Tenuous links to Claims to Fame

[curiosity]

For a while at work now we've had some fun with really tenuous links we have to famous people e.g Sid Vicious Spat on me, or Pete Beale from Eastenders asked me for directions, Frankie Vali stood behind my sister in the chip shop queue, during which some people come up with some great & real Claims to fame (someone had dinner with Churchill and famous generals as a boy) We do laugh more at the tenuous though. Does anyone have any?

[woofgang]

well my suitcase was next to Gloria Hunniford's once on the luggage carousel at Heathrow

[nedflanders]

My old school mates mum went to school with Kirsty Wark.

[hannahjo]

Cheating a bit as it wasn't me, but my boyfriend stood on Kid Rocks foot at an after show party!

[nicola_red]

My best college friend's uncle was in The Muppets!  They based the muppet band on the BBC band of the time which her uncle was a part of so the puppet was based on him.  He was the double bass player.

Since working in theatre I have met a ton of famous people, but this one makes me laugh as it's so ridiculous.

[Octavius]

I was buying underwear from M&S for my ex-girlfriend and looked up to see Mini Driver choosing the same ones.  I would rather have seen minnie wearing them than my ex!!

[Starman 2112]

Mike Jones from the Clash sat behind me at a Queens Park Rangers FC home game once.

And.

Neil Kinnock sat two rows in front of me once, again at a QPR home game.

[littleoldme]

Another standing on foot one - my sister once accidentally squished Alvin Stardust's tootsies...and I once stood back to let Christopher Timothy get off a train (not because he was Christopher Timothy, just because I'm a polite chap).

[natalie_1982]

I sat next to John Virgo at Wembley stadium 4 years ago

I sold Paul Whitehouse an ice cream

My cousin is Catherine Zeta Jones' aunty and she was in OK magazine in the photos of the wedding

I met the cast of Hidey Hi at Butlins, Minehead in 1989

I met Martin Keown in Toy R Us a few years ago, my mum asked him where the yoyo's were cos she thought he worked in there.  I think my dad wanted to drop kick her being a huuuuuuuge footie fan.

Ant and Dec drink in my local and visit the greyhound stadium that my house overlooks as Dec's fiancee comes from our estate.

[Woodsz]

I got a kiss from Mini Mouse at Disney Land

[littleoldme]

Oh yeah, Natalie's mention of a greyhound stadium has reminded me. This might not mean a lot to anyone outside of the Deep South (uh-hyuk) of England unless you're old enough to remember How? or Gambit, but I did once meet Meridian TV "legend" Fred Dinenage at Portsmouth dog track, and even put a couple of quid on his dog.

It lost :-(.

[Octavius]

ooh ooh me me, I remembered (from a post above) that I saw a play in Stratford Upon Avon once and I was sitting behind John Cleese and his wife.  He is very tall you know.  And John Nettles was on the stage not too far away either...  We are bestest mates.

[delboy3]

I tripped up Noel Edmonds as he walked into a store in Manchester; sadly, he didn't fall over.

A work colleague went on a lunch date with Mick Hucknall; we waved them off in his open-top sports car!

Queued at a bar behind the girl from 'Watching' - Emma something? Sat behind Julia Salwalha having a slice of pizza at Birmingham New Street station. Waited for (another) train next to Celia Imrie, busy reading a script, at a tiny suburban station in south Manchester.

And went to school with Noel "Bod" Gallagher...

[puttycake]

The husband of a collague was walking through town on the day that Ben Elton was appearing at the Victoria Hall, the local concert venue. Who should ask for directions, but Ben Elton! The exchange was -

"Victoria Hall?"

"No, I'm Bob Smith, Ben - the Victoria Hall is round that corner."

At least Mr Elton had the grace to smile at a stranger wo was at least as witty as him, for a few short minutes!

[buttons]

Angus Simpson - Scottish TV News Presenter once spilled an entire pint of coke over me at a restuarant.   He was passing my table and the glass fell off his tray and covered me.  He paid for our meal and drinks (it was my sister and I).  That day was my sixteenth birthday, and i always chuckle when i think of it!

[Octavius]

I got in a black London cab the other day and the cabbie said 'you'll never guess who I had in the back of my cab the other day..'

I never did find out.  

[natalie_1982]

Oooh ooh ooh!

Octavius you reminded me.

My dad got married a few years ago and when the car came to pick up my step mum, myself and other two bridesmaids (we had to wear Norwich City coloured dresses, oh the shame) the driver told us that he had just dropped Delia Smith off at the game and I was sat in the seat her mum had been sat in.  I WIN!  I WIN!  I WIN! 

[vespaboy]

We were returning from a night out in Benidorm when we literally bumped into Rik Waller. I asked him what he was up to and he replied he was about to do a set in the club opposite. I said we were about to go in there but if he is on we would give it a miss, he laughed and swore at me, we did however go in and he wasn't as bad as I thought.Extremelty large though, tall as well as wide.

[natalie_1982]

Hey Pickle - long time no see, hope you are well X

[Peri]

I was at the same school concert as Ronan Keating.