“Refuses To Play Wheelchair Basketball With Us”: 50 Celebrities Exposed For How Awful They Are
Whether we like to admit it or not, our society is pretty obsessed with celebrity culture. Almost half (44%) of UK adults admit they spend too much time caring about celebrity gossip. What's more, 80% say they know more about celebrities' lives than about their own parents.
But you don't need to obsessively follow a celebrity to form an opinion about them. Sometimes, all you have to do is to meet them and you'll be able to immediately clock whether they're cool or mean. Recently, one netizen asked in an online thread, "Who is the worst celebrity you have ever met and why?"
And people didn't hesitate to spill the tea on the rudest and most entitled celebs they have personally met. Perhaps these experiences might squash the perfect image you've had in your head of some famous people?
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After reading so many of these depressing stories I just have to say something nice and positive.
Robin Williams was an amazing person.
We had our daughters as extras in Death to Smoochy. At the end of the first day of shooting with kids, he went and thanked every single family and even hugged the kids and took photos.
A few days later, our youngest wasn’t feeling well so they had her sit out filming in the on set daycare.
Robin Williams heard this and went over and played cards with her for an hour and a half and told her jokes to make her laugh.
The way my heart dropped when I saw Robin Williams was at the top of the list and then read on. Oh thank God. He was a treasure, I was not prepared to find out something new ❤️
At first when I saw Williams's picture I said BS he's great. Then I read it and said yeah that tracks lol.
We lost a very very beautiful soul. I miss him, and never even met him : (
I make it a point of not bothering high profile people when out. The only way is if I just talk to them normal in a subtle manner, and not acknowledge that I know who they are. I’ll just say have a great night and leave without really making eye contact or fanfare - just to give them the treat of being treated normal in public. They actually respond better to that.
One good story was when I was getting off the Pod at Heathrow (just flew in from Paris). I was alone and had a huge backpack and some luggage. I was struggling and people were just walking by. And though it’s no one’s obligation to help/assist me, I was hoping someone would because I was struggling hard with everything on me.
Suddenly, my bag gets lifted up by one of the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen - and she had a buzz cut. It was Sinead O’Connor. She was with this guy at the time. She helped me with my luggage to my next destination, we talked briefly. Was one of the kindest people I ever met.
I like the nice stories! I don't know much about Sinead, but from what I have seen/read about her she sounds lovely.
She was. As Amanda commented below she was right all along
Load More Replies...I ran into her briefly in the 90s while I was living in LA. She was just lovely!
To counter all of the bad, Weird Al is one of the genuinely nicest people I have ever met. Just a super cool, kind, down to earth guy.
He doesn't need to prove anything to anyone because he doesn't have to prove anything to himself.
This was an AskReddit that was ported over - both good and bad responses got moved, and the good ones got upvoted more. Hence, this.
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I almost got in a bar fight with Danny Masterson because I cut him off. My coworkers were closing the bar and I told him we couldn’t legally serve anymore
and we were trying to go home. He cussed out my barback and I confronted him about it and he played the celebrity card on me and tried to intimidate me. His friends calmed him down and he didn’t do anything This was back in 2017 before he was arrested so seeing the scandal unfold later was icing on the cake because the way he talked to me and my staff was so entitled and immature. Glad he’s rotting in jail.
Yeah, wow, being on That 70s Show aint the flex you thought it was either there, bruh
It’s NOT Stephen king. He’s wonderful.
He is amazing. His honesty about his addictions, ( before all the celebrity rehab bs) and how he overcame them, is admirable, as his recovery after the accident that would have destroyed many people. And he and Tabitha fund or funded a rock radio station just because .
It's to trap bots. It doesn't appear to work for them.
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Worst was Michael Jordan, I spent around four months in a Chicago children’s hospital in the mid 1990s. We often got local celebrities who visited the hospital. Most of them came alone or with a few friends/family but Michael Jordan walked in with an entourage including reporters and photographers from two different newspapers. He refuses to play wheelchair basketball with us because he might get hurt. He refused to sign autographs because his autograph was worth $200 a pop. Only pictures allowed were the ones taken by the photographer and those were only really done with a few paraplegic teenage boys who played wheelchair basketball. He was there for maybe 20-30 minutes.
Contrast him to my two favorites: Chris Farley and Brittney Spears. Mr. Farley came in the mid 1990s through a back door. He read to the kids in ICU or the toddlers after surgeries. He did character voices. He was the best giant in Jack and the Beanstalk when he read it to me after my scoliosis surgery. He even preformed “Lunch Lady Land” for us teenagers with the props borrowed from our lunch lady. Brittney came one day in 1999 and hung out with us. We white girl danced to her songs with her, made and ate homemade pizza with us and then we watched a girly rom com. When she saw that our teenage rec room was kinda sad she donated money to redo it.
When they come with an entourage, it's just a photo op to them. Hospitals shouldn't allow this unless they are donating.
That's usually in their contract. If he were to get hurt playing a sport outside of the team's supervision, they could void his contract.
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I delivered a pizza to Chris Brown's tour bus in my hometown. He didn't tip, but he also didn't slap me around so I chalked it up as a win.
Or anyone else that could beat his sorry a$$. Bullies NEVER pick fair fights, because they know they will lose
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Dakota Fanning was bored out of her mind and looked like she wanted to be anywhere else when I interviewed her for a college newspaper, I felt like a slug. Kristen Stewart on the other hand, despite her image in the press at the time, was so sweet and thoughtful in her answers and even told her publicist (who was trying to rush her along) to basically leave her alone while she continued to chat with me. She even remembered my name at the end and said it was great talking. I was smitten!
Kristen Stewart’s image of being dour, and emotionless comes from the Director of the Twilight who told her, and Robert Paterson to remain dour, and blank faced so that the fanboys, and girls could put themselves in their place, up on screen. They were supposed to be marionettes that the audience could dress in their own emotions. It hurt neither of their careers.
Clearly not, as they haven't stopped using that technique ever since. EDIT: oops! Looks like I upset a fan of timber actors.
Load More Replies...If anyone streams/watches a CD of the version of War of the Worlds with Fanning & Cruise, try taking a shot every time she screams, you'll be lucky not to be comatose by the time the movie ends
The phrase is 'six of one, half-a-dozen of the other'.
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I served Michael Keaton at a yogurt shop when I was in high school. It was the early 90s so he was at peak celebrity status. He was very kind and gracious. He asked where the tip jar was which was very nice.
My favorite movie of his is Johnny Dangerously. It's stupidly hilarious.
Load More Replies...Please, tell me that after being nice and stuff, he revealed who he really was by saying: "I'm Batman!"
Jlo is horrific , you are not allowed to look at her if she is shopping in your store and only communicates to her personal assistant.
But assuredly, she's still Jenny from the block (that song has rubbed me the wrong way since day 1)
Ummmm what the f**k she gonna do if I look at her??? Youre not my f*****g boss, b***h. Your music S***S
There's a reason she is perpetually single and can't maintain relationships.
DJT in Houston Airport in 1990's yelling, cursing, and throwing a tantrum at his entourage.
Regardless of political issues, would never vote for a toxic sociopath I witnessed IRL.
So you saw his normal everyday behavior that we've all seen too much of. Can't believe how many people in his cult can't see it.
Unfortunately they DO see it and they LOVE it … until his vitriol impacts them negatively
Load More Replies...I didn't get it either, then I read "political... toxic sociopath" ... Duh!
Load More Replies...This was in the late 80s. I was walking through a door at Westchester airport. DJT was told to wait to go through the door. Instead, he grabbed me by the shoulders and shoved me aside into the door frame. He's a rude a*s. Always has been
Yeah sure he did. Just like the b***o who tried to say he groped her on a flight in economy. He doesn't fly economy or an airline. He has his own plane.
Load More Replies...I met Trump three times before he ran for office. There were several people around, and I had two kids with me on one occasion. He was polite on all three occasions , friendly, talked to people and got down on one knee to ask the kids if they were having a good time. No yelling, no drama, just a man who looked you straight in the eye, shook your hand and moved on.
I only have a second hand nice story.
Daniel Day Lewis and my mom had the same cleaning lady when he was filming The Crucible. He left this cleaning lady notes thanking her for various little things, or hoping she was over her cold, stuff like that.
Got called to David Spade's room for a wifi issue once at like 3 am. When i told him he needed to wait for I.T. in the morning he said "I didn't think you would be able to fix it. I figured they don't put their best and brightest on the graveyard shift". Lmao.
He may have just been trying to be funny. If he said it to me. I would have laughed and then said, 'But you called anyway!'.
My uncle used to own a chain of theaters and had a few movie premiers hosted. He said Kevin Costner was extremely rude to all employees and staff and Jackie Chan was one of the most gracious people he’s met. The Costner thing always surprised me.
I had a friend at geology field camp who worked most summers at Denali National Park. She had an encounter with Mel Gibson regarding getting too close to bears and had to write him a ticket. He was respectful, apologized, paid his fine immediately, and she didn't witness him doing it again. Same summer, Kevin Costner shows up with two women hanging on him, neither his wife, and just racks up fine after fine. He'd pay, whipping a check off to the rangers, sneering and laughing like it's all just a joke the whole time. Honestly, I really think the Scandinavian countries are onto something basing fines on a portion of income/net worth. Would have loved to imagine his Pikachu face when slapped with a $250,000 fine that would be $200.00 for the average middle class idiot getting too close to a bear.
The Costner family stayed at our resort. We had expected & prepared for it to be a challenge given what our team researched beforehand. We try to assure VIP guests are stocked with the things they like, whether we’ve researched that in advance, they’ve actually made requests or they’ve opted for these items once they’ve arrived. Drinks, snacks, brands. Whatever we know about them. They were so quiet & undemanding I actually forgot they were staying with us for the first few days. We were overwhelmingly busy with other demanding guests, but surprisingly had zero problems with the Costners.
I once accidentally blocked in Zac Efron while he was leaving a Netflix movie premiere (I was an uber driver picking up someone who turned out to be the movie’s makeup artist.) He put down his window said “hey, you mind if we get out?” very politely, and gave me a wave when I pulled out.
It was just a 10 second interaction, but I just thought “wow, Troy Bolton was nice about that”.
I have heard good things about how he treats his fans. Clearly he learned from all his costars terrible exa,ples lol
Opposite of the prompt but on my first day training at a restaurant kenan thompson came in with some friends and the server i was training under had their table so i was tailing her the entire time. they were super kind and only got ~$100 worth of food but tipped $400 on top. as they were leaving kenan leaned in to me and whispered good luck 😭😭.
Gary Busey. He grabbed my butt while I was holding my infant son and called me a hot mama. I looked at him like I was offended and he looked back at me, offended that I was offended.
I'd be curious when this was, pre or post TBI. Obviously he's not blameless, but he really should have a handler. His impulse control and ability to read social cues is clearly lacking.
He showed this behavior his entire career.
Load More Replies...He was known in the Industry as Gary Abusey. And I personally know that young, female PA’s, and Costumers were told NEVER to be alone in his dressing room with him.
Tippi Hedren came into the diner 30 minutes after 2pm closing. All the lights were off, all the grills were cold, everything was put away, we just hadn't locked the door yet. She walked straight to her favorite booth with her friends and they started to sit down. I walked over and said "sorry Ms Hedren, but we closed at 2pm."
She huffed and puffed and stomped out, hissing "this is unbelievable!"
Also, Alice Cooper took a picture with my kid in the baggage area at Burbank airport about fifteen years ago, he was elegant and gracious and really nice to my kid.
in the very early 90s, there was a story in "sports illustrated" about alice cooper. he had coached his son's little league (baseball for non americans) to the championship and they won. he treated the team to a game of the local minor league team to thank them for their hard work. while sitting with the kids, grown ups were asking for a autographs from him. a few of the kids on the team were not aware of what he was and asked why adults were asking for his autograph, "because i am such a great little league coach!"
My dad was a cop and worked security at a lot of concerts. Alice Cooper was one of the ones me met and said he was a great guy. He also saw Eddie Money having s*x with a groupie because they didn't shut the door,
This is a nice story about someone who is often cited as rude, but my wife had very pleasant interactions with him.
Harrison Ford came into a restaurant my wife worked at regularly while filming something in the last few years. He kept going in because the restaurant staff did not make a fuss about him coming in.
As long as you treated him like a normal person, he would engage in really pleasant conversation, ask questions about the staff’s lives, and even gave my wife 90% of a bottle of expensive wine that he decided not to drink.
I read that when he does press in the uk, he always asks to be interviewed by Alison Hammond as he makes him laugh like no one else. There is a clip going round of her interviewing him and Ryan Gosling during the promotion of Blade Runner 2049 and it’s pure chaos.
This fits in with Alison Hammond's personality. She treats everyone the same.
Load More Replies..."As long as you treated him like a normal person..." I've often wondered how many of the supposedly rude celebrity stories wouldn't happen if people didn't get all squealy. There are some exceptions of course, like I suspect someone like Jared Leto would be a d.ick even if he wasn't a celebrity. But so many of the celebrity stories I hear sound like squealy fans who are you b.utthurt their favorite celebrity didn't gush over someone wanting their autograph or picture.
I've often wondered how many bad experiences people had were actually brought about by them or others around treating them rudely or making a fuss over them to begin with? The nicest person in the world can be driven to rudeness and you can bet, THAT is the one experience that will be posted over and over and over.
Never met a celebrity, but my aunt says Jennifer Lopez is one of the rudest people on the planet. Apparently, when she goes to restaurants, she refuses to look servers in the eye, and orders through her personal assistant. She is also horrible on planes for yelling at flight attendants apparently. And beyond that she just glares at people and never says please or thank you.
as a server, if she wouldn't order it herself, I would give her plate to the person who ordered it
She also NEVER tips ANYTHING. Still Jenny from the Block MY A$$
I suddenly see a server walking up, look at the assistant and greet her and ask what she'd like. When she then says "she'll have..." the server says "she? She who?" as if there's no one there. Want to be a ghost, prepare to be treated as one. Want to be rude? Expect to be treated that way as well. Maybe the restaurant will get lucky and she'll get pissed and leave. You know dang well she won't tip, and if the assistant does, it sure won't be enough.
Also Ray Manzarek, keyboardist of the Doors. My stepsister saw him at Universal Citywalk, she was suffering from leukemia and had undergone a lot of chemotherapy so she very much looked like a 13 year old cancer patient. She asked him for an autograph and he said “$100 no matter what’s going on in your life.” To this day I can never listen to the Doors the same.
A washed-up has-been who's only still famous because the mediocre band he was in half a century ago had a handsome lead singer die.🙄
You know the day destroys the night - night divides the day...... try to run, try to hide
Jared Leto
He was absolutely furious that we were short on a can of soda that was requested in the rider. (5 diet cokes instead of 6)
He spent two seconds in the green room the whole night and didn’t touch anything.
He refused to speak to anyone directly and tried to get tough with security when they wouldn’t let some young women in the back.
Rest of his band was nice as hell though.
The rider thing is a test. If you ignored that in the contract, what else did you ignore? Artists do that so they can ensure you read the contract- like specifically the parts around safety and security
From that shot he looks a bit like Mark Owen from Take That. markowen-6...007773.jpg
James Corden, had the displeasure of bumping into him London Bridge Experience and he treated everyone there bad. Kept acting like he deserved special treatment.
Kept taunting staff and acting like the massive jerk he is. Even managed to use the: 'Do you realise who I am' line a couple of times.
Long story short: James Corden is an obnoxious, talentless PoS.
Okay, anyone that trots out the "do you know who I am?" line is a twat. Not to mention that I'd more likely than not give them a blank stare because I wouldn't know who they are...
Makes me think of the recent Hertz car commercial with Tom Brady. Tom is so famous he's resorted to making car commercials where some kid says "Thanks Tom Brady." ? If Tom was really all that, he wouldn't need someone to call him by his full name.
Load More Replies...Watch his early appearances on British TV panel shows. He is, quite obviously, trying to figure out what persona/personality to wear for the cameras, and would pretty much always choose, “my real life shi**y personality”.
Pat Simmons of the Doobie Brothers pulled out that line once when he was in our bank in the 80s. He was young then and I'd like to think he wouldn't say something like that now.
"Do you know who I am" is celebrity for "my Dad owns a dealership!!!!"
All the rumors are true about Reese Witherspoon. I used to work at a clothing store in LA and she would regularly shop with us. Just in a permanent bad mood - snarky, rolling her eyes, dirty looks for absolutely no reason as we were all very kind and discreet. Met many celebrities working there and that's my only bad experience.
Pre-Big Bang Theory I met Johnny Galecki at a Magic: the Gathering weekly game at a small bookstore at the mall. Nobody recognized him (I did, since he was David on Roseanne) and I was cool enough not to bring it up.
He liked MtG but didn't have a deck. I offered him one of my extra decks, but as I was a poor 14 year old, it wasn't amazing.
He kept insulting it nonstop and was rude! Like, you were on a major TV show and I'm a child. I was giving you a deck (not my main one) to be nice. And you shat all over it and kept insulting me for its stupidity.
The fact that they have an MtG episode was salt on the wound.
Deck of cards. It's a card game and each player has their own deck that they create from collecting other decks, selecting as many cards as they can with good stats, abilities, advantages, etc.
Load More Replies...Had a terrible experience with Lizzo at my last job. Really rude to me & my fellow female coworkers who worked the venue of an event she was the special guest at. Then got on stage talking about how much she empowers women.
I really don’t like anything I see of hers and that’s only the stuff she knows she’s being captured on so, I know she’ll just pmo to see the stuff she would do with the cameras not rolling.
I ran into Brooke Hogan & her mom Linda at the Tampa Airport right when she released her first album. I tried to say hi and she was SO rude, looked at me like I was a peon (her mom was sweet). Well, fast forward to about six months ago, I told this same story on a Tampa area famous radio DJ’s Instagram page. Brooke ended up DM’ing me a couple of months later apologizing and saying that her entire childhood she was on pins & needles and was probably just really stressed 🤷🏻♀️ it made me sad for her and I forgave her….
I waited on Clarence Thomas in the summer of 2002. Easily the rudest person I’ve ever dealt with in my life.
Not at all surprising. A completely low character human being. Anita Hill was telling the truth about him.
I remember those hearings. Anita was trying to expose his real personality because of the importance of the position. She was so unfairly raked over the coals. Felt so bad for her.
Load More Replies...........and has taken bribes and is still on the court; truly sickening.............
Decorum prevents me from expressing my honest feelings about Clarence Thomas. I suppose saying that he reminds me of a certain character from Django Unchained is borderline acceptable.
Then I'll say it: Clarence Thomas would eagerly vote to void the 13th Amendment if given the chance, then sing a happy song as he's being lead away from the bench in chains to be put to work at Trump's Mar-a-lago plantation.
Load More Replies...It pains me cuz I think he's a complete piece of s**t, but I've heard every story to the contrary. He knows everyone's name, he greets security guards and asks how they are as well. But yeah as a justice he'll be studied with Tawney as pure evil. He's an absolute sell-out piece of s**t and traitor to not only his race but all Americans.
Many many years ago, I got the opportunity to meet Danica Patrick at a photo shoot she was doing for some magazine (I was 17, my dad’s friend was the photographer who offered to take me along). At the time, she had had her license revoked due to reckless driving. Her mom had to drive her to the shoot.
Danica did NOT want to talk to me when I said hi - but I could let that go, she was working and I’m sure didn’t want to entertain some random kid. What made her the worst is she was SO MEAN to her mom! Constantly yelling at her and putting her down. I was so upset by her behavior, her mom was trying her hardest to de-escalate but Danica was just determined to be awful.
My son knows most of the NASCAR drivers, he said he met Danica once. He said luckily there were kids around which put a damper on her attitude. He also says David Starr and Brad Keselowski are the nicest and Chase Elliott is the all time worst, both at and away from the track.
I’ve met quite a few. Hands down the worst is Steven Seagal.
Does not surprise me one bit. Never heard a single positive thing about that j*****s.
Darryl Strawberry came in for a repair at the tech shop where I used to work, and treated everyone on the staff like absolute dogshit.
Meanwhile, Viggo Mortensen was the kindest, most gracious man you could ever hope to meet.
Wtf is Darryl Strawberry? Apparently an American former professional baseball player. I live and learn.
As someone who lived in Wellington during the filming of the Lotr films the 9 of them were always really polite. Me and my friends did get mooned by a hobbit one night, but I don't think he realised we were only 17 because we were drinking so I will never slip which one it was.
Load More Replies...Viggo Mortensen is the most beautiful man on the planet, inside and out. ❤️
I had a friend who went to Syracuse when Carmelo Anthony was there. One day early in the fall semester she went to the student fitness center and there was a long line where students scanned their IDs for entry.
Her group investigated and saw that Carmelo was holding everything up arguing with the front desk. Carmelo didn’t have his student ID. He told the desk hadn’t even gotten one yet.
Finally the whole small crowd heard Carmelo say “don’t you know who I am?” And the student worker, who was a skinny dude like 1/4th Carmelo’s total size, said “yes but the rules apply the same to you as any other student.”
Edit: wow I didn’t realize telling one slightly negative story about a famous athlete would get under some people’s skin.
Carmelo Anthomy is a pr¡ck. I was cocktail waitressing at the VIP room of a Denver club. He ran me ragged, talked down to me, and for all that, no tip on a $10,000 tab.
Toni Collette. I work for an airline, and if we see her name on the passenger list we are filled with dread. She’s notorious.
My colleague made her bed on a night flight. She ripped up the bedsheet, threw it aside, and said “that’s not how you make a bed”.
I’ve had my own run-ins with her too, although nothing as extreme as the above. She yelled at us for serving her the wrong type of tea (it was the correct one).
Very disappointing as I really rate her as an actor, and she always comes across as warm and grounded in interviews. Clearly she’s not just acting on set!
I'm watching the Netflix series "Wayward" and it sounds like she had no trouble playing the terrible character she portrays! Disappointing.
I don't get the hype around her acting. I've only seen her in Hereditary and she was awful.
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Load More Replies...She's ruined her face with plastic surgery and God knows what else now - it's sad.
Alan Alda, I recently posted aboyt this but ill add it here too.
Yep, i got to be on the set of mash for a day when i was 5 because my uncle was an extra or something to that effect, I idolized him at that time, my nickname WAS Hawkeye as a kid, I wanted to go into the army because of the show. I had a poster with the cast on it, every. Other. Cast member. Signed it. Some were friendlier than others, but everyone took the time to sign and give me a handshake or high five, i had on an outfit my mama made me. Camouflage jacket that said "Hawkeye Jr." On the back, with matching pants. Alan was the last one to come out i ran up to him and was starstruck I smiled and babled about the army and wanting to bw like him and asked him to sign, he took my poster, ripped it in 4 pieces and said "don't chase that dream, ite pointless" and walked off. I was sobbing and everyone around me, producers and all were in shock. My dad looked like he could've killed that man lol.
IDK how she heard, but Loretta swit (Margaret Houlihan) came back, took me from my dad's arms held me until I stopped crying, she gave me her own personal notebook, and made every other cast member sign it or leave me a little note. She apologized for not having a poster and gave my dad a fiver to get me a new one.
Doesn't shock me at all. His initials could just as well stand for Absolute A-hole. Along with Gary Burghoff. AA ruins M*A*S*H for me and I otherwise love it.
I've told this story so many times, but Drake and this was when he was still Degrassi
Was working at a local movie theater in the city and we get celebrities occasionally because we're not from downtown. Anyways by pure chance not only does Drake show up to the theater, a few moments after him Hillary Duff comes in. Because Drake was wearing a black shirt with the word SECURITY in bright yellow and I didn't recognize him he yells at me for assuming he's Hillary's security person.
He did the whole "Don't you know who I am" spiel too.
My manager, after I told him what happened, he was also like WTF did he expect wearing the shirt?
Hillary Duff was super nice though.
From what I hear, Drake is NOT your typical Torontonian. Apparently, he's a d****e
Serena Williams
Always extremely rude and nasty to the (nice) deli clerks in palm beach gardens, fl.
Paris Hilton. I work for a major US airline and she used to fly us (said airline no longer exists) and she was known to be a huge C U Next Tuesday to everyone. Once showed up for a flight going to LAS she decided that she needed to bring on 8 bags to accommodate her stuff (she had a round trip for 2 days) and when we told her she couldn’t bring more then 2 items on board she threw a fit and threatened to call our CEO. My managers response was “go ahead, he is out of a job in a few months. You can call the FAA to complain to them” she proceeded to miss the flight and call all of us at the gate bitches for ruining her trip.
She ended up buying the next flight (last flight to LAS out of LAX) and bought the entire first class seats so her bags could all go in the overhead. Truly weird and bizarre woman.
Jennifer Garner however is the sweetest nicest person I’ve ever met out of everyone I’ve interacted with.
So many questions about this story. She brought 8 bags so she must had some assistants accompanying her, didn't she? Otherwise how could she brought 8 bags by herself? And all 8 bags fit to overhead? So she brought ONLY small bags? No big luggage? If she couldn't care less to put some luggage on the checked baggage, why should I believe this story that she carry all small 8 bags and just to stuff them all on the overhead? Yeah, I don't believe this story.
I’ve worked with her 3 times as a resort guest. She was the sweetest, most engaging, down to earth person ever. Spoke very matter of factly & seems rather intelligent. Many of our guests are rather entitled for what they’re paying for. Upper middle class folks paying rack rates for a lower level garden view are the worst. Just absolutely demanding because they think they’re paying for high end opulence. Meanwhile, Ms Hilton & her crew stayed in our $5000+/night (cheaper) bungalow and were incredibly generous, kind & engaging with staff and other guests. Each time.
No surprise here -Gene Simmons. I was working a booth at Comic Con for a company who was doing a collab with him. We were all dressed up like the characters and he came in with his sunglasses on and his dry frizzy fun fur hair and snapped “ Just take the pictures already !! “
Then as he was leaving, a little girl around 9 and her older brother probably 14 came up all starstruck (the brother was dressed up like Gene) and asked for an autograph and photo. He just brushed them aside and walked away. The kids were devastated and the girl started to cry. He just kept on walking.
My mom sat next to him on a plane one time. She asked what he did and he replied that he was on a show called Family Jewels. She thought he sold jewelry or something. At the end of their flight he thanked her for being so nice and such a pleasure to talk with. He’s not always awful.
Takes less than 30 seconds for a celebrity to sign an autograph and/or take a photo. They'll never remember it, but the fan will remember it fondly for the rest of their life. Or, as in this case, cease being a fan (probably) and always remember it with bitterness.
Load More Replies... 2 Nicki Minaj stories. One time her and Drake came into a convenience store I was working at in dtla. Their security strong-armed all actual customers so they could film a little video where Drake pretends to buy her hot chips.
Another time she was performing at Staples. Friend worked as a red coat/usher there, and told Nicki “you look very pretty.” And Nicki replied “Never in your life speak to me again.”
Machine Gun Kelly tried to lowball my friend that tattooed him.
Surprised she could fit into the store with her overly inflated......ego.
"Oh, I see. On the inside, you're entirely ugly! Thanks for making that clear."
I'd just love a 2-bit celeb to try to talk to me like that. I'd wipe the floor with them.
For some, all it takes is a little money and a little success, and they sell their dignity and their soul for MORE, and become mega douches overnight
Stephen Baldwin is an insufferable person who doesn’t tip, tries to get service workers to go to his dumb skate church and insults people’s tattoos.
Ezra Miller.
Ran into him at a bar in East Village. He was lurking watching my friends play pool..we didn’t know it was him yet. I offered him my turn because he looked like he wanted to play
Dude hits the pool ball so badly, takes the pool stick and messes up the entire table, picks up a ball and throws it down the hallway, then almost impales my friend with the pool stick before running away
Woman at the bar scoffed at the situation. Turns out she was an off duty bartender at the bar and he comes in and does stuff like that often
This was 2022/23ish.
Well given their various legal accusations I think it's already pretty known that they are not a good person (they are non-binary btw so they use they/them pronouns)
Ezra was super creepy in We Need To Talk About Kevin. I thought it was just good acting but maybe that is Ezra just being Ezra.
Load More Replies...Funny, my ex-husband was semi professional and he called it a pool stick.
Load More Replies... Jennifer Lopez
If you happen to be a member of the staff working a venue she performs at you are not allowed to look at her and are supposed to physically turn away from her if possible (as of 2016 when this happened).
This is the third post about not looking at her. Maybe she's really a Medusa and is trying to prevent people from being turned to stone.
Probably doesn't want anyone to compare the real her with all her photoshopped pictures.
Load More Replies...AGAIN - da F*K she gonna do??? I wanna know! I hope I see her b***h a$$ someday just so I can make HELLA direct eye contact with her
I don’t know why celebrities think they can order people to not look at them or not talk to them. It’s a free world f**k off.
Gwyneth Paltrow. Rude. Obnoxious. Ungrateful.
Made the cast and crew wait hours for her. Lied about walking around in a fat suit during Shallow Hal.
So this post is saying that Gwyneth Paltrow wasn't in fat suit during Shallow Hal? When she WAS actually in a fat suit & was wearing extensive prosthetics make up. There are behind the scenes. What is this post trying to tell? Trying to fat shaming Gwyneth? It is not OK to tell fake stories about people.
"To prepare, she spent time in the fat suit at a New York hotel, where she experienced firsthand the social isolation and indifference faced by overweight people, as people wouldn't make eye contact or engage with her." https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Eq8uGbDxg/ Stop with the hate in BP and please don't post fake stories about people 🤍
Load More Replies...Kris Jenner. The woman is a nightmare to work with. Kim had an attitude, but she knew what she wanted and could verbalize it without derailing into multiple unrelated tangents. Kylie was sweet. Started every conversation with "How are you and your kittens?".
Worked with several Kardashian/Jenners. They’ve even filmed at our resort. I’m not a fan & don’t keep up with them. I struggle to tell most of them apart. However, as I’ve mentioned here on BP in the past, absolutely best guests ever. They’re actually near the top of my fave celebs/VIPs we’ve accommodated. Kris definitely has never been the facilitator momager in charge whilst staying with us.
My friend was a theater major at our Cal State school. They got the chance to go to the set of the Gilmore Girls for one of their directing classes, as apparently that episode's director was a friend of the teacher's. The director asked the cast if they wanted to have lunch with the students and Lauren Graham said "why would i want to have lunch with a bunch of nobodies?". She was not a nice person.
Mike Wolfe from American Pickers. He was in the same cemetery tour group as me in New Orleans. He kept rudely interrupting the tour guide demanding to be taken to the tomb from Easy Rider. The tour guide kept telling him we’d get there closer to the end of the tour but Mike Wolfe threw a hissy fit and was ruining the tour for the rest of us so the tour guide gave in, stopped our tour to take him to the tomb. His tantrum inconvenienced 10-12 other people and he couldn’t care less.
My friend got to witness him have a major tantrum at O'Hare when his flight got delayed. Like no one else also got inconvenienced.
Guy Fieri is the worst! I signed an NDA but I don’t even care anymore.
Apparently they have to shoot a TON of B-roll to edit into his shows, because it he is not looking at the camera he is staring at women’s chests, and bottoms.
I worked with a guy who was at a diner during a Drive In and Dives filming segment. He said Guy Fieri was rude and entitled.
Christie Brinkley.
Unless you were one of the rich and/or famous, she'd treat you with sneering contempt for no reason at all. Absolutely the worst celebrity I've met, and I've met many.
Henry winkler story. Ive shared this a few times. i was a 12 year old boy in NYC. Im a HUGE Fonz fan. Fonz poster, Fonz lunchbox, Fonz t-shirt, etc. Block party on West 90th street and who do I see walking but Henry Winkler. I run up and say, "Please Mr. Winkler, can I have an autograph?". He, still walking, turns quickly to me and snarls, "GET AWAY!" and keeps on walking. I stood there stunned. A nice woman who was with him stops and asks for my address. I go home and take down that Fonz poster and tell my mom I dont want the t-shirt anymore. 2 weeks later a signed 8x10 of The Fonz shows up in the mail. I looked at that glossy for a long time before I tore it up and threw it away. 100% true.
i'm an adult now and get people have bad days. I know people who have worked with him and they say he is a fantastic human being. But 12 year old me will never forget.
No surprise at all. Can't stand him or the ''Fonz'' character. Could never understand why he was so popular. I think HW suffers ''little man syndrome''.
Two weeks later. After blowing off the initial encounter. How is that entitled?
Load More Replies...Jason Aldeen. One night after a local show he placed a huge to go order from a local restaurant. Staff stayed late to accommodate the order. He actually picked up the order. He was very rude to the staff. Left no tip. Afterwards the staff lit him up on social media. He found out. Threw a fit & most of the staff was fired. Such a tough guy.
Because the staff stayed past closing to prepare it. He got special service, so should have tipped.
Load More Replies... Joe Pesci. I worked on a movie he starred in. Really excited to work with him. Very quickly learned that the scary, mean little man you see on screen is EXACTLY who he is. Like an evil little gremlin.
Loved his entourage, though. Decent guys.
Pesci's chief talent is playing himself very well. (It's not that easy to do.)
Drake. Rented out a party room in a bar in used to work at. Place closes at 2am, showed up at 3 am w/ LeBron and the most ratchet crew I've ever seen (which is saying something for TO) after an hour and over 3k in sales, Drake refused to pay for his crew, insisted on changing to individual pay (all those sales went unpaid and un-tipped). Over the next 2 hours, 2 bar backs got assaulted and management did nothing.
Would have refused to serve him period. Could have lost their liquor license serving out of hours
I have bad luck with science guys I guess. Bill Nye was a total jerk on the plane in the seat next to mine. Just a miserable dude. Neil Degrass Tyson harassed my wife who was a bartender at a hotel so bad, that she had to have the cooks walk her out, and he was lurking in the banquet area when they did.
Bill Nye doesn't really surprise me. I've heard stories from people who have had direct interactions with him and he's always snobbish, or generally just a jerk from what I've seen.
LeBron James. Nice enough but he doesn't tip. At all..Anywhere..The more offensive thing to me was he didn't want to pay 275 for a bottle of Grey Goose so he pulled a Karen and made me go and get the manager.
$275.00 for a bottle of vodka, Grey Goose? That's a shitton of money for a mediocre bottle of vodka.
There's always a big markup if you're buying an entire bottle at a restaurant or hotel. Just like buying a bottle of beer.
Load More Replies... I don’t really have a bad story. I had a group of friends who trained wrestling under Mr. Fuji. He got us back stage passes to a WWE match where I got to meet a bunch of the guys. The undertaker, Mick Foley, Dwayne Johnson (before Hollywood stardom) and a bunch more. They were all nice. Some were a bit less talkative than others. I only really got a “hey, nice to meet you” from the Rock but he was tired and busy so I didn’t take offense to it. mick was the man! He hung out with me for at least an hour. He was super down to earth and fun.
Beyond that, I used to work at a music theatre at Dollywood as a tech guy. I ran video feed, click tracks and holograms. Dolly is insanely sweet. She was always on but also extremely professional. I used to have a picture I took with her but lost it when I bought a new house.
Many terrible ones, but the worst was probably Sharon Stone. I actually worked with her twice and she was horrendous both times. Like a cartoon villain, snapping her fingers at staff and throwing things, just completely rude and entitled to everyone around her. Then she complains in interviews people don’t like her because she’s an ‘assertive, strong woman’…no it’s because you’re a jerk.
Also terrible: James Cordon, Lil Wayne, Josh Brolin, Diane Keaton, Bruce Willis and Solange Knowles, Prince, Mark Walhberg
I will say for every horrible celeb I’ve worked with over the years there’s probably dozens of kind and humble ones.
Steve Carrell, Diane Lane, Minnie Driver, Cate Blanchett, Kelly Rowland, Nicole Ritchie, Seth Green, Sophie Turner, Amanda Seyfried, Robert England, Ricki Lake, were all wonderful to work with.
A very good friend was at a parent and children day camp with Sharon Stone. Friend says she was really nice and down- to-earth.
Sharon Stone's claim to fame is that she crossed her legs to show her cooch. Nothing to see there.
Ron Pearlmen. I've met a lot because of where I've worked. He was the top. I was working at Tower on Sunset during its last stand. We were all about two weeks from being unemployed. We were liquidating the stock and didn't have much left. I was working the info counter when that HUGE face got right in mine out of nowhere. He asks When does the REAL sale start? Really angry. That giant mug will haunt me for life. They didn't need to add much to his make up in Beauty and The Beast.
Perlman. I can't watch anything with him in because all I can see and hear is Vincent. He's weird looking, but a very good actor.
Mary J Blige. I was on Lettermen, and she was the Musical guest and during rehearsal, she was so demeaning to her backup singers that I cringed and really felt for them.
I've only ever heard negative things about her, if all the stories are true she would be at the top of the celebrities behaving badly list.
Anyone who needs to be famous by adding in their middle initial - no surprise.
Latoya Jackson.
This was probably 20 years ago at Laguardia.
Look lady I just wanted to pay for my food and catch my flight but you wouldn't get way from the register, don't get all pissy at me for stepping within 10 feet of you.
Suppose it's your definition of worst. I sat next to Jared Fogle, the Subway guy, at a wedding once. This was pre-scandal, but basically the height of his fame. He seemed like a perfectly nice dude. We had a good conversation. But he's definitely the worst human being I've ever shaken hands with.
James Brown when I lived in Vail, so 1986? I worked in the big hotel at the time and he stayed with us. He was generally dissatisfied and pretty drunk.
Jaime Presley was rude cause I needed an ID for her no receipt return. But Shannon Elizabeth was the total opposite in that same situation. Really nice and genuine.
Jim Belushi. Used to be a stringer for ET. Dreaded having to be around him. Rude. Entitled. Minimally talented.
He has a much wider range than his brother. Unfortunately that's why it's so much shallower too.
Load More Replies...Dave Chappell. I lived in yellow springs and if you weren’t in his inner circle when he came to the local dive bar you quickly got annoyed by him and his goons. .
Usher. Even bashed the people like Macklemore and Pitbull he was to be performing with as we all had a beer.
I met Jared Fogle in an airport lounge once, obviously before all his issues.
Met James Doohan (Star Trek's Scotty) at a social gathering my ex-laws had.(ex fil was minor actor). He was the kindest and nicest man.
stormed juneau beach with the canadian army on D DAY, took out two german snipers and was shot by accident in a friendly fire incident 6 times later on that night. 4 in the leg, one that blew the middle finger off of his right hand and one in the chest that was stopped by a metal flask his brother gave him.
Load More Replies...Again the title is bad celebrities and 90% are about how amazing they are.
Maybe so, but tbh I'd rather read the good stuff, even if I've never heard of half of these people.
Load More Replies...Can anyone name an alternative to BP? I think i have had it with its "Writers" and users.
Will it used to be crac ked. Then they did what bp is now doing but years ago. Then it was modern rogue but they ghosted the site shortly after making it. 1800hotdog is pretty good. All the funny writers from c*****d went there.
Load More Replies...i met jackson w**g (member of got7) he was very nice and in the 30 seconds we talked he was just a very intresting person in the best way possible. hes also quite good at handshakes.
I was face-to-face with Kim Alexis at a celebrity road race. I said 'good luck' and she smiled, then immediately smashed her racecar into a wall.
Nice to see positive stories rising to the top. Enough negativity out there.
I worked in the film industry in LA and high end restaurants in Chicago and I've met a ton. Nicest - Peter Billingsly (Ralphie), George Clooney and Juliana Margulies (they came to the restaurant together), Bobby Phills, and Billy Corgan. Worst - Dean Winters. Annoying and entitled - Julia Roberts
Met James Doohan (Star Trek's Scotty) at a social gathering my ex-laws had.(ex fil was minor actor). He was the kindest and nicest man.
stormed juneau beach with the canadian army on D DAY, took out two german snipers and was shot by accident in a friendly fire incident 6 times later on that night. 4 in the leg, one that blew the middle finger off of his right hand and one in the chest that was stopped by a metal flask his brother gave him.
Load More Replies...Again the title is bad celebrities and 90% are about how amazing they are.
Maybe so, but tbh I'd rather read the good stuff, even if I've never heard of half of these people.
Load More Replies...Can anyone name an alternative to BP? I think i have had it with its "Writers" and users.
Will it used to be crac ked. Then they did what bp is now doing but years ago. Then it was modern rogue but they ghosted the site shortly after making it. 1800hotdog is pretty good. All the funny writers from c*****d went there.
Load More Replies...i met jackson w**g (member of got7) he was very nice and in the 30 seconds we talked he was just a very intresting person in the best way possible. hes also quite good at handshakes.
I was face-to-face with Kim Alexis at a celebrity road race. I said 'good luck' and she smiled, then immediately smashed her racecar into a wall.
Nice to see positive stories rising to the top. Enough negativity out there.
I worked in the film industry in LA and high end restaurants in Chicago and I've met a ton. Nicest - Peter Billingsly (Ralphie), George Clooney and Juliana Margulies (they came to the restaurant together), Bobby Phills, and Billy Corgan. Worst - Dean Winters. Annoying and entitled - Julia Roberts
