People Call Out 30 Celebrities They Claim Act Completely Different Behind The Scenes
Interview With ExpertMany people claim to rank among a celebrity’s biggest fans. However, unless you know them on a very personal level, you can’t ever truly be sure what hides behind their public persona. All of us wear different ‘masks’ and subtly change our behavior around different people. Nearly anyone whose livelihood depends on them entertaining the entire globe is no different.
The r/AskReddit online community shed some light on which stars are—in fact—completely different in their private lives compared to how they behave in public, on the screen, or on the stage. From Cher and Adam Sandler to Gordon Ramsay and Sting, scroll down for a deeper glimpse into these beloved stars’ lives.

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Clint Eastwood knows every person’s name on set from the caterer’s to the electricians. He eats with the employees, takes breaks with them. Stays late with them. Never hid in a trailer. He never had security with him on set. He introduces himself as Clint. No calling him Mr. Eastwood. It’s like he’s honored to meet you. One of the nicest, most down to earth people ever. I’ll never forget meeting him.
Just made one mistake in life when he started talking to an empty chair at the GOP convention.
Westerns were really popular in the 60's, and Clint Eastwood was Rawhides' Rowdy Yates. I've watched nearly everything he's been in since. The fact that he is an outspoken member within the Republican Party made me give him the side eye, but he's anti-Trump to the point of supporting Bloomberg in 2020. Breathe.
Bored Panda was very curious to learn about the gap between our private and public personas, so we reached out to Glenn Geher, Ph.D. He is a professor of psychology at the State University of New York at New Paltz and a published author, and kindly answered our questions.
We asked Dr. Geher about why human beings tend to adjust their behavior around different groups of people and in various environments. He walked us through this.
"People definitely evolved to adjust behavior based on the nature of situations that they run into. Behavior at a wedding is usually joyful, while behavior at a funeral is typically solemn. People who are good at 'reading the room' and adjusting their behaviors based on the demands of particular situations tend to navigate the waters of the social world better than those who are low on this skill," he explained to Bored Panda.
Many years ago, i was fortunate to have drinks with a group of chefs that included Gordon Ramsay. I know he's been shown to not really be the raging hot-head he is portrayed as. But he really could not have been a nicer guy.
This makes me happy. I always felt he was probably a really good person and just passionate about perfect cooking.
I think it's a mix of being passionate about cooking, and in terms of Hell's Kitchen, pushing the aspiring chefs to be the best they can be.
Load More Replies...It's the American version that people hate, understandably. But that's the US for you. Even our cooking shows have to be WWE events.
i've heard that many of the people on staff in his kitchens has been with him for 10-20 years...that is exceedingly rare...if he truly were an a$$shole, people wouldn't stay with him
I've read similar before but I still feel it is a blemish on his character that he is willing to treat people like that to promote his public persona and make bank off of it. And then nobodies try to mimic what they saw the famous rich person do. With villains in movies, everybody knows all of the parts are actors playing a role. Bob Ross managed to be famous by being nice to people.
he's the opposite of a lot of actors: he acts angry and mean on TV but is actually really nice and a good guy irl
Adam Sandler. He's apparently a really good guy who tries to film his movies in his home state of New Hampshire to boost tourism. He's incredibly loyal to his SNL friends always trying to put them in his movies and is a great Dad.
A little too loyal. A couple of his big time besties have turned out awful people. There is no one I've kept in my circle of friends that are blatant racists or die hard trumper cultists.
No idea why you got downvoted. His bestie, Rob Schneider, is gross as h3ll
Load More Replies...Love Sandler. Can't stand his movies. But I think he's a wonderful person.
"The field of acting seems to harness this feature of our evolved psychology—with better actors essentially being those who are particularly effective at adjusting their behaviors to conform to certain roles or situations, even if such behavior does not match their natural inclinations," he said in an email.
Considering how advantageous it appears to be behaviourally flexible, we were wondering whether it was worth bridging the gap between our private and public personas at all. According to Dr. Geher, it's important to consider our relationship with our most authentic selves here. There's a balance that needs to be found.
Supposedly Robin Williams was very introverted and quiet
RIP.
While I really like some celebrities their passing had never really hit me. Robin's did for some reason. His made me really ache with sadness for someone I'd never met. :(
Load More Replies...Don't know about in private but in interviews it seemed like he couldn't 'turn it off'. As in, stop being the funny guy and just have a normal conversation. I was actually surprised when I saw him play a serious role in What Dreams May Come because every other time I'd seen the man talking he was making jokes and silly noises.
I met Robin Williams at a Barbra Streisand concert, and he was very soft spoken and gentle. No, I did not ask for his autograph or a picture. We were there to see Babs.
He also made sure that any movie set he was on hired homeless people to try to help them out and get their life going again.
It's got to be the reason why he was always in character when the cameras were on him. His mania with every interview and guest spot must have been exhausting.
Weird Al Yankovic is supposedly really quiet, overly polite, introverted and mild-mannered offstage. Even to his own friends and family.
Weird Al is awesome. Here, click and smile. https://youtu.be/ve6R_p4hsfk?feature=shared
Well, I've just returned from the rabbit hole I went down. Thanks for the video link. Lead me to learn more about the band, etc.
Load More Replies...My dad worked with a guy who was Weird Al's roommate at Cal Poly. He said that the "Weird Al" persona is not a persona at all, and that Al was a manic jokester pretty much all the time.
Somehow, that doesn't surprise me in the least.
Load More Replies...I met him at a comedy show 25 years ago. He is indeed a very nice quiet guy off stage.
I have met him. He's very kind. Has time for people even when he doesn't.
I can attest to that. I worked a show he did several years ago in the early century, and he was loud and boisterous in character, but backstage he was just another nice quite and agreeable guy, that tried to stay out of our way to do our jobs.
Cher is a notorious introvert. Yet her persona is flashy outfits, outlandish personality and entertainer. She just likes to go home and be alone at the end of the day.
I'm an extroverted introvert too! Maybe not as flashy as Cher though! I do love to be around people but at the end of the day I just want to go home and be alone 😊
I totally idolized Cher when I was a little girl. There's still a lot to love.
Public persona's are very rarely the same as private persons, especially for those constantly in the public eye
I think the flashy clothes and outlandish personality is just that, a persona used to deal with having to interact with people.
"While adjusting one's behavior based on situational demands is very human and often appropriate, consistently presenting oneself as very different from one's core, authentic self might be stressful for various reasons," Dr. Geher told us.
"So, while I would say that it is important for people to be able to be behaviorally flexible, being so should not come at the cost of being true to oneself. Once again, I'd say, Shakespeare was right: 'To thine own self, be true.'"
Bruce Willis is (was?) a book lover.
I read recently how Bruce Willis is going downhill with dementia, but what struck me is the article said that he had always been a voracious reader. Don’t know why but it hit me funny, that Mr Action man was a bookworm. (And sadly, is losing that now too).
When you are stuck hiding in a heating duct it helps to have a good book to pass the time. /j
Die Hard is a Christmas movie, and that’s a hill I’ll die on.
Load More Replies...Plenty of "action" stars are really super nerdy book people. Vin Diesel makes his cast-mates play Dungeons and Dragons with him. Henry Cavil is another D&D fan and a voracious reader. Certainly there are others. It's pretty rare that somebody is interested in drama and theatre without being a little nerdy.
Before he was Mr. Action Man, he was the Goofy Cool Guy, David Addison, an unknown actor cast in Moonlighting. Another one of my favorite actors whose career I've followed.
I believe that you are surrounded by love, it doesn’t get any better than that! And I believe when it’s your time and you slip from the tethers of this earth, you will be surrounded by the Greatest love in the universe, and you will find you haven’t lost a thing…lots of love and loved ones and all the books and truthful history you could ever want to know, because Jesus is there. Pure and positive.
This 61 yo woman who is a bookworm just jumped a fence because I heard another woman crying hysterically down the street. Don't assume that just because we are educated, that we can't be active! It's not funny. And, Bruce can't read anymore. He isn't losing anything. He's lost.
Dean Martin wasn't quite a teatotaler, but pretty close to it. The whiskey he was always drinking on stage or on camera was usually apple juice.
"Frank (Sinatra) spills more alcohol than Dean drinks." Don't remember who it was who said that, but supposed to be a friend of both.
Back in the day. You were not allowed to drink liquor,beer etc in films
Excellent! I knew this about Dean. He didn't smoke either. If one paid attention to his cigarette, you could see it wasn't lit. It was his character.
True, but he was a heavy smoker (cause of death) and a known card hustler. Probably lured by all that time in Vegas.
There was a mug made of Shirley Temple's face. Dean Martin called it the guide to the perfect martini. Gin to the chin, and vermouth to the tooth.
Billy Idol. He sat in front of me at a Bryan Ferry concert (Formerly of Roxy Music) in San Diego and spent about 20 minutes graciously talking to fans after the show. Incredibly kind, funny and down to earth person. Complete gem of a human.
I ran into Jonathan BANKS at the Starbucks in Malibu. He played Mike Ehrmentraut on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. Very laid back and nice guy who chatted up a few teenage kids. Chill dude.
In the UK to chat up means to come on to someone, to make it known that you like them and want to go out with them. To chat up teenagers has a whole different vibe when you read it in England.
As a brit, can confirm. That's how I read it too, and even though in context it's clearly being said in a positive way, it still made me grimace
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I think it may have been a Spicks and Specks episode but I swear I remember hearing that BIlly Idol's mum attends all his gigs
With the spread of the internet (5.45 billion global users and counting!) and the continued rise of social media (5.17 billion users worldwide), it’s easier now than ever to follow what other people are doing. This doesn’t just mean what your family, friends, and colleagues are doing.
You can, without much difficulty, constantly stay up to date with what your heroes are doing, whether they’re actors or athletes you admire, musicians who molded your taste in music, or comedians who never fail to brighten up your day. This has massively contributed to the spread of so-called parasocial relationships.
Snoop Dogg actually hasn't committed a crime in many decades.
Maybe if you don't count marijuana use. But I live in WA and we (and Colorado) were the first two states to legalize it and that wasn't until 2012. Not saying that SHOULD be a crime, just that it was until a bit over a decade ago.
Being tried is not the same as committing a crime; for that you need a guilty verdict. He was acquitted, therefore did not commit a crime.
Load More Replies...He was caught with possession of marijuana in Texas a few years ago, less than a decade I believe. He argued it’s legal where he’s from, but still a crime in Texas so this isn’t completely accurate.
Will Ferrell
I’ve heard from several people I know that have met & worked with Will that he’s nothing like his onscreen characters. He’s actually pretty laid back and soft spoken off camera. Totally what you wouldn’t expect based on some of the roles he’s known for.
It's so good, Will is a fantastic human. The burning question I still have is how big were those diamonds? :)
Load More Replies...I don't know why, but he works my last nerve. The only good thing I saw him in was Everything Must Go.
For me he is a great voice actor. (Megamind ❤️❤️). But if you want to give him a chance and try something else then his usual roles there is a 2006 movie "Stranger Than Fiction".
Load More Replies...That Little Debbie "interview" if you want to see it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8rev7S3lC8
Thank you!!! I laughed so had when I scrolled to this pic. But now I really want some Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls ASAP.
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John Lennon. Horrible man, talks of love and peace. Like a lot of hippies really.
Admitted he was abusive, wrote Jealous Guy about it, but labelling other hippies horrible? I mean, I don't like them but Wavy Gravy and the people chilling at Woodstock don't seem abusive.
Not only non-abusive, Wavy Gravy has been trying to make the world better since the 60s. 4 million blind people can now see because of the organization he cofounded, and that's just one in a long list of things he's done.
Load More Replies...The Beatles are my all-time favorite musical group. I was 5 when they officially dissolved. I've never liked John Lennon, but truly despised him once I found out how he treated Julian, his oldest son from his first marriage. John was a sh!tty father to him while alive, & didn't even provide for him in his will. Oko & Sean were supposedly to split everything. There is 12 years between the boys and Sean was a teenager before Julian was able to claim anything. (It's believed that Yoko Ono fought for him as she had encouraged a relationship between the boys.)
Yes, I remember reading (over 20 years ago) that Julian got on well with Yoko Ono. I'm glad to see it's true. She never struck me as being the way she was portrayed in the media. People portrayed her as a hanger-on, whereas often John made her go places with him. Yet she got the blame! So I'm a fan of hers even though I was only 3 when the Beatles broke up.
Load More Replies...I grew up in Buffalo during the hippie era. They were mostly nice peace loving back to nature types. I can't imagine where the commenter came up with the idea that all hippies were horrible people. These days living in The South I learned that if one encounters an old guy with a long ponytail , that does not mean he was a hippie. If he has any tattoos, you will find he is a white supremacist and probably was an ex Hell's Angels biker. Not a peace loving type at all.
I really dislike when I see his picture on positive quotes and ads. The man was a wife beater. This has been a known fact since before he died.
A nasty, spiteful man. The Beatles were "discovered" by Brian Epstein who bust a gut getting them noticed. Epstein was gay and spent a "lost weekend" with Lennon in Barcelona but while he was contemplating writing his autobiography and searching for a title Lennon snarked "How about 'Queer Jew'?"
Since I was little I've loved the Beatles and yes, John was my fav. The more I read about him the more I was fascinated with how diverse his personality was and I truly think he had more than just a few mental illnesses. I love most of his work (especially his weird poems and short stories) but I also know that I'd have hated to meet him. He died 4 years before I was born so the possibility of meeting him has, for me, always been 0.
Parasocial relationships are, at their core, one-sided. They happen when one person is completely unaware of the other’s existence. Meanwhile, the latter invests a lot of their time, energy, and effort in being involved in the former’s life.
These days, parasocial relationships form between fans and celebrities, bloggers, influencers, sports teams, gamers, and TV stars. In the past, it was TV personalities who were most often the ‘targets’ of these one-sided relationships. But these stars’ interactions with their fans were far more limited and formal back then. Fast-forward to the current date and you have an incredible array of tools to interact with your followers all over the world: from social media and live streams to blog posts and in-person meetups.
Pierce Brosnan is one whose public persona is such a convincing fiction that even he can’t convince people he’s not really James Bondish. An introspective, borderline shy family man, according to those who know him well.
Can't tell if this is a true statement about his personal life or a reference to Mrs. Doubtfire 😂
Load More Replies...My former boss was a housekeeper for his place while filming Mamma Mia 2...they met when she was cleaning a bathtub, he walked in, introduced himself and they fist bumped. Apparently absolute dear to work for.
Angela from The Office is a silly goofball in real life.
I don't know why that's funny but it made me laugh. one time Andy gave her a rose at Michael's dinner party and she was like what am I supposed to do with that? now I have to hold it the whole time. 🤣 was it Andy or Dwight?
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I mean I don’t know her but I was sure in for a fun treat in Jennifer Coolidge’s AD article where it’s “surprise I live in a haunted Victorian home with thick dark curtains I have drawn all the time and these are my ghosts”
It was awesome. I was fully expecting Legally Blonde pinks and prep, not her in some moody robe pulling the drapes in melancholy before a seance.
She was hilarious as Martin's physical therapist on Frasier.
Load More Replies...Given all of this context, it’s not unusual to think that you ‘know’ a celebrity you follow as though they were a personal friend of yours. However, this is a misperception. Without sounding overly judgmental, you only get to know what they want you to know. It’s their public ‘face,’ similar to what you ‘put on’ when you go to work, meet with clients, attend fancy events, etc.
Getting to know a celebrity in person or watching some candid, in-depth, behind-the-scenes interviews can really change your relationship with them. Some fans might feel like they’ve finally ‘met’ the real, authentic star. Others might feel ‘betrayed’ that the person they’ve grown to admire for so long is only a small fragment of their personality.
Sting is actually pretty funny and doesn’t take himself nearly as seriously as he seems to. Had an hour-long argument with him about alternative medicine years ago, he was a great sport.
Agreed, he’s a nice bloke, always stood a round for the regulars at his local pub.
Ran into J.K. Simmons at a farmers market in LA. Super nice dude.
I think it's because he portrays some really angry people in movies.
Load More Replies...Isn't he wonderful? His range from silly to menacing is convincingly impressive. Heard him and his wife on The Meyers Brothers podcast. Really enjoyed it.
He went to college in my home town. Missoula, MT. We are both alumni of the University of MT. He comes back often for games and whatnot. J.K. is a hero in Missoula.
Johnny Knoxville. I’ve met him, and he is way more soft-spoken and polite than you might guess… also just a stand-up guy in general, from the accounts of other folks I know (he was connected to my father’s work). Not a “Jacka*s” at all!
I can’t recommend The Ringer highly enough to do it justice. He gets involved in a scheme to fix (as in cheat) the Special Olympics. That’s all I’ll say, except to note that the movie was made with the approval and support of the real Special Olympics.
The joke is always on him. That's the best part of that movie!
Load More Replies...I hate to say it but Knoxville is much better than Steve-O and has always come off that way...I know Steve-O has struggled with addiction and has made tremendous headway in recovery since but holy cow Johnny is a 'nun' in comparison
I love Steve-O. It's refreshing to see someone being so honest about their mental health journey, to me he just seems like a bloke who is trying his best to improve himself.
Load More Replies...He is my birthday twin! I wonder if he is just an emotional Pisces like me 😭
Yours (and his) are two days after mine! Hello fellow fishhead!
Load More Replies...Search The Graham Norton Show for Johnny Knoxville and Joan Rivers. She had him laughing and cringe-twisting with her comments. He's a great talk show guest.
Which celebrities do you avidly follow and why, dear Pandas? Which stars do you know for a fact are very different in private? Have you ever had the luck of getting to meet any of your heroes in person?
If you were a celebrity, how would you interact with your fans? How different are your own private and public personas? Let us know what you think in the comments!
Nick Offerman smokes weed and is super chill and liberal. Pretty much the exact opposite of Ron Swanson. He does however have the woodworking and whiskey in common.
Lol, Nick Offerman and Amy Poehler have a crafting competition show together and it's the cutest thing imaginable.
Whenever I see this sweet, intelligent man playing ruthless characters, I really need to suspend disbelief. But, he's sooo good at it.
Gilbert Gottfried was a really sweet and kind guy whose regular voice was nothing like his annoying performing voice. I overheard him reading a book to his son at bedtime and it was the sweetest thing.
Check out him reading “50 Shades of Grey” on YouTube. Absolutely hilarious, but a bit of a mood killer.
That was amazing. So was his roast of Joan Rivers years ago, I laughed so hard I almost passed out.
Load More Replies...According to Reddit, OP was friendly with his wife and had dinner with her. She invited them to her apartment to say hi.
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James Gandolfini was a Birkenstock wearing, Jerry listening hippie.
Matt Berry. He's wacky, brash, loud and obnoxious on screen. In most interviews I've seen him in, he's very quiet and is serious when talking about his music especially. In group cast interviews, he always seems to be the quietest, mainly sitting back and letting the others handle the questions.
His work is fantastic. Just played a few of his scenes from The IT sitcom and I’m laughing!
When I was about 14, 1994. My parents and I went to MGM and some how my mother and I got lost and went through a staff only area we were desperate to find staff and help us get out. So all of a sudden a big group of people pushed by us. We were walking and looking at the crowd and then I saw this old man. I said mom omg! Did you see that man, he looks like Bob Hope. Bob Hope.. said” young lady, the reason I look like Bob Hope, is because I am Bob Hope” we were stunned, and then they walked by.
I remember the famed Australian war correspondent, Wilfred Burchett, saying he lost all respect for Hope after seeing him being all lovey-dovey on a long distance phone call to his wife at the same time as he "was 'being serviced' under the table by an underage Korean prostitute".
Eric Andre
My former venue was where he filmed his last netflix special. As wild and raunchy as his character and comedy his, once he was in business mode, he couldn't have been more professional, open-minded, and kind. It was truly incredible to see how well he can snap in and out of character.
One very memorable moment was when we had our initial meeting deciding if it would be at our venue or not, during sound checking he was discussing run of show, etc, someone hands him a mic to sound check and he goes from discussing business logistics with me to looking into my soul and says "Who here likes bukkake" and i obviously laughed and was caught off guard. He called me bukakke for the rest of the week.
During down time between audiences and filming I got to be around him a lot and he could not have been more friendly, and enjoyable.
10/10 would hang with him again any time.
You can Google it, the answer is right there. No need to weave all this mystery around it.
Glad I know this because I really hate his schtick and that's all I know about him.
Neil deGrasse Tyson is a pretty well established as a douchebag. Everyone I know that’s interacted with him in person hates his guts.
This is also the case and even more so for Bill Nye,.
Wait a minute. I had the incredible opportunity to meet Mr Nye while working at an airport. My coworker tried to fan-shame me when she yelled out at him...made me seem like a stan. Yes, he got defensive. Once I told him I was a fan, but at that moment I just wanted to help a customer with a problem ( he was trying to find his vehicle ), he lowered his guard and was a very gracious person.
Ive heard many negative stories about him too, a lot towards children
Load More Replies...I've met Mr Tyson a few times, and he was always very gracious. I didn't fan out on him or anything, we met in a professional setting and he was with his wife (who is also a scientist). But he didn't strike me as a jerk.
Just seeing how pedantic he is on Twitter you get a sense of it.
Neil knows a lot. Unfortunately he's well aware of that and he strikes me as obnoxiously pompous. When he's trying to communicate his love of science, he's fine. He just keeps making it about him.
He's on History's The Universe, which I often binge watch while I play games, and I can't stand his persona. From everything I've heard, that's who he really is. He just gives me the ick.
Marky Mark was doing an interview at the height of his music career, leaning way back in his chair looking all gangsta, talking with his arms and hands, using what we used to call ebonics but I think has a different name now. The interview ends, he thinks the camera cuts but it’s still running, he drops the act, sits up straight, eyebrows go up, shakes hands and graciously goes into a thank you so much for having me spiel.
My gf is a stage manager for many shows. One show while she brought him out to his seat, he thanked her, and then asked if she was cold because she looked it. She replied something about the studio always being cold. He bit the taping on pause while he sent someone from his entourage to BUY her a coat (studio is in Times Square). Shooting resumed after she got her jacket. Fast forward OVER a year later he is back in the show, saw my gf and immediately sent his entourage to buy her a coat. She thanked him but said she had one in the control room, and he said the last interview went so well he didn't want to mess up the karma, smiled and winked. CRAZY nice guy. BTW, she says only Henry Winkler is a nicer guy in her 25+ years of showbiz experience.
Load More Replies...He was on a British late night 90s show once with British rapper Mark Morrison (Return of the Mack), and they both came out with the most disgusting homophobic rhetoric which was very vicious, the host who was interviewing them, Mark Lamarr, at one point stopped the interview, read the riot act at them for their outdated views and stormed off the set, cutting immediately to an ad break. Since then, Mark Lamarr has been a hero of The Gays™️ ever since.
Mark Morrison! What ever happened to him, one hit, acted like a colossal bell end and then disappeared
Load More Replies...I'm sure the Asian community wouldn't think the "gangsta" thing was an act. It's funny how Marky Mark tried to co-opt minority culture when in real life he was a big old white racist thug.
I believe the correct term is now AAE (African-American English). But, please, somebody let me know if I'm wrong! I would love to know the correct term.
Mark Wahlberg is the brother of Donnie Wahlberg. Donnie was/is a member of NKOTB (New Kids On The Block) and is also an actor (Blue Bloods - tv). Both can actually sing extremely well
Clearly this story is from when Mark Wahlberg was known as Marky Mark. Also, you mean 1990s.
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Lady Gaga has a quite reserved personality and likes solitude. Not something you'd expect to hear about the meat dress girl from 13 years ago.
I've said this before, but the two times I saw her on Graham Norton she was just the sweetest. He was pulling something out, and she leaned off the couch and said, "Should we help you?" with her arms out. In another interview this 80+ British actress was talking about how she'd lost weight and her dress didn't fit. Gaga grabs a pin and starts pinning the dress on better so she'll look great. And she kept talking about how awesome this lady was! I don't listen to her music much but boy am I a fan of her as a person.
June Brown, British Icon for playing Dot Cotton in EastEnders.
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So I’m a housewife in Tx, don’t like rap music or keep up with it. My parents were on an elevator in San Antonio, when about 10 big guys in lots of gold jewelry and earrings and gold watches. So my dad wears a gold Pres Rolex. And this man kept staring and it made my dad nervous. As he got off, he told both parents, he loved their Rolex’s, and his name was Nellie, my dad said I like your …..gold. He said there was so much jewelry, he couldn’t think of to say. So my dad calls me and my husband, and says he was on an elevator with Nellie. I had no idea who Nellie was. I asked if she was nice. I loved her in Little House on the Prairie. My husband knew he was a rapper, my dad said oh good- now I don’t have to google him. My dad said he and his whole group were very nice.
I'm originally from San Antonio and know the quality of education available in most of the public schools there. Unless you live in a very rich neighborhood/area, this is what you get. My parents sacrificed a lot to keep me in Catholic school so I would have a better education and come across as more literate, as did their parents (and they were raised in a heartbreakingly impoverished part of town -- Mom's family didn't have a vehicle so they had to go everywhere via public transportation, Dad's bedroom was a water closet with exposed pipes for his "closet", the neighborhood had one household with a TV until just before the 1960s, etc.).
Load More Replies...Nellie's mother's house used to be not very far from the d**g store I worked at. One day he and his entire crew came in wanting some Black n mild's. Not one single one had an ID and we were required to ID everyone buying tobacco he ran to the magazine isle and found one with his picture in it and showed it to me. My reply "Sir this is not a legal form of identification". He was super chill about it and his crew were all really friendly.
Andy Samberg looks like the exact opposite of his roles during interviews, very professional.
I imagine he'll be pretty much like Jake Peralta in real life....but maybe more responsible with his finances (pre-Amy).
I just love the repartee between him and Seth Meyers. Looking forward to seeing his dramatic acting as Davy Scherman in "Lee". He looks great in the trailers.
Justin Bieber has a home in my bestie's neighborhood. It's on a lake with no public access point other than a little walking trail.
He comes to the marina in a golf cart, plays cards with the people in the seasonal trailer park, and even celebrated my bestie's next-door neighbours 50th anniversary with them.
I've only seen Hailey a couple of times, and she was super quiet, walking a dog, buying a coffee at this little bakery shop near the quarry.
I knew Joan Rivers somewhat and she was the sweetest, most lovely lady.
The mean and catty persona was a complete act.
How did she ruin lives? I am genuinely curious. She was brash and bold in her critiques but I can't think of anyone whose life she ruined. Spill the tea, girl!
I don't care if it was an act. She ruined people's lives. Evil, despicable woman.
Victoria Beckham is hilarious and seems like a cool person, she knows her posh reputation and plays around with it lol.
I mean, according to the rules of British class they kinda were. Her father didn't become wealthy until she was either a preteen or a teen, so before that they were very much "working class", and over there that means they stayed "working class" for life. Class over there is as hardened as steel, not like here in the U.S. at all.
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Nicole Kidman is not the cold heartless b***h the media makes her out to be.
She "recently" (5-10) years ago realized how bad her public image has been and is trying to correct it by slumming it on lower rated talk shows and doing those AMC commercials.
John Dunsworth. Played the most iconic drunk of our times in Mr. Lahey, but didn’t touch the stuff himself, and was incredibly caring and kind to everyone he met. May he rest in peace.
God bless Mr Lahey, Sunny-vale trailer Park Supervisor. An absolute Sh!t Eagle!
Maynard James Keenan. My son has stayed at his vineyard in Arizona with friends, and Maynard's "condescending, aloof a*****e" persona is an act. He's actually gracious and sweet to people he's comfortable with, and portrays the public-facing avatar through his media appearances. If he says "f**k you" to you, you're supposed to say "f**k you, too!", and then you both laugh.
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Load More Replies...He isn't. Google up 'Maynard James Keenan rapist'. Multiple allegations.
Load More Replies... Kind of dated but Art Garfunkle.
His stage persona has always been a cool, intelligent, sensitive and hip dude who's wise about the world, but in reality he's an aging, grumpy, insecure closeted bisexual.
His signature afro has also been a wig for years.
Well, we're all ageing - and I'm sure I'm not the only one who can sometimes be grumpy and insecure. Why do people expect celebrities to be any different? They aren't gods!
He's 82 and in recent pictures he doesn't appear to be wearing a wig. His hair is fairly short and mostly missing. When he and Paul Simon parted ways it seems like Simon had more success on his own than Garfunkle did. I say that wondering if stuff like that contributed to the 'grumpy / insecure' mentioned above.
Makes sense. Paul Simon was the one who wrote all their songs.
Load More Replies...Obviously not a living celebrity but I heard that Lucille Ball had a very dry sense of humor when off set. It was all business and no nonsense.
I watched I Love Lucy as a boy. "Okay", but not really my thing. Kind of too silly IMO but in the 60s we had fewer choices. Then a few years later I watched the original Star Trek. Then many years later I learned that if not for Lucille Ball we probably wouldn't have had a Star Trek. Not a huge fan of her humor style but I am grateful to her for helping to get the ST franchise going. https://www.startrek.com/news/how-lucille-ball-helped-star-trek-become-a-cultural-icon
Upvote for Star Trek! I am not a fan of the humour of I love Lucy either, though.
Load More Replies...Lucy herself said she had no sense of humor and didn't understand why people thought she was funny.
Jeff Goldblum owns a box at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and is an avid collector of Nascar memorabilia. He can often be seen crushing a case of Keystone Lite during the Indy 500.
He is an utter sweetheart...but the man can make ANYTHING into an innuendo
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The lead singer for anti-flag. Not a mainstream celebrity, but well known in punk circles.
Their music is very pro human rights, and it turns out he r*pes teenage girls.
Mike Myers (aka Austin Powers) has a legendary reputation for being a douche.
One of his brothers is kind, though. The one who's a musician/music journalist. And he seems to have a functional relationship with Mike, so maybe away from the public eye he's nicer.
Daniel Tosh has severe social anxiety and basically plays a character when he performs.
Garrison Keillor. His stage persona is of a gentle, calm grandfatherly type, but behind the scenes he's been said to be a diva and a jerk (and that was before the #MeToo allegations).
Google it. Garrison Keillor was fired by NPR, and all reruns of his show were pulled, for many many inappropriate comment and touching of women on his staff. Basically he was a dirty old man.
Load More Replies...I've posted this before, but Zach Braff is one the biggest a holes my best friend ever worked with in the industry. He's been an actor for 30 years and worked with some legendary people, yet he singled out him.
I got into the scrubs rewatch podcast and it made me love Donald Faison even more and Zach Braff even less. In the first season or two he was super douchy, even put down Donald a couple times. He seems to have changed his tone, he probably read enough bad reviews that he realized he had to play nicer.
Johnny Carson was a classic introvert, but you wouldn’t know that from watching his show.
One indication was that he did not like to be touched. He would let the exotic animals climb all over him during those segments, but he did not allow his guests to touch him physically.
The couple of times someone hugged him you could see him freeze or flinch
Load More Replies... Rachael Ray is so nice, sweet and bubbly on 30 Minute Meals and her other TV shows, but I heard in real life that she is super nasty to fans and people in general.
A shame, really. I used to have a crush on her, and it broke my heart to learn that she wasn't the nice person she portrays on TV.
Well I didn’t actually meet Brandy, (the singer), but she and her family went to one of Cal State Northridge’s college graduation ceremony and she was casually walking around with no security or armed men. She literally just came through the crowds and walked around/spoke to people as if she were one of the college kids herself. She just looked down to earth and chill.
Rogers & Hammerstein's Cinderella that she did with Whitney Houston is my favorite version of that fairy tale!
People who know Howard Stern have said he's really quiet and thoughtful when he's off the air. His persona has changed a lot since the early/mid-90's when he first became famous, but I think if you would have told anyone back then that this brash, sexist shock jock was the complete opposite off the air, no one would have believed you.
Doesn't matter if he's actually a nice guy. He sanctioned misogyny and sexism and body shaming throughout the 80s and 90s. I don't hate him. I actually got satellite radio because of his switch, but he did damage.
Yep, same situation as Joan Rivers. I don't care what your personality is, you made the world a worse place just to make a buck.
Load More Replies... Nathan Fielder - He tries to come across as 'stiff ' or a bit socially awkward in a lot of his character work over the years
He's come out of his shell quite a bit in recent weeks on talk shows and the like. Jimmy Kimmel actually ended up describing him as "one of the loosest guys he knows".
Most YouTubers (if you want to count them as “celebrities”.) They often caricaturize their own personalities on-camera so much that it’s pretty jarring to hear them speak casually on podcasts and stuff.
I've only met one face to face, though they're very small YouTubers. Anime Nightclub 3 (or ANC3) were pretty cool, if not a bit nerdy IRL (though they were at an anime convention). Got to talk to the three guys, and got a selfie with them. Also talked to a Vtuber at a panel, and she's very different when she's not streaming or putting up clips, and different in a good way.
The only Youtuber I really watch if RWJ and I imagine he's the same in real life.
I’d say as a rule of thumb, people with really nice personas tend to actually suck while people who are OK with being perceived as d***s are generally pretty cool. That said, Larry David is the absolute same person as his character.
Many of these entries are from people simply repeating what they've heard about various celebrities, rather than an actual encounter. But even famous people have moments when they're not at their best. No one can be "on" all the time.
Oh my god. The people who play characters are not actually like those characters? And the really over the top performers are not actually over the top in real life? Such revelations.
*puts on Ralph Wiggum voice* People are different in real life? That's unpossible!
Load More Replies...Brian May - I'm a professional coin dealer here in the UK and one day a timid sounding man called and during the 20 minutes conversation it transpired it was Sir, Doctor, Professor Brian May. He could not have been more pleasant, absolute darling of a man. To be honest the topic of conversation may have put a few people to sleep. Silver coinage of the early Ottoman empire!
In the 90s I was in Los Angeles with a friend and he's a starfucker. This guy thinks celebrities owe it to fans to talk and give autographs. I do not. We were at the famer's market and we noticed Jason Alexander was eating lunch with whom I assume were his sons. They were young. I turned to my friend and said, "Don't. He's having lunch with his kids. Just leave him the f**k alone." Did he? Nope. He marched right up to the table like a complete a-hole. It's not that he was a Seinfeld fan (I was not) or that he was a fan of Jason Alexander, he was just a starfucker. He walks up to his table and just bombards him. And it was embarrassing because he basically just said, "You're famous, can I have your autograph?" Jason was clearly annoyed and his kids didn't seem happy about it. So I walked up to the table, grabbed my friend's arm and yanked him away and said, "I don't care if he's the f*****g President, let the man enjoy his f*****g lunch and stop being so f*****g annoying!"
My friend was not happy with me and he stormed off like a child. I turned back to Jason and apologized on his behalf. Jason said, "I'm used to it, but you, don't apologize for his actions or anyone else's. I appreciate you putting him in his place though. Thank you." Then he introduced himself to me and he had bought a bag of apples and he gave me an apple. People have to remember that just because they're famous, they don't owe us anything and just to leave them the f**k alone if you see them with their families.
Load More Replies...Alice Cooper. After almost drinking himself to death by being Alice 24/7, he had the epiphany that he can be Alice on stage and then go back to being Vincent at home. He is a Christian and a golfer and you may run into him checking out antique stores with his wife when he visits your town.
Little known, Carl Satan was as laidback in person as he was on tv. Used pot quite a lot in the 1960s, which doesn't surprise anyone.
Bryan Cranston. I know he doesn't have a bad reputation but the way he can turn his acting skills on and off was a delight to watch. I was hanging out on set when he did the scene where he ransacked Jesse's house. He was ripping through things with a fierce rage so bad he made the set shake. Then when the shot was done jumped up and smiled, "How was that?" Immediately delightful and friendly and cheerful. The director had to tell him he was shaking the set and ge had to do it again and he laughed and was like, "Damn, I thought I nailed it!" Then back into cheerful friendly guy until they could reset everything and have him do it again. Another fun story is when he shot the scene where he shaved his head because of his character having cancer. He went around the set that day convincing random crew members to let him shave their head. All done in fun! At lunch that day a bunch of people showed up with shaved heads 😆 His friendship with Aaron Paul was 100% real. They are both lovely!
I have met Trisha Yearwood and her mother. My sister used to work for UNI they distributed music for performers on the MCA label. Iwas about 6 months pregnant with my daughter and my sister invited me to the warehouse to meet Trisha she was intown to do a concert the same day one of her new albums released. I got to opportunity to meet her and have a nice chat with her and her mother. They are the sweetest most humble people I have ever met.
Hal Smith, who played town drunk Otis Campbell on "The Any Griffin Show" was a devout Mormon who never touched a drop of liquor in his life.
Many of these entries are from people simply repeating what they've heard about various celebrities, rather than an actual encounter. But even famous people have moments when they're not at their best. No one can be "on" all the time.
Oh my god. The people who play characters are not actually like those characters? And the really over the top performers are not actually over the top in real life? Such revelations.
*puts on Ralph Wiggum voice* People are different in real life? That's unpossible!
Load More Replies...Brian May - I'm a professional coin dealer here in the UK and one day a timid sounding man called and during the 20 minutes conversation it transpired it was Sir, Doctor, Professor Brian May. He could not have been more pleasant, absolute darling of a man. To be honest the topic of conversation may have put a few people to sleep. Silver coinage of the early Ottoman empire!
In the 90s I was in Los Angeles with a friend and he's a starfucker. This guy thinks celebrities owe it to fans to talk and give autographs. I do not. We were at the famer's market and we noticed Jason Alexander was eating lunch with whom I assume were his sons. They were young. I turned to my friend and said, "Don't. He's having lunch with his kids. Just leave him the f**k alone." Did he? Nope. He marched right up to the table like a complete a-hole. It's not that he was a Seinfeld fan (I was not) or that he was a fan of Jason Alexander, he was just a starfucker. He walks up to his table and just bombards him. And it was embarrassing because he basically just said, "You're famous, can I have your autograph?" Jason was clearly annoyed and his kids didn't seem happy about it. So I walked up to the table, grabbed my friend's arm and yanked him away and said, "I don't care if he's the f*****g President, let the man enjoy his f*****g lunch and stop being so f*****g annoying!"
My friend was not happy with me and he stormed off like a child. I turned back to Jason and apologized on his behalf. Jason said, "I'm used to it, but you, don't apologize for his actions or anyone else's. I appreciate you putting him in his place though. Thank you." Then he introduced himself to me and he had bought a bag of apples and he gave me an apple. People have to remember that just because they're famous, they don't owe us anything and just to leave them the f**k alone if you see them with their families.
Load More Replies...Alice Cooper. After almost drinking himself to death by being Alice 24/7, he had the epiphany that he can be Alice on stage and then go back to being Vincent at home. He is a Christian and a golfer and you may run into him checking out antique stores with his wife when he visits your town.
Little known, Carl Satan was as laidback in person as he was on tv. Used pot quite a lot in the 1960s, which doesn't surprise anyone.
Bryan Cranston. I know he doesn't have a bad reputation but the way he can turn his acting skills on and off was a delight to watch. I was hanging out on set when he did the scene where he ransacked Jesse's house. He was ripping through things with a fierce rage so bad he made the set shake. Then when the shot was done jumped up and smiled, "How was that?" Immediately delightful and friendly and cheerful. The director had to tell him he was shaking the set and ge had to do it again and he laughed and was like, "Damn, I thought I nailed it!" Then back into cheerful friendly guy until they could reset everything and have him do it again. Another fun story is when he shot the scene where he shaved his head because of his character having cancer. He went around the set that day convincing random crew members to let him shave their head. All done in fun! At lunch that day a bunch of people showed up with shaved heads 😆 His friendship with Aaron Paul was 100% real. They are both lovely!
I have met Trisha Yearwood and her mother. My sister used to work for UNI they distributed music for performers on the MCA label. Iwas about 6 months pregnant with my daughter and my sister invited me to the warehouse to meet Trisha she was intown to do a concert the same day one of her new albums released. I got to opportunity to meet her and have a nice chat with her and her mother. They are the sweetest most humble people I have ever met.
Hal Smith, who played town drunk Otis Campbell on "The Any Griffin Show" was a devout Mormon who never touched a drop of liquor in his life.
