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.
oh..brother used to baby sit for one of the stars of emmerdale. Lived at Colden and frequented the New Delight.
know a girl who's appeared in Razzle
lol, do you still keep a copy??
I had a girlfriend that was in Readers Wives.
I know a Razzle girl too and Zilla don't be dissin the Farm
When I was little we lived three doors down from the moors murderers
Up until I was thirty, dr Harold shipman was my GP
Really! I'm lucky to be here 😯
My mum was pursued by Mr.Biffa in her youth (not sure if that's his actual name), but I could have been heir to a skip empire!
I went to school with Tim Henman, mediocre pop type Jamie T, TV's Ben Shepherd, then to sixth form college with the drummer from Razorlight and missed out on Alexa Chung by errr...two years.
Housemate at university waited until our final week there to reveal that her uncle was Mike Joyce!
Dad's godson's sister (are you following this?) is married to Jeremy Edwards.
Uncle was the previous Governor of Jersey.
Am on first name terms with the bassist from Delays.
But, best of all...my friend's former housemate had his girlfriend stolen from him by Star Trek's Captain Jean-Luc Picard!
She was 22 at the time, he was mid-sixties...what a lad.
My GF is skiing with Graeme Bell tomorrow.
I fell off a fence in a pub car park near Ullswater and banged my head on the bumper of Edwina Currie's Jaguar.
a girl who went to the shoulder in royd (my local at the time) was in the Sunday Sport.
lol, do you still keep a copy??
Nah, she was a bit of a dog anyway - did some Escorting and wasn't averse to a bit of lady love by all accounts too. Used to knock about with her a bit in my late teens. She was best mates with one of my girlfriends, but this was before she turned into a bit of a wrong-un.
