Love/Hate star John Connors, who plays pipe bomb maker Patrick, has opened up about life in the spotlight,
The 24-year-old settled traveller has said he finds fame surreal, and isn’t too impressed by fake friends trying to get in touch with him.
Speaking to Goss.ie John said people have changed the way they treat him since he joined the hit RTE drama.
“It’s crazy a load of people who would look at me in a certain way before now are really inviting.”
“They want to hang out or they chat to you on Facebook or some s**t. You want to tell them to f**k off, but my policy is to kill them with kindness.”
Killing with kindness: John reveals people have changed the way they treat him since joining the show | RTE
The actor also said fans have been slightly ignorant when they talk about his travelling background.
“I’m getting that everywhere I go now,” he said.
“It’s people being ignorant without knowing they’re doing it. Saying things like ‘those people’ and ‘you’re not like those people’
“As if I’m any different from the rest of the travelling community or I’m the special one, or I’m the good one out of a bad bunch. ”
“They think it’s okay to say those types of things and it’s not,” he admitted.
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And the Coolock native revealed that fans got a little too crazy when he went to a gig in Dublin recently.
“I went to a UB40 gig and I didn’t know what I was getting myself into to be honest.” John told Goss.ie
“When I think about it now I was pretty naive. I walked down the side of the Olympia and the fella who took my ticket just looked at me and said ‘you should have worn a hat.’ ”
“There were about 400 people between me and the door, which was only about 20 feet, it took me over an hour to get there.”
Freaky: John confesses he finds the attention strange | RTE
Meanwhile the actor admitted he finds it hard when fans keep asking him for photos when they see him.
“You don’t want to be a c**t and say no,” the actor admitted.
“It’s like a chain reaction. And people were drunk so they had no problem approaching me, they’ll hug you and pull your hair, the shirt was even pulled off me.”
“I thought it ended and then I got inside and they had to put me in the VIP area, they put me in there because they thought it would be quieter, and then I ended up taking a selfie with everyone in  the VIP area.”
