The thread in which Bluemooners reveal tenuous links to famous people.

[allblackcitizen]

No idea mate, I didn’t ask his wife, she slept in the spare room with him. ;)

There was no Dalliance then?

 

[allblackcitizen]

Short journey for me today pal. I live in Hampstead!

Probably Gospel Oak ;)

 

[Hollywood Blue]

There was no Dalliance then?

I didn’t feel up to it mate, I was bloated from too much apple pie.

 

[BrianW]

My wife used to go swimming with Elkie Brooks. She also used to baby sit Gemma Atkinson.

My late godfather's wife was vaguely connected by marriage to Colin Bell.

 

[Bluemoon dan]

My Auntie used to live next door to Gunnar Halle. Nice bloke actually. Disappointingly normal for a Premier League footballer!

 

[bluebaja]

When I worked in Devon, I had to go to a posh 'drinks do' one evening. I got talking to a bloke who looked as bored as me.
'What do you do for a living?' says I.
'I write novels' he said.
'Oh, anything I might have read?' says I trying to be interested.
'Doubt it' he says.
'Try me, what's your name?'
'Iain Blair'
'No' says I, 'don't believe that rings a bell'.
'Well , I write romantic fiction, so I write under the name Emma Blair'
When I mentioned that to the women I knew, quite a few had read his books.
He's dead now.

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Working for an investment management company whose operational base was up here but the head office was down in London. Went down to the head office, went out for a coffee with my business project sponsor, got a sandwich to eat then back to the office where he found me a spare desk. Chap sat opposite came back with his sandwich and we had a pleasant chat. Turned out he was Winston Churchill’s great grandson, Randolph Churchill.

That completed my link to the four main wartime leaders:

• One of my schoolteachers was the man who guarded Rudolf Hess on his first night in Scotland and Hess obviously knew Hitler.
• My old neighbour’s uncle had been a guard at Yalta and had to admit Stalin every morning. By the final day they’d have a little chat via the interpreter.
• I knew one of JFK’s Secret Service Detail. Kennedy’s father was ambassador to the UK during the war and therefore knew Roosevelt.

I reckon that qualifies as “tenuous”.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Only going to post on this thread when I meet someone famous contemporaneously, albeit fleetingly and/or tenuously.

Met Jeremy Kyle yesterday at Cheltenham. Introduced through a friend of a very dear friend. He seems a little sinister, if I’m being entirely honest. Polite enough, but no real warmth or obvious charm. Quite slight. Definitely had significant work done imo.

Whole encounter lasted fifty seconds, tops

 

[Nellies left peg]

Played cricket. Bowled to Graham Roope with Godfrey Evan's keeping wicket .he was about 70 in a tour game.John price opened bowling other end.youngsters will have to Google them

 

[Fame Monster]

Only going to post on this thread when I meet someone famous contemporaneously, albeit fleetingly and/or tenuously.

Met Jeremy Kyle yesterday at Cheltenham. Introduced through a friend of a very dear friend. He seems a little sinister, if I’m being entirely honest. Polite enough, but no real warmth or obvious charm. Quite slight. Definitely had significant work done imo.

Whole encounter lasted fifty seconds, tops

I saw him in Smoak in Manchester, having a candle-lit meal with his little coffee boy Graham, just them two. Definitely a homosexual tension between them, wouldn't be surprised if the new series of Jeremy Kyle is focused on them...'I sucked off Graham in restaurant toilets'.