What are your vague celebrity connections?

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What are your barely related celebrity connections? Not the "I'm Bruce Springsteen's Sister " type but the much more loosely connected "Friend of my Uncle's milkman's brother" kind?

About 20 years ago I worked with someone who was at school with Dermot O'Leary. She wasn't still in touch with him then, though.

A friend of mine is a good friend of Richard Armitage. I cannot contain my jealousy!

Gita of ex EastEnders fame occasionally shops in our local food centre. She looks a bit mardy, but then so do I!

DH works with the ex-wife of one of the Proclaimers.

That's all I've got.

Eric Clapton taught DH how to play 12 bar blues when they used to hang out jamming together on their guitars - this was before he was famous though. Eric - not DH!

Mike Batt! His Mum was my brother's geography teacher (my brother been mentioned twice on this thread).

Terry Scott was a few years above my dad at school.

An ex-boyfriend's cousin used to nanny for Fergie and got shouted at by the Queen for running across the grass at Buckingham Palace.

My husband's friend's friend is married to Lauren Laverne.

My brother is good friends with Kenneth Cranham.
Keith Richards mum used to work in our local Coop.

My MIL is great friends with Oliver Jeffers (kids book author) dad, they taught together. Thus we have a couple of bits of his art. The dad is a lovely bloke.

A friend of mine used to work in films and once had the job of trying to locate Peter O'Toole and Anthony Hopkins and persuade them out of whatever bar they were in. This was during the filming of The Lion in Winter. They were pissed as newts every single day.

He said Katherine Hepburn was absolutely lovely.

Anthony Hopkins still sends him Xmas cards.

Simon from biffy clyro used to train at the same martial arts gym as me.

my friend’s ex husband is the nephew of the chuckle brothers.

@wibblywobblybits ive seen you! 😃used to bloody love you guys! I now have another vague connection 👍🏻

I think what I’m learning from this thread is that Mike Batt is at the centre of the universe.

My DD boyfriend is cousins with a famous Hollywood actor who has recently got married

I used to drink in the same pub as Bucks Fizz.
I worked in a shop where Simon Le Bon's brother's wife did the displays.
The landlady of a bedsit I lived in had been good friends with Ted Hughes' sister Olwyn.
I used to buy vegetables from Gary Lineker's uncle in Leicester market
Jada Fransen (of EDL, Britain First etc) did the conveyancing when I bought my first flat - before her right-wing activist days.
DH sold a sheet of wrapping paper to Elvis Costello.

My namesake won the 1907 St Leger.

When I was at uni I slept with a lad whose best mate was Tim Wheeler from Ash's little brother. He was once given a pair of trainers which Tim was given as a freebie!

My son was at Exeter University with Jack Ramsey, son of Gordon. He said he was an arrogant knob

I once shared a plane back from Belfast with all of Biffy Clyro (plus Ben and Simon's wives)!

@wibblywobblybits it definitely does! I was obsessed!

I wonder where he got that from?

@wibblywobblybits are your initials SF?

Oh, I have another! I used to work with Rick Astley's big brother, Mike.

Was in the same school as someone from line of duty