Who is the best/worst celebrity to have on board?
 

Thought it might be interesting to see if any names crop up regularly as the biggest a$$holes from the wealthier and more well known members of the general public. Furthermore, who are those individuals who manage to combine fame with normality? Who deserves to be adored by their 'inflight servants' and who should be barred from coming within 100 miles of a commercial aircraft?

From my point of view Colin Farrell should be barred from ALL public places after a nasty incident whilst in a hotel in marrakech. Myself and crew were sat down beside the pool when the man himself, Colin 'Flasher' Farrell walked out of the hotel and proceeded to flash his bits in our general direction. After that, I didnt fancy eating the nuts that was to have been my dinner!

On the other hand, Teddy Sheringham was on a flight last year and sat down (in economy) beside two star-struck late-teenage guys. Having spotted their awe, he introduced himself and proceeded to talk football with them for the entire two hour flight. Humility at its best, if only the rest were the same...

So come on, we've all had so called celebs on board, lets hear more nice/nightmarish stories......

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Elle/Gibson
 

By far the biggest prima donna Ever encountered has to be Elle Macpherson."The Body" insists on being spoken to in French and in a recent little hissy fit was upset because the free first class pyjamas provided weren`t available in the colour she wanted.
On the other hand actor/director Mel Gibson has to be the nicest.Sometimes he can`t sleep and parks himself in the P class galley for a chat and an exchange of jokes.A thorough gentleman.

Any celebrity who thinks they are a celebrity is one too many, in my humble opinion.

They may be famous, but that makes them no more special than my/your Gran. A thankfully small number come under the heading "Don't you know who I am, give me a free upgrade/etc"

Many years ago I met Roger Whitaker (a Radio 2 crooner of the day) - he was at the peak of his success, and delightfull. I was 18 and more into the Stranglers - but he was happy to sign autographs for the ladies serving in the Stansted canteen (it was an old Nissen Hut, seriously).

Nicest believe it or not was the rocker Alice Cooper. WORST - Betty Ford - President Fords wife.

Worst for me was agony aunt Claire Raynor!

and the best ...WET WET WET, Victoria Wood and the travel lady herself Judith Chalmers..Fab!:ok:

Have to disagree about Elle MacPherson - I have had her on several flights and she was as quiet as a church mouse. Though admittedly, no pyjamas were offered and I don't speak a word of French. She did drink French champagne though, does that count?

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Best celebrity would definitely be Tom Jones. He's a sweetheart and a really nice guy. Shame his entourage weren't as nice.

Kylie Minogue was also a sweetie. Signed autographs and had photos taken with the kids that were on board and was very gracious and polite.

SG
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I agree with mach2male.. I had Mel Gibson on my flight many moons ago when he was commuting to his country farm in Oz... he was delightful & the lucky female pax he was sitting next to, chatting & sharing cigs with, just floated off the A/C in a wonderful daze when she disembarked.

My Dad always raved about Ayrton Senna being the best passenger he ever had.

He got on, asked for a glass of water and slept all the way back to Rio.

Model passenger.

Freddy Star
 

Flew down from ABN to LHR with Freddy Star onboard. Hate him as a TV star, but he could not have been nicer with the passengers. Never thought Freddy Star and the word Gentleman could go together.

A while back we flew Kylie Minogue on a BizJet and when she left she signed autographs for the crew and gave them all a copy of her latest album!!!

Qantas Favorite
 

No 1 good guy and nice person = Pat Rafter, and great tennis player

Worst = Danny "dish pig" Minogue, dirty little bitch who will never be her sisters equal

Misunderstood = Mr Marshall Mathers M&M, after chatting with him for 40 minutes during the flight from SYD to MEL, (very light load) I think he has 2 personality's 1 real 1 and a hard core rapper that makes millions talking trash, opion great guy who is alot smarter than most would think

Mother Teresa
 

We had Mother Teresa on flight Milan-New York in 1995.
need I say we upgraded her to business/first.
quiet as a mouse... Bless.

Julia Roberts business/first same route and year, asked for water.
gave her a lg bottle... not a peep.



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A month or so ago was on a flight with Timothy Dalton. What a miserable tw@t. Grumpy, unsociable, couple of PAX asked for an autograph and begrudginly gave it to them. He was travelling economy though on LHR/LAX so the film world have obviously realised he can't act.

Edited as I put the wrong one in the post.

Best: Kylie Minogue, Paul Keating (!!!). Jimmy Barnes was pretty nice.
Worst - Hazel Hawke (ex-PM's wife) - a right nasty bitch. Aerosmith - a group of precious has-beens - refused to talk to punters, sign autographs etc. Actually requested a crewmember to stand at the F/Y bulkhead to ensure that no-one would walk past them
I've also heard the same stories about Elle McP.

Eddie Izzard was a great passenger, very polite, very funny and very interested in aviation. Oh yeah, and he was wearing the most FM FM boots I have ever seen, and an enormous pair of comedy knockers!

Liz hurley was really nice on a flight from JFK to LHR as were Ant and Dec on the way back from OZ after filming I'm a celebrity !

Interesting - a mate had the seat next to Aryton Senna on an overnight flight and they chatted for hours. Said he was a really pleasant and interesting guy. His kid was furious because he didn't get an autograph, but dad said that would have spoilt it.

And he now has a PPL.

last year we had the AJAX (dutch) football team on they thought they were gods gift, however as im not into football and neither were the crew we thought it was actuaslly AJAX as in the cleaning materials company, altho one of them did sign a autograph for a girl, inbetween the grunts for drinks, then for pure delight i had to do the flight back to AMS with them all the pax thought it was fab, shame we werent star struck

also this year have had anthony warrel thomson on a flight, he got on smiled said his hello he had a G&T and then fell asleep so he was nice.

Another crew of ours had atomic kitten on and also ronan keating both were said to be polite n friendly, so as far to say all encouters ive had with any celeb have been pretty much ok

Only celeb I've had onboard was a rather unwilling individual - 4 people had to almost pull/push him onboard. Enroute he was kicking quite a lot, making funny noises, was not at all pleased with the catering and proceeded to crap all over the place. Someone paid him 500K Euro for a single performance at the German Grand Prix, and we got to fly him back and forth on a charter.

Ah well, when you're a GBP 10M race horse called Mahmoud, is worth more than the aeroplane, and is employed by the Gadolphin stable, I suppose most things go. At least he didn't kick me, the smelly bastard.