Claim to fame

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  • Projectile8

    My mom (with a bit of my help) saved the Bushmen tribe of South Africa

    The true indigenous people of SA, before Xhosa and Zulu people arrived and built farms and pushed them out.

    After Mandela, 1994 etc. she went on a crusade to get them rights and land. Until 1970 it was legal to shoot them like a jackall. They literally had no land or money and were dying out. She got together with some lawyers and made a case for them, got them registered etc. etc. and eventually got them 200,000 hectares of land where they could live off the land, hunt, and basically keep their culture alive instead of having to move to the city to find work.

    One time they were all at my house when I had a birthday party. My mates came to me wide eyed.. "dude I literally just smoked a blunt with a bushman!!"

    Good times, good times. Mom's passed and I haven't checked in on them... but we did what we could.

    • yeah, I'm not sure anything's going to top that.Nairn
    • Kalahari?imbecile
    • A bit of your help...deathboy
    • good job man.
      and deathboy. fuck off.
      pango
    • @ imbecile - Yes, the Kalahari bushmen.

      To be fair to deathboy all I did was tag a long and run teenager errands.
      Projectile
    • nice!imbecile
  • shellie7

    I work with a lot of famous people because I've worked in music and movie advertising for most of my career so most of those interactions are commonplace for me. But, a few early situations stick out in my memory.

    At my first job, Jack Black joked around at my expense in an elevator. We were told not to pay much attention or bother celebrities when they come in. So, he took pleasure in tormenting (in good fun) new hires around their superiors so see if they'd stay cool.

    At my very next job, Robert Downey Jr. stumbled into my office drunk. He smelled strongly of booze and was clearly disoriented. Wong address. He was trying to go to the Diesel Jeans showroom next door.

    I met Kanye and Amber Rose back stage at a Kid Cudi concert right after the first Tailor Swift incident, and was stuck standing by Bobby Brown for about an hour. He was high, drunk, and in very bad condition. I ran into him two times after and he wouldn't forget me.

    The very next concert I went to, Nas shook my hand with both hands (a hand sandwich) and told me I wad doing a good job. Ae ate all the food in his dressing room because he doesn't use his dressing room. It was all really good vegetarian food because hos wide at the time Kielis, was vegetarian. And, I watched Ghostface Killa play dice since everyone pretty much took over his dressing room at that particular event.

    There's so many celebrities I hate, but I won't but pen to digital paper on those stories.

    Fun times. Weird times.

    • 'a hand sandwich' haha, wonderful.

      I've done that sometimes, and just after wondered "who the fuck am i?"
      Nairn
    • Think you just ended this thread right here lolgrafician
    • He has wide ho's?Akagiyama
    • damn, fun times indeed!_niko
    • *his wife. fuck, how do I just turn auto correct off all together?shellie
  • robthelad7

    Mick Jagger is a family member

    • Yes, Mick Jagger is a family member.palimpsest
    • my great grandma - 3rd cousin removed - is kiki dee - of Elton John fame !!!!_me_
    • Stepmom's brother married Jade Jagger, I've never met them sadly, but dad went to the wedding. Had a blast.robthelad
    • ^ swags like jagger_me_
    • uh oh, looks like they split... a family member no more!spl33nidoru
    • Noooooo, what is my claim to fame now ?! Haharobthelad
    • Sorry mate! :D But if they had kids i say you're still good!spl33nidoru
    • I daren't ask, my Dad is still married to her but long separated too, I can hope no one does sufficient research next time i mention it :Probthelad
  • robotinc7

    I used to work at a vfx company that had a secret sister company that did digital makeup and beauty work on actors/actresses. Its a huge business, though they couldn't show or talk about their work for the longest time as its all covered in NDAs. Same folks have done all the de-aging of actors in Marvel movies.

    Anyhow, its the fall, and they are working on a movie with Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Mcconaughey. Its 300 or so shots removing her crows feet, and tucking his waddle back into his neck. I take a break to visit my uncle in Austin, and at the time he had a gallery attached to the Four Seasions hotel. I step outside, and Mcconaughey walks out of the hotel, past the gallery and down to the restaurant. He thought I was star struck, but in reality I'm starring at his waddle in person, and thinking about my compositing buddies. Good times.

    The waddle is real.

    • haha, i have a friend who spent a couple of weeks of her life de-camelToeing a Famous Artist's footage for a music video.
      So strange .
      Nairn
    • haha, great.Fax_Benson
    • lolpango
    • I spent so much time rebuilding mel gibson’s face and neck i started naming his valleys and ridgesscarabin
  • Gardener5

    I wrote in to TV show Jim'll Fix It when I was 12 in 1974 and
    was 14 when they eventually invited me on the show. I knew
    when I first applied to the BBC that the only way I would ever
    stand a chance of appearing on the show would be if I asked
    Jim to Fix It for me to do something really easy, hence my
    request to attack Rod Hull's 'Emu'.
    The episode was broadcast Christmas Day 1976 - and to add
    extra spookiness, my now wife who was 11 then remembers
    seeing me on it and thinking at the time that I was "a bit old"
    to be on the show, cheers love!

    The Jim'll Fix It badge I was awarded was later auctioned for charity after the Savile scandal broke and now resides in a
    Black Museum in a glass case especially dedicated to the show.

    https://metro.co.uk/2018/10/08/c…

    • another side story - my dad paid me £5 to wear a T-Shirt on the show advertising his 2nd hand shop 'Sellit & Soon'Gardener
    • that's quite a claim to fame there, on TV with two of the creepiest celebs of that generation!!dee-dubs
    • So did you witness any of the inappropriate Savile behaviour whilst there?dee-dubs
    • alas no, though even at that age I could tell he was well creepyGardener
    • That's crazy! I used to always want to write in to Jim'll Fix It. Thank god I didn'tBaskerviIle
    • https://www.youtube.…SlashPeckham
    • haha, yeah thanks!Gardener
    • Luckily you were "a bit old" to be on the show.garbage
    • I'm thinking you're "a bit old" to be on QBN! hahaah. jk. I thought I was one of the oldest people here and I was 3 in '74.fooler
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  • imbecile8

    I met and enjoyed drinks with Jevad when I lived in Hong Kong.

  • garbage6

    I am related to Elvis in TWO different ways. So yes, I'm famously inbred.

    Thank you, Mississippi.

  • Fax_Benson6

    My grandma was friends with the mother of a former darts World Champion.

  • DaveO7

    I was running the backstage portrait studio at the Ralph Lauren 50th show and have the following claims from that night:

    1 – Robert De Niro came up for his portrait and i didn't recognize him – he looks really different off camera. I told him to wait for a moment because they were finishing up. I had 60 seconds with him, and the only thing i could think of saying was to point out the restoration work on the ceiling that we'd done for the show.

    2 – I said 'Bruce, can we get you over here for a portrait' – and guided him to a wall, touching his shoulder. Bruce of Springsteen fame.

    3 – I made Anne Hathaway and Jessica Chastain laugh. Anne Hathaway has a really dirty laugh.

    4 – Kanye came into the backstage area and walked right past our lighting, and i greeted him with 'What's up Mr West" – i like to think that he recognized it as a gag on the 'wake up mr west' lyric from the first track on Late Registration.

    5 – I held Anderson Cooper's glasses

    6 – I stood on Steven Spielberg's toe

    • If i were a troll, i'd log into each of my accounts and +1 you many times, but i have but one to give.
      1, 3 & 6 are sublime
      Nairn
    • Finally an explanation for Spielberg's mid-career dip.Fax_Benson
  • Nairn3

    I KNOW that you were all watching the Eurovision Semi-Finals tonight, well, if you saw the contestants from Malta throwing a frisbee on a beach - I BOUGHT THAT FRISBEE.

    Yes, I know, you just fell off your chair. We all did.

    • https://youtu.be/aHk…Nairn
    • How did that happen?scarabin
    • The fuckcrazyprick
    • I don't want to spoil the magic - let your imagine run free!
      *wafts hands gaily in the air*
      Nairn
    • honestly woulda been more impressed if you'd been the one that taught finland its headbangin' routineArchitectofFate
    • Also looks like a disc that is not pdga approvedArchitectofFate
    • ha, it's not! They were originally going to use my old one, which is apprioved, but I couldn't find the fucking thing. I did about two days ago though...Nairn
    • is this soccer?monospaced
  • BonSeff6

    We had a very active member on this board back in the day, all of the sudden, radio silence, those of us were worried so I literally called his home (before cell phones) - dude's lady picks up and I ask for him, she asks, "who's calling?' - and I go, "Bonseff from the internet"
    She hangs up

  • Gardener6

    OK, I have to confess to a claim that is not related to anyone famous, I am unique with this skill which I have never been called upon to use for money although I once performed it on a TV gameshow - footage is on Youtube but am not linking it.

    This skill is now sadly totally useless as the item I can do an impression of is sadly no longer in general use, but there was a time it was very popular so I one am a dying breed. I have never met anyone else with this skill indeed I may be the last person on earth with it, ladies and gentlemen, I am...

  • _niko6

    I once told a woman that I coined the phrase "pardon my French"

  • lajj4

    My dad, who was a sailor in the 60s once had a beer with Mick Jagger and Keith Richard in a Liverpool pub.

    A couple of years ago, I was waiting for my coffee at the shop and next to me was Olivia Wilde. She said hi and I said hi back, so we can all conclude that we had a conversation.

    • THIS is what this thread is about! :)Nairn
    • seems more like a 'brush with greatness' to medopepope
    • I'm guessing 'Claim to fame' as a term is taken much more literally in the States than it is here in Blighty.Nairn
  • DaveO6

    After being up all night I once gate crashed Liam Gallagher and Liam Howlett's party in a private section of the Edinboro castle on Camden. They were celebrating the Prodigy’s number 1 album and were with the Appletons and a load of hangers on.

    I was really messed up – had been up all night with my mates and then had to DJ at the pub for an event my friend had arranged. I arrived at noon and because i was still 'charged' from the night before i started playing tech house. At noon. On a sunday.

    I'd seen Liam earlier in the day and had gone over to him to say how amazing he was and that the new album (that i could not remember the name of) was amazing.

    I finally get removed from the decks and get lost in the afternoon's boozing, clearly getting much worse for wear.

    Their gathering was now behind a velvet rope and as I had nothing to do i thought I'd go and have a chat to my old pal Liam.

    I plonked myself down and reached for a champagne flute, only to have Liam (Gallagher) - without braking stride of the conversation he was in - look me dead inn the eye and juts say “fuck off mate”.

  • pango2

    i was an extra in the TV show Lucifer

  • mg335

    I helped Barry Manilow shop for pants once when I worked at Banana Republic in 2002. I thanked him for all the sweet songs my mom cried to after her divorce in the 80s.

  • MarleyMarl3

    I smoked a joint with Justin Timberlake. A solid guy he is.

    • That sounds fun.monospaced
    • I smoked a blunt with jamie fox at the standard when i was a kidscarabin
    • And by kid i mean like... 23scarabin
  • Gardener3

    The claim to fame I'm most proud of vinyl-wise is selling a copy
    of a Banksy painted sleeve on the bay a few years ago. I never
    knew I had it until I had a dig through my 12"s one day and came
    across it, I have a lot of records that were sent to me via the station for free in the 90's and the fact it was in mint condition too helped. To this day is still the most expensive Banksy vinyl related artwork to have been sold.

    • Whats your most valuable vinyl ($)?drgs
    • that was it! but I have plenty in the £100+ bracket but those are the ones I like to keep, Safe As Milk, all the VU, early Bowie etcGardener