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 met Gyles Brandreth when he was standing for parliament.
I was disappointed because he was in a suit and not a silly jumper. On the same day, I also met the Duchess of Westminster and her daughters (inc the one that's now married to Dan Snow).

My cousin played cricket against Michael Owen.

My Uncle claimed to have sat in Mussolinis gold bath. My dad said the nearest my Uncle got to Italy was Catterick Barracks.

Sorry-I can be more tenuous- I sat next to somebody from Boney M’s mum at a festival once and she took a photo of my baby.

My DH was in the opening credits of Channel 4 Racing for about 3 seconds.

I met a man called Kevin Turvey. When I remarked on it, he said that he’d been in the same class as Rik Mayall.

I still miss those hospital Christmas shows 60 years later. I loved them.

I went to a party at David Bowie's house ......... he wasn't there at the time!

my friend and I once wrote to the Sun asking to meet some famous posters and we was invited to a concert to meet George Micheal (Wham) and many other groups backstage. It was a Smash Hits special concert.
Was then covered in the newspaper.

My parents ran a newsagents shop and the Krankies lived locally- they were regular customers.
Footballer Steve Ogrisovic was also a customer ( this was in the 90s).
I used to work in a Spoons pub in Borehamwood so one or two of the Eastenders cast would be seen around, particularly Kathy Beale!
One evening just as we were closing Phil Redmond ( tv producer) came in with some friends- carrying a tray of sandwiches. Told him he couldn't eat them in the pub because we served food, and we were closing anyway. Kept asking for drinks- again, told him we couldn't serve him as we were about to close. He rolled out the " Do you know who I am?"......Yes mate, but I'm still not serving you!

I know Sheena. But only as a forum friend on the Dundee Couriers 3j’s.

Im also very familiar with the Jimmy Shand band and pub.

Also, an ex colleague of mine’s hands were used on the book cover Still Alice. Suck on that person who was on Funhouse 😉😂

I was temping in a bank near the old BBC rehearsal rooms in Acton once during the 1970s when Stratford Johns (Inspector Barlow in Z Cars and Softly Softly) came to the counter and reacted to me sneezing.

Loved the Kevin Turvey character .

Alvin Stardust bought me a pint in my local. He was appearing in panto and had rented a property nearby. He was very good company

i live in the same village as Chris tarrant, also kate Middleton and her family live here, well she lived here, iv seen them around a few times, met them when i worked in the local Waitrose. Always polite. Iv also bumped into Ricky gervais in the nature park near by.

First tenuous claim - Because my husband served on board The Royal Yacht, and during the family's annual trip around the islands he met the head housekeeper at Balmoral Castle, when the castle staff went on board to see the yacht, when we went on holiday to Scotland, she invited us to tea with her.

During the course of tea, it was mentioned that there was a servants' fancy dress party that night, and we were welcome to attend (without fancy dress).

Diana, Princess of Wales, came to choose the winner of the fancy dress, and hand out the prizes.

So - I've been to a party with Diana, Princess of Wales 😁

Second - my not-a-real-auntie was nanny to Spike Milligan's children, and I have been to his house. (He wasn't there at the time.)

I sat next to Cheryl Baker of Bucks Fizz at a music event her daughter was singing at (the daughter was very good).
I also had a chat with Joe Pasquale in a car repair workshop after denting my Mini Metro back in the 90s.
Paddy Ashdown visited our school and I got to ask him a question. Giggled all the way through it as all I could think of, was that my Dad referred to him as ‘Paddy Pantsdown’ 🤣

Sheena Wellington is always lovely. What happened with the Jimmy Shand Jnr band was a bit of a shock.* I've never known that kind of thing to happen with a prearranged handover either before or after. That was 20 years ago, at the Glen Pavilion in Pittencrieff Park.

We sorted it out, but there was an unnecessary scramble.

*ETA afterwards, there were mutterings of "His faither wid never have done that - he was a gentleman!"

I never did see Jimmy Shand Snr in real life, unfortunately.

I met Al Capone's pianist in 1979 in an Hotel in Rye.
He looked about 75.
We were celelebrating my DH's 40th birthday.

I have worked with Sophie Turners brother a handful of times.

My dad bumped into Joanna Lumley going in/out of Harrod's.

He also used to drink in Robbie Williams mum's pub and said he was a little shit who used to wind him and his mates up.

My step grandmother worked for Cannon & Ball
A relative of my husbands used to babysit Gregor Fisher
I almost walked into Dave Spikey and his wife coming out of TK Maxx 🤣

Was it Mr Baxter?

I did a touch typing course in the 90's with the girl in the Athena Tennis poster. And the girl who inspired 'Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds' by The Beatles baby-sat my sister and me. She went to nursery school with Julian Lennon who drew a picture of her - the teacher wrote the caption 'Lucy in the sky with diamonds' and John Lennon was tickled by it.

My younger sister once shook Mohammed Ali's hand while sitting on my dad's shoulders while I was holding onto my dad's suit jacket flap a long long time ago.

I had my ears pierced with Ozzie Osbourne’s eldest daughter then went back to their house and had strawberry milkshake in the kitchen.

I was once almost run over by Benedict Cumberbatch outside Marylebone train station because he was driving like an absolute knob.

Years ago I was behind Michael Buerk in the queue for passport control and he was wearing shorts with long socks and sandals.

As a teenager, I lived around the corner from Toyah. She was at the height of her fame and one day, she stopped to chat to me and a friend outside her flat and gave me one of her hair clips.

i once made eye contact with Paul Young in a newsagents.