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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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LuanJuly · 28/04/2023 02:04

I went to Primary School with Louise, as in Louise Rednapp. She got all the main parts in the plays as her voice was beautiful even then

YouCouldHaveKnockedMeDownWithAFeather · 28/04/2023 02:10

Oo oo

@adulthumanfemalemum just mentioned royalty and I remembered I used to work for the Duke Of Bedford…he didn’t pop by that often though which is a shame as we were both single at the time.
It’s also a shame as he’s really not great looking but it would have been nice to live at Woburn

Junosui · 28/04/2023 02:31

A friend of my mum's is a friend of King Charles.

I'd get rid of the bloody royal family tomorrow though, so I'm not impressed with my own claim to fame.

pollyglot · 28/04/2023 02:56

I was interviewed live on Japanese Television (in Japanese), and suddenly, all my Japanese disappeared and all I could do was answer in French. All those millions of Japanese must have thought their TVs were playing up.

misspositivepants · 28/04/2023 03:28

My partner used to work with the brother of the man who invented the ‘world wide web’.

i sold a scrubbing brush to Edwina Curry at a car boot sale.

superstarglo · 28/04/2023 03:44

I hooked up a Tiktok doctor a few years back, never even knew he was famous and now I see his face everywhere 🤦🏻‍♀️

Joystir59 · 28/04/2023 03:52

I was the subject of a two page article in the London Evening Standardo once

Greendoorsaremyfavourite · 28/04/2023 03:52

Sarah Lancashire lived near me when I was a kid. My younger brother played with her children occasionally.

salsmum · 28/04/2023 03:53

Crowsfeet57 was that Welling school??? My late husband also went to school with her.

salsmum · 28/04/2023 04:06

I met Billy Swan if 'I can help' fame in Memphis , I met princess Alexandra ( the queens cousin) at Buckingham palace to take ownership of the millionth motorbility vehicle for my daughter.
I appeared on Trisha for my friend to have surprise makeover and also met ( as guests) Mr Tumble, Mr Maker and Dave ( one of the the hairy bikers) at my sons wedding. I also met Frank Bruno in a chip shop in Southend.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 28/04/2023 06:13

I delivered papers for Kenneth Baker in the 1980s. He was education minister - invented Inset Days, originally called Baker Days.

Poopoolittlekitten · 28/04/2023 06:24

spent the night with a woman from an internationally known band. Friend of a friend
She’s a household name but closeted because of it.
Shame for her - she spent a lot of her 20s being ‘close’ to her PA I.e. girlfriend and is now ‘with’ a man.
Lovely person, good fun. Very sweet. Deffo gay.

Bintymcbintface · 28/04/2023 07:01

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 😂

You sound classy

JustDanceAddict · 28/04/2023 07:52

HairyMcHairyFace · 27/04/2023 14:31

You can just say Rolf Harris.

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I have an RH connection but thankfully never met him

JustDanceAddict · 28/04/2023 08:03

I have held a BAFTA as an old friend is married to quite a famous actor (he’s more famous now than he was 18 or so years ago when this happened). Is pretty heavy!
I also met another, even more famous actor at their house who he collaborated with & had to be all casual about it!
Also know someone who is married to a very famous actor (I would say household name) and I met him at his house a couple of years ago. Was introduced - oh, hi (again had to ‘pretend’ I wasn’t 😱).
They are all broadly, but not only, comic actors.
A close relative of mine is friendly with a verrrrry famous singer but sadly I’ve never had the pleasure (they say don’t meet your heroes).
Some famous actors taught at my school inbetween jobs.
that’s enough before I out myself fully!!

Relentlessbollox · 28/04/2023 08:04

RubbishClaimsToFame

I was friends with Howard Marks and he likely would have just made a witty remark and continued as normal (his normal) 😆

CarrieMoonbeams · 28/04/2023 08:06

Terence Trent D'arby (now known as Sananda Maitreya) walked past me in the street when I was on holiday with my friend Michelle in the late 80s/early 90s.

I was sitting on a wall eating a slice of cold pizza, which I raised to him in a sort of 'cheers!' way. (No, I don't know why either.)

He grinned at me. Holy crap what an absolutely gorgeous man 😍

pieceofpasta · 28/04/2023 08:09

I was once at a wedding and I gave some baby calpol to a guy who's child wasn't well. Later when chatting to him I was saying I'm sure I recognise you. Did we know you at university? He laughed and said are you a Torchwood fan? I said, erm yes I am. Turns out he's an actor. Does small parts in various shows including Victoria and Torchwood. He was very nice.

KimWexlersPonyTail · 28/04/2023 08:12

OHs great great aunt was an actress in several well known films including It's a Wonderful Life.

TinDogTavern · 28/04/2023 08:14

I love a Lame to Fame. Ben Miller was a couple of years above me at school. He's actually called Bennet. His sister was in my year.

RubbishClaimsToFame · 28/04/2023 09:13

Creasing at the Prince harry or very hungry caterpillar suggestions 😂😂😂

Yes I’m super classy (not). In my defence most of these were in my very misspent youth, I’m a lot more boring these days.

@Relentlessbollox yeah he didn’t seem phased by the puking. We were sat outside in the sunshine and he’d just been telling us how at all times he had given up one drug, but all the others were fair game. That week apparently he’d given up crack.

Beezknees · 28/04/2023 09:22

I used to be quite attractive back in the day. I have had messages on social media from male "celebrities" propositioning me, nobody A-list like Brad Pitt obviously, when I say celeb I mean people from reality TV shows and the like. Probably the most famous one was a boxer who has been in the news lately for being in a "throuple." We're going back about 10 years though. I ignored them all as most were married or in relationships.

Charlottewebsbabies · 28/04/2023 14:46

Years ago my bestie was working in a nursing home
In walked this bloke and they got chatting
He asked what she thought to the band shed7 and she told him exactly what she thought-she wasn't into them at all-in fact I think she finished up with 'They sound like their bollocks are being crushed by a very large bolder'

She had to be told afterwards that he was the lead singer...

zingally · 28/04/2023 15:05

When I was about 18 I was on the front page of the paper having my blood taken for a recruitment drive for Anthony Nolan bone marrow.

In 2018 there was a big art installation at the Olympic park to commemorate all those soldiers who died at the Somme and don't have a grave. Some 72000+ iirc. One artist made 72000+ figures and they were laid out at the park. I was the representative of the families of those soldiers. Was interviewed by many news outlets, was on the tv, and had my picture in The Telegraph, The Express and The Sun!

Want2beme · 28/04/2023 16:13

DP was almost run over by a range rover being driven by George Michael.

I've spoken to Donny Osmond on the phone. He was extremely polite.

Pavarotti pretended to be the gardner when my friend called him to set up a meeting.

Fiona Phillips is very attractive on TV, but she's REALLY pretty IRL.

I was mixing with Iron Maiden, but had no idea who they were at the time. My friend was a friend of one of their wives. They had a dalek in the hallway of their house😆

I live opposite to the pub that Shane McGowan frequents when he comes home.

Got loads more, but have to pop put now.

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