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 was in a film called Tickets for the zoo. But as I was a child from the children’s home, I wasn’t allowed to go to the showing in the Edinburgh film festival.

I refused to shake hands with the father of a member of Oasis, because my hands were covered with poo.

And I’ve been on national TV in Poland.

I accidentally hit Lennox Lewis..... I was talking animatedly and he walked past me and from behind and I whacked him on the chest!

When I was a student I was getting the train to Manchester from London for the weekend to visit my then bf. Liam Gallagher and his mate got on the carriage and sat next to me. They were really nice and a good laugh. They also invited me to a party and I said no,wish I'd said yes! This was when they were super famous so I was surprised they were on the train!

I'm a musician so work with lots of celebs

Kunt from Kunt and the Gang gave me a lift to the pub in his Ford Fiesta once. Do I win?

Is that Kool and the Gang?

kunt?

fwllow basildonian here yourown!

i forgot about roger daltry aswell nice man

At Chatsworth when my daughter was still in a buggy, rounded a corner rather quickly near the large greenhouse and almost collided with a rather posh elderly lady. Apologised profusely, and she was fine with it, only later realised I'd nearly mown down the late Duchess of Devonshire.

My partner shared a flat with a member of New Model Army in the early 80s (the late Robert Heaton).

My daughter served both Peter Capaldi and Patrick Stewart in the pub she worked in last year.

I once shared an office building with Eric Morecombe's daughter.
My Godson's aunt used to date one of the Specials
My gps were friends with Princess Diana's Dad
My friend used to work for someone on the new years honours list. They certainly did not get their gong for treating their staff well!
On the subject of Blue Peter, a family friend once rented a boat to Val, John and Pete. The one they were on when Patch, the alsation, died.
A distant relative and an ex colleague are both married to well known ex rugby professionals.

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When you say you’re related to the guy who invented the pirate accent, do you mean Robert Newton? My FIL served on the Russian Convoys with Mr Newton during WW2. We have pictures of the pair of them freezing their arses off, icicles on noses.

By a strange coincidence my FIL’s grandfather was a (slightly) famous West Country pirate known as Foxy Ned.

Hello Gabs! I used to see Depeche Mode and Yazoo quite a lot around Basildon when I was bunking off school. Couldn't tell my mum I'd seen them though! Although once I was behind all of Depeche Mode queuing for train tickets at Basildon station - that time I was with my mum. She still brings it up every now and again - more than 30 years later!

@Figlessfig yes! He was some sort of great uncle or cousin removed to my mum.

That's an amazing story!

I have 2 famous neighbours. My mum childminded the first born of a famous news reader, then one of my cats moved in with the actress 2 doors up.

My cousin used to play in a band who turned down the opportunity to play the song ‘Toast’ - this was then given to Paul Young’s band and they had a massive hit with it!

Worked in a petrol station in a very small town where nothing happens. I’ve served several “famous” people
Jim Broadbent (very quiet and unassuming)
Warwick Davis (looked serious)
Barbara Dickson (lovely,quiet)
Corrine Drewery (Swing our sister fame) (bonkers but lovely)
And I’m sure there’s a few more I’ve forgotten

I was the ref of a football team which included Hugh Grant.

These are just brilliant!

I used to work in TV so have quite a few celeb stories from that era, but will avoid sounding wanky and divulge the random ones instead.

A very famous (and very lovely) Python told us to keep the noise down at my hen do (we were in his garden flat at the time. We had a lovely chat about his wife’s homemade jam the next morning.)

I accidentally ran over Lisa from Steps son’s foot with my luggage trolley at Gatwick Airport. My brother also cooked for Faye from Steps and her family when they visited the pub he worked in.

DH used to work in politics and was the first person to interview David Cameron when he became leader of the Conservatives. He’s also interviewed Tony Blair, Joan Collins and Michael Winner (who was incredibly rude.)

A shopkeeper in Paris was convinced I was Kylie Minogue.

I was chatted up by footballer John Hartson in a nightclub.

DH and I got chatting to a couple on holiday that he vaguely recognised. Turns out they had been on the news and in all the papers a few weeks before and they were having one last holiday before being sent to military prison (they’d had an affair whilst in the army.) They avoided us after that conversation!

Lovely celebs: Alan Titchmarsh, Handy Andy, Mary Berry
Horrid celebs: Nick Knowles, Laurence Llewelyn Bowen, Bill Bailey

Mines a bit 🙄
Gary Glitter was a friend of my mums. He burnt a hole in her carpet once with an iron. He used to hold me as a baby shudder and my brother is named after his stage and real names.

Remembered a few more....
Saw Terry Waite at an airport not long after his release - giant of a man.
Stood next to Shirley Manson at a Blondie gig many years ago when she was in her previous band (Goodbye Mr McKenzie) she also was quite tall.
Got a kiss from James Dean Bradfield after a gig, lovely guy but not that tall disappointingly.
My ex was invited out for a meal by Robert Carlyle and his then partner.
Sat across from Denise Welch on a train, lovely and chatty, she was tiny.
I’m sure I’ll think of a few more..

Remember the pencil test, to check if your boobs are sagging? If you can hold a pencil under them, the answer is yes. I worked with a very famous actress who demonstrated to me that she could hold a wig block (the size of a human head) under hers.

When I was ten, my mum wrote to Yehudi Menhuin and asked him to recommend a violin teacher for me. She didn't know him. He wrote back and recommended someone.

I once sat at the feet of Anthony Quayle and listened to his stories about the war. To be fair, there were a lot of us in a small dressing room during a power cut, waiting for it to go back on so that we could start the show, and there was nowhere else to sit. He was an absolute sweetheart.

Ken Campbell invited me to his boat when I was waitressing in a restaurant in Covent Garden. I said I'd like to work for him and he suddenly went off me.

I'm a taxi driver in a small country town. I picked up Prue Leith and her agent a few weeks ago, and took them to a restaurant. She looked familiar but I had no idea who she was until I picked up a couple later who'd been on the next table.

When my son was a toddler, I took him to see a West End musical his dad was working on as stage crew. We had very good complimentary seats in the stalls. Ds's dad was on stage during scene changes so I told ds to look out for him. The curtain rose, the leading man walked on, and ds shouted "my daddy!" Everyone sitting around us was incredibly nice to us for the rest of the show.

My sister had a boyfriend who was in a band in the 80s and 90s that had singles in the top 100. He's had a very successful career in music. He was lovely, but he looked exactly like our dad, and she found it so disturbing that she had to dump him.

my cousin in Dublin was out at a club in the late 80`s when he got talking to bloke called Joe they chatted for 15 mins then , he then met someone he knew who asked him how did Joe Elliott confused he thought he was talking about smeone he went to school with and thats how he knew them . while latter he saw him in the VIP section thinking they had blagged their way in there, went over talk to him again
his parting line to him was " bit off advice you are never going to make it big calling yourself s The Deaf Leppards"
they were on a world tour at the time

My friend was phoned by astronaut Tim Peake while he was on the Space Station.
Oh and Chrisopher Biggins’ brother was our postman years ago.

Prince Nazeem tenerife 1991 i think it was. Rocked up and stole a few fries off us outside mcdonalds very late at night. He was chatty and friendly but i thought he was pretentious when he said his name. Would probably have forgotten all about him otherwise. Told us he was a boxer. No idea who he was i think it was just before he was famous. I said why don't you buy your own and he said it was against his religion to go into mcdonalds. Most people were really drunk he was sober didnt' drink remember him saying that.

Used to be a night club in swindon called Cairo's 20 odd years ago. we used to have lots of fun there. One night these youngish lads insinuated themselves into our group. Focusing on my young aunty and older cousin. It felt off and i kept my eye out. Told us nicknames. So chap danced round near my aunties handbag and i caught him with his hand on her purse lifting it. I tapped his hand and it dropped back in. He did the universal hand guestures of you caught me but i am cute. I slapped his chops. My cousin put a pint over his head. 2 years later he was on blind date! He used the nickname on there too!

Another Cairo's one. Dream boys were there for a performance (that was good!). 2 of them stationed themselves near ladies loo entrance and were rating the women coming out. I got a look at each other and "awww sweet".

I kept seeing Richie from five at the local market buying veg. He had a horrendous beige duffle coat on very paddington. Had eye contact was worried he thought i was following him. I was just buying veg. It was quite a few years ago.

Saw David Cameron in local Waitrose when he was pm. A staff member was fawning over him. He was buying milk and bread.

Another David cameron one. A relative worked for electric company and was on call on a bank holiday. DC insisted on someone coming out imediately as they had lost power. It was just a trip switch. So rather a waste of time. His country house from what they saw was very messy apparently! Later that year relatives boss sent local radio out to interview them about the work they do during flooding. Then they had the question about David Cameron and relatives workmate was dim and fell for it and dished the dirt on waste of time and him using his position to get them out quickly. The energy company had recently been lambasted by dc over something. It was all a set up. The story grew and ended up in the Daily Fail. Luckily they spelt family members name wrong at the start so he was never contacted after the radio interview.

I did meet Dc myself a couple of weeks or so before brexit vote at a air cadets thing. He was nice and chatty but he was doing that standing thing with feet to far apart arms behind his back. Us mums had a giggle about that.

When I was about 18, in the early 80s, my friend & I chatted and posed for a publicity photo with (now Sir) Geoff Hurst....and they had to explain afterwards to me who he was as I had no idea

I've met and served quite a few TV stars - where I live is used for filming and there was a popular Sunday night police show filmed round the corner.
But the most bizarre is getting on a famous show jumpers horse, by mistake, thinking it was the one I'd been riding. The horse went on to perform in the Olympics. I was jumping a youngster new to the yard at a low key local show for experience, and sometimes older horses are taken along for "a day out" if they're recovering from injury or have gotten a bit fed up and had a rest. The groom was holding our horse when I nipped to the loo, came back and just got on the horse he was holding. Turns out the famous rider wanted to try our youngster out and was riding her while groom held his horse. They were almost identical and it was only when the horse felt much more balanced and level headed than the young one I'd been on, I did a double take. The bloody groom just stood there and watched me too. Snuck said horse back and I don't think anyone noticed!

Two of the dream boys asked me for a threesome once. Um, yeah I'll pass thanks mate.