Aibu to ask if you have a famous DH

[MeadowL]

Does it bother you? I have a semi famous DH, he gets paid to gig and go on podcasts etc if we go out locally he does get asked for selfies so we tend to go away for weekends as a family.

I do find it slightly annoying but I guess it pays the bills 💃

I was on the BBC once but didn’t know till afterwards. It was in Bridgend me and my whole family walking down the road so you could see all of the back of us apparently. BBC Wales so even more special as I have Welsh heritage.
sadly no one videoed it and no one asked for my autograph but if anyone wants it now (43 years later) please just say.

My DH is not famous, but does have the same name as a rather vile mass murderer from the early 20th century (not Jack the Ripper). I suggested we change our surname. The name is actually very common, but it would be like making a bit of a statement, wouldn't it?

I've never been out with any one remotely famous but, in the nineties, I had a boyfriend who was very good looking and looked like someone who is very famous. I absolutely hated it because, when we were out, girls would constantly come up to him and tell him he looked like this famous person and flirt with him and literally push me out of the way! He lapped up the attention and I finished with him in the end. I can't imagine how people who are with genuinely famous partners manage to deal with it.

I agree. When the paps don't come running to your door, but rather you have to get right up near them and shout "I do hope those awful photographers aren't watching me!" - it's never going to end in the most flattering of headlines.

Then again, even big stars have long click-baity YouTube videos made about them, proclaiming 'Fall from grace: The very sad end of X' - and it's just the 'story' of how a film icon from the 60s is now nearly 90 and enjoying their twilight years sitting happily by a lake somewhere hot and drinking cocktails, rather than still appearing in adrenaline-fueled action scenes.

I laughed so much at that thread I started wheezing 😂

Hollyoaks?

My ex was a famous husband while we were married. Now he's just famous. He loved the fame, I didn't so I was the one in the dark glasses and baseball cap when we went out. I used to wear different glasses and caps every time and he got a reputation for always having a different glamour-puss on his arm every time. And he still pays my bills even though we're divorced, so I can't really complain.

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The mad alcoholic lady in the village we moved to when dh and I got married decided dh was a famous movie star (never established which one) and told everyone in the post office and local pub. He’s not. He was in the village amateur production so maybe she saw him in that? 😂 It caused quite a stir in the little village where nothing happens. Dh is followed by Huey from fun loving criminals on Twitter which he’s very proud of - he met him once through work.

Although obviously very famous in his own right, Rupert the Bear has had endless problems with people mistaking him for Jack the Ripper, owing to their shared name.

Not famous but DH is a well known dentist in the local area and we've had people come up to us in supermarkets, on our date nights, in bars etc asking him for advice! Once the postman knocked to ask about a sore tooth 😂
The worst was when we were on holiday and two different (unknown to each other) patients were there as well and kept coming up for a chat!
DH is lovely to patients when in work but he's actually not a social person at all so hates when people come up to him 😂🙈

@FieldInWhichFucksAreGrownIsBarren I think semi famous would be someone who was once in an article in take a break or plays in a football team that only local people have heard of, but they once played Nottingham forest in a friendly match.

Agreed this is what the OP was hoping for 😆

My husband isn't famous but he now believes he is because 5 different people asked him to get their luggage down from our plane earlier. Does that count?!

I can't find any other threads by OP.
Searching their username brings up no results.
Does anyone know why?

She deleted ger other post. It detailed how her husband had offered to DJ a school disco for 200 quid, but another parent was organizing a cinema/restaurant outing which OP was concerned would pull guests away from the disco and somehow cost her DH money (not sure how, 200 is 200 even if he's playing to an empty room, surely.) OP want to know of she was BU to call that other parent a cunt.

I would think this has to be sport..football or possibly acting.

It must be very hard to juggle keeping your kid’s feet on the ground when the while
world is blowing up around them. First world problems but as a parent you have my sympathy.

Yes and normally he is paid 4 thousand a night. Hardly a superstar dj lol

People should stop being nasty. If u don’t like the thread don’t read it. Op is entitled to talk about what she wants, and everyone has a choice if they post or not. Why are people so bitter

Her other thread about the school disco is still here:

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/5038719-to-call-out-1-of-the-other-school-mums?reply=134129807

I’m camilla and so’s my wife

My DH is famous. He's been in the 'Courtfile' section of the local newspaper three times now!

My partner was frontman of a band when I met and was promptly knocked up by him and they were quite big within their genre.

He now works in emergency critical care in an hospital and gets recognised more for that than when he was touring with big name bands. It was annoying the number of young and old women who’d push me out the way to get to him and grope him at gigs but worse now when it’s old women and addicts pushing me out the way to hug and kiss him for his kindness. Some guy did this in a chemist recently that was erm fun.

My siblings have all dabbled with fame through music or acting. It all went to their heads. They’re not doing that anymore.

I’ve probably done more “famous” things than all of them in my younger days working in media industries. I was also sponsored for a very cool sport too . But my big game moment was being recognised once in Morrisons when I was late teens by an old lady who wanted to tell me I looked much better now I was out of that awful hospital (I was a patient extra in a drama to earn pennies at uni 😂😂😂)

fame is bullshit. In the end the famous person is just doing a job and the hangers on are just looking for a piece of that action.

We all moved on a bit and are enjoying one another's spurious claims to fame.

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