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To ask for your tenuous claim to fame?

294 replies

PaperwhiteTheGhost · 27/04/2023 01:30

Mine is that Derren Brown’s dad was my swimming teacher when I was in primary school.

I was in the top set too, only time I’ve ever been any good at a sport!

Whats yours?

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Malloryhitops · 27/04/2023 21:40

momonpurpose · 27/04/2023 03:37

For 3 month's in the 90's I dated a sex pistol

^^ this one I realllyyy want to hear more about please 🙏

FuckoffeeBeforeCoffee · 27/04/2023 21:42

I was filmed opening my GCSE results for the local news.

SofiaSoFar · 27/04/2023 21:48

One of whom is now a significant and appalling dickhead.

OMG. It's 30p Lee, isn't it?!

😂

briansgardenshed · 27/04/2023 22:06

@someoneisalwaysintheloo - patent for tech - that's really something to be proud of. Congratulations.

Loki64 · 27/04/2023 22:08

I interviewed Jonathan ross on MTV. I also used to work at heat magazine and interviewed lots of celebs.

ZellyFitzgerald · 27/04/2023 22:14

My cousin worked with Tad Looney, the lead singer of Four Star Mary who played the band Dingoes Ate My Baby in Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

My cousin then covered his shift so that Tad could play a show in London, and I happened to be in the audience.

We only realised years later when we somehow stumbled upon the coincidence during a random conversation.

HairyMcHairyFace · 27/04/2023 22:57

ToWhitToWhoo · 27/04/2023 20:46

A couple more that come to mind:

I once had a long-distance phone conversation with Tom Lehrer.

I once played with Bill Browder when we were both little kids.

Not me - but all the stories about nearly running over people remind me that one of my schoolmates' main claim to fame was that she was once nearly run over by Ilie Nastase.

I love Tom Lehrer, what was he like?

Mooshamoo · 27/04/2023 23:37

I served Kian Egan (Westlife) in a restaurant

RubbishClaimsToFame · 27/04/2023 23:46

I’ve got a few and they’re all shit.

  1. distantly related to Cilla Black

  2. I shagged a radio 1 DJ in a bathroom at a house party.

  3. I shagged a very famous singer, but he’s only famous in France, no one here has a bloody clue who he is.

  4. I had an autobiography published which got to number 11 on The Times bestseller list.

  5. I went to James May’s house and he was tinkering around with a miniature steam engine.

  6. I projectile vomited on my hands and knees right in front of Howard Marks at his daughter’s 30th birthday party, having taken too many drugs.

  7. I went on a drug fuelled rampage at a festival with Bodger from Bodger and Badger. And he showed me his Badger.

Form an orderly queue for autographs 😂

RubbishClaimsToFame · 27/04/2023 23:50

Oh hold on:

  1. got stoned with Bez from the happy Mondays at Glastonbury.
JackiePlace · 27/04/2023 23:53

DustyLee123 · 27/04/2023 07:10

The Dooleys ?

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No, but similar, they were from California.

wanttokickoffbutcant · 28/04/2023 00:11

I gave a bunch of flowers to Princess Michael (of Kent??) when I was 5 and sat on Jimmy Saville's knee at 10 or so....also met Prince Charles and Ant and Dec. Said hi to George Best walking along the street thinking he was someone I knew......

ToWhitToWhoo · 28/04/2023 00:16

HairyMcHairyFace · 27/04/2023 22:57

I love Tom Lehrer, what was he like?

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Really nice- the phone call was to ask for permission to quote from one of his songs in something that I was writing, and he gave me the permission with no problems. I don't get the starstruck feeling very easily, but with him I certainly did- am a HUGE fan of his.

Luredbyapomegranate · 28/04/2023 00:20

HairyMcHairyFace · 27/04/2023 14:31

You can just say Rolf Harris.

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😁

AskMeMore · 28/04/2023 00:41

I was in a TV advert that was on all the time back then. I was featured very prominently. But I am not an actor just a member of the public and did not even know I had been filmed until I saw the TV advert.

ElEmEnOhPee · 28/04/2023 00:44

My cousin is Keith Moon (drummer from The Who)

Okay, checking my Ancestry he's my 6th cousin 1x removed to be precise but whatever, he's my cousin.

Seiheiki · 28/04/2023 01:28

Weesiewoo · 27/04/2023 01:33

My best friend's husband is a Pulitzer prize winner. The general public have no idea who he is as he is a journalist and not the writer of a famous book.

Does he live in Surrey?

Luckyduc · 28/04/2023 01:31

My dad lives next door to the musician Sting (if you know who he is) and my step sister used to teach Stings children to horse ride.

viques · 28/04/2023 01:36

Namethischange · 27/04/2023 07:44

Frank Bruno held a door open for me at a health farm once. I said "Thank you" and he said "You're welcome".
He gave me a lovely smile and his voice was so deep and beautiful it felt as if it went into my bones. A real weak knee moment. :-)

I shared a sauna with Frank Bruno , probably at the same place because he was often there, he wore a very small pair of speedos, a gold chain and a huge gold watch, he said “ you alright ladies?” And we squeaked yes. At the same place was Barbara Windsor pretending to be really surprised that anyone recognised her under her neon pink baseball cap. Another time Marie Helvin was there, she was very beautiful but in a way that you only realised after a few minutes.

viques · 28/04/2023 01:39

I gave Johnathan Ross’s mum a lift home from the cinema after we both complained that it was really cold and got a refund.

YouCouldHaveKnockedMeDownWithAFeather · 28/04/2023 01:41

Mulling through life’s past trying to think of anything for here

Theres the good….kids went to school with Billy Childish's kids
Theres the bad…..kids went to school with Nigel Farage’s son ( actually he got expelled 🤣)

BalsamicNotMalt · 28/04/2023 01:43

I own a catering company. I've fed a few household names from the First Minister to David Tennant.

During lockdown I sent a rather grumpy tweet and it got picked up by the BBC. Next thing I know I'm clearly on a database run by the BBC radio stations as someone who will grumble eloquently on the topic of lockdown and the impact on business. I quickly lost count of how many interviews I gave but I was on Radio 1, 2, 4, 5 live and the local one. Radio 4 came as a bit of a shock - I had given the interview to 5 Live and got on with my day, only to hear a familiar voice coming out of the car radio on the R4 8pm news bulletin!

YouCouldHaveKnockedMeDownWithAFeather · 28/04/2023 01:45

Oo another
Not me my dh

Parents lived next door to John F Kennedys nanny and JFK used to visit her.
My dh as a tiny child played football with him in the garden

YouCouldHaveKnockedMeDownWithAFeather · 28/04/2023 01:52

RubbishClaimsToFame · 27/04/2023 23:46

I’ve got a few and they’re all shit.

  1. distantly related to Cilla Black

  2. I shagged a radio 1 DJ in a bathroom at a house party.

  3. I shagged a very famous singer, but he’s only famous in France, no one here has a bloody clue who he is.

  4. I had an autobiography published which got to number 11 on The Times bestseller list.

  5. I went to James May’s house and he was tinkering around with a miniature steam engine.

  6. I projectile vomited on my hands and knees right in front of Howard Marks at his daughter’s 30th birthday party, having taken too many drugs.

  7. I went on a drug fuelled rampage at a festival with Bodger from Bodger and Badger. And he showed me his Badger.

Form an orderly queue for autographs 😂

So I’m curious and I’ve been googling
Im thinking you are

Prince Harry or The Very Hungry Caterpillar

adulthumanfemalemum · 28/04/2023 02:03

I went to school with Dane Bowers. He was a little shit.....
Also Princess Anne's son Peter Phillipwas a friend of a friend at uni.

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