[Closed] What's your most tenuous claim to fame?

isn't there already a current thread like this ?

oh, I see 🙂 These are nearly all highly tenuous: http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/whats-your-best-claim-to-fame

Jimmy Saville was in front of me at the till in my village shop a few months ago. He hadn't done his tracksuit top up and was being weird, so I went and loitered in the fruit and veg section until he'd gone off.

geoffj - Member
I once sat opposite Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall on a train.

You failed. You failed miserably. All we wanted was HFW on STW and you failed. Now, go and sit in the corner and think about how you've let us all down.

I once clashed oars with Steve Redgrave (that's not a euphemism!)

i once sold uga twigamala (know idea if thats how you spell it) a pair of jeans.

[i]You failed. You failed miserably. All we wanted was HFW on STW and you failed. Now, go and sit in the corner and think about how you've let us all down. [/i]

What upsets me most about that is the fact that I failed to ask him if I should crack the bones when making stock from a chicken carcass! 👿

well that and feeling like a stalker after surreptitiously taking his photograph. 😆

oops.

I've met Jenson Button

I once discussed LOOK pedals with the guy who played the butler in the Fresh Prince of Bel Air. Turns out he's a keen cyclist.

This isn't my claim to fame but..
A few weeks ago, I visited Alcatraz. At the end of the tour, there's a shop, where you can buy t-shirts and books and stuff. The author of one of the books was there - Darwin Coon, a former inmate. We had a bit of a chat, and i asked if he met anyone famous when he was inside. He said he'd met Robert Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz, but not in Alcatraz, in another jail, Fort leavenworth IIRC. then he asked if I'd ever seen Escape from Alcatraz. I said yes, the one where Clint Eastwood tunnelled out using spoons, based on a true story..
"Well, son, I worked in the kitchens and I got them the spoons"

So the answer was "No"

I saw Tom Baker walking out of a Butchers. Waiting to see Pat Butcher walk into a Bakers

LOL @ Drac 😀

I went to school with the neice of a GB athelete who won a silver medal in either the commenwealth games or olympics or summit.

Or I was in Hollyoaks as an Extra 😆

Lol @ geoffj - I remember that thread you started on the train with HFW, t'was funny.

Lent some bacon to Jarvis Cocker whilst crabbing at walberswick this july- his kept falling off the crab line.

i [i]nearly[/i] delivered an exercise bike to Cheryl Crows house for Lance to use, but it was canceled last minute - same for Flavio Briatore

I was scowled at by Germaine Greer, when walking through a London tube tunnel someplace.

- I work with a guy whose uncle is in Judas Priest
- I got Jenny Powell's autograph years ago at Alton Towers
- I am being tattood on the 17th Nov by Joolz Denby

I sold Count Dracula aka the Snooker player Ray Reardon a Suit as I used to work in a shop in Bond St, I also sold Claire Grogans boyfriend a jumper, she helped choose it...I think he had a Happy Birthday 😆

When I was on Top Gear someone called Jeremy Clarkson kept getting his head in shot so you couldn't see me!

Jannis Battersby of Coronation St(who was rather the worse for wear in the pub one sat afternoon) borrowed my mobile to ring her husband at home (over the road)!

She then proceeded to have an argument over the phone. Then gave me a fiver to cover the cost of the call!

Classy 😆

I went to school with James 'Mo Wax' Lavelle (but he was just a naughty boy back then) and also Ian McEwan's stepdaughter.

Oh, and Dennis Waterman chatted my mum up. She was delighted.

I met the Queen last year when she knighted me at Buckingham Palace.

Oh yeah, and my cousin was on Cheggers Plays Pop!

Only joking.
Blimey Cheggers Plays Pop.That was quite a few years ago.Showing your age there mate. 🙂

I used to live with someone who used to work with David Baker's wife.

That's pretty tenuous.

@gsi man: Those were the days... Cheggers, Crackerjack, Blue Peter... Double maths homework. Maybe it wasn't all great, eh?

JK has a house 3 miles away from my folks, keep seeing him in the pub, he's taller than you think.
Jack Bruce used to holiday near my home, saw him in the pub once.
Shared a plane to Corsica with some woman out of Corrie Farm.

I sold Magnus Magnusson a half bottle of whisky and half of vodka about an hour before he started filming Mastermind at the Oxford Union.
Mrs Belgium sold Alan Shearer some DVDs when he was playing for Southampton, and Steve Claridge's wife used to cut Mrs B's mum's hair...

I used to live next door to Sean Connery's brother.

We were on hols a few years back and Tom OConner sat with a group of us.
By the end of the night we were so drunk that we would interrupt his cheesy gags by saying " I’ll name that tune in .." it was very funny at the time .. guess you had to be there 😕

I used to sit next the Helen baxendale most days on the train going to school, she was in the year below me ... If only i'd kept those kiddie love letters 😥

Once interviewed Joolz for a fanzine in Huddersfield! Long long time ago.

On Cheyney Walk I saw Mick Jagger in the back of a Daimler limo, I gave him the thumbs he just flicked the v's.

I was rescued by Flipper the dolphin when I was 7 whilst in a dingy in pool in Stirling safari park, My mum recently told me it was not the same Flipper that was on the telly years ago, I was gutted!

Imposter!!!

I used to live next door to the saxophonist from The Thompson Twins (when they were a 7-piece, and weren't famous.)
When I was photographing my first ever assignment back in 1989 I got into a slanging match with David Gedge from the wedding present.

That really is very poor, isn't it?

@GlynP: we have a winner, thread closed!

Once nabbed Renee Zellweger's poolside sun lounger as she got up and left.

I sold t-shirts for Sonic Youth & Mudhoney on 3 dates of their UK tour in the 90's and made a right **** of myself in the process. Told Kim that they sucked and didn't recognise the Vaselines when they dropped by... I did get to hangout with (cool rock chick listening to Neu) Suzanne though. 8)

Also sold once for Dinosaur. Drank most of their rider too... They were very cool.

my younger brothers Father in law owns the ostrich farm that backs onto JK house and chequers (pm's lazy place),and also lives there at riflerange hill farm kimble.

Mark webber moved in next to my friends dads pad in aston clinton in the summer and the 2005 indy car world champion dan wheldon used to 'mince' around the waterski centre were i worked in my twentys which was also owned by same my mates dad, freaky ? wheldons dad always had a pop at me when he had had a few too many, probrally because i told him his son was odd..!! still cant believe its the same guy ????

Saw Roy Walkers knob in changing room at a swimming pool.

"say what you see"

"a tiny penis Roy!"

Met Terry Gillam (monty python chap) Made furniture in his house.
Got a kiss from Joanna Lumley (16ish years ago!)
Wife did a degree in genetics with Sir Alec Jefreys (of dna finger printing fame)
Worked wit Paul Fox (from the Ruts - an old semi famous punk band - they're great!!)
Brother got chatted up by Francis Bacon (i think it was him) - boy did he run!! Ha Ha - still makes me chuckle - he got invited back to his too - HeeeHeee. BTW brother is twin & totally bats for the home side!

Is spying on penises (peni?) a claim to fame. Sorry. In Roys defense - perhaps the water was cold.!!

Once sat opposite the Tory MP Harvey Proctor and wished him 'good luck with the whips'
Was in the same class (primary and secondary) as Stephen Harris (of Iron Maiden)
Taught a girl who was in the Olympics for trampolining and currently teaching one who is being prepared to bounce in the next Olympics
Once walked past Prince Charles in the street and made a point of completely ignoring him (not that he's have noticed)

I sat next to the drummer from Slade on a flight to Oslo.

I once gave the Queen a spade to plant a tree at my school(there's a joke in there somewhere).

Was presented with an award for being 'Bolton Lego Builder of the Year' by David Prowse (Darth Vader) at Bolton Co-op when aged about 10.

Actually that really is a claim to fame, so this is in the wrong thread!

cf

Sir Norman Tebbitt once came into the petrol station i owned & i filled his Range Rover up. Didn't realise it was him till he gave me his credit card.
& I was an extra on Emmerdale.

I was mountainbiking just south of Machynlleth in a place called Artists Valley about 15 years ago and came to a farm with a strange looking chap sitting in the garden. Stopped to open a gate and he engaged me in conversation, nice day, where've you come from etc. He didn't look like your average farmer and a few days later I saw him on the telly,it was Jimmy Page, apparently Robert Plant still lives just up the road. Rock n roll or what? Just wish I'd recognised him at the time but would probably not known what to say.

Stay two doors down from Ashely Judd's sister-in-law(Dario Franchitti's sister)!

I once served Doctor Legg from Eastenders in a pub.

My brother went to university with (and had a huge crush on) a girl who went on to marry Tom Baker's son

My mum's cousin played a traffic warden in the bill once, and he was also in a british gas advert.

Been mentioned in a couple of books.

My dad lives really quite near Robert Smith from The Cure.

I met the bloke that did the hand claps on Kool and the Gang's records once...

Earliest memory actually.My mummy(well I was three!)said a beatle is in town(that would be John lennon of course),and I thought oh! - a creepy crawlie.Nothing new there then!

Sat right behind Tony Robinson and his new young girlfriend at a Daniel Kitson comedy gig - they couldn't keep their hands off each other and it was quite distracting to see him groping her "whale-tail" which was showing rather too much!

I ripped some fur off of Orinoco off the Wombles fame whilst they were opening a Co-op supermarket in the seventies round my way.

Paul Whitehouse lives on the street next to me
Sir Tom Finney is my late grandad's second cousin
Jake from Hollyoaks came to my new year's eve party

Suzie Perry looked at my arse when I was riding on Cannock Chase (she was filming some piece about mountain biking on FTD)

When I approached she said something like "oh, environment" to the cameraman, and as I went past I looked back to see what was going on (I hadn't recognised her) and caught her eyeing my posterior with quite a lustful look in her eye(well, she may have been scowling.....). She was accompanied by a couple of chaps who were holding their front wheels up behind her in some sort of masculine display.

I wish I'd stopped and offered to hold mine up for her.......

I was on Songs of Praise once, in a fleeting crowd shot. But weirdly everyone I know saw it, and said "Why were you in the crowd for Songs of Praise". "To get on the telly. Why were you watching Songs of Praise?"

And I met Glenn Michael once.

my great uncle was Norman Wisdom's make-up man

My dad's neighbour is the drummer off of Pink Floyd.

When I was 17, the Queen left the room after I f@rted.

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I moved Andre Agassi's piano. He and Steffi Graf were home at the time, and Andre was very interested in how two guys could move something so heavy. He was very friendly. Meanwhile, Steffi was scrubbing the floor tiles near the front door of the $22 million house.

I took Elizabeth Taylor's picture once for a private commission just after her wedding to Larry F. Handed over the film as part of the deal though.
I've worked on many TV programs, films and adverts as a stills photographer, so I've met many celebs; and shot them.

Main claim to fame: I stood in for Arnold Rimmer (Red Dwarf) as his ar"e in "Rimmer's World" - series 6, I think.

I am a (distant) relative of Priscilla Presley.. so am related by marriage to Elvis (and Michael Jackson when he was married to Elvis' daughter).

Nonk - is that Inga the Winga ? In that case you mean Va'aiga Tuigamala.

I quite literally ran into David Lange (NZ Prime Minister at the time) at a bottle store in Wellington (the Western Park on Tinakori Road) when I was underage. That man could stop a bus ! He said "Good Evening Ladies".

Was kinda cool.

P.S The drinking age was 12 in NZ at that time, obviously.

As a teenager I worked in a garage where will filled the punters cars for them and Jimmy Greaves used to stop by every Saturday on his way home from doing the Saint & Greavsey show.

That irritating woman (can't remember her name) who impersonated teh Queen used to come in as well. She was rude, arrogant and thought she was royalty herself. A right stuck up cow.

I also, once did the lights for Paul Di'Anno (original singer with Iron Maiden) gig

A few relatives were extras in 'Highlander' when filming at Eilean Donan castle, being peasants - they got the job as no make up / costume required 🙂
They also employed as many bearded men as they could get.

I shared a shower with Nigel Clough 😳

i met larry lloyd, liverpool player, at a hotel in tenerife in 1976ish,and he signed my flip flop.

Hardly a claim to fame, but I played bass for Humphrey Lyttelton and Andy Gibb, among others.
Not at the same gig obviously......

I taught Gordon Banks' son to waterski.

At Mountain Mayhem I waited at the Shimano stand while they all stuck their noses up Graeme Le Saux's arse. When he left after about 15 mins, I said "Can you look at my gears?" Shimano bloke said no, we're having lunch. Tosssers.

Ron Atkinson once stole my golfball off the green on my local golf course. It was a courtesy hole where they stood aside on the green while we played our shots from the tee. Hit a blinder (1st time for everything) and he congratulated me on my shot once we'd walked to the green. Only as they walked of did i notice that he'd played my ball and nicked it and left me his ball which was much further from the hole. Git.
And he stopped in the car park afterwards in his Roller and asked me where i bought my shoes as they looked nice and light!

I once finished off Baby Spices' chocolate pudding (that's not a euphemism either BTW)

I think this is a quality thread ...

my small contirbution is my girlfriends brother lives next door to the Rainbow presenter Geoffrey and yes he is a cabbie.