Clearly, Kate Winslet relieved herself in the cornflakes of an editor of either Radar or Star Magazine, because this is SECOND “Kate Winslet is a massive bitch” story to come out in a week’s time, and both stories originate in the Star/Radar family. Last week’s story was all about Kate being rude to the locals of a small Massachusetts town where her new movie, Labor Day, is filming. Locals ran to Star Magazine to claim that Winslet was throwing bitchfaces at everybody and that she wouldn’t even deign to wave or smile at any of the dozens/hundreds of people who were looking forward to meeting her. This week’s story is all about Kate being rude to yet more fans – this time on a Virgin Atlantic flight. Quick sidenote: Virgin Atlantic is the British airline company owned by Sir Richard Branson, who is the uncle of Kate Winslet’s boyfriend/lover, Ned RockNRoll. This sidenote was just to let you know that Kate and Ned were probably traveling for free, because that totally makes a difference in the story:
Kate Winslet is one of the biggest movie stars on the planet, but RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned the actress isn’t very friendly off-screen and even brushed off two teenage fans. While flying on a Virgin Atlantic flight on June 11 from London to Boston, fellow first-class cabin fliers Susan Roberts and her two daughters Katie, 17, and Jenny, 14, noticed the Titanic star sitting just ahead of them and were saddened when they were snubbed by Kate.
“My two daughters asked for an autograph about half an hour into the six and a half hour flight and she told them she would come back later and visit. Well, that never happened,” Susan exclusively told RadarOnline.com. “It was very sad that she couldn’t be bothered.”
However, Susan said a flight attendant did come back to tell the girls Kate would autograph a book for them, but that she would have to make the exchange — which she did for them.
“I am sad that she told the girls she’d visit with them. She could have just said she didn’t give autographs and the girls would have understood,” Susan explained. “They would have been disappointed but not disillusioned.”
The experience has changed Katie and Jenny’s affection for one of their favorite actresses, Susan said.
“My daughters have dumped their Titanic and The Holiday DVDs vowing never to watch her movies again,” Susan revealed.
Susan also told RadarOnline.com that she’s flown Virgin Atlantic in the past and usually has great service, but that with Kate on the flight the attendants were preoccupied in making sure her every need was met and other passengers were ignored.
“It was also sad that the usually excellent service through Virgin Atlantic was nonexistent as the flight attendants spent the majority of their time providing Ms. Winslet with food, tea and alcohol and the rest of the first class cabin was left to fend for itself,” Susan said. “The flight attendants even blocked the aisle where Kate was sitting.”
As RadarOnline.com previously reported, fans in Massachusetts claim they were also snubbed by Kate, 36, as they eagerly awaited her arrival on the set of Labor Day.
“Kate was so rude, she never once acknowledged any of us, I was devastated,” hopeful fan Shanna Swan told Star magazine. “She gave dirty looks to people in my town who waited hours to see her.”
OK, I didn’t quite get the thread of this random woman’s complaint. She went up to Kate and asked Kate to come and meet her children. Kate said “Sure, whatever” and a few hours later Kate sent a stewardess back to the woman and her daughters with an offer to autograph a book, which the woman accepted. But the woman was pissed off that her daughters didn’t get to actually meet Kate, and she’s whining about the flight attendant doing the autograph exchange? Seriously? Once again, I’m not a huge Kate fan or anything, but I don’t really think this incident is some example of her stone-cold bitchery.
However, I am fascinated by the details about the flight attendants waiting on Kate exclusively – that’s because of her connection to Richard Branson, correct? Well, well, well. Looks like dating Ned RockNRoll does have one benefit. Is it worth the trade-off? You get to travel in style for free… but you have to date Ned RockNRoll.
Also: Kate was just named a Commander of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth. It’s called a CBE, but I don’t think her title changes or anything – it’s not a knighthood or anything, is what I’m saying. So Kate’s not a Dame yet.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
Can you imagine what would happen if she starts signing stuff for a couple of girls and then the whole plane wants an autograph? People will ask for one just because someone else got one. I don’t blame Kate for sending the stewardess to do the exchange. Probably kept things from getting out of hand in a confined area.
Oh PULEASE. That is hogwash. Most people are not Justin Bieber or Chris Brown with extremely young and sometimes immature fans. I was once on a plane with some solid B almost A list celeb, only ONE person approached this celeb. ONE. and people knew who he was cuz we were all snickering. Most people are either too shy, don’t give a F, or just not interested. A lot of these more matured celebs overestimate their power. Unless it is a public type event where people are trying to hawk autographs to sell or just psycho fans waiting around, most normal people would NOT rush a celeb even if they are fans. Do you know how extremely awkward it feels for a NORMAL person to just walk up to a stranger and ask for their autograph no matter how “famous” that stranger is? Trust me, it is awkward as hell as there is always that possibility of rejection. No one likes rejection.
I don’t know. I’ve been in restaurants when a celeb is dining and as soon as one person gets the courage up to go ask for an autograph or a pic and it is provided by the celeb, the flood gates open and every man and his dog want their “moment” with the celebrity. There is little or no rest from the attention until they leave the premises. Imagine that in a confined space. And the peope I have seen are B list at best. Kate is A list, Oscar winner and was in one of the biggest and beloved films of all time. I could easilty see her getting rush and bothered for the length of the flight. And she would be much more approachable to general people than a Beibler who would be travelling with a team of people. And then there is the possiblity that she just wanted to fly where she was going and didn’t want to be the centre of attention. She isn’t the famewhore type and you rarely, if ever, hear bad stories about her.
Sorry, but I’ve seen people who I previously considered normal, intelligent human beings turn to idiots when celebs are around. And while its true that a lot of people won’t approach a celebrity for fear of rejection, that fear soon passes when they see someone else approach the celeb and get a favourable response. Its the same as that old scenario of people walking by a person lying on the street needing help…everyone passes until one person asks if they need help. Suddenly theres a crowd of folks rushing to help.
i agree with mel. personally i have seen/met several celebs but i never understood the autograph or picture thing, so dont bother them (i am more the creepy watcher in the distance lol). well, i kind of get the picture one, you and your idol, but a signature?
but i have seen so many people and friends of mine looking like 12 year old justin bieber fans because there is a guy from a show that is watched by 150,000 people.
i can also understand if they dont want to give autographs. everybody has bad days. its just that i think you should do more “autograph days” than no autograph days. those people paid your bills, that doesnt mean you should obey to their every wish but at least sometimes do a little favour. some small pic can cheer up someone for quite some time.
I was discussing something similar to what you said the other day with my husband. We were talking about people who approach celebs and how I’d feel very uncomfortable just approaching one like some people do who start charting them up like they’re old friends. My husband works on the Vegas strip so he see’s a LOT of celebs. Some have even approached him for info (his area looks like an info booth even though it’s not). He’s never star struck and treats them like regular people.
I just don’t understand the types that can walk up to a celeb and act like they’re owed something just because they’ve seen the celebs movies/concerts/whatever. I find it creepy that just because these people have seen the celebs in movies, they feel they “know” them.
Agree with one of the posters above, it gives permission for everyone to ask. It opens the flood gate and people feel comfortable to approach the celebrity. I’ve seen it. I was in Mexico City, and the Gallagher brothers (other members of Oasis present as well) were at the same tourist spot I was at, lol, and they were swamped because they talked to one fan. The crowd lost their shait. The brothers were very rude to the people wanting autographs, even openly mocking them, yet the crowd still surrounded them to get autographs. People lose their minds when famous people even give them a small iotta of attention.
Eh, she was well within her rights not to dance like a monkey for this woman, but I doubt the entire plane would be streaming into first class.
Gud call and well said shoes. celebraties particularly KATE should never feel selfish when approached by youngest girls.
seriously, she’s dating a dude with the name Ned RockNRoll which automatically earns some douche points for both.
she signed the autographs when she didn’t even have to do that, get over it. also, her hair looks like crap in these pictures.
they should have given her a big bowl of those cornflakes you mentioned
I don’t usually consider myself a superficial person, but I just can’t get past “RockNRoll”.
Wouldn’t a woman consider that a seriously red flag?
It was lovely of her to even remember the kids and make sure they were considered. People need to get over their sense of entitlement. I’m sure Kate’s extremely busy, and for all we know, the flight attendants were the ones trying to protect Kate, not necessarily at her request.
Still a fan of Kate’s.
Agreed. This to me is a non-story. She gave the child the autograph. If it were my child I would have been grateful for that and let it go.
Exactly. She said in an interview she trys to teach her kids good manners, especially because she is often favored, for example by flight attendants ;-). She makes sure her kids don’t take that for granted and I doubt she’s such a bitch. But who knows.
I’m not a fan of Kate’s but I agree that this is a non-story. Kate was decent enough to make sure the kids got their autographs, which was considerate of her.
The mother needs to get over her entitlement issues.
The mother said: “I am sad that she told the girls she’d visit with them. She could have just said she didn’t give autographs and the girls would have understood,” Susan explained. “They would have been disappointed but not disillusioned.”
This is not entitlement on the parts of the mother or the children. It might not have been cool for the mom tell Radar.com about it, but hey, it happens.
Just for the record, Winslet doesn’t have to sign autographs, say hi to everyone or anyone, or cater to everyone’s whim.
When she basically said “I’m going to interact with you personally”, she got the girls’ hopes up, and when she didn’t follow through – which might not have been by choice or she had a legit. reason – the girls were let down. It happens, it’s not that big of a deal, but they are girls who were lead to believe something that doesn’t happen very often would happen to them, and it upset them. They’ll get it over it, probably, and watch her movies again, and the world will move on, just like it has every single time this has happened in the past – and it has happened MANY times in the past. This is nothing new.
Perhaps after all she really is a
c u next tuesday!!! I wouldn’t be surprised. I am no longer a fan of hers!
jay Manuel was on a flight, and the girl next to him did an impromptu interview. He was very gracious, but like, f- off girl!
I find it extremely rude of this mother, her girls, and the chick who asked JM questions on a flight. Often this is down time for celebs, so leave them alone.
team kate on this one.
This mom sounds like a bitch. Get over it! If she had said ‘I don’t sign autographs’ like the mom suggested, then she would be called a douche. It’s a no win situation. Maybe she was tired or sick. Get over it.
I agree….and it sounds like she’s passing on her “bitchery” to her daughters. Give me a break. I’m a flight attendant, and I seriously doubt that the rest of the plane was “left to fend for themselves”.
Christ but that woman sounds whiny. Hey look, not everybody adores your kids. Kate probably just wanted a quiet flight and no fuss. I think she handled it well and she doesn’t owe this woman or her kids shit.
Those poor disenfranchised waifs flying in first class with their mother and not getting a big star to drop by to give them autographs. Screw them.
I thought the same thing! lol
Right? I also agree with Kaiser that these trumped up tales of woe from Star/Radar are because Kate told them piss off.
I’m actually surprised Kate is still with Ned RocknRoll. Good for her. Remember her former boy toy, Louis Dowler, having the sads because Kate moved on? He’s hitched his model star to actress Jennifer Esposito, so he was just bitching about Kate because his Hollywood dream dried up. He found another sucker. Nothing to see here.
imagine how insufferable she will be if ever granted the title of dame.
she will be even more annoying during award season.
I actually feel the mother was rude & is act entitled. Winslet didn’t owe her a damn thing.
I never bother celebrities. The most I ever do is give a quiet shout out in passing. I did that to Sean Penn once. He actually smiled probably just b/c I acted normal.
People need to have some consideration for celebrities who are just living their life, e.g., eating dinner, traveling, whatever. It’s not like they are on duty 24 hours a day. The hell with your precious darling children, lady.
Seriously! I haven’t lost it over a celebrity since I was a teen (Sting, at a book signing, and even then I screamed from a respectful distance).
People are so cheesy with they autographs and photos. What are they going to do with them? Put them up on their Facebook page? Show them around the office? How lame. Also that whole schtick of “She didn’t do exactly what I wanted, now her movies suck”, well you know, her movies weren’t about you specifically.
You saw a celebrity. Cool. Now get on with your life and don’t act like a fool in public. (That’s what celebrity gossip sites are for. In the privacy of your home.)
I’d be DEVASTATED too if a celebrity I liked was unwilling to be my Instafriend!
Devastated!!!
+1
Such entitlement from this mother. She gave your kids an autograph, say thank you.
+2
I’m not a huge Kate fan but this story is absurd. Meanwhile, i would love to understand why she is dating that dude!
Agreed. Not a fan of her too, but she did give the autograph in the end so I don’t get why the mother still complained. And yes!!!!! I would like to know more why she’s with that guy!!! 😀
Same here!!
it’s rare for teenagers these days to love titanic 🙂
so i guess, she should’ve been more nice, taking into account such rarity.
(but then again, maybe not so rare in the UK–i am guessing the family is from the UK; but in my country, the teenagers are really into K-Pop/J-Girlbands and are quite derisive to Titanic for some reason)
I’ve heard SO many tales of her mean-girly ways from too many people now, I believe them. I actually don’t care if she’s a bitch & I do rate her as an actress, but what I can’t stand is the I’m so normal & just like you!!’ nonsense – that & the fact every acceptance speech is, ‘What, me? I’m so shocked by this, let me gesticulate wildly in baffled gratitude!’. Cringe.
Agreed. As I’ve said before, she’s approached the Goopster-level of pretension to me.
This, Monkey Jim. I used to really like KW but her whole pleeese, pleeese give me an Oscar routine put me off her. She’s still a great actress, though.
Well if you’ve paid for first class tickets you sure do deserve some service, but if the passengers were neglected that’s the fault of the flight attendants, not Kate Winslet. For the rest there doesn’t seem that much wrongdoing imo. Kate handled it on her own terms and the girls got their autograph. The mother seems a bit too demanding and possibly hyped up her daughters expectations too much?
People need to stop making excuses for this woman. If those girls were the daughters of an equally famous/important person I can assure you Kate would have made the effort. She’s very ill bred. I have never liked her
its a bit too dramatic, especially the dvd part.
I have never asked for, nor do I understand, the need for somebody’s autograph/picture with…well anybody outside of friends and family that is. Sure I’ve had my picture taken with some high profile individuals at charity events. I have sat next to, ate in the same restaurant, stayed in the same hotel (at the same time) as “celebs” in my life/travels and have never once been compelled to ask anything of them. If a conversation ignites, it is no different then those polite niceties that you have with any other traveller.
Hi Chat-I actually make it a point to ignore celebs when I see them and I would never, ever approach a celeb for an autograph, especially not at dinner. I think for me it’s a pride thing, like I want them to know that to me, they’re just regular people, not demi-gods as many seem to think. That being said, if I was ever at a bar and happened to be sitting next to say, Fassy for a couple hours, I might EVENTUALLY ask for a pic (after some “liquid courage”) 🙂
Even then, it always seems sort of desperate. Now in this scenario I’ll cut Kate some slack as being on a flight is a bit different than coming into a small town to film on location. In the former situation, she is on a plane and is entitled to her privacy like anyone else. In the latter instance, she is invading & disrupting a small town.
I am with you Kit…there is a time and place and certain expectations from both sides of this debate.
Of course I have to agree with you 100% on Fassy (and a few other fantasy men as well) if I was sitting at a bar with Fassy I would ask for his autograph…the scenario would be such that we are chatting away as two strangers often do at a bar…that would lead to me saying “Hey Michael can I have your autograph? We will need to go to your/my hotel room because that is where I left the indelible marker; you know the kind that doesn’t wash off skin? Oh, you want my autograph too? Great…let’s go”. Can’t do pictures in this instance, well because, we wouldn’t want them showing up on Radaronline or anything. LOL
@ Chat-Dammit! You’re always one step ahead of me when it comes to Fassy. Permission to steal your fantasy for myself as well?
I think the mom is just cashing in on a non-story. From what I understand she sold this story to a tab first and the others picked up the story.
I dont blame Kate one bit for not wanting to be bothered, especially since she is traveling which is stressful enough w/o people bothering you. I think she was generous in giving her kids an autograph (which I think the whole autograph thing is dumb to begin with) but to expect a convo on a plane is just too much. The posters above are absolutely correct that it would have led to more ppl bothering her for the duration of her flight. You would be surprised at how silly even adults get when a celeb is in the house regardless of the status of that celeb, it really isnt just Beiber fans that are nuts.
and the part about throwing out her DVD is just over the top. Sounds like somebody has some very spoiled kids that arent used to being told NO.
EXACTLY. Another case of a sense of entitlement by a fan who thinks celebrities owe them a personal conversation/friendship. Please, get over yourself. She gave your spoiled brats the autograph in the end, be gracious about it and move on. What more do you want? And if this caused her kids to react THAT drastically, then it’s them who are ill-bred, not Kate. They are clearly used to getting what they want ALL the time and not being told no.
Wait, what? She SOLD this story? Do random people get paid actual money to recount run-ins with celebrities? That is weird, weird, weird
Oh really – she probably gets free virgin travel due to the fact that she was there at the fire on Necker Island with Sir Richard Branson and helped save his granny !
If you wait hours to meet a celebrity you deserve to get snubbed. Get a life. As for the mom of those girls, she now has her 15 minutes of fame. Fantastic. And for what? Slagging off someone for not talking to them? You cant get mad at someone for not wanting to talk to you. Grow up!
I just do not believe that Kate is some huge secret bitch. I like her, so I am biased, but I don’t buy any of these “Kate is a bitch” stories.
hahahahahaha:
“They would have been disappointed but not disillusioned”
Really? DISILLUSIONED? Over the inattentiveness of a celebrity on their own time? Health care accessibility in the US is disillusioning, getting an autograph but not a private meeting with a celebrity is not.
“the first class cabin was left to fend for itself”
Gosh, that must have been traumatising with all those saber toothed tigers on board. That’s Hard-core survival people. Let me pull out my teenie tiny violin.
Seriously though, why does anyone believe they are entitled to face-time with a celebrity? Just because you may own some of their films, promotional materials etc, doesn’t mean you actually own THEM or that they owe you anything. Weirdos.
Hahaha, thanks for the laugh, Gretchen. I love the comments about first class. Woe is them.
cbe means that she will get a knighthood in 10 to 20 years
you need a nothing to be “devastating” in USA
Agree she must have really peeved someone at the magazine. This to me is different from the Mass. story. She was in an enclosed space and has no escape from other greedy first class passengers wanting an autograph once the floodgates open while she is trying to get her drunk on with Ned and everyone else is suffering microwaved food deprivation. So I can see why she kept it on the down low, whatever. The other story to me is worse,and while I agree no one is entitled to an autograph this is a woman who makes a continual point of projecting an image of being one of the mucky mucks just like you and me, which belies her actions towards her fans more and more.
In all fairness, when you’re a kid and you idolize someone I could see how it would be a disappointment to be snubbed by them. That’s why I think the mom should have never tried to get an autograph in the first place. I feel like she tried to use her kids to guilt Kate into giving them an autograph which in turn puts the mother and Kate in a difficult situation-Kate feels obligated to sign because she doesn’t want to disappoint the girls but then if she declines to sign, the mother then has to explain to the girls that their idol couldn’t be bothered. Plus doesn’t the story say that she would sign, just not chat with them? I would think that would be easy to explain to the girls: “Sorry honey, Kate is very busy and tired and this is her private time but LOOK she signed your book for you! Isn’t that great?”
Ugh I just put way too much analysis into that. But you guys get what I’m saying right?
OriginalKitten,
I agree with you! If the daughters are suffering “disillusionment” then that’s b/c their mother set the stage for that! The mother is the one that transferred her sense of entitlement to them. I’ll bet w/o her grumbling, they would’ve never suspected that Kate was being anything but gracious.
Don’t we all know people like this? Teach your children that they deserve everything what they want, immediately and regardless of the feelings of other people then they are in for a lifetime of “disillusionment”!
Life is full of disappointment. One of them, which today’s kids are not being taught, is that you don’t own the people around you. People don’t always want what you want. Not everyone you meet will like you. Not one person you encounter in public owes you anything. That lesson is a real bitch to learn, but it’s part of life, and I don’t have any sympathy for brats like these (and their mother) who are resisting the knowledge.
For Kate to be at fault here, then we have to first accept the premise that this woman and her daughters own Kate Winslet. We have to believe that because she was on a flight and not disposed to chat with two giddy teenage fans in an enclosed aircraft for the duration of the flight, that she is a de facto bitch. We have to say that even though she smiled, acknowledged them, and said she would get to them later (they accosted her during boarding…you caught that right?)–which she did, but not how they wanted her to–she’s still an unforgivably rude woman…because they own her and she should have done whatever they asked of her with a smile because she’s rich and owes it to everyone who ever bought a ticket to a movie with Kate in it.
Sorry. I think this mom and her two unbelievably melodramatic daughters need some therapy, and Kate Winslet is still just fine in my opinion.
Just out of curiosity, did you read my post? Not sure why your comments was a “reply” to mine…never said Kate was at fault..
I don’t care about the excuses…the whole plane would have wanted autographs etc.
The fact is this: she is known worldwide. She signed up for celebrity and this is, as annoying as it can be sometimes, part of the trip (no pun intended).
People have been asking for autographs since the beginning of celebrity culture, decades and decades ago.
Not everyone has decorum. Unfortunately many people are celebrity hounds and want autographs. That’s life and these celebrities do need to get over themselves or reconsider their careers. No, they can’t have it both ways.
I tend to agree that it shouldn’t be a big deal for a celeb to sign a piece of paper and YES they DO know that this is part of what comes with being a celebrity but I can also see how after time, as a celeb, you could start to feel resentful of everyone asking for a piece of you.
At least this can be a good life-lesson for those girls: celebs are assholes-they’re human just like us! 🙂
The reason you don’t care, and the reason you don’t see it as a big deal is that no one has ever interrupted you life like that.
Yes, she signed up for celebrity. She did not sign up for slavery or hand over her basic human rights. There IS a difference.
Yeah…you lost me at “slavery” and “basic human rights”……..
We’re just talking about an autograph here right?
she gave the girls her autograph so IDK why you’re ragging on her about this. She had no obligation to play these girls’ celebrity buddy for part of the flight – it was a flight not a celebrity meet & greet
This Susan woman sounds like the real pain here. Yes it may be disappointing but it’s not worth moaning about or ringing the papers. Honestly use it to teach your children a valuable lesson about life Instead of behaving like spoilt brats. No one owns any other person. The fact that Kate remembered them at all was a fair compromise especially when she may have had her own life to deal with or her kids or just be having a bad day. You don’t always get what you want in life!
I agree with you. I think it’s incredible she even remembered she promised them autographs.
Those girls are in for a lot of difficult times in life if they don’t find someone apart from their mother to teach them appreciation and graciousness in life.
Her boyfriend looks douchey and needs a haircut and style. You’d think with all her money she could arrange for him to see a good stylist.
Germs! No touching.. I am not in the mood.. I want no more contact from those people whatever.. her right to refuse to chat or deal with anyone..
These stories about her seem like such a stretch. If tons of stories come from different mags, I might start believing it. For now, I’m sticking with Kate. Who’s to say these autograph-seekers weren’t rude to her?
Sorry, Kate’s been annoying me lately with her face tweaks and romance idiocy, but these stories sound like complete nonsense to me. That woman sounds like a whiny woman who wants to get her 10 seconds of tabloid fame. Annoying.
“My daughters have dumped their Titanic and The Holiday DVDs vowing never to watch her movies again,”
I love this quote. It reminds me of the drama queen in the last piece about Kate the other day who also vowed never to watch her movies because she wouldn’t wave to her. These people crack me up.
Aww, did someone rich get upset because someone rich and famous didn’t pay enough attention to them? I cannot stand Kate, but the momma running to the media is a laugh.
These are such non-stories. What do these women expect? And I seriously doubt their daughters have even seen Titanic. I mean is that really a timeless classic beloved by all? I missed that transition. I think they’re just butthurt and projecting through their kids. People are so entitled these days
No, it is. It’s one of the newer “classics,” but it’ll probably move up the AFI list as time progresses.
James Cameron re-released “Titanic” in 3-D format earlier this year in select IMAX theaters (wasn’t it like March?). So impressionable teenage and pre-teenage girls got to fall in love with the film (and pretend to be Kate) all over again.
Not to mention that the original “Titanic” has been a staple on the AMC cable channel for years.
I get a fiendish plesure out of the possibility she might be a b7tch,lol, because I absolutely loathe her acting. I also can’t in a million years figure out what people find attractive about this woman.
Is Kate REALLY famous enough where she can’t meet a few little girls? I mean, she’s not Britney Spears… it’s not going to turn into some huge circus. (No pun intended.) She’s Kate Winslet.
defend ms. ugly eyebrows now
I say what I said before, doesn’t change my opinion of Kate in any way. Not the time or place.
Although I do like the idea of her being a major bitch. 🙂
Btw I’ve heard Virgin has good food. I WOULD be pissed about the bad service. But I’d call the company not a tabloid.
Amen to that!!!!When you are paying first class airfare, you expect and are entitled to stellar service and food. A dollar is a dollar whether it comes from an A-list celeb or John Q. Public and Virgin needs a reality check if they don’t recognize this.
and yet, there are no other people telling stories of how they got rubbish service on that flight because all the staff were catering to Winslet. I guess if that part of the story were true, those passengers did what you should do when you don’t get the class of service for which you paid: file a complaint with the airline
I know it comes with celeb territory but Id be bothered to if I just wanted to rest on a flight and people expected me to be working & signing autographs and talking to them. She was nice enough to offer to sign the book.
I’m sorry, but when she’s on a flight which is her OWN time, she does not owe anybody a damn thing. It’s rude to go up to someone and ask for an autograph when they are on personal time. Just because you paid for a ticket to one of Kate’s movies or bought one of her DVDs, it does not mean you own her.
Seriously his name is Ned Rocknroll – looks like a reject from a Coldplay cover band audition, He is so far from rock i’m speechless, if that’s what he’s trying to achieve.
People, this woman is a serious actress not a reality TV star. If she wants to date someone called Egg Noodle Roll or whatever, or not do a meet and greet, its her business! How dare people feel they are entitled to feel miffed when stars don’t want to pose, chat, etc WAITING FOR/ON A PLANE! Its not public space. Its not an obligaotory acting-related activity. And as for what she looks like, well that has No impact on her career as she is, yes, a serious wonderful actress.
The story sounds suspiciously like the other one- a super fan who has high expectations doesn’t get them instantly met, therefore KW is a bitch and they vow to never utter her name again.
If this is true, it’s nice she gave them autographs. This whiny complainer needs to teach her spoiled kids you don’t always get what you want, and the world (and famous people) don’t owe you anything.
I don’t think she owed the kids anything, but sending an autograph was nice. Maybe she was tired, who knows, maybe she’s afraid to fly? What I do find appalling is when flight attendants fawn over celebs on a plane and ignore the rest of the passengers. I was on a plane with Rick Schroeder and his family. He was very nice and very polite and didn’t have a diva attitude. The flight attendants however acted like star struck twits and we barely got our drinks and snacks because no one wanted to leave “The Ricker’s” side. One flight attendant, a guy, kneeled down in the aisle next to Schroeder and talked to him for half of the flight. No one could get past him unless he moved. He was like some creepy gatekeeper guarding Schroeder from the rest of us. As if.
If you do not want to be bothered by people seeking autographs become a doctor, teacher, accountant, lawyer, farmer, etc…. Signing autographs and dealing with fans is part of the job!
Not on personal time, that’s absolute BULLSH-T.
If any of this is true, I hope the girls give their DVDs a proper send off and drop them off the bow of a ship with an angelic chorus.
The only mistake Kate made is telling the mother she’d “come back for a visit in a while.” I’m sure once the mother told her girls that little exciting bit of news then the kids were squirming in the seats wondering when she was coming. Instead, if Kate had just said something noncommittal like “I’ll see what I can I can do once we get going” and then sent the stewardess with the message about the books, everyone would have been happy just to get the autos.
It was the promised visit that spoiled the pudding.
Exactly! I couldn’t have written it any better myself.
That was pretty nice of Kate Winslet to take a few moments out of what I’m sure is a hectic schedule to get those girls an autograph. I know celebrities have a responsibility to deal gracefully with their fame and advantages, which I think she did here!
It’s too bad if she was snatchy to the folks in the Massachusetts town, but they were probably being annoying and gawking/staring. That’s very uncomfortable for anybody.
Right, with shacking up with losers constantly, Kate really shows maturity and class.
Love how he loves to strip and then says she’s a model Mom.
Woman is phony and cheap to the core. What does one expect from a high-school dropout at 15 whose parents let her shack up with a 30 year old.
This sounds like a non story but I think there’s credence to the rumours that Kate is a bitch. The Fug Girls have said as much- they’re pretty reliable and not really ones to randomly throw shade for the hell of it:
http://gofugyourself.com/fug-or-fab-kate-winslet-03-2011
Like I’ve said previously, I absolutely believe she has the capacity to be a real bitch. And like another commentor said on a previous thread, “We can smell our own.”
Please. . Kate doesn’t owe this needy and annoying woman anything. . .And I seriously doubt she’s a massive cold hearted bitch.
I dont get the “no one else got served” allegation. Gimme a break. No one – two people require so much time and attention that no one else got served. Candidly she’d be irritated as crap at flight attendants who hoovered excessively …..I get annoyed at overly solicitious, always in my face, won’t leave me alone service….and I’m NOT a celebrity just soemone who wants what i need and then i want to be left the F alone.
This whole story feels exaggerated and largely fictional to me.
Folks, unlike British Airways, Virgin Atlantic doesn’t have a first class. It has economy and business (the latter of which Virgin pretentiously calls “Upper Class”). The only Virgin first class is on Virgin America (domestic, so not true first) or on Virgin trains. All of which makes Kate’s behavior even more egregious. She was a bitch in business.
If she wants to be a bitch in first, she’ll need to take lessons from Liz Hurley (who flies BA in first, not Virgin Upper Class).
Maybe she’s been in a bad mood because she’s put on so much weight?
Celebrities aren’t required to entertain you in their private life.
If you don’t want strangers talking to you on a plane, put on your sunglasses and headphones just like the rest of us–works every time.
What you have here is a solid case of an overindulged, spoiled woman and her 2 matching daughters not getting exactly what they want for once in their over-privileged lives. Have you seen the price tag on a Virgin 1st class trans-Atlantic flight? This isn’t some housewife from the trailer park here. We’ve all met bitches like this, and we all know what they are like. She gave them an autograph. WTF else did they want – a foot rub?
Gawd the entitlement of people, she signed their book FFS. Pity if the attendants neglected the other 1st class passengers though. You pay a premium to ride up front, but that’s an issue to take up with Virgin Atl.
She is a thick thighed little chubster, huh??
guys!
you HAVE to watch this clip of british comedian Katy Brand’s caricature take of Kate Winslet- she RIPS on kate for constantly professing to be a ‘normal’ woman just like you and me…she absolutely KILLS IT!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dELfJjat0ww
“i’m NORMAL, just NORMAL, I’m a NORMAL Mum! I’m a NORMAL Mum!NORMAL!”
type katy brand/kate winselt/normal on you tube for more hilarious sketches…