What famous person did you regret meeting because they were an ass?
i've met lots of celebrities due to my job and where i've worked, most are just normal people.
one that does stand out to me though is barbara streisand.
she was staying in a hotel i used to work at and wanted a set of small steps leading up to her bed to be made so her dog could get up there.
she also wanted a fresh roll of turf brought everyday for her dog to beep on.
on the flipside though britney spears is an utter sweetheart who comes across like she just wants peace and to be left alone.
she used to like having flowers delivered to her room so she could
make displays etc.
they were pretty good
I wouldn’t say disappointing as I never was eager to meet him but Drake.
Drake was just unprofessional and egotistical when I worked with him both times.
This was before he got big big, first award show type level.
He’s told me to beep off directly and I watched his mom calm him down from a tantrum.
Jared Leto.
I worshipped him as a teenager, mainly from seeing him in Requiem for a Dream and My So-Called Life and his band.
But he was the most pretentious and arrogant person in real life.
Never meet your heroes.
I met James Brown back in the 80s when I lived in Vail.
The man was dissatisfied with everything and generally drunk.
Absolute flip side was meeting Mr. Rogers when I was at Pitt.
That man was the real deal.
He expected my seat on a plane, he was our local news anchor.
Actually said, "I may look familiar?"
I said, "You're a merchant banker?"
Jared Leto.
Hit on my girlfriend at the time, and called me fat.
His brother Shannon was super nice though.
Cannot wait to see all of these answers cut and pasted on a Buzzfeed article!
I once met Bill Burr at the Comedy Store in Hollywood.
This was a little bit after his first Netflix special came out and I was a huge fan, saw all the youtube vids out at the time including his famous Philly rant.
Needless to say I was starstruck when I saw him and couldn't really muster the courage to speak.
He was talking to some people in the hallway and I didn't know how to ask for a picture without being rude, so I stood there with my girlfriend kinda looking his direction.
Once he acknowledged us, my girlfriend asked him "my boyfriend is a huge fan, may we take a photo?".
At which points Bill said beep no I don't do pictures".
My heart sank, then he
smiled and said "naw I'm just kidding, come here, where would I be without you guys!
then he motioned us in for a group photo and said "Now let's put our arms around each other like we know each other".
He totally made my week!
Dude is awesome
I used to work in a posh hotel in Canada (vague on purpose) and I had met many many famous people during my time there.
Most were forgettable interactions honestly, but one stands out as the absolute worst.
Chevy Chase.
He is a trash human being.
He was totally miserable and insulting to all the staff, and we treated him with nothing but professional respect and courtesy.
If I ever meet him again I'll tell him to his face what a colossal piece of beep he is.
I can't watch his movies since.
For the record the best celebrity guest for me was Dave Grohl.
He's an awesome guy.
I met a local weather man from my neck of the woods... twice.
People love this dude on social media, but the both times I've seen him, he was a total asshole.
On the flip side, I met Emilio Estevez at work.
He was cool.
A famous soap opera star in my country, he came into the dairy queen I was working at.
I didn't know who he was and my coworker started hyperventilating and went to the back.
The guy was rude, and when I handed him his cone he said “is that all?!
!” Like he expected extra because he was famous.
Yeah dude, if you order one scoop you get one scoop.
Didn't find out he was famous until he left and my coworker came back to the front...
Beyonce's dad.
Jerk to wait staff.
Snoop and his dad were awesome, though.
That, bar none, was and forever will be my favorite bartending gig.
Met Danny Devito on a trip to NYC a few years back.
I told him I was a fan and that I wanted to boil his jock strap and drink the broth.
He told me to get in line.
Reggie Jackson.
He was a childhood idol of mine.
I got the opportunity to get a photo with him at some booth at a trade show called “Internet World” years ago during the dot com boom.
No one was in line to get pictures with him so I walked up to get a photo while he was apparently trying to get the girls in the next booth over to sleep with him..
He acted all bugged that I asked for a photo, even though that is what he was hired for and rolled his eyes..
I guess he thought I cock blocked him by just showing up in line to get a picture.
I tossed the picture in the trash once I got it.
Later that day I got a ball signed by Steve Garvey who was super nice.
He replaced Reggie Jackson
as my hero that night.
Probably only for British people - but my boyfriend saw Peter Kay with his body guard in a chippy.
Didn’t say anything but elbowed his brother, Peter Kay saw him and said “yeah it is me, now beep off”.
Pretty harsh considering my boyfriend was only 11 at the time
Met Kevin Kostner and Clint Eastwood when they were filming near Austin.
I was waiting tables.
Kostner was a jerk.
Eastwood was amazing.
And a caricature of himself.
He’s huge.
Huge hands.
The lines in his face are deeper than you think they are.
But he was so polite and gentlemanly and gracious.
Edit: yes on A Perfect World.
It was actually a golf club where I was head waiter.
Them being there caused quite a ruckus.
I went so far as to stash them in a private dining room so they could eat in peace.
Clint was very apologetic about the whole thing, profusely thanking me, etc.
Kevin never even looked me in the eye.
Just said, “I’ll have the
whatever-it-was-he-asked-for” and that was it.
Edit 2, copied from my reply to another reply:
That’s partly it.
But he did do some stuff that waiters hate.
Like shaking his glass for a refill.
With attitude.
Stuff like that.
Especially in a situation where I gave them their own space and no competition for my service.
I said this in another comment...everyone is allowed beep days.
But the question posed was “who did I regret meeting because they were an ass”.
So this was my answer.
Edit 3: my first awards!
Thank you!
I'm gonna copy paste one of my previous comments because it sort of fits.
I once made a drink for Britney Spears at Starbucks (6 or 7 years ago?)
and the experience left us all thinking she was an entitled diva...but with the info that's come out in the last couple years, I realize we had it all wrong.
I was on bar that day and I remember glancing into the lobby and thinking, "Huh, that chick looks like Britney Spears, only older and skinnier."
She was gorgeous but looked drawn and thin, I thought maybe hungover or partied way too hard, wearing this denim miniskirt, platform heels, a fringe halter top, and smeared dark eyeliner.
I reached for my next cup and in
sharpie it said "B̶r̶i̶t̶ Dave," and I was like, hmmmm...so anyway I make the drink.
Britney is standing with her arms crossed tightly over her chest, looking at the floor, very standoffish.
I call out the drink for "Dave," she stares at it, reaches for it, then draws her hand back to her arms crossed position, some dude picks it up and hands it to her, and they leave.
I catch my coworker on register and say "Was that..." and she automatically begins recounting her experience...which was that when she said "Hi!
What can I get for you?"
the bodyguard said "Brit, what are you having?"
Though she was right in front of my
coworker, she gave her order to her bodyguards (apparently there were two), and although my coworker could hear it perfectly, the bodyguard repeated it.
When coworker went to write her name on the cup (which was standard and enforced at all times at my store), bodyguard held up his hand and said "Excuse me, do not write her name on the cup.
It's Dave.
My name's Dave."
So that explains the crossed-out name.
My coworker was irritated because it was like she was invisible, had addressed Britney directly (because she was at the counter), had clearly heard the order, had written down the exact name the dude
addressed her by, but it was like (she felt) she wasn't good enough to have direct contact with her so she had to have some sort of middle man when they were two feet apart.
Now that I've heard about how little advocacy Britney has over her entire life, I'm completely second-guessing my initial reaction to the experience.
It seems entirely plausible now that she wasn't permitted to interact with anybody during that outing.
Extremely sad.
Me and my sister saw Alec Baldwin, Tina Fey, and Salma Hayek on the street when we were eating lunch.
They were just coming out of a car, about to go into some building next to us.
We had no idea why they were together but in retrospect it was definitely because they were filming 30 rock together.
My sister said "OH MY GOD IS THAT TINA FEY??"
and Alec Baldwin turned around and went right in her face and said "dont beep say that, dont speak to us, why would you say something like that?
You cant speak to us, not now".
But it didn't really end there, he yelled AGAIN at us outside his building, saying "DONT LOOK OVER HERE, TURN AROUND AND EAT YOUR FOOD, beep
OFF".
He sounded genuinely furious at us.
Almost like he wanted us to yell back and start something with him.
Honestly my sister was on the verge of tears, it was horribly embarrassing.
Everybody knows, now, that Alec Baldwin has a history of screaming at people.
But at the time we had no idea.
Don't get me wrong, my sister shouldn't have yelled at Tina Fey like that, but the way Alec snapped was straight up scary, like he was about to physically hurt her.
Salma Hayek and some other lady who I didn't recognize came over and apologized to us.
She asked if we wanted her to go and get Tina and get her autograph because apparently Tina felt bad
too, but we said no.
She then talked to us about the food we were eating, which was mexican food, and we ended up having a brief conversation about NY's lack of quality mexican food.
She was INCREDIBLY charismatic and sweet.
Prince Andrew, spent a lot of time around him about 10 years ago, as working at private social events he attended.
The guy is a total prick.
I met Will Ferrell at a movie premier for a holiday movie, after the movie premier there was a meet and greet, and the actors were lingering on the main floor.
I introduced myself just to tell him what’s up and that I enjoyed the movie.
He looked at me with a side glance, and stated “get away from me.”
I was 12 years old at the time.
I was the ass.
I saw Don cheadle at an airport and was thinking about oceans 11 and said to my friend "dude it's Bernie Mac" and he looked back and said "no I'm the other black guy from oceans 11 but at least you liked the movie"
Ace Frehley of KISS.
It was at a rock n roll/TV/movie memorabilia convention in the mid 90s, shortly before the Kiss reunion, and he clearly didnt wanna be there.
He didn't talk to fans, didn't say hi, hell, he didn't even LOOK at you when you came to his table.
He just signed whatever you placed in front of him and then you were hustled away.
On the other hand, Adam "Batman" West was at the next signing table and he was a totally cool guy... shook hands, chatted with everyone, signed whatever we wanted, posed for pix, etc.
Meeting him more than made up for Ace's surly, hung-over douche-baggery.
Bobby flay, we paid hundreds of dollars to go to a fancy event he was participating in.
Waited for a long ass time to just meet him and say hi, he looked at us and walked away.
Was a dick about it too
I met Shane Dawson at a restaurant i used to work at.
He used to come in a few times a year with his fiancé and in laws.
He’s a dick lol none of my servers liked him or wanted to serve his family, and I damn near had to fight some little girls off the property because they would not leave without seeing him.
when i was 6 or 7 hulk hogan pretend wrestlemania chased me out of a board room I wasnt supposed to be playing around in at little league complex.
(cross bayou in Pinellas county)
anyways the story is my dad was coaching a game for my brothers team.
I went to go sneak around in an empty room.
Hulks son played baseball there too and he must have seen me sneak in the room.
I was hiding under the front desk when he came in with his hulk voice "whose sneaking around in here" and 7 year old me nearly had a heart attack.
he play chased me out of the room while i
snuck out acting like he couldnt see me.
Looking back at it you can tell he was just having fun with a kid and his famous persona.
But at the time i was absolutely traumatized and nobody believed my story.
Not my story but a coworker’s story.
Let’s call her Holly.
Holly was a flight attendant many years ago and on one flight Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown were in first class.
Holly was going through taking drink orders and politely asked Whitney Houston if she would like something to drink but didn’t get an answer.
So assuming she didn’t hear her, Holly asked her again if she would like something to drink.
Whitney Houston looked out the window with a disgusted face in response.
Bobby Brown then said to Holly “uhm, she doesn’t speak to the help”.
Then ordered for her.
IMO if you’re flying commercial, you are not hot beep I cannot
fathom the level of arrogance it takes to think people are so far below you that they are not deserving of being spoken to by you.
Edit: I was not moved by Whitney Houston’s death but she did not deserve to die over this.
beep y’all.
My dad has been a radio personality for over 30 years and worked in country music for over half of it.
He gets to meet celebrities semi-regularly.
Apparently Keith Urban was really nice, Carrie Underwood was kind of mediocre bc he caught her right after her performance and she was tired.
But Kenny Chesney "puts the D in D-bag" (direct quote from my dad).
Kenny promised to sign some pictures, tshirts, etc for a couple of kids who won a game through the radio.
Kenny instead took a bunch of groupies into one of the back rooms of the radio station with a bottle of whiskey and locked the door.
When my dad tried to get him to open the door and fulfill his end of the
deal, he called the cops on my dad and he was lucky enough to get a cop who was a good acquaintance.
Cop said there wasn't much he could do other than make Kenny leave.
So that's what he did.
Kids never got their stuff signed so my dad gave them some coupons for free pizza.
He said that after a few years other radio hosts told him they had similar encounters.
I beep you not, my mom met Bill Cosby once.
She said that he kept hitting on her friend.
This reminds me of when I met Danny Devito.
Oh, don’t worry.
Danny Devito is not himself an ass, but oh boy does he have an ass!
Jared Leto.
I sat next to him on a flight from Monterey, Mexico back in 2018.
Absolute Asshole
Bill Nye the asshole guy.
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