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For fun...what tenuous claims to fame do you have via your Facebook friends?

120 replies

CompleteBarstool · 09/08/2021 20:46

In my Facebook friends I have a friend who has their own IMDB page (for those who don't know IMDB is an online database of information related to films, television programs etc so actors, directors etc) and I have a mutual friend with a 2021 UK Olympian.

Who do you have lurking in your fb friends?

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Whywonttheyletmeusemyusername · 09/08/2021 20:57

Same...also an IMDB friend, a famous film directors gardener, and someone with an OBE Grin

CupcakesK · 09/08/2021 20:59

A winner of The Apprentice

Katieandthekids · 09/08/2021 21:00

A friend of mine is a fairly successful professional runner. She is Facebook friends with Jessica Ennis-Hills personal account so I'm basically famous

Lellochip · 09/08/2021 21:01

2 IMDB friends, one of them a Strictly winner

petridishmystery · 09/08/2021 21:02

I’m Facebook friends with the son of the man who voiced LeFou in Beauty and the Beast. Met him on ChatRoulette years ago, I guess around 2010 as that’s when me and my friends were having a craze on it. Then a few years later I happened to be on the Wikipedia page for the film and thought hmm that name is familiar. And yeah it’s his dad. He is also a musician and voice actor like his dad.

Chanel05 · 09/08/2021 21:02

2021 Olympian.
Cousin of a world famous musician.
A very close friend of a very famous ex-footballer.
A very close friend with the mum of a very famous ex-footballer.

Shapesorted · 09/08/2021 21:04

Oscar winner, IMDb page and a BBC presenter (3 different people)

Pinkflipflop85 · 09/08/2021 21:04

A few tv/film actors. Plus one very famous actor who is in a lot of big budget Hollywood films.

We all went to the same drama school.

Shapesorted · 09/08/2021 21:04

Oh and daughter of a famous actress.

oldstudentmum · 09/08/2021 21:04

My old friend(male) has child with a famous actress . They aren’t together anymore . When I got told he had hooked up with her I was shocked 😳

petridishmystery · 09/08/2021 21:04

Also friends with someone who went viral for live tweeting someone being an asshole to her during a flight

Echobelly · 09/08/2021 21:05

I accidentally sent a friend request to a popular female author who is a friend of a friend, but she accepted and I quite enjoy following her news!

HannaHat · 09/08/2021 21:05

The brother of a very famous actress, a television actor and a professional footballer (who I’ve known since he was a baby).

VienneseWhirligig · 09/08/2021 21:07

A number of Championship footballers, an actor who appeared in NCIS and a music video with Katy Perry, and a former England rugby player. I went to school with the latter two, and know the others loosely through work Grin

OverByYer · 09/08/2021 21:08

A friend who’s cousins are in a rock band

lljkk · 09/08/2021 21:09

My dad is not on FBk but does have an IMD page, it's quite funny. He did something routine in his job that got on film, he has no clue about this, was not a 'performance' as such.

anyway, Facebook: sorry, nobody with tenuous claims to fame at all.

Real life, I very slightly know someone who went to Tokyo 2020. Family lived nearby & went to primary school with eldest DC.

Mommabear20 · 09/08/2021 21:10

BIL is friends with Judy dench grandson.
Guy I used to work with went to school with the girl that played Sansa Stark in G.O.T

ISpyCobraKai · 09/08/2021 21:10

Friends husband is an author, he has billboards!

OlyRoller · 09/08/2021 21:11

Members of Nirvana, REM, Bikini Kill, etc.

Lipsandlashes · 09/08/2021 21:13

DH’s cousin is a very famous actor - English but made it in Hollywood and was in a film franchise that was one of the biggest of all time.
Best friend is friends with a member of a very cheesy pop band

OublietteBravo · 09/08/2021 21:14

I have a friend whose PhD supervisor was Mary Beard, and one whose Aunt is Susan Boyle.

SarahAndQuack · 09/08/2021 21:18

I also have a friend whose PhD supervisor was Mary Beard. It's the same friend, I would think.

I don't think I have any terribly famous facebook friends, but Emma Donoghue followed me on twitter and I am still recovering from my excitement as I like her books. A lot of my facebook friends are friends with her because she belonged (at a different time, sadly) to the same lesbian social group as I did.

Rather less pleasantly, a friend of mine is related to someone who was briefly notorious for their role in proroguing parliament.

SarahAndQuack · 09/08/2021 21:20

(Though, if Mary Beard counts as famous, technically, I used to be her colleague and she's thanked me in one of her books.)

JulesRimetStillGleaming · 09/08/2021 21:20

I'm fb friends with the sister of a famous bbc news correspondent and also an Olympic gold medallist from 2000.

Skybluepinkgiraffe · 09/08/2021 21:23

My fb friend's cousin used to hang out with Duran Duran.
That makes a pretty good tenuous link I think.
Oh and a friend of a fb friend once snogged a very famous actor.