[Closed] Have you ever upset anyone Famous?

Barry from Eastenders didn't take kindly to us chasing him through Covent Garden shouting "Barry, Barry"
Told us to f-off before nearly ripping the door off his own battered Ford Galaxy
In my defence it was many years ago and we was quite drunk

Not me, but a mate works for Madame Tussaud's, so has to deal with a celeb or two and one day had to move a range rover as it was blocking him in so he got the keys and [s]ragged it[/s] moved it to a car parking space.

Apparently Daniel Craig was less than pleased.

I had to tell Dave Courtney he couldn't smoke at the bar I was working behind, got a bit of a glare.

Since you mention a certain ex football player there, he would have been [i]very[/i] upset if he had known what a girlfriend of his was up to with a very good friend of mine many years ago 😯

Does Adjustablewench count?

Kicked Andrew Morton out of a theatre once. "Do you know who I am?" "Yes. **** off Mr Morton".

Kept on annoying footballers by not knowing who they were. "Got any ID?"

Glenda Jackson gave me 'a look' when I was smiling at the younger more attractive colleague she was walking with.

It's not a great anecdote.

simon Donald, one of viz's creators, and general rent a mouth for those '100 best' tv programmes.

Got into an argument with him beacause I went through a red light on my bike (it was years ago, i realise I was in the wrong now 🙂 )

told him to **** off before i hit him

Got the look from the late Barry Sheene when I prevented him getting on his DAF Suzuki because I was taking a picture of his bike. Elicited a 'farkin ell' when I did it again later in the day.

This was unofficial practice for the British GP back in the day when you could just wander around the pits

Pushed past Joe Murray once - to get to see his bike at Crystal palace - turned round to see mortified look on mates face - 'realised what I'd just done and had to leave( Iknow Iknow Iwas very young)

Not upset but mildly annoyed the actor that plays Taggart in the series, me and my mate were in the hospitality tent after the Great North Run supping free booze when he sauntered along, with his free food, lots of, "there's been a murder", with him looking less than pleased, same happened the year after to which he had a wee outburst much to our laughter.

Go for it Julian, famous on here

My brother stood on Chris Eubank's expensive shiny boot whilst out in Hove...he wasn't best chuffed

I once drunkenly told Darren Gough in a Sheffield bar that he'd get back on form if he stopped boozing and focussed on getting his knee better. One of the fit girls on his arm told me to **** off and he just laughed at me.

Which was fair.

I think he may even have already retired by then.

In a drunken state after young farmers do (breafast at Watford Gap services)persistently accused the quite well known actor John Woodvine of variously being John Thaw or Edward Woodward. Poor bloke was just trying to have a quiet coffee with his wife. 😳

Trod on Jack Charlton's foot in New Street Station

not me but my ex-housemate and kareoke nut chased will young down the street singing evergreen, poor guy couldnt hail a cab quick enough

Go for it Julian, famous on here

Job done a few weeks ago 🙁

Quality Pook, I'm quite impressed with Goughie's response as well

I mistakenly said that Dave Gorman was ginger on another forum a couple of years ago, turns our he was lurking while he was doing that tour by bike and he gave me a bit of a flaming. Felt bad, I like Dave.

I set fire to the corner of a newspaper that a famous radio one dj was reading in a busy London record store. He didn't really notice until he turned the page to be met by a sheet of flame. Management were not impressed but I was quick on my feet in those days.

David Coverdale, yes he of Whitesnake fame. I was carrying three pints over to my mates, I backed away from the bar (reversed so I could protect my beer) inadvertently turning sharpish and landing three pints in the lap of Mr Rock God. He was not very happy with me, but it wasn't him that turfed me out of the pub and landed a punch in my guts, nooo that was his minder.
No matter how much I tried to apologise I got the feeling he wasn't accepting any of my protestations,of sorrowful guilt, but it really was an accident. 😐

I was running a charity abseil at which Charlie Dimmock was the main attraction. Me and the boys sized her up (you develop an eye for these things) and thought she would fit in a standard harness. We didn't want to upset her as the large ones were huge.

She managed to get it about as far as her knees. "Does this adjust" she said. "Only down" I replied.

I used to do event security work at Doncaster racecourse when I was a student. Pissed john mccirrick off by refusing to help him when he was getting harassed by punters. He had zero manners and I was a bolshy 18 year old.

I got glared at by Steve Martin, Dan Aykroyd and most of the crew of Sgt. Bilko. I was watching them filming at the back lot of Digital Domain while having a crafty fag on the fire escape. The fx smoke generators malfunction and belched smoke out over the whole cast and crew anyway they didn't take kindly to my laughter. 😳 😆

I gave Robert Powell (Jesus) the hump when I was a kid by cycling through 'his' woods, he insisted we get off and walk. But I was too busy looking at his missus's boobs, she being Babs Lord of pans People. He went crimson with rage.
Right out of his league with her the little twerp, even as a kid I knew that.

Ooh, just remembered the last Tory Conference at Blackpool, an incredibly drunk Alan Duncan approached myself and a colleague in the early hours at the Imperial Hotel and asked how he could get out of the carpark. My colleague said 'sir, you could leave by that exit, or that exit (pointing at the 2 obvious exits), or alternatively you could stick a rocket up your arse and leave that way'.
One can only take so many drunken (tory) politicians in one night.

The Duke of Edinburgh when I was a techie at BBC Radio in the early 90s. I got a bit too close and personal with a boom microphone when he was giving a speech at Salford University.

He swatted it like a fly and swore at me 🙂

Harrison Ford called me a ****ing moron- tight marina I made him reverse. He took it fairly well.

My wife's friend had Natalie Portman push in front of her at a bar. She protested and Ms Portman replied "do you know who I am?". She smugly replied "nope" as she pushed back in front... Portman was far from impressed lol!

I set fire to the corner of a newspaper that a famous radio one dj was reading in a busy London record store. He didn't really notice until he turned the page to be met by a sheet of flame. Management were not impressed but I was quick on my feet in those days.

Did he try to touch you?

Klunk getting points for most famous people pissed off. Spin for the funniest.
Julian, was this on here or in real life?

Having been a production accountant on film and television sets, yes, a few, but the stories are all really, really boring...

..unlike bikebouy, who appears to have escaped from "This is Spinal Tap". I don't think anyone's going to top that tale.

Engaged in light fistcuffs with Liam Gallacher at Universal studios in LA, at the log flume of all places. I sttod on his foot accidentally and he took exception, shoved me and tried to hook me so i ****ted him quite hard more as a natural reaction !. Had no idea who he was until Patsy started kicking off and a large man intervened apologising. Kept seeing him and of course i enjoyed gobbing off at him and generally inciting him. Could have been a childs face though as his kids were there, shocking example and I could really have shown some decorum but i was young and angry.

Pushed in front of Charles Kennedy (Scottish MP) leaving the spectator stand at Fort Bill DH 2005 - the year Peaty won. I should actually apologise - for the sole reason that he had his baby in his arms at the time... 😳

Engaged in light fistcuffs with Liam Gallacher at Universal studios in LA, at the log flume of all places. I sttod on his foot accidentally and he took exception, shoved me and tried to hook me so i ****ted him quite hard more as a natural reaction !. Had no idea who he was until Patsy started kicking off and a large man intervened apologising. Kept seeing him and of course i enjoyed gobbing off at him and generally inciting him. Could have been a childs face though as his kids were there, shocking example and I could really have shown some decorum but i was young and angry.

You are now officially my favourite STWer. I hate that ****.

I might have 'slightly' taken the mick out of Chesney Hawkes when 10 pin bowling in the adjacent lane 20 years ago.

Also got told to F-off by Jasper Carrott on a ferry to France when i was about 12.

When Matt Williams was head coach of Scotland I had a bit of a road rage barney with him. And frankly he was no better at picking the right lane to be in than he was picking the right team.

In a younger life, while working for TWA at LAX and on-duty in the lost luggage department one evening, had to tell Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton that their luggage was inadvertently left off their TWA flight out of New York--this after an hour of their patiently (not so much) waiting while I made calls to try and find it.

Fortunately it had been found and brought in on another flight 1 1/2 hours later. My god, she was lovely to look at and Richard (who had obviously had more than a few cocktails) was really reasonably pleasant after the first 10 minutes-actually quite funny once he realized there was absolutely nothing that could be done except wait.

En masse a bunch of about of us inadvertently pissed off the late Frank Sidebottom.

A large bunch of us had booked a coach to take us to a nightclub, rendezvous for the pick up was at a pub near Aston University. On the night it turns out the pub is the venue for a live radio 1 broadcast. I'm not sure how they marketed it but we weren't aware it was going to be on and we were also pretty much the only people there- There was a DJ trying to enthuse an warm up the 'crowd' prior to the broadcast- the crowd was basically us, waiting for a bus. Part of the evening that we were also unaware of was some live standup by Frank and that was going the be the bit going out live on air. The live broadcast starts and Frank's announced and comes on stage just as we see our coach pull up in the windows behind him. He tells his first joke and about 60 of us get up and walk out.

And frankly he was no better at picking the right lane to be in than he was picking the right team.

Bazinga!

Busydog, not your fault so no points. However Burton and Taylor!! Flippin eck

The most embarassing part was i was at a function probably 5 years later with a friend who was/is in 'the business' and we bumped into him. He did that slitty eyed 'i ****n know you' kind of thing so i hilariously pointed out that i puched him at Universal studios, he took it well and we did kiss and make up. He is a prize A ****t though.

not your fault so no points

Just being able to sit 3 feet away from Elizabeth Taylor and actually converse was, at the time, tantamount to scoring all the points I thought possible in life.

Got out of the car and kicked off with Jimmy Savile in Glencoe village. He'd parked his campervan totally blocking any access to our driveway. We guessed who's van it was (well known in Glencoe and him having a house near there) and I waited for him in the car whilst the others walked to the house. It was years before all the accusations, but I'd always considered him a self publicising tit anyways. I felt a bit childish at the time, sitting for 15 mins or so waiting for him, but now since very happy with my small rant at a fiddler.

MacC, I shall gently giggle into the early hours at that one, wonderful stuff. Could well have been the nail in the coffin for Frank.
Busy, still no more points but I am rather jealous. Was this around the time of The Comedians?

Was this around the time of The Comedians?

It would have been as I worked for TWA from late 1966 through most of 1968 and I think The Comedians came out in 1967.

Was at a Godskitchen night with an ex way back in early Noughties, for my sins, at Leeds Town Hall. There had been some horrendous hard house on in one room, not my cup of tea, and I was utterly miserable at the sound of it. So we wandered off and had fun convincing some bolloxed ne'er-do-wells that badgers don't exist.

We leave that room and this woman approaches me asking what I thought of the DJ set previous in the hard house room. Without taking a breath I said it was aural diarrhoea, absolutely terrible and that the mixing was horrendous. My ex grabs me, apologises to the mortified woman and drags me away. At the bottom of the stairs she says that was her favourite DJ, Lisa Lashes and the reason we had come to the night and her set I had just commented on. To this day I refuse apologise for my actions.

I've been upset by Martin Shaw.

In a jewellers in Cambridge, some years ago, I was wanting to look at potential engagement rings, but all the shop-staff were fawning over him and the girl who was with him. Pissed me right off.

Think I have upset some big hitters on here

Are you sure you weren't an extra in the airport scene? 🙂

Still, Burton, Harris and O'Toole were screen legends the like we will never see again, and you spent a couple of hours with one of them!

Are you sure you weren't an extra in the airport scene?

You should have seen the difficulty n keeping all the other TWA people from the ticket counter away from my lost baggage office---everybody suddenly seemed to find some reason to stop in. Worse than a bunch of dogs in heat falling over each other---kind of embarrassing actually.

screen legends the like we will never see again

You have that right---larger than life

Tom Baker to me to f off in the Racing Page in Richmond and had a small set to do with Mike Gatting who was being overly familiar with a then girlfriend. He took exception when asked how much coke he'd done to have such a mangled nose.

Beefy, Ian Botham tried to punch me once, he missed, just as well, as he is a big bloke close up 😉

My first paid photographic job with a well known newspaper and last 😉

JK, obviously not long after Gatting's Windies tour.

During Euro 96 at gatwick airport watching England destroy Scotland... Our finest hour.
Olly Reed was sitting at the bar next to me keeping him self to him self and I may have got carried away when gazza bagged the second and started getting all chatty.... He told me to piss off and promptly moved round the other side of the bar.

@langylad - on here. 😕

/hairshirt

No, never 😀

Also, my mate made a very famous boxer, his next door neighbour, clean up his dog's sh!t (it had wandered in and dumped in my mates garden). He still talks about it triumphantly.

I will be recommending a very famous person's son is not accepted back to complete his A levels next year. He is famous for being very bloody obnoxious at the best of times. I am anticipating some quality procrastination all afternoon to put off the call!

JuilianA, I shamelessly but half heartedly tried to find the thread but couldn't. Any clues?

Not me but a mate who pis*ed James Hetfield off - asking for an autograph at the Marquee when he was busy entertaining Lars with his "see how long I can keep this pint on my head" demonstration. Quite a while it seems...

Convert, give us some initials, names needn't be used

Don't think I can - more than my job's worth, literally!

Convert, social media, can be a dangerous thing. No worries

I inadvertantly enraged the drummer from Feeder. That was quite funny but he killed himself about a week later. I don't think it was [i]entirely[/i] because of me...

Speaking of Lisa Lashes I had to help carry her to her hotel room she was that lashed a few years ago.

I slapped Cedric round the face and gave him a sod off great wedgy once. I'm afraid we were very very drunk

A tenuous link at best.........I upset David Coulthard in Economics at Kirkcudbright high school in 5th year as he found out the following day that i shagged his GF on the geography teachers desk at the Candlemas ball - it sounds pretty despicable but we were only 16/17 at the time and i didn't know much better, we've settled our differences over a drink since the act in question back in 1989 - i guess he's had the better part of the deal since.

And..... I told Calvin Harris (adam wiles) to GTF one night (2004) in my bros club in dumfries as he was being an absolute sex pest wi the bar staff (as usual) and pissing every girl off so we told him to GTF or we'd rearrange his mush down the back staircase. #comebackalisforgivencalvin........... 😉

There's a a few other upsets/moments with the prima-donna DJ's we book for the local festival that our crew run the dance tents for but professional responsibilities (and possible lawsuits/problems with booking agents) prevent me from naming names......

Too late for edit but......

Although....Dave Clark?.....you really should acknowledge the crowd and look as if you are enjoying what you do for the £2.5k+ you charge for 90 mins work.

Ooh is that Dave Clark from the Dave Clark 5. He's still doing well for himself at 1200 quid an hour 😀

😉 good one

Clark(e) with an 'e obviously

Great thread.

Like Convert I also can't reveal all in case I lose my job, but I have upset a very famous current pop star so much that her reaction on social media made the news internationally.

I was only doing my job, but nearly lost it because of the daft cow.

🙁

Ian McCulloch told me to f*** off once after I told him to cheer up.

molgrips is a bit upset with me too. 😆

I told the Green Cross Code dude that there was "No way" he was Darth Vadar. He looked peeved.

I also laughed at Goldie when he asked for a discount on a PS2 and some games and told him to sell a tooth.

I was riding down Cheyney Walk in London a long time again when a big Bentley Limo pulls up along side me. In the back was a tiny wizened monkey like creature that was Mick Jagger. I gave him a thumbs up and he flicked me a V sign. What a charmer 😆

my mate at a party. Girl sits next to him and is clearly trying to chat him up. " do you like this album it's mine?" "oh yeah, i do, who is it?" he says thinking she owns the CD. "it's me singing".

It was Amy Winehouse.

i had a toe to toe with El Hadj Diouf once, i give him the ****er sign as he drive past in some ridiculous automobile. he slammed on jumped out and raced over to kick off.

Another time i saw Ric Flair at an airport. i asked him if i could take a picture, he siad no, so i took one anyway and he went spare trying to grab my phone! lunatic.