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Did you ever meet a celebrity that acted like a jerk?

Was never a huge A-rod fan but have more respect for him after seeing him in Vail. It was when he was getting his hip done. We stopped into a pizza place in the village apres ski and Arod was there with cousin Yuri and a woman. He wouldn’t sign any autographs for adults but signed for every kid and chatted the kids up and shook their hands. Thought that was well done
 
tentoes4rings said:
The autograph thing is tricky, and I try not to judge celebrities too much based on that because we have no idea what their experiences were giving autographs prior to that. I enjoy meeting athletes when they’re younger like Rafael Devers and Mookie Betts because they’re not overwhelmed by it yet and generally very accommodating. I met Stephen King at a Sox ST game in 06 and asked for a photo. He shook his head no and wanted no part of it. From what I’ve read he’s just not comfortable with idolatry but after reading a lot of his tweets I think he may just be a ,
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The only famous people Ive ever met have been athletes. Don Mattingly was a real down to earth guy when I met him about 20 years ago when he was doing an autograph signing at the Danbury mall. I actually feel weird when asking celebrities for autographs in public outside of an official autograph signing. I heard one time, and I don't know how true it actually is, that celebrities like it better when people ask them to personalize an autograph because that way they know you're not just going to try and sell it to make money. Regardless, Id rather have my picture taken with the person instead of having them sign a piece of paper or ball.
 
Not a jerk story at all, but Cam Newton blew me away with how cool he was. When I was younger, my football team got into a Panthers practice, watched the whole thing and got some autographs at the end. After we all collected a decent amount of signatures, Cam came over and handed us the practice ball with his signature on it and offered to play a game with us. He was all time quarterback and we played for 15-20 minutes. We were all around 10 years old, and he did this after a 2 hour practice in full pads. What a cool guy.
 
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Not me. But my nephew does sound for sporting events and has a lot of stories.
I think Thiesman and Keith Olbermann stick out the most.
 
I caddied for Sidney Poitier at the Yale Golf Course in the Summer after he won the Academy Award. He is taller than you’d think, a good golfer and complete, down to earth genuine human being. Made me feel like his best friend for 4 hours.

Biggest jerk by very far - Jim Brown. Sat behind him in Fenway Park in 6th game of 1967 World Series, he not only refused to sign autographs for several little kids, he went out of his way to be as nasty as possible. He was sitting with Gates Brown who was clearly embarrassed by Brown’s actions and not only signed for each kid he engaged them in friendly conversation
Have many second-hand stories about various LA Lakers as my former brother-in-law was in their locker room for three decades but those are his to tell about some of the biggest stars in NBA history.
 
Ran across Sly Stallone at a restaurant in Westlake Village late 80's. Most disgusting person ever met. Spitting on the floor and blowing his nose by pinching a nostril and blowing hard again on the floor. Had to leave my breakfast uneaten.
 
I worked at a marina in high school during the summer.

The people who managed Mike Tyson were pretty frequent customers at our gas dock, but one day, Tyson was on the boat, too. (Not a superyacht - just a boat.) I think he was ABC-famous at that point, but not world famous. This was back when he was fighting really often in NY.

15-year old me had to tell Mike Tyson that he had to move because he was sitting on the gas fill and that he had to get off the boat entirely because no one was allowed on the boat or the dock during refueling. He asked why and I said that I thought it was because the boat might blow up. He went and stood about 800 yards from the boat.

That’s it.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
Country? Little Big Town were dorks. To be fair I don't think they know what their agent committed them to do.
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Saw them in concert on their Tornado Tour. Front row middle. Fantastic concert. I have never met them. I don't doubt you at all. However, I would think country stars are more friendly than that .I have been wrong on many occasions.
 
HooperScooper said:
I met Wakefield and Mike Timlin a couple days after they won the World Series in 2004 and they were both very nice. They were probably in a good mood after winning the World Series. They were out to dinner together with their wives at The Capital Grille and our booth was next to theirs so I was back to back with Wakefield. We didn't want to bother them so we told the waitress to buy the table drinks on us. A couple minutes later I get a tap on the shoulder and Wakefield says thanks very much but they're not drinking since they have to get up early the next day for the parade. We talked for a few minutes about how happy they made the city and what it was like to play in Boston. They both were very nice.

I always take stories about celebrities and athletes being jerks with a grain of salt. Think about all the people that want something from them. It's impossible to be nice to every single person they encounter. They could be the nicest people but the one time they don't want to be bothered and someone wants an autograph or a picture taking opportunity and they're not accommodating then that person says they're a jerk. If it's a pattern and they have a reputation of being difficult then they're probably jerks. But if it happens rarely and most of the time they're very nice then that doesn't make them jerks.
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Well maybe this tidbit that I left out makes a difference.

Tim was a little preoccupied at the time. And she wasn’t Mrs Wakefield.
 
Palatine said:
I had to work with a guy on numerous occasions that I thought was just an awful human being. I won't say his name but his father drove a car with the #3 on the side.

Anyone else have such an experience?
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I own a flooring company and we were installing the floor at The Sportcenter studio at ESPN. This is March of '92 or '93. I meet Digger Phelps in hallway ( i am wearing a UConn hat). Tell him how I rooted for ND when I was young.
I ask him what he thinks of UConn program. He goes on to tell me that UConn will not do anything in NCAA tourney and that we at best will be a good Big East team but never a Big time national program. Then he walks off.
What a dope and obviously 100% wrong.
 
I worked for a filtration company when Jacques Pepin called us direct and said he was having problems with his home filtration and water conditioning systems. Everyone was falling over one another to go on the job. Management sent three of us to investigate. He could not have been nicer and with a good sense of humor. He thanked us for the quick response and made us lunch. It was awsome.
 
UCTitleTown said:
Robert Vaughn, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Biggest do--che ever.
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He lived across the street from my childhood home in Ridgefield. Never smiled. Always looked miserable. His wife was very nice.

Stanley Tucci who lived a short distance from my house is a super nice guy. I once had a long conversation with him about sports. A real down to earth guy.
 
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My limited interactions have all been pleasant.
My wife was at JFK wearing a Sox jersey. Spike walked by and nicely told her she can't wear that shirt there.
My wife's cousin knows a lot of famous people in Cal. He got Orlando Bloom to say hi to her on a video chat. But, he says Kevin Costner is the biggest ____ in town.
 
8893 said:
My interaction was around 30 years ago. He was having a house built on the Vineyard at the time. It was more awkward than anything; but the Black and white interaction on the Island often reversed the stereotypes because Oak Bluffs has a long history as a Black intellectual and elite community.
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Wouldn’t surprise me. There isn’t anything negative or obnoxious I’ve seen out of him, just a bit off.
 
Palatine said:
I had to work with a guy on numerous occasions that I thought was just an awful human being. I won't say his name but his father drove a car with the #3 on the side.

Anyone else have such an experience?
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I didn't meet Jr. but a bunch of people I worked with who met Jr and many other celebs all had good things to say about him. This would have been in 2006 timeframe.
 
Fishy said:
I worked at a marina in high school during the summer.

The people who managed Mike Tyson were pretty frequent customers at our gas dock, but one day, Tyson was on the boat, too. (Not a superyacht - just a boat.) I think he was ABC-famous at that point, but not world famous. This was back when he was fighting really often in NY.

15-year old me had to tell Mike Tyson that he had to move because he was sitting on the gas fill and that he had to get off the boat entirely because no one was allowed on the boat or the dock during refueling. He asked why and I said that I thought it was because the boat might blow up. He went and stood about 800 yards from the boat.

That’s it.
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Thank god that interaction didn’t end in a throat punch.
 
Didn’t meet him, but saw Sammy Davis Jr perform at the old Oakdale Theater in the Round. On top of the fact that he had had a bit to drink, he got totally obnoxious to some guy whose big sin was to yell a request. Davis went off on the guy, basically saying “i’m a multimillionaire who are you?”

Compare that to Ben Vereen who we saw at the same venue. You aren’t supposed to take photos. But when he spotted people with cameras, he would strike a pose for them to shoot.
 
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There was a call in to win a lunch and autograph afternoon with Tim Wakefield about 15 years ago or so. My mother actually won on a CT station so me and my wife brought my son (Yanks fan) and his best buddy (Sox fan). There were 4 winners so 16 people with Tim and a couple Sox reps. He was a complete gentleman and very talkative with the kids especially talking about baseball. I had a UConn shirt on and we talked for a while about UConn hoops as well as his SS in college at FIU as he went to Maloney with me a couple years younger.

Another time we had the same group at my company seats for a game and pregame allowed to go on the field and walk the warning track and get pics with the players. The kids had pics with Damon, Varitek and basically about 15 other players and Tito as well. My son had a Yankee hat on so many of them put their hands over the NY for pics and had fun with it. Varitek pretended to throw it over the Green Monster. But 200 feet away Papi and Manny were horsing around with kids yelling for them to come over but both ignored the kids and never came close to getting any pics.
 
I won’t tell the entire story but I nearly swung at the presidents youngest son and his friends at a sorority party in Syracuse. His friends came over to tell me he’s taking my girlfriend home tonight. In retrospect I probably should have let him when she decided to go to that school. Either way it turned out they were scared to fight me 3 on 1. He’s exactly what you would expect.

Side note: Kevin Bacon is a really nice guy. Colin Cowherd, surprising nice. Scott van pelt is probably the nicest celebrity I’ve met in person. Matthew Berry kind of a d bag.
 
This was back in the 90's when UConn was playing a CBS Saturday game. My buddy asked for both seats so he could take his sweetie. I said fine and I met some friends upstairs at Bradley Teletheater. We had the little TV on the table tuned to the game. Tim Higgins was one of the refs and I heard the guys at the next table saying that "Timmy" would be coming later. Sure enough, the game is over and Higgins was there almost immediately. "Geez Tim, did you even shower?" I heard. So Tim Higgins is my celeb. And Bill Pidto came to a tailgate once.
 
ucjoet said:
I own a flooring company and we were installing the floor at The Sportcenter studio at ESPN. This is March of '92 or '93. I meet Digger Phelps in hallway ( i am wearing a UConn hat). Tell him how I rooted for ND when I was young.
I ask him what he thinks of UConn program. He goes on to tell me that UConn will not do anything in NCAA tourney and that we at best will be a good Big East team but never a Big time national program. Then he walks off.
What a dope and obviously 100% wrong.
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Most important question though is what color tie and highlighter did he have?
 
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