Your most bizarre claim to fame story

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So, I haven't slept with MH or anybody remotely famous, but have plenty of bizarre claim to fame stories (of my own and family/friends).

My two faves are that Florence Welch ran over my foot with her bicycle and broke my toe. I don't think she realised but she was gigging back in the day and had cycled to the venue (where I worked). She jumped on her bike to push it out of the office and ride home and went straight over my foot, snapping my toe on my left foot.

My darling sil, who is quite the character was in the company of some top music people, drank too much wine at an album party, started dancing and launched her shoe accidentally in her vigour smacking old Sir BG right in the chops apparently. She then repeated said move at my wedding and smashed a load of wine glasses. She's a good 20 years my senior.

C'mon now spill.

I slept with someone who had slept with Margaret off of Brookside.

I slept with someone who had slept with one of the York sisters (can’t temember which one though).

My children are second cousins to a famous ballet dancer.

I was one of the kids in the choir on the Westlife version of “I Have a Dream”

A relation of mine was engaged to a famous star of an 80s sitcom.

My husbands cousin is married to the daughter of a Bay City Roller.

@ReggieKrayDoYouKnowMyName oooh these are good!

I'm related to the guy who invented the "pirate accent" and has the International Speak Like a Pirate Day in his honour.

I once walked into Gary Lineker by accident and he swore at me.

Peter Andre kissed me and stained my cheek with fake tan!

I have also spilled water on Vivienne Westwood, and accidentally kicked Christian from Eastenders in the leg he was rude before that so I don’t feel too bad!

Ken Clarke MP threw up on the carpet at my parents' house when I was very little. It was predominantly red wine. We had to change the carpet in the end.

Mine are all several degrees removed. E.g. my best friend's ex-boyfriend's brother went out with a Spice Girl many years ago. And another friend knew a bloke who slept with George Michael before he was out.

Years ago I served Michael Ball in a bar I worked in.

I went to a theater school so I've met a few broadway, west end and film/tv actors but the most interesting ones are the ones I didn't meet at school.

Fun ones distant/removed cousin is Brian Ferry, my dad's uncle built the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car for the movie and was a film producer/director/executive. I met Robert Carlyle and Mark Addy at an Ice Cream Parlour as a preteen and because I was playing with and looking after my younger relatives I kept an eye on their kids as well and they bought me an Ice Cream and on the rare occasions that I've bumped into them since have always said hello and remember me as the ice cream girl.

The cool one I'm a descendant of the father of Danish literature Ludvig Holberg who was also a philosopher (which is awesome because I didn't know that until I was given a family tree and I'm studying philosophy).

The boring ones: the danish, belgian and british royal families (not that you'd be able to tell) and as a result have met the british royal family several times as a child while visiting relatives from that side of the family (rare and uncomfortable visit that I loath and have refused to take part in since I was about 12) and most recently at a wedding in Northumberland as a teen.

I'm as working class as you can get so it's a source of endless amusement to my friends.

This is going to have to be so vague so I don’t get anyone in trouble: When I was little, my dad worked in a role where he had close access to a 90s singer but wasn’t allowed to disclose it. This singer would often give my dad “presents” for me and my brother- signed CDs, unreleased demo tapes, that kind of thing. I was much much older when I realised these were likely to be bribes related to my dad’s work. I’m NC with him now, mainly because he’s the type of person who would take part in dodgy dealings like that.

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Jarvis Cocker refused to stop hogging the pavement with his friends on Dean Street in Soho, forcing me to step into the street and trip over a bin bag. He still didn't notice that anyone had been trying to get passed him. Put me right off him it did.

I have John Travolta's old cooker and most of the furniture in my house was Kirsty Alley's.

The Prince, Princess and Count of Belgium and Justin Trudeau's niece came to my house for tea this Summer.

I used to share a local with Gok Wan and hated the thought that he might think that I was star struck by him, so would always studiously ignore him, even standing at the bar next to him. Several times I popped out for a fag and scurried back inside when I saw him already there, just in case he thought I was following him!

A friend of DH once played pool with Ainsley Harriot.

And I went for an interview at the school famous for the choir that sang "There's no one quite like Grandma".

OK they're both a bit crap I know. I've clearly led a boring life!

I've seen Gok Wan and Jarvis Cocker irl and they're both insanely taller than I had expected. Gary Lineker too.

Intrigued by the 90s pop star.

@DanielRicciardosSmile my flat mate at uni lived next door to Ainsley. Apparently he made a comment about rusty shears to her then bf, which he said was said was so alarming because he Ainsley laughed but didn't know if he was joking or not.

I shared a lift at my then work with Ian Rankin, the writer. He was accompanied by a colleague who I blethered to while trying to work out where I knew his face from... 😂

My daughter is currently on at the Vue cinemas before the movies start with Simon peg ( she isn’t really famous but it was fun whilst it lasted 😂) so we spent the day with Simon pegg, then went to the Christoper robin premier and walked the carpet and met Ewan mcgregor and Rita ora visited in a Santa’s costume and she got a Xmas present from her 😂🤣
It was like leading a random double life for about 3 months !

I've got a very famous person's auntie's velvet curtains in my front room. They're nearly a 100 years old and still more luxurious than anything else I've ever 'owned'.

Oooh the lift story just reminded me. I was backstage at Wembley Arena (cough unashamed humble brag cough) after seeing an early 00s pop punk outfit. Spent a good chunk of timing chatting to a familiar looking guy all about his being a pilot and flying.

It only dawned on me a couple of days later it was Bruce Dickinson from Iron Maiden. 🙈

Back when I was in uni I was crossing a road in London, near Regents Park (the green man was ‘flashing’, so the light for the traffic was red). Along came a motorbike with a light flashing followed by a massive car (they went straight through the red light, meaning I had to pretty much jump back out of the way). I glared at the car, about to make a rude gesture when I saw the Queen Mother and Princess Margaret staring back at me through the window (in the back of the car, obviously; I think they were facing each other). I always wonder what would have happened if I hadn’t got out of the way quickly enough!!
I promise that this is true!

In my line of work & where I lived, I met a lot of slebs over the years, but bizarre claims to fame might be...

I once turned someone down, who went onto sleep with Angelina Jolie.

I have twice been mistaken for Madonna I looked nothing like her but my hair & build were similarl at the time. Once by Robbie Williams at a gym & another time in a bar by a rather drunk Micky Finn.

Some of DDs first baby clothes were a passed on as gift of used baby clothes of the daughter of an Oscar winning actress.

I was nearly hit by a car when crossing a zebra crossing. He got out to see if I was okay. I was. It was Peter Cushing!

I'm loving all the "nearly run over by..." stories. 😂

My friend and I were in Wham Rap video. At the end dance where people dance on on the stage. It was before they were proper famous, I think it was their first release and it was quite rubbish. We used to go to a night George MIchael cousin DJ'd at and he asked some of us to be in it. I was still at school.

When I was about 10yrs old, we had a lodger who had been nanny to Jade Jagger (who is about the same age as me).

She brought her round to play one day. We played in the garden with the guinea pigs. I didn't really know who her dad was at that age. I liked Adam & the Ants