"Threw An iPad At Me Across A Restaurant": 57 Celebrities Who Acted Like Total Jerks To Fans

My sister witnessed this at Star Trek Las Vegas. We are not fans of William Shatner, but he earned a W with this.

His line is notoriously long because he’s incredibly famous and he undercharges for a signature (relative to what he could be charging). So he has to go fast to make sure everyone in the line gets their signature.

Guy’s turn. The Shat diligently starts to sign the guy’s photo. Guy says “you son of a b, you’re not even going to look up at me?” Shatner pauses, looks up at the guy, looks down at the photo, finishes his signature. Then, calm as can be, looks the guy in the eye, and rips the signed photo in half. Handlers moved the guy along as he hangs his head.

Yeah it's bad how these lines can be a churn and you don’t actually get to talk to the celeb. Shatner CAN be an arrogant, rude jerk, but if you say a respectful greeting, he will respond in kind. If you start a conversation by calling someone a son of a b, expect that energy returned.

Long time ago I did a lot of catering work in LA so I met a lot of famous people.

One time I worked a party that was in the backyard of some big wig producer’s house and I remember it was hot AF that day so all of the staff were really struggling.

The party was full of A-listers and for some reason Tom Arnold was there and was trying to make other guests laugh by berating the staff and making jokes about our appearance.

At one point I had to stop of my friends, who was a tough as nails Aussie, from kicking his bum.

Anyway, I witnessed Arnold Schwarzenegger pull Tom aside and give him what looked like a stern talking to. He literally looked like he was going to poo his pants.

Afterwards Tom came over and apologized to us all.

I met buzz aldrin. He seemed really arrogant. After I introduced myself he says. "I'm buzz aldrin, the 2nd man on the moon. Neil before me".

Barry Bonds when he was at the All Star game in San Diego. He still played for the Pirates. I was a kid and he was walking past me and I asked him for an autograph. It wasn’t that he said no, he had to be a jerk about it.

Nicest was Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince (James Avery). It was a friends birthday party and we left an ice cream shop. There were a group of us boys, we were in 6th or 7th grade, when Fresh Prince was in its heyday. We were walking down the street and saw Uncle Phil walking his massive dog (some sort of Irish Wolfhound) that was almost as big as we were. We ran across the street yelling “UNCLE PHIL!!” He laughed as we approached and didn’t even correct us with his real name—was totally cool with us calling him Uncle Phil. He was so gracious and kind to a bunch of annoying kids. He talked with us for a few minutes, answered all our questions, and was so nice. Just a genuinely good person.

Danny DeVito and Jon Stewart.

Was very impressed with how professional Danny was. Bumped into him and despite crowds of people starting to surround him and his security, he still took time to take pictures. Felt bad he couldn't just take a stroll, but he handled it as calmly and nice as he could have.

Jon Stewart held the door open for me as I was entering the movie theater. Found out from my dad who worked at Chik-fil-A in the mall he had served Stewart earlier. Said he was kind and appreciative my dad got him in and out as he didn't want to be spotted.

They were not rude at all.

Speaking on behalf of my dad here- who worked at the largest airport in my country.

Rudest famous person he ever met was Kanye. As the story went- Kanye was flying commercial like 15 something years ago and was being flocked by a huge group of people in the main terminal building. My dad was trying to walk from the one gate to a gate a few down to drop off some of the flight documents at the gate desk. He walked through the crowd as the security guys let him through and apparently bumped into Kanye himself who kindly said to him “get the f out of my way man, what are you doing? are you an idiot?”

Keep in mind my dad had never heard of him before and couldn’t have cared less who he was. He only founded out after.

Nicest famous person he ever met was Michelle Obama. She went out of her way to approach the ground crew guys who were standing way off to the side as she was disembarking to say hello, ask how they were doing, and said thank you and told them to take care.

Van Morrison threw an iPad at me across a restaurant where I worked once. Had to duck to avoid getting domed. That guy is the grumpiest mf I have ever met.

Tommy Lee Jones has earned all of the spit that has gone in his food by servers over the years.

Bob Barker.

My mom worked for CBS back in the day (the Television City lot where they taped all the game shows and soap operas). I was around 7 years old and there on some Bring Your Child To Work day thing and all the hosts/ main actors were doing a meet and greet with guests over lunch.

I loved the Price as Right so I asked to meet Bob Barker. I was shuffled around by producers and they finally walked me up to him and said, “Bob. This little girl is a big fan of yours and wants to know if you will give her your autograph!”

He looked at me then back at the producer and said, “Get this brat out of my my face! I said I didn’t want to meet any freaking kids!!”
Then he SHOVED ME back toward the producer.

She ran me out of there crying and told me he was a grumpy old man and not to take it personally. She took me to meet Vanna White instead, who wound up being the sweetest! She let me turn the letter boxes on the Wheel of Fortune puzzle board to cheer me up!

Katherine Heigl tried to get me fired for sending her to the wrong floor when the information she gave me was incorrect.

Luckily my manager just laughed in her face.

She called corporate and tried to get him fired too.

Dwayne Johnson before he became a movie star, I saw him once at a WWE meet and greet, I was the first in line, when the meet and greet started he and the staff pulled me out of the line and told me to go to the very back. I asked why, and he literally said “to teach me a lesson not everything is fair in life”. I was 17. Anyway, I got put in the line at the very back, there was like 100 of us. There was 2 people ahead of me and I was already conflicted about how I felt. When it got to my turn, he got up and left. I was the last kid in line, and at least one staff member came to me and apologized and wasn’t sure why that happened. But that’s it.

Ngl, I was 17, but that situation made me cry on my way back home. I’ve hated him since, f him.

UPDATE: Wow, I did not expect this response!

I’m sort of embarrassed that my personal story has gotten this my attention, but shout out to everyone with the kind words and support, 17 year old me would have felt less alone dealing with it back then. For those asking, I’m doing great. This played with my head for a bit when I was younger, but it was so long ago that I don’t even think about it anymore. Also one of those things that happens to you that you’re too embarrassed to tell anyone, so only few close friends and family know. The only true way it affected me is that I never let myself be first in line to anything anymore, even to this day, I always let someone ahead of me if I’m waiting in line for a product launch for example and I’m first in line.

Appreciate you guys, and I hope no kid ever has to experience the knots I felt when I left that day empty handed with nothing but a bad memory.

Chris Brown, but really is anyone surprised by that?

Katy Perry. Rude af to me, my fellow bartender, the room service attendants that were unlucky enough to interact with her, and the hotel staff that catered to her every ridiculous demand. She downright accused me of making her drink “weak” even though we do a standard 2oz liquor pour instead of a 1.5 like everyone else, and as such, we up the other components in our cocktails to create a balanced cocktail. It was during covid and she insisted on removing her face mask wherever she went so that we all knew who she was. She was insufferable and also cheap af. didn’t even leave 20%. Her then-husband Orlando Bloom, however, was actually very very nice. Super friendly and down-to-earth and didn’t like to have attention drawn to himself (and was also a great tipper). The only thing I liked during Katy’s stay was a line from my co-worker about the employee elevators being shut down to accommodate Katy so she didn’t have to use the main elevators. His exact words when we learned that we couldn’t use the employee elevators were “Really? For Katy Perry? I thought it was for a -real- celebrity. 🙄”. The employee in question being a 50+ year old man made it even funnier. but yeah we could not wait for her to leave.

To go against the thread but the nicest celeb I've met is John Cena. He came into the hospital I worked at years ago pretty frequently to do the make a wish stuff. We had a number of famous people over the years come through so I left him alone. I kept seeing him in the Starbucks line behind me and he finally, after the 3rd time this happened, clapped me on the back and said "we have to stop meeting this way!"

Lovely in every way. 10/10 would have a little convo with him in a Starbucks line again. No notes.

Jesse Jackson. I was walking through a fancy hotel in DC and he was standing outside one of the ballrooms in a lobby area by himself. No one else around and as I was walking by I caught his eye, so I smiled and said, “hello, how are you Rev Jackson?” He turned and gave me one of those looks - up and down, top to bottom, you know, kinda sizing me up. He sneered and turned away like I was disgusting to him somehow. Made a very deliberate turn to show me his back and refused to acknowledge me in any way. Just a pompous, arrogant jerk.

F you, JJ. You put your pants on one leg at a time just like me, you jerk-canoe.

I bumped into Ron Jeremy in an elevator at the Hard Rock hotel in Vegas and he was nicer than you. Slimy, sleezy old hedgehog was a better human being than you.

Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon both horrible .. treat everyone as beneath them.

Adam Driver.. so nice

Johnny Cash and June Carter were two of the nicest, down to earth people that genuinely took an interest in others and would be very generous with their time.

The late Anthony Bourdain was very cool as is Jack White.

Feel free to take this with a grain of salt as this happened in the mid 90's; I was at the Pacific Science Center with my mother and a friend of mine to see a live show for Bill Nye the Science Guy; afterwards he was doing a meet and greet and he told me and my friend to "go play in traffic" so he could hit on my mother.

I have the opposite story. In the nineties Willie Nelson was playing a show in our city and my kids friend worked the venue. So the kid is backstage doing whatever and he walks into a room that he thought was another room and accidentally walked in on Willie and about 10 people sitting around smoking blunts. He quickly apologized and goes to leave and Willie lifted his blunt to the kid and said “Don’t be sorry kid, come in and smoke with us”. The kid said “Naw I’m working” and left.

Another story: A friend of mine worked backstage at a Grateful Dead show and a band member asked him to guard the door because a bunch of people kept coming in and going through the room to go out another door. So he’s standing there and there’s a knock on the door. Mind you my friend was not a deadhead and did not know what they looked like. Anyway he opens the door and explains to Jerry Garcia that he can’t come in and Jerry just grins and says “I’m with the band”.

Mark Wahlberg. Parks his car in the middle of a busy hotel driveway and refuses to give valet his keys. Nobody does that. Not the billionaire owner that is there daily. Insane level of entitlement.

I asked David Carradine for his autograph and he told me to frick off. I was ten years old.