What's your claim to fame? *lighthearted*

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Inspired by an article I've just read online whilst waiting for my train, AIBU to ask...what is your claim to fame? The weaker the claim the funnier, such as "I dated Margaret Thatcher's cousins drama tutor" e.g. But any will do.

I'll go first. I served Gary Cahill (footballer) once as a waitress; he came into the budget restaurant I worked at...and didn't even foot the bill!

A bit of a silly post I know, but the article I read had me giggling. If this post makes at least one person giggle that would be great - I think we're all in need of a laugh right now!

I have a few but my two best ones imo are that I danced with Bruce Springsteen to Dancing in the Dark at Roundhay Park in 1985 (that really was amazing), and I was in Rita Sue and Bob too in three scenes though I didn't speak 😊

My childhood friend's grandmother used to be a childminder for Patrick Bergin

Robert Plant was behind me at the supermarket and we chatted about the shit weather.

He looked familiar so I thought I knew him from somewhere - probably work as I encounter many people from all walks - realised on the way home who it was and felt like right Wally,

He lives near the village I was living in at the time.

@Wwud12 I knew someone else would be on here knowing him 😊

Kirsty McColl once threw a blue iced fairy cake at me

She was in the school play at my sister's school, and at one point threw the cakes into the audience.

She came to my school for 6th form.

Oh another one
Met John Barnes at a charity doo and told him I loved him on the Wright stuff (I'm not a football fan) he didn't seem that pleased about it

I was on TV when I was just a few hours old - they were doing a local news feature on the last few babies to be born in a certain hospital before it would close for good. Trouble is, if you tell that story where I grew up it turns out everyone was told they were one of the last babies - it only ended up closing about 4 years after I was born

James Whale (radio DJ) laughed at me when I was about 12 when I fell over in the street.

My mate was stalked by the bloke who played Johnny Briggs, he was a lot strange!

Terry Venables once told me I was his favourite waitress, he used to come into the food pub I worked at regularly and was a very good tipper.
He once also left his briefcase behind, the secrets it probably held! I didn’t look.

Not really light hearted, totally vile in fact but I got wolf whistled by Jimmy Saville in the CTCRM car park when I was about 10. 🤮

I wrote speeches for Princess Anne to deliver at charity events. I worked briefly with Boris Johnson...not sure if that makes me famous or infamous.

I have quite a few as I worked in tv.

This is my favourite yet poignant one.

2nd day of work in the stone doughnut (bbc television centre) and got lost.
Wandering down one of many endless corridors and a beautiful, tall, smiling woman appears in front of me and says “I’m lost too, let’s get found together” links my arm and leads me to reception.

Jill Dando.

I truly wept when she was murdered.

I ate a pie with The Grumbleweeds

My dad's cousin is Stephen Elder the actor.
He's been in loads of stuff including Lost, The Tunnel, Doctors, Rillington Place.

He looks exactly like my brother

My best friend was an extra in The Other Boleyn girl

My partner is friends with the sheffield United manager, been to a few parties with him.

Oh, I remembered another... my childhood best friend’s uncle was one of the Bay City Rollers!

Oh I just thought of another one. I visited the pub in emmerdale when I was a child. I think it must of been part of a school visit because I dont remember that much. I did buy a pack of playing cards with the pub on the back.

@Monsterpage that's amazing about Bono! I would have loved to have seen the look on your dad's face 😂

A less poignant one

I was at a wedding and a few pews behind Anthony Head. He was holding his very tiny baby on his shoulder, as we stood for the bride, the baby was sick in a perfect line down his suit.
His wife was horrified but he just laughed.

@Fatted

I am in a Coldplay video. Along with all the few thousand people that were at the same conert I was

My sister is in that video!

My cousin's band got their break by being played on John Peel's radio show.

I met Prince Phillip as a teenager, but didn't know who he was.

I spilt ink on Donovan’s suede jacket. Not on purpose but I was horrified by it.

Back in the 60s some friends and I saw him on the stairs in Liverpool Street station. He asked if anyone had a pen so that he could sign autographs so I gave him mine - a fountain pen that dripped down the front of his immaculate suede jacket. I was mortified but, bless him, he said nothing. He threw me a disgusted look and carried on signing. I didn’t have the nerve to ask for an autograph after that and it haunted me for years. If he hadn’t been so nice about it I doubt that I would have felt so guilty.

If you are on here Donovan (or Mrs D) I would happily pay the cleaning bill.

I was once sitting in McDs and Princess Di walked past the window. In another McDs I saw Rick Astley.

I saw Jimmy Saville in a hotel in Manchester and he waved at me and my friend.

I used to go to a gym and exercise alongside a Brookside actor but I’ve forgotten his name!

An actor friend died and some Corrie actors from years ago were at the funeral.

I was once kissed on the cheek in a London nightclub by Jude Law, he also told me and my friend that we were cute!

I went to the same school as Zoe and Joe Sugg.

My childhood friend and her sister were dancing children in the 'who will buy' street scene in the film Oliver

I had a maternal ancestry DNA test. Turns out I’m in the same haplogroup as Bono so we share a common ancestor.

Nicky Butt, former Man Utd player’s dad lived round the corner from my in-laws.

On holiday in Cornwall a few years ago, where I sat on exactly the same bar stool that Aiden Turner had sat on the previous week while filling Poldark. DH refused to let me buy the bar stool [bastard]