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 know someone who was in the Feeder ‘Just a day’ video

I was in the choir of the school that “Jim’ll Fit It” fixed it for Rolf Harris to do a massive painting for us.

My mother had a go at Rod Stewart after a flight from Malaga to Heathrow - she went up to him at the baggage carousel and asked him why he had cancelled his concert in Marbella (which we were supposed to go to). I was so embarrassed!

Also, for older readers, my parents were friends with Tony Hancock and his wife. They used to come for dinner at our house when I was very small.

Oh I have something to add! My cousins friend went out with Alan shearer in the early 00s and a friend of a friend of a friend was dating the lead singer of shed seven. An arsehole by all accounts.

Beautiful actor Aaron Pierre has many cousins, one of whom is my PT.

Princess Margaret was in the audience when I modelled the updated Girl Guide uniform in my early teens. In a blink and you'll miss it I appeared on The Clothes Show walking the runway.

I've narrowly missed seeing Tom Hardy in the flesh more than once.

At school, I had the swimmer Sharon Davies' old Latin textbook.

Does she think he was as lovely as he is reputed to be? (Just wondering if an ex girlfriend might take a different view!)

My best mate at sixth form was featured with Alan titchmarsh on songs of praise.

I was interviewed by Al Jazeera once.

Forgot my main claim to fame. Myself, my mum and DS were in the audience of The Lion King when Elton John, David and the boys also came to watch.
Will always be remembered as the time I hung out with Elton.

My grandad used to work for the Krays.

I saw you!

My mum was a brown owl, so we watched that episode with baited breath.

We were not impressed.

My claim to fame is that I danced with him at The Millionaire in Manchester!

I'm sorry, I did my best 😉

I nursed Lenny Henrys Mother.

You should have tried harder 🤣

Honestly, that uniform revamp was awful. What did you think of it, seeing as you had eyes on first?

I stood in a queue in John Lewis behind Audrey from Coronation Street. She was buying a cushion.

And for a bit of history: My gran once saw Stewart Grainger from the top of a London bus. And apparently he was wearing a pork pie hat.

Just remembered another: my ex once saw Judith Chalmers when she was out shopping.

Harry Connick Junior hugged me and apparently he prays for me…

My DAd once beat Steve Cram in a Cross Country race.

I kissed Rev Richard Coles.

Former pupils at my school include a history-making politician, a star of American film musicals and a notorious murderer.

I was quoted in the Daily Mirror.

I stood beside Kevin Bridges in a pub in Glasgow. He saw me get very excited over a dog wearing a jumper that made it look like a tiny Santa was riding the dog’s back.

DH is in the background of an episode of Michael Portillo’s Great British Train Journeys.

When we were moving away from Glasgow, Garry Bushell viewed our flat. He wasn’t too impressed that my mum (who was showing him around) didn’t have a clue who he was.

When I was a teen, my family were walking through the glens. We had to get off the road to let a Land Rover through which was coming up quite quickly at first. The driver waved to thank us. After he passed my dad and I looked at each other and just said “was that Prince Charles?” My mum is adamant that one of the two women we said hello to as we walked past them further along the road was Camilla. This was before their relationship was official but of course it was the worst kept secret that they were together.

My grandfather is the reason why the BBC have a "sound library" of background noises that can be used during the production phase.

In the same era as my Millionaire club days I looked after Phil Oakey’s mother in A&E.

These days I often see Alexander Armstrong on the train as I commute to the office. A few weeks before Christmas I saw Prue Leith on the way home and some woman had got talking with her and missed her stop.

The man who came to measure my mum's window for blinds bought a sofa off Marti Pellow's mum.