What's your tenuous claim to fame?

[Landslide]

My most tenuous claim to fame link is to Gollum in the LOTR films: I trained with a guy at my aikido club who worked with Andy Serkis (the actor who played Gollum) whilst my then girlfriend used to go to school with a girl who then emigrated to New Zealand and ended up working for the company who did all the CGI on the films.

On a less tenuous (and I feel, less exciting) note...
My girlfriend's just done some work with Simon Groom.
Once saw Lewis from Hollyoaks in the pub, we started calling out "LEWIS!" in an Inspector Morse style…
I've met Bruce Grobbelaar, Fred Talbot and Princess Margaret - she was in a bad mood, having just been shown round Liverpool dental hospital where she was shown a diseased jaw "due to excessive smoking and drinking"!
I've played in goal against Frank McAvennie and he didn't score all game! Pity the rest of his team put 6 or 7 past me…
My brother used to have piano lessons in the flat below Sonia. Clearly this set him on the road to stardom as he's also appeared on ITV's "Movie Music Mania" as part of Natasha Hamilton's brass section!

 

[ChrisKH]

is this some sort of San fransico Hukka or was he actually doing father Abraham

No he was actually doing father abraham. If you know what 'a' father abraham is in a rugby context.

 

[Frazer]

just started reading this thread, wow it amazes me how fast this one has grown! 23 pages in a matter of days...!!!

My claim to fame is that I used to play football with the up and coming Tottenham and England footballer Jamie O'Hara, back in the day when he used to play for the mighty Sutton Dynamo FC. In fact, my better claim to fame is that I believe i nutmegged him a good few times in our younger days, hence I should clearly be playing for Tottenham.

 

[abchandler]

The brother of Roger Taylor out of Duran Duran (not Queen) lived opposite my folks when I was a kid, and he came to visit once.
My form teacher in Year 9 (although we didn't call it that) was Jacqui Smith in her first year as a qualified teacher.
I saw Timothy West walking along the street in Bristol while at Uni

 

[02GF74]

I was once on the cover of our local free newspaper, my mom shook hands with Neil Kinnock in a hostpital and I drive a volvo estate that was once owned by the wife of an Aston Villa player.

 

[User169]

I had dinner with Sacha Baron Cohen and his parents the day we both graduated.

My piano teacher was taught by Eric Fenby who had acted as Delius' amanuensis (as he succumbed to syphilitic paralysis and sight-loss).

 

[dmoan]

I was frisked by the same hands which had just felt up Robbie Coltrane at security in Heathrow, having spotted the same Robbie Coltrane outside Mysteries, Monmouth Street, Covent Garden the previous day.

My best friend's cat was in a movie with Julie Walters.

My wife was shown on GMTV at Belfast Pride 2005 wearing a T-Shirt we made stating 'Straight - Not Narrow' in front of group of protesting Free Presbyterians.

 

[Mortiroloboy]

My godfather is a gay primary school teacher. To cut a long story short my wife trained as a teacher and one of her (now dead) class mates had a Xmas drinks bash (as you do if you live over a Funeral Director's in Sheen) and the talk of the school was the Maths teacher coming with his new teenage boyfriend. It was my godfather. And his boyfriend was younger than me.

Other one's I have forgotten (antipodean in nature) - I have met Nick Farr -Jones (ex- Oz rugby captain) and seen him naked doing Father Abraham.

Wasn't he a Smurf?and, when you say doing, do you mean what I think you mean? Yeeuck!

 

[postman]

When i was a teenager .I was a painter and decorator.We wre decorating the Leeds Grand Theatre Stage Door entrance.I was on the public phone to my girl when Les Dawson came in he took the phone off me did a quick comedy routine with the girl i was in stitches she didnt believe it.He was a smashing bloke.He had just won a tv programme.He also had a photo of Man City on his dressing room door.With his face on the body of Joe Corrigan.Who played in goal.

 

[Dave5N]

I was frisked by the same hands which had just felt up Robbie Coltrane at security in Heathrow, having spotted the same Robbie Coltrane outside Mysteries, Monmouth Street, Covent Garden the previous day.

My best friend's cat was in a movie with Julie Walters.

My wife was shown on GMTV at Belfast Pride 2005 wearing a T-Shirt we made stating 'Straight - Not Narrow' in front of group of protesting Free Presbyterians.

That's a good one! Did the wee frees get really righteously indignant?

 

[dmoan]

That's a good one! Did the wee frees get really righteously indignant?

Even better. The thin-lipped brigade (all 12 of them) turned their backs in protest as the main parade wound its way past. Thousands of people dancing to samba music and they go for a silent protest.

Pretty much everyone in Belfast laughed at them.

 

[Dave5N]

Even better. The thin-lipped brigade (all 12 of them) turned their backs in protest as the main parade wound its way past. Thousands of people dancing to samba music and they go for a silent protest.

Pretty much everyone in Belfast laughed at them.

I do like to see a bigot looking foolish!

 

[Fab Foodie]

Arriving at Heathrow T4 after 12 hours of non-smoking I reached the baggage hall desperate for a fag...I looked around and spotted a bench tucked-away out of sight behind one of the carousels, a few dog-ends scattered about...furtively I sat down and lit up, scanning the crowd for security guards...I was quickly joined by 2 other nicotine junkies who quickly sat down, lit-up and also nervously scanned the horizon. So there we were like naughty school kids behind the bike shed, dragging away, me, Kenneth Brannagh and Hugh Laurie!

I also shared a smoking booth with Mike 'runaround' Reed at Luton airport too.
Since I quit smoking the world of celebs has deserted me!

I did have lunch with the journo who outed Hughie Green as Paula Yates father.

Former World Surfing Champion the South African Shaun Thompson (he of the Old-Spice surf-scene) and I shared a packet of biscuits on Newquay's Fistral beach.

Former Newsround, Holiday and Radio 5 presenter Juliette Morris once fancied me...and told my Dad that she no longer picked her nose! She was about 7 at the time. She was a gorgeous teenager ....

 

[wafflycat]

I turned down an invitation to some nookey from Graham Norton...

*best matronly tones*

Possibly exceedingly wise. It pays to be wary of wealthy showbusiness-type, I think. One never knows where they've been...

*adjusts pearls and twinset*

 

[wafflycat]

My Great Grandfather pioneered activated sludge sewage treatment.

Sounds like a load of poo, if you ask me.



*I'll get me coat*
*heads for door*