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.

My sister was on Cheggers plays pop

Mark Ronson once bought me a bottle of champagne as I stood in a bar queue at Wembley.

DH went to school with Arg from TOWIE.

Sat next to Fall Out Boy having dinner at The Landau.

Went to Restaurant Ours a few weeks ago and had Gary Lineker and all his kids on one table next to us, and half of the CBB/Page 3 alumni on the other table.

I used to work the VVIP bars at festivals and have seen quite a few celebs ranging from A right down to Z making total tits of themselves.

Although in Cyprus, DH's family is quite well known and thanks to his surname we got bumped up an airline queue and DH was very embarrassed that they bumped us up over Mark Noble (captain of West Ham) as he's a lifelong West Ham supporter.

And Ive had a few drunken nights with the drummer, from Tears for fears ....and his wife

I was at school with Freddy flintoff

I walked into James Nesbitt once.

I've a few more...

I introduced Lenny to JD & Coke. He was a vodka & orange man at the time.

I've wiped the bum & changed the nappy of a once very famous muso (he's an old friends son)

I've stayed at Gary Glitters house back when I was a teen & became friends with his son. He was a perfect host & gent & not at all sleazy so we were all very shocked & didn't initially believe it when he was arrested ☹️

I've lost count of the number of famous boobs & crotches I've had my hands on in my line of work. Most were lovely, some behaved like entitled twats I'm looking at you DM, how come your sister got hit with the lovely stick & you missed it

I once worked with Jamie Oliver's BIL.
He was at that time a right pompous, obnoxious entitled prick.
He two/three/four-timed all his girlfriends; bought one a Rolex, unfortunately, it was fake but put it in an original box to fool her.
The same poor girl was besotted by him and he cheated on her with her best friend at work after a night out with both and dropping his girlfriend off at her home. In fact, he cheated on her on a regular basis.
I think he was a caught doing some insider trading at one point.

Oh & one of my favourites

Spike Milligan personally took it upon himself to cheer me up every morning. Such a lovely, funny man who somehow just sensed I was struggling at the time

Mark Easton - BBC Home Affairs Correspondent washed up at my Godmother’s silver wedding party. He was a callow youth then and friends with my cousin teenage boys were much more interesting than a party so spent most of the time in the kitchen with him flicking tea towels at each other.

Remember the two part programme Alan Titchmarsh did on Buckingham Palace Gardens. It was about three years ago. I was shown walking across the lawns with the palace in the background. Went out Christmas Day straight after the Queen’s speech so have been on TV sort of with the Queen.

I was one of Terry Wogan’s TOGS, regularly had things read out I had sent to him. Still have my WUTWAC -Wake Up To Wogan Alarm Clock.

My son is friends with a very famous politicians son.

Our next door neighbour used to be a famous footballer. They’ve moved now.

I think that’s the only very very very tenuous links I can dredge up.

This thread is wonderful My favourite 'claim to fame' was when I worked in a public library in the early 70s - a colleague came in one day very excited, and told us proudly that when her parents had been on holiday the week before, they'd 'sat at the table next to Alan Pascoe's Mum and Dad'..!
For those who aren't ancient like me - Alan was, at that time, a top British runner, who'd won medals at the Olympic games... But even then, your parents sitting at the next table to his when on holiday wasn't exactly the greatest claim to fame
Mind you - it's given my family something to measure such claims by for the last 45 years...

My husband developed a dessert that won an award and was on tv.

So proud of him.

My ex cooked for both Prince Charles and the Princess Royal.

I once ignored Prince Michael of Kent when he was trying to talk to me.

Prince Andrew reviewed a parade I was in.

I've been to parties at a Scottish former prime minister's house.

I was twice on TV with Rory McGrath.

Jeremy Paxman emailed me to say sorry for being rude.

Dr Who has seen me naked (I am a man, and the Doctor did not have a Yorkshire accent).

I was advised of the Falklands surrender in 1982 by someone who is the uncle of an Oscar nominee.

Bradley Walsh once travelled on a bus I drove, got off to go to the pub, but had he stayed on, would have met someone who became a member of S Club 7!

I once was a waitress at a charity event and had a few drinks with Richard O'Brian (?) from the crystal maze I know someone who was Ivanka Trump's driver... And that's about it lol

My brother and his mate were walking back at dawn down a country lane from a party in the middle of nowhere when Jimmy Saville jogged past them - bleached hair, Mr T bling, the whole nine yards ... They each assumed they were still tripping and carried on chatting - it took about a week before they realised they'd both seen him!

Hardly a claim to fame but earlier this year while on honeymoon in Thailand, DH and I were eating at a random Bangkok street cafe at about 10oclock at night, (literally just metal canteen tables plonked on the pavements smack bang next to the busiest city roads I've ever seen) and I looked up and spotted Eric Cantona and his family eating at the table in front of us! Asked in my best GCSE French if he'd mind a photo (after they'd finished eating, obvs) and he obliged! Still boggled at the sheer randomness of spotting him

My neighbour used to look after ' fanny the wonder dog ' when her owner went on holiday. Her owner was Julian Clary. Fanny is no more 😥

Aw I loved Fanny the Wonder Dog. She was amazing.

I've got a couple of these.

Two people I was at college with ended up in Dexy's Midnight Runners, and they also used to drink in a pub I worked in when I was a student. Kevin Rowlands (lead singer) was a complete arsewipe.

One of my cousins (now departed) was one of the main characters in Auf Wiedersehen Pet and did various other acting roles.

My parents both worked in a theatre before I was born and met various well-known people. I still have a telegram which Marlena Dietrich sent to my dad.

@FrancisCrawford I remember Jason the cat!

I looked after an England international football players mums dog.