Who are the nicest , rudest celebs you have met?

I met darth vader. he was a nice bloke considering he's a sith lord.
 
Hobbit said:
Saw a famous ex-footballer, who is perceived to be an ambassador of the game, get asked for his autograph by a young fan. The reply isn't printable. Whereas his brother, who comes across very forthright, is great company.
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Went to a Euro 96 game at Elland Road with a mate and his 10yo old lad. Bulgaria-Spain iirc. We spotted Gordon Banks sitting on his own a few rows in front of us, on his own. My mate explained to his son who Banks was and how he was a national hero. He suggests to his son that he asks Banks to autograph his programme.

The awestruck lad lad heads down, and comes back up a minute later. His proud dad says "did you get it?". "No" says his son, "he told me to fk off."

i was creasing myself but my mate was furious!
 
Kellfire said:
Never met anyone who was rude but Bobby Robson was absolutely bloody lovely. He was filming an advert in Newcastle train station and he took time out to speak to four of us, all wearing Man Utd colours on our way to a match, because of his love of the game. Said he hoped United won because he always wanted English teams to win in Europe. Shook all our hands and would probably have spent more time with us if he'd had time.
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Agreed, Bobby Robson was great. When he was at Newcastle the club discovered that my great aunt, who was 107 years old at the time, had been born in 1892, the same year as the club was formed. She was invited to a game & met Bobby & Sir Alan Sugar. Some time afterwards I was photographing an event at a local hotel & Bobby & his wife came in for dinner. I had the photos of him & my great aunt on the laptop & he kindly waited until I had printed them then autographed them for me. He couldn't have been nicer.
 
Back in the early 1990s I got invited to Bristol to watch Gloucestershire v Sri Lanka by a financial services company who we did business with. Was introduced to Angus Fraser as we arrived, who whilst injured had been offered a job with the financial services company during his recovery. Was waited on all day by the best England bowler at the time, somehow felt all wrong, but he was a top guy and gave some great anecdotes about his Middlesex mate Phil Tuffnell and about touring the West Indies.

I've sat next to Richard Cockerill at a ballet show that both our daughters were in. Had a brief chat with him about what to expect in the show, but as soon as I asked after a Tigers player who had recently retired through injury he went into talking to reporter mode and ended the conversation.
 
The 5 live golf commentary team were very friendly circa 2002 at Muirfield and at The Belfry for the Ryder Cup. Shared a beer with Iain carter and Jay Townsend whilst waiting for Maureen Madill who I was having supper with.
 
This has been a very enlightening thread. There's been both positive and negative comments about the same celebs on here, and goes to show that everyone can have an off day. People I've met who I'd rather not have a beer with have been championed by some, whilst others who I'd readily have a beer with have been denigrated.


Perhaps a lesson for all of us. Apart from the odd permanent growler, everyone is good and everyone not so much on a bad day.
 
Watching my son play football on Eaton rd Liverpool found myself standing and discussing the game with Bill Shankley .
He would often come to watch the young lads play as he lived near there.
Really nice bloke always had a positive message to the youngsters.

Try to stay away from celebs.....
 
Paul McGinley met him at Wentworth during a GM Taylor Made day ,absolute gent of a man who took time out to show and explain other tour pros golf swings and chat about all things golf. For me tho meeting Payne Stewart before he passed was something else, met him at the Dunhill in St Andrews during the practise rounds, i'd followed him around and i was pushing my oldest in his buggy as he was just out of hospital after his first heart op ,he took time to come over and chat about what was wrong with him and how he loved Scotland spoke with him for at least 10 mins ,legend of a man.

Worst Paul Casey so far up his own hoop its scary.
 
i played golf at trentham with a bloke called gordon. i found out on the 11th that it was "gordon banks"
 
Once had a long chat with Peter Alliss and his wife - PA was presenting prizes at a big charity do at our place many moons ago. They were both lovely. Garry Richardson did the after dinner stuff at a golf day I attended - he was a good guy (as much as I loath his interviewing style). And Nick Mason is a nice guy. That's my lot I think.
 
Richard Ashcroft is an absolute diamond. Met quite a few "celebs" through cricket Nasser Hussain is a top bloke as is Stuart Law. Spent a lot of time with Ronnie Irani too but the TalkSport gig went to his head and he became a little aloof thereafter.
 
I've not really met many celebs but played in a ProAm with Des Smyth once and he was great. It was actually when Ireland were playing Germany in the World Cup and his caddy came on with headphones listening to the match. As we were walking down the second there was a great cheer as Ireland had just equalised.
I also met Neil Lennon at a Birthday party in Glasgow. I was introduced to him by a friend who knew him from Leicester days. Very nice guy to chat too and we talked for quite a while about Rugby League as he is a fan of St Helens (I let him off that). I think he was just happy to be talking about something non football related.
 
Just been talking about this with a buddy of mine and was reminded of a pair of stories we both had.

British American Football final - chatting on the sideline to someone I thought was one of the coaches - next thing.... "to sing the national anthem, Jermaine Jackson of the Jackson Five". "Oh excuse me, that's me" he says. "Back in 2 mins". So he goes off, sings and then comes back to carry on the conversation. I had no idea.

So I get ripped for this .... then five years later, mate of mine does the same thing with Chaka Khan thinking she was one of the PR team.
 
Anthony Joshua - met him on the walk back from the Olympic park to the tube station after a fun run when the stadium was opened - he was chatting to anyone and everyone that walked past. He came across as a very nice guy, very humble.

Chris Eubank - whilst I was working behind the bar in a nightclub during my time at University. He wouldn't order drinks himself, his mates had to on his behalf. And he didn't particularly want to mingle with the public.

Doddy Wier - met the vast majority of the Newcastle Falcons team in 1998 whilst we were travelling to a semi-final cup game of our own. He was great; genuinely down to earth. There were 16 of us (all about 16 years old) barraging him with questions and he took the time out to chat with us.
Also saw Tuigamala - biggest head and neck I had ever seen.
 
I was involved a few years ago with flying some RC models for a Top Gear feature. We were on site for 3 days with lots of interesting models and thought that out of the 3 amigos that James May would be the most interesting and chatty particularly as he had done several of his own shows with Hornby etc. When we got a break in filming we we tried to talk to James and mentioned to him that his shows had been very good for our industry and had helped a lot of shops that we supply and he just grunted and walked off totally uninterested whereas the other two were really interested in what we had and spent time talking to us and signed autographs, Clarkson even took time to go and get May to sign a photo for my bosses son. I had expected Clarkson to be the one least interesting in person but actually watching him work completely changed my opinion of him, seeing him ad-lib when something went wrong was very good.

Before the job it would have been May that we wanted to have a beer with but after definitely the other 2.
 
I like the OP's style.....start a load of threads then disappear without debating anything in them :mmm:
 
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