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.

Back in the olden days when ‘Mastermind’ was presented by Magnus Magnusson and had a studio audience, I was sat in the front row behind the contestants and so had a few glorious moments of screen time.

To be fair Richard Osman probably wasnt aware of his existence back then either 🤣🤣🤣

One of my husband's childhood friends is a former commissioner of the revenue authority of a country in Africa, and another of his childhood friends is that country's ambassador to one of the South American countries. He has several other childhood friends in similar levels of authority and has been investigated as part of people's background checks which is creepy as fuck! A few of his friends have armed guards at all times which is terrifying to be around he says.

My husband used to work at a speciaist nursing home where several of the residents were the parents of extremely famous people.

Oh and my mother in law is friends with David Suchet and his wife (they are both lovely people apparently - I have not met them).

And on a train to a uni interview years and years ago I met an elderly man who claimed to be a good friend of John Benjamin (I was reading his poetry on the train). For all I know he was making it up though!

And I met quite a few politicians (old school ones) - Harold Wilson, Cecil Parkinson, Alan Clark, Geoffrey Howe when I worked in what was our city’s most fancy hotel at the time. This was in the 1990s and I was the duty manager and was responsible for greeting them.

And a close friend of mine used to be a nurse in Buckingham Palace (she never saw the Queen but did see some minor royals).

I never saw Richard Madeley and now feel terribly hard done by!

Yes, she does dressage & showjumping

I was in a queue in TK Maxx behind Rusty Lee.

I shared a joke with Brian Adams at a pizza place in Paris.

My ex colleague's brother was in EastEnders.

My friend is descended from The Moonies cult leaders.

Katy Price's decorator also did our bathroom when I rented twenty odd years ago ( and it looked crap).

And I went to college with Sir Rex Harrison’s daughter (he was governor of the Falklands when it was invaded).

And our children were friends with the children who were the subject of the film “We Bought a Zoo” and used to visit the zoo a lot.

It was a fun distraction thinking of all these.

Just remembered another one somone i used to work with had a daughter who was a very good singer ,she appeared on the X factor and got aa far as Judges houses
I think she stayed with the Osbornes

I was a salsa dancer in an episode of Vincent where there was a murder at a lottery winners party , you can see my elbow if you look carefully and I saw Suranne jones and the guy that played Vincent 😃

My sister's husband lived next door to someone who had his foot trodden on by Prince Phillip at a summer ball.

@BlueWorkDay if you worked as a runner on the Spice Girls video, do you remember a remember a runner called T* who Mel B apparently pleasured under a table in the Star Pub on the Portobello Road?!
Oh, my tenuous claims to fame - met royalty loads of time but Purple Prince was best, worked with a Minogue, stalked Michael Palin - latter was complete accident! Managed to bump into him three days in a row in two different cities!

I sat four places away from Janet Street-Porter on an easyJet flight.

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My old university flatmate’s parents nearly sold their house to the policeman in Allo Allo.

NC'd for this as I've told a few people about some of it. I've got a few:

My arm was on the BBC news once shaking the hand of ex-President George Bush Snr.

Rowan Atkinson''s kids went to the same school as my DS, and I let him I go in front of me in the grocery queue at the Co-op once, because he had two items in his basket and I had loads.

Many years ago, I sold David Essex some socks when I was working in the Littlewoods store in Romford.

I once had my hands on a photo of Donny Osmond until it was ripped out of my hands by another girl, but I had touched the photo that he had touched, so obviously I haven't washed my hands ever since. 😂

Oops, nearly forgot: I was nearly run over ON A ZEBRA CROSSING by Mark Knopfler on the King's Road. Years ago, talking on his brick phone.

I've seen Robert Plant in the co-op

I was once interviewed by BBC Scotland about my thoughts on Scotrail trains.

Oh yes, forgot this one. My husband was once stopped on the street by that bloke who presented big breakfast. He asked what my husband had for breakfast and he said nothing, the bloke told him to make something up and he said toast and walked off, totally bemused. He'd not long moved to the uk and he thought brits were bonkers 🤣

Working as a lifeguard, I once gave Anne Widecombe directions

Also went to university with the baby that was the sun’s face in the Teletubies

My grandparents lived next door to Harry Secombe's sister.

The garage I used to work at used to service Brian Ferry's sister's car.

I was interviewing for a grad scheme (that I was successful in getting) and Joints Vegas was at the hotel (2003 so he was relatively famous). He got very vocally and humorously upset about the cruelty of assessment centres for young graduates.

My granny had been good friends with Christopher Robin Milne, so we were banned from Winnie the Pooh books due to his feelings about it. This was in the 80s and I never quite believed her until the movie came out.

Just remembered another one 😆 my grandma knew Violet Carson ( Ena Sharples from Corrie) they were from the same area in Manchester

I sat at a table next to Liz Hurley and Billy-Ray Cyrus a few months ago. Rural pub, most bizarre!!

They are the oddest couple arn't they ?