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 great aunt and uncle used to live in the house behind one of the chuckle brothers 😂

I had tea with Marc Bolan. I played in goal at Wembley.

My nan's cousin was one of the women who went for tiffin with Sid James in Carry On Up the Khyber. Dh went to school with Topper Headon from the Clash.

I worked in a Sheffield bookshop in the 1970's, one of my work colleagues was Phil Oakey. Obviously pre Human League days, he was a lovely lad.

I was invited to a party Eric Clapton was also invited to. Neither of us went.

My 91 year old MIL used to play with Judy Dench in childhood.

Used to repair Robert Carlyle’s wife’s laptop. Repaired Paulo Nutini’s phone once. Hid from Tommy Flanagan from sons of anarchy at work as he was fuming about his broken phone.

As a folk club organizer who often puts up our artists at home to save hotel costs, I have washed the underpants of some big names in Irish and Scottish music, including Micho Russell, Andy Irvine and Manus Lunny. And Frankie Gavin said he liked my chicken pie.

Met Frank Bruno at a petrol station.
Also my friends cat was in a Whiskers advert many years ago.

In the '90s, my sister had a dog that was previously owned by Ozzy Osbourne's sister (in the UK)

My husbands claim to fame is he shook hands with Cilla Black in Torquay. He was in the Scouts and they went to see the show. He says she was lovely

I once worked with a woman who used to date Kit Harrington

Carol Vorderman sent me champagne to hospital when I was in having my son

Gok Wan and his film crew came into Macculloch and Wallis (big London fabric/haberdashery shop) when I was in there buying a zip. Everyone in the shop studiously ignored them

My ex boyfriend’s e was going out with a young woman who was in a band. She was nice quiet quiet we went out as a group a few times. Her friend came out with us once who was also in the band. She was loud and obnoxious and told us with absolute certainty that the band would be the biggest band ever. We all rolled our eyes

the quiet one was Victoria the loud obnoxious one was Geri

I appeared on an episode of the Jeremy Kyle show, was only a shot of me sat in the audience, I can't even remember what the episode was about.

Is she American? This woman looked very American, with her tiny white tshirt that had an American flag on it. She just looked like a victoria secret model. I mean no way he would have got her if he didn't sing 🤣🤣🤣🤣

My best friend was the Nanny for Richard Branson’s children.

Hollie McNish the poet told.me.sge liked my dress, when she was signing a book for me after a poetry reading I went to

Don’t know if this includes?
I use to speak to an elderly lady when I was a child that lived in my nans old people home, she was a child on the titanic, her father died but mother did not.

A friend of a friend won 9 figures on the Euromillions.

I worked with someone who’s cousin was in Corrie

Well in that case Spooky, I have a tenuous link with you.😂
My dd's former dance teacher is friends with Heidi Thomas, who is the woman who writes Call the Midwife.

I was at school with Priti Patel.

I sat next to Eddie redmayne’s granny on an east coast train to London. She seemed quite taken aback when I didn’t know who he was and didn’t believe me when I told her I don’t watch telly!