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Rudest celeb you've met?

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  • Registered Users Posts: 70 ✭✭bmurphy8177


    Bobby Charlton easily the rudest celeb I have met.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,259 ✭✭✭✭Melion


    Ronan O'Gara without a doubt.
    I was working in Shannon Airport just after the last WC, I was profiling him(he was going to the States) and he refused to answer the questions, leaving his wife to do it. Wouldnt sign an autograph for a young lad(8 or 9), just said no and walked past him. Ignorant to the US Customs Officer who was going through his passport etc. Not happy that his wifes bags got searched before boarding the aircraft.

    Just an all-round wánker.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,626 ✭✭✭Stargal


    Yeah, sorry didn't mean for people to write anything libellous.
    You're grand, I just took it as an opportunity to offer a friendly reminder about keeping this thread on track :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 55 ✭✭baz_ctr


    gotta say Jimmy Carr was lovely. Chatted with him for awhile and he was so polite.

    i have to agree i have been to couple of his gigs always stays back to sign autographs except for the night he was on the late late straight after the show which he said sorry for


  • Registered Users Posts: 170 ✭✭carmel27


    irishh_bob wrote: »
    he,s just an oddball that guy , cant stand the sound of his voice

    I cant either, especially after meeting him:D


  • Registered Users Posts: 170 ✭✭carmel27


    Mad jesty wrote: »
    Lucy Kennedy - if you can call her a celebrity - very stuck up, looked down her nose at everyone who dared to say hello to her on a trip to Ennis once. She was in a particular pub and bit the head off some guy who sat in her seat accidentally,the puss on her was the talk of the town the day after.


    Which pub?? Would like to see her fighting for her seat in the Queens!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 237 ✭✭Wheelsonthebus


    Melion wrote: »
    Ronan O'Gara without a doubt.
    I was working in Shannon Airport just after the last WC, I was profiling him(he was going to the States) and he refused to answer the questions, leaving his wife to do it. Wouldnt sign an autograph for a young lad(8 or 9), just said no and walked past him. Ignorant to the US Customs Officer who was going through his passport etc. Not happy that his wifes bags got searched before boarding the aircraft.

    Just an all-round wánker.

    Have to agree. Have so many first hand accounts of that man just being a complete and utter knob.

    I read most of his autobiography (didn't buy it I hasten to add, it was lying around at a friends house) it's the only autobiography I've ever read where the person actually comes across as even more of a knob after you've read it.

    Have to say though that I've seen Peter Stringer out and about plenty of times and the man just has the patience of a saint. Surrounded by people constantly asking for pictures and autographs and never seems to mind.

    Contrary to what others have said Glen Hansard was an absolute gentleman when I met him years ago. Spent loads of time chatting to me and my friend and gave us free drinks. Sound out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,128 ✭✭✭cynder


    Have to agree. Have so many first hand accounts of that man just being a complete and utter knob.

    I read most of his autobiography (didn't buy it I hasten to add, it was lying around at a friends house) it's the only autobiography I've ever read where the person actually comes across as even more of a knob after you've read it.

    Have to say though that I've seen Peter Stringer out and about plenty of times and the man just has the patience of a saint. Surrounded by people constantly asking for pictures and autographs and never seems to mind.

    Contrary to what others have said Glen Hansard was an absolute gentleman when I met him years ago. Spent loads of time chatting to me and my friend and gave us free drinks. Sound out.

    Said ronan o gara a few pages back, i checked him into a hotel and he wouldn't talk, the owner of the hotel spoke to him and he ignored him too.


  • Registered Users Posts: 19 undergroundeye


    zippygirl wrote: »
    Heather Graham :eek:

    When did you met her? I must admit i'm a big fan:D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭not_xanthor


    Mad Jesty wrote:
    Lucy Kennedy - if you can call her a celebrity - very stuck up, looked down her nose at everyone who dared to say hello to her on a trip to Ennis once. She was in a particular pub and bit the head off some guy who sat in her seat accidentally,the puss on her was the talk of the town the day after.


    Friends of mine met her once, and said she came across as very un-stuck up.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1 Lilywhites


    Packie banner-
    He was quite sound we asked him for a pic and he came over straight away smiled and posed.:pac:

    Stephen Hunt-
    At Ireland game he was one of the only players that would come over and made time for a pic and an autograph tried to get around as many as possible too.

    Ian Rush-
    Very friendly full of chat and has time for people

    Alan Kennedy and Ian Callaghan-
    Same as the above
    Ian Callaghan seemed in bit of hurry to go to the game but he was a guest for one the Tv stations.Kennedy was more patient with his fans

    Lucy Kennedy-
    She seemed quite friendly and bubbly

    Steve Staunton-
    Ignorant pig hate him.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23 studioguest


    I met Ron Jeremy once and he was sound..


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 10,259 ✭✭✭✭Melion



    Have to say though that I've seen Peter Stringer out and about plenty of times and the man just has the patience of a saint. Surrounded by people constantly asking for pictures and autographs and never seems to mind.

    I totally agree about Peter Stringer. Never refused a picture or an autograph anytime i seen him in the airport, spoke to him once or twice and was an absolute gent. I nearly had to stop him travelling to the states with his missus and even then he didnt give out.


  • Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 10,442 Mod ✭✭✭✭xzanti


    Melion wrote: »
    I totally agree about Peter Stringer. Never refused a picture or an autograph anytime i seen him in the airport, spoke to him once or twice and was an absolute gent. I nearly had to stop him travelling to the states with his missus and even then he didnt give out.

    My first thought when I read ur post was this guy :o

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    :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8 muggins2003


    lead singer from REM - wouldn't giuve an autograph and made me feel like a dope asking for one! i waas only 15 and i still remember it and cringe


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 631 ✭✭✭neil_18_


    Bobby Charlton easily the rudest celeb I have met.

    :(

    Can i ask why?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,470 ✭✭✭✭Utopia Parkway


    Said ronan o gara a few pages back, i checked him into a hotel and he wouldn't talk, the owner of the hotel spoke to him and he ignored him too.

    O'Gara seems to be almost famous for being a bit of a knob. Have heard countless stories of him acting like that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 459 ✭✭Sesudra


    Rufus Wainwright-so arrogant and up himself.saw him in the smoking area of the pub I was in,went over and said "Sorry,excuse me,are you Rufus Wainwright?I love your music",he looks me up and down with a big sneer on his face and goes "Thanks" and turns away and walks off.Turned me right off his music after that

    Ana Matronic (the lady from Scissor Sisters)-lovely!have met her twice after gigs on nights out,so friendly and chatty,no problem posing for a quick photo and she even had a bit of a dance with the group I was with


  • Registered Users Posts: 221 ✭✭therealme


    Ronan O Gara??? I met him & he was soooooo nice. A real gent. Am shocked at the posts about him.

    Edge & his wife are lovely, as are Brian O Driscoll, Brent Pope, Eamon Dunphy & Neil Delamere.

    Ray Darcy, was at my work years ago & was a real ass! Caroline Moynihan? is Z list but head very far up her butt!! Dolores O Reardon is a headcase!

    Have met them all through work.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 26 JordanRHughes


    Twink

    :eek:


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    sim2 wrote: »
    Ronan Keating..very in love with a guy called Ronan Keating!!!

    now now, keep it in house yvonne! :p


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    carmel27 wrote: »
    Oh, Id totally believe that about Ms. Roche. When she was on that celebrity banisteoir thing, a girl I know was in the local pub with a group of her friends. Andrea was there, but seemed to be lurking around on her own. Feeling sorry for her, the girls approached her and tried to chat to her and make her feel welcome. They were sorry they bothered though! Apparently, she was just plain rude, and made it very clear that she didnt want or need their company! I guess when you're so high and mighty, you dont need company of poor little local ppl who arent famous!

    far from 'celebrity' she was reared i believe. typical clonmellian woman, they get nosebleeds even the thoughts of communicating with anyone outside their precious sh*t hole of a town


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    Osu wrote: »
    Paul McShane, if he even counts, what a c*nt. Refused to sign an autograph for a bunch of kids at a meet and greet for some lame excuse.


    he probably seen a match he played in just before that on tv and didnt feel worthy of signing an autograph after a typical Mcshane performance


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 206 ✭✭AlmostFamous


    I met Padrig Harrington once and found him very grumpy but he wasn't really rude.

    Lee Westwood (golfer) was very friendly when I met him.
    Jerry Flannery I've seen him so many times and he is always very polite and friendly.
    Willie O' Dea was also very friendly both times I met him but I wouldn't regard him as a celebrity.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,496 ✭✭✭Mr. Presentable


    Don Baker - if you can call him a celebrity. Clayton Blackmore was unpleasant also, but I could excuse him as a non-celeb.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7,466 ✭✭✭blinding


    Has Twink and the Devil ever been seen at the same place at the same time. Now come on its got to be a possibility:p


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,559 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    Not rude, but nice.

    Years ago I was in the old Dun Laoghaire market. I saw someone I thought I knew with his two young daughters, but stopped myself because I couldn't remember his name. I was about to say 'hi' when he just nodded to me and smiled.

    It was the Edge.

    I wouldn't care but it happened to me subsequently with both Brian Cowan and Pat Kenny. You see these guys on the TV everyday and when you actually run into them on the street in real life a weird neurological reaction happens where you think you've met them somewhere else and feel a polite urge to acknowledge their presence.

    Funnily enough I ran in to a rather p*ssed up ex-leader of the Irish Green party at a private function recently and he insisted he knew me from somewhere. I never met him before in my life, but the whole encounter played out like the "Fr. Todd Uncious" sketch from Father Ted.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,397 ✭✭✭✭Degsy


    Robert Arkins aka Jimmy rabbit out of the commitments comes into my workplace the whole time and he's a miserable,obnoxious cnunt.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 439 ✭✭minister poxbottle


    gay byrne ignorant little bollix :mad:
    niall tobin narky little bollix :mad:
    austin mc hale (rally driver) ignorant as **** :mad:
    garret fitzgerald just plain crazy :confused:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 33 grainnek


    Pierce Brosnan

    My friend got married in the four seasons a few years back and he was in the ice bar.She went up to him to see if she could get a photo with him and he shoo'd her away....apparently he came into the dining room after to apologies but the speaches where on so he left...not sure how true that is thou


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭not_xanthor


    ** :mad:
    garret fitzgerald just plain crazy :confused:


    More info?


    ...and Gaybo has a well estabished reputation for being unfriendly.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 439 ✭✭minister poxbottle


    More info?


    ...and Gaybo has a well estabished reputation for being unfriendly.

    working as a motorcycle courier many years ago i had the misfortune of having to collect medicine for his wife who was ill, i arrived at his house and invited in by a nurse fitz opens the package discovers its the wrong medicine throws a fit locked the hall door would'nt let me leave like it was my fault :mad: lunatic


  • Registered Users Posts: 38 damone


    worked in Garret fitzgeralds house for a few days about ten years ago ,he is friendly and tries to be friendly but he is eccentric which makes him come accross as very odd !the special branch geezer who was on duty when we were there said he was a doddle to get on with just a bit stuck in his ways but he was always pleasant even tho he was under a lot of stress with his very sick wife who he seemed to totally dote on!!!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 439 ✭✭minister poxbottle


    damone wrote: »
    worked in Garret fitzgeralds house for a few days about ten years ago ,he is friendly and tries to be friendly but he is eccentric which makes him come accross as very odd !the special branch geezer who was on duty when we were there said he was a doddle to get on with just a bit stuck in his ways but he was always pleasant even tho he was under a lot of stress with his very sick wife who he seemed to totally dote on!!!!

    pity he did'nt dote on the country he was ment to be leading :mad: maggies parrot i voted for him at 18 i'm now 48 my one and only vote they try and tell ya **** is cake.


  • Registered Users Posts: 74 ✭✭vonnie10


    Kian from Westlife !!!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 285 ✭✭not_xanthor


    vonnie10 wrote: »
    Kian from Westlife !!!


    These things are always more interesting when you explain the circumstances, their behaviour etc. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 439 ✭✭minister poxbottle


    These things are always more interesting when you explain the circumstances, their behaviour etc. :)

    i'm with ya on this come on people lets have de dirt :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 384 ✭✭Erica<3


    Yvonne Keating is the rudest celebrity I have ever met.

    Ronan Keating is by far the nicest celebrity I've met, as are all the BoyZone lads actually


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 439 ✭✭minister poxbottle


    vonnie10 wrote: »
    Kian from Westlife !!!

    why? we know ees a pkric c'mon de dirt :P


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    Brush Shields. I saw him at the ploughing championships a few years ago he was on radio and coming out of the stand when a woman shouted after him to ask him to stand in for a photo. He whipped round with a puss on him that would turn milk sour and mumbled a few choice words about the woman.


  • Registered Users Posts: 74 ✭✭vonnie10


    vonnie10 wrote: »
    Kian from Westlife !!!

    Well i didn't think we were allowed to spill the beans or they were gonna lock the thread...
    But basically about 7/8 years ago my older cousin who is friends with gillian who is now married to shane got us backstage passes to one of their concerts!! So we were wandering around backstage getting a tour when i spotted Kian and went running over to him to ask for an autograph. He was at the door of his dressing room when i got to him but instead of a warm welcome he ignored me and slammed his dressing room door in my face. I was 13 and had just paid for his concert. Also it wasn't like i was disturbing him in his personal time it was at a concert where he was supposed to be working and i had just shelled out to see his concert!!! Not Impressed !!!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,173 ✭✭✭✭kmart6


    You got backstage passes through a contact which doesn't give you the right to just charge up to a performer!


  • Registered Users Posts: 74 ✭✭vonnie10


    kmart6 wrote: »
    You got backstage passes through a contact which doesn't give you the right to just charge up to a performer!

    Maybe i didn't have the right but i was a child at the time and it wouldn't have killed him just to even give me a smile!! Surely if they are going to meet and greet their fans, a concert would be the most appropriate time right? I still think it is incredibly rude and arrogant behaviour. After all it was fans like me that put him where he is now!! I met the rest of the band and they were lovely especially nicky and shane! (Nicky even apologised for it) But Kian ??? Think he's a twat even watching him on TV he comes across like a smug arrogant numpty... and he didn't do anything to dispel that perception of him when i met him in person


  • Registered Users Posts: 69 ✭✭Mad jesty


    vonnie10 wrote: »
    Well i didn't think we were allowed to spill the beans or they were gonna lock the thread...
    But basically about 7/8 years ago my older cousin who is friends with gillian who is now married to shane got us backstage passes to one of their concerts!! So we were wandering around backstage getting a tour when i spotted Kian and went running over to him to ask for an autograph. He was at the door of his dressing room when i got to him but instead of a warm welcome he ignored me and slammed his dressing room door in my face. I was 13 and had just paid for his concert. Also it wasn't like i was disturbing him in his personal time it was at a concert where he was supposed to be working and i had just shelled out to see his concert!!! Not Impressed !!!!


    What a knob, there is no reason at all to behave like that towards a child.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 785 ✭✭✭Shane10


    shane filan and mark feehily are really sound guys. anytime i see them out in sligo they will chat away to anyone, pose for pics etc. couldnt be nicer.

    ken doherty - met him before a few times. chatted away no problem. i seen him spend the whole night signing autographs and posing for pics with people.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 785 ✭✭✭Shane10


    A neighbour of mine had a very sick child, kid was a huge Man Utd fan and loved Roy Keane. The neighbour was at Old Trafford and left a note for Roy Keane at a reception desk. Roy Keane rang him back and gave him his number, said he would sort him out for match tickets anytime! Even spoke to the kid over the phone. Very sound of him.

    Met Liam Gallagher at Knock Airport, legend!

    wow this is amazing from roy. ive always thought he would be a dead sound guy despite his angry persona. i like this story.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 785 ✭✭✭Shane10


    Martin Sheen: A gent of the highest order. Met him in Galway and chatted awhile. I told him I was a massive Emilio Estevez fan and as he was leaving he asked me for my address. A short time later I get a large envelope in the post, inside a signed picture of Emilio.

    awwh thats so good. someone like martin sheen is a real star but seems so sound anytime ive seen him been interviewed. for him to take the time to do this is really cool.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 11,613 ✭✭✭✭Clare Bear


    Shane10 wrote: »
    wow this is amazing from roy. ive always thought he would be a dead sound guy despite his angry persona. i like this story.

    One of many, I've heard numerous stories like that. Roy Keane is extremley good when it comes to kids, especially sick children. I have a lot of respect for him that way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,641 ✭✭✭gscully


    Clare Bear wrote: »
    One of many, I've heard numerous stories like that. Roy Keane is extremley good when it comes to kids, especially sick children. I have a lot of respect for him that way.

    Wasn't there a story that he donated some memorabilia to charity for an auction and then turned up at the auction to bid big money to get it back?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,167 ✭✭✭rednik


    Jason McAteer at a charity football match. Tried to get an autograph and it was like trying to get blood from a stone.


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