Celebrities.

Lovely, shiny people we put on pedastals and hurl our love/adoration/money at?

Or evil, shiny people we put on pedastals and hurl our love/adoration/money at?


I'm forever hearing stories about how such & such met so & so and how you-know-who ran into whatisname and you'd never believe it! We all love a good celebrity sighting. Fact.

But do you have any BAD celebrity stories? Or ones where you were truly disappointed? You know, you ran into Celine Dion and she gave you the finger. Or Cameron Diaz spat at your granny. That sort of thing.



About 4/5 (???) years ago, the Pet Shop Boys were doing a signing in London. I've been a fan for absolute years and have everything they've ever released. They were re-releasing all their back catalogue and - being the good fan I am - I thought it was my duty to get up at 5am, travel 200 miles to London, wait in line for 2 hours and buy a load of albums I already had. Idiot.

So I did all that, waited in line for two hours and - you know what?? - they never even looked me in the eye. Not a blink, not a 'Thank You', not a nod of appreciation. I was one of hundreds - so I hardly expected a personal performance and a pat on the back - but I remember thinking "Cheeky bastards! Why did I go to all that effort?!". Of course, I've still bought every single album and every single since but not before muttering "Bloody Pet Shop Boys" then handing over my cash at the counter. Pathetic. It's now a love/hate thing.



So... do you have any bad celebrity sightings???

nope. all the celebrities i've bumped into have been lovely. i had some encounters running across laurie anderson and lou reed in nyc where i wanted to say hello, but i was afraid lou would be a dick or beat me up, so i left them alone.

not so much a bad one... but in 2002 Gene Simmons was in Sydney doing a spoken word tour and to cut a long story short at the end he said (much to security's horror - he wasn't meant to do this) "anyone who wants something signed come on down" with that it was vaccuum mode the whole crowd just zoomed towards the stage lol

he was great, dancing and singing and being cheeky as per his usual self, but then there were SO many people that I was towards the end and by the time he got to me it was like

sign "hi" sign "hi" sign "hi"... you get the picture. so when I got to him (keeping in mind this is THE ultimate celebrity sighting for me - Gene is my God) not that he was bad or rude but I said "Hi Gene!" and he looked up really quickly said "hi, hi!" back and then looked to the next person. a security guy managed to get a photo of me kinda aside Gene while he was signing my ticket, but I must admit I was disappointed he was really tired etc by the time I got to him

it wasn't a reflection of him, though, really... he stayed until every single person in that room had got his autograph

stevie ray vaughan went up to prince while he was rehearsing at pp and said 'hello; i'm stevie, nice to meet you'

prince ignored him and looked at his bodyguard to move stevie away!

mikek1 said:

what were U doin there?

mikek1 said:

There are a million Prince stories like this.

minneapolisgenius said:

Dish 'em!

C'mon folks... dish the dirt!

minneapolisgenius said:

and they never get old, do they

mikek1 said:

Did he have an appointment?

lilgish said:

this is fact!

stevie's bandmember said this!

onenitealone said:

in my world...there are no pedastals to perch humans on

we each have our own toadstool

mikek1 said:

I believe it.

I wanna hear more details on the visit from ?uestlove and Dangelo.

Mach said:

i'm semi-the same.

in my world, 'celebrity' is what *I* make it. julia roberts could say hello to me and i wouldn't give a rat's ass, but introduce me to sylvia miles or mink stole and i'd turn into a puddle of quivering drool.

Anx said:

XxAxX said:

grossness...

mrdespues said:

I have had quite a few celebrity encounters during the film fest. Most have been really good.

Spats said:

My ex, who was a model, once met Tyra, before she made it big... she said she seemed pretty nice, down to earth back then... most celebs heads just get so huge it seems after fame is all their world has been for a while.

mikek1 said:

U didn't tell the rest of the story: Stevie Ray Vaughan then replied, "Well, he may be the 'Prince', but I'm the King Bee!"

This was mentioned in a SRV biography.
[Edited 9/21/06 23:41pm]

christos7 said:

paging Dr. Prince...

Mach said:

I was generalising a bit, I guess; I agreee with you there.

onenitealone said:

you shoulda threw some billie piper cd's at them boys


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i do recall one time i was at tower records and pharrell was on his phone coming out and i grabbed the door same time as he was pushing it open ya know.... cause im about to go in and hes leaving....lol he gave me this look like he was gonna shoot me or have his bodygaurd do it.

anyways whole point of the story is pharrell is a evil little man!

Christopher said:

If I'd had my Liza Minnelli 'Results' cd, ONE of them would have got it at least.

That's it - I'm boycotting Pharrell.

Christopher said:

Imagine if he had shot you.....in the ass.