h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

What's your tenuous link with someone moderately famous?

No "I was best man at Prince William's wedding" or "I taught Tom Jones how to sing", I'm looking for stuff like "My mum went to school with the mum of the drummer in Level 42"

As a starter, my wife's brother once had a relationship with a girl who presented kid's tv show "Why Don't You"

Anybody else got a tenuous lame to fame?

Before singer Joe Cocker became famous, he worked for the Gas Board in Sheffield as a gas fitter, as did my Dad

My claim to fame is actually pretty good. But that does mean that everybody on Hootoo can say (pretty lamely) that they have an invisible friend who once discussed housework with Mrs Thatcher.

Mol

I worked in a shoe shop with George Harrison's sister-in-law

Kenneth Moore bounced Virtuouschuffed on his knee, when she was a baby.


And... Virtuouschuffed once made the Queen jump!

My father's boss' cousin once lived next door to Graham Taylor.

And if that's not tenuous, I don't know what is.

B

I once handed Russell Harty his hotel room key (he didn't even look at me, let alone thank me).

My mum served Billy Connelly (in the same hotel, damn, I'd already left).

My sister-in-law's brother drinks at the same club as the one in TOWIE.

I once went bowling with Charlie Dore (She had a minor hit with Pilot of the Airways in the early 80's). It was in a big group and I probably didn't even speak to her beyond hello.

Deb

Former minister of defence Volker Rühe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volker_R%C3%BChe) is a neighbour of my parents'.

Oh, and I met Robbie Stamp who was a close friend of Douglas Adams'.

Oooh, I've got lots.

Mike Gatting once said 'excuse me' to me. I moved out of his way

My father worked for Granada TV in Bedford - he had a mate in the Manchester office who was married to someone in Coronation street. She went out with Mike Baldwin at one point apparently. We had no idea of who she was until she took my sister and I to the local shop and she got mobbed by people after her autograph.
(she's since divorced the guy and has multiple sclerosis now - Cheryl Murray if you know the name)

I was at university with many people who've gone on to fame/infamy.

Dan Hannon (a controversial MEP) was in the year below me in my college.


My mate was in the university asian society with Krishnan Gurumurthy and I met him briefly once.

Lots of rowing related ones for some reason:

Mathew Pinsent was an ex-boyfriend of my housemates girlfriend.

I once hurled drunken insults at Johnny Searle at a party. Next time I saw him was on telly collecting his Olympic Gold medal

In my youth I was in the year below one Tim Foster. His brother was a mate of my brothers and his parents (to this day) are friends of my parents. He also has an Olympic rowing Gold medal to his name.


The same mate who knew Krishnan Gurumurthy was one of the people introduced to the queen when she installed a new provost at my college while I was there. He was famed at the time (in our circles) as when asked by the queen "So you're from India are you" - he replied "naah, I'm from Saaf London actually." When we graduated some years later the provost told him that the queen still remember this incident fondly.


I was at a pub in Oxford once when the guy who wrote Inspector Morse, opened a beer festival there.


Probably more too but those are the ones that spring to my mind.

Oh yeah, the father of one of my mates at school lived next door to Ronnie Barker.
He was a miserable git apparently but I rather suspect it was really the other way around

I used to have to go to Chris Rea's room at Sandy Lane Hotel to fix the audio-visual system for him.

I shared the stage with Natalie Cole in a college production of a musical. She had a whole song to sing, while I only sang one line.

I sat next to Jake Gyllenhaal at a poetry reading.

I played guitar with a drummer, who had, about ten billion years before, briefly been a drummer for Frank Zappa... though I didn't know this until afterwards My cousin briefly dated Linford ristae during the 1980's
Princess Margrets bodyguard manhandled me out of my own doorway in halls of residence as Princess Margret was making a sneaky get-away through this enterence Probably others... will try think

I bumped into Krishnan Gurumurthy in the street the week before last.

I saw Martin Jol walk out of my sister's next door neighbour's house.

The MS mention above reminded me that I used to work for someone who knew Jacqueline Dupre pretty well.

My Dad, who was a commercial traveller and got to spend lots of evenings in hotels, once found himself drinking at the same bar as David Coleman.

And I presented a bouquet to Virginia McKenna. They picked me to do it because my uniform (Junior Red Cross) was the least scruffy. This was just after the release of "Born Free" so she was quite famous at the time. And, I discovered afterwards, a heartthrob of my father's!

Right - I've found the previous thread on this subject. Guess who started it?

F19585?thread=2997231&skip=0&show=20

And then there was this one:

F19585?thread=102145

Happy reading!

Yeah but the first one was a real claim to fame thread - this is just a silly one.

And perhaps I can be forgiven for missing a thread started in 2001

My sister went to primary school with Robert Plant's sister.

My partner has just told me that she lived on the same street in Manchester as Herman of Herman and the Hermits' family

Oh and now we come to think of it (although not so lame) her ex-husband was a school friend of Frank Skinner so she went to his wedding and was at his 'This is Your Life' thing on telly. There she was introduced to all sorts of comedy heroes - Jonathan Ross, Lee & Herring, the West Brom team of the time, Nick Hancock, some of the England cricket team, David Baddiel etc.