Celebrities part II
Five years ago, we asked if you've ever been rude to a celebrity, or have been on the receiving end of a Z-List TV chef's wrath. By popular demand, it's back - if you have beans, spill them.
( , Thu 8 Oct 2009, 13:33)
Five years ago, we asked if you've ever been rude to a celebrity, or have been on the receiving end of a Z-List TV chef's wrath. By popular demand, it's back - if you have beans, spill them.
( , Thu 8 Oct 2009, 13:33)
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There have been a few, here is a small selection
For some bizarre reason I've met a few very well known people in my time but only a few insulted me or I was nasty to them but some did rather diss me - here's a selection of the ones I remember (the others I've probably blotted out like childhood abuse)
1. As a ten year old watching Falkirk FC and one night finding myself stranded in Leven (Fife) at 10pm thanks to the police moving the Away Supporters Bus without telling us, my mate and I (actually he being the brother of Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins since we are on celeb themes) blagged our way onto the football team bus for a lift back to the town. My mate hassled me nonstop as soopn as we were on board to go to the back of the bus where the players were huddled playing cards - for some mad reason he thought they would want to talk to us - so eventually I broke and I did as he said only for a tall, stern figure to rise out of his seat just as I got to half way down the aisle and told me to "Fuck off back to the front of the bus, son". The tall figure being no-one less than Alex Ferguson in his then youthful role of relatively inept centre forward for my team.
2. After a hard day of moving a magazine in Dublin out of their offices into vans mostly by hand, we took the opportunity to use the trollies we had purloined for the task as makeshift luges and test out the long corridors in the building as substitute ice tracks. Each taking it in turn to skite along the long smooth concrete floors and see how far we could get. I managed the best run of the evening but as I came to a slow halt and looked up to see how far I got I could only perceive Andrea Corr standing at the door of the rehearsal studios which were situated at the end of the same corridor slowly eating a kiwi fruit while looking gorgeous in a kimono. I stared back at this heavenly sight above me (full makeup too) and as she turned on her heel none too impressed I heard her mutter "fucking boys".
3. Kate Moss at Frieze Art Fair VIP opening standing next to Gwyneth Paltrow - the former lovely in jeans and boots the latter much less so in whatever hemp cloth she was wearing. With glass in hand I turned to Moss who was only two feet away from me and said unbelievably stupidly something like "I've wanted to meet you for years ever since I saw you on the cover of The Face back in the day and here is my chance and I've got this on my lip" Simultaneously I indicated my rather crusty cold sore to her. I do not blame her for simply staring at me with venom and turning 180 degrees away from my stupid stupid mouth and herpe.
4. Monica Lewinsky - she was briefly a client of mine when she was in London. I hassled her for a lunch date and she very sweetly agreed. After an hour I was in awe and utterly understood why Clinton put his career on the line with her: much more beautiful in the flesh (she had also lost weight from the early puppy fat days) and so so clever (you don't make White House intern by being stupid after all). I was besotted and the wine didnt help. I didn't insult her nor did she me but it hurt just as much when she declined to meet me again after finding out quite what I was like in the flesh and then soon stopped chatting on emails where up to then we'd got on swimmingly. Ouch - distain by silence.
As a passing last thought in my experience celebs are mostly nice people - the press and their own PR agencies make them seem bad by playing the hype game. We get the Spectacle we deserve - Guy Debord was right.
( , Tue 13 Oct 2009, 8:34, 3 replies)
For some bizarre reason I've met a few very well known people in my time but only a few insulted me or I was nasty to them but some did rather diss me - here's a selection of the ones I remember (the others I've probably blotted out like childhood abuse)
1. As a ten year old watching Falkirk FC and one night finding myself stranded in Leven (Fife) at 10pm thanks to the police moving the Away Supporters Bus without telling us, my mate and I (actually he being the brother of Robin Guthrie of the Cocteau Twins since we are on celeb themes) blagged our way onto the football team bus for a lift back to the town. My mate hassled me nonstop as soopn as we were on board to go to the back of the bus where the players were huddled playing cards - for some mad reason he thought they would want to talk to us - so eventually I broke and I did as he said only for a tall, stern figure to rise out of his seat just as I got to half way down the aisle and told me to "Fuck off back to the front of the bus, son". The tall figure being no-one less than Alex Ferguson in his then youthful role of relatively inept centre forward for my team.
2. After a hard day of moving a magazine in Dublin out of their offices into vans mostly by hand, we took the opportunity to use the trollies we had purloined for the task as makeshift luges and test out the long corridors in the building as substitute ice tracks. Each taking it in turn to skite along the long smooth concrete floors and see how far we could get. I managed the best run of the evening but as I came to a slow halt and looked up to see how far I got I could only perceive Andrea Corr standing at the door of the rehearsal studios which were situated at the end of the same corridor slowly eating a kiwi fruit while looking gorgeous in a kimono. I stared back at this heavenly sight above me (full makeup too) and as she turned on her heel none too impressed I heard her mutter "fucking boys".
3. Kate Moss at Frieze Art Fair VIP opening standing next to Gwyneth Paltrow - the former lovely in jeans and boots the latter much less so in whatever hemp cloth she was wearing. With glass in hand I turned to Moss who was only two feet away from me and said unbelievably stupidly something like "I've wanted to meet you for years ever since I saw you on the cover of The Face back in the day and here is my chance and I've got this on my lip" Simultaneously I indicated my rather crusty cold sore to her. I do not blame her for simply staring at me with venom and turning 180 degrees away from my stupid stupid mouth and herpe.
4. Monica Lewinsky - she was briefly a client of mine when she was in London. I hassled her for a lunch date and she very sweetly agreed. After an hour I was in awe and utterly understood why Clinton put his career on the line with her: much more beautiful in the flesh (she had also lost weight from the early puppy fat days) and so so clever (you don't make White House intern by being stupid after all). I was besotted and the wine didnt help. I didn't insult her nor did she me but it hurt just as much when she declined to meet me again after finding out quite what I was like in the flesh and then soon stopped chatting on emails where up to then we'd got on swimmingly. Ouch - distain by silence.
As a passing last thought in my experience celebs are mostly nice people - the press and their own PR agencies make them seem bad by playing the hype game. We get the Spectacle we deserve - Guy Debord was right.
( , Tue 13 Oct 2009, 8:34, 3 replies)
Ta
Yeah you are right - I can't spell names for toffee nor even better fudge. Ta I'll edit it now to make me look less of a twat!
( , Tue 13 Oct 2009, 12:03, closed)
Yeah you are right - I can't spell names for toffee nor even better fudge. Ta I'll edit it now to make me look less of a twat!
( , Tue 13 Oct 2009, 12:03, closed)
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