Category: Getting to Know You
You know how it is, you know somebody who's met Brad Pitt, or your cousin's car used to belong to Russell Crowe. Hey, maybe your father-in-law's house used to belong to Mel Gibson, until he converted it into a synagogue. But we tend to have really ropey claims to fame ourselves. Well I do anyway. Here goes:
* I was at school with Marc Bannerman (used to play Gianni DiMarco in British soap EastEnders)
* I've shaken hands with the comedian Lenny Henry
* One of my classmates used to have a brother in the band Soul II Soul
And those are the best ones of the lot! So what's your dodgy, almost desperate claim to fame that you'd tell at parties only if your life depended on it?
Mine is with a local celebrity. When I was in high school, my mom thought the guy who moved into the apartment next to us looked just like the new news anchorman on the 6:00 evening news on one of our local stations. For weeks she was just guessing, and she kept going outside to see if his car was gone when he was on TV. It always was, but that didn't prove anything. One day after I came home from school I saw him walking toward his car and just came out and asked him. And my mom had been right.
I have eaten steaks with the president of nfb
hmmm let's see ...
the ex, recently deceased, president of south Africa, p w Botha, had a granddaughter who is blind. we were at school together, in fact we were in the same class, in fact she was also my room mate, and ... er ... her boyfriend broke up with her while she was in hospital to go out with me.
Ex home secretary david blunkett is a close friend of my inlaws and he was at my wedding.
don't have anything to put here I'm just posting out of boredom.
I'd a wink from Henrik Larrson when I stuck my tongue out at him
he'd a habit of doing that after scoring a goal.
i'm not embarrassed or ashamed of this one. i met david beckham in a bookshop. very nice gentle person. not at all how the papers describe him. i have chris parker, who used to play spencer in eastenders on my myspace friends list. there ya go.
My friend's uncle (the brother of her foster mom), is the mayor of my city (San Antonio). Never met him personally, but there mine is. *smile* Oh, and one of my aunts used to be a cook for the atturny Pat Malony.
oh and i was on bbc1 when i was like 7 or 8 on a children's programme called superbods. i've still got the tape.
I can't believe it! I spelled your man's name wrong.
that's me in the dog house tonight.
awww. no problems. i got a hand shake off david, one of the united greats.
Kay, this is a really bad person, but I know two people who are infamous in my part of the neightborhood, strictly accident, lol. Anyway, the first guy became famous in my city when he killed a homeless person with tree other guys and the other's in jail for having claimed bombs. (Claimed because the case looks kind of suspicious on his part. I mean, he told the damn cops he had three bombs. Dumb ass!!!)
Oh and I met a couple of guys from a local band. I was in a local band, but wasn't famous enough to make a demo sadly.