Twitter Users Share Some Of Their Funniest And Weakest Claim To Fame Stories
Have you ever met someone who was friends with someone who made out with a Teletubby?
Celebrities can feel strangely close and completely out of reach at the same time. Most of us will never share a neighborhood, a workplace, or even a security line with them, but that does not stop people from collecting tiny brushes with fame.
That is exactly why weak claims to fame are so entertaining. A friend of a friend, a cousin of a backup dancer, a dry cleaner with a very specific client list, all of it becomes a story worth telling when a Twitter thread starts rolling.
In this case, people shared their funniest and flimsiest celebrity connections, and the results are delightfully random. Read on.
Twitter users who had an interaction with someone who interacted with or was a celebrity shared their stories:
@MrsSteveMOBrienDid they share if the sister is a good actor as well?
@MrsSteveMOBrienIs that how that baby-faced son was made?
@jansenmann
You may not have his fame, but at least you have two things in common.
@summerbrennan
Who was this person?
@broazay
Where's your Leslie Knope for City Council sign?
@Jawiin
We need a pause to map that out.
@jennielees
Surely you are in their footnote, or your mother at least?
@Ninaberry
We wonder if he attends the family reunions.
@JeremySzal
Did Captain America ever show up to choir practice?
@zeenell
Does she have any political aspirations?
@Javspena
Speaking of fame stories, these celebrity tell-alls trade Hollywood gloss for total honesty.
The former Commander of the Night's Watch, the King in the North, went to school and studied math?
@JackDeeth
Do you think he tripped you on purpose?
@BrandonDavisBD
In the criminal justice system...
@jesawyer
As a reader, how many degrees of separation is that from Cate Blanchett? Does it count?
@MattBarnette
To be fair, he is a chameleon.
@Kats_GA
If the tacos are good enough for Michael Keaton, then they are good enough for us.
@FDouglassLives
That must be a core memory.
@sbstryker
Before there was Tinder...
@pete_forester
How did he resist the urge to hum "Ice Ice Baby"?
@emilynussbaum
Now THAT is actually pretty cool.
@stylebender
Those are some big roles!
@Oh_JFC
This is a claim to infamy.
@TheWrongtom
Did you ask for a picture, or were you too nervous? Tell us everything!
@film_sis
A secret package for Special Agent Dale Cooper.
@willmenaker
Lots of distant relationships with U.S. presidents in this post.
@suntzufuntzu
No matter how distant the relation or interaction, people will always remember that one time they almost were on the same plane as an A-list celeb. Hell, we even remember people who know someone that knows a popular figure.
It's pretty cool to see them in real life because we're only ever used to seeing them on our screens. There's a certain mystery that's still left in Hollywood, but the world doesn't stop, and we keep on with our lives until an opportunity comes along when we can share these weak claims to fame.
These stories are small, funny, and oddly specific, which is exactly why they work.
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