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 saw a little white dog in an antiques shop. He had Richard Curtis with him.

I drove the writer Laurie Lee to the station when his cab didn’t arrive at the bookshop signing. He bought me a drink on the platform!

He basically just said an article I wrote was trash and I was a useful idiot/DEI hire/etc.

For a man who preaches rationality and self-control, he's extremely emotional and impulsive 😂

I knew a woman who was married to the big cheese at the local barracks. Her eldest son was applying for Eton and she said "don't mention granny in your interview" in a context that meant "granny" was SOMEONE. I have no idea who granny was.

I made an orange juice with ice that Gloria hunniford pretended to drink during an episode of wish you were here

Plus my daughters have ridden a horse that has been ridden by Princess Anne AND I have slept in a bed that has previously (several years earlier) been slept in by prince William. So many tenuous claims to fame.

My mum dated Engelburt Humperdinck before she met my dad.

I'm distant cousins with Sean Bean! There is some family resemblance

I used to frequent a takeaway apparently owned by Sean Beans cousin.

My husband is mistaken for Hugh Grant regularly. He’s English, similar age and hair but there the resemblance ends. He’s pretty fat too, which HG definitely isn’t. I find it hilarious.

When I wasin my twenties I worked as a contact lens artist and some of the work was for movies and tv. I hand painted the lenses worn by Orlando bloom as Legolas in The lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring, and also for Elijah Wood (the bit where he gets stabbed by a poisoned blade and looks really ill). I also painted the lenses for Mike Myers as Dr Evil in Austin Powers 2. And did some tinted lenses for The Beach and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The company I worked for did the lenses for Darth Maul in star wars ep.1 and Mrs Norris the cat in Harry Potter - I didn't pain those though.

Lol a long time ex of mine had a claim to fame that he had slept in the same bed as Anna Friel ,apparently she was friends with his sister when they were at primary school and had a sleep over at his parents house and slept in his bed just not when he was in it 😂

I have met David Walliams (not a good person to meet now) I've met Mandy from Hollyoaks and used to look after John Partridge's mum (he played Christian in Eastenders)

I was on 50/50! Our school was participating against a Scottish school. The presenter tripped as she was running between the two sides and had to retake the shot. That's my only memory, I wasn't picked to answer a question and I can't even remember which school won... But I was there! 🤣

When I was a student in Cardiff way back when, I was an extra in not one, but two episodes of Pobol Y Cwm.

Clearly this was a high point for S4C and Welsh language television, cruelly overlooked by Bafta, but I reckon they are holding back for the lifetime achievement award.

I fear going back to Wales in case I get mobbed by adoring fans😀

I had a glass of fizz with Brenda Blethyn once. My friend worked in TV production so I got to go to the premier of a film called I think ‘Girls Night’ by Kay Mellor. She told me she was snogging Michael Caine the next day as she was filming ‘Little Voice’ at the time. She’s a super lady.

I used to work with Robson Green’s aunt. So did about 50 other people, it was a big office.

That’s him! We went on the same holiday once (me, Matt Ryan…and 30 other teenagers 😂) I ironed his jeans once in frustration at his shit ironing skills. 🙄😉😂

Ha! Me too actually! I’d forgotten that entirely. I was a kid in the school where Hywel Llewellyn taught 😂

I once sold a telephone to Terry Jones (Monty Python) He was lovely.
My step mum bumped into Michael Palin in Brighton and started chatting to him because she "knew him from somewhere". She only realised afterwards who he really was!

DH went to school with Hugh Grant

I once accidentally swore at George Clooney...

Just thought of another one!

My parents’ teapot appeared in The Bill when an episode was filmed in their house.

DD was at university at the same time as someone who had been in the My Family tv show.
Different DD once saw Victoria Wood's daughter in her university library
My friend's sister's house appeared in a series on one of the ITV channels.

Have just remembered another one
There a " reality " sereis about a bunch of students in Manchester circa mid 90,s it didnt last very long
I used to see some of the students on nights out when I was a student Nurse in Salford.