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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

tinaf1 Thu 19-Nov-20 16:24:51

I stood next to Anna Maxwell Martin in ladies loo both washing our hands ,she is really petite and pretty.
When I was a child I spoke to Jayne Mansfield she was making a film in London, very glamorous

Iam64 Thu 19-Nov-20 16:23:01

I was at one of the concerts where PJ Proby's trousers ripped.

Kittye Thu 19-Nov-20 16:22:43

In Rome a few years ago had dinner with Lester Piggott.
He sat on my knee in taxi back to the hotel ?

blossom14 Thu 19-Nov-20 16:22:22

In 1978 I met Al Capone's pianist in a hotel in Rye.

phoenix Thu 19-Nov-20 16:21:38

LauraNorder

Wow Phoenix sex in Windsor Castle, nobody can top that.

Well, I did live there for over 2 years with exdh, so must have done, in fact ds 1 was conceived there! grin

Calendargirl Thu 19-Nov-20 16:21:33

Another one.

I had my photo taken with Dick Emery.

FannyCornforth Thu 19-Nov-20 16:20:07

Roses

I've just remembered!!! When I was in my teens I used to babysit for Glendale Jackson'sister

Is that better Fanny?

Much better.
Well done. I knew that you had it in you.grin
(Although I must say I'm a tad disappointed that it isn't Glendale Jackson.
Now that would have been obscure...)

Calendargirl Thu 19-Nov-20 16:19:45

I was walking along a road and a car with Princess Alexandra in, (she had just been at a function) passed by.

I waved, she waved back.

Calendargirl Thu 19-Nov-20 16:18:00

Jasper Carrott came into the bank where I worked. I rushed through the customer I was serving, but a colleague was quicker and he went to her till.

Maggiemaybe Thu 19-Nov-20 16:16:55

We’d just got to the door of a sushi restaurant in Leeds to find it closed due to a flood when the Scottish one of Aggie and Kim rocked up. We shared a tut and she asked me where the next nearest Japanese restaurant was. I told her, we went there, she didn’t.

25Avalon Thu 19-Nov-20 16:16:22

I worked one summer holiday gardening for Charlie Ladbrooks sister. Anything he had from the garden she charged him for!

Puzzler61 Thu 19-Nov-20 16:15:07

Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen handed me a raffle prize at a Christmas “Doo” in the Cotswolds. I won a new set of table mats. He and his wife were hosting the fundraising part of the evening.

rosecarmel Thu 19-Nov-20 16:15:04

I was on the observation deck of the Empire State Building, clutching a rubber King Kong gorilla, during a Jerry Hall photo shoot in the 70s-

suziewoozie Thu 19-Nov-20 16:13:51

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’

LauraNorder Thu 19-Nov-20 16:12:40

Wow Phoenix sex in Windsor Castle, nobody can top that.

phoenix Thu 19-Nov-20 16:10:34

I loved in Windsor Castle (King George 1Vth Lodge, Lancaster Tower) attended a ball there and was flirted with by Prince Charles

My mother went out with Jim Dale from the Carry On films

My ex husband, myself and eldest ds appeared in a commercial for Barret Homes

I stood next to Brian May in Harrods pet department.

LauraNorder Thu 19-Nov-20 16:08:47

Oh yes was in the Question Time audience and made a comment about truth.

Grandma70s Thu 19-Nov-20 16:08:24

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.

MawBe Thu 19-Nov-20 16:08:00

Paw was at school with Prince Charles (and he hated it too)

Ealdemodor Thu 19-Nov-20 16:08:00

My husband ( a lorry driver) once made the Radio 2 travel news as a broken down lorry on the M6.

LauraNorder Thu 19-Nov-20 16:07:38

I had my photo taken with Billy Fury.
Met Neil Morrisey at a street market in Issigiac, SW France,
Went to school with Barry Woodward, writer on Brookside.

LaRia44 Thu 19-Nov-20 16:04:07

Oh yes, I forgot,I saw the actor who played Albert Tatlock in Coronation Street having breakfast in the Midland Hotel, Manchester

fiorentina51 Thu 19-Nov-20 16:02:09

I was on Songs of Praise about 50 years ago.

Maggiemaybe Thu 19-Nov-20 16:01:26

granfromafar

Travelled on the same plane to Tenerife as Brian May. I like to say I went on holiday with him but that's stretching the truth!

I once had the next hotel room to Justin Timberlake’s suite. A very intimidating bodyguard was posted between our doors and after several beverages at dinner I tried Justin’s door by mistake and was advised to move along, Ma’am.

I like to claim that I slept next to Justin Timberlake.

fiorentina51 Thu 19-Nov-20 16:00:40

Blackmail??
Blackman