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 took my dog over to meet Joe Lycett, his partner and baby and started chatting shit about dogs and babies....not realising it was Joe Lycett

My DD’s preschool used to visit the care home where Dr Heimlich of the Heimlich manoeuvre fame lived. The children did activities with the residents, so she may - or may not - have made a pasta necklace with him.

When growing up we used the same shop as Robbie Coltrane. He and my mum both smoked cigars at the time so they started chatting because of that. I was scared of him as I thought he was a giant.

I think I’m also some sort of distance cousin to the Cutkelvins who were on X Factor. And according to Wiki they’re distant cousins of John Lennon. So I guess I’m an even more distant cousin somehow?

A recording of me asking a question at a public meeting, after a newsworthy event in my city, was used on ‘The World at One’ on R4. I was driving at the time and was gobsmacked to hear my own voice on the radio!

I am clearly visible in the background of several scenes of an episode of Streetmate from 2000.

My friends and I had no idea who Davina McCall was (don't think she was all that famous then?) but we spotted the cameras and it was clearly something being filmed for TV...so we followed them all around the City centre for about six hours and made it into many takes 😂

I also grew up near TV studios and our school were picked to be the audience on a kids TV show. I sat next to the drummer of the band The Railway Children and I had my hand up for a question but the presenter never chose me despite the drummer trying to get them to.

It wasn’t even my question, we were randomly given the questions to ask.

A band that won the World Pipe Band Championship practised in the classroom next to mine.

Years ago, I won a writing competition and part of the prize was lunch with the judges, including authors John Mortimer and Fay Weldon. They were both huge characters and very entertaining. John Mortimer sang an old music hall song which he dedicated to my youngest dc. It was brilliantly surreal.

I didn't recognise Pauline Quirke in a supermarket where I was a cashier and asked her for ID because her cheque was over £50.

I knew someone who was in a Toploader video.

I met a police horse who had met Queen Elizabeth. Apparently he had stuck his nose in her handbag looking for snacks!

Back in the day when T.V. would do a show at Christmas from a hospital.I was on the ward for filming ,Gerry and The Pacemakers were the headline act.It was a children’s ward at Westminster Children’s Hospital,which is now rather nice apartments.

My Mother and all the neighbours watched at home and my Mother said she was embarrassed by how often I was on screen.I have never seen it myself.

My grandmother’s cousin was John Pullman, World Snooker Champion 1964-1968.

My son sold rod sterwart hairspray in a shop recently.

Bob Geldof said he liked my haircut!

I served the actress Georgina Hale once, when she was appearing in panto at our local theatre.

Queen Elizabeth gave my husband a lift in her Land Rover and joined in a conversation about a boxing match. (DH had been riding in the back with the stag she shot, but it started to rain. She told him to come up front and budged up to make room - she had a driver.)

I saw Alvin Stardust buying a pair of trousers in M&S in Kirkcaldy.

My FIL was invited to Queen Elizabeth's coronation.

I held the door open for Graham Norton, although it could have been the other way round, can’t quite remember! But he gave me a dazzling, charming smile. He was really quite captivating in that moment! (Not that I had any others to compare it to).

The Gladiator Cobra visited my son's school . My son asked him if he could have his number so he could come wrestle with his Daddy.

I worked with Ricky Gervais’ relative.

In the same team, I worked with someone whose gran was the late queen’s cousin.

In a Central London pub my DH once asked Boris Johnson, who he absolutely loathes, if he wanted a game of pool. Boris Johnson said no.

I served Vanessa Feltz at Waitrose when I was 16. I only realised when I saw her name on her debit card.

I used to often watch that video on french mtv followed by a video by french band Miossec which featured my future sister in law dancing as her partner was in the band.

Bonnie Tyler once asked me if I was alright. I was not alright. It was nothing serious though.

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In the 1970s, the Chairman of Cowdenbeath Football Club asked me why my dad wasn't at the game that day. (I was on First Aid Duty.)

As a First Aider, I got tea and biscuits in the Directors' Lounge and was allowed to use the loo there.