the holiday destination of the rich, famous and unpleasant
coming from St.Andrews I'm well aware that celebrities are usually less pleasant than the more naive souls among us might think. When i was waitressing at the Open Golf Championships in summer 2000, in a two-story restaurant tent, we encountered Ronnie Corbett, who treated my waitressing friend Lynn like a piece of dirt on his shoe. It would've been funny, if Lynn hadn't been slightly upset by the experience.
Also I have some friends working at a well known hotel in St.Andrews who heard first account stories of the recent Kevin Costner incident, which involved a hotel masseuse, his penis, and some pretty lewd behaviour....

Once a few years ago i was back home in a pub called the Central with a friend of mine. My friend glanced over to the other end of the bar and said, very casually, "Oh, Prince William's in tonight."
I followed the direction of my friend's eyes and saw a pissed-looking, tall blonde horsey-faced git in a rugby shirt propping himself up on the bar. Thinking my friend was joking, i laughed and said that was pretty funny.

A moment later I looked back and saw Prince William at the other end of the bar, eating chips, surrounded by a bunch of horsey-faced girls who were clamouring for his attention.

It really made me want to be sick, but i thought it was pretty funny too. Later that evening I passed the prince again on the street and hardly recognised him at first - he was resplendant in baseball cap, with two very big beefy-looking blokes also in baseball caps escorting him home.

My father also saw the student who was to become his girlfriend in Tescos a few times. Apparently to overhear her talking was like having a dentist's drill forcibly inserted into your ear.

And people wonder why i left St.Andrews.
(you_always_felt_like_suede, Fri 26 May 2006, 15:31, Reply)