glad that there is nice celebrities who tend to be the most talented ones out there.Please keep your posts up!

^ I'm not convinced this is so. I'm not interested in celebrities, but I'm interested in the interactions.

Firstly, from this thread, it appears that the vast majority of celebs** know where their support comes from, and at least make an effort to be nice. Even most of the bad stories are balanced by others who say the same person was nice as pie on another occasion. It's difficult to say how many of these bad encounters were because the person was tired, stressed, rushed, or even just shy, which seems to affect a surprising number of performers offstage. A celebrity needs to be pretty obnoxious* for nobody to have a good word to say about them.

It would be necessary to have much more controlled experiments to scientifically come to conclusions about rudeness and obnoxiousness tendencies in famous people. Posher celebs are less likely to be met wandering round Tescos (I'd say a bad time to approach someone), some people had it harder than others in the scramble to make it, and that affects people in different ways. Some people just have much better manners than others, and it would be hard to pin down a tendency. As has already been mentioned, people change over time, too.

Finally, any fan who expects a performer to be similar to their stage or screen persona is just asking to be disappointed, yet people do! Some fans go as far as assuming TV villains to be horrible in real life! I'd love to see a thread of celebs telling stories of the most outrageous fans they have met... I can imagine there would be some shockers!



*Or simply have the surname Leslie, Windsor or the dreaded Black.


**By a good ratio of maybe 8-1

Any celebrities that shop in Tesco are probably doing panto!

I think you're right. The same person might be a complete darling one day and seemingly arrogant on another. It depends on context- they're not immune to changes in mood like the rest of us. I think it's when one hears persistent stories about the same individual (*cough* Cilla Black *cough*) being obnoxious on many different occasions that they might just not be a very nice individual.

Met Todd Carty tonight at Spamalot, really lovely bloke

That's just made me think of The Young Ones' school sketch: 'Get Tucker, Ducker, Sucker and Chucker....!'

and they may have troubles just like the rest of us.........a very sick friend or family member, or just having personal problems.

Loved reading that, thanks for posting. He seems to be just like he comes across in interviews and such. As you say, good to hear a positive story of a footballer.

Absolutely. They're no more immune to stuff like that than the rest of us.

OMG that is the most adorable thing I've ever read. And being a huge United fan too I'm delighted He seems so down to earth anyway its nice to know he was truly lovely "VIVA HERNANDEZ!" <3

Ahhhh that is so nice,

Yes i agree. I see them around alot and they are very nice.

All the stuff on the news about the sad passing of Jane Russell reminded me that I have a semi-story about a Hollywood legend of the same era. It's not a very good tale but, as someone a bit obsessed with the films of the 1940's, I was pretty much paralysed with starstruckedness in the lobby of the Almeida theatre when I clutched my friend's arm and said 'Is that...is that.. no, it can't be Lauren Bacall!'.

It was indeed the sultry lady herself, she was standing at the box office window being incredibly patient about the fact that they couldn't find her tickets, and she looked amazing. I wish I'd had the guts to say hello but I didn't want to be a pest when she was obviously on a private trip to see the a friend's performance. All I can report is that, as well as joking with the staff about her missing tickets - not a trace of 'don't you know who I am!' - she also quietly took her place in a long queue for the ladies' loos.

So my claim to fame is that I've sat on the same toilet seat as the legend that is Lauren Bacall

Met Lady GaGa and she was lovely, she also went out of her way to talk to me which I appreciated very much . Also completely normal, we had quite a boring, everyday conversation. Still really surprised by how nice and normal she was.

Met Matt Cardle last week. He was absolutely lovely, very friendly and was very grateful for his fans support. Security were trying to get rid of me and I asked him for a picture and he was very happy to pose for one with me

It's nice to hear that Tennant and the Whedon alumi are nice plus Harold have a soft spot for him.

Nick Brandon had a drink problem for a bit - maybe he was hung over.

Looking at this fourm, Do you think a lot of the celebs who are belived to be rude are the ones more likley to appear on reality TV shows?