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

[8893]

2+ decades ago Michael Stipe was such a complete jackwagon to the wife that she still refuses to listen to REM to this day.

Everybody hurts.

 

[djct1999]

This past February I was in London and my 8 year old daughter and I were two feet from the Queen,at a traffic light by Buckingham Palace, being escorted in a green Range Rover . She didn’t even smile.

 

[Palatine]

I just remembered this. This may be unfair because it was back in the late 80's that I worked with him. But Tony Kornheiser was a real jerk. Arrogant, needy, cranky, entitled, and generally did work and play well with others. But that was a long time ago, before he enjoyed his TV success. So, he could be a prince now.

 

[QDOG5]

I met Mike Pereira, the NFL ref guy, at a restaurant on the upper east side. Really nice guy. He found out we were in town because my wife was running the NYC marathon. He says she will probably want to rest after the race and invites me down to NFL headquarters to watch the games. It was a little underwhelming because everybody is working so I basically just watched the games by myself and more importantly no liquor. I hung around for about an hour then went to a bar.

 

[Hoophound]

Everybody hurts.

Music nerd comedy.

 

[HCCForever]

Music nerd comedy.

Hard to criticize someone who lost their religion.

 

[B1GEast]

Jon Stewart grabbed the butt of a friend of mine in a NYC bar, and then he laughed as his goons roughed her boyfriend up for defending her. By goons I mean 6'6" meatheads. We pried them apart and got thrown out. This was over 20 odd years ago in his MTV days prior to Comedy Central.

Cancel culture anyone?

 

[huskyrob1]

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?

Harry Reasoner........falling down drunk at Tommy's Bar in Fairfield many years ago.

 

[scotty0330]

Everybody hurts.

Well played

 

[8893]

Harry Reasoner........falling down drunk at Tommy's Bar in Fairfield many years ago.

I met him around 30 years ago on Martha's Vineyard and he couldn't have been nicer.

One of my brothers had bought a used 1974 BMW 2002 from Reasoner's daughter in CT (Westport iirc). Soon thereafter, that brother managed to get the car sideswiped by an 18-wheeler, which scraped up the entire passenger's side pretty badly. He didn't want the car any more after that and sold it to me for something like $500.

I loved the car--despite the scraped-up side--and brought it out to the Vineyard, where I was living and working that summer. Harry Reasoner came in with a group of people to eat at the restaurant where I was tending bar, so I had the waitress bring him a drink on the house and tell him it was from the bartender who owned his daughter's old BMW. He came up to the bar to thank me afterwards and was very gracious. He laughed about the car, said he had bought it for her, and that she wanted to sell it once the heat stopped working. I told him the heat turned out to be a cheap fix, but the car had been side-swiped since.

I recall he was wearing a green sports coat that looked like the one you get when you win the Masters.

When the car finally died I kept it at my parent's house and put an ad in the Bargain News to sell it for parts. I actually made money on that deal because so many people came by to buy certain original parts off it, and one guy finally took the whole thing away for my original purchase price even after it had been scavenged for weeks.

 

[August_West]

One of my brothers had bought a used 1974 BMW 2002 from Reasoner's daughter in CT

 

[huskyrob1]

I met him around 30 years ago on Martha's Vineyard and he couldn't have been nicer.

One of my brothers had bought a used 1974 BMW 2002 from Reasoner's daughter in CT (Westport iirc). Soon thereafter, that brother managed to get the car sideswiped by an 18-wheeler, which scraped up the entire passenger's side pretty badly. He didn't want the car any more after that and sold it to me for something like $500.

I loved the car--despite the scraped-up side--and brought it out to the Vineyard, where I was living and working that summer. Harry Reasoner came in with a group of people to eat at the restaurant where I was tending bar, so I had the waitress bring him a drink on the house and tell him it was from the bartender who owned his daughter's old BMW. He came up to the bar to thank me afterwards and was very gracious. He laughed about the car, said he had bought it for her, and that she wanted to sell it once the heat stopped working. I told him the heat turned out to be a cheap fix, but the car had been side-swiped since.

I recall he was wearing a green sports coat that looked like the one you get when you win the Masters.

When the car finally died I kept it at my parent's house and put an ad in the Bargain News to sell it for parts. I actually made money on that deal because so many people came by to buy certain original parts off it, and one guy finally took the whole thing away for my original purchase price even after it had been scavenged for weeks.

Nice story, he wasn't a bad guy, very smart too. I'm sure he appreciated the drink. Both him and Mike Wallace were regulars at Tommy's. Roger Grimsby and Tex Antoine use to pop in on occasion also.

 

[Drame]

Giselle is super nice. I worked with her a bunch before she got together with Tom. We were in St Barts and our entire photo crew was supposed to go out to dinner but me and Giselle were the only ones who showed up.. so I had a nice romantic dinner with her.

 

[uconnfan68]

Giselle is super nice. I worked with her a bunch before she got together with Tom. We were in St Barts and our entire photo crew was supposed to go out to dinner but me and Giselle were the only ones who showed up.. so I had a nice romantic dinner with her.

Did you get lucky?

 

[huskyinfl]

OJ Simpson. First of all his head is like 2x bigger than a normal skull. Massive. Met him when he was hosting that rap concert in East Hartford post murder. Total murderer. Concert never happened.

 

[Ratso]

when i lived in lower manhattan, it was like hollywood but nobody cared.

 

[Smp7598]

I have really enjoyed this thread and am impressed, but geez the best I can do is Gerry Brooks (who)?lol

 

[gtcam]

I never met him but, when I think of "jerk", I think Steve Martin.

I met him at the old Honnis's Oyster House in Hartford - he couldn't have been nicer - I worked at the bank next door and knew the staff very well - they told him that I was a huge fan (not really but wanted to get an autograph for my best friend) so he invited me to sit with him and his friend until their food was served. We talked a good 20 minutes and most of it was sports related - he knew college basketball and baseball

 

[Viet Vet]

Didn't act like a jerk..........................but he sure thumped me.

Shortly after completing Army Basic Training in the summer of 1969, I was alone in the gym one weekend at Ft. Dix, NJ, shooting hoops, when another soldier walked in and began warming up at the other end of the court. After a few minutes, I asked him if he'd like to go one-on-one.

Having played some college ball, I thought it reasonable that I'd give him a fair challenge. He graciously let me go first, and I scored right away. Then he took over, hitting ten consecutive long-range jumpers, for a very quick 10-1 victory.

We then talked briefly of our military duties. I was soon to report for Artillery OCS; he was doing his summer training as a reservist. After introducing myself, I discovered why I had been so thoroughly shellacked. His name..........................Wes Bialosuknia.

 

[YellowMamba]

I ran into Mateen Cleaves (Michigan State) and Eddie Robinson (former Chicago Bull) at All-Star's (strip club near Chicago)...I said what's up and shook his hand. Seemed like a pretty chill dude...that's about it...

 

[freescooter]

Back in the day before wives, kids, houses etc. I was a pretty good golfer. Got to play in a pro-am with a guy who won a few PGA tour events. He was absolutely miserable. Barely grunted. One guy in our group hit a shot into a really tough spot and asked the pro what he would do in that situation. His only response: take up tennis. Then just walked away. We got to the end of the round and he just left. Didn’t say good bye, good game nothing. He was in contention for a major a few years later. I was rooting for him to hit one into a lake and he did.

 

[2PointGuards]

Reggie Jackson - biggest ever. Totally self absorbed. Tony Kubek, greatest guy ever; will talk baseball with you all day.

 

[scotty0330]

Reggie Jackson - biggest ever. Totally self absorbed. Tony Kubek, greatest guy ever; will talk baseball with you all day.

I had a buddy who is a huge yankee fan and used to work sports card shows who has identical take on mr October. Also said Jim rice was a surprisingly great guy very down to earth.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Joe Dimaggio was also unpleasant. That's a pretty well-known fact, but I'll add my own confirmation.

Did you meet him at dinky donuts?

 

[Waquoit]

Reggie Jackson - biggest ever. Totally self absorbed. Tony Kubek, greatest guy ever; will talk baseball with you all day.

This is as unsurprising as it gets. Talking baseball with Kubek sounds like a treat.