To ask your tenuous claims to fame?

[GetAGripNigel]

The more tenuous the better.

I don’t want any of your “My mum used to clean for a famous pop star” because that turns into pages of tiresome questions and “Oh go on tell us who it is/give us a clue/no I can’t sorry”

I want such tenuous connections that nobody will bother asking follow up questions.

I’ll start.

My dog was Mr Tumble’s dog’s mum.

Our front door was fitted by someone who had worked on Daddy Pig’s house.

Dave Prowse came to my primary school and presented us with our cycling proficiency certificates. He was the green cross code man then, and later became Darth Vader.

David Wilkie gave me my badge for 20 lengths at a swimming tournament. My mum still has the photo somewhere!

I broke my arm at the roller disco, and Noel Edmonds signed my pot when he came to open the new Rumbelows shop.

In more recent times, my son fell over Guy Martins dog

I grew up opposite a pub that was once run by Long John Baldry's uncle. You did want tenuous?

A friends sister was a model in a photo story in a teen magazine in the late 1970’s.

My guinea pig was pet of the day on milkshake

My school friends designed that uniform 🤣

I think we can stop the thread now, because this is clearly the winning post! 😂

Im related (on my father's side) to a famous Australian golfer

I went to school with hunter from the gladiators

I worked with the aunt of a member of a 90's boy band

My great grandfather was very high up in the railways and had the biggest bird egg collection in the world (at the time-its illegal now)

He also was paid to spy on the members of the gang who did the great train robbery

I dont even know his name

I once had a wee in the next cubicle to Mary Archer (Jeffrey Archer's wife). She was wearing a yellow tabard.

😂

We were queuing for security at the airport and Orlando Bloom pushed in at the front.

I was flying to Germany in 1998 and Stephen Hendry was on the flight.

He seems a "Don't you know who i am " type.

My friend has been on Gardeners' World.

A friend that DH and I spend a lot of time with socially ( out with him most weekends) has a sister who is married to a famous Hollywood actor. He never mentions her, has never told us about it and we've never asked him. We only know because a woman I work with knows his mum well and told me so I googled and found out it was true.

My DH is friends with a man ( who is quite a well known journalist/author) who is married to a very famous journalist/author.

I have met this man only once ( he is really lovely) as DH and he only ever meet up to attend music gigs together. DH has never met the wife and I think I'd be absolutely terrified and feel very inadequate if I ever met her. ( I'm sure she would be lovely - it would just be me being a tad in awe of her)

I saw Audrey and the actor she was married ,who got killed by a tram [ can't think of his name) in Manchesterr Arndale about 30 years,ago
I have also spotted Kirk Sutherland,in Trafford centre eating a Burger
And Gary from Corrie walking down a street in Manchester

My mum served Ian wright Nigel Benn and Beppe from Eastenders at the same time in the Tesco petrol station where she worked. And Beppe was the arrogant one 😂

My husband met Take That. They shot their music video outside his mums house.

My hairdresser was also the hairdresser for Eternal. They were really nice girls.

I met Mo Farrah. He took a picture with my son.

I’ve met the Sugarbabes they were really nice.

I’ve served Katie Price in IKEA.

I have friends who hold various running records

I am murderously jealous of this 😆😆

My ex boss was a medical rep who used to regularly call on Harold Shipman

Oh another one.

I was in a bar with a friend and Alexandra Burke was in. Friend and I were taking a picture selfie style.

AB said "that's obvious you're trying to get a photo of me, can you not?"

"Why would I do that? " I replied not having the faintest idea who she was until I was told

Alan Longmuir lived in my village, i would see him going about, you forgot he was famous.

I was at a work conference where Darren Brown was the guest speaker. I was introduced to him in the bar afterwards and he told me exactly where I'd been sat in the room (4th row from the back, 3 seats in from the aisle, or whatever it was). There's been at least 200 people in the audience 🤯

I watched a TV show featuring a bloke and woman who climbed up great buildings.

The very next week the bloke was in the queue in front of me in M&S in Bath. He was buying a multi pack of socks. I said to the assistant, 'That's him off of the Climbing Great Buildings shows isn't it?" Disappointingly she'd not seen it.

Dawn from no 73 (kids tv programme) was judging a village beauty pageant and asked me to take part. I had to say no as I was about 12 and she was a bit surprised as I looked older.