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.

Oh and he painted the house that Ashley Judd and Dario Franchetti bought in Port of Menteith

I accidentally had dinner with Tom Robinson and his band. We had been to see them at a local venue and somehow ended up staying and eating with them. I couldn't speak ( I lurve Tom) so my friend had to say things like 'Can you pass lepetit the salt please Tom' while I just stayed red and started down at the food!

I went on holiday and bumped into Alan Halsall from Corrie (Tyrone)
We all ended up spending the week together in and around the hotel as he got taunted a lot when he went out in public (because of Fizz), he said the flight from Manchester was horrible.
He was quite fun, ExDP and I liked him but he never once took his tshirt off even swimming or sunbathing
We went paragliding. I have a photo somewhere

My grandfather's cousin is Johnny Rotten (sex pistols).
My father's cousin is Patrick Bishop
Cathy Cassidy once allegedly gave me some cake when I was a toddler ( don't think she was writing at that point), or so my mother claims
My cousin was hired to babysit by the man who sang One Night in Bangkok and also by a man who had a small part in star wars and an American werewolf in London
I have two not too distant relations who married into the Kennedys. Both still alive.

I met the Backstreet Boys when I was 15 and a very drunk AJ McLean proceeded to ask “just how old I was”. I suspect the “water” in his bottle was very much vodka.

Shane Richie gave me a kiss on the cheek when I was 8 after I gave him a bunch of roses at the end of Grease at the Dominium Theatre. A couple of years back I tweeted him saying I felt old watching his son perform as a support act at the Ariana Grande concert with my daughter and mentioned the roses at the end of Grease and he tweeted me back saying he remembered that 🤣

I literally bumped into Noel Gallagher outside HMV Oxford Street and he apologised. It took me a minute to realise who he was but he looked somewhat pleased I hadn’t made a song and dance about it all and he could continue on his way incognito.

I spent my early childhood years visiting the last surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group at Charleston Farmhouse.

I was on the front cover of the Guinness Book of Records when I was in double digits.

My daughter broke two very random and unrelated Guinness World Records and one went scarily viral.

My friend gave my 5yo Dd goodnight stories for rebel girls. My Dd was leafing through the pages looking at the pictures when she saw a picture of a woman soldier. (Nancy Wake GM).
"Mummy, was this soldier in your regiment?"
"Yes daughter, and not only that but I met her. I went for tea and we had cake and wine. She told me how she killed a German with her bare hands. When she died I was usher at her funeral."
My daughter was seriously impressed.

Matt Smith is not actually a Dr.

Used to live in an area of London popular with slebs and met quite a few when/through dog walking. Olivia Coleman once held my place in the park café queue while I went to stop some kids harassing my dog outside. While walking around same park with a woman who was an ambulance driver in Casualty for quite some time we bumped into the woman who went onto play 'Shirley' in EastEnders. She had just got that job and told us about the part, the level of detail she knew, of storyline that didn't come up in the show for quite some time, was astonishing. Both ladies are lovely. Richard Aoade lives in the same area as does Jo Brand.
In the 90s I worked in a Kensington venue and served, Pete Sampras (arse), Antonio Carrlucio (lovely), Brian Turner (who was a regular and nick named me Scary Spice as my hair is somewhat like Mel B), and very regularly Zac Goldsmith who liked to wear his dead father's clothes (frugal) and tipped a £1 (also frugal 😷).
My absolute favourite of all encounters though was when I had parked just off Kings Road to do something or other before work. Walking along the pavement towards me was George Best. Unusually for me I recognised who he was and had the overwhelming need to grin at him like an utter lunatic. He quite simply radiated joy, confidence and friendliness and readily grinned back as we walked towards each other. Having previously had no opinion on him whatsoever that moment left me in no doubt that he was deserving of his fame and I'm actually crying right now thinking about it how sad I am that life didn't work out for him.
More recently, I currently live in the same building as Philip Schofield and got my son and some of his school onto This Mornings nativity a few years back.
I might be hormonal, I'm still crying about George!

Chris Evans high fived me so hard my hand was still stinging hours later.

I removed a front filling from vv famous actor ( in Love Actually ) during a scale and polish. .

curlykaren I used to live near George Best in South West London when I was a student. He was often to be seen in the pubs and beer gardens around, and was always very friendly. Alex Best, his wife at the time of his death (or estranged wife maybe?) wrote a book about him not long after he died and promoted it in the bookshop that I worked at as a Saturday girl.

I had my picture taken with England goalkeeper Gordon Banks.

(The hotel where northern FA cup final teams used to stay before the final was next door to my school, and they used to use one of our hockey pitches for training; it was whatever year Stoke were in the final in the late 60s)

I saw Ronnie Corbett in Waitrose. Splendidly dressed in that colourful way, blouson and bright trews. Short, nice Jaguar car.

I taught the son of Kate Middleton’s cousin. According to the kid, he was very annoyed not to be invited to the wedding

My dads cousin has been in all creatures great and small and written episodes of river city and a few dramas on bbc one she also used to present on a the kids program let's pretend in the 80s

I removed a front filling from vv famous actor ( in Love Actually ) during a scale and polish. blush.

Please tell me it’s Alan Rickman

And Mark Williams' little girls made a fuss of my dog. I think they live near me as I first met them in the garden of a village pub, but have also met them in the nearest town a few times.

He's very nice and unassuming, and he and his kids are very polite. He came over to our table and asked if it would be ok if they said hello to the dog, and the girls thanked me afterwards. I didn't recognise him the first time I saw him but knew that I knew him from somewhere. DP had to tell me who he was.

ReggieKray, I'm happy to hear that I haven't deluded myself over his aura of affability. I genuinely don't know why I feel so poignant about it 😕

Craig Charles spent one New Year’s Eve drinking in our pub. He phoned up the next day to ask if he had left his camera-he hadn’t.

As a teen I had to serve prince Edward at a very formal dinner. My hand shook as I poured the sauce on his plate and he laughed at me. The woman he was with still had the price stickers on the bottom of her shoes

I've snogged one of the Zombies from Shaun of the Dead.

My husband was once bounced on the knee of one of the Kray twins.

Once I put my shopping on the conveyor belt at Waitrose behind Charlie Dimmock.

I've sat at the next table in a restaurant to Paul Ross, who appeared to be an absolute tosser.

And I was late for work because of Rick Parfitt's funeral.

I once got the ‘dont You know who I am ?’ From a footballer
Had no idea who he was - google told me
And was in a packed Chinese waiting for our order when a talk posh man in a suit came in and shook everyone’s hand and walked out - was mp John redwood

Oh and I saw mr tumble aka Justin at a train station once

My DH’s uncle was allegedly in the pay of the Kray’s and envelopes of cash would be dropped off to his wife when he was in prison.
My MIL refuses to discuss her ( late) brother and his connections, but they were Bethnal Green born and bred.

I was at a funeral which Helena Bonham Carter was at (her aunt’s funeral, who was our neighbour). She had incredibly sallow skin.
My husband’s granny snacked Sean Connery on the bum. Can’t remember why, think he and husband’s relative had come home later than they were supposed to.
Once, whilst walking home from Uni (the Edinburgh Film Festival was on) I was waiting to cross the road and the green man had been on a while. No one was crossing the road except a few men, and the masses of people at the other side weren’t crossing. So I marched out, overtook the dawdling group of men, and when I got to the other side no one had crossed yet but I realised most of them had cameras. Quick glance behind me and it turns out I’d just barged past Sean Connery, Ewan McGregor and someone else famous but I can’t remember who. I presumably ruined the photo op :/

Earlier this week I had lunch with the wife of someone who worked for the Kray Brothers. Her son had them both as Godparents. She told they were very very scary.