If you are famous..

[jennie0412]

How did you get famous? What for?
I'm incredibly curious and it's been slow tonight

Not famous but I live next door to a very famous rugby league player

My uncle was quite a well known boxer when he was younger. He’s recognised locally now around our city and has a boxing gym but I wouldn’t say he’s famous as such. Just well known (if you’re a boxing fan)

@DramaAlpaca

I am very, very famous indeed. But if I told you who I am I'd have to kill you. So I won't. So there.

You are Kate Middleton

My parents were involved in a scandal in the 80s and we had a brief brush with fame. It was awful!

I read the news for a local TV channel. I would do the local regional news before link up with the national news.

So occasionally get recognised and which my teenage son finds mortifying

Of course no one thinks being well known locally because you have taught in the same school etc means they are famous but it can be like it.

It isn’t. It really, really isn’t.

@walksonthebeach recently. Within last four years

I have some super tedious links -

Babysat the niece and nephew of an A list film star
Went to college with a Sugababe
Was on Why Don't You (for those old enough to remember)

I’ve produced TV shows you will have heard of, but I’m not personally known. I like that a lot.

My son plays football. He’s not famous, but I think he soon will be (and they worries me a bit).

@FuzzyPuffling

My brother is becoming increasingly famous in his field. He’s on television several times a week at the moment. He’s very eloquent and is a useful ‘expert’ to interview because he is particularly good at explaining things that the people specialising in those fields aren’t good at explaining.

Is he the utterly wonderful Dr Chris Smith of the Naked Scientist?? I love him - he's bloody marvellous. (If not, as you were...)

I know Chris... he's a really nice bloke and always has time for anyone.

We used to have early morning coffee together, as we were the only ones who were stupid enough to start work at 'sparrows fart o' clock'. I learnt a lot of stuff from him... Random stuff. But a lot.

I was in a well known Girls Band and subsequently went on to have a solo career. As silly as it sounds, I prefer my life now, less hectic, no stress. I am enjoying motherhood and the quiet life.

@Batteriesnotincluded1 are you Cheryl?

@StanfordPines I work in a school and I know exactly what you mean. It also means you have to behave yourself in public as well! No getting falling down drunk when you're out with your friends at the local Italian, for example.

I used to be Carol Decker

My old boss' SIL is a famous actress - quite an iconic film role as well as various series over the years. It was a bit odd when she popped in to see him.

[quote MissEliza]@StanfordPines I work in a school and I know exactly what you mean. It also means you have to behave yourself in public as well! No getting falling down drunk when you're out with your friends at the local Italian, for example. [/quote]
Once, I was at Buckingham Palace no less when a lady came over and said ‘my daughter wants to say hello’. I of course assumed that I had been mistaken for Kate Middleton but no, I was due to have the child in my class next year.

I went out with the singer of a band before they made it big. They became very famous at the same time as I met my husband which was awks...nothing like your ex turning up on TV and in the press almost constantly, providing the soundtrack to your new relationship...an absolute buzzkill.

When we were together he was well known on our local music scene. It made me feel toe curlingly self conscious when he was recognised and I hated going to see them live. Not because they weren’t good but because I didn’t cool enough to be a musicians girlfriend. It left me feeling very exposed and vulnerable. Which is disappointing as I’d like to be able to say I revelled in the attention...I’m usually really outgoing and sociable!

Oooooh that felt very cathartic!

I made a friend not long ago and her DH is pretty famous.
Thing is she doesn’t know I know who he is and I don’t know how to tell her and I am dreading her telling me as I won’t know what to say.
She has said a few things about him being London based (we aren’t) and being “in TV” but not doing what he does
I didn’t know the first few times we met and as time goes on its going to be harder. I’m not sure if I say I know who he is or never heard of him (I actually really like his work) or admit I am a huge fan and have known who he is all along. Haven’t seen her for a bit due to Covid but we have spoken and messaged quite a few times.

Just as I was reading this thread I got an email that said 'Hi, I'm a big fan if yours yadda yadda'. It made me laugh after reading here.

I'm not famous though, I have quite a popular business page on social media and have had a few magazine features on my work but that's about it. Not a single person in real life would even care what I do.

I don't think I have ever even met a famous person

I am not famous, but I was at the Royal Albert Hall about 20 years ago watching a band who I adored and had recently reformed, and were super famous in the 80s. Anyhow, the support band were quite good and were selling their album in the foyer during the interval. I went up to buy one from the singer and I said "I thought you guys were fab!" and he said "Oh hi Halloween4, how's your dad?"....and it turned out he was in the year above me at school and my dad had tuned the piano for his album. Absolutely bizarre moment.

Fast forward 10 years and I happened to bump into someone with a similar accent to mine in a local pub. We got talking and he told me he was in a famous band. They'd had a no.2 hit in 1990, and I had that hit on an old cassette! I made friends with a few other members of the band who all hung out in the pub beside my office. They took me to loads of their gigs, one being support for a huge rock band of the 80s...where backstage I witnessed the lead singer being showered with rose petals by some random woman. It was like a scene from This is Spinal Tap. The most memorably odd part of the evening was on the drive home, we were nearly hit by a falling tree, after which we stopped off at a petrol station where they treated themselves to Ginsters pasties.....All dressed in their rocker garb...and me looking totally out of place in my normal, girl-next-door granny jumper and jeans...

Ps another time the woman on reception in a car dealership excitedly told me she knew my face and asked if I was famous. She was really embarrassed when I told her no, she’d just seen me the day before when I’d been in to sign some paperwork 😂

My husband is a famous actor and we have lots of famous friends, including top A-list celebrities. We have a very normal lifestyle that is very similar to most of our friends who have more everyday jobs. Our kids go to local state schools, we live in a terraced house and apart from a cleaner couple hrs a week do everything ourselves. We get perks to go to premiers etc (before Covid) but turn it down a lot to stay in. The fame side of it is definitely a downside.
He comes from a working class family and worked hard to get to where he is today. He couldn’t afford to go to drama school so did a drama degree then worked his way up. We met in our early 20’s when he had done one small acting job and when we had our first child he wasn’t working much and I was the only one bringing in an income but luckily things changed soon after so I could take a few years out to be at home with the kids which is what I wanted.

Oh I have another one. My manager at work his sister is married to A very very famous actor!! I know not exactly related to me but just got me thinking. I've met the famous person once and he hates the limelight!!

@Curioushorse, I was coming on to ask if your brother was Chris Smith too! If so, he really is the perfect person got the job. He’s calm and reasonable and crucially, he’s able to impart technical information in a very easy to understand way. In this house, we think he’s fab!

My English teacher used to be on brookside lol