When a celebrity in person really underwhelms you

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Anonymous wrote:Met Prince Harry about 7 years ago and was completely underwhelmed.

Why?

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Anonymous wrote:We sat next to The Office's "Roy" at The Greenbrier. He was sitting with 2 agent/manager types and they blew smoke up his ass for the entire dinner about how big a star he was, etc. Pitiful.



This summer, I rode in an elevator with Keifer Sutherland in a hotel. He was talking to his woman friend about a hotel worker who clearly loved his job, very complimentary. He was dressed very nicely, and shorter than me (I'm 5'8") He gave me a sweet smile in the lobby area. I think he's a good one.

Saw Diana Ross at an fancy event a few years ago. As the lunch was breaking up and people were leaving, she was ranting & raving about something to her assistant, loudly. It was so awkward and I was embarrassed for her (and the assistant). Paul McCartney was at the same event and couldn't have been more gracious, including taking photos with fans, even though NOBODY was doing that in the room.

I met Keifer Sutherland before. He was a speaker at a conference I helped organize, so I was backstage with him. Nice guy, very down to earth.

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Saw Jon Bon Jovi at a ski lodge out West. Tiny, hot and was so sweet interacting with his kids.

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I once saw Kerry Washington and her then boyfriend David Moscow at an airport. So this was a while ago and she was not as famous then. I literally thought they were normal people and didn’t pay any attention. They were dressed down. DH noticed they were reading scripts and then we figured out who they were. DH seriously has a “gift” for recognizing famous people lol. If I notice a celeb looks familiar, I sit around trying to figure how I know that person - did we go to HS together? College?

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I've met and hung out with Katy Perry a few times. She's a friend of a friend. She can be very generous but also very self centered.

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I met bill murray at a restaurant in dc during the 08 Obama inauguration. He was exactly what you would expect - it was pure bill murray. He was nice when we said hi, took pics even, and was totally goofy cracking jokes like he does, with that flat affect at the same time haha.

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I was at a work event and had to interact with Jessica Biehl. She was totally underwhelming. Not at all attractive and had the intelligence of a box of rocks (with my apologies to the rocks).

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Anonymous wrote:I worked with a lot of celebrities during their book stores. I worked for a company that contracted their promotional tours. A lot of the celebrities that are "dumb" are work horses and have really smart people around them and they are smart enough to listen and thus very rich. Britney Spears comes to mind, she wrote a small advice type book with her mom in the late 1990s. She really really works. And had a very detailed agenda that she highlighted each thing as accomplished. Always was on time, answer my calls, would write things down and very polite. Worked with her about 3 years ago for a very small promotional gig in a much more distant compactly but everyone said the same thing. Once again answer calls, always on time, wore what was asked of her and memorized down to the word anything asked of her to repeat. Teresa Guidice is also like this. She had a cookbook that my company promoted. Same thing. Not super smart but willing to do anything asked of her. Always on time, writes everything down, polite. She also is very blunt when she doesn't understand something and she is willing to learn it. Memorization is a strength of hers etc etc. I really respect a lot of these women that people are quick to trash. The reality is if you can get a cotton candy book deal, something that's all fluff, its because you have a brand but are willing to WORK. Book tours are not glamorous at all. Sitting in dying Borders in Eastern PA from 9 to 1 and 2 to 7 and maybe even 8 to 10 isn't easy.

So which one underwhelmed you? That is the topic you replied to.

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Anonymous wrote:I was at a work event and had to interact with Jessica Biehl. She was totally underwhelming. Not at all attractive and had the intelligence of a box of rocks (with my apologies to the rocks).

Biel?
What were you saying about rocks?

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Anonymous wrote:Rob Lowe is almost a Little Person. A hot Little Person, but so tiny!

He's 5'10". You must be very tall.

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Anonymous wrote:Eminem was a dick

Oh no! How so?

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Anonymous wrote:Patrick Dempsey stayed at the same hotel we did for a vacation. He was better looking in person. But looked super grumpy!

How is it even possible that he looked better in person? God is he hot!

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Randomly ended up alone with Reese Witherspoon as she waited to go into a movie premiere in New York. I was cutting through an alley and she was waiting by the back door. She was absolutely adorable. So sweet and very very tiny (and she’s not thought of as one of the tiny or actresses in Hollywood).

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Anonymous wrote:Rob Lowe is almost a Little Person. A hot Little Person, but so tiny!

He's 5'10". You must be very tall.

Male actors always add an inch or two to their bio.

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Kanye West is pretty short, I’d guess about 5’6”. I met him briefly years and years ago when he was first becoming famous. He was quiet, shy, a little standoffish.

My dad has met a few politicians in his line of work. He always rants about John Kasich. He said he’s short and angry.