[Closed] Your most tenuous connection to someone famous. My two for starters.

My best mates adopted father is personal friends with the Chinese vice president.

My old geography teacher is a second cousin to David Bowie

My old French teacher is father to the trumpet player from Simply Red

An old school friend claimed (never was proved) he was Julian Cope (The Teardrop Explodes) cousin

my Grandad's second cousin is Sir Tom Finney

forgot one...
current boss is friends with the father of the drummer of Arctic Monkeys (wwwwwwwwhhhhhhhhhhhooooooooooooooo)

Andy Caddick is my third cousin

I once replied to a thread which was very similar to the feature on a radio show presented by Chris Evans

I shouldn't be admitting to this one, but my cousin's other half is Gary Tank Commander.

Michael Douglas - via the fact that I may have snogged Catherine Zeta-Jones in a nightclub in Swansea many, many years ago...

My friend at primary school lived in Rowan Atkinson's old house.

i have david suchet's fold-out mattress.

it's in my spare bedroom, which is now known as 'the poirot suite'

i'm hilarious.

Beth Tweddle thought my floor routine was "OK". Thanks Beth

I'm a distant relative of a former prime minister.

I once did the lights at a Paul Di' Anno gig
I once saw professor Heinz Wolf in reception in one of our old buildings

I met a (now former) Prime Minister of Canada on numerous occasions, as I used to work for his party.

My mam went to school with Vic Reeves.
I taught Theo Hutchcraft, from the popular band Hurts.
I was at uni with the lead singer from Bellowhead, but don't think I ever met him.
My wife's grandad turned down the Tan Hill pub's double glazing planning application.
I am named on the Wikipedia page for my home town.

I once replied to a thread which was very similar to the feature on a radio show presented by Chris Evans

sorry..don't listen to him so if it's a copyright thing then I apologise.

my mum dated Alvin Stardust in the 60's, NO he isn't my dad!

our family GP when we were kids was Roger Blacks dad.

Mark King (level 42) used to deliver our milk when we were kids

John Lennon was prefect at my dads school and told him off for running up stairs
But I prefer that my wifes Aunty is Jenny Agutter which makes watching parts of the railway children or logans run at Xmas a bit odd 🙂

i know Kathy from the paul Simon song - she is on one of his album covers as well- she signed mine

My ex's sister's mate once met Status Quo.

I worked for a company owned by a man whose daughter was in one of those Aviva ads.

Both of those have failed to get me tables at good restaurants 🙁

My ex's sister's mate once met Status Quo.

😆

Ex Man United player Brian McClair is my second cousin twice removed (though we've fallen out with that side of the family).

I had this printed in Viz' 'Lame to Fame' once 😀

I've chatted to Mark Owen in the pub on more than one occasion.

I once shook hands with someone who had met Ken Livingstone's mother.

Had pint with Plank from lock stock.

Mate works for the future aire to the throne.

my wife's sister's friend once let a columnist from the guardian take her up the wrong 'un

...should we start awarding points?

There might be a few nur pwants.

Been doing some work for Richard Branson recently. Thoroughly nice chap.

I posted this the other day...but my son got this through the post a few weeks ago 8)
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I sold papers to John Prescott.
I sold papers and cigarettes to the 2nd women to play Jack Sugdens wife from Emmerdale farm.
I sold a bag a of crisps to Carol Smillie. She paid on her own company credit card.

I spent some time in prison with one of Dexy's Midnight Runners.

My dad woke up one morning to find Eric Sykes drunk and unconscious on his kitchen floor

I once rented a flat from Nigel Walker (played for Wales for a bit)'s dad, around the same time he was playing.

My Dad used to work with Max Boyce.

My mum beat Mary Peters in the hurdles at the All England in 1963 I think.

She also went to an early Rolling Stones gig and Mick Jagger threw his tambourine into the audience and it landed at her feet. She left it for someone else, thinking the then unknown Mick was a bit full of himself.

My sister's old local was frequented by Craig Charles.

But better than all of those:

My brother in law went to school with the lady whose hand is in most of those hand cream ads where they just show hands rubbing the cream on.

I've sat on Carrie Fishers knee, attended Bernard Cribbins birthday party, had tea with Michelle Dotrice (Betty in Some mothers do ave em no less 🙂 ) and my uncle was a pastry chef for the Queen! Sadly i remember none of the events, making them fairly pointless!
Oh and i was in a Hovis bread advert when i was 9. I;m well cool i am! 8)

My sister got Anne Charleston's signature when she did panto in Oxford.
Yep that's Madge from Neighbours.

I spent some time in prison with one of Dexy's Midnight Runners.

This is the winner so far for me. 😆

Really?

really

My missus got in a lift with two blokes from...Shawaddywaddy!

well, really in the sense that we were both in a prison, one of us was in Dexys midnight runners, and it wasn't me it was him.

Actually.... Fred West was in there at the same time, though we never met

I was at primary school with the drummer from The Cranberries

My music teacher from secondary school, went out with Annie Lennox at university

My dad's second cousins wife is the great grand-daughter of Gladstone.

I knocked one out once whilst thinking about Cheryl Cole

A bloke I shared a flat with when I was a student was at school with John Cummings out of Mogwai.

Subsequently I worked (in a different city) with a bloke who did the same degree at a different uni, and was [i]also[/i] at school with John out of Mogwai.

Andy

My great great grandad designed this:
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Alan Turner off-of Emmerdale Farm once told me I could go before him at a hospital reception

I was once in a band with a guy who went on to play guitar on Madonna's Ray Of Light album. allegedly

FormerlySTR... by that reckoning I'm a [i]lot[/i] closer to her than you are!

I used to live across the road from a lady whose brothers best mate went out with Kylie Minogue (but she never dropped by for tea).

Michael Aspel did a 'This is Your Life' in my kitchen on Linda Barker.

My cousin made a thunderbirds figure in the image of Adrian Chiles which was featured on his new morning TV show recently.

My aunt & uncle used to live in London with Wendy Richards & the drummer from Def Leppard as neighbours. When staying up there for the weekend they got Wendy Richards (Pauline from Eastenders) to babysit me & mys sister.
We stayed round hers & all I can remember were lots & lots of frog toys, ornaments, pictures, cushions. She loved frogs apparently...

One of my best mates (and occasional poster here) is in a band with the current Fall guitarist.

I was featured in the 'Boys Bonanza' section of the April 1991 issue of Mizz magazine.

I once shook hands with Penelope Keith.

Forgot my other much better claim to semi-fame!

I was in the same primary school class as [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Scott-Lee ]Andy Scott-Lee[/url], brother of [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Scott-Lee ]Lisa Scott-Lee[/url] from Steps

My sister was asked out by Thom Yorke and turned him down

I gave Mark Thomas a lift to Glastonbury on an off chance and ended up getting heavily involved with his campaign against Balfour Beatty

Forgot my other much better claim to semi-fame!

It's suppose to be "your most [i]tenuous[/i] connection to someone famous"

I spent some time in prison with one of Dexy's Midnight Runners.
This is the winner so far for me.

Really?

Actually, I think I can outdo myself.

I bought a second hand alternator from a commercial vehicle breaker who's been killed by Indian Jones three times, and his yard is (or was as he actually is dead now) across the road from the prison

The Southern Yeti - Member
FormerlySTR... by that reckoning I'm a lot closer to her than you are!

🙂

yossarian - Member
My sister was asked out by Thom Yorke and turned him down

I'm not surprised - he's fugly

I'd say being in the same class as some not even z-list celeb who was the brother of someone slightly famous was a pretty tenuous connection?

I spent some time in prison with one of Dexy's Midnight Runners.

No-one is ever going to beat that

Well maybe I'm easily impressed then.

Matt Roberts off-of bbc's MotoGP coverage lives in my village oo er

My sister was mates with Lisa Stansfield at school and her mum was our dinner lady......

That's Lisa's Mum, not my sisters

My mum has the same name as a pro badminton player who was playing about 30 or so years ago. Not a very famous one mind, can't even find a wiki page on them.

Ooh, oooh... I just remembered...

I once saw Dennis Waterman outside a tea room in York.

Sarah Fergusson viewed my etchings.

I bought a used car from Britney Sprears*

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*this may be pure speculation

My Mum went to (Washington grammer) school with fox baiting Bryan Ferry of Roxy Music fame. Never snogged.

My Mrs went to the loo at a 6 nations match at Twickenham in the next stall to Judith Chalmers off of the telly.

My ex girlfs dad appeared as an extra in several James Bond films starring Sean Connery, he was one of the helicopter pilots where they try to shoot down Little Nellie, he got killed twice in that scene.

A friend of mine is going out with a bloke who used to play guitar for KD Tunstall and now plays for Duffy.

My wifes friends husband sang in zane lowes band.

It is said one of my very distant relations was the love child of Lawrence of Arabia.

My mum and dad used to play bridge with Kenneth Clark.

My mates Dad shagged Rusty Lee.......seriously, he did and isnt shy about telling the story! 🙂

I bought a second hand alternator from a commercial vehicle breaker who's been killed by Indian Jones three times, and his yard is (or was as he actually is dead now) across the road from the prison

Say what now? 😕

My wife's second cousin won an Olympic Gold medal in 1964. I've never met him.

We once left our kids at a friends house looked after by a baby-sitter who also did baby-sitting for Boris Johnson - who we've never met.

I gave my old Bass amp and cab to a bloke whose first album sold 7 million about 8 years later. But I hadn't seen him at all in the meantime.

I once shook hands with someone who had met Ken Livingstone's mother.

Ernie, you've shaken my hand, and I've shaken hands with Red Ken (Cha Cha Cha) himself!!! 😀

My mate Scottish Kev is a distant cousin to Sir Chris Hoy.

My mates Dad shagged Rusty Lee.......seriously, he did and isnt shy about telling the story!

That one makes me chuckle as I can't imagine Rusty Lee managing more than a couple of minutes without laughing 🙂

When Mrs STR worked in Bakewell she met:

Sir Cliff
Victoria Wood
William Hurt
Liam Gallagher
Ade Edmondson & Rik Mayall

I met either Bella Emberg, or some of the Roly Polies when I was a nipper - cant remember, but they were filming outside our school.

Spoke to Steve Peat & Adele Croxon in Meadowhall Retail park.

Passed Ronnie Corbett in his Rolls Royce on the M1 years ago.

Judith Chambers reminds me...
I was on wish you were here from Corfu when I was 10'ish and all I said was, "It's a bit hot".
Rough Guide indeed!

I owned a house 5 doors up from where vic reeves grew up.
I got arrested for drugs on william hagues drive.
I know one in the guys from hertz's gran.
I once met one some no mark from emmerdale in a club loo in leeds (not uncommon)
When i worked at orange i connected a phone for the late colin Mcrac's gran.

I know a girl who's appeared in Razzle

(not a lie)

Say what now?

Pat Roach - wrestler, actor (Clockwork Orange to East Enders) and specialising in fist fights that result in his gruesome death in each of the first three Indiana Jones films ( as a bald nazi getting chopped up by the propellors of a plane in the first one, and a turbaned chappy getting squished in the second one and I can't remember how it gets his come uppance in the third), all this whilst running a commerical vehicle breakers yard in Winson Green

Anyway heres a tenuous brush with fame for anyone reading this....... My Starmeter on Internet Movie Database has gone up 16% in popularity this week

My grans friend is the mother of ex-James guitarist Larry Gott.
My boss's ex business partner is friends with Steve Coogan

Maggie Philbin used to babysit me and my sister.

My wife did flowers for Richard Whitely and the message was from 'King Dick' lol.

My dad bounced on the door at the first gig Def Leopard played in Leeds , only 1 member of the band was old enough to buy a drink at the bar.

My mate was once in a band with Royston Langdon who was married to Liv Tyler.

Oh, and I bumped (literally - drinks spilled and secret service blokes getting tense) into Tony Blair in the Red Lion in Sedgefield when he was PM.