Tenuous Links

[waynetta]

Has anyone got any tenous or random links to celebrites or famous people that they'd like to share? I'll start. My older brother once fitted a washing machine in John Pertwee's house. Pertwee wasn't in at the time but his wife was and my brother said she made a lovely cup of tea.

[RosieH]

My best friend's sister's husband's cousin was Bungle in Rainbow.

[Santerme]

My ex wife was in the same school class as the Duchess of York

My American Godmother was first cousin to Barbara Hutton, who was married to Cary Grant!

[MrBen]

An ex work colleague of mine's brother met Jake Shears from the Scissor Sisters at the gym recently. He said he's a really nice guy but a bit shorter than expected. Also I once got mistaken for David Tennant by two old ladies having a cup of tea in the Oxo tower.

[Jah Lush]

I'm the Queen and Lord Lucan's secret lovechild.

[brum]

She was working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, when I met her.

[????]

My cousin rented a flat in Fulham in the early 90s whose previous tenant had been a Mr Hugh Grant, we used to stare at the toilet seat and say "Liz Hurley's arse has been on that".

[katie1997]

:-$ ooops - TMI

but.....here's another. I knew someone whose mum was Sylvester McCoy's* cousin (or was it second cousin..?)

* one of the incarnations of Dr Who

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I've danced with a man, who's danced with a girl, who's danced with the Prince of Wales.

[Narnia]

My brother was on a food programme on BBC recently which was to do with a couple of guys doing a dinner for that guy on Dragon's Den.....Duncan ?. It was in his pad in the south of France.

[woofmarkthedog]

This is Uber Tenuous...

The voice of the talking Knight .....

http://www.talkingpresents.com/v/vspfiles/photos/Talking_Knight_Cookie_Jar-2.jpg"Keep thine hands of my cookie jar"

Is also the voice for .......

http://www.kone.com/countries/en_GB/Products/Elevators/industrial/c7elevator/SYS_PIC/m_slide13.jpg"Stand clear, lift going down" in Sainsbo's Forest Hill

"Yeah & I've been in both their company, only this week "

I know it's AMAAAAAAAZING but I DO have an "ear" for this stuff...

W**F

[sophiesofa]

I had a tenuous link

Apparently my great great great great grandfather, Michael Barrett was the last man to be publically hung in England. But... my Mum read a piece on him on the internet recently and it said he didn't have any children!

My grannys second cousin was the photographer who took the photo of the tennis player with her bum out.

[Saffron]

My first cousin once-removed (mother's side) went to high school in Texas with Willie Nelson. My mother went to a different high school, but she remembers meeting a young Willie Nelson. She remembers him as a nice boy who always had his guitar with him. Also, my high school history teacher went to school with Farrah Fawcett and her sister. Then there are Sting and his wife who were camping next to me at a festival a few years back, though I was too busy getting trashed with my mates to notice what they were up to. And finally, The White Stripes were rumored to be staying in the suite above us at Zetter Hotel in Clerkenwell (which is incidentally owed by an acquaintance of mine, and I highly recommend a stay there!). They were really quiet and went to bed early apparently, while we stayed up partying into the wee hours.

[HonaloochieB]

Our neighbour from the 70s Agnes worked in the Colony Club so used to rub up against George Raft on a regulat basis.

Got a set of poker dice from there and all.

[HonaloochieB]

I once sold a shirt to Billy Ocean.

Well, I say sold, he came in, plucked it off the shelf, I wrote the receipt, he gave me the money, I bagged it and passed over his change and then he just got going.

There were little or none of my salesman skills involved.

His real names Leslie Charles by the way, I knew that without Googling.

So perhaps he paid by cheque after all. Rather than cash.

You know what, we're just going to have to wait for the autobiography for the truth on the matter.

[pablogrande]

my business partners mum served Robert Smith from the Cure his meal on his wedding day

[Saila]

My Dad's second cousin removed is Tony Benn

[SteveT]

About 40 years ago I supplied and fitted a cooker for the Hornsey based recording studio for Ray Davies of the Kinks.

[HonaloochieB]

My mum used to have 'phone conversations with Richard Burton and Leonard Rossiter while on her cleaning job for one of the Bolting brothers.

[Narnia]

My friends friends (where do you put them '''''?) band played a gig in Victoria with Phil Lynott guesting for them, and we got invited back to Phil's house afterwards for a party.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

friends' friends

Jealous of that one!

[woofmarkthedog]

I've licked a stamp with the Queens head on

* awaits O.B.E *

W**F

[HonaloochieB]

I once exchanged a shirt for Mickey Dolenz.

The one he purchased originally was too small for him. The dopey sod.

Anyway he came in, I put the originally purchased shirt back in stock, supplied him with a new one of apt size and altered his original receipt to reflect the updated transaction.

And I altered it good.

Although at the time I didn't use the phrase "Drummers from The Monkees, I sh!t 'em"

I kinda wish I hadda.

Still.

[Michael Palaeologus]

I work with a bloke who washed Bobby Moore's car and later in life, dated Germaine Greer.

I have had a curry in the same restaurant and at the same time as Robert Plant.

[Alec John Moore]

I went to school with the guy who runs the company that produces the Tweenies. He was a couple of years ahead of me - did some stuff on Jackanory before he invented the Tweenies. I think he was in the same year as John Bell who you sometimes hear on Thought for the day on R4. Incidentally, the same school that Alexander Fleming attended many decades before.