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.

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.

…and from Mirfield. But he is an X-man so that’s got to be attractive to a lady.

I met Desmond Tutu and Yasser Arafat in Bethlehem on Christmas eve 1989

Next week I’m gong to a gig in my best mate from school’s kitchen in Dublin, featuring Iain Archer who won an Ivor Novello award. It’s not a huge kitchen.

Graeme Bell leg end.

Never saw the copy of Razzle but I know she did it. Missed out there. I do have a copy of Ginger Spice with her ginger spice out, not sure how that got here

Charlene Spitteri’s auntie works as a receptionist in the Glasgow(ish) of the organisation I work for.

My mates dad was a long distance lorry driver , once when in Uganda he had a cup of tea with Idi Amin. Apparently he seemed like a nice bloke.

My dad went to school with John Thaw.
I went to school with Nick Craig.
I keep bumping into Kirk from Coronation street in our local Coop.
I once asked Sarah Greene out in a pub in Liverpool, she declined.
I once said hello to Wendy James in a pub in Liverpool. (She looked very, very hot).
I used to be friends with Gavan Whelan from James and he would occasionally bring his friend out with us when we went drinking, Mick Hucknall.

But none of these are really tenuous.

I was doing a pub quiz with a bloke who had to go outside because Eric Clapton phoned him up.
When doing my post grad a friend of one of friends married Monica Lewinsky.

I’ve got a couple, my second cousin is (well, was) James Hunt the 1976 F1 World Champion. I used to live with a lad who used to work with David Baker’s wife and a friend of mine used to sit next to Anna Friel in their primary school choir.

Ms orena45 used to go out with comedian Richard Herring.
She also may be distantly related to Michael Jackson’s kids.

The closest I get to a claim to fame is that Stephen Fry follows me on Twitter…but then he does also follow 50,000 others as well!

Oh, oh, a friend used to jump over the fence at the bottom of the garden and go play with Lisa Marie Presley.
An old girlfriend lived next door to Stanislaw Lem.

ooh, I’ve got a good one.

I was once on the phone to Brant and he whispered conspiratorially,

“Steve Peat is here”. 😉

I’ve been wearing the longs owned by a TV star and Podium finisher today. I’ve had terrible wind too.

I think I’ve snogged the niece of 80’s F1 driver Andrea De Cesaris

A cousin, who is significantly older than me and who I have never met, was married to Prince Charles’ guru and Prince William’s godfather, Laurens van der Post.

My Mum taught Gary Sprake’s (Leeds Utd and Wales goalie) daughter at nursery school.

Eddie Waring lived in the village where I grew up, as did the lead singer of Smokie, a distant cousin of Sadam Hussain and where triathlete Alistair Brownlee currently lives.

Geoff Barrow from Portishead is often in the steam room at the gym I go to, and Carol Vorderman has been in my local bar a couple of times

I’ve had a cup of tea made by Michael Eavis in the kitchen at Worthy Farm.

Once snogged Sarah Wade when I was about 13. Then a few years later she appeared in Mayfair. You can buy a back issue of it with her in it.

I smooched at a school disco with the one off Grange Hill whose mum was a teacher (in Grange Hill, not real life. I never met her real mum, in fact I never saw her again, such was the power of my smooch)

While at Uni, I got my hand down a girl’s top on the bus on the way home from a big night out. I recently learnt she is an MP now.

During the war, my dad once had to share a tent with this bloke:

Didn’t like him much.

My mum was friends with Nobby Stiles’ mum.

When I was little, we lived on the same street as Bernard Manning.

John Thaw used to wash my dad’s car.

Joe Gladwin

once gave me 50p outside a church in Blackley. I was very little & with my mum at the time, not soliciting or owt. 😀

I swam naked (aged 6) in Beverly Cravens swimming pool. Her mum sold black currents to my mum and while we were there she offered us a quick dip in the pool. Random…

I went out with Steve Coogan’s sister.

Who also happened to be Brendan Coogan’s (from the Mock Turtles) sister. Brendan and Steve are also brothers.

My other half’s sister’s boyfriend’s cousin is Eddie Mair.

One for the gooners: great uncle (or great great) was Cliff Bastin.

Another relative played for West Ham in the 70’s – always forget the name.

I am the (now former) Prime Minister of Canada and on numerous occasions, I used to work and party hard.

my friend’s sister’s husband has played bass guitar for peter green.he (my friend) has also met peter.oh and he showed me a pic taken on his phone of him kissing marie brennan on the cheek(from clannad)when she did a solo gig at the whyvern theatre in swindon (his mum took the pic).

I used a toilet next to the one Brian Molko from Placebo was vomiting in. He didn’t hit the target to often either.

In our family tree on me Mum’s side we have Tom Hanks and the mother of Abe Lincoln.
Can’t do my dad’s side, the spreadsheet gets a circular reference.
😯

And…
My Dad’s wife (RIP) was friends with Richard Burn’s Mum. I found out about a month after he’d stepped off (Burns that is) – and he was a hero of mine.

Same departed Step-Mum’s granddad ‘invented’ Newcastle Brown Ale apparently.

And, gosh I’m star struck, I’ve shared a shop with the bloke who plays Kryton in red dwarf. Bonus points is that it was Leisure Lakes in Cheltenham.

My step-dad’s nephew is Martin Fry, off of ABC.
I once served a guy a pint that was for Jamie Redknapp. He drinks lager tops.

Oh, and one of my exes used to go out with Steve Punt, and Mrs Flying Ox was once felt up by Robbie Savage in a club in Bedford.

Ms orena45 used to go out with comedian Richard Herring.
She also may be distantly related to Michael Jackson’s kids.

I’m tenuously connected to Orena45.

I’m a distant cousin to Priscilla Presley (wife of Elvis) and mother to Lisa Marie (ex-wife of Michael Jackson)

Chatted for half an hour with Tom Baker (Dr Who) after he miss dialled the Chichester Theatre and got through to our office.
Ex-girlfriend and current good friend’s father played football for Wrexham, when they was good.
Forced David Beckham to stop at a zebra crossing in Madrid so I could cross.
Went for a drink with one of the girls who used to present one of the lottery programmes here in Spain.
And many, many more…
An aunt used to date the lead singer (I think) of Black Lace, Black Grape would have been cool but NO! Black friggin Lace!!! Agafuggindoo anyone?
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My boss’ cousin is Richard Jones of the Stereophonics.
My ex wife’s friend is the Auntie of the Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield.
I was once a school governer alongside Patrick Jones, Nicky Wire’s brother.
I ran the 100m against Jamie Baulch when I was 15. I lost.