1/ Grandads neice was Mrs President Nixon.
2/ Admin assistant at the previous employer was Paul Casey's (golfer) Auntie.
Offering this now as number 1 above only recently confirmed.
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
