Here are the rules of the game: You have to come up with a tenuous connection to a celebrity. The cheesier or weirder the celebrity the more points you get. The more tenuous (or weirder) the connection the better too (although there is a cut-off point – seeing them on television does not count, nor does merely living in the same country).
Last years winners were:
(1) The Prestigious UK Award:
Lucy Chintz for: “My cousin’s great grandmother was in the car crash with Sammy Davis Jr when he lost his left eye”
Urban Chick for: “My friend was a doctor of the brother of the last Emperor of China”
(2) The Equally Prestigious International Award:
The Cronz for: “My sister had larks with Billy Idol’s backstage crew
You cannot use a connection that you have entered before. For the bibulous amongst you the prize is plonk. For the others (or at your discretion) it will be something that has fallen off the back of a truck headed for Amazon.com.
Place your entries by leaving comments. The winners will be decided Zimbabewean Election stylee: there will be a vote but then I will steal the ballot boxes.
Good luck!
My cousin exchanges MySpace messages about poetry and such with Ray Manzarek – you know, the keyboardist/cofounder of The Doors? Yeah. I KNOW.
Here’s Mr. Manzarek’s MySpace thing: http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=58890797
my Austrian grandmother used to watch the Hitler rallies then wait till everyone had cleared off and pick up all the lost wallets, odd shoes and handbags that got lost in the shuffle (true)
Blimey – that’s quite a start. I’m not sure I would instantly have linked you and Hitler, Emma
I hesitate–for very many reasons–to jump in this early… and it really does look as if you have two winners already. Query: are they both UK? Since I’m not, you see.
I am however (blast this honest streak) a past winner…if I can’t fairly play this year mayhaps I could bother you with my opinions of the various entries? If I promise to not lobby too much for my little sister’s entry (no connection to Hitler or The Doors)? Puhleeeze?
This is my favorite contest, EVER.
I was once removed from a seat in a theatre to make room for….are you ready?
Tom Cruise.
First, love the new look.
Second – I can’t remember whether I used this one or not last year, but here goes –
A guy I once dated was the personal assistant to Lou Reed and he called me once from Lou Reed’s office using Lou Reed’s phone. So Lou has my phone number on his long distance bill.
OH! I got one! My co-worker’s cousin was at the grocery store when she witnessed Julia Roberts approaching the manager and issuing a complaint about the locals’ rude habit of gawking.
And have I told you lately how much I LOVE this game?!
okay, my nanny once yelled at Paul Newman calling him a “dirty pervert” for suggesting that he give us a ride home from the grocery store. (she lived in the apartment adjacent to his aunt) i mean! who would take a strange man up on his offer to drive a chaste, old biddy home?
Ok I have two… and one of them involves two celebrities..
First:
My father-in-law’s brother’s ex-wife is Kevin Bacon’s cousin
Second:
I have a friend who once refused to sell Sammy Hagar tequila at the liquor store she worked at only to turn to a pile of mush the next night screaming “Oh my GOD! Do you KNOW who you are!?!?” to Huey Lewis at the very same liquor store
Ooooh this is a great game! I remember last years when I was just a humble lurker ;o)
Ok mine is…
My sister’s best friend’s husband, who also happens to be my sister’s husband’s best friend (keeping up?) is Peter Gabriel’s cousin!
Seriously tenuous…I know.
i tried this one last year, but i think it’s even more tenuous if it’s recycled – no?
my dad’s brother’s wife’s sister’s son’s wife was in inspector linley
(i should make it clear that’s a tv show, not a person)
I went to the school where Jeremy Broadway (recently in the news for art forgery) taught, although I was never taught by him.
Ooh, and my brother threw up behind Sting’s car (due to an excess of alcohol) on speech day at school. He was also bought by Sting’s daughter in a slave auction.
This looks like a lot of fun!
First – I once witnessed Jeremy Spake start throwing a temper tantrum in a small shop because the other counter girl and I didn’t know who he was.
Second – Slightly strange and 18+ rated, a girl from my university hall swore to god she had committed the baby-making act with a chuckle brother. I’m not sure which one.
Oh yeah! I love this game. I can’t think of any off hand though, well, lots for my dad but I used one of his last year. I’ll come back 🙂
I once missed being in the same shop as Madonna by 5 minutes.
Can’t remember if I have submitted this before, but it’s good enough to go in again if I have…
My uncle went to school on the same school bus as the Proclaimers.
I can’t remember if I’ve used this one before but here goes: Mr H went out with a girl who had gone out with a bloke who had been dumped by Kim Wilde.
My claim is that I do Pilates with a lady who is married to a man whose cousin has a small part (tee hee) in Coronation Street.
Can’t remember if I’ve said these before:
1. Was very nearly run over by Arnold Schwarzengger
2. Was chased in Pinner by Simon Le Bon bearing my friend Angela’s handbag.
3. Was eyeing the same pie in Hammersmith Tesco as James May
Since I’ve dropped off the Moobz blogroll, I must do what I can to curry favour again….
My temporary administrator J used to work in a branch of Thresher’s (Off Licence), and was screamed at by Lucy Benjamin (she of Eastenders fame) for not having any rose champagne in stock. J, true to form, told her that ‘shouting at me ain’t gonna make it appear, luv – have you tried Harrods?’
Sweet.
um – i just read the rules, so can i just say that i didn’t submit my entry last year. that was a mistake. i don’t know what came over me. honest guv
(although recycling is good for the environment)
I feel bad for entering again after winning last year, but:
I made (decorated, drew on, and presented to him) the first Christmas card Arnold Schwarzengger received in 1994.
Did I say last year that we registered Lulu’s ex-personal chef for temp work? Now that is classy!
ps Lovin the new templatey-ness goin on here! And funnily I was only thinking the other day that it was about time we got to do this again!! Yay for silly contests!! :0)
OOh I have another one!!
My ex-boyfriend worked in Sainsburys in Manchester and ‘says’ he saw Mick Hucknall in there one day… we actually split up because he was an outrageous liar… so that’s pretty tenuous I would say 🙂
Through Scot Colby, a Texas (US) fitness trainer, I was introduced to Dax Moy, the UK’s top fitness professional and Internet celebrity. Dax Moy was(is) Moobs’s personal trainer and owner of the gym Moobs went to(goes to)in London.
Yay! How’s that Moobzy?
Amie Mac Kenzie threw up the dinner I fed her (pesto pasta and shrimp) in my downstairs bathroom before going to film “Killing Kevin Costner”. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0428729/) She has an eating disorder.
ok, lets see. At first I didn’t think I had one, but when I was a kid I was an extra in the movie Fort Appache – The Bronx (I ended up on the cutting room floor) but I did share a hot chocolate with Ed Asner while on the set. *Shrug*
p.s. the site looks great!
Whilst I’m thinking about it. I’ll throw this one in:
“I’ve commented many times on the blog of the person who’s cousin’s great grandmother was in the car crash with Sammy Davis Jr when he lost his left eye”
THIS IS SO FUN!!! I loved reading the comments. Mine are creepy connections: 1) I am a descendant of both Oliver Cromwell and the very people he oppressed; and 2) my great, great grandfather was the private secretary to Confederate General Joseph Wheeler, who was the sort-of nemesis (in the Southern cavalry) of Nathanial Bedford Forrest. Who went on to much more nefarious ends. That I don’t even want to type. (I also have relatives who fought for the North. I’m schizo like that, I guess.)
Oh and also? You are totally entered in the book pimping giveaway contest. Thank you my dear!!! You indeed rock hardcore.
All righty then…from the US and may the opening words strike fear in competitors hearts:
My sister dated a man who two-stepped with William Macy.
Pretty sure Wagner’s Valkyrie is playing as I type.
Only new vague celebrity link I can think of is that Amanda Palmer, of the Dresden Dolls, responded briefly to one of my comments in a blog post.
Here. I suggest you do a page search for ‘yorks’ as it’s small and near the bottom of the post. I also hope I’ve done the link right.
Yay! I got a new one this year. My (oh the shame of it!) deeply Republican uncle (it’s a wonder we speak – when we do) stumbled into Barack Obama’s basketball game at his gym in Pinehurst, NC (US) early one morning and chatted with him. My uncle said that our future president (please, please, please to all that is holy) was “polite and respectful.” For those of you who’ve never been to Pinehurst, where the wait staff at the clubhouse are dressed in livery quite reminiscent of Gone with the Wind, this borders on a racial slur – though in my uncle’s defense, he is oblivious and it was completely unintentional. Still, why the infidel gets to meet Barack O’Boyfriend (as Bossy calls him) while I only get to hear about it second hand through a haze of green envy is beyond me.
Or actually, third hand, as my mother told me – my uncle did not tell me himself. (That’s how close we are – we’re like that: ll)
I stood in the queue for the portaloos behind Ben Elton at a party.
It’s hard to know how to order that sentence at 6am. That should perhaps be: I stood behind Ben Elton in the queue for the portaloos at a party.
Also, Harry Hill once complained to me about my upstairs neighbours.
oh – i’ve thought of another one.
i bought my house – the one what i live in now – from uncle monty from withnail & i (or uncle vernon from harry potter, if you will). richard griffiths, in either case. and a nicer man you couldn’t possibly find (and his wife is lovely too)
or – i used to do pilates at the same place as cheri lunghi (sp?). very depressing being in lycra next to that woman.
I think I missed the cutoff for this last year but I was Jeffrey Archer’s lunch date.
Another one: My sister was hit on by the steroids-swilling slugger Mark McGuire.
Okay, I also have a letter hanging in my office that shows I’m related to George Washington. It’s a letter that wills to another distant relative two pieces that are currently in Washington’s home Mt. Vernon.
I’ve also been screamed at by Whitney Houston’s publicist.
Man, I could keep going…this is too much fun.
My father’s cousin invented the Twinkie.
Okay, other than my brother went to school with the older brother of the scorer of the winning goal in the FA Vase Final (which doesn’t count because Matt is only a celebrity here – I’ll be using this in a couple of years when he’s playing for Chelsea or Man U) … My entry this year is… erm.. ooo! Nope. It’s been a connections free year.
My cousin’s cousin was once PA to an uber famous pop singer. My cousin’s cousin had to take delivery of an unidentified substance that had been left in the singer’s car. She then had to dispose of it.
not a one… no matter how tenuous
Is there a penalty for my sister always using me as her entry? Just curious.
Here goes…..
My Dad’s dental assistant Ana, pulled the chest hair of Mark Medoff (Tony Award winner writer and director of “Children of a Lesser God”) while he was in the dental chair getting a filling. She thought it was her own hair falling onto his dental bib!
I guess I should mention that this was the seventies and Mr. Medoff loved to wear unbuttoned polyester brightly colored shirts with gold chains around his neck. Hey, didn’t all of you guys do that?
Wah, my entry disappeared and now I can’t remember what I put. Possibly the one where Gaby Roslin’s grandad proposed to my grandma, some time in the 20s.
Unless I’ve already had that one?