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If you are famous..

478 replies

jennie0412 · 26/10/2020 22:33

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

OP posts:
Famousinlove · 27/10/2020 01:16

My boyfriend's friend was on the xfactor live shows way back when it was popular. He's not well known now but stayed friends with a famous person from the show, he seems to be pretty lonely and isolated. I think a lot of them do drugs at home because they can't really do normal things anymore without being hounded every time.

Sparklfairy · 27/10/2020 01:23

My relative was/is in a very famous band, but they were at their peak fame decades ago. They're still around doing stuff. I "nearly" made it (kind of). Did the London circuit and was a YouTube "star" ugh way before it was a big thing. This was years and years ago though. Probably should have name changed but fuck it.

PinkJellycat · 27/10/2020 01:36

@Saz12

Betsy - I was going to guess that! Are you Darren Brown?
I currently have the best mental images of Derren Brown sat flicking through AIBU littering them with LTB Grin
SarahBellam · 27/10/2020 01:50

That’s totally the sort of thing I can imagine Derren Brown doing 😂

Secretboringsister · 27/10/2020 01:50

You got one. I am the totally average sister of 2 famous musicians with different bands which have both been famous since the late 80’s. neither is a front man so being recognised is hit and miss. Not crap bands. Glastonbury main stage.

Benefits: free guest list to nearly every show possible. They adore me for being a civilian and not a muso as they refer to other musicians. They often have long breaks so can visit loads.

Detriments:
I lie to pretty much everyone about what they do because many times people will try to use me. Believe it or not they are both pretty shy nice guys who would like to settle down and get married but really have a hard time meeting normal women because the image of these musicians is they are whores and sleep with fans. Nothing could be more wrong. I have to hide I have Spotify from them. I feel pretty boring compared to them.

Ok back to my usual not fake name :)

Quaagars · 27/10/2020 02:04

As if anyone famous would out themselves Grin
If they did divulge it'd be a name change lol

DramaAlpaca · 27/10/2020 02:07

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.

Wink
GalaxyCookieCrumble · 27/10/2020 02:32

Not famous but my friends son is a dancer for a extremely famous group.

JaJaDingDong · 27/10/2020 02:34

Like a poster above, I am the child of a local well known figure (two actually). My grandfather was the local headmaster and my father the local GP in as smallish town. When I go "home" I am no longer Mrs Dingdong. I become xxx's daughter or yyyy's grand-daughter.

I could never get up to mischief as a child. Everyone knew who I was.

frogface69 · 27/10/2020 02:56

I have relatives who were kind of famous but not in Showbiz.
In the papers, mainly in the 50s and 60s.
My mum was a dancer in the Sadlers Wells Ballet company.
I was sort of well known in academia. On TV and in documentaries, a few interviews on Radio 4. I wasn’t a sparkly star, ever !

haveIforgottenanything · 27/10/2020 03:22

I have two, one of which my brother it made uncomfortable reading when the contributors of Mumsnet were lusting over him

Bettyboop82 · 27/10/2020 03:36

I’m not famous at all but my ex boyfriend is... captain of a national team (very popular sport) Frequently on back page of national newspapers and on TV regularly...

groovergirl · 27/10/2020 03:55

When I was 20 I was often mistaken for someone who was a celeb at that time. I think this was because she and I were possibly the last women to have long, natural brown hair in an era of blonde highlights, frizzy poodle perms and multi-storey fringes. It was very strange to be bailed up in public places, and even be snapped by paparazzi who thought I was the celeb, who was visiting Australia and appearing on TV. I started to feel like a fraud, even tho I wasn't deliberately impersonating her or anyone else.

BTW it didn't help me get laid, but my UK doppelganger apparently had quite an, er, active youth. Wink Good for her.

Offtothedogs · 27/10/2020 03:56

I've just employed the wife of one of my teen idols Grin I haven't met him (yet!) but she is lovely and he apparently is too..

PhilSwagielka · 27/10/2020 08:07

My dad was on TV quite a bit in the ‘80s and early ‘90s. He was a journalist who covered energy (coal, nuclear power etc.) and he was quite in demand when Chernobyl happened. He wasn’t a celebrity but he was fairly well known in some political circles. I was off school once and came downstairs to find a TV crew filming him in our front room!

FuzzyPuffling · 27/10/2020 08:10

My late father was a novelist. Well known in some circles.

Bannister · 27/10/2020 08:11

@FuzzyPuffling

My late father was a novelist. Well known in some circles.
Oh, clue, please, @FuzzyPuffling!
FuzzyPuffling · 27/10/2020 08:16

Too outing, Bannister! I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you!

JorisBonson · 27/10/2020 08:26

@Secretboringsister

You got one. I am the totally average sister of 2 famous musicians with different bands which have both been famous since the late 80’s. neither is a front man so being recognised is hit and miss. Not crap bands. Glastonbury main stage.

Benefits: free guest list to nearly every show possible. They adore me for being a civilian and not a muso as they refer to other musicians. They often have long breaks so can visit loads.

Detriments:
I lie to pretty much everyone about what they do because many times people will try to use me. Believe it or not they are both pretty shy nice guys who would like to settle down and get married but really have a hard time meeting normal women because the image of these musicians is they are whores and sleep with fans. Nothing could be more wrong. I have to hide I have Spotify from them. I feel pretty boring compared to them.

Ok back to my usual not fake name :)

I am desperately racking my brains on this one!
Nonamesavail · 27/10/2020 08:29

My pop idol audition was shown back in the day but I didnt get through 😅 but not famous. Just my only time on TV!

StillCoughingandLaughing · 27/10/2020 08:31

Many years before I met him, an ex-boyfriend got a lot of press attention - most of it not good. It didn’t do him any favours long-term. Sometimes he’d talk about ‘when I was famous’, as if he somehow missed it, even though it wasn’t real fame. (Although to be fair he’d probably get offers of reality TV if it happened now.)

Laiste · 27/10/2020 08:33

DHs side of the family has a very famous novelist.

IsAnybodyListening · 27/10/2020 08:42

I'm not, but Dp's 'work' is famous. In that you won't recognise him at all, but he has an IMDb page. We live in a modest house, and always shocks people when they ask what he does. My old boss goggled him after asking what he did and didn't let it rest, so I am vague in real life now when asked.

Alicenwonderland · 27/10/2020 08:43

My 19 year old son has quite a large Tick-Tock following and was in a KSI video. He gets recognised occasionally which is funny!

TissyT · 27/10/2020 08:46

My Dad played for the England team in a certain sport (not football) for many years so was known amongst fans for a while when I was younger. I remember someone asking for his autograph when we were in France on holiday once and thinking it was really weird 😂

He coaches it now but it's not huge like football is so not a household name or anything.