Worst celebrity fan disses

Avril Lavigne disses fans who cop her style

...but she denies it. The singer told Newsweek that she read that she was supposedly mad at her fans for dressing like her. “[Then] they quoted Hilary Duff saying, ‘Avril needs to appreciate her fans more and blah, blah, blah, blah.’ I’m like, excuse me? First off, it’s not even true. I never said that. And second, who the hell cares what she has to say about my fans? Whatever. Hilary Duff’s such a goody-goody, such a mommy’s girl.”  (Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images)

Don’t ask Will Ferrell to sign -- he won’t!

At least Ringo Starr spent decades autographing memorabiliia before deciding that it was time to stop. Autograph magazine last year named funny man Will Ferrell the worst celebrity signer in its annual list of the “10 Best and 10 Worst Hollywood Signers.” (He was followed by Tobey Maguire, Joaquin Phoenix, William Shatner, Renee Zellweger, John Malkovich, Julie Andrews, Bruce Willis, Teri Hatcher and Scarlett Johansson.)  (Frazer Harrison / Getty Images)

Jewel scolds fans for talking during a show

During a June 2004 concert at Washington’s Chateau Ste. Michelle, Jewel snapped at the crowd: “OK, how about the people talking while I’m singing?” The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported the singer continued, “I’m trying very hard for you. I don’t have a band and I’m singing my little guts out for you. If you’re a guy and you’re trying to talk to your date because you hope she likes you if she doesn’t like you by now, it’s too late, so just shut up.”  (Gus Ruelas / Associated Press)

‘Brokeback Mountain’ author doesn’t want to read your ‘pornish’ fan fiction

Annie Proulx, the woman who wrote the short story inspiring the Oscar-winning film “Brokeback Mountain,” told the Wall Street Journal that fans attempts to “fix” her story has become a “source of constant irritation in my private life.” “There are countless people out there who think the story is open range to explore their fantasies and to correct what they see as an unbearably disappointing story. They constantly send ghastly manuscripts and pornish rewrites of the story to me, expecting me to reply with praise and applause for ‘fixing’ the story. They certainly don’t get the message that if you can’t fix it, you’ve got to stand it.”  (Victor Lerena / EPA)

Beware Amy Winehouse‘s right jab

Get close to the troubled singer and you could get punched. During a concert this summer at England’s Glastonbury Festival, Winehouse appeared to repeatedly slug a fan who apparently “lashed out after being touched by a fan”. No charges were filed.  (Simone Joyner / Getty Images)

Tori Amos boots the young and the restless

While performing in San Diego last year, she had two front-row ticket holders kicked out after they kept entering and exiting the concert hall. Once Amos had enough, she reportedly stopped halfway through a song yelled, “Get the [expletive] out of my show. It’s a privilege to sit in the front row and I reserve those seats for people who appreciate music, get the [expletive] out!”   (Kevin Winter / Getty Images)

Creed gives fans a cruddy concert, gets sued by fans

At least four fans fought back after sitting through what even Creed admitted was a subpar show in 2002. According to EW.com, the fans who filed suit said that lead singer Scott Stapp “was so out of it that he was unable to sing the lyrics of a single Creed song. Stapp left the stage on several occasions during songs for long periods of time, rolled around on the floor of the stage in apparent pain or distress, and appeared to pass out on stage during the performance.’’  (Robert Lachman / Los Angeles Times)

Don’t cross the Purple One, fans!

Prince may be known as reclusive and fan friendly, but even the mild-mannered guitarist has his limits.

The artist formerly known as the symbol had his legal staff demand that all images of the Purple One be removed from some fan sites. Several sites banded together to form Prince Fans United, and that started a mini war that resulted in a diss track to the fans. As one of the lines in the underground song says, “I love all y’all, don’t you ever mess with me no more!”

even made a song dissing some fans - http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/17333086.html  (Richard Hartog / Los Angeles Times)