I just remembered
that I know the girl who played Young Marian, in an episode of TV's Maid Marian and her Merry Men.

do you know anyone not particularly famous?
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 14:47, 81 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

She was quite cute wasn't she?
Edit: I've just realised I actually have no idea who that was, so apologies if I've alerted any authorities to my supposed nonceness.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 14:54, Reply)

to be honest
she still looks the same. she is really really fucking short.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:04, Reply)

my cousin played in the Major Leagues for a few seasons

( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:00, Reply)

haha I lie, apparantly he played 11 games in one season
whoops
( Lisette von Falcon, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:10, Reply)

Was it not
Shaved Marian and her Hairy Men?
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:02, Reply)

no

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:03, Reply)

A guy who was in the year below me at primary school
was a dancer on Top of the Pops once.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:10, Reply)

Now that's tenuous
well done!
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:29, Reply)

There's a guy works down the chip shop who swears his Elvis.
Well he's a fool and I'm not sure about you.
( girlinthehole, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:14, Reply)

Good ol' Kirsty
Unusual way to go though, being smacked in the head by a powerboat.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:22, Reply)

I thought
getting the Propellerheads to remix her stuff was a bit tasteless
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:30, Reply)

^This
Is my nomination for Sick Joke of the Decade.

*Applauds*
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:53, Reply)

It's even worse than foolish, BGB
He's actually a 'liar'.

I heart Kirsty.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:26, Reply)

Kevin Whatley is a family friend.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:26, Reply)

Really?
My friend is good friends with him too.
What a popular bloke.
( thealternativefact, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:38, Reply)

I know the Chemical Brothers
All together now - WooowooooOOOooooooOwooo
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:29, Reply)

That one who Lilly shagged is quite cute.

( girlinthehole, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:31, Reply)

Me
I have had journalists (from The Times last time) tell me they've read my 'work'.

And I was once recognised in a Harvester (the chain of 'restaurants' not the farm machinery this time) outside Reading.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:32, Reply)

I'm quite popular on an internet forum.
*grins*
( girlinthehole, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:34, Reply)

What's your work?

(PsychoChomp, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:34, Reply)

She's a literary genius don't you know.
And I'm proud to say I winked at her dad once.
( girlinthehole, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:35, Reply)

No i didn't know,
I barely know any of you obviously.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:36, Reply)

He still smiles about that
I think you made his day.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:36, Reply)

Well I'm glad to know I made at least one man happy in my lifetime : )

( girlinthehole, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:38, Reply)

I used to write for a magazine

( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:36, Reply)

ahh, fair enough

(PsychoChomp, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:38, Reply)

Razzle

(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:52, Reply)

She's a proffesional roulette player.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:45, Reply)

Sshh!
Don't tell them all or I'll have to stop giving you a cut.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:49, Reply)

FRINGE BET THE NUMBER 8 ! HE JUST _HAS_ TO LAND THERE !

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:50, Reply)

Her real name is Steven King.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:45, Reply)

She's Usain Bolt's personal trainer.
She leads by example.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:46, Reply)

The singer from Marion (the 90s band)
The drummer from Something For Kate, and the guitarist from Bad Lieutenant (Bernard Sumner new band, following the end of New Order)

I once went out with a girl who was on the Rod & Emu show :0)
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:34, Reply)

I know
The bloke who played 'Graham' in Maid Marrion, one of the thick guards.

Lovely chap he is as well.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:37, Reply)

I knew the guys from "British Sea Power" when at uni
I have even listened to their albums (well...one of them)
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:42, Reply)

I went to school
with a lot of the Byker Grove cast in days gone by.

Our local celebrity was Little Billy Fane. He opened the Cramlington Presto in the Manor Walks Centre.

Good times.
(Biscuit Burlesque wants to be Dita von Teas, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:42, Reply)

the lead singer
from The Ghost of a Thousand played in a band that supported my band at a local village hall gig 10 years ago...
(beanojam isn't really Ricardo Flange, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:47, Reply)

Let's see how tenuous we can get
I knew the girlfriend of the guitarist from The Cooper Temple Clause when I was at uni.

I also know someone who has shagged John Cusack.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:51, Reply)

Oh! Oh!
I have a really, really tenuous one - I used to be friends with Jasper Carrott's daughter's babysitter.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:52, Reply)

my friend...
caddied for jasper carrot - and said he was thoroughly horrid.
(feedingtimeatthezoo day 1 of his bikini diet started, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 17:06, Reply)

The girl I used to be friends with
was pretty unpleasant too...maybe it was something in their Chardonnay.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 17:15, Reply)

And one of my friends at Uni
shared a house with Jon Holmes from the Now Show.

But I always bring that one out whenever there is a discussion on famous people.

He's very, very short.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:53, Reply)

I've a few....
I went to college with Dermot O'Leary.

I once served Chas & Dave when working in a pub.

I also met Paddy Ashdown. He is also very short.
(Bicycle Repairman "you're also a bit of a wanker", Tue 6 Oct 2009, 15:56, Reply)

Are you responsible for them splitting up then?
Are you Yoko Ono to Dave's John Lennon?

We demand to know!

And did it involve lycra cycling gear?
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 16:01, Reply)

Jeremy Vine married someone from my parents' old village
everyone there thought the sun shone out of his arse
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 16:00, Reply)

and did it,
shine, out of his arse, or was it just the lustrous sheen from many an anal buffing.

I once served gap toothed crooner, 'ricky ross', of deacon blue fame, he wanted a fridge and our cheapest, shittiest model was still too expensive for him.

cheap cunt, and i really do hate deacon blue.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 16:09, Reply)

one of the Profs I once worked with
used to go on family caravanning holidays with his neighbours and their friend - their friend being Gary Glitter.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 16:15, Reply)

On behalf of Agnostic Antichrist
His housemate danced with Rowetta (X-Factor, Happy Mondays)at one of our local nightspots.

He came back to our table and told us she was quite scary.

They also live about 100metres from the house were Ian Curtis hung himself but I doubt either of them know that.
( SpikeyPickle wishes he was mabazaritchie, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 16:16, Reply)

I didnt know she had been in the Happy Mondays
I thought the point of the X-Factor was to find hidden talent in the public, not for professional singers to chance their arm (not that I care that much).
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 16:24, Reply)

I know
Brendan James from Thirteen Senses
Julian Hewings from These Animal Men
Ziggy Heron the tour manager for The Enemy

All of whom are not very famous but the first two have achieved moderate chart success in fact I believe thirteen senses reached number 14 in the UK charts
( Peej, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 16:18, Reply)

A former flat mate
played Arthur Fowler's cellmate in the Christmas Day edition of BellEnders, when poor old Arthur was set up for a crime he didn't commit.

He also played a wrongun in the Bill.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 6 Oct 2009, 16:19, Reply)

my old flatmate
was taught how to ride a bike

BY FRANKIE HOWERD.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 16:19, Reply)

My Dungeons and Dragons GM at 6th form college
Was Alan Cox, now an internationaly renowned Linux guru.

edit: beat that for geekiness.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 16:21, Reply)

Oh and one of my Uni course leaders was Dennis Leigh
who is also known as John Foxx original lead singer of Ultravox! before going solo.

But he's proper famous
( Peej, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 16:25, Reply)

I was at primary school with a guy who played some badass kid in Grange Hill
www.grangehillfans.co.uk/starfile/elmidoro.php

this one
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 16:27, Reply)

i regularly used to work with a woman
who had a bit part on Grange Hill in the 80s...
(beanojam isn't really Ricardo Flange, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 16:42, Reply)

that's funny
because I had my bits in a women with a part in grange hill in the 80s...
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 16:43, Reply)

my mate
had a wardrobe delivered by 'Stewpot' from GH a few years back.

This was before his MAJOR COMEBACK in the Bev/Kev car ads and his crowning glory as 'crane operator with the shits' in the Immodium ad.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 17:03, Reply)

awesome

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 17:04, Reply)

my brother
once delivered some shit furniture to Gita from Eastenders too.

No tip, apparently.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 17:10, Reply)

bitch
I hope he raped her guinea pig
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 17:15, Reply)

He did
screaming 'Sanjay! Sanjay!' throughout.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 17:33, Reply)

Jason, with whom I went to school, was on the FRONT PAGE OF THE SUN!
He had been arrested for football hooliganism in Europe.
( thealternativefact, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 16:39, Reply)

STOP THE THREAD
we have a winner!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 16:40, Reply)

I was so proud.

( thealternativefact, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 16:43, Reply)

anti-famous
despite the fact that I know Keith Richards, Nicholas Lyndhurst, Hugh Dennis and Patricia Routlege live in/near my town, I have never seen any of these people.
(beanojam isn't really Ricardo Flange, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 16:41, Reply)

Bob Geldof
lives down the road from me.

I've seen him in Tesco. It wasn't in the toiletries aisle I can tell you.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 16:46, Reply)

I saw Noel Gallagher in the health food shop.
ROCK AND ROLL
( thealternativefact, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 16:48, Reply)

i saw alistair mcgowan wandering down the street
but to be fair we do have a large theatre here, hence his presence.

he's reeeeeeally tall
(beanojam isn't really Ricardo Flange, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 16:49, Reply)

I saw Clint Mansell of Pop Will Eat Itself
At a Mission gig in Newcastle about 20 years ago.

He's now a top Hollywood film score composer, y'know.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 6 Oct 2009, 16:59, Reply)

I thought I saw Chris Tarrant in McDonalds
Turned out it was cardboard cutout.

On a related note, a friend of mine is distantly related to the aforesaid presenter and as such is not allowed to be on 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?'
(beanojam isn't really Ricardo Flange, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 17:02, Reply)

I used to work in a music shop in Brum
And I got to know PWEI fairly well, well enough to get free tickets and stuff. Also got acquainted with the Stuffies, Neds Atomic Dustbin and quite a few other local bands from the era that made a dent on popularity.
(Starvis something for the weekend sir?, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 18:52, Reply)

I pissed on NG's shoe once
Horrible, gay Gucci loafer.

His shoes weren't much cop either *gets pelted with rotten fruit*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 17:04, Reply)

I've had a nice
Conversation with Richard Dawkins. I thought he was a decent bloke.

I've also met Michael Dorn, Brent Spinner, and Malcolm McDowell.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 17:16, Reply)

Well
I used to live around the corner from the man who played the Honey Monster in the 80's

Oh and one of our teachers was the cousin of the man who played Big Bird.
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 17:18, Reply)

I did some photos once for Jonny Ferguson
(Binny in Byker Grove). He is a top bloke and a fine guitarist. Watch out for The Casino Brawl.
(porkylips looks better as the sun goes down., Tue 6 Oct 2009, 17:20, Reply)

My brother and I
are not particularly famous. We have both been featured in 'Metal Hammer' magazine for separate reasons.
(beanojam isn't really Ricardo Flange, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 17:22, Reply)

Oh I forgot
I kicked Jeremy Beadle in the arse in Parliament Square.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 17:29, Reply)

Now the thread's dead I've finally thought of a particularly tenuous one.
I went to school with the daughter of the guy who looked after Phil Collins' agent's estate. Zing!
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 19:13, Reply)

My Sister
Sold a frozen chicken to Max Bygraves in Marks & Spencer in Bournemouth.
About 30 years ago.
(onefishtwofish Redfishbluefish, Tue 6 Oct 2009, 20:20, Reply)

Our Lass
Her sis in law told Charlotte Church to move her fat ass in the Pelican (country Pub with delusions of grandeur cos its Char and Gav's local)
(Gru being trolled since 1998, Wed 7 Oct 2009, 11:46, Reply)