Another vacuous thread! Tenuous Claims to Fame

Grandma70s

My son worked with someone who was a guest at Prince Charles and Diana’s wedding.

I once helped Rudolf Nureyev remove snow from the roof of his car.

A friend of mine had a newsagents in Sadlers Wells.
Her Saturday boy was a young ballet dancer there.
One day Nureyev walked into the shop, and the lad behind the counter fainted clear away.

My friend’s daughter, when a baby and out with her nanny, had Richard Gere peep into her and say she looked cute ( the baby, not the nanny)

FannyCornforth

phoenix - your mum went out with Jim Dale!?!
That's properly amazing!
Wow!
(Was your mum very beautiful?)

Yes, she was rather! Tall with red hair. She was a beauty queen once, Miss Malvern Town!

I still have the embroidered sash and the press cutting from the local paper, very elegant in an evening dress and long black gloves.

I put George Best’s football shirt in the washing machine when I was on a tour of Old Trafford with some Dutch Teenagers from Arnhem.

I turned away Colin Welland and his wife from a restaurant in a small village in Co Cork (it belonged to a friend of ours and it was closed at the time). CW had also been a teacher at a local school and had just won the Oscar for Chariots of Fire. I didn’t mention any of this!

My mum stayed in Fred Astaire’s bungalow in the grounds of his daughter’s house in the same village. We became friends with his grandson who worked as a barman in the restaurant.

My mum also babysat for Georgie Fame when he was a baby and she once went out with Ken Platt (a northern comedian).

Cross post with Suziewoozie!
Great minds and all that!

My friend supplied a certain younger member of the royal family with cannabis. It was all over the papers, though my friend says it wasn't as big a deal as it was made out to be. I can't remember which country, but I know because of this charge he can no longer travel to America or Australia!

Bluebellwould

I ironed the shirt Bobby Davro wore when he did the Royal Variety performance before the Queen.

This is good.
You are up there with BlueBelle and her Bernie Clifton CTF.
I've evidently got a soft spot for late 70s/ early 80s light ent.
Mind you - on closer examination, it seems likely that you had quite a glamorous job at the time, which butter no parsnips here.

Maggiemaybe @ 16.01 ?

Bluebellwould

I ironed the shirt Bobby Davro wore when he did the Royal Variety performance before the Queen.

Spot on

I was once on our NW BBC regional news programme. I was demonstrating an electronic voting machine to Dave Guest (the local BBC roving reporter, who incidentally only retired a couple of weeks ago). Electronic voting obviously didn't catch on did it?!!!

I ironed the shirt Bobby Davro wore when he did the Royal Variety performance before the Queen.

Thank you FannyCornforth, sadly it is my only claim to fame so it's nice to be able to trot it out now and then.

I met Ozzy Osbourne

My neighbour was locked in the sewing cupboard at school by the prefect who had been left "in charge" of the class for a minute or two.
The prefect name was Angela, and she went on to marry George Best.

Thank you Dottynan.
Quite right.
(I can't believe that we're on page 4 and noone has pointed this out.)

On another thread about lookalikes, I mentioned that people used to tell me I looked like Miss Diane from Crossroads. In the days when shop changing rooms were comunnal, I shared a changing room with her in Chelsea Girl. I saw her in (almost) all her glory!

I made tea and coffee for the Beatles in 1963. I thought Terrys made the chocolate orange not Cadburys

I was interviewed on Spanish TV, at the opening of the sale in El Corte Ingles. They filmed me raking for bargains. My daughter was so embarrassed, she pretended she didn't know me. ?

A university friend of mine sold fruit and vegetables as a Saturday girl to Jeremy Clarkson.
They were for his mother.

shandi6570

Remember the Cadbury Smash advert? I sold the chess pieces that were used to make the antenna of the martians in the advert.?

Now you're talking!

The hospital where I trained as a nurse, often had filming going on. I saw Dennis Waterman and the other guy from ‘Minder’. Can’t think of his name. John Alderton in the supermarket.
More recently, ‘ Dev’ from Corrie was standing next to me by the vegetables in Sainsbury’s! We’re in the South East, so he was perhaps at one of our theatres.
Bruce Forsyth came up and spoke to me when I was about 7. We were in the audience. Can’t remember why.
The Queen came to our parish church when I was little. Maybe for ‘Songs of Praise’.
Because we have a large theatre in our town, I’ve often seen famous people walk by in the town centre. I often recognise them, but can’t for the life of me think who they are!

suziewoozie

I remember in the 80s Terry Wogan doing something this on his morning radio show and this was a winner ( and I think in the spirit of the OP (?)

‘ My friend is a dinner lady at the school where the boy in the Smarties ad goes’

Yes suziewoozie - this is exactly the type of thing.
It's actually much more difficult than it seems.
A fine art maybe.

I went to school with Marianne faithful. She, my sister and I all joined the school on the same day. I was at school with her for 6 years.

Alma Cogan went to the same school.

Remember the Cadbury Smash advert? I sold the chess pieces that were used to make the antenna of the martians in the advert.?

phoenix - your mum went out with Jim Dale!?!
That's properly amazing!
Wow!
(Was your mum very beautiful?)