Post up your tenuous links to 'famous' people.

[Retroboy]

Oooh some good ones so far. Here are mine:

When I was at school I used to sit next to Princess Badiya of the Jordanian Royal Family.

At university I shared a house with Roger Hammond for a year shortly after he'd become Junior World Champion at cyclo cross. He's since ridden for Barloworld (before they were called that), Discovery Channel, T-Mobile and Cervelo Test Team. He was mean as fook at putting the heating on in winter though.

Kris Marshall who played Nick in My Family and is that bloke in the BT adverts drinks in the same pub as me and I see him down there quite regularly. He's also mates with someone I used to work with.

But if you want tenuous....

I used to work for a company that sponsored a car in the British GT series, the boss of that team being a chap called Bob Neville. After one particular race in October 2005 a few of us including Bob (& Anthony Reid of touring car fame) went out for dinner and one of the conversations that cropped up was the true identity of The Stig. To settle the debate once & for all Bob called up his mate Jason Plato who confirmed that The Stig is.... :?:

 

[bojangle]

my ex-girlfriend's mum used to be a cleaner at Sherborne School and cleaned the room of Jeremy Irons (actor of die hard fame). Hows that for tenuous link.

I have eaten daffodills with Warren clarke (dazel and pascoe fame!) when he was filming 'Russian Soldier' one of his first tv dramas back in the very early 90's

 

[jimjim2012]

i've sat next to jools holland when i was in london town a couple of years ago. he is quite short.

met henrik larsson in glasgae ages ago when we were all out for my little sisters birthday. my dad seems to know him from charity work so they were chatting. think the hairdressers thought they were great pals and my sister got her haircut for free. wish we had met at the restaurant as maybe we would have got the food for free.

nearly walked right into stella mccartney and her kid in new york.

my girlfriend has more 'famous' links.

her dads cousin is the mother of some hollywood producer/director. i know he did the new star trek film.

my girlfriends uncles wife is carlos gambino's neice.

her cousin does marketting for some big fashion house so knows alot of models and celebs and goes jetting around the US meeting up.


my favourite so far is the one who's mate dead-legged ken hom.

 

[JustKev]

My mate is mentioned in Victoria Beckham's autobiography as her worst date ever.

And Dickie Carr (ex England Fishing Team Manager) is my dads 2nd cousin!

 

[Mr Panda]

Neice and her hubby breakfasted with Bill Bailey in a(n) Hotel in Oban the other week, or was it a Klingon after the Haloween party

 

[Retroboy]

Some more I've remembered....

I used to go to the same gym as Natalie Imbruglia.

I've seen Anna Friel in my local Tesco and at a local beer festival.

I've seen Paul Daniels & Debbie McGee once in Halfords in Uxbridge and again several years later in Windsor Post Office. If they remembered me the second time around they did a good job of hiding it.

 

[JustKev]

I worked in a bike shop in North London and sold bikes to Suggs and Francis de la Tour (Rising Damp)

 

[legrandefromage]

some mates of Ricky Groves were in the back of my cab on Monday, he's expected to earn £11k an episode for strictly come B list and also he and Hannah Waterman are 'in difficulties'

 

[flibble]

Kelly Brook once got into a lift I was in and asked if I was going down

 

[Andy R]

Well, I suppose my claim to fame (if you could call it that...) is that I played bass in Humphrey Lyttelton's and Andy Gibb's bands . At different times, obviously.

However, a friend of mine (I'll call him Roger to protect his identity ) has a rather better claim to fame, namely that he has, in his words "seen Michael Caine's dick"...

This all happened in 1976 when "Roger" was in the RAF stationed at St. Mawgan at Newquay in Cornwall. The film "The Eagle Has Landed" was being made and some scenes were shot around the air base. "Roger" and some of his mates got jobs as extras, as they had regulation haircuts and a "military bearing" I suppose.

Anyway, Rog nipped into the Portaloo's for a pee and was in mid flow when he noticed a pair of German officer's jackboots at the next urinal. He looked up and it was, of course, Michael Caine.
So, in Roger's own words "Well you have to have a look, don't you?". We asked him if it was worth looking at and "Roger" replied that it was "bigger than mine".... (that's his, not mine if you see what I mean).

Non of this seems as funny now I see it written down as when we were told it, and especially as you don't know Roger (ok, it's his real name).
This is the guy who, on his first boat trip to the Isle of Man when he was 14, was propositioned by "some old bloke" who told him that he'd buy him some drinks if he'd go back to his cabin and have sex with him.

We, of course, all asked "and did you go, Rog.?" to which he replied "I can't remember really..."

And in Michael Caine's own words (when asked if a fellow actor was gay, but it could apply to Roger just as well)-
"I wouldn't say he was gay, but he'd help out if they were short handed".