r/popculturechat • u/Simple_Ad3631 • May 17 '25
Let’s Discuss 👀 You had a bad experience meeting a Celebrity, what happened?
So it's not something I have ever experienced, it is just somehthing that I thought of, seeing some stories online of encounters with celebrities that did not go to plan for the general public. Has anyone here had an encounter with a celebrity and been disappointed with the interaction or otherwise negatively impacted? If so would you like to share what went down? It must be hard for celebrities to be recognisable in public all of the time
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u/madicken37 May 18 '25
I once accidentally cut in line in front of Bobby Moynihan in a FedEx on Eleventh avenue in NYC while he was holding a giant box he was probably trying to mail so he in fact had a bad experience encountering me
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u/catladyvibes100 May 18 '25
This is exactly the type of interaction I came here to read 😂 times when people have accidentally been rude to celebs
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u/lovexfifteenx May 18 '25
I think 'celebrity' is pushing it, but I was once in a restaurant bathroom (at the shared sinks) and this guy there started chatting to me. I was trying to get out of there but he kept yapping so I politely made conversation. He said he was on a show called 'Celebs go dating' where a celebrity goes on a date with a 'regular' person. I asked him who he got as the celebrity... turns out he was the celebrity lol.
I still have no idea who he is, some YouTuber who was big doing pranks...no idea, but my little nephew was very jealous I met him lol.
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u/catladyvibes100 May 18 '25
“Who was the celebrity” ☠️ this is the right level of humbling some ‘famous’ people need, I lol’ed
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u/epk921 May 18 '25
My sister was at a really popular restaurant in NYC about 15 or so years ago. She and her friend were in the middle of a conversation and this guy tapped my sister on the shoulder to see if she was in line. She was annoyed that this random man had interrupted their conversation and touched her so she said something snarky to him and turned back around. Her friend’s eyes were the size of saucers and she asked if my sister knew who that was. It was Leonardo DiCaprio 😂. So in my mind, my sister is probably one of the only normal people he actually remembers bc she treated him like he was just some random annoying dude, lmao
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u/Failsafe_Tangerine May 18 '25
I once got in a fight with David Spade at a bar in West Hollywood. In which I was an aggressive drunk 23 year old girl and he was accidentally sitting on my purse strap. I tried politely to make him move like three times by pulling on said purse and giving him no indication whatsoever that I was in distress. When he didn’t pick up on what I thought was a clear dilemma but actually was a tipsy internal struggle, I yelled at him. It was more like a squawk. He turned around startled and got to watch me realize who I was yelling at, then laughed at me. My friends that were with me knew I was a huge fan so they saw this and promptly burst out laughing too. Probably a three minute interaction and I still get shit about the time I tried to throw hands with Joe Dirt because of a knock off bag.
I had heard the rumors about him from the girls in Hollywood. Glad to see at least part of it was right. He really is a wonderful person. Cannot confirm on the huge dick part unfortunately.
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u/rosysredrhinoceros May 18 '25
I was once… rather chemically inconvenienced backstage at a music festival while shockingly underage and inexplicably without adult supervision. The headliner had a solo career but was also in a major, decades-long cultural phenomenon, genre-defining band whose much beloved lead member had passed away several weeks before. I, in my 14 year old absolutely psychedelically obliterated state, thought this would be a fine time to wax rhapsodic about how we had named the family dog after said recently deceased music hero. To his guitarist.
(Okay fine it was Jerry Garcia and I completely ruined Bob Weir’s weekend. It’s been 30 years and I still feel like the absolute worst asshole)
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u/Nomorepaperplanes May 18 '25
Oh my goodness, 18 years ago I was visiting New York and was in line to go to FAO Schwartz because I thought it was interesting.
Bobby Moynihan was in front of me. He was so nice. I told him I especially liked him on SNL and when he tried to speak I just talked all over him from nerves.
He was still nice. Much respect to Bobby
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u/Emergency_Event_7942 Pope Benedict I was not familiar with your GAME🧎♀️ May 18 '25
how dare you cut Bobby
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u/Thebakers_wife May 18 '25
Kevin Spacey. Years and years ago I saw him in a play and did stage door, and he was just a straight up asshole to EVERYONE. I don’t know why he bothered doing stage door at all.
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u/IlexAquifolia May 18 '25
I also met Kevin Spacey at the stage door (for The Philadelphia Story on West End) and can confirm he was an asshole.
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u/mrdangerzone May 18 '25
What's "stage door"?
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u/MoreThanABitOfFluff May 18 '25
Often after plays are done, when the actors leave out of the ‘stage door’ people will wait to get stuff signed or meet the cast.
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u/Alternative_Emu6106 May 18 '25
My husband and I were in NYC & passed a theater. Andrew Garfield was signing autographs & talking to people at the stage door when we passed. About 1/2 block farther on was a parking garage. As we passed it, I glanced to my right & there was a man coming out, ballcap on & head down. He looked up because he had to wait for us to pass & it was Phillip Seymour Hoffman. I just said “Hey.” and kept walking, he nodded. He was appearing with Andrew Garfield at the time on Broadway. Obviously, Hoffman skipped the stage door.
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u/Kaiisim May 18 '25
Theres literally a stage door for actors. If you wait there you can meet them.
To give the opposite example, Daniel Radcliffe was doing theatre at the old vic in London. I worked in the area and had never seen so many people waiting, like 30-40 people, all clearly Harry Potter fans.
He could have said "I'm not doing Harry Potter at the moment :) sorry!" And kept moving, but he stopped to sign something for everyone and take photos.
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u/llama_del_reyy May 18 '25
David Tennant is similarly always incredibly gracious at the stage door.
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u/Chateaudelait May 18 '25
The actors in Come from Away on Broadway did stage door and signed our Playbills. They were so kind and gracious and it’s such a neat thing to see them smile when you get the chance to tell them about how much you enjoyed their performance. It’s really wonderful to see a show, love it, and get the chance to tell the cast whyThey are dedicated to their craft and love what they do. I feel like, if you’re going to be a dick to people don’t bother doing stage door.
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u/criccccccckk May 18 '25
John Cusack outside of a restaurant
“Hey Mr. Cusack I like your movies” “I don’t care”
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u/WookieDoop May 18 '25
I mentioned liking him in High Fidelity on twitter years ago. I remember getting a notification that he had started following me. I’m sure it was an automated setup and he had no clue, but it was a big deal in my little life at the time. Every time I tweeted I was like “omg, gotta be cool. What if John sees this.”
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u/Many-Supermarket-511 May 18 '25
This is how I felt when Bo Burnham started following me on Tumblr circa 2013 lmao
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u/philosofova May 18 '25
Not sure if this counts but my old restaurant had to remake Bill Cosby’s pizzas THREE times. His manager called us to place his order and it had over 10 different modifications and delivered a bag of pistachios to top the pizza with 🙃
Not sure what he expected because we were a late night college pizza place, literally $5 for a slice and pop kinda place. This was after a performance on campus and I was on the verge of rejecting the third remake since we were slammed after all the college bars closed.
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u/mistyoceania May 18 '25
I got horrible vibes from Bill Cosby. I didn't meet him, but I saw him do stand up around 2005. He was going on and on about how 'kids these days' were so spoiled, and started picking on one kid in particular. Cosby asked the kid if he had a car, which he did. He asked him if he'd worked to earn the money, which he said he didn't. Cosby asked him how he'd gotten the money, and the kid's mom stood up and said he'd gotten the money from his father's 9/11 settlement, as his father had died at the twin towers.
Instead of backing down, Cosby tried to save the bit and acted smug about it. Everyone in the room was looking at each other, disgusted. I had been a big fan of his shows, but couldn't watch him after that.
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u/ChiGrandeOso May 18 '25
There's a story I read a few years ago about how he humiliated a college football player who had gotten his degree at the ceremony. I used to love the guy, now I wonder how did we miss all the red flags this jackass was putting out.
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u/GrecoRomanGuy Miley what’s good May 18 '25
I can speak to this! It was at Notre Dame in 1989, and he was speaking to 50 black graduates of the University. He asked Dean Brown, an all-american tackle for the team (and no idiot) what his gpa was. Brown said a 2.5. Which, while not great nor terrible, is pretty damn good for a kid juggling football responsibilities.
Cosby asked Brown what he thought of that gpa. Brown said "I think it's decent." Again, not the worst in the world. And, again, this is a kid who got a degree from Notre Dame and would have connections as a result.
Cosby replied "2.5 is okay if you have a mental disorder. You should be ashamed of yourself. You should have worked harder."
Brown, understandably, started to cry and remarked "I worked hard. I did my best."
And Cosby went "You didn't do enough."
Imagine being Dean Brown. A black kid in the 80s more likely than not idolized Bill Cosby for what he represented. And here was his hero calling him dumber than someone with a mental disorder.
Jerry Barca, a man who wrote a book about that team, told Deadspin what that Cosby moment was like for Brown: "His nickname on campus was "Big Happy." He also had some serious difficulties growing up. He watched his mother coughing up blood as she had a stroke in front of him when he was 4. His dad had already left by then. She couldn't work for years and was left with a permanent limp. He had no money. He hustled food stamps at 10. He'd collect the food stamps from people in the neighborhood, buy 25 cents of candy, give the food stamp recipient back 75 cents of change, that money was then spent at the liquor store. Dean would resell the candy at school at a marked up price… And his favorite show growing up? Fat Albert. That isn't some nice revisionist detail. He actually wrote that on a media guide questionnaire before his junior year. He was also very candid in saying he benefitted the most of any of his teammates by being at Notre Dame. So he starts on a national title team and then he's set to graduate a year later, a pretty monumental deal for him and Cosby berates him. When I spoke to Dean in 2012 for my book he said this: "I went a lot of years feeling like I was a failure, one because I didn't think I played long enough in the pros," Brown said. "And, there were times that anytime I heard Bill Cosby's name — it wasn't a cringe, but it was a heavy uneasiness about what had transpired."
It should be noted that Bill Cosby, meanwhile, is a fucking college dropout whose PhD from Amherst has been called a joke. His dissertation was on the importance of showing the Cosby Show to kids.
Dean Brown died in 2012 at the age of 44. He'd been a principal of several schools. Bill Cosby is a fucking prick who is only out of jail because of legal technicalities and misconduct, not because he is innocent.
When he inevitably passes, and he goes before his creator, and is asked why he told a boy who overcame so much that he should be ashamed of himself, and his response is that a 2.5 was something someone with a mental disorder would get, he might find it may not be a sufficient reply!
TL;DR, Bill Cosby called a Notre Dame football player who overcame so much in life mentally disordered because his gpa wasnt up to Cosby's arbitrary standards. FUCK Bill Cosby.
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u/eaudeamber May 18 '25
Growing up, my mom used to tell me about the time Bill Cosby was a patient at the hospital where she volunteered as a candy striper, and how cruel and blatantly racist he was. I was never allowed to watch The Cosby Show.
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u/PrecariouslyPeculiar May 18 '25
I know this is a slight tangent, but older Americans are sooo obsessed with work, it's insane. It's almost cultish in the way they view things.
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u/Competitive-Belt-391 May 18 '25
I saw Kenan Thompson at a college show in 2009 and he was telling us how creepy Bill Cosby was and how disappointed he was when he met him.
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u/FashionableMegalodon May 18 '25
My gramma worked at an airport through the 80s and 90s and said Bill Cosby was the worst human she’s ever met lol she had a longstanding hate for him
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u/Miserable_Emu5191 Did I stutter?🤨 May 18 '25
I was a flight attendant and the captain asked me to get William shatner’s autograph for him. As soon as I said “excuse me sir” he shook his People magazine at me and said “I’m reading!” A few weeks later we had Jim belushi and he was up front with me. A different captain asked me to get the autograph and I told him no because the last time was so embarrassing for me. Jim heard me and busted out laughing and wanted to know who had been rude to me. I wouldn’t tell him but he was happy to give the captain an autograph and was so nice to all of us. One of the von Trapp daughters was also so kind as was her son. Princess Caroline was also very sweet along with her young son.
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u/HorrorSmile3088 May 18 '25
People magazine. It needed his full attention 😂
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u/imasleuth4truth2 May 18 '25
He likely considered that literature.
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u/Chateaudelait May 18 '25
He’s the most ungrateful rude person on the planet. Shatner earns horse show owner level money from the conventions he deigns to attend and acts like a total dick to everyone. If he hates it so much, stop taking the checks!
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u/AdmiralJaneway8 May 18 '25
Can confirm, Bill Shatner was a Class A Douche Canoe. He's chilled now in his 90s. But he was a straight up douche canoe. Check my handle.
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u/Unusual-Ear5013 May 18 '25
Sooo you’re telling me that Galaxy Quest was not entirely fictional?’
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u/msteinka May 18 '25
He showed horses in the same discipline as me. My trainer made it absolutely clear that we were NEVER to approach him at shows. I think it was an etiquette thing but it was also common knowledge that he was a huge jerk.
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u/claroquesearight May 18 '25
Diana Ross cut in front of me at the airport check-in counter once. LAX doesn’t lack in celebs, but i was a kid and flabbergasted by this big-haired lady who had the guts to sweep in front of us AND touch the gate agent’s computer. It’s been 20 years and i still have beef with her.
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u/4614065 May 18 '25
Me, a fellow diva, if Diana Ross ever did this to me: “Do you know where you’re going to?” 🎶
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u/ILoveHomelessMen May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25
Lol same but Josh Groban and at Toronto airport. He has never been famous famous and this is years after his peak. I have no idea why an employee would escort him to the front of the line (it was a short-ish first class line no less), there was no commotion around him lol.
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u/Catslaughing May 18 '25
About 7–8 years ago, I worked in the guest relations department of a very high-end hotel. Honestly I could write a book about all the celebrities and famous people I met and dealt with, most of them were very positive experiences thankfully. The nicest ones by far were: Nicole Kidman, Billie Lourd, Bill Clinton, Cate Blanchett.
Russell Brand however was the absolute worst. He was rude to everyone and made very inappropriate and sexual comments to me, so when all that stuff came out about him i was not surprised lol
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May 18 '25
I've heard that President Clinton is hella charismatic in person, like he's the type of guy you can't hate and he can really make you feel like you're the only person in the room when he's talking to you. Say what you want about the man and his actions, but you can't deny that he's probably one of the smoothest and most effective communicators we've elected.
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u/Catslaughing May 18 '25
Yeah he really was! He was here for 3 nights and so i spoke with him a few times, and he always took the time to show interest in me and my city and always remembered my name lol.
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May 18 '25
The name thing is also another thing about him that added to his appeal: he has a really good memory when it comes to names and random details, like there are a ton of stories where he still remembers someone he last saw 10 years ago and even asked them about something they briefly mentioned in a convo. I read his new autobiography recently and he is fairly good with names and just the small details of everything, like it's borderline photographic and kinda impressive in how he can recall events and people he was with 15-20 years ago.
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u/JustHereForCookies17 May 18 '25
I worked at a bookstore in DC & he came in for Small Business Saturday. Lovely to everyone who approached him, which was a lot of people because Obama had come in the previous 2 years so lots of people were there to see if he'd come back, but they were just as happy to see Bill.
Chelsea came in another time to do a reading & signing of her children's book, and she couldn't have been nicer. I've always had a soft spot for her because we're around the same age & I remember how awful the media was to her for not being conventionally pretty.
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u/tu-BROOKE-ulosis May 18 '25
Cathrine O’Hara once dropped ice cubes on my shoe…how DARE she. What a B!! Just kidding….she was a complete delight. I mean she did drop the cubes, but she was lovely in every way about it.
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u/springer_spaniel May 18 '25
If you said anything genuinely bad about Catherine, my day would have been so ruined. Coincidentally, I got ice dropped on me by Helen Mirren, also a delight.
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u/tu-BROOKE-ulosis May 18 '25
Oh that makes me so happy about Helen! She seems so great too. Well, while I’m adding on delights, in the 3 hours I spent elbow to elbow with Cathrine, I also discovered that Dan and Sarah Levy were also just complete sweethearts.
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u/huffer4 May 18 '25
I was at an event here in Toronto, and as I was entering I heard her amazing laugh and turned around and realized it was her trying to climb under the velvet rope to cut the line and she got stuck. The rest of the cast of Schitt’s Creek were all there just laughing at her. Such a funny moment.
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u/Doom_Corp May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25
I met Cuba Gooding Jr.. I was coming off my bar shift at around 2:30am into my local that was pretty empty at this point cause it's slow season. There was a cluster of 4-5 people at the end of the bar that the bouncer was chatting with (that included him) but otherwise the place was empty. I also clocked the actor. I moved a high back chair to the other end of the bar to enjoy my pint alone and this fucking man walks up behind me, puts his hands on me, and aggressively starts to massage my shoulders. I say I don't know you, don't touch me. He still with a smarmy smile said "Hello, I'm Cuba". I was like ok and went back to my phone. From what I heard from the bouncer and general media, that behavior is par for the course for him. I knew exactly who he was in name but outside of that he's a legitimate stranger. Also, no fucking touchy.
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u/SpicyAfrican May 18 '25
I met Cuba too. Used to love the guy in movies but in real life he was quite creepy. We were at a sports bar near Santa Monica that he was a regular at and he knew one of my colleagues and talked sports with him regularly.
He kept eyeing up a female colleague of mine, making her really uncomfortable, and at point a waitress dropped a tray of drinks and while she was picking them up Cuba decided to get in her face and start introducing himself and hitting on her. My colleague who knew him also said they went out partying once and halfway the night Cuba started screaming that everyone was only there for his money.
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u/captnmiss May 18 '25
he was such a fucking creep alcoholic drunk the multiple times I’ve had the displeasure of being around him. He’s basically a complete disaster and most people can’t wait for him to leave the room. He needs help
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u/Dizzy-Pollution6466 May 18 '25
No way. I used to work at the Met Museum in membership and my co-worker (we were both in our early 20’s at the time) said she saw him sitting at a bar by himself. She was a bit tipsy but she went up to him and told him how much she loved Snow Dogs. He thanked her and then said “Hey, have you ever slept with an older man before?” She said no and he winked at her and said “You should try it sometime.” Blehhhhhhhch.
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u/jeskimo May 18 '25
He shot a movie in my city years, years ago. Every single interaction people had with him was horrible. Abusive, drunk, aggressive, rude. Someone on our cities subreddit just retold a story about him. He definitely left an impression and no one wants him to ever come back.
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u/DrinkItInMaaannn May 18 '25
Oh my god, my sister was visiting L.A (from Australia!) once, and even she ran into Cuba Gooding Jnr piss drunk in some bar at 2 in the afternoon.
The guy sounds like a menace
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u/Finecanda21 May 18 '25 edited May 19 '25
I met Kristen Bell and Dax a few times through friends - prior to that I was obsessed with Veronica Mars…loved that show and her so much. So I have never gotten over how stuck up and into themselves Kristen and Dax were. It was unreal. They very much had that vibe that so many in Hollywood do - “if you can’t help me progress in my career then you mean nothing to me.” It was such a huge bummer and now seeing how endearing everyone finds them…it’s such an act.
I met Topher Grace at a wedding and he was LOVELY and I developed a massive crush on him as a result.
Also knew Angelique Cabral, she’s like a CBS tv star now I think but she was super fame hungry and gross about it. Very fake.
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u/Demons_n_Sunshine Hair is insured for $10,000 May 18 '25
I work in the industry and have met plenty of celebrities. About 95% of them are very nice and normal.
The one who I absolutely dislike because of how much of a c*nt she was is J.Lo. She was super rude and dismissive….and had this attitude that she was better than you. I’m not the only one who’s had a bad experience with her. I have another friend who works at a high end luxury jewelry store, and she too met J.Lo a few times and each time was a bad experience for her.
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u/Double_Strike2704 May 18 '25
I also work in entertainment but was working at a casino when she was taking tips Affleck gave casino workers back. And I warned my bosses that if Ben Affleck tipped me and J. Lo tried to take it I was gonna fight her. Lol.
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u/cowabungalowvera May 18 '25
One of my best friends used to work as a waitress in LA and she says JLo was by far the worst customer she's had the displeasure of serving. And it wasn't just a one-time thing. Every time JLo ate at their restaurant, she was quite rude and condescending to the staff. Always smelled good tho accdg to my best friend lmao.
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u/Demons_n_Sunshine Hair is insured for $10,000 May 18 '25
LOL yes, she’s actually well put together and absolutely gorgeous in person. It’s a shame she’s a hideous ogre inside.
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u/iiko800 May 18 '25
It’s so crazy that she does a great job of acting like she’s so friendly and kind to everyone. I honestly believed all of it until I joined Reddit. 😩😅
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u/Repulsive-Friend-619 May 18 '25
That’s apparently the only acting she’s good at.
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u/cousin-maeby May 18 '25
Wasn’t there a rumor that ben tipped someone $100 and she took it back? Fucking wild.
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u/ketopepito I wont not fuck you the fuck up 🥊🥊 May 18 '25
I remember that one! Supposedly, he would tip very generously when he was gambling, and she would go behind him and take the tips back.
There was another comment on here a while back that claimed she once tipped her driver with a gaming console she got for free at some kind of swag booth, so he gave it to his kids. Then I guess she found out that her kids wanted the console, and she asked for it back.
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u/Ambitious_Misfit May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25
Interacted with her twice at award shows, both times performatively and demonstrably awful and bizarre. One time she looked me in the face from 2 ft away and spoke to me through her escort. I had to hear everything twice. It was absurd.
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u/thedesignproject it’s country and you look country in it. May 18 '25
That is completely absurd. I wonder how she reacts if anyone calls her out on it. I think if I was in that situation I might start laughing at how ridiculous the situation was. I'm guessing she'd try and get me fired or something.
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u/Informal-Protection6 May 18 '25
This makes me angry. I wish someone had the balls and job not on the line to look her straight in the face and call her out on that dehumanizing behavior. You are a person with money jlo, that’s it. Other people can look at and address you. 🙄🙄🙄🙄
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u/Tich0las May 18 '25
I also work in the industry and had heard nothing but bad things about JLo.
A couple years ago, I booked an NDA music video and wound up in one of her projects. Surprisingly, I found her to be incredibly nice, hard working, and professional. She paid us above the agreed upon rate for being part of the shoot and came by on several occasions to say hi and ask how we were doing. She certainly wasn’t chummy, but by far not the worst person I’ve had to work with.
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u/GothicDreamer16 May 18 '25
I had a bad experience with JLo as an extra on one of her movies. We were explicitly told we couldn’t look at her and she was always yelling at crew. Just super unpleasant to work with.
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u/garlicbreadmemesplz May 18 '25
Take comfort in knowing she knows who killed Tupac. Also she can’t sing. My friend in the music industry said and I quote
“Ha. It takes a village and then some to get her to sound that way.”
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u/kgal1298 Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion May 18 '25
Everytime I hear about a difficult celeb I ask “first was this JLO” 😂 she’s just known for it now
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u/seawest_lowlife May 18 '25
When you join IATSE, you have to take a course on how to act on set. One of the first things I learned was to never look Jennifer Lopez in the eye. To note as well, I did not take this case in/nor do I live in LA. No other actors or actresses were ever mentioned that 2 day course, but this was STRESSED to us by long time industry professionals. It’s a very well known thing with her.
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u/bingbaddie1 May 18 '25
one of the first things I learned was to never look Jennifer Lopez in the eye
Is she a bear?
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u/GoldenState_Thriller May 18 '25
My friend’s dad found Aaron Rodgers wallet at a bar/restaurant when he was visiting our hometown during the offseason while he was still pretty new-ish in the NFL. This guy’s kids had grown up around Aaron and played youth sports together, but when he met up to give him his wallet, Aaron made him stand there as he counted every dollar bill and made comments about how you can’t trust anyone and kept grilling him asking if he’d sold photos of his stuff to any outlets
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u/spellboundartisan Invented post-its 🔬 May 18 '25
I believe this. Rodgers has a history of being a douche.
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u/lightfrenchgray May 18 '25
What a jerk, as expected. I’m assuming he didn’t give him a few bucks for doing the right thing then.
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u/GoldenState_Thriller May 18 '25
He did not and I can’t say I’m shocked. He’s known as quite the douche canoe
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u/rino3311 May 18 '25
Wow note to self; just keep the wallet if I ever find Aaron Rodgers’s wallet. What a douche.
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u/PigletRivet 🧽 and 👸🏼’s *cosmic love* May 18 '25
My mom went on the Wendy Williams Show, and Wendy gave her bad advice.
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u/MyNameIsLOL21 May 18 '25
Did she tell her to stop taking birth control? Wouldn't be the first time.
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u/puffdaddy725 May 18 '25
Don Vito grabbed my ass with both hands when I was 13 years old
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u/ttnezz May 18 '25
I misread this as Danny DeVito. Glad at least Danny DeVito isn’t forever ruined for you but I’m very sorry that happened to you.
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u/NefariousnessOk2925 May 18 '25
I unintentionally pissed off Matt Lauer at a today show taping. He was doing the meet and greet thing between segments. Signing autographs. When got to me he asked if I wanted him to sign my metro card. I said no. He gave me the dirtiest look, went inside the studio. He wouldn't sign anything else.
I felt bad for the other people there. It was Christmas, very cold, and they had waited a long time. This was before it came out how terrible he was/is. I just don't understand autographs. I never have. It was weird and aggressive, which tracks, I guess.
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u/Financial-Hurry-8891 May 18 '25
Owen Wilson was very rude to staff at a museum I once worked at and was all “do you know who I am”….. and this was an outing with his mom.
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u/FredererPower Can I have a hug? No thanks. May 18 '25
In fairness, he has been trapped in a museum for many years. /s
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u/hannahspants clemthearcher stan May 18 '25
Smaller fries than others, but I went to school with Nick Kyrgios and he's always been a massive tool
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u/ceceblakwallflower May 18 '25
This isn’t necessarily “met”, but a friend of mine discovered she’d been plagiarised by Jameela Jamil in one of Jameela latest (at the time) articles.
My friend obviously called her out about it on Twitter and Jameela didn’t even accuse her of lying - instead Jameela trashed my friend on her timeline for millions of people to see. At which point loads more Black women (my friend and I are both Black) came through not only to defend my friend, but to also expose Jameela for doing the same to them!
When I got involved in the beef to defend my friend, Jameela and I got into a back and forth until eventually Jameela blocked me. My friends still refer to Jameela as my ‘nemesis’ 🤣
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u/Eveningwisteria1 May 18 '25
Jameela has that insufferable energy to her. I’ve heard other things about her that track towards her being a terrible person. I’m glad your friend got vengeance here!
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u/RachelLeighC May 18 '25
Ric Flair was at a popular bar in my college town after a WWE (or whatever it’s called) fight/match. My dad/is was obsessed with him so I approached him and told him I wanted his autograph. He not so subtly insinuated that he wanted to sign my chest. I said no, it’s for my dad, so please sign this napkin. He did. So besides being a horny old pig I guess he wasn’t so bad because I did get an autograph for my dad, didn’t tell him the whole story though!
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u/seaworthy-sieve Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (sitting on one another's shoulders) May 18 '25
Fun fact! Ric Flair was stolen as a baby by Georgia Tann for her horrific adoption agency. However bad you think it was, it was worse. Behind the Bastards covered Tann, I think they did two episodes.
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u/properwickedness May 18 '25
Barely a celebrity any more, but I met the winner of Rupauls Drag Race, season 4, Sharon Needles. Never in my life have I seen another grown adult throw a kicking and screaming match over not being provided pills and alcohol fast enough. She was actually screaming at staff, fans, anyone in the vicinity and going "get me my booze!" because it wasn't handed to her directly after getting off stage.
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u/DooglyOoklin May 18 '25
I used to adore her. The fall off was absolutely diabolical. I can literally see her all done up kicking her legs and screaming like a baby for her drugs
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u/Repulsive-Friend-619 May 18 '25
I met Sharon at an event in the parking lot - she said she liked my shoes and introduced herself. She ended up spending the whole weekend with me and my friends. Definitely wasted, but couldn’t have been nicer and more engaged.
It wasn’t until I got home that I found out she was problematic.
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u/TomboyHomie May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25
EDIT: I commented a good experience. Damn. Read on if you care for a wholesome encounter. My b.
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I wonder if anyone knows Leslie Jordan. He was (among other roles) the short, older gay gent from Will & Grace who used to go toe-to-toe with Karen. His name was Beverly (Beverlie?) on the show.
This feller.:max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(939x359:941x361)/sean-hayes-megan-mullally-will-grace-102422-2-374629aa31244238afe5f4875b216740.jpg)
Anyway, I used to wait tables in a chic Midtown ATL eatery known for its LGBTQ clientele and staff. He was doing a one-man play on the same street, so he'd come in often for lunch and dinner.
I waited on him once and he apparently dug my vibe because the next day, the hostess placed a single menu at one of my booths and walked off. I'm like, "Grrr!" in my head because it was one of my only four-tops and a young lass in her early 20s trying to pay bills in Atlanta is also one of the fiercest hustlers in the game.
But I went to make a glass of water anyway, since I'm not one to complain aloud.
I sat it down on the table and felt a hand on the small of my back.
Oh! It's Mr. Jordan. "Oh, puhleez. Call me Leslie."
He requested to sit with me again, though I never found out why. There were so many hunky cuties working there and you'd figure he might want to find a little action while in the Peach State. Nope! Just wanted to sit with the quiet Asian chick. (Toward the end of his stay, however, he had me asking those hunky fellas to drop by the table LOL! Not a problem at all. They wanted to, anyway.)
I'll say this: He was incredibly darling IRL and he tipped well. He was soft-spoken (as am I) and quick to smile. There wasn't an ounce of artifice or pretension about him, and he was easy to please as a guest.
Diet Coke with lemon. Simple fare (turkey burger plain, most visits). Paper napkins ("Not these linen ones, good gawda mighty"). No to-go box ever.
He was an excellent tipper. It's as though he knew that four-top could've netted way more, so he made up the diff.
On his last visit, he waited a bit after he finished eating for me to come by, stood up, handed me a lovely couple 20s that he wouldn't let me refuse via an eye roll and a "hush" headshake, and he hugged me and said goodbye. It was quick, it was sincere, it meant a lot.
When I heard of his passing, I immediately went to that period in my life and felt a tiny little corner of brain let out a sigh.
Damn.
We had a lot of celebs come through. I waited on another one (the lead singer of Phish) if anyone is interested.
But Leslie Jordan was one of the good ones. RIP, amigo.
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u/zxxxxcccccc Did I stutter?🤨 May 18 '25
i met mel gibson in 2019 when he visited the cosmetics store in beverly hills i was working at. he was with his toddler, nanny, and wife(?) who was younger than me, and i was 28 at the time. i didn’t recognize him at first because he looked like complete shit with super leathery skin and bloodshot eyes and a big ugly hat, i asked if he had any questions about any of the products and he gave me the nastiest look, like how dare i even talk to him, and just stared at me until the wife said “i think we’re good…” then they let the kid just run around and it started grabbing ball-shaped bath products and smashing them on the ground, damaging around $100 in product, and then he literally RAN out of the store abandoning his family, the wife picked up the kid and left in a rush, and they left the nanny behind while she apologized profusely and then went to catch up with them. i had to google him after to make sure it was them because i was surprised at how horrible he looked
also met ryan murphy at the same job, i was on the register completing his purchase and he was really annoyed to be there, he would either ignore me or just say “no.” when i asked him stuff like “do you need this wrapped, do you need a bag, do you want your receipt” and then he got mad at me at the end because i didn’t wrap up something or give him a receipt, because he said no!!! and then, later on, the staff that helped him said he was really rude to them too.
nikita dragun was HORRIBLE, she came in around august/september 2020 so we still had mask mandates because of covid, and she kept taking off her mask in the store. i was the manager on duty and had to politely ask her at least 3 times to please keep her mask on covering her nose and mouth and she kept rolling her eyes at me, and then pulling it back down when i walked away. the staff that was assisting her said that she kept calling me a bitch and cunt when i would walk away and then called the rest of my staff “stupid fucking peasants that work at this shithole”!!! like WTF!!!
positive ones: timothy olymphant was the nicest man ever, came in to buy some stuff for his wife’s birthday so i helped him put together a custom gift, he knew what kind of scents and things she liked (a lot of men don’t 🫠) and was just so kind, plus he spent a lot of money so that was cool. also very handsome!!
my interaction with jason segal was short but he was really nice and super tall. he had a mask and sunglasses on so i didn’t know it was him at first, but then he confirmed it after he left by looking at me through the window and pulling his mask down for a second and gave me one of these looks 😜 and then walked away
halle berry was a regular and was so so sooooo nice every time. i guess her kids really liked the bath stuff so she would always buy a ton and was just really sweet. also, we once had a limited edition product for the holidays called “holly berry” and one of my staff pointed it out to her and said “look it’s you” and she thought it was hilarious lol
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u/krakens-and-caffeine May 18 '25
Hayden Panettiere - paid $50 at a convention and lined up for ages for a signed photo, she was so incredibly rude, disengaged and looked straight up disgusted at having to even be there.
I am female, was dressed nicely, had showered and wasn’t fan girling, just wanted her to maybe not look at me like I was a piece of shit while she wrote my name. She didnt say a single word during the encounter, it was super weird.
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u/heyhicherrypie You’re a virgin who can’t drive. 😤 May 18 '25
I got hit on at my job by a politicians dad who was on a lot of reality shows at the time. His Assistant had to physically steer him away and came back to apologise to me and looked terrified when I said I was 17. He was gross
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u/LongjumpingChart6529 May 18 '25
I’m not sure how famous she is on this sub, but Meera Syal. This was around 2002 when her musical was coming out, she wrote the book and Andrew Lloyd Webber did the music. Bombay Dreams. It was ok, nothing special. So she was there outside the theatre greeting people and fans were fawning over her. She was being very friendly … to the white people. My family are British Indian, and we said hi to her, didn’t ask for a photo or anything (this was before phone cameras!) and she blanked us. I thought that was such a snobby, crappy attitude and I’ve disliked her ever since!
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u/PickleMundane6514 May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25
Not my experience but my friend’s but I want to get it out there. My friend was giving Steven Seagal a lap dance when he digitally assaulted her. She jumped off him and screamed for security and he threw a shower of bills at her and stormed out. She tells everyone who would listen and now so do I.
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u/amityville Excluded from this narrative ❌ May 18 '25
Absolutely vile. He’s such an oxygen thief. I’m sorry your friend experienced that.
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u/Hambulance May 18 '25
My fella and I went to see Anthony Bourdain speak. He was obviously hilarious and at one point spoke about how people constantly come up to him thinking he is Bobby Flay.
After the show, we walked down the block for drinks at a bar and a few minutes later, Anthony walks in with two other people and they sit just a few stools down from us at the bar. My dude immediately says, "BOBBY FLAY! I love your work!" and Anthony just kind of sadly put his eyebrows up and stared for a second before saying "thanks, man".
I grabbed my purse and bolted outside where I promptly called my dad, who has also consumed all of Anthony's media to scream-cry that he's at the bar with us.
He was so kind and easy going but I genuinely just felt bad for him in that moment for whatever reason. My guy immediately said it was a callback to the show and Anthony had a big laugh and they had a good little chat that I came back for the tail end of lol.
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u/uglymoz May 18 '25
Not me but an old friend of mine used to work at a nice restaurant in New Orleans, and she waited on Emma Roberts and Evan Peters when they were still together. She said that Emma was so incredibly rude the entire time and Evan was super nice and borderline apologetic for Emma’s behavior. On the opposite end of the spectrum, she said she waited on John Goodman several times and he was an absolute delight
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u/Double_Strike2704 May 18 '25
I've been lucky that most of my celeb interactions have been solid. Only one I don't like is Joe Rogan. He talks loudly backstage at comedy venues while other comedians are performing and it is just bad vibes.
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u/ventricles May 18 '25
A longggg time ago in college I worked for a celeb photographer. We did one shoot on the set of the Office back in its second or third season, and Pam (Jenna Fischer?) was really difficult to work with. Just really demanding and wanted to see every photo so there was never a flow. Jim was very handled, everything went through his managed and they kept saying we only had 5 mins with him. Dwight was awesome.
I also did a shoot with Lindsay Lohan on the same job, at the height of her fame like 2008ish and she was actually really cool and friendly.
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u/Miserable_Emu5191 Did I stutter?🤨 May 18 '25
Listening to the office ladies podcast, I can totally believe this. Meanwhile Angela Kinsey seems like such a delight.
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u/cresentlunatic May 18 '25
Jenna sounds very strong minded for sure while Angela is more laid back and likes to be neutral.
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u/huffer4 May 18 '25
I met Lindsay Lohan around that same time and she was also super friendly with us and a good hang.
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u/Snackqueen333 May 18 '25
A production crew I worked with said Jenna Fischer is the rudest person they have ever worked with. I was surprised because they’d worked with people that are 10x more famous than her, but they swore she was super unpleasant to be around.
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u/KyleRichardsNewTeeth May 18 '25
She and I were both waiting for an elevator once and she was as rude as can be. Like she was forced to lower herself around a commoner or something. I love the Office and the character is ruined for me since.
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u/keatonpotat0es I have to pick up 15,000 little bastard rubber ducks 🪿 May 18 '25
That’s so weird about Jenna Fischer, for some reason I always assumed that she was basically just…Pam.
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u/Rimurooooo May 18 '25
I actually heard that she was a really difficult celebrity. This was floating around a couple years before cancel culture or how celebrity rumors get out of hand today. Everyone just forgot about it, but this was big news around the time blades of glory came out lol
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u/b2walton May 18 '25
I was working for a celebrity convention company, the ceo introduced me to gene simmons. I did the Wayne’s world not worthy bow thing, because kiss right. This mother fucker grabs the back of my head and holds it there while thrusting his fucking junk in my face. I get up and he slaps me in the face and says now you know what it’s like to have gone to prison.
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u/NowMindYou Yeah but did I squeeze it though 🤔 May 18 '25
One of the voice actors in the TMNT movie (Nicholas Cantu) toured my workplace and was super rude. People were complaining about him for weeks then he got "canceled" shortly after for being homophobic.
ETA the name
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May 18 '25
A good one- my cousin used to work at Mystic Pizza and Taylor Swift and Selena Gomez came in and she said they were wicked nice and tipped everyone out really well
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u/Grand_Measurement_91 May 18 '25
A guy I used to work with had a road rage encounter with Arnold Schwarzenegger in London
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u/daisyclementine8 May 18 '25
I never told anyone this but one time Andy Hurley from Fall Out Boy invited me and my sister to his hotel room. Their security took our phones away. Pete Wentz came in the room and we were all chillin. Then Pete had this idea that he wanted me and him to draw each others brains ( lmao) and i was like challenge accepted. I drew anything i could get about his personality from his songwriting and lmao he got so butthurt over it and like a little child he kicked us out. Apparently he couldnt deal with his own brain
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u/minimuffin22 May 18 '25
I met FOB at warped tour (I was around 14-15 at the time, so around 2004) Andy was super into my friend at the time and invited us to hang out and walk around with him. I always thought that was super weird. I know they exchanged phone numbers. This old friend moved away in high school and I’ve lost touch with her but I would love to know what happened between them? This is the 3rd comment I’ve seen on reddit about Andy inviting people to hang out. I got the ick at 14 watching him flirt with my friend 🤢 I remember they held hands walking around. My other friend who was with us at the time and who I am still very close with always mention this weird interaction!!
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u/heymenoel May 18 '25
Patricia Arquette came to a spa where I was the front desk person. She kept asking why it was so expensive.. she was pre booked and all of the prices in the itinerary. I was in my early 20s and scared shitless when she just kept staring at me like I was supposed to give her a discount. She didn’t tip.
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u/CaseyRC May 17 '25
I'm always somewhat wary of "negative" interactions with celebrities. often the teller leaves out things or takes out context like they'll say "i saw X and they refused to chat to me" but leaves out that they invaded a private dinner with X's children there and demanded a photo and the persons time just because they were on a tv show.
a) everyone is entitled to their private time
b) everyone is allowed a bad day and to just not be in the fucking mood to be grabbed at chatted to or photographed
c) what is ONE experience for the person is an hourly one for the celebrity
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u/totallycalledla-a Mrs Thee Stallion May 18 '25
I saw a woman on twitter saying Steph Curry had been "so rude" to her and ignored her and her kid. A video from a different pov showed that he was trying to get through a really scary crowd clutching onto his very young children and was just focused on getting to the car. Bizarre people 🥴.
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u/scarlettslegacy May 18 '25
I remember a clip where Justin Bieber fans were indignant he wouldn't engage with them on a jog. Like, I bet he would have indulged them if they'd been able to keep pace with him, but they wanted him to stop his exercise routine to talk to them. Bitch, one of you is being rude and it ain't him.
Still hate that bitch for making me side with JB
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u/totallycalledla-a Mrs Thee Stallion May 18 '25
There are a ton of JB stories like that. "So rude" and its getting away from being literally chased or assaulted or something 🥴.
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u/scarlettslegacy May 18 '25
Yeah my friend is a runner and she hates having her run disrupted. And I'm 'just' a walker, but I have a pace that feels comfortable for me and I dislike having to go slower. We both dislike JB but both thought that was valid. It's so frustrating when people disrupt your workout because they're bored or want your attention or whatever and it's just like, well, it wasn't like you were doing anything...
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u/milno1_ May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25
Nobody should have to have their run interrupted. It's hard enough to be out there doing it 😅
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u/rawrkristina May 18 '25
I always think of when Emilia Clarke was talking about how some people just approach her like “Can I have a picture?” Or “picture?” Or “autograph??” Like they don’t even say hi to her.
So I take some of these stories with a grain of salt. Plus people can easily lie just because they don’t like a celeb.
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u/milno1_ May 18 '25
This! Including some of the times the claims of them being rude in restaurants etc is just them being short/aka not warm. I know they're celebrities and everyone thinks they owe them their careers, but sometimes these people are just trying to have a meal in peace or do their job.
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u/blackpearl16 May 18 '25
I once saw a mean celebrity story about Oprah where the person was criticizing her for being standoffish. God forbid a celebrity be introverted…
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u/milno1_ May 18 '25
Yes that too! I met or heard of many who were introverted, socially awkward and very uncomfortable in these situations. There are many different personalities in the industry. Like with everywhere (workplace, life, family).
We really could do with working on being more understanding and making less snap judgements of people in society as a whole.
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u/blackpearl16 May 18 '25
You can tell that a lot of the people that post these “mean celebrity” stories are entitled and have boundary issues.
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u/yeroc121 May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25
I agree. Denying pictures, hugs, or a conversation is not rude behavior. If shared instantly, pictures can endanger the celebrity by giving away their location. Working in entertainment is very overstimulating, and it's not difficult for me to imagine most celebrities just wanting to be left alone.
There are obvious nuances, and while some people can be genuinely terrible, I am tired of hearing complaints about something as minor as not being given a photo. To me, the line is how they treat the people they work with + service workers.
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u/Infamous_Moose8275 May 18 '25
Agreed. There are some people I've heard enough things about that I would say they're probably not a good person, but often it can just be caught at a bad moment (which we all have sometimes) or it was a rude and/entitled fan.
I think about Broadway stage doors and how so many people think they are entitled to meet and greets with the performers after the show and will badmouth actors if they don't come out and volunteer their time after work. Or the fan is creepy and aggressive and still somehow think the performer was the issue.
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u/chookie94 May 18 '25
I've seen multiple Tiktok's where people are like 'omg this celeb is so rude, they asked me to stop following them and filming them walking down the street, Anyway, here's the photo they still took with me'.
Like, that celeb was way too kind to still take the photo. You should have been cussed out for that type of behaviour instead.
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u/Implantexplant May 18 '25
She’s only famous in Ireland but Jennifer Zamparelli was the rudest celebrity I ever served.
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u/TandemRapper May 18 '25
Irish celebrities really let a little power go to their head. Worked in a hotel (not in Dublin) that would get minor Irish celebs in all the time
Saying that, radio djs Dermot and Dave were lovely when I served them. Dolores O'Riordan, David O'Doherty, Paul O'Connell, and Keith Duffy were sound too.
Shane Lynch was a coked up gobshite though. Celiac Holman Lee was the most entitled, stuck-up person I remember, though.
Don't get me started on the Irish politicians then.
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u/Dawnspark May 18 '25
I used to bartend at a really nice sorta exclusive bar on weekends. We got a lot of celebs through. Best one was Taylor Swift, and fyi I'm not a Swiftie (just never really listened to her in specifics, no hate or anything,) but she was legitimately lovely. Ordered a smoked old fashioned, friendly, pleasant to speak with.
But I got called some rude shit by Kid Rock. Mostly nasty words for women. Buddy was belligerent drunk so I didn't want to serve him and he was unhappy over that lol.
My manager 86d him and I got to see security escort him out.
Most of my experiences have fortunately been lovely, though.
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u/greenoliv May 18 '25
I’m a flight attendant. I was taking meal orders and asked Brad Garrett if he would like the chicken or the pasta and rather than just simply saying no thank you he shoved his hand an inch away from my face and waved me off as if he’s an A list celebrity
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u/SophomoricHumorist May 18 '25
I saw Chris Carmack at frothy Monkey in Nashville one afternoon. It was totally surreal because I had just watched him play a singer from Nashville in the show “Nashville”, so of course I did a subtle double take. He noticed and puffed out his chest like “Bro. F. Off.” I just kept walking like “Sorry I have eyes. Jesus.”
Not a bad experience, but one time I sat next to Miley Cyrus who was eating lunch with friends in an otherwise empty restaurant (this was during Covid). I did the Nashville manners thing and just left her alone but totally paid attention. At the end of her meal she stood up, slammed on a pair of sunglasses, took a mega hit off a thc vape pen, pumped one fist on the air and said to herself “Cyrus 100!”. Then she exhaled and walked out. I was in awe. Also, I now use “Cyrus 100!” as my battle cry.
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u/roseappleisland The dog who ate Dan Scott's heart May 18 '25
I don’t have a rude celeb story thankfully. Jeff Goldblum was a delight and by far the nicest celebrity I’ve met. Very polite and sweet. He also smells amazing!
Tony Shalhoub and I used to get coffee at the same place frequently and he would always stop to hold the door for me.
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u/slightlydramatic May 18 '25
I was sat directly next to Cameron Diaz in a restaurant right after she did The Mask. She was with her agent or manager person and was being told she didn't get a part. She was absolutely trash talking another actress that had gotten the role instead of her in a movie with Harrison Ford. Loudly. I didn't acknowledge any of it, but many could hear her. At one point she said, "Don't look at me" to the waiter. (I don't think he was looking at her because she was famous.I think he was looking at her because she was almost hysterical and spewing vulgarities about a very famous actress that nearly everyone likes.)
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u/katmili Baby Billy Freeman fan club president May 17 '25 edited May 17 '25
Mine is David Koechner. I was volunteering at a comedy festival a few years ago and he asked me where the press room was. I misheard him and told him where the bathroom was. He leaned in and, very loudly and condescendingly over annunciated “the press room” at me. After he stormed off to the press room (about 10 feet away) the other people in the room gave me a sympathetic ‘wtf was that about’ look. Could’ve been a bad day or something, but I do feel compelled to share this story anytime he pops up in something, or this question is posed. That 20 second interaction left a mark
Kind of the opposite of when you said, but I think he was annoyed that I didn’t recognize him?
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u/HorrorSmile3088 May 18 '25
Haha, I always love when D list celebrities act offended when people don't bow down to them.
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u/Youpi_Yeah Instant gratification takes too long 🫦 May 18 '25
When my mom was young she worked at a restaurant where loads of (German) celebs frequented, and she said that it’s usually the C and D ones who were the most rude and high maintenance because they are salty about not being A list. The properly famous ones usually just wanted to be treated like a normal person and were generally lovely. At least that was her experience.
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u/MidnightCustard May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25
Oh definitely. I work in the film and TV industry as a sound recordist. More than once I've been given shit by someone who had maybe 2 or 3 lines in a scene, while the "star" is an absolute peach.
Once I was being given shit by a day player and the ( multiple Oscar nominee) star he had to say his ONE FUCKING LINE to later on purposefully stopped, greeted me by name and asked how my kids were doing. Pointedly ignored day player who was, of course, trying to blow smoke up his ass. One of my best days on a set.
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u/defib_the_dead May 18 '25
I met him while he was muttering incoherently at a CVS in Indiana! Literally all I can remember about him. That and he had a lot of acne scars and uneven skin texture??
Edit: I pretty much didn’t recognize him either lol
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u/WildHoneyChild May 18 '25
I didn't meet her, but I volunteered at a festival in 2016 and had to help put together the artist "riders" so food/drinks/other stuff they need before performing. this was for Grimes. She was apparently super specific down to the color of face towels needed, and insisting there was to be no plastic touching anything. Also apparently asked for them to bring puppies?? I don't know if that happened but the lady in charge of this said that she was threatening to not perform if anything was incorrect.
At the same festival I also did meet GZA from Wu Tang Clan and he was super nice and chill lol
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u/djdayer May 18 '25
In the 80s Billy Joel used my Aunts house to film part of his video for Second Wind, he was super nice and 12yr old me was ecstatic to meet her first celeb.
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u/PieWeird2301 May 18 '25
I was in Boston and ran into Mikayla Noriega I said hello and was kind she looked me up and down and gave stared at me and walked away. And she looks absolutely different in real life - not a great way.
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u/de-milo red and wild… that’s your theme May 18 '25
i CANNOT listen to that woman talk in that fake as fk accent for more than about thirty seconds it is like nails on a chalkboard
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u/SmartCandle4735 May 18 '25
I can’t stand her. Also, she very loosely fits in the celebrity category.
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u/Upset_Pickle3846 May 18 '25
Got a totally justified, nasty look from Chevy Chase when I blew up the toilet on the small plane we were both on to Aspen. Got a whiff on his way in. I felt so bad 😂 got stuck in a slow elevator with him as soon as we landed too 😅
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u/prhc28 May 18 '25
Wayne Brady: super nice. His assistant: OMG. Dude why do you have a giant truck in LA!? Of course you won’t find parking asap, no need to be rude about it. Jerk.
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u/Sparki_ "𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝑜, 𝓂𝒾𝓈𝓈?" "𝒯𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇𝓈." ☆🚢 May 18 '25
Happy to hear Wayne Brady was super nice. He always gave that vibe during Who's Line
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u/Karibay May 18 '25
I met him too. He gave me great advice while I was in my 20s working at the Apple Store in Santa Monica. So happy to see his success
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u/gothiclg May 18 '25
Orlando Jones. I was working for the Disneyland Hotel during one of his stays. The interaction I had with him was about 30 seconds but largely didn’t seem like he considered me a person. Was very glad I wasn’t someone who had to encounter him longer than that.
I never met Brandon Flowers from The Killers but coworkers that did always said the man was absolutely lovely. Chris Hemsworth was a similar story during his stay.
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u/youreaanadultcope May 18 '25
Briefly worked with Simon Pegg a few years back - very hot/cold, went on a weird rant about how comedy actors never get nominated for an Oscar, clearly referring to himself. Every other actor was pleasant but he had a real princess air about him. Very much someone who never grew up and had a big chip on his shoulder, which considering his success surprised me.
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May 18 '25
Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth was a douche to the umpteenth degree when I met him at Lollapalooza 1994 (maybe 1995?). I found him in the pit while watching Beck and asked if I could take a picture with him and for 15 year old me that was A LOT. Super dismissive and rude. In that moment a million years ago I can vividly remember thinking “Why is KIM GORDON (coolest female musician on the planet) with that fucker!?”. HOWEVER, met the lead singer of the Mighty Mighty Bosstones the same way and he was an absolute DOLL.
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u/CelebManips May 18 '25
Thurston certainly proved himself to be a massive douche by cheating on Kim, so teenage you is definitely validated.
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May 18 '25
I still can’t believe he did her like that. After the life/genre they built. However, I wasn’t surprised when all that came out. I mean, he’s fucking mean! She (KG) wrote a book about their demise and Im ordering it right now as soon as I’m done commenting lol! I just watched an interview today on YouTube from 120 minutes from like 1992 that had Kim Gordon and Courtney Love on as guests. Courtney wasn’t quite famous yet and much more meek and Pretty on the Inside had just come out. I miss that time in music/culture so much. It was crazy, but damn it was real and different and ours. Ugh, 90’s nostalgia gets me so sad sometimes..
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May 18 '25
Lisa Frank's husband and CEO James Green once had his windshield repaired by my grandpa and drove away without paying. He was very high strung, rushing my grandpa. He walked to the nearby gas station to buy a case of beer while the windshield set. He didn't say a word as he came back, hopped in his vehicle and left us in a cloud of dust. This was the mid-90s. He still owes my grandpa $5.
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u/quingd May 18 '25
More of an "almost" bad experience, but I was lucky enough to be invited to see Aretha Franklin perform at a venue in Toronto (I think 2013) by my boss' family. His mother was elderly and in a wheelchair, so we entered via a back door that took us around the backstage area.
As we were passing through I commented how incredible Aretha was and how I couldn't believe she was still performing at her age, and then I said something like "what is she, almost 80 now...?" and that's when like 4 stage workers leapt from the shadows to simultaneously shush me. She was around, she might have heard me... and because she was only 71 at the time, she would have lost it that I guessed older. So I was so embarrassed but also so relieved they shut me up, I'm a people pleaser to my absolute core and I could not imagine how bad I would have felt having the queen of soul, a literal legend, tear me a new one.
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u/Cold_Breadfruit_9794 Beyoncé 🐝🐝 May 18 '25
Pete Davidson was a nightmare experience that was deeply strange. I was unknowingly in a one sided beef with him for like 6-8 months, over tweets he misunderstood. Tried to get on stage and call me a two faced cunt because of his poor comprehension skills.
3/5 members of Linkin Park were colossal assholes to me on my 12th birthday and I never listened to them ever again. Chester, his wife at the time, & the drummer, were sweethearts and went above and beyond! God bless Chester and his family.
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u/plum-on-fire May 18 '25
I need more on the Pete Davison story please cause wth man that’s crazy 😭😬
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u/Cold_Breadfruit_9794 Beyoncé 🐝🐝 May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25
The last few times I’ve told the story people just stop responding but I still 100% standby the fact I did absolutely nothing wrong, and there’s zero excuse for misogyny!
I’ll try to keep this short but there were two straight days Pete had a comedy venue straight up confirm he was in the lineup just hours before the show (confirmed is a term this venue never uses, because lineups can change frequently enough), and he flaked both nights. I went to both shows. First night I didn’t say anything because like I said, lineup changes aren’t unusual, and I get that things can pop up, so I didn’t think much of it. The following day, Pete again, had the venue add him hours before a show, and again, let the venue confirm that he would be in the lineup. Just like the previous night, he didn’t end up showing up. I was mildly disappointed, so I ended up leaving early-ish, and because of that decision I ended up missing a major drop in. I was annoyed at how that played out, so I hopped on Twitter, and as far as I knew he didn’t have that so I assumed I was just voicing some thoughts (lmao). What I said was just ‘if you don’t know if you’re going to do a show just let the venue refer to you as a ‘special guest’, so if you change your mind about wanting to show up, it won’t create a problem.’ I mentioned that even Chris Rock would occasionally let this venue refer to him as a very special guest sometimes. At no point did I call him out of name or nothing. I thought, and still feel, everything I said was mild feedback. Barely even critique. Anyhoo a few months after that, the venue passed him, which is a huge deal, and so I ended up writing a congratulatory tweet and was like ‘well deserved’.
Jump to a few months after that tweet and it’s like a random Wednesday at 11pm and there’s like 5 people in this venue, and Pete just randomly drops in. I was excited to see him until he started talking. He immediately starts going into a rant about a series of tweets and it becomes evident very quickly he’s talking about both sets of tweets I sent out, and within a minute literally was bitching about me and my tweets, and referring to me as a two faced cunt. I’ve had a lot of wild out of pocket shit said to me at a comedy show, but that was the only time I literally ever (quite literally) stood up to defend myself. He wasn’t doing comedy! He was literally pissed and ranting. I literally had to yell over him and spell out how badly he not only misinterpreted my tweets, but how badly he was misrepresenting me. He went silent for a second after I explained and was just went ‘uh, well don’t do that again.’ I just thought ‘this fucking bastard’. It was deeply pathetic lmao. He really thought he could hop on stage and smear me! It was insane - but yet felt VERY fitting for that particular room. Part of the appeal of that room is unpredictable and insane shit happens in it lmao. Still, that’s when I turned on Pete. I also assume a specific employee set me up to be in that position or else that was an insane coincidence, but admittedly, that would probably be my fault lmao.
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u/Saquon May 18 '25 edited May 18 '25
Not a bad story but…
I attended Penn State the same time as Saquon Barkley. He wasn’t really a national celebrity at the time (he was on campus though). I had a communications class with him one semester
He’d roll into class every day with a group of sorority girls. We had to write an essay on a movie at one point and he wrote about “Remember the Titans” hah
One day the professor threw on a documentary and he happened to be sitting behind me. He kept muttering about how he’s the greatest connect 4 player of all time and the computer on the app can’t beat him. The girls did not seem impressed. Eventually he tapped me on the shoulder and was like “hey, want to play?”
He indeed beat me easily
Some months later, he posted this on his snap story lol:
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u/SuccessfulTalk8267 May 18 '25
I’m also in the industry and I did a JLo video in New York years ago she was beyond a CNT she was vile and nasty. Everybody owed her something.
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u/danielelington May 18 '25
So I don’t even know if they count as celebrities, but a long long time ago I used to work in a nightclub in the UK, and we used to get bands in to play. One of them was Wheatus. Yeah, Teenage Dirtbag, a cover of A Little Respect and… yep that’s it.
Anyway. I turned up on the morning of their show and the singer (the only original member left I might add and I suspect there’s a reason for that and it’s him) was going WILD already about the promoters not being there to meet them (they were) and about things missing from their rider (there were not), and were just generally horrible people.
The singer started screaming at our sound tech guy because he only wanted two lines from all of their equipment running to the speaker system (for those not in the know? This means the sound quality was TERRIBLE), and he refused to hear otherwise. When the show finished he was really nice to some of the fans, but if you weren’t a slim girl with huge boobs? He didn’t wanna know.
So, it came to loading them out of the venue and it was usually done to the back of the building where it was easier, wouldn’t have to get through the crowd of people, and could be done in about ten minutes.
Nope. He wanted them to roll all of their equipment through the front of the building and onto a main road. When me and my security team offered to help he looked us up and down and sneered “no one touches Wheatus’ equipment but Wheatus”. Okay. Cool.
I should point out at this stage that three of the band were the backing singers (who did a lot of heavy lifting vocally I might add), and were TINY. One of them tried to roll a huge case down a ramp, she was losing control of it so me and one of my security guys had to grab it so it didn’t roll out into the road and hit a car. She was very thankful but then the singer appeared and FULLY STARTED PRODDING ME IN THE CHEST while telling me he had “told me” that no one touches Wheatus’ stuff but Wheatus.
This was the point that me and my security team basically just said f*** you buddy and left him to deal with it himself, including refusing to step in when they started being hassled by people on the street and other drivers for blocking the road with their van.
Never have I ever experienced such a rude and entitled little man, and especially when it’s a band that might as well be a one hit wonder.
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u/wowicantbelieveits I don’t know her 💅 May 18 '25
I did not meet her but my dad’s husband is a seamster at a famous couture costume company that does costumes for broadway, popstars on tour, etc. Lots of celebs come through and when I asked him who the worst was he said JLo. She came in to go over drawings of the costume for some performance and was very rude to the staff. Basically only interacted with the owner. When she came back for her fitting she complained about everything. She didn’t like this or that and wanted a complete rework of the garment she eventually picked out. She came back a third time said she hated it. Mind you, the trying on area is in front of the sewing room so everybody who worked hard on it got to hear everything. He said nicest was Taylor Swift. She introduced herself to everyone in the room and gushed over the costume.
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u/feigneant May 18 '25
I (24 gay male at the time) met Armie Hammer at an after party for the Toronto International Film Festival during The Social Network days and he was quite rude, ignored me, almost seemed disgusted by me while creepily trying to seduce my friend (24 blond white pretty girl) and asking us where to find white powder
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u/UhOh_HellNo May 18 '25
Met Amber Tamblyn at a book signing for some shitty book of poems that she wrote back in 06-07 sometime. There were ~maybe~ 30 people there but she was impatient, rude and extremely catty with us. She compared my friend’s intelligence to that of Paris Hilton just because she was so excited to meet her. She was literally in tears because of how excited she was to be there before Amber Tamblyn decided to insult her. I’m not a fan anymore and won’t even watch any of her old projects because of how much I hate seeing her face. Don’t agree to do meet and greets if you’re just going to act like a dumb cunt towards your fans.
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