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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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pointlesssocket · 27/04/2023 07:59

I went to school with a Spice Girl.

FroggoDoggos · 27/04/2023 07:59

Me and my (now husband) once took Mark Owen clubbing, and my best friends daughter was friends with Zara Phillips daughter in primary school

SmilingTitan · 27/04/2023 07:59

I played Fergie in my primary school's wedding celebration/reconstruction of her and Prince Andrew's wedding when I was six.

Grimeduster · 27/04/2023 08:01

I served Simon Cowell the wrong beer and got a disapproving stare. I was on Victoria Derbyshire for about 3 seconds getting interviewed outside a covid testing centre.

Thequeenofwishfulthinking · 27/04/2023 08:01

Sarah Lancashire is part of my extended family. Shes attended many family parties where could be found outside smoking the majority of the time (don’t blame her!)

KnickerlessParsons · 27/04/2023 08:02

I shook hands with King (then Prince) Charles back in the 70s, and I went to school with Catherine Zeta-Jones' cousin.

Elle200 · 27/04/2023 08:04

When I was eight years old, I wrote to Santa Claus asking to marry him.

He declined my offer, but sent me a doll.

Somehow word spread and journalists from several Scottish newspapers came to my house and school. They put me on the front page. 🥰

OldTinHat · 27/04/2023 08:05

About 20yrs ago I was on TV, radio and in the press regularly because of my hobby. It was unusual at the time but is now as common as muck!

I also had a two page spread in Hello magazine but that was for a completely different thing.

Littlegoth · 27/04/2023 08:08

A childhood friend dated David Becky’s, and is now married to a very well known footballer who has an equally famous footballing brother.

rooroorooroooroo · 27/04/2023 08:09

Hmmm.

My mother had sex with the lead singer of the best selling American hard rock band of all time.

They've kept in touch, I've been back stage at a number of their shows, inc Las Vegas, which was cool but so, so weird.

She's been happily married to my dad for a very long time since.

I have also had dalliances through my mother's connection to the scene.

Sadly none of them concerned Johnny Depp, which is highly upsetting. I did meet him though and he's lovely.

I'm a very plain looking, married mother of two these days.

Littlegoth · 27/04/2023 08:09

Beckham bloody auto correct

DilemmaDelilah · 27/04/2023 08:09

I am cousin (very much removed) to Sir Matthew Pinsent (the rower). And no.... I don't think he knows any of my family exist. I was on local TV very briefly when it was covering a local planning protest in the late 1970s (I was young). I have a Chief Constable's award for being a witness in a scary trial. That's about it I think.

RandomGeocache · 27/04/2023 08:10

I've been paid as an extra in two movies, one for Netflix, one a big superhero blockbuster.

(I was cut from the Netflix movie along with about 50 other extras and the superhero movie was scrapped after test screenings, but I was still in them).

icebearforpresident · 27/04/2023 08:15

My papa trained a horse that came (an insanely close) second in the Grand National back in the 60’s. I don’t get to brag about it often because so many of my friends want horse racing banned, which I understand, but it would be nice to say how proud I am of him without getting an animal rights lecture.

FeltedDogs · 27/04/2023 08:18

I am closely related to King Constantine of Greece (ex)

Sunonface · 27/04/2023 08:21

I'm a published fiction author - one of my books was adapted into a major BBC drama

Snoopystick · 27/04/2023 08:23

PrincessHoneysuckle · 27/04/2023 07:47

I used to babysit Louis tomlinsons girlfriend.The one that he dumped once he'd got into One Direction

I think we might live in roughly the same area as I live not far from his childhood home.

MrsScrubbingbrush · 27/04/2023 08:26

DP's ex-girlfriend taught Catherine Zeta Jones how to dance

KnickerlessParsons · 27/04/2023 08:28

MrsScrubbingbrush · 27/04/2023 08:26

DP's ex-girlfriend taught Catherine Zeta Jones how to dance

We must be from the same neck of the woods.

KnickerlessParsons · 27/04/2023 08:28

FeltedDogs · 27/04/2023 08:18

I am closely related to King Constantine of Greece (ex)

Are you Princess Anne?

okayah · 27/04/2023 08:41

I won a name the dolly comp at a local fete and was presented it by Germaine Greer who lived in the village...

CurlewKate · 27/04/2023 08:42

I slept with someone who turned out to be the leader of a political party. Also with two people now MPs. One of whom is now a significant and appalling dickhead.

inigomontoyahwillcox · 27/04/2023 09:10

Pierce Brosnan picked up my baguette in about 1997 when it fell out of my bag during the walk back to halls from Hampstead.

inigomontoyahwillcox · 27/04/2023 09:14

Oh yeah, my high school drama teacher's ex husband was Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits).

Thequeenofwishfulthinking · 27/04/2023 09:22

Littlegoth - I think I know who she is. She was a few years older than me at high school. In my cousins’ year actually.