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.

Freida McFadden follows me on Instagram.

Ooh, this is the most impressive link for me.
I’m just nearing the end of the third Housemaid book: I love her writing.

Ive gone up in a lift with Felicity Kendal,

I’ve met the master carpenter who renovated the wooden Georgian fan frame (?unsure of the word) in the half circle window above the door of 10 Downing Street. It’s apparently very unusual that it has 7 loopy bits (again unsure of the vocab).

Jimmy Corkhill (Brookside) asked my dad to buy him a drink. I set up a Direct Debit for Libby Purves. My boss in my 6th form Saturday job in a pub was a regular extra in Coronation Street.

My kids' former babysitters have been a run of stars - one was in CITV programmes in the same era as babysitting them, one went on to be a regular in a soap and go on I'm a Celebrity, one was in Kinky Boots and Book Of Mormon in the West End and one performs regularly at Ronnie Scott's..

When I was a kid, I slept under an eiderdown that had belonged to Clement Atlee's aunt.

I sat in a ‘cafe’ in Broadmoor Hospital at the next table to Peter Sutcliffe and his wife.

I’m related to Tommy Flanagan the Scottish actor. He’s great

I know a person who turned down Brad Pitt hitting on her - right before his Fight Club fame!

My Mum met Mariella Frostrop in the local vets office with my cat. Apparently the town where I grew up became a celebrity hot-spot shortly after i left.

A friend of my husband was in the audience for the first Jeremy Kyle show, she was student at the time and cos it was a new show they were really just inviting people in off the street.

Ooh I love Gary Moore!

I met Douglas Bader when I was 4. He opened the school I went to in Germany.

My mum appeared on the 90s TV show "confessions" to confront a man who had stolen our cocatiels from the pub garden a year or so previously (my crush at school saw it and found it hilarious).
I was the only other person sat in an empty upstairs of a Starbucks with David dimbleby (I didn't speak to him).
My husband and I flew over Afghanistan the night America first bombed it during the war in 2001.
My husband's cousins wife is the real fern from the pilot episode of "this is my house".
I delivered a bunch of flowers to Tiger lily hutchence geldof. I worked as a royal mail delivery driver in faversham and didn't bat an eyelid at the parcel that said "TL Hutchence Geldof" until I was outside faversham priory. I had to ask passers by how to get in as my sat nav thing took me to the wrong bit. I had to knock on a separate house that's just outside the main gates and Fifi trixabelle answered! She said "dad told me about these, they're flowers for tiger" I didn't know what to say so said "are you bob geldoffs daughter?" She said yes. Unsure how to respond I just said "cool" and walked off, probably made myself look a right tit.
My stepsons mums sister was on an episode of the supernanny rip off, little angels

Pete Tong once offered to buy me a drink in a pub. I said no thanks. His friend said “that’s Pete Tong”, I said I don’t believe that’s even a name.

Ooh I've been an extra on Minder!

I snogged someone (not famous) who dated Kate Moss.

Remembered another one!

I lived in a very small village for 6 years from 11 to 17. I was about 14 and walking along the main coast road to my grandmothers house, when a flash sports car pulled up at the side of me. A man leaned across and asked me for directions to somewhere, I forget where now. But I knew where he needed to be and directed him. He couldn't thank me enough!
He looked really familiar, but I couldn't place him. I didn't know where I'd seen him. I tried to describe him to my mum when I got home and she was clueless! A few weeks later he appeared on TV and I shouted that that was the bloke! It was Derek Jacobi!

I was a cleaner for the family 14th on Kent's rich list (Brett aggregates)
Lovely people, but I was always given instant coffee while they had nice ground coffee! Also I technically owe them £90 as I got paid when they had COVID on the understanding of make up the hours but it never happened

I also think I saw Jake glynnhaal in Sainsbury's in 2011 (probably just a lookalike). I live very near Vic reeves.

I was on page 3 of the news of the world, not for anything risqué though.

My cousin was married to the man who owned the bedding company, dorma

I went on a date with Phil Oakey from The Human League in late 70s.

I was in the same class at school as the great grandson of John lougi baird

I once saw Gillian Taylforth in Tesco in Borehamwood.

This thread is like one long Alan Partridge travel tavern style name drop.

Anyone seen Bill Oddie? What about Sue Cooke?

Well actually Steve Coogans brother is a,friend of my cousin and came to his wedding i was sat near him he keeps popping up on people I might know on Facebook presumably because we have friends in common. My cousin and his siblings😂