I think it is fair enough though.

When I was 5 my family went to see Gladiators. It was horrible - all the events happened at the same time, nothing was commentated and you could barely see a thing from our seats.

Anyway, Vulcan was walking back into the dressing room bit after one of his events, and heaps of kids (myself included) ran down to lean over the banisters and ask for his autograph. He gave us all the finger.

My best friend's brother tells me he's now a security guard at the Wollongong Reject Shop.

My best friend's brother tells me he's now a security guard at the Wollongong Reject Shop.

In the early 00's he was a bouncer at some club in the Cross.

Always best served cold anna.

No don't say that about Vulcan! He was a television treasure back in those days.

In my younger days I sat outside the stage door at the Forum waiting for Silverchair to arrive for their soundcheck mid-arvo ahead of a gig that night (it was just before Neon Ballroom was released, I think). My best friend and I, as well as about 15 to 20 others, literally sat there for hours. At about 4pm a van pulled up and the band jumped out. We all had cameras at the ready and CDs/tshirts to get signed. Daniel Johns walked straight ahead, through the side door, not making eye contact with anyone and refusing to acknowledge any of the fans (who were very well behaved considering we were all about 15 years old). I was shattered.

I always find it moderately amusing that AFL players are taught how to be nice to fans and to never refuse an autograph hunter, but B-grade TV stars and musos can tell people to fuck off and get away with it.

That doesn'r surprise me about Johns but Ben and Chris seem like nice guys

Ben and Chris smiled at people but none of them signed a single autograph.

Seriously, way to disappoint a bunch of kids.

I also then ran into Daniel Johns and Paul Mac at Pony years later after they'd played a Dissociatives gig. They were both fuckheads and they managed to weasel their way onto our couch and hassled us for a cigarette lighter. Daniel was wearing a pair of sunglasses with one lens missing.

Anyone remember Cookie from A Country Practice?
I loved Cookie and spotted him in the Hervey Bay Plaza. I run up to him screaming COOKIE!
He totally stiffed me by pretending I wasn't even there.

Fuck you for doing that, Cookie.

Who would known Steve Coogan was more up for photos and autograps coming in and out of the same door!

I told dale from the castle (stephen curry) that i had dug another hole once, but he loved it.

fakeplasticme said 42 seconds ago:

I also then ran into Daniel Johns and Paul Mac at Pony years later after they'd played a Dissociatives gig. They were both fuckheads and they managed to weasel their way onto our couch and hassled us for a cigarette lighter. Daniel was wearing a pair of sunglasses with one lens missing.

they were at Pony when hcg played there about 4 or 5 years ago - two songs in and they're gone hahaha i don't think hell city glamours was their bag lol

i got coldly ignored by pavement's stephen malkmus upon being introduced to him after a concert, and since then i keep noticing how conceited he looks in pictures

and spiral stairs was rude about adelaide, so he can fuck off too

mark ibold gets my smiley prize

team ham sandwich said 6 seconds ago:

I told dale from the castle (stephen curry) that i had dug another hole once, but he loved it.

that's so cool!!!!

I remember a friend telling me about a relatively well-known British journo friend of his who had been a Smiths/Morrissey fan all her life and who one day finally got to meet Morrissey.

Morrissey shook her hand, but her hand was very sweaty as she was so nervous, and after the handshake Morrissey looked at his hand in disgust and walked off.

Hey Mo, I just realised that I was there to see HCG that night... it was the same night! Absolute arseholes the pair of 'em.

I met Daniel Johns in Brisbane. It was closing time and the owner closed the doors only to let a few of us stay back to drink etc. He was such a wanker! He was kissing all the babes and asked if anyone had any drugs... This is TRUE! Some dude said that he had some panadol and Daniel asked if he could have them and he chewed them up and swallowed them.

This was only about two years ago.

Ben (from the band) ended up dragging his ass back to their hotel room because they had a show the following night.

It was so weird!

hahaha i thought it mighta been that night!

i took it as a compliment :-)

Now that I would have paid to see.

One Australian muso threatened to headbutt me but funny enough I hadnt even approached him at that point. Thats an ongoing saga

Another Aussie muso, when asked for an autograph by a 12 year old I next to me drunkenly pushed her aside and said ''nah my girlfriend knows karate''.

Generally lead singers can be total knobs which lead to my bassist fettish.

In saying that there are plenty of really nice people out there

Actually, Glenn Shorrock was the uncredited writer of 'I Wanna Be Sedated'. He couldn't join the Ramones due to his lack of hair.

dj said 3 days ago:
I was walking down Pitt St one day years ago and saw Dave Grohl walking the other direction. I put my hand in the air and yelled 'Dave', he smiled and gave me a high five. Champion.

same thing happened to my brother with Billy Connelly walking over the bridge at Southgate

hahahaha, strange. My brother was rattling tins for amnesty international on that bridge and asked Billy Connelly ''spare a donation, Billy?'' and promptly got told to fuck off. My brother hates him to this day.

I hate professional tin rattlers too.

I hate to be a cynic, but, I'm not really sure why people suddenly decide a celebrity is a cunt because they didn't talk to someone they don't know. For $20 you get their CD - what you dont get is entitlement to their time whenever and wherever you decide is the appropriate moment

Don't get me wrong, it's great if they do do something nice and have a chat, or stand for a photo, but why should they be obligated to stop what they're doing because someone they've never met and probably will never meet again has approached them on a random street, or in a restaurant, etc. Just remember, unless they're being introduced to you, or for some reason have decided to meet you - they're actually doing something when you rock up asking for them to stand still for a photo or to sign a piece of paper that you're never going to look at after a week.

In saying, that, I've had some good experinces with Warren Ellis (stopped for a photo at ATP), The Living End (they signed a setlist that I knew my friend would love), Nick Cave (though really, I would have been happier if he'd told me to fuck off then knocked me out, but I guess saying 'How are ya mate?'to a 17 year old kid is nice enough...) and others that I cant remember (because really, meeting celebrities randomly is pretty forgettable).

Chatting with a fan = cool
Not chatting with a fan = worse things in the world.

/devils advocate

anyone who ever referred to themselves as a celebrity would need to be fairly quick out of the blocks to get a fuck off out before i said it to them. fucking celebrities.

great thread. A+

would need to be fairly quick out of the blocks to get a fuck off out

hahaha gold

toadphoney said 3 hours ago:
Nice one dickhead - that was ossie ostrich. Joey ramone would be turning in his grave if he heard you get john farnham and ossie ostrich muddled up.

POTD

I remember John Farnham giving autographs to my class when we were on a plane trip to Noumea when I was twelve. He did that wink and ''ck, ck'' sound you do when he gave it back. Can't hate the cunt.

i love this thread. pure entertainment.

I saw Dean Jones and Paul Reiffel walking to cricket training near the G, back in the day...I was about 9 and totally lost my shit and screamed out 'jjjooooooonnnessseeyyy''' he fucking loved it and signed a few autographs, reiffel hated it and kept walking...now he's an umpire - what a dick

i stood next to paul reiffel at a urinal.

pistol is an appropriate nickname.

Funny Paul Reiffel is mentioned... I was at a shield match sitting near the pavillion about 10 years ago and this kid gave Reiffel a pat on the back as he was on his way back to the pavillion after being dismissed.
Reiffel responded by hitting the kid in the back with his bat in a pretty vicious manner. Have to say, I thought it was funny at the time but now the term ''child abuse'' comes to mind.
I got Warney's autograph as well as he was outside of the pavillion for a lot of the day smoking. He signed autographs for me and my mates.

oh man i used to go to the shield all the time when i was a kid.

warney got out for about 8 once, and soon after making it back inside the sound of something crashing and a monsterous 'FUCK' could be heard. top marks.

i asked damien fleming for an autograph once and he seemed genuinely suprised and chuffed.

other than that, i got a real filthy look from joe scully off neighbours once. almost counts. surely toady has told someone here to fuck off?

i saw geoff lawson in the showers at the SCG gym once, i feel it would have been a particularly inappropriate point at which to tell him i loved his work

i totally agree with everything sister has said in this thread

Ben Lee was rude to me at Nic Dalton's 30th. As in, my band wasn't famous enough for him so I wasn't worth talking to. I had to make conversation with the cunt because we were seated next to each other and he pretended not to hear me. He was aged about seven, too.

Well, I was rude to Lee (unknowingly, it seems) at the Hoey, though, so in a thread reversal, it was an instance of nobodies telling celebrities to fuck off.

(Well, the phrase was ''insufferable cunt'' but still...)

Strangely I was asked for my autograph once at a gig by some young dudes....cos I was with the band that played called S.U.X whom they excitedly got autographs from...bit of a crack up it was...

Met Jarryd Roughead at the cricket the other day. Really nice guy. Shame he's just as ugly in real life than he is on telly.