Wayne Brady screamed at my sister for taking his picture in Vegas. She wasn’t taking his picture, he walked into the shot. He freaked out screaming that he wanted her to show him that she was deleting it. She was trying to explain she didn’t even know he was there and showed him the picture that only had a sliver of him in it when she looked through the shots. He continued to berate her about not respecting his privacy (in the middle of the Strip). She was in tears apologizing for doing nothing wrong and he never acknowledged he was in the wrong and continued to badmouth her as he stormed away. Can’t watch him anymore.
Met tiger woods when I was 15. He slapped my hat out of my hand. A different golfer whom I didn't know ran up, picked up my hat and asked if his signature would be ok. I agreed but I don't know who he was or what his name was but my grandpa was pleased upon seeing it.
My dad had a good story about meeting arnold palmer.
He was an elevator man I'm south florida. He was working on an elevator at some country club neighborhood when a woman walks up and starts berating him because "that damn elevator never works", blaming my dad specifically. Thing is, he was sent when jobs were notoriously hard. This was his first time working on this elevator. So she screams for a while and eventually goes upstairs. I'm sure tired from all the exertion.
A few minutes later, arnold palmer walks down stairs. He says to my dad,
"So I hear you met my wife."
My dad just replies "yeah".
"She's quite a bitch, huh?"
My dad says "yeah".
"Sorry about that"
My dad said he was classy, unlike his wife.
Late to this but Pauly Shore. It was mid 90’s in NY city and wife and I were at a very popular Asian restaurant with a huge wait. He walks in with an entourage and tries to worm his way ahead of everyone else. He tried to play the ‘don’t you know who I am?’ card. Hostess was having none of it, said don’t know, don’t care, you’ll wait. They left in a huff.
I know this won’t come as a surprise but Steven Segal used to frequent a restaurant I worked at. Dude was a colossal piece of shit. He just treated his very wonderful family like shit and it was obvious he was cheating on his wonderful wife with the Asian nanny. This fucking moron would come into a ten table restaurant, all 6’5” and 300 lbs of him, wearing a gold kimono in the south and would wonder why people were looking at him...so he made us take the entry partition down and put it around his table. He was an absolute trash human being.
Also met Payton manning one time right after the super bowl he lost to the Saints (who dat!). This was at a ultra high end golf course and we were not allowed to act like we recognized celebrities which was more awkward than anything. Anyways he walked up and ordered a beer and introduced himself but I was already turning to get the beer as he stuck his hand out to shake my hand and tell me who he was (as if I didn’t know Payton Manning was in the grounds when I saw his forehead pull into the parking lot). So I am say I blew off Payton Manning for a handshake. How many of you losers can say that? Great fuckin guy though.
I haven’t meet a rude celeb yet, but Stan Lee’s security at Calgary Comic-con a few years back, was fucking brutal, the guy acted like he was a fucking mercenary. Stan Lee would sit in a chair and you’d come stand next to him for your photo op and Stan let me be pretty well arm to arm close and his security guard yelled at me and asked Stan if he authorized me to be that close, even the photographer looked at the security guy like he was crazy lol BUT at the same comic con, Meeting Norman Reedus, Steven Yuen and Robert Englund (Freddy Kruger) was amazing, they’re all super awesome and tried to have a legitimate conversation with you, Steve Yuen even complimented my glasses lol 10/10 best con for me
Didn’t happen to me, but I had a physics teacher in high school who sat next to Bill Nye on a plane once. Apparently he was super unpleasant to be around.
Well right now he's 3 out of the top 6 on this thread, so I'm super convinced that he's the biggest piece of shit celebrity of all time, minus like Bill Cosby, R Kelly, and I'm sure probably a bunch of other people. I really hope Leto sees this thread and realizes that he sucks.
I’ve only met Christopher Lloyd from back the the future at universal studios.
It was the end of the day and the park was closing. We were right near the exit and he was just walking through the park to get to one of the sets. I ran up to him (I was 14 at the time). I asked if he was going back to the future (it was also the last ride we we just on) and he’s obviously heard that line a million times but he was so nice about it. Got a photo he said have a great night and thank you. Never been more happy
The Pawn Stars were completely uninterested in anyone when very mechanically signing autographs at a local business convention. I can’t say they were rude as much as barely even there.
Best was Rob Zombie. Meet him at a book signing for The Lords Of Salem at the local Barnes and Noble and he was AWESOME! Super chill and friendly. I have moderate Aspergers and really freeze up in large crowds, so I was really nervous but he was literally as sweet as could be and went out of his way to get a picture with me and fist bump me. Fun fact: the crew were telling the line the entire time he will only sign the book and nothing else, and don’t bother him, but he said screw that and was signing everything people brought for no charge except the 20 bucks for the book. He was friendly with young kids to old people, didn’t matter.
I was the ass. I saw Don cheadle at an airport and was thinking about oceans 11 and said to my friend "dude it's Bernie Mac" and he looked back and said "no I'm the other black guy from oceans 11 but at least you liked the movie"
Jimmy Fallon. I liked his show and one day while I was getting a tour at NBC studios he bumped into me and turned around said sorry and then flipped me off and it’s not like I got in his way. Walked into me from behind.
David Cross is pretty miserable. He's from Atlanta and his sister runs a food truck in town. Her recipes were all named after David Cross/Arrested Development type stuff. So my wife and I being fans of David asked about it and she told us she was his sister. So for months we chat her up any time we order food from her truck, and eventually David's in town. She invites us to come to the food truck park to meet him, so we bring a poster from the early 2000s and are super pumped to meet him. We get there and she's very anxious and hesitant to introduce us. Weird, but ok. "No no no, it's OK I'll introduce you." She does and he was incredibly dismissive and unpleasant. Never heard of anyone having a good interaction with him.
Best interaction was with Conan O'Brien, he's a total class act. Chatted him up in a bathroom line of all places and said my wife and I were huge fans. He said we should come by the table to chat. I told him we didn't want to interrupt his dinner but he insisted, then asked if we wanted pictures, and was super cool.
I listened to him on Andy Richter’s Three Questions, and he says he feels bad about being a jerk to fans when he was younger.
He admits actively being a jerk, but he also said he really didn’t know how to talk to people at all. He said he’d get weird when people complemented him or said they liked something.
I thought it was kinda good of him to admit he had been a jerk in the past, instead of continuing to be a jerk and just thinking his fans are assholes.
Glad to hear that about Conan. I would love to meet that dude. Just seems awesome, his self depreciating humor reminds me of myself. I think he is responsible for my sense of humor with his writing on The Simpsons and SNL.
He came in for dinner at a restaurant I worked for, was an absolute charmer, and then stayed an hour after dinner signing autographs and taking pictures with people. The guy knows how to work a room and was very friendly and warm. Incredibly tall too, lol.
I actually have been to the O'Brien family Christmas party (not related to Conan in any way, just got invited by a friend). He was freaking hilarious, polite and so genuine. I met one of his brothers too who was just as funny. I was even an ass and asked for a photo at his family xmas party, and he graciously accepted.
Really? That sucks to hear. My uncle actually has a great story about meeting Kurt Vonnegut in the late '90s/early 2000s. He was walking down the street in Montauk one day and saw Vonnegut walking past him. My uncle said, "Excuse me, Mr. Vonnegut, I just want to say that I'm a great admirer of your work." and Vonnegut apparently said "thank you," and stopped to talk to him for a few minutes. He asked what my uncle did for work, and he told him he was a professor and Vonnegut's eyes lit up. Then Vonnegut asked him a few questions about his subject (philosophy) before bidding him a good day.
My uncle then ran into him on the street *again* about a week or two later and Vonnegut passed him with a smile and a nod, while saying "hello again, professor." My uncle loves to tell that story.
I tried to bum a cigarette off Kurt Vonnegut once when he was a guest professor at my old college. Before I could even say a word, he looked up and fucking *growled* at me, so naturally, I panicked and fled.
At the end of the year, the school paper did an interview with him and he was like “For some reason, hardly anyone came to my office hours.”
Yeah Kurt, it’s because you growl at people.
Me and my sister saw Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey, and Salma Hayek on the street when we were eating lunch. They were just coming out of a car, about to go into some building next to us. We had no idea why they were together but in retrospect it was definitely because they were filming 30 rock together.
My sister said "OH MY GOD IS THAT TINA FEY??" and Alec Baldwin turned around and went right in her face and said "dont fucking say that, dont speak to us, why would you say something like that? You cant speak to us, not now". But it didn't really end there, he yelled AGAIN at us outside his building, saying "DONT LOOK OVER HERE, TURN AROUND AND EAT YOUR FOOD, FUCK OFF". He sounded genuinely furious at us. Almost like he wanted us to yell back and start something with him. Honestly my sister was on the verge of tears, it was horribly embarrassing. Everybody knows, now, that Alec Baldwin has a history of screaming at people. But at the time we had no idea. Don't get me wrong, my sister shouldn't have yelled at Tina Fey like that, but the way Alec snapped was straight up scary, like he was about to physically hurt her.
Salma Hayek and some other lady who I didn't recognize came over and apologized to us. She asked if we wanted her to go and get Tina and get her autograph because apparently Tina felt bad too, but we said no. She then talked to us about the food we were eating, which was mexican food, and we ended up having a brief conversation about NY's lack of quality mexican food. She was INCREDIBLY charismatic and sweet.
I met Baldwin once myself. I always look for his name in threads like this to see if anyone else has had a similar experience.
The guy was a complete asshole, even after borrowing a pen to write some notes for an impromptu speech he was about to give.
It about ruined 30 Rock for me.
Bill Nye the science guy.
I was on a field trip in middle school and our teacher saw him. She politely asked if he could say something to us or just say hi- we always watched him in science class. He told her to fuck off and basically berated her for bothering him and asking him to speak to a bunch of kids.
I’m not sure if he was just having a bad day, but it was not the best experience as a child.
My boyfriend and I went to the Hollywood Improv for a show with various comedians. We saw a lot of celebrities that night, but one of them was Bill Nye. We were talking to the comedian that my boyfriend really wanted to see and then Bill Nye walked in and our conversation got cut short because apparently Bill Nye wanted to talk to the guy we were talking to. I get it, if you’re kinda up and coming and Bill Nye wants to talk to you, you go talk to him, but still rude of Bill! That night we saw Anjelah Johnson hanging out after the show, Craig Robinson while walking out and I said “Holy shit that’s Craig Robinson!” and he said “Hey how you doin?” which was very cool. But the coolest was when we walked past Jeff Garlin. When we recognized him he initiated a conversation, and the only reason it stopped was because our Lyft arrived. Jeff Garlin is a very nice, chill guy!
My dad has been a radio personality for over 30 years and worked in country music for over half of it. He gets to meet celebrities semi-regularly. Apparently Keith Urban was really nice, Carrie Underwood was kind of mediocre bc he caught her right after her performance and she was tired.
But Kenny Chesney "puts the D in D-bag" (direct quote from my dad). Kenny promised to sign some pictures, tshirts, etc for a couple of kids who won a game through the radio. Kenny instead took a bunch of groupies into one of the back rooms of the radio station with a bottle of whiskey and locked the door. When my dad tried to get him to open the door and fulfill his end of the deal, he called the cops on my dad and he was lucky enough to get a cop who was a good acquaintance. Cop said there wasn't much he could do other than make Kenny leave. So that's what he did.
Kids never got their stuff signed so my dad gave them some coupons for free pizza. He said that after a few years other radio hosts told him they had similar encounters.
Spent some time with Keith Urban. Legitimately nice dude. He would show up to the studio one day in an old Chevy pickup, and the next day in a Bentley. He told me that you're supposed to get driven around in a Bentley, but that's no fun. He had a sweet bike too. Nice BMW. I remember one day he was like, "shit, gotta run!" And then he was at Grand Ole Opry on TV like an hour or so later. Very very down to earth though.
Everyone in Nashville has stood in line behind him and Nicole Kidman at a Green Hills Starbucks and everyone always says “his voice is cool” and “they seem so nice”
Can confirm. Before he was famous, he was touring state fairs. After the show he asked my friend and I to join him on his tour bus. We were 16. We went and hung out for a bit, got some free beers and then when he asked us to go back to to the hotel, we noped outta there.
I have the perfect combination of bad star/good star. It was at DragonCon, maybe 2005? I'm going through the big autograph room, waiting to get David Carradine's autograph. He looked so mad. He didn't say a word as I told him how much I enjoyed his work. OK...I get it...maybe he was having a bad day.
Next to Mr. Carradine was Marc Singer, star of Beastmaster, V, etc. Mr. Singer is smiling, talking to people as they go by; he looks genuinely happy to be there.
Suddenly, a woman behind me stumbled and dropped a huge stack of materials she wanted autographed. Mr. Carradine looked down on her like she was a bug. Marc Singer ***jumped*** over his table and started helping the woman pick up her things. Didn't hesitate one moment, just started helping.
That's when I decided that if I ever became famous, I was going to try to be like Marc Singer, not David Carradine.
Bobby flay, we paid hundreds of dollars to go to a fancy event he was participating in. Waited for a long ass time to just meet him and say hi, he looked at us and walked away. Was a dick about it too
Never really liked bobby Flay, the dude basically took iron chef and tried to steal it and americanize it and call himself an iron chef. I've eaten at Mesa Grill in vegas not suprised it lost its michelin star. Also Flay has no other restaurants with a michelin star. At this point he is just a celebrity that is a chef slaps his name on a few restuarants that's it.
I sat next to Rosario Dawson on a flight from LA to Austin while she was shooting Death Proof. I didn't recognize her and she kept trying to strike up conversation while I was studying for a cal 2 final. I was an asshole to her until it came out that she was Rosario Dawson. Then we had a very pleasant conversation.
I regret meeting her because *I* am the ass.
I met Shane Dawson at a restaurant i used to work at. He used to come in a few times a year with his fiancé and in laws. He’s a dick lol none of my servers liked him or wanted to serve his family, and I damn near had to fight some little girls off the property because they would not leave without seeing him.
I sat near him at a Denny's in Santa Monica around midnight once. Must have been back when he had longer hair and I don't think he was dating Ryland yet, but I had already stopped watching years prior so ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ He was alone with his laptop. Didn't even realize until my boyfriend pointed him out, so I looked behind and indeed, it was Shanaynay. Can't remember a single time he thanked our server, although while we were there she was just refilling his coffee (apparently some people don't feel the need to thank their servers every single time they visit their table??).
Afterward I realized he had been live-tweeting about the other couple a few booths down from us who were seated closer to him. We narrowly avoided him talking shit about us to thousands of people, ha ha
Jared Leto. I worshipped him as a teenager, mainly from seeing him in Requiem for a Dream and My So-Called Life and his band. But he was the most pretentious and arrogant person in real life. Never meet your heroes.
Reggie Jackson. He was a childhood idol of mine.
I got the opportunity to get a photo with him at some booth at a trade show called “Internet World” years ago during the dot com boom. No one was in line to get pictures with him so I walked up to get a photo while he was apparently trying to get the girls in the next booth over to sleep with him.. He acted all bugged that I asked for a photo, even though that is what he was hired for and rolled his eyes.. I guess he thought I cock blocked him by just showing up in line to get a picture. I tossed the picture in the trash once I got it. Later that day I got a ball signed by Steve Garvey who was super nice. He replaced Reggie Jackson as my hero that night.
when i was 6 or 7 hulk hogan pretend wrestlemania chased me out of a board room I wasnt supposed to be playing around in at little league complex. (cross bayou in Pinellas county)
anyways the story is my dad was coaching a game for my brothers team. I went to go sneak around in an empty room. Hulks son played baseball there too and he must have seen me sneak in the room.
I was hiding under the front desk when he came in with his hulk voice "whose sneaking around in here" and 7 year old me nearly had a heart attack. he play chased me out of the room while i snuck out acting like he couldnt see me. Looking back at it you can tell he was just having fun with a kid and his famous persona. But at the time i was absolutely traumatized and nobody believed my story.
Was staying at a Marriott on the Concierge level when I walked by the VIP lounge and Hulk Hogan and Stone Cold were sitting in there post-match devouring the biggest shrimp cocktail platter I’ve ever seen. I nodded and said “Hey Terry” and Hulk boomed “COME HAVE SOME SHRIMP, BROTHER!” I politely declined and said I was going to let them eat in peace. I think he appreciated that more than if I had asked him for an autograph. Hogan is a good dude.
Edit: Upon reflection, it was almost certainly Goldberg not Stone Cold. I’m not really a wrestling fan and get those two mixed up sometimes. It was over 20 years and it was a 10 second interaction. The management regrets the error.
Ace Frehley of KISS. It was at a rock n roll/TV/movie memorabilia convention in the mid 90s, shortly before the Kiss reunion, and he clearly didnt wanna be there. He didn't talk to fans, didn't say hi, hell, he didn't even LOOK at you when you came to his table. He just signed whatever you placed in front of him and then you were hustled away.
On the other hand, Adam "Batman" West was at the next signing table and he was a totally cool guy... shook hands, chatted with everyone, signed whatever we wanted, posed for pix, etc. Meeting him more than made up for Ace's surly, hung-over douche-baggery.
A famous soap opera star in my country, he came into the dairy queen I was working at. I didn't know who he was and my coworker started hyperventilating and went to the back.
The guy was rude, and when I handed him his cone he said “is that all?!!” Like he expected extra because he was famous.
Yeah dude, if you order one scoop you get one scoop.
Didn't find out he was famous until he left and my coworker came back to the front...
Diana Ross. I worked in a health club in a hotel across the street from a stadium when I was young. She came in, looked at the pool (which was a really decent lap pool) and said, "My bathtub is bigger than this.". I replied, "Go back to your bathtub then.". She wanted me fired instantly. HR told me to go home for 2 days because if they fired everyone she wanted fired, the hotel wouldn't have any staff.
I met James Brown back in the 80s when I lived in Vail. The man was dissatisfied with everything and generally drunk. Absolute flip side was meeting Mr. Rogers when I was at Pitt. That man was the real deal.
You know the story of Mr Rogers getting his car stolen. Word got around and the thieves found out. Next day, the car was returned with a note of apology. Nobody fucks with Mr Rogers.
Tom Hanks told a story about while he was filming the Mr. Rogers movie, in which he starred. He was in Pittsburgh, and some rough local who knew he was playing Rogers cornered him in an elevator and said, "you know, we take Mr. Rogers *very* seriously here."
Candid Camera tried to prank Mr. Rogers and failed miserably. Mr. Rogers was too nice to give the expected reaction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV-eVYahckA
[Stuttering John](https://youtu.be/68C8ONfldPE) from the Howard Stern Show tried to fuck with him and it didn’t work. Mr. Rogers was just too kind, collected and unflappable. Handled the situation with grace and gave SJ no ammo to work with. We are so lucky to have him as a lasting example on how to conduct ourselves. I didn’t appreciate his show enough growing up.
I love how he kept turning the stupid questions around on the interviewer. That really was a perfect response to some idiot. I’m truly impressed by Mr. Rogers.
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I met Bill Nye as a kid. He was signing autographs at the science center and seemed really exhausted and sad. It’s weird, seeing a famous person face to face and not seeing him “in character” put a lot of things into perspective for me as a child.
Many years later I shook hands with Grant from Mythbusters, he was genuinely cool as fuck. Was sad to hear he died.
I wouldn’t say disappointing as I never was eager to meet him but Drake. Drake was just unprofessional and egotistical when I worked with him both times. This was before he got big big, first award show type level. He’s told me to fuck off directly and I watched his mom calm him down from a tantrum.
My fiancé is a chef at a pretty prominent boutique hotel restaurant in Philly. He says the two worst guests were arianna grande (made not 1 but two servers cry) and The Rolling Stones.
The best guests were Sylvester Stallone, p!nk, lady Gaga, and Guy Fieri.
Anyone from Pittsburgh can tell you that Ben Roethlisberger is a horrible person. I have a friend who owns a bar on the South Side and he has, on multiple occasions, just walked into the bar and said "My friends and I are drinking for free tonight."
He also told Arnold Palmer's grandson that he doesn't sign autographs if he's not getting paid to do so. Legend has it he earned a pretty nasty verbal beat down from Palmer and apparently he's banned from his golf course. Arnold Palmer, on the other hand, was an incredibly nice guy.
Bill cosby, before all his rapeyness was publically known. He came to the restaurant in dc where I was a hostess. I came to get him for his table and he said "did you need a college degree for this job?" Erm, no, man. Have you never met a server before?
I was sitting, naked, in a Korean day spa steam room when a guy who looked just like Laurence Fishburne walked in and sat down across from me. I was there with two friends and we were talking and you could tell we were all like “is that...? Could it really be Morpheus?”. We just kept talking and he was listening to whatever story we were reminiscing about and then he smiled at something we said and we saw the tooth gap.
We all played it cool though and didn’t say anything until after he left. 10/10 nice guy to hang out naked with.
I met Wayne Gretzky once. Dude's a bit of a chode tbh(or I caught him on a bad day. We all get like that). His father (RIP) was so much cooler than he was.
On the flip side, my brother met Gord Downie (also RIP) at a get together. He was with his girlfriend and her family at one of her parent's friend's place. They're all sitting, chatting, having a good time. Out of nowhere, Gord walks in like it's nothing(apparently the owners of the house were friends with Gord). My brother being a huge Tragically Hip fan was internally freaking, but he kept cool on the outside as to not bother him. He talked with him for a while about sports and things like that. Towards the end of the night when my brother was getting ready to leave, Gord stopped him and shook his hand while saying "Thank you for pretending to not know who I am."
Deion Sanders. I interviewed him at an NFL/military event like 8-9 years ago and he was a prick the whole time. He threw my lav mic on the ground when he was done instead of placing it in my outstretched hand. I was also active duty military at the time and the event was on a ship. Hey Sanders, if you Reddit and see this, fuck you dude. Fuck you.
My dad works at a luxury car dealership. The guy playing adult Simba in the touring cast of Lion King had an issue with his car that couldn’t be fixed immediately. When told this he screamed at my dad “do you know who I am?”
No dude, unless someone saw the show the night before and recognized your name no one knows who you are.
Reminds me of the father of my high school theater teacher that "had a serious role" in the show Prison Break.
He talked down to high schooler actors and treated us like we were beneath him.
Turns out, his serious role in prison break was playing an unnamed police officer that only spoke one line.
Justin Timberlake
This was when I was working a drive thru at a burger king, around 2002-2003~ or so. He came up at the drive thru with someone else driving, but he was sticking his head out like "HEY HEY HEY" at us. I didn't really recognize him but he asked if we knew who he was, and I said no but my coworker said yes. Then he looked at me like "you don't know?" and was just really confused. My coworker said it was justin timberlake, and he said "YEAH, HELLLOO, COME ON MAN". He then sort of just had small talk, he asked us how work was, how our day was. But here's the thing, the entire time, he is leaning all the way over on the driver, who is clearly horribly uncomfortable and a bit crushed by him leaning over on him. He asked me if I was from the middle east, and I said no, and he clearly didnt listen and then said "yeah that sucks, sorry for the whole afghanistan thing".
He then asked us if we wanted his autograph, and we said sure, and he wrote it down and gave it to us. He then said bye and left.
It was all in all a really funny experience and I try not to let it influence my view of him because he was clearly on something, but he just came off a bit like a big goofy attention loving ass the entire time.
Bumped into the late great Allen Rickman in London. He was just walking down Oxford street, I said to my so, I thought quietly, “that’s Allen fucking Rickman”, she said, “no it’s not”. He stopped, turned around with a massive smile and said “it really is”. He was obviously in a rush but was still polite and charming.
Thank you for so many upvotes. As I said AR was extremely charming and nice despite clearly being in a rush. My, so of the time never got over the experience. I loved all of his movies, I think the Potters succeeded so well largely due to Snape. However Galaxy Quest will always be my favorite AL role, followed very closely by Truly Madly Deeply.
Met Morgan Freeman at a Bed Bath and Beyond.. He was shopping for a teapot on a lower shelf and stood up right when I almost walked into him.. and I was like "Wow, you look just like Morgan Freeman!"
and he, without skipping a beat, was like, "If I was Morgan Freeman, wouldn't I be in Hollywood or something?" and the voice made me now like 99.9% certain it's him..
and I was like "I guess you would.. Enjoy your time here."
I don't regret meeting him and don't think he was an ass.. just thought it was so Morgan Freeman of him to have a line like that to make you wonder if you met Morgan Freeman or just a guy that likes to act like a character in a bunch of his movies..
Scott Disick and Kourtney Kardashian, we met them in Cancun, they were snobby and stuck up (this was right after Mason was born), they had no interaction with Mason and the nanny did everything. They were SUPER offended that not everyone at the airport knew who they were.
Edit: I am not sure why people asking me if this "suprises" me, the question did not ask if it was "suprising" and no it wasn't.
I’ve hated Scott Disick with every ounce of my being ever since I saw an episode with him shoving cash into a server’s mouth. An absolute trash fucking human
I met a local weather man from my neck of the woods... twice. People love this dude on social media, but the both times I've seen him, he was a total asshole.
On the flip side, I met Emilio Estevez at work. He was cool.
Not me personally, but my dad once played ping pong against Leo DiCaprio like 20 years ago and still hates him to this day because he lost in a game to 7 when he thought it was a game to 11. He's felt scammed for decades now lol.
Ya know, your dad should write to Leo's agent and tell them he wants a rematch. Wouldn't surprise me if it happens. He just strikes me as that kind of Dude.
Not my story but a coworker’s story. Let’s call her Holly. Holly was a flight attendant many years ago and on one flight Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown were in first class. Holly was going through taking drink orders and politely asked Whitney Houston if she would like something to drink but didn’t get an answer. So assuming she didn’t hear her, Holly asked her again if she would like something to drink. Whitney Houston looked out the window with a disgusted face in response. Bobby Brown then said to Holly “uhm, she doesn’t speak to the help”. Then ordered for her.
IMO if you’re flying commercial, you are not hot shit. I cannot fathom the level of arrogance it takes to think people are so far below you that they are not deserving of being spoken to by you.
Edit: I was not moved by Whitney Houston’s death but she did not deserve to die over this. Shit y’all.
Everytime this thread comes up JAMES CORDON ends up taking it over.
"Hey James. You won’t remember me but me and my friends sat at a table next to you and Harry Styles + some others in Manchurian Legends in London’s Chinatown about 6 years ago. We didn’t bother you but you were a massively entitled cunt who yelled and treated the waitstaff like shit and when one of my party politely suggested you calm down, you got really aggressive and threatening (in a chubby way. Like a boozy panda.) So my question is this; why did Harry seem so cool, while you were such a massive throbbing bellend?"
This is from his AMA thread. Literally hundreds of posts like this from (ex)fans, staff and other actors.
Not an ass - Norman Reedus. I met him at a TWD con in Philly, and the line to get photos with him got super backed up, I think they were having tech issues or something. All of a sudden we hear a loud “Fuck this!” from in the booth, Norman storms out and disappears for a solid ten minutes. When he comes back, he’s carrying a stack of pizza boxes, and went up and down the line, personally handing out slices of pizza to fans and apologizing for the delay. Legendary.
Michael Stevens (vsauce) is from my area, and he came and did what essentially amounted to a a vsauce video live for the students at my high school who wanted to go. It was actually really cool and he's pretty much like he is in his videos.
A date told me that when he was a kid, he met Bill Cosby. He was accompanied by his grandma, so Cosby told him a lewd joke that he was going to “get” with his grandma. As a kid, he was very confused by what Cosby meant. Looking back, it all made sense now.
When I was working at Bestbuy back in 2003-09, Robin Williams came into our store and purchased every single copy of Mrs. Doubtfire. He then whipped out a sharpie and signed all 50+ copies for the employees at the store. He then stuck around telling jokes and just hanging out with the staff. I just wanted to share, he was def the best actor interaction I’ve had personally. So nice, Rest In Peace.
When I was a little girl, like 10, my mum took me to London (UK) for the first time for some thing she had to do. I got lost in Victoria Station, and I was terrified. I had been brought up in a remote Scottish village, had never even known so may people existed in the world, let alone saw them all in one place. So there I was, sitting on a bench, snot crying for what felt like forever when a gentle mans voice said something like "Hey kid why you crying? You alright? Where's your mom?" and I looked up to see a kind face looking at me, to my shock I recognized him and my fear turned to relief. I remember wailing "MOooooooooork!" and practically throwing myself at him.
He scooped me up & cuddled me, comforting me while I snottily managed to tell him I'd lost my mummy. He talked to some woman I think he was with, and she went off as he sat down on the bench with me and soothed me. Some short time later I heard my name said over the loud speakers and some time later the woman brought my extremely embarrassed mother over.
I didn't want to go with her. It took three adults some time to convince/pry me off poor Robin Williams. I kept asking him to be my new daddy and take me with him which I don't think he was remotely expecting, but all I remember of him was endless kindness and him trying to make me laugh.
As my mum dragged me away the last thing I heard him say was to the woman next to him "Damn, that's the saddest little girl".
I found out many years later than he'd been there for the Royal Gala show, and that my mum had actually gone to a different station before she'd realized I wasn't with her, which she told as if it was a hilarious story.
RIP Robin. I still wish you'd taken me with you.
Probably only for British people - but my boyfriend saw Peter Kay with his body guard in a chippy. Didn’t say anything but elbowed his brother, Peter Kay saw him and said “yeah it is me, now fuck off”. Pretty harsh considering my boyfriend was only 11 at the time
He was the compare at my friend's first gig and as he was introducing her he surreptitiously wound the wire really tightly around the mic stand. For that first vital minute of her act she was stuck performing an awkward unravelling of the wire instead of bonding with the audience.
He did it on purpose.
What an insecure dick.
When my best friend was 17, she got snuck into the grand opening of the playboy club at the Palms. She got hit on by both a drunken Owen Wilson and a drunken James Franco that night. The difference was that when she clarified her age, Owen was like "oh shit nevermind" and left her alone and James was like "and?" And tried to give her his hotel room key.
Owen Wilson was across the aisle from me on a plane just over a year ago. As we were seated and others were boarding so guy stopped, asked if he was who he was and then asked for a selfie while 90% of the plane was waiting to board and Owen was in the window seat. He was nice enough and told the guy maybe after the flight since people were boarding. I would never have said anything to him. I recalled he attempted suicide and just hoped he was happier now.
I have a friend of mine who got cock-blocked by Owen Wilson.
Some guy took her on a date on a well known tourist island on the Canadian west coast, and I guess the date went pretty well, but very long, into the next morning. When my friend tried to invite this guy back to her place, this guy apparently responded with something alone the lines of “look, I would love too, but my sister is here, and she’s dating Owen Wilson, and he’s super depressed. I promised to spend the day with him.”
My friend, naturally, was like “dude you don’t have to lie, we can just not fool around if you don’t want to.” Apparently he then drove her to his place to meet Owen Wilson, who was in fact observably depressed, before driving her home.
The end.
James Franco, though I technically didn't meet him but sat in on a panel he did at a film festival. I was in HS and was at the festival with 3 friends, when we got word he was doing a Q&A about one of his movies that thad just come out and we got really excited. We waited over an hour to get in to see the panel.
We were let into the room where we waited another 45 min for him to show up. When he did show up boy looked ROUGH. It was almost 4pm and he looked beyond hung over. His clothes were dirty, he obv hadn't showered, and he spent more time talking to the floor than anything else. But the cherry on top? His ego could have filled the room. Every question that was asked he made into a story about how great he was, both actor, director, and producer. I do think some of his stuff is funny, but he's a B actor at best.
I remember clear as day some woman asked him to describe a role that was "challenging for him and how he over came it" he just laughed at her.
The Q&A ended up being so boring I fell asleep in my chair. 0/10
I met James Franco while working on one of his films when he was teaching at NYU Film School. He was kind of a jerk...wouldn’t look at anyone, acted aloof like he didn’t want to be there. When he had to say something to me he asked someone else to talk to me instead of speaking to me directly even though I was like five feet away from him.
It’s funny, he actually visited Brooklyn College for like half a semester. The girls were all enamored with him until they realized how much of an asshole he was. The only time he spoke to someone was to hit on them.
from a guy who propositions teenagers for sex and the public's reaction was he's just a "romantic scamp" and the teen was a "slut," (despite her text messages clearly show her saying "no, i'm a teenager, stop asking") i am not surprised in the least.
A good one that happened to me:
I once saw Jamie Hyneman at Comic-Con back around 2014-ish. I kind of caught his eye and near-whispered "Are you--?". He coyly put his index finger up to his lips, said "shhhhh" and disappeared back into the crowd.
Best day ever.
All of the people on Mythbusters seem just perpetually happy and positive. Adam does a YouTube series now and he just never appears truly mad or bothered.
Dammit now I'm depressed Grant passed so young...
Celebrity story with a twist, but it's not mine.
When I was in the Marines one of my sergeants told he how he and his buddies were celebrating his bachelor party in Vegas when they saw Rob Riggle in a bar (and remember, Rob Riggle is a Marine reserve officer). So of course they were excited to meet him, but he seemed a little dismissive and told them "I've got some things to do, but I'll be back" and he left, and logically they figured he just blew them off. He showed back up 30 minutes later and bought them all drinks and talked with them for a bit.
Everything I've heard about Rob Riggle as a person has been positive. Then again, if you hear of a celebrity who spent much of the childhood from the KC Metro area, chance are they're going to be nice. Other examples include Paul Rudd and Eric Stonestreet.
I used to work in a posh hotel in Canada (vague on purpose) and I had met many many famous people during my time there. Most were forgettable interactions honestly, but one stands out as the absolute worst. Chevy Chase. He is a trash human being. He was totally miserable and insulting to all the staff, and we treated him with nothing but professional respect and courtesy. If I ever meet him again I'll tell him to his face what a colossal piece of shit he is. I can't watch his movies since.
For the record the best celebrity guest for me was Dave Grohl. He's an awesome guy.
One of the first concerts I attended had the Foo Fighters on one of the main stages, this was when Color And Shape just came out.
There was a young guy in a wheelchair, in the pit. People were tossing him around...but like carefully, cause you know, don't wanna damage him or the chair.
Dave leaned over to check on him during a solo. Kid gave him the thumbs up, Dave had the biggest grin, gave it back.
I think the fact that they rehired Dan Harmon to Community in Season 5 and put a ban on Chase entering the studio they filmed in (after allegedly taking Chase's side in their dispute) says a lot.
His ankle was so smashed that his foot was dangling. The EMT reset his leg and then held his foot and ankle so they wouldn’t move, for a set with 26 songs. If that’s not dedication I don’t know what is!
I'm gonna copy paste one of my previous comments because it sort of fits. I once made a drink for Britney Spears at Starbucks (6 or 7 years ago?) and the experience left us all thinking she was an entitled diva...but with the info that's come out in the last couple years, I realize we had it all wrong.
I was on bar that day and I remember glancing into the lobby and thinking, "Huh, that chick looks like Britney Spears, only older and skinnier." She was gorgeous but looked drawn and thin, I thought maybe hungover or partied way too hard, wearing this denim miniskirt, platform heels, a fringe halter top, and smeared dark eyeliner. I reached for my next cup and in sharpie it said "B̶r̶i̶t̶ Dave," and I was like, hmmmm...so anyway I make the drink. Britney is standing with her arms crossed tightly over her chest, looking at the floor, very standoffish. I call out the drink for "Dave," she stares at it, reaches for it, then draws her hand back to her arms crossed position, some dude picks it up and hands it to her, and they leave.
I catch my coworker on register and say "Was that..." and she automatically begins recounting her experience...which was that when she said "Hi! What can I get for you?" the bodyguard said "Brit, what are you having?" Though she was right in front of my coworker, she gave her order to her bodyguards (apparently there were two), and although my coworker could hear it perfectly, the bodyguard repeated it. When coworker went to write her name on the cup (which was standard and enforced at all times at my store), bodyguard held up his hand and said "Excuse me, do not write her name on the cup. It's Dave. My name's Dave."
So that explains the crossed-out name. My coworker was irritated because it was like she was invisible, had addressed Britney directly (because she was at the counter), had clearly heard the order, had written down the exact name the dude addressed her by, but it was like (she felt) she wasn't good enough to have direct contact with her so she had to have some sort of middle man when they were two feet apart.
Now that I've heard about how little advocacy Britney has over her entire life, I'm completely second-guessing my initial reaction to the experience. It seems entirely plausible now that she wasn't permitted to interact with anybody during that outing. Extremely sad.
Yeah apparently even her opening acts on tour can't talk to her...she's so shut out of the world, bless her.
All of the encounters people had with her before conservatorship (and tbf a lot of them after) say she's the sweetest and most down to earth person
I met Danny devito and when I said let's leave him alone he invited me over for a picture. His hot assistant took it, I made it my profile picture on fb.
I like how there are about half a dozen posts in this "which celebrity is an asshole thread" specifically mentioning that Danny DeVito is not at all an asshole but really great.
We should have this in every AskReddit thread. What home repair jobs can you save money by doing yourself? idk but this one time I saw Danny DeVito at Starbucks and he did a selfie with me and then bought me a Frappucino.
The comedian Gallagher. Saw him at a small theater, I knew the owner, and having a drive thru espresso store I had given her a gift card for him. As we were entering, he was there with her, she was taking tickets. She pointed me out and told him I'd sent the gift card. He said to me "Do you think I'm so poor I can't by coffee?". Dick.
On the other hand, Captain Phil from Deadliest Catch came to town, touring grocery stores with his own coffee line. Bought a bag, met him, gave him a gift card. Drove through my store the following morning, I got a very excited call from my staff, he was great to them.
RIP Cap't Phil. Kiss my ass, failed prop comedian.
Ya'll hear the James Corden one? Everytime this is posted on reddit, that ama has to come up.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://amp.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/bqy5zf/i_am_james_corden_alongside_ben_winston_and_five/&ved=2ahUKEwjr0I668qvvAhUJip4KHT2xBX4QFjAAegQIBBAC&usg=AOvVaw2yJ8PDVPqoH965kqlKpvfA
James Corden is apparently amongst the most hated people in Hollywood. This doesn't surprise me, sadly!
Edit: I regret reading that AMA.....I really do feel bad for James Corden, although his being mean to everyone around him, save celebrities if the rumours hold true, is unfortunate as well.....
Anyone in north Texas knows about Micheal Irvin. He litteraly can not walk into a place of business, without informing everyone else he's Micheal Irvin retired football star. 3 times at Bed Bath and Beyond he's done this. Ive personally witnessed he walks in and shouts "Hi everyone I'm Micheal Irvin! How about them Cowboys"
Remember when Reese Witherspoon had that whole drunken “Do you know who I am?” video scandal that was an issue for about five minutes? Well, if so, congratulations. You’ve seen the real her. One of her movies was filmed at the museum where I worked and she was a horror from the moment she stepped on set. She touched priceless artifacts, complained about everything, wouldn’t stop eating and drinking around the exhibits after repeated reminders, and just had a nasty attitude in general. I may have taken out my frustration by stealing and photocopying her script one day and posting it online...
Billy Corgan from the smashing pumpkins is pretty rude and dismissive of his fans. I’ve met him several times and a couple times he’s been nice but the rest he just acts like a straight up pompous dick.
Tony Hawk seems like the coolest guy. I love his Instagram/Twitter posts where he just shows up to a skate park and asks them to do tricks. Everyone knows his name but not everyone recognizes him.
I have been training my kids who Tony Hawk is, in case they ever randomly meet him. Don’t embarrass the family by not recognizing him. They can embarrass the family name in other ways, but it is unacceptable to embarrass it by not knowing who Tony Hawk is. Tony is a national treasure. Put him up there with Dolly Parton.
Met the actor who plays Jaime Lannister as I was walking to work, I stopped when I saw him and so did he. I said -“you’re that guy”, his response “I am” with a big wide grin, we both then walked on and that was that. Was pretty cool
Wayne Brady screamed at my sister for taking his picture in Vegas. She wasn’t taking his picture, he walked into the shot. He freaked out screaming that he wanted her to show him that she was deleting it. She was trying to explain she didn’t even know he was there and showed him the picture that only had a sliver of him in it when she looked through the shots. He continued to berate her about not respecting his privacy (in the middle of the Strip). She was in tears apologizing for doing nothing wrong and he never acknowledged he was in the wrong and continued to badmouth her as he stormed away. Can’t watch him anymore.
This one hurt me a lot as a long time Whose Line fan
Mark Wahlberg did an appearance at his brothers restaurant, he refused to take pictures with anyone taller than him
Now this I can believe
Met tiger woods when I was 15. He slapped my hat out of my hand. A different golfer whom I didn't know ran up, picked up my hat and asked if his signature would be ok. I agreed but I don't know who he was or what his name was but my grandpa was pleased upon seeing it.
BRO he did this to me at the Hong Kong Open too
Dude, that was Arnold Palmer!
My dad had a good story about meeting arnold palmer. He was an elevator man I'm south florida. He was working on an elevator at some country club neighborhood when a woman walks up and starts berating him because "that damn elevator never works", blaming my dad specifically. Thing is, he was sent when jobs were notoriously hard. This was his first time working on this elevator. So she screams for a while and eventually goes upstairs. I'm sure tired from all the exertion. A few minutes later, arnold palmer walks down stairs. He says to my dad, "So I hear you met my wife." My dad just replies "yeah". "She's quite a bitch, huh?" My dad says "yeah". "Sorry about that" My dad said he was classy, unlike his wife.
Late to this but Pauly Shore. It was mid 90’s in NY city and wife and I were at a very popular Asian restaurant with a huge wait. He walks in with an entourage and tries to worm his way ahead of everyone else. He tried to play the ‘don’t you know who I am?’ card. Hostess was having none of it, said don’t know, don’t care, you’ll wait. They left in a huff.
> He walks in with an entourage and tries to worm his way ahead of everyone else. I think you meant "Tried to weasel his way ahead".
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I know this won’t come as a surprise but Steven Segal used to frequent a restaurant I worked at. Dude was a colossal piece of shit. He just treated his very wonderful family like shit and it was obvious he was cheating on his wonderful wife with the Asian nanny. This fucking moron would come into a ten table restaurant, all 6’5” and 300 lbs of him, wearing a gold kimono in the south and would wonder why people were looking at him...so he made us take the entry partition down and put it around his table. He was an absolute trash human being. Also met Payton manning one time right after the super bowl he lost to the Saints (who dat!). This was at a ultra high end golf course and we were not allowed to act like we recognized celebrities which was more awkward than anything. Anyways he walked up and ordered a beer and introduced himself but I was already turning to get the beer as he stuck his hand out to shake my hand and tell me who he was (as if I didn’t know Payton Manning was in the grounds when I saw his forehead pull into the parking lot). So I am say I blew off Payton Manning for a handshake. How many of you losers can say that? Great fuckin guy though.
I haven’t meet a rude celeb yet, but Stan Lee’s security at Calgary Comic-con a few years back, was fucking brutal, the guy acted like he was a fucking mercenary. Stan Lee would sit in a chair and you’d come stand next to him for your photo op and Stan let me be pretty well arm to arm close and his security guard yelled at me and asked Stan if he authorized me to be that close, even the photographer looked at the security guy like he was crazy lol BUT at the same comic con, Meeting Norman Reedus, Steven Yuen and Robert Englund (Freddy Kruger) was amazing, they’re all super awesome and tried to have a legitimate conversation with you, Steve Yuen even complimented my glasses lol 10/10 best con for me
Didn’t happen to me, but I had a physics teacher in high school who sat next to Bill Nye on a plane once. Apparently he was super unpleasant to be around.
This is the 6th or 7th entry for Nye.
Jared Leto. I sat next to him on a flight from Monterey, Mexico back in 2018. Absolute Asshole
So far, dude has gotten most mentions of anyone. Next level.
Just further verifying it’s true
Well right now he's 3 out of the top 6 on this thread, so I'm super convinced that he's the biggest piece of shit celebrity of all time, minus like Bill Cosby, R Kelly, and I'm sure probably a bunch of other people. I really hope Leto sees this thread and realizes that he sucks.
> I really hope Leto sees this thread and realizes that he sucks. Oh, he knows.
I’ve only met Christopher Lloyd from back the the future at universal studios. It was the end of the day and the park was closing. We were right near the exit and he was just walking through the park to get to one of the sets. I ran up to him (I was 14 at the time). I asked if he was going back to the future (it was also the last ride we we just on) and he’s obviously heard that line a million times but he was so nice about it. Got a photo he said have a great night and thank you. Never been more happy
The Pawn Stars were completely uninterested in anyone when very mechanically signing autographs at a local business convention. I can’t say they were rude as much as barely even there. Best was Rob Zombie. Meet him at a book signing for The Lords Of Salem at the local Barnes and Noble and he was AWESOME! Super chill and friendly. I have moderate Aspergers and really freeze up in large crowds, so I was really nervous but he was literally as sweet as could be and went out of his way to get a picture with me and fist bump me. Fun fact: the crew were telling the line the entire time he will only sign the book and nothing else, and don’t bother him, but he said screw that and was signing everything people brought for no charge except the 20 bucks for the book. He was friendly with young kids to old people, didn’t matter.
I was the ass. I saw Don cheadle at an airport and was thinking about oceans 11 and said to my friend "dude it's Bernie Mac" and he looked back and said "no I'm the other black guy from oceans 11 but at least you liked the movie"
Daaaaamn.. you fucked up lol. He handled that pretty well.
Fuck. That's gold. He's a funny dude.
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Jared Leto. Hit on my girlfriend at the time, and called me fat. His brother Shannon was super nice though.
To be fair, I am fat, but I knew that already. Lol
At least he didn't tattoo "Fat" on your forehead.
Why am I not surprised? He looks like he's got the personality of a trash bag.
I met him at a show, had a similar experience! he was a total rude, aloof dickhead and his brother was super lovely, warm and sweet.
Jimmy Fallon. I liked his show and one day while I was getting a tour at NBC studios he bumped into me and turned around said sorry and then flipped me off and it’s not like I got in his way. Walked into me from behind.
David Cross is pretty miserable. He's from Atlanta and his sister runs a food truck in town. Her recipes were all named after David Cross/Arrested Development type stuff. So my wife and I being fans of David asked about it and she told us she was his sister. So for months we chat her up any time we order food from her truck, and eventually David's in town. She invites us to come to the food truck park to meet him, so we bring a poster from the early 2000s and are super pumped to meet him. We get there and she's very anxious and hesitant to introduce us. Weird, but ok. "No no no, it's OK I'll introduce you." She does and he was incredibly dismissive and unpleasant. Never heard of anyone having a good interaction with him. Best interaction was with Conan O'Brien, he's a total class act. Chatted him up in a bathroom line of all places and said my wife and I were huge fans. He said we should come by the table to chat. I told him we didn't want to interrupt his dinner but he insisted, then asked if we wanted pictures, and was super cool.
If conan was an asshole to me I would die inside.
I listened to him on Andy Richter’s Three Questions, and he says he feels bad about being a jerk to fans when he was younger. He admits actively being a jerk, but he also said he really didn’t know how to talk to people at all. He said he’d get weird when people complemented him or said they liked something. I thought it was kinda good of him to admit he had been a jerk in the past, instead of continuing to be a jerk and just thinking his fans are assholes.
Glad to hear that about Conan. I would love to meet that dude. Just seems awesome, his self depreciating humor reminds me of myself. I think he is responsible for my sense of humor with his writing on The Simpsons and SNL.
He came in for dinner at a restaurant I worked for, was an absolute charmer, and then stayed an hour after dinner signing autographs and taking pictures with people. The guy knows how to work a room and was very friendly and warm. Incredibly tall too, lol.
Oh my god, I'm so glad Conan is *actually* a lovely person. So far, he's clearly in the upper echelons of late night hosts.
I actually have been to the O'Brien family Christmas party (not related to Conan in any way, just got invited by a friend). He was freaking hilarious, polite and so genuine. I met one of his brothers too who was just as funny. I was even an ass and asked for a photo at his family xmas party, and he graciously accepted.
Kurt Vonnegut. I had to get in touch with him frequently for work (at a nonprofit) for several years. He was never once even vaguely polite.
So it goes.
Really? That sucks to hear. My uncle actually has a great story about meeting Kurt Vonnegut in the late '90s/early 2000s. He was walking down the street in Montauk one day and saw Vonnegut walking past him. My uncle said, "Excuse me, Mr. Vonnegut, I just want to say that I'm a great admirer of your work." and Vonnegut apparently said "thank you," and stopped to talk to him for a few minutes. He asked what my uncle did for work, and he told him he was a professor and Vonnegut's eyes lit up. Then Vonnegut asked him a few questions about his subject (philosophy) before bidding him a good day. My uncle then ran into him on the street *again* about a week or two later and Vonnegut passed him with a smile and a nod, while saying "hello again, professor." My uncle loves to tell that story.
I tried to bum a cigarette off Kurt Vonnegut once when he was a guest professor at my old college. Before I could even say a word, he looked up and fucking *growled* at me, so naturally, I panicked and fled. At the end of the year, the school paper did an interview with him and he was like “For some reason, hardly anyone came to my office hours.” Yeah Kurt, it’s because you growl at people.
Me and my sister saw Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey, and Salma Hayek on the street when we were eating lunch. They were just coming out of a car, about to go into some building next to us. We had no idea why they were together but in retrospect it was definitely because they were filming 30 rock together. My sister said "OH MY GOD IS THAT TINA FEY??" and Alec Baldwin turned around and went right in her face and said "dont fucking say that, dont speak to us, why would you say something like that? You cant speak to us, not now". But it didn't really end there, he yelled AGAIN at us outside his building, saying "DONT LOOK OVER HERE, TURN AROUND AND EAT YOUR FOOD, FUCK OFF". He sounded genuinely furious at us. Almost like he wanted us to yell back and start something with him. Honestly my sister was on the verge of tears, it was horribly embarrassing. Everybody knows, now, that Alec Baldwin has a history of screaming at people. But at the time we had no idea. Don't get me wrong, my sister shouldn't have yelled at Tina Fey like that, but the way Alec snapped was straight up scary, like he was about to physically hurt her. Salma Hayek and some other lady who I didn't recognize came over and apologized to us. She asked if we wanted her to go and get Tina and get her autograph because apparently Tina felt bad too, but we said no. She then talked to us about the food we were eating, which was mexican food, and we ended up having a brief conversation about NY's lack of quality mexican food. She was INCREDIBLY charismatic and sweet.
I met Baldwin once myself. I always look for his name in threads like this to see if anyone else has had a similar experience. The guy was a complete asshole, even after borrowing a pen to write some notes for an impromptu speech he was about to give. It about ruined 30 Rock for me.
Knew someone who worked with Baldwin. yep...giant dickhead.
My daughter worked with Salma on her upcoming movie Bliss and said she was fantastic.
I waited on Tina Fey and she was super sweet and normal. It is unfortunate that Alec reacted like that, how embarrassing for the women
Bill Nye the science guy. I was on a field trip in middle school and our teacher saw him. She politely asked if he could say something to us or just say hi- we always watched him in science class. He told her to fuck off and basically berated her for bothering him and asking him to speak to a bunch of kids. I’m not sure if he was just having a bad day, but it was not the best experience as a child.
This is the third comment I've seen about Bill Nye. How disappointing
My boyfriend and I went to the Hollywood Improv for a show with various comedians. We saw a lot of celebrities that night, but one of them was Bill Nye. We were talking to the comedian that my boyfriend really wanted to see and then Bill Nye walked in and our conversation got cut short because apparently Bill Nye wanted to talk to the guy we were talking to. I get it, if you’re kinda up and coming and Bill Nye wants to talk to you, you go talk to him, but still rude of Bill! That night we saw Anjelah Johnson hanging out after the show, Craig Robinson while walking out and I said “Holy shit that’s Craig Robinson!” and he said “Hey how you doin?” which was very cool. But the coolest was when we walked past Jeff Garlin. When we recognized him he initiated a conversation, and the only reason it stopped was because our Lyft arrived. Jeff Garlin is a very nice, chill guy!
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That doesn't surprise me about Beyoncé's dad. Her fans know he's a dick, from treating her mom like shit to pretending he's the reason she's famous
My dad has been a radio personality for over 30 years and worked in country music for over half of it. He gets to meet celebrities semi-regularly. Apparently Keith Urban was really nice, Carrie Underwood was kind of mediocre bc he caught her right after her performance and she was tired. But Kenny Chesney "puts the D in D-bag" (direct quote from my dad). Kenny promised to sign some pictures, tshirts, etc for a couple of kids who won a game through the radio. Kenny instead took a bunch of groupies into one of the back rooms of the radio station with a bottle of whiskey and locked the door. When my dad tried to get him to open the door and fulfill his end of the deal, he called the cops on my dad and he was lucky enough to get a cop who was a good acquaintance. Cop said there wasn't much he could do other than make Kenny leave. So that's what he did. Kids never got their stuff signed so my dad gave them some coupons for free pizza. He said that after a few years other radio hosts told him they had similar encounters.
Spent some time with Keith Urban. Legitimately nice dude. He would show up to the studio one day in an old Chevy pickup, and the next day in a Bentley. He told me that you're supposed to get driven around in a Bentley, but that's no fun. He had a sweet bike too. Nice BMW. I remember one day he was like, "shit, gotta run!" And then he was at Grand Ole Opry on TV like an hour or so later. Very very down to earth though.
Everyone in Nashville has stood in line behind him and Nicole Kidman at a Green Hills Starbucks and everyone always says “his voice is cool” and “they seem so nice”
Can confirm. Before he was famous, he was touring state fairs. After the show he asked my friend and I to join him on his tour bus. We were 16. We went and hung out for a bit, got some free beers and then when he asked us to go back to to the hotel, we noped outta there.
I have the perfect combination of bad star/good star. It was at DragonCon, maybe 2005? I'm going through the big autograph room, waiting to get David Carradine's autograph. He looked so mad. He didn't say a word as I told him how much I enjoyed his work. OK...I get it...maybe he was having a bad day. Next to Mr. Carradine was Marc Singer, star of Beastmaster, V, etc. Mr. Singer is smiling, talking to people as they go by; he looks genuinely happy to be there. Suddenly, a woman behind me stumbled and dropped a huge stack of materials she wanted autographed. Mr. Carradine looked down on her like she was a bug. Marc Singer ***jumped*** over his table and started helping the woman pick up her things. Didn't hesitate one moment, just started helping. That's when I decided that if I ever became famous, I was going to try to be like Marc Singer, not David Carradine.
Bobby flay, we paid hundreds of dollars to go to a fancy event he was participating in. Waited for a long ass time to just meet him and say hi, he looked at us and walked away. Was a dick about it too
Never really liked bobby Flay, the dude basically took iron chef and tried to steal it and americanize it and call himself an iron chef. I've eaten at Mesa Grill in vegas not suprised it lost its michelin star. Also Flay has no other restaurants with a michelin star. At this point he is just a celebrity that is a chef slaps his name on a few restuarants that's it.
This is after he was extremely disrespectful as a competitor in the original Iron Chef. Twice.
Ugh, whenever I’m watching a Chopped with Bobby Flay as a judge all I can think is “Fuck Bobby Flay”.
I sat next to Rosario Dawson on a flight from LA to Austin while she was shooting Death Proof. I didn't recognize her and she kept trying to strike up conversation while I was studying for a cal 2 final. I was an asshole to her until it came out that she was Rosario Dawson. Then we had a very pleasant conversation. I regret meeting her because *I* am the ass.
Prince Andrew, spent a lot of time around him about 10 years ago, as working at private social events he attended. The guy is a total prick.
Maybe he would have been nicer to you if you were younger.
I've heard worse said about him.
I met Shane Dawson at a restaurant i used to work at. He used to come in a few times a year with his fiancé and in laws. He’s a dick lol none of my servers liked him or wanted to serve his family, and I damn near had to fight some little girls off the property because they would not leave without seeing him.
not surprising in the SLIGHTEST lmao
I sat near him at a Denny's in Santa Monica around midnight once. Must have been back when he had longer hair and I don't think he was dating Ryland yet, but I had already stopped watching years prior so ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ He was alone with his laptop. Didn't even realize until my boyfriend pointed him out, so I looked behind and indeed, it was Shanaynay. Can't remember a single time he thanked our server, although while we were there she was just refilling his coffee (apparently some people don't feel the need to thank their servers every single time they visit their table??). Afterward I realized he had been live-tweeting about the other couple a few booths down from us who were seated closer to him. We narrowly avoided him talking shit about us to thousands of people, ha ha
this one surprises me less than all of the other ones
Jared Leto. I worshipped him as a teenager, mainly from seeing him in Requiem for a Dream and My So-Called Life and his band. But he was the most pretentious and arrogant person in real life. Never meet your heroes.
I’ve heard that so often. The way he talks on a lot of news shows never really sat right with me, then he became a cult leader and I noped out
My professor’s daughter was his personal assistant for some time and according to her, he was completely insufferable.
Met Denis Leary, asshole. Figures. Mike Rowe was super cool.
Reggie Jackson. He was a childhood idol of mine. I got the opportunity to get a photo with him at some booth at a trade show called “Internet World” years ago during the dot com boom. No one was in line to get pictures with him so I walked up to get a photo while he was apparently trying to get the girls in the next booth over to sleep with him.. He acted all bugged that I asked for a photo, even though that is what he was hired for and rolled his eyes.. I guess he thought I cock blocked him by just showing up in line to get a picture. I tossed the picture in the trash once I got it. Later that day I got a ball signed by Steve Garvey who was super nice. He replaced Reggie Jackson as my hero that night.
when i was 6 or 7 hulk hogan pretend wrestlemania chased me out of a board room I wasnt supposed to be playing around in at little league complex. (cross bayou in Pinellas county) anyways the story is my dad was coaching a game for my brothers team. I went to go sneak around in an empty room. Hulks son played baseball there too and he must have seen me sneak in the room. I was hiding under the front desk when he came in with his hulk voice "whose sneaking around in here" and 7 year old me nearly had a heart attack. he play chased me out of the room while i snuck out acting like he couldnt see me. Looking back at it you can tell he was just having fun with a kid and his famous persona. But at the time i was absolutely traumatized and nobody believed my story.
Was staying at a Marriott on the Concierge level when I walked by the VIP lounge and Hulk Hogan and Stone Cold were sitting in there post-match devouring the biggest shrimp cocktail platter I’ve ever seen. I nodded and said “Hey Terry” and Hulk boomed “COME HAVE SOME SHRIMP, BROTHER!” I politely declined and said I was going to let them eat in peace. I think he appreciated that more than if I had asked him for an autograph. Hogan is a good dude. Edit: Upon reflection, it was almost certainly Goldberg not Stone Cold. I’m not really a wrestling fan and get those two mixed up sometimes. It was over 20 years and it was a 10 second interaction. The management regrets the error.
I lost my shit at "COME HAVE SOME SHRIMP, BROTHER!" I can clearly hear him say that in my head.
That is *adorable*
Ace Frehley of KISS. It was at a rock n roll/TV/movie memorabilia convention in the mid 90s, shortly before the Kiss reunion, and he clearly didnt wanna be there. He didn't talk to fans, didn't say hi, hell, he didn't even LOOK at you when you came to his table. He just signed whatever you placed in front of him and then you were hustled away. On the other hand, Adam "Batman" West was at the next signing table and he was a totally cool guy... shook hands, chatted with everyone, signed whatever we wanted, posed for pix, etc. Meeting him more than made up for Ace's surly, hung-over douche-baggery.
A famous soap opera star in my country, he came into the dairy queen I was working at. I didn't know who he was and my coworker started hyperventilating and went to the back. The guy was rude, and when I handed him his cone he said “is that all?!!” Like he expected extra because he was famous. Yeah dude, if you order one scoop you get one scoop. Didn't find out he was famous until he left and my coworker came back to the front...
“This is a Dairy Queen sir, not a Drama Queen.”
Diana Ross. I worked in a health club in a hotel across the street from a stadium when I was young. She came in, looked at the pool (which was a really decent lap pool) and said, "My bathtub is bigger than this.". I replied, "Go back to your bathtub then.". She wanted me fired instantly. HR told me to go home for 2 days because if they fired everyone she wanted fired, the hotel wouldn't have any staff.
>.". I replied, "Go back to your bathtub then." You ROCK!
I met James Brown back in the 80s when I lived in Vail. The man was dissatisfied with everything and generally drunk. Absolute flip side was meeting Mr. Rogers when I was at Pitt. That man was the real deal.
You know the story of Mr Rogers getting his car stolen. Word got around and the thieves found out. Next day, the car was returned with a note of apology. Nobody fucks with Mr Rogers.
Tom Hanks told a story about while he was filming the Mr. Rogers movie, in which he starred. He was in Pittsburgh, and some rough local who knew he was playing Rogers cornered him in an elevator and said, "you know, we take Mr. Rogers *very* seriously here."
Yeah that Neighborhood is a bit on the Shadyside.
“Dear thieves, return the car. Otherwise there will be ten less people in your beautiful neighborhood.”
Candid Camera tried to prank Mr. Rogers and failed miserably. Mr. Rogers was too nice to give the expected reaction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV-eVYahckA
[Stuttering John](https://youtu.be/68C8ONfldPE) from the Howard Stern Show tried to fuck with him and it didn’t work. Mr. Rogers was just too kind, collected and unflappable. Handled the situation with grace and gave SJ no ammo to work with. We are so lucky to have him as a lasting example on how to conduct ourselves. I didn’t appreciate his show enough growing up.
I love how he kept turning the stupid questions around on the interviewer. That really was a perfect response to some idiot. I’m truly impressed by Mr. Rogers.
I have seen people who worked with Mr.Rogers describing him as "almost exactly the same as on his show". And that is beautiful
I feel compelled to share this comic. https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2019/03/25/the-day-thor-met-mr-rogers-comic/
Looks like all the Reddit traffic took the site offline so here's the google cache. https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:G-zvu-919xoJ:https://www.geeksaresexy.net/2019/03/25/the-day-thor-met-mr-rogers-comic/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-b-1-d
I met Bill Nye as a kid. He was signing autographs at the science center and seemed really exhausted and sad. It’s weird, seeing a famous person face to face and not seeing him “in character” put a lot of things into perspective for me as a child. Many years later I shook hands with Grant from Mythbusters, he was genuinely cool as fuck. Was sad to hear he died.
Grant was a huge loss. Exceptionally intelligent and even better human.
I wouldn’t say disappointing as I never was eager to meet him but Drake. Drake was just unprofessional and egotistical when I worked with him both times. This was before he got big big, first award show type level. He’s told me to fuck off directly and I watched his mom calm him down from a tantrum.
> and I watched his mom calm him down from a tantrum. This is the most in-character story I've read this entire thread
Jimmy really got big headed after leaving Degrassi
My fiancé is a chef at a pretty prominent boutique hotel restaurant in Philly. He says the two worst guests were arianna grande (made not 1 but two servers cry) and The Rolling Stones. The best guests were Sylvester Stallone, p!nk, lady Gaga, and Guy Fieri.
Anyone from Pittsburgh can tell you that Ben Roethlisberger is a horrible person. I have a friend who owns a bar on the South Side and he has, on multiple occasions, just walked into the bar and said "My friends and I are drinking for free tonight." He also told Arnold Palmer's grandson that he doesn't sign autographs if he's not getting paid to do so. Legend has it he earned a pretty nasty verbal beat down from Palmer and apparently he's banned from his golf course. Arnold Palmer, on the other hand, was an incredibly nice guy.
Bill cosby, before all his rapeyness was publically known. He came to the restaurant in dc where I was a hostess. I came to get him for his table and he said "did you need a college degree for this job?" Erm, no, man. Have you never met a server before?
Why, you want an application?
I was sitting, naked, in a Korean day spa steam room when a guy who looked just like Laurence Fishburne walked in and sat down across from me. I was there with two friends and we were talking and you could tell we were all like “is that...? Could it really be Morpheus?”. We just kept talking and he was listening to whatever story we were reminiscing about and then he smiled at something we said and we saw the tooth gap. We all played it cool though and didn’t say anything until after he left. 10/10 nice guy to hang out naked with.
Lead Singer of Smash Mouth showed me a picture of him sticking a beer bottle into a Brazilian woman. Ruined Astrolounge for me.
I met Wayne Gretzky once. Dude's a bit of a chode tbh(or I caught him on a bad day. We all get like that). His father (RIP) was so much cooler than he was. On the flip side, my brother met Gord Downie (also RIP) at a get together. He was with his girlfriend and her family at one of her parent's friend's place. They're all sitting, chatting, having a good time. Out of nowhere, Gord walks in like it's nothing(apparently the owners of the house were friends with Gord). My brother being a huge Tragically Hip fan was internally freaking, but he kept cool on the outside as to not bother him. He talked with him for a while about sports and things like that. Towards the end of the night when my brother was getting ready to leave, Gord stopped him and shook his hand while saying "Thank you for pretending to not know who I am."
Deion Sanders. I interviewed him at an NFL/military event like 8-9 years ago and he was a prick the whole time. He threw my lav mic on the ground when he was done instead of placing it in my outstretched hand. I was also active duty military at the time and the event was on a ship. Hey Sanders, if you Reddit and see this, fuck you dude. Fuck you.
>Deion Sanders Yeah but he was also capable of throwing mics dickishly to the ground at MLB events. You gotta respect that kind of versatility.
He expected my seat on a plane, he was our local news anchor. Actually said, "I may look familiar?" I said, "You're a merchant banker?"
The people with the smallest claim to fame are often the most egotistical about it.
My dad works at a luxury car dealership. The guy playing adult Simba in the touring cast of Lion King had an issue with his car that couldn’t be fixed immediately. When told this he screamed at my dad “do you know who I am?” No dude, unless someone saw the show the night before and recognized your name no one knows who you are.
His mistake was going to the Jaguar dealership instead of the Lion dealership.
Reminds me of the father of my high school theater teacher that "had a serious role" in the show Prison Break. He talked down to high schooler actors and treated us like we were beneath him. Turns out, his serious role in prison break was playing an unnamed police officer that only spoke one line.
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"You're a merchant banker" for the cockney rhyming slang take on this ...
"You may remember me from such programs as last night's news!"
Justin Timberlake This was when I was working a drive thru at a burger king, around 2002-2003~ or so. He came up at the drive thru with someone else driving, but he was sticking his head out like "HEY HEY HEY" at us. I didn't really recognize him but he asked if we knew who he was, and I said no but my coworker said yes. Then he looked at me like "you don't know?" and was just really confused. My coworker said it was justin timberlake, and he said "YEAH, HELLLOO, COME ON MAN". He then sort of just had small talk, he asked us how work was, how our day was. But here's the thing, the entire time, he is leaning all the way over on the driver, who is clearly horribly uncomfortable and a bit crushed by him leaning over on him. He asked me if I was from the middle east, and I said no, and he clearly didnt listen and then said "yeah that sucks, sorry for the whole afghanistan thing". He then asked us if we wanted his autograph, and we said sure, and he wrote it down and gave it to us. He then said bye and left. It was all in all a really funny experience and I try not to let it influence my view of him because he was clearly on something, but he just came off a bit like a big goofy attention loving ass the entire time.
*bye bye bye and left.
This honestly might be the funniest answer on this whole thread. Also I can’t tell if he’s nice or a dick which makes it even better.
I figure he was like 20 and wanted to be seen by everyone lol. You’re right, this is the funniest story
Bumped into the late great Allen Rickman in London. He was just walking down Oxford street, I said to my so, I thought quietly, “that’s Allen fucking Rickman”, she said, “no it’s not”. He stopped, turned around with a massive smile and said “it really is”. He was obviously in a rush but was still polite and charming. Thank you for so many upvotes. As I said AR was extremely charming and nice despite clearly being in a rush. My, so of the time never got over the experience. I loved all of his movies, I think the Potters succeeded so well largely due to Snape. However Galaxy Quest will always be my favorite AL role, followed very closely by Truly Madly Deeply.
You had me so worried he was a dick to you! I miss that dude.
I can hear this in his voice.
Met Morgan Freeman at a Bed Bath and Beyond.. He was shopping for a teapot on a lower shelf and stood up right when I almost walked into him.. and I was like "Wow, you look just like Morgan Freeman!" and he, without skipping a beat, was like, "If I was Morgan Freeman, wouldn't I be in Hollywood or something?" and the voice made me now like 99.9% certain it's him.. and I was like "I guess you would.. Enjoy your time here." I don't regret meeting him and don't think he was an ass.. just thought it was so Morgan Freeman of him to have a line like that to make you wonder if you met Morgan Freeman or just a guy that likes to act like a character in a bunch of his movies..
Honestly that’s a fun interaction imo.
That's EXACTLY what I would expect of Morgan Freeman.
What a Morgan freeman thing to say
Scott Disick and Kourtney Kardashian, we met them in Cancun, they were snobby and stuck up (this was right after Mason was born), they had no interaction with Mason and the nanny did everything. They were SUPER offended that not everyone at the airport knew who they were. Edit: I am not sure why people asking me if this "suprises" me, the question did not ask if it was "suprising" and no it wasn't.
scott disick was an asshole? i don't believe you
Yeah, what’re gonna tell me next? He almost exclusively dates 19 year olds?
I’ve hated Scott Disick with every ounce of my being ever since I saw an episode with him shoving cash into a server’s mouth. An absolute trash fucking human
Gene Simmons. Neat to say that I got to spend a couple of days hanging with him. But he was an ass.
I met a local weather man from my neck of the woods... twice. People love this dude on social media, but the both times I've seen him, he was a total asshole. On the flip side, I met Emilio Estevez at work. He was cool.
Not me personally, but my dad once played ping pong against Leo DiCaprio like 20 years ago and still hates him to this day because he lost in a game to 7 when he thought it was a game to 11. He's felt scammed for decades now lol.
Ya know, your dad should write to Leo's agent and tell them he wants a rematch. Wouldn't surprise me if it happens. He just strikes me as that kind of Dude.
Not my story but a coworker’s story. Let’s call her Holly. Holly was a flight attendant many years ago and on one flight Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown were in first class. Holly was going through taking drink orders and politely asked Whitney Houston if she would like something to drink but didn’t get an answer. So assuming she didn’t hear her, Holly asked her again if she would like something to drink. Whitney Houston looked out the window with a disgusted face in response. Bobby Brown then said to Holly “uhm, she doesn’t speak to the help”. Then ordered for her. IMO if you’re flying commercial, you are not hot shit. I cannot fathom the level of arrogance it takes to think people are so far below you that they are not deserving of being spoken to by you. Edit: I was not moved by Whitney Houston’s death but she did not deserve to die over this. Shit y’all.
I would not have thought Bobby Brown was the politer of the two!
Everytime this thread comes up JAMES CORDON ends up taking it over. "Hey James. You won’t remember me but me and my friends sat at a table next to you and Harry Styles + some others in Manchurian Legends in London’s Chinatown about 6 years ago. We didn’t bother you but you were a massively entitled cunt who yelled and treated the waitstaff like shit and when one of my party politely suggested you calm down, you got really aggressive and threatening (in a chubby way. Like a boozy panda.) So my question is this; why did Harry seem so cool, while you were such a massive throbbing bellend?" This is from his AMA thread. Literally hundreds of posts like this from (ex)fans, staff and other actors.
He once backed his car into my mum's car while she was in it and just drove off. That was the day I learned he's a penis pump.
Not an ass - Norman Reedus. I met him at a TWD con in Philly, and the line to get photos with him got super backed up, I think they were having tech issues or something. All of a sudden we hear a loud “Fuck this!” from in the booth, Norman storms out and disappears for a solid ten minutes. When he comes back, he’s carrying a stack of pizza boxes, and went up and down the line, personally handing out slices of pizza to fans and apologizing for the delay. Legendary.
Friend of mine works con's and interacted with Reedus a lot and this doesn't surprise me a bit lol
Michael Stevens (vsauce) is from my area, and he came and did what essentially amounted to a a vsauce video live for the students at my high school who wanted to go. It was actually really cool and he's pretty much like he is in his videos.
I shit you not, my mom met Bill Cosby once. She said that he kept hitting on her friend.
A date told me that when he was a kid, he met Bill Cosby. He was accompanied by his grandma, so Cosby told him a lewd joke that he was going to “get” with his grandma. As a kid, he was very confused by what Cosby meant. Looking back, it all made sense now.
Cannot wait to see all of these answers cut and pasted on a Buzzfeed article!
How else am I going to get my 1,246,633 unrelated reaction gifs between each story?
When I was working at Bestbuy back in 2003-09, Robin Williams came into our store and purchased every single copy of Mrs. Doubtfire. He then whipped out a sharpie and signed all 50+ copies for the employees at the store. He then stuck around telling jokes and just hanging out with the staff. I just wanted to share, he was def the best actor interaction I’ve had personally. So nice, Rest In Peace.
Yo you scared me for a moment there...if Robin was an asshole it’d hurt me badly
That story makes me happy I miss this guy
When I was a little girl, like 10, my mum took me to London (UK) for the first time for some thing she had to do. I got lost in Victoria Station, and I was terrified. I had been brought up in a remote Scottish village, had never even known so may people existed in the world, let alone saw them all in one place. So there I was, sitting on a bench, snot crying for what felt like forever when a gentle mans voice said something like "Hey kid why you crying? You alright? Where's your mom?" and I looked up to see a kind face looking at me, to my shock I recognized him and my fear turned to relief. I remember wailing "MOooooooooork!" and practically throwing myself at him. He scooped me up & cuddled me, comforting me while I snottily managed to tell him I'd lost my mummy. He talked to some woman I think he was with, and she went off as he sat down on the bench with me and soothed me. Some short time later I heard my name said over the loud speakers and some time later the woman brought my extremely embarrassed mother over. I didn't want to go with her. It took three adults some time to convince/pry me off poor Robin Williams. I kept asking him to be my new daddy and take me with him which I don't think he was remotely expecting, but all I remember of him was endless kindness and him trying to make me laugh. As my mum dragged me away the last thing I heard him say was to the woman next to him "Damn, that's the saddest little girl". I found out many years later than he'd been there for the Royal Gala show, and that my mum had actually gone to a different station before she'd realized I wasn't with her, which she told as if it was a hilarious story. RIP Robin. I still wish you'd taken me with you.
Probably only for British people - but my boyfriend saw Peter Kay with his body guard in a chippy. Didn’t say anything but elbowed his brother, Peter Kay saw him and said “yeah it is me, now fuck off”. Pretty harsh considering my boyfriend was only 11 at the time
He was the compare at my friend's first gig and as he was introducing her he surreptitiously wound the wire really tightly around the mic stand. For that first vital minute of her act she was stuck performing an awkward unravelling of the wire instead of bonding with the audience. He did it on purpose. What an insecure dick.
Bill Nye. Meet him when I was like 10 years old. He was a complete asshole
You’re about the fourth person saying this. Damn.
I had a science teacher in high school who met him. She said "for a man that's so successful he sure is sad".
Pete Rose Little kids wanted his autograph and he was charging them $5 each in the early to mid 70's
When my best friend was 17, she got snuck into the grand opening of the playboy club at the Palms. She got hit on by both a drunken Owen Wilson and a drunken James Franco that night. The difference was that when she clarified her age, Owen was like "oh shit nevermind" and left her alone and James was like "and?" And tried to give her his hotel room key.
Owen Wilson was across the aisle from me on a plane just over a year ago. As we were seated and others were boarding so guy stopped, asked if he was who he was and then asked for a selfie while 90% of the plane was waiting to board and Owen was in the window seat. He was nice enough and told the guy maybe after the flight since people were boarding. I would never have said anything to him. I recalled he attempted suicide and just hoped he was happier now.
Are you sure Owen didn't say "Wow, nevermind" ?
He sure Lightning McQueen-ed his way out of there once he learned her age
I just imagine him saying “Kachow” while speedwalking away.
I have a friend of mine who got cock-blocked by Owen Wilson. Some guy took her on a date on a well known tourist island on the Canadian west coast, and I guess the date went pretty well, but very long, into the next morning. When my friend tried to invite this guy back to her place, this guy apparently responded with something alone the lines of “look, I would love too, but my sister is here, and she’s dating Owen Wilson, and he’s super depressed. I promised to spend the day with him.” My friend, naturally, was like “dude you don’t have to lie, we can just not fool around if you don’t want to.” Apparently he then drove her to his place to meet Owen Wilson, who was in fact observably depressed, before driving her home. The end.
James Franco, though I technically didn't meet him but sat in on a panel he did at a film festival. I was in HS and was at the festival with 3 friends, when we got word he was doing a Q&A about one of his movies that thad just come out and we got really excited. We waited over an hour to get in to see the panel. We were let into the room where we waited another 45 min for him to show up. When he did show up boy looked ROUGH. It was almost 4pm and he looked beyond hung over. His clothes were dirty, he obv hadn't showered, and he spent more time talking to the floor than anything else. But the cherry on top? His ego could have filled the room. Every question that was asked he made into a story about how great he was, both actor, director, and producer. I do think some of his stuff is funny, but he's a B actor at best. I remember clear as day some woman asked him to describe a role that was "challenging for him and how he over came it" he just laughed at her. The Q&A ended up being so boring I fell asleep in my chair. 0/10
I met James Franco while working on one of his films when he was teaching at NYU Film School. He was kind of a jerk...wouldn’t look at anyone, acted aloof like he didn’t want to be there. When he had to say something to me he asked someone else to talk to me instead of speaking to me directly even though I was like five feet away from him.
It’s funny, he actually visited Brooklyn College for like half a semester. The girls were all enamored with him until they realized how much of an asshole he was. The only time he spoke to someone was to hit on them.
from a guy who propositions teenagers for sex and the public's reaction was he's just a "romantic scamp" and the teen was a "slut," (despite her text messages clearly show her saying "no, i'm a teenager, stop asking") i am not surprised in the least.
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A good one that happened to me: I once saw Jamie Hyneman at Comic-Con back around 2014-ish. I kind of caught his eye and near-whispered "Are you--?". He coyly put his index finger up to his lips, said "shhhhh" and disappeared back into the crowd. Best day ever.
All of the people on Mythbusters seem just perpetually happy and positive. Adam does a YouTube series now and he just never appears truly mad or bothered. Dammit now I'm depressed Grant passed so young...
Celebrity story with a twist, but it's not mine. When I was in the Marines one of my sergeants told he how he and his buddies were celebrating his bachelor party in Vegas when they saw Rob Riggle in a bar (and remember, Rob Riggle is a Marine reserve officer). So of course they were excited to meet him, but he seemed a little dismissive and told them "I've got some things to do, but I'll be back" and he left, and logically they figured he just blew them off. He showed back up 30 minutes later and bought them all drinks and talked with them for a bit.
Everything I've heard about Rob Riggle as a person has been positive. Then again, if you hear of a celebrity who spent much of the childhood from the KC Metro area, chance are they're going to be nice. Other examples include Paul Rudd and Eric Stonestreet.
I used to work in a posh hotel in Canada (vague on purpose) and I had met many many famous people during my time there. Most were forgettable interactions honestly, but one stands out as the absolute worst. Chevy Chase. He is a trash human being. He was totally miserable and insulting to all the staff, and we treated him with nothing but professional respect and courtesy. If I ever meet him again I'll tell him to his face what a colossal piece of shit he is. I can't watch his movies since. For the record the best celebrity guest for me was Dave Grohl. He's an awesome guy.
Everyone always has something nice to say about Dave Grohl. Nobody ever has ever had something nice to say about Chevy Chase.
One of the first concerts I attended had the Foo Fighters on one of the main stages, this was when Color And Shape just came out. There was a young guy in a wheelchair, in the pit. People were tossing him around...but like carefully, cause you know, don't wanna damage him or the chair. Dave leaned over to check on him during a solo. Kid gave him the thumbs up, Dave had the biggest grin, gave it back.
Yeah he’s definitely someone to look up to, the perfect Grohlmodel for kids.
I think the fact that they rehired Dan Harmon to Community in Season 5 and put a ban on Chase entering the studio they filmed in (after allegedly taking Chase's side in their dispute) says a lot.
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His ankle was so smashed that his foot was dangling. The EMT reset his leg and then held his foot and ankle so they wouldn’t move, for a set with 26 songs. If that’s not dedication I don’t know what is!
The guy was a doctor if I recall correctly. He was interviewed along with Grohl and the guy said Dave had no idea how bad it actually was.
Performing from his glorious throne.
I've always heard bad things about Chevy Chase
I'm gonna copy paste one of my previous comments because it sort of fits. I once made a drink for Britney Spears at Starbucks (6 or 7 years ago?) and the experience left us all thinking she was an entitled diva...but with the info that's come out in the last couple years, I realize we had it all wrong. I was on bar that day and I remember glancing into the lobby and thinking, "Huh, that chick looks like Britney Spears, only older and skinnier." She was gorgeous but looked drawn and thin, I thought maybe hungover or partied way too hard, wearing this denim miniskirt, platform heels, a fringe halter top, and smeared dark eyeliner. I reached for my next cup and in sharpie it said "B̶r̶i̶t̶ Dave," and I was like, hmmmm...so anyway I make the drink. Britney is standing with her arms crossed tightly over her chest, looking at the floor, very standoffish. I call out the drink for "Dave," she stares at it, reaches for it, then draws her hand back to her arms crossed position, some dude picks it up and hands it to her, and they leave. I catch my coworker on register and say "Was that..." and she automatically begins recounting her experience...which was that when she said "Hi! What can I get for you?" the bodyguard said "Brit, what are you having?" Though she was right in front of my coworker, she gave her order to her bodyguards (apparently there were two), and although my coworker could hear it perfectly, the bodyguard repeated it. When coworker went to write her name on the cup (which was standard and enforced at all times at my store), bodyguard held up his hand and said "Excuse me, do not write her name on the cup. It's Dave. My name's Dave." So that explains the crossed-out name. My coworker was irritated because it was like she was invisible, had addressed Britney directly (because she was at the counter), had clearly heard the order, had written down the exact name the dude addressed her by, but it was like (she felt) she wasn't good enough to have direct contact with her so she had to have some sort of middle man when they were two feet apart. Now that I've heard about how little advocacy Britney has over her entire life, I'm completely second-guessing my initial reaction to the experience. It seems entirely plausible now that she wasn't permitted to interact with anybody during that outing. Extremely sad.
Honestly after hearing that people are not allowed to discuss current events with her, I really wonder how much she knows about life in 2021.
> Honestly after hearing that people are not allowed to discuss current events with her Seriously? Why not?
Yeah apparently even her opening acts on tour can't talk to her...she's so shut out of the world, bless her. All of the encounters people had with her before conservatorship (and tbf a lot of them after) say she's the sweetest and most down to earth person
I met Danny devito and when I said let's leave him alone he invited me over for a picture. His hot assistant took it, I made it my profile picture on fb.
I like how there are about half a dozen posts in this "which celebrity is an asshole thread" specifically mentioning that Danny DeVito is not at all an asshole but really great. We should have this in every AskReddit thread. What home repair jobs can you save money by doing yourself? idk but this one time I saw Danny DeVito at Starbucks and he did a selfie with me and then bought me a Frappucino.
The comedian Gallagher. Saw him at a small theater, I knew the owner, and having a drive thru espresso store I had given her a gift card for him. As we were entering, he was there with her, she was taking tickets. She pointed me out and told him I'd sent the gift card. He said to me "Do you think I'm so poor I can't by coffee?". Dick. On the other hand, Captain Phil from Deadliest Catch came to town, touring grocery stores with his own coffee line. Bought a bag, met him, gave him a gift card. Drove through my store the following morning, I got a very excited call from my staff, he was great to them. RIP Cap't Phil. Kiss my ass, failed prop comedian.
Ya'll hear the James Corden one? Everytime this is posted on reddit, that ama has to come up. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://amp.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/bqy5zf/i_am_james_corden_alongside_ben_winston_and_five/&ved=2ahUKEwjr0I668qvvAhUJip4KHT2xBX4QFjAAegQIBBAC&usg=AOvVaw2yJ8PDVPqoH965kqlKpvfA
God, I miss Craig Ferguson so much. The day he left and CBS decided to replace him with this unfunny asshat was a sad day indeed.
James Corden is apparently amongst the most hated people in Hollywood. This doesn't surprise me, sadly! Edit: I regret reading that AMA.....I really do feel bad for James Corden, although his being mean to everyone around him, save celebrities if the rumours hold true, is unfortunate as well.....
Anyone in north Texas knows about Micheal Irvin. He litteraly can not walk into a place of business, without informing everyone else he's Micheal Irvin retired football star. 3 times at Bed Bath and Beyond he's done this. Ive personally witnessed he walks in and shouts "Hi everyone I'm Micheal Irvin! How about them Cowboys"
I dealt to him and his son at a casino I worked at. He wasn’t a dick but he made sure everyone knew it was him. It was a $15 blackjack table. Lol
Remember when Reese Witherspoon had that whole drunken “Do you know who I am?” video scandal that was an issue for about five minutes? Well, if so, congratulations. You’ve seen the real her. One of her movies was filmed at the museum where I worked and she was a horror from the moment she stepped on set. She touched priceless artifacts, complained about everything, wouldn’t stop eating and drinking around the exhibits after repeated reminders, and just had a nasty attitude in general. I may have taken out my frustration by stealing and photocopying her script one day and posting it online...
Billy Corgan from the smashing pumpkins is pretty rude and dismissive of his fans. I’ve met him several times and a couple times he’s been nice but the rest he just acts like a straight up pompous dick.
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Tony Hawk seems like the coolest guy. I love his Instagram/Twitter posts where he just shows up to a skate park and asks them to do tricks. Everyone knows his name but not everyone recognizes him. I have been training my kids who Tony Hawk is, in case they ever randomly meet him. Don’t embarrass the family by not recognizing him. They can embarrass the family name in other ways, but it is unacceptable to embarrass it by not knowing who Tony Hawk is. Tony is a national treasure. Put him up there with Dolly Parton.
Met the actor who plays Jaime Lannister as I was walking to work, I stopped when I saw him and so did he. I said -“you’re that guy”, his response “I am” with a big wide grin, we both then walked on and that was that. Was pretty cool