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Another vacuous thread! Tenuous Claims to Fame

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FannyCornforth Thu 19-Nov-20 14:23:18

The more tenuous and obscure the better!
My aunty went out with the bloke who designed * both*
A) the Cadbury's Chocolate Orange packaging, and
B) Buzby, the British Telecom mascot

Beat that Gransnetterssmile

Chestnut Thu 19-Nov-20 23:58:34

I took home Georgie Fame's beer glass when he put it down at the side of the stage.

Lucca Fri 20-Nov-20 00:05:27

FannyCornforth

Lucca only just seen that you met Dali.
How did the conversation go? Was he friendly?

I was with a French family and actually we sent the youngest son to request the autograph . I saw Dali again a few months later as the car I was in with friends followed a black limo into the town of Cadaques (spelling?) and stopped the square. Out got Dali ! This was 1968.

Chestnut Fri 20-Nov-20 00:05:42

Glorybee

I stroked the neck of Harvey Smith’s horse in the 70’s

??? That is absolutely the best. I love it!

CanadianGran Fri 20-Nov-20 03:54:42

My MIL created the bouquet of flowers presented to the Queen for the opening in 1971 of our new hospital.

Nortsat Fri 20-Nov-20 04:26:13

My partner’s dentist has also done Eric Clapton’s teeth ...

dragonfly46 Fri 20-Nov-20 06:18:14

Oh I forgot - got on the same bus as David Attenburgh once. A wedge of money fell out of his pocket and I picked it up and gave it to him. He said thank you.

Grandma70s Fri 20-Nov-20 06:27:17

I’ve just remembered I sat behind Peter O’Toole, his then wife Siân Phillips and their two small daughters at the cinema in the 1960s. It was a Royal Ballet film.

gt66 Fri 20-Nov-20 07:04:15

Many moons ago, when I worked in London, Mickie Most (record producer) came into my place of work and while waiting outside same place of work (in Mayfair), along walks David Niven, who spoke to a man standing near me, enquiring if he needed any help (he must of looked lost). Said man turned to me after and said 'what a nice man'.

NotAGran55 Fri 20-Nov-20 07:04:55

I have just remembered 2 more .

My husband bought a car from the very wealthy inventor of Fuzzy Felt .

My dad emptied Elton John’s dustbin and he was a very generous tipper at Christmas.

Calendargirl Fri 20-Nov-20 07:42:11

My daughter was a nanny in London, worked for a woman who was a film producer.
When she came home one weekend, she was allowed to bring the BMW, there was a script on the back seat. She said it was for their next film.
It was ‘Notting Hill’.

When working for them, Harry Enfield came to their house. She answered the phone to Lenny Henry.

She also worked for one of the actresses from a tv coffee advert.

Juliet27 Fri 20-Nov-20 07:47:36

I was walking down a high street and Adam Faith came out of an estate agent’s so fast I nearly knocked him over. He was small.

suziewoozie Fri 20-Nov-20 08:03:51

Nortsat

My partner’s dentist has also done Eric Clapton’s teeth ...

This is a good ‘un

Kate1949 Fri 20-Nov-20 08:42:12

I saw Muhamed Ali getting out of a car in Birmingham City Centre.

TwiceAsNice Fri 20-Nov-20 08:52:05

I was confirmed by Rowan Williams when he was Archbishop of Canterbury and so was my eldest daughter at the same time. He was a lovely man , very warm and sincere . Also extremely clever

Riverwalk Fri 20-Nov-20 08:52:47

I know someone related to the owner of the donkey that appears in The Durrells smile

Riverwalk Fri 20-Nov-20 09:16:53

kircubbin2000

I taught a mass murderer.He did all the little messages for me and sat at the front in class.

I'd say that's more than a tenuous link!

M0nica Fri 20-Nov-20 09:25:07

FannyCornforth Marianne Faithful.

Alima Fri 20-Nov-20 09:39:06

My husband was on the same ship that some of the crew members bumped into Ronnie Biggs ashore in Rio. He was invited back onboard for a few cans. (That was frowned upon by the top brass and they were told that if they came across Lord Lucan they were under no circumstances to invite him back).

FannyCornforth Fri 20-Nov-20 09:39:21

fiorentina51

Fanny Cornforth. I think I need a bit of praise for watching the lovely Honor Blackman buy a bottle of Paracetamol tablets. I bet not many people have actually watched a celebrity purchase pain relief pills. ?

Credit where credit is due fiorentina
Did you sniff her? I would have found it very difficult not to.

Marmight Fri 20-Nov-20 09:39:24

My parent’s ex next door neighbour is mother to the Bishop of Coventry ...

Alima Fri 20-Nov-20 09:41:51

We were once on the same flight to Orlando as Sir Jackie Stewart. We were right behind him on the long trek out of the airport. He isn’t very tall.

FannyCornforth Fri 20-Nov-20 09:42:13

Riverwalk

I know someone related to the owner of the donkey that appears in The Durrells smile

This is an absolute corker.

FannyCornforth Fri 20-Nov-20 09:43:49

M0nica

FannyCornforth Marianne Faithful.

Sorry, Marianne Faithful what?confused

Alima Fri 20-Nov-20 09:46:02

Peter Frampton’s cousin is a photographer and took some great studio photographs of DD1 and DGD1.

lovebeigecardigans1955 Fri 20-Nov-20 09:46:06

My grandma said she was a cleaner for Vera Lynn. She co-habited with a man whose surname was Larkin and if they'd married I would have been a distant relation to the poet. As a teenage shop assistant I once served Jim Bowen, the 'Bullseye' host.