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.

I was a presenter on WHY DONT YOU? In the 90’s. Showing my age.

My late parents' chiropodist was Darren Gough's auntie. England cricketer in the 90s.

You've reminded me.

Mick Bucknell tried to bed someone I used to work with after his gig at the NEC.

She said he had smelly breath and his hair was too long, so she declined his offer.

I love this thread!

My ex-stepfather was an extra in a film when he was a child. I believe it was a war film, but I can’t remember what it was called.

My postman as a kid had a son who went to star in an American TV series called Constantine.

What was it like?? I can’t tell you how badly I wanted to be a why don’t you? presenter when I was a kid!

Another reminder:

I saw Gareth gates at Cobham services several years ago. He was very "don't you know who I am?".

No mate - we know who you are, but no one cares.

He dated someone from my school for several months.

She was 14. She'd convinced him she was 19.

It was eugh back in the 90s. Even more eugh now.

My late Granny nursed Douglas Bader during the war.

There was a thread on here asking if anybody had slept with a celebrity. There were a surprisingly large number of posters who had either slept with Mick Hucknall or knew somebody who had!

My DS was in the national trust Scotland brochure about 20 years ago. The photo was taken at the Highland village used in Outlander.

We are close friends with a couple who are political refugees in exile from their own country where they are very well known as members of the leading political family

I met Derren once after a show. He was absolutely lovely.

I live in the same estate that Sir Alex Ferguson, Alan Brazil and Billy McNeil used to live in.

I used cloth nappies with DC2 and I loved an American brand for the different prints they did.

One that I bought (unused in the packet) was previously owned by the actress who played Kimmy Gibbler in Full House.

My ex-husband used to live next door to Engelbert Humperdinck's sister.

Bryan Ferry's sister was in my dad's class at school.

I used to work in a dry cleaners, and Tom Robinson came in one day to have his trousers cleaned and pressed. The manager and I knew who he was but not my younger colleague. Also Jason Donovan was performing at a theatre in town and I cleaned his trousers, though never got to meet the man himself.

I went to school with Gerard Butler

My sister lives in the same road that Keith Flint grew up in.

My brother aged about 8 held Princess Anne's horse at a horse show run by my Aunt.

My neice is in a film recently released with Kate Beckinsale & Charles Dance

My friends are in a band and their last album was number 17 in the album chart.

I used to work with someone who appeared in one of the Harry Potter films.
My old Sunday school teachers daughter (who was also friends with my brother. The daughter not the teacher) was in ‘The Last Kingdom’.

I snogged Tony Knowles and my friend snogged Steve Davis at a snooker show back in the 80s 🤣

It was because of me that Gene Pitney flew through the air and landed awkwardly on stage. At the venue we were asked to guard the doors as it was a ticketed event. I felt a push from behind the door I was guarding. The second push was stronger so I stood aside. I didn't know it was the stage door I was guarding.

My mum met Steve Davis on the stairs in a night club. She didn’t snog him though because she was married. But she wanted to as she had a massive crush on him.

I was interviewed by Andrew Lincoln's brother for a teaching job. He was/is a headteacher. I didn't get the job and he doesn't look anything like his brother...

Sean Batty was shite quizmaster at my pals village hall. He was vile and I reported him to STV

Gregor Fisher when Glasgow Ikea opened years ago was next to me at the tills

Ian McKellen once stole my taxi on Oxford St.

I know.

Jock, the St Andrew's Ambulance Corps Commandant [sic - that was the actual nomenclature] insisted upon it.

There were ladies' loos underneath the stand but - as with the gents' loos - you could smell 'em before you could see them. :(