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 rode a horse regularly that had previously been ridden by Queen Elizabeth ii.

Love this, years ago I rode a horse that was in the film ‘Into the West’. He belonged to a riding school in the Dublin mountains where a lot of scenes were filmed. Proper old gent he was and was the riding horse for the kids. He was great on their cross country course

I’m related to Trent Alexander Arnold, closely too!

Well I have quite a few but I think my favourite is the time I sat next to meryl Streep for two hours and had no idea.

I don’t think she’s ever sat next to anyone who didn’t know who she was. It was very awkward. Only on leaving did my partner and I piece it all together 😂

Not celebrity-adjacent, but something I'm proud of: I once tried to kick a pimp in the nuts.

Does that count? Didn't quite reach the spot (he was holding on to me at the time) but I did try.

AY?

My partner went to a wedding with his then girlfriend. It was her best friend's wedding. At the reception, he was standing outside just having a break and getting some air when a woman came up to him and asked him for a light..He said sorry he didnt smoke .....and then realised he was talking to Lulu..

I was at Sheffield Uni in 1985 when Dennis Taylor won the world snooker championships . During the final’s early evening break he went to evening mass at the cathedral round the corner. My friends and I were in the pew behind . One of my friends shook his hand at the sign of peace and I went up to communion right behind him.

He went back to win the final after. I always thought - Divine Intervention!

I appeared in a German textbook. I’m not German

OMG, MATT RYAN?!?! I loved that show, was devo when they cancelled it. I thought it was amazing in the role (and still hold hope in my cynical heart he will get a season 2)

A lot of these seem to involve meeting actually famous people. Not sure they count. Here's a properly tenuous one.

My ex boyfriend's ex girlfriend had a horse that mated with the stallion that was, at the time, in the Lloyd's bank advert. I never met either of the horses.

Oh, oh! Remembered another.

When my husband was in the Scots Greys, he was an extra in the wartime escape film, The One that Got Away.

He's in the line of silhouetted soldiers who come over the brow of a hill, hunting for an escaped German POW.

Good one. Proper tenuous !

My ex FIL had a mental health disorder and was sectioned. When ex dh and i went to visit him, we met Adam Ant who had also been sectioned at the time. FIL gave Adam Ant dh's phone number so for a while he would call dh regularly, asking him to arrange a gig at wembley for him.

I had cocktails with Eggsy from Goldie Lookin Chain 20yrs ago. I didn’t know anything about him or his music at the time, and the same applies now lol.

I used to deliver Elvis Costello's & Barry Norman's post

I once went in a car driven by a guy who had given a lift to Harry Styles. Our bums might have sat in the same place.

Someone I used to work with used to be housemates with one of the boy band Five.

My mum did the flowers for Dudley Moore's mum's funeral.

My dad can be seen in the background of an episode of Minder. Not as an extra - just genuinely passing by. He was a carpet filter at the time and he'd just undone the top straps of his knee pads so that the pads were flapping as he walked.

My dd is in the same class as the ds of the most recent Apprentice winner.

When we were looking to buy our first home we viewed a gorgeous flat on a Saturday morning that was full of sleeping people and empty bottles. Turned out it was owned by Jade Goody and rented by a showbiz/gossip journalist. We very nearly bought it but ultimately decided on a modest house rather than a fancy flat so we wouldn't outgrow it.

My mum was friends with the late Chris Rea’s sister and there is a photo of me standing with her at a wedding when I was 8 or 9 ….

My grandmother's cousin was married to Don Bradman.

My SIL's house was used on an episode of Home and Away and you could see a photo of me and DH in the background.

My daughter is in the same class as a Cranberries member's son.

I used to share a house with the wife of author Donal Ryan, before she met him.

My nephew caddied for actor Aidan Quinn.

25 years ago when I lived in Glasgow, my midwife, close to retirement, said that when she started her career as a healthcare worker in a retirement home one of her patients was an old lady who as a trainee nurse had been one of the people who had helped prepare the Petrie dishes for the first antibiotics developed by Alexander Fleming.
The old lady said Fleming was very understanding when she dropped and broke one by accident- but the matron gave her a right telling off!

😂

I was taken out for a treat birthday dinner to what was then a new posh hotel in our city centre. It was ruined by Lulu and her entourage at the next table all screeching their heads off loudly throughout their meal.

My ex-boyfriend, who I finished with 37 years ago, had an older sister who was in Malcolm McLaren’s Madame Butterfly video (the one with models sitting about in a steam room!).