Another vacuous thread! Tenuous Claims to Fame

Jack Hargreaves trod on my toe at Salisbury Horse Market

My then 4 years old daughter picked wild flowers in the grounds of Culzean castle and presented them to Prince Charles who was doing the Scottish rounds!

My DH was good friends with Brian Jones in his teens, dines out on the fact that he could have been a Rolling Stone ?. I have met Zara Phillips and Peter Scudamore at work.

I knew Dr Who's Dad

Prunella Scales stole my breakfast table in a Cambridge hotel once. I had put my bag on the chair and gone to the buffet bar for juice and when I returned she was sitting there. I politely told her that the table was taken and she got up and moved. Only afterwards did I see the poster in reception about her and Timothy West appearing in a play at the local theatre so I guess they were regulars at the hotel. The table wasn't reserved though so it was mine for that morning ?

My brother married the sister of a member of Level 42!

Ha ha! This made me chuckle. At the moment my husband and l are appearing on Bbc1 “The One Show” every fortnight. We socially distanced chat with our neighbours, and have the nickname “our favourite street in Leeds” by the presenter Alex Jones.

Fanny I think you are flogging a dead horse trying to get this thread back on track! It's good fun though.

I was in the passenger seat of our car on a major road when Princess Di drove past. I saw her clearly and her car's number plate included the letters POW.
In Hollywood I was on a tourist bus and we stopped at a traffic light. The driver announced that Natalie Cole's car was next to us.
I used to work for the NHS and saw the Queen when she toured our hospital.

I sat in a tube train across from Annette Crosbie (Mrs Victor Meldrew) once in London. Since my wife habitually calls me Victor after her TV husband, I made a point of trying to ignore the poor woman who clearly was trying to appear incognito.

They're great ones, moobox

We have shared meals at events on holidays with a)a Welsh guy who claimed to have invented the Zimmer frame and b) the owners of the lawn mower museum. I have just looked up the former, and it probably was indeed Norman Metcalfe, who died in Wales soon afterwards. We never used the free tickets to the lawn mower museum.

Looking back I have a longish list - didn’t realise until I thought about it!! Think the most bizarre is Beverley Callard (Liz on Corrie) asking me to keep an eye on her belongings whilst she swam in the sea in Marbella ? I did a great job!

I was a hairdresser for many years in a very large prominent salon in Sussex. I’ve done Gracie Fields hair, lovely woman and even sang to us under the hairdryer one evening, Katie Boyle, Dame Vera Lynn and Judy Cornfield also a ‘Lady?’ someone who used to come down on the train from London every Monday (can’t remember her name). The only person I refused to do to my regret was Shirley Bassey as I was told by a colleague she was difficult to get on with! She was on at the theatre in Brighton at the time. I also had a quick chat with Leslie Joseph at Champneys a few years ago.

I cleaned a room in a hotel where Mike Reid the DJ had stayed back in the early 80’s. He left his dirty toenail clippings in the ashtray. Glad I didn’t meet him ?

FannyCornforth, I've never recovered, teeth worse than the rubber shark otherwise known as Jaws

Well done you for starting such a sublimely bonkers thread

I've done quite a few TV quiz shows and have even been on TV's Naughtiest Blunders after giving an answer with a double meaning! However my earliest claim to fame at the age of 12 ( I was small for my age)!was to be made to sit on Cliff Richard's lap at a charity event for a photo. I was mortified as I was very much anRolling Stones fan

Glenys Kinnock told us how to clean leeks.
Whenever I clean a leek I think of Glenys.

I've got a good one!

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The curtains in the background used to be my mums.

Fanny Cornforth. I've sniffed the friend who danced with Princess Di. Does that count?

These are supposed to be rubbish connections
That's why I haven't mentioned our real ones `

FannyCornforth

ILBC wasn't Katie Boyle incredibly aristocratic?
I vaguely remember my mom saying that she was Russian royalty or something.

Italian, I think, Fanny
She was born in a royal palace in Florence, Tuscany, Italy, which had once belonged to the Italian royal family, the daughter of an Italian marquis (the Marchese Demetrio Imperiali di Francavilla), and his English wife, Dorothy Kate Ramsden

I shared a dressing room with Judi Dench

I shared a plate of bar snacks with Mick Jagger's brother Chris.........

Ooh!
This is a good 'un.
The actor David Rintoul (who played Dr Finlay in the early 90s) mistook me for Sinead O'Connor in the green room at Pebble Mill. (I was waiting for a friend who was a runner.)

He was very ingratiating when he thought I was Sinead; when he realised that I was not he was very rude, and would not even look at me.

Horrible man - he really showed his true colours.