Strange/Indirect claims to fame.....

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

My cousin Garry is captain of a Premier League Football Club.

 

[willyfantastic]

I've had Christmas dinner with Esther Rantzen

 

[saafend_seagull]

I was washing cars round people's houses when 14 and Peter Taylor answered the door...he said no his daughter did internship at our school though <3

Stayed in the same villa the England squad used for Portugal euros a week before they used it too.

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

I was hit on the nose by a Gazza free kick at the Goldstone

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

I nutmegged Dean Wilkins. And was in turn nutmegged (twice) by Micky Adams.

I went out with the neice of (Don I think) Fox - the rugby league player who famously missed a conversion at Wembley that would have won the Challenge Cup. One for the older readers.

I hired Paul Merton for £100 to do a stand-up routine at my 30th birthday party. His first television appearance was the following week.

 

[Return of the Rev]

Bought a house that Mark Lawrenson had owned Which was next door to George Aitken A TRUE GENT

 

[dennis]

On a school trip to the National Theatre, our teacher was being a bit of a prick and wouldn’t let us go into the bar area to get soft drinks or sweets.
Su Pollard was in there with a few others and she saw what the teacher had been like.
She came over to us and took our orders and got it all for us. She even paid.
The teacher was an even bigger arse to us for the rest of the trip but the smugness helped us get through it.

 

[Icy Gull]

I was very good mates with the keyboard player in the Pop Tops who had a massive worldwide hit in the 70's with a song called Mammy Blue, although by the time I knew him he was back playing in nightclub bands.

 

[Mellotron]

I'm on speaking terms with Daniel Bedingfield - pretty certain he'd remember me anyway

I played bass on a song to which Danny Dyer first makes his appearance in a film from a couple of years back (Jack Said)

 

[Nibble]

My Stepdad's brother dated Joanna Lumley in the 60's and 70's.

I guarded Michael Caine's house for a year in the late 90's

 

[mune ni kamome]

Not strictly qualifying but I packed a girl up in the 70's and 2 weeks later they were in the Argus having won a fortune on the pools. B*stard.

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

The song 'Burn Baby Burn' by Ash is apparently about the wife of an old colleague of mine.

 

[Biscuit]

I once met George Takei when I was a kid and made him sing the Star Trek theme to me. He obliged and gave me a signed autograph and wrote the lyrics on the back.

 

[Icy Gull]

Edit, not a claim to fame at all, just a random thing, so deleted

 

[KZNSeagull]

For the oldies - my wife is best mates with the singer from Clout.
I sold John Cleese several books about the Boer War.
I have played a lot of golf with Gerry Ryan.
I told Ben Crenshaw that his ball was in a bunker during the 1986 Open at Turnberry. He was not happy.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

I checked Gyles Brandreth and the Chippendales into their hotels rooms ( not the same room nor at the same time I hasten to add ! ).
I've served Tony Blair tea.
I gave Tessa Sanderson directions to Castle Square.

 

[Nibble]

I went to school with the sons of Matthew Corbett of Sooty. fame They were spoilt, loudmouth fools. I also went to school with Shakin Steven's son and Johnny Wilkinson was at my school but way younger than me and never met him.

My Stepbrother is friends with Roger Waters and played in a band with his son.

I shagged Geoffrey Bernard's daughter

I had dinner with Heath Ledger and Colin Farrell a few years ago.

 

[El Sid]

In the 70's I worked in a betting shop in Kemp Town with Lesley Manville's sister.

 

[Willy Dangle]

I was on may way to a meeting in London. I was killing a little time at St Paul's when I realised I was standing in the middle of a film set. A few months later I was spotted on EastEnders with the Cybermen from Dr Who.

All a bit wierd.

 

[Mackenzie]

I sat behind Bonnie Tyler on an Easyjet flight to Malaga.