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'm friends with Niall Horans (One Direction) ex sister in law.

My friend knows the writer of two Eurovision-winning songs.
Another friend knows a Eurovision winning singer.
I grew up with a girl who had an affair with another Eurovision winner.
A girl I knew became a Eurovision winner later on.
My friend's Norwegian boyfriend went to school with a Norwegian Eurovision winner.

I have no connection with anything related to the Eurovision, and none of these acquaintances of mine know each other. It's just a bizarre coincidence.

The first British reality programme made was The Family back in 1974, I knew the family but the programme was made after we had moved away from the area.

Judy Dench was sitting behind us at an Eddie Izzard show in London sharing out sweets with her friends.
We also spotted Harry Enfield later too.

My partner's stepdad is related to David Essex.

He also has a male relative that was a drummer for Tom Jones and was in Bugsy Malone. He's in a scene with Jodie Foster 💃

Tom Finney sometimes used to eat his sandwiches in my great aunty Mary's shed

I read this very quickly and anticipated that it said ' from my great aunty Mary's hand' 😂🤣

I have an ikea dresser from an old flatmate paid for by Madonna (she worked for her years ago).

We usually keep that anecdote within the family 😉 It would be a better tenuous claim to fame though 😂

When we met, my husband lived in the house a member of The Sweet used to own. He would occasionally still get royalty cheques for him in the post.

Met Leonardo Di Caprio on stairs at a hotel we were both staying in in Glasgow a few years ago. He is quite ridiculously handsome. My colleague went weak at the knees. He said hello and seemed very accustomed to the reaction.

🤣

I once saw ‘Shane Warne’, former Australian cricketer at Melbourne airport … on his phone.
RIP Shane

My best friends uncle was a bodyguard of Madonna years ago. He was in the film in bed with Madonna and often pictured in the papers running in Hyde Park with her. Has nothing but nice things to say about her.

I was ostentatiously coughed over by Heather Small as she walked past me as I was smoking

My nephew was an extra in Waterloo Road
I lived in the next street to Peter Shilton (England goalkeeper)
My friends dad was the pianist for Gene Pitney
I knew a finalist in the GBBO

My best friend was a model on the tv show Funhouse

I went ro college with Julian Clary. He had bleach blonde hair, dark eyeliner, was really tall, wore a green flying suit and used to walk through the refectory like a sort of god. He was absolutely gorgeous and I fancied him like crazy. . . I'm female. I used to try to catch his eye. 😂🤣🤣😂 I think I was a bit thick back then.

Gok Wan and his film crew filmed me walking along the street. He gave me a ‘you go girl’ look.

My husband went to school with Kylie Minogue and had a crush on her.

Another one, had a drink and a chat with Adam Hills in Adelaide 30 years ago. I’m so cool.

Once pressed the button for a lift in Saks 5th avenue, doors opened it was absolutely rammed. Dawn French was at the front. Dad said. ‘There’s no space is there?’ She shook her head and the lift closed.

he’d retell it as ‘tried to get in a lift with dawn french but there wasn’t room

Another one for the folkies: my late husband sang in a singaround led by Gordon Bok (at Keith Folk Festival).

Jimmy Nail once stopped his car and asked me and my best friend, both age 11, where the prison was. I realised it was him after I had given him directions and he was driving away.

Another one.
My daughter once served ‘Anthony Callea’, from a series of Australia’s Got Talent.
It was in the bottle shop at supermarket where she worked.
When he got no reaction …. He said, “Don’t you know who I am”
He has gone on to do very well. Not a fan of him though.