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.

My DS was sitting near Joanna Lumley at the theatre once, and she kept giving him filthy looks. He had no idea why, but he's been mistaken several times for a celebrity with the same sort of hair, so perhaps she thought it was him.

Richard Osman was in the year below me at secondary school. I was entirely unaware of his existence at the time!

I gave Desmond Tutu a cup of tea.

My tenuous link to a famous person is my best friend is the cousin of the woman who writes Call The Midwife.

Oh! And the nurse who took care of me in hospital used to be a midwife and delivered a baby to a 72 year old woman. She was rich, husband was rich, no heirs so they thought they would produce one by hook or by crook. Nurse said it was really sad, neither were interested in the baby and they wouldn’t be around for him growing up.

Growing up in a famous seaside town there were often famous people around, those doing the shows etc.
I was working in a shop in town with a large window that looked onto a set of traffic lights. The lights went to red and a car stopped. In the passenger seat was the late, great Les Dawson (who lived fairly locally) mynfriend and I waved frantically and he turned and did that face he used in his sketches as Cissie and Ada 🤣
Some years previously there was a carnival in the town for the centenary (i think) I worked in a small cafe on the front and while I was there, a stunningly beautiful young woman entered with a man who asked if we had some water. We did and off they went.
I later realised that the stunning lady was the former Miss World Wilnelia Merced who went on to marry Bruce Forsyth.
All I can say is that Old Brucey was punching way, way above his weight 🤣🤣

Stings brother was my milkman when I was a child and my parents almost bought the house that sting grew up in.
also my sister bumped into Jude Law in the supermarket once!
clearly we are a family that rubs shoulders with the stars! 🌟

I live in an area of north london where many celebrities live… my kids have gone to school /are going to school with kids of celebs or see celebs in the streets/next door.
oh look! It’s ava’s dad in the movie! Oh look it’s bill’s mum in traitors! I took the bus with the guy from Topboy this morning! I had a chat with michael rosen this morning as i bumped into him on my way to Sainsbury’s…

the funniest is one of my DC goes to school with the son of the lady who does the voice over for mummy pig in peppa pig.

My teens are totally nonplussed that we live one street away to one of the gallaghers brothers…. They roll their eyes at the mention of oasis…

Long time ago, an ancestor lived at 10 Rillington Place. Before all the nasty stuff.

I stood behind Montell the gladiator who did Strictly at Kinky boots as i was trying to get to the toilet not quite the same 😀

I wonder if it was the same Waitrose where I worked, which she and Richard Madely were both regulars at….

A few years ago, just before Christmas, my DH went to collect a print of a painting I loved by a Dorset artist from the artist's house. He got lost trying to find the place so arrived 5 mins late. Artist said "ah, you've just missed Dawn French", who'd just been to pick up the same print for Jennifer Saunders' Christmas pressie.

My Dad the same tailor as Bobby Moore. He never met him but my Dad loved to tell people this.

My husband had a wee next to Roman Abramovich.

I kissed Brian May (Astrophysicist/guitar player/badger botherer).

I'm related to the first person ever killed by a motor vehicle.

I was once stuck in a lift with one of the v. famous cast members from the Eternals for over an hour and we did not exchange a single word.

I also once nearly reversed my car over Ronnie Corbet in Waitrose car park because I didn't see him.

Oh yes! My only other claim to fame - long long time ago I came very close to reversing into Sebastian Coe in a Loughborough University car park.

Knightmare is a core memory for those of us of a certain age. I was in (low level) competitive swimming as a kid and right after Knightmare ended I used to have to get ready for this session I didn't like because the trainer refused to learn my name. She called me "girl on the end" for 2 years straight. A while ago I heard the Knightmare themesong on YouTube and my brain reflexively went "not this bitch"

My brother’s godmother’s mother used to live next door to James Mason’s mother - is that tenuous enough?

My father is a few years older than Jools Holland and grew up in the same area of London and remembers him tagging along with him and his mates (he might have been one of the mates younger brother or younger cousin).

My cousins husbands supplies the meat for the Balmoral estate.

My brother in law is on the telly

I’ve been on This Morning & BBC Breakfast with my daughter and her hobby horses.

Oh i think i have, seen you is it the "Dressage" she takes part in ?

My Dad was also a milkman. We lived in a famous seaside town where famous people were doing shows for the holiday season. Some would rent houses for the duration of their stay. On my Dads round was the late, great Hattie Jacques who, my dad says, was absolutely charming and gave him a large tip with her last milk bill before she left 🥰