Six degrees of separation

man_at_milletts

A bit of Friday fun.

How near or close have you been to somebody very famous/notorious/interesting via a handshake?
The person could be alive or dead, the more famous/notorious or interesting the better.
- No assumed handshakes, they must have taken place
- No direct handshakes, that’s name dropping
- No more than six handshakes.

Three months supply of Marmite to the most interesting person as judged by the committee at 5pm tonight.

I’ll start the ball rolling with Pele.
I’ve shaken hands with Graham Tutt who I know has shaken hands with Pele.

PL54

I have shaken hands (been allowed to touch hands) with Princess Anne who must have shaken hands with The Queen.

She in turn must have had hand contact with just about everyone.

Henry Irving

Shaken hands with Peter Croker who had shaken hands with Jimmy Seed.

Shaken hands with the former Mayor of Greenwich Norman Sims (my uncle) who shook hands with the Queen when she opened the QEII hospital.

Shaken hands with Nadou who has shaken hands with Dylan who has shaken hands with Levon, Garth, Robbie, Robert and Rick ( and Elvis)

Shaken hands with Iain Dowie who has shaken hands with the devil

creepyaddick

Shaken hands with the father in law and father of Andy Woodman who shook hands with Pardew who was sporned by the devil

Davo55

Shaken hands with Prince Philip, who has done a lot more than shake hands with the Queen

Shaken hands with all of Jim Callaghan, Neil Kinnock and Tony Blair -all of whom have also shaken hands with the Queen

Algarveaddick

I shake hands with, man hug, stay round the house of Boz Boorer half a dozen times a year, he does likewise with Jonathan Ross, who has shaken hands with just about every celeb going I guess?

Shag

I shook hands with Lisa-Marie Presely who must've shaken hands with the King

Riscardo

Shaken hands with Jay-Z whos must have touched Beyonces muff

man_at_milletts

Riscardo said:

Shaken hands with Jay-Z whos must have touched Beyonces muff

F**k me, it didn't take long did it? :-)

Elvis and the Devil clearly in the lead here.

thai malaysia addick

I taught my dog to shake hands
He met a corgi in the park
The corgi must be related to one of the Queens
The Queen must have taught one of her corgis to shake hands

fattmatt

Amanda Holden squeezed my shoulder during the London Marathon and she must have touched lots of bits of Les Dennis.

Curb_It

Shook hands with Bill Clinton (have i mentioned that) - who shook things with Monica Lewinsky, amongst others.

Greenie

Ive shaken hands with Rick Parfitt who's shaken hands with our next King.
Ive also shook hands with Eric Clapton who as everyone knows is God.

RedPanda

Did a bit of work with Dr Anna Nekaris last year, who's discovered 4 species of slow loris. She's met the queen.

David Attenborough I'm sure I could get to via John Aspinall, zoo owner and conservationist in Kent.

Elton John my mum's shaken hands with. Strangely I can't claim much with football, but have met some golfers and motorcycle racers.

mistrollingin

My youngest son Joe shook hands with Rory Mcllroy and Graeme McDowell when they came in the Bull in Chislehurst a couple of years ago when the European Open was played at the London Club.

man_at_milletts

Curb_It said:

Shook hands with Bill Clinton (have i mentioned that) - who shook things with Monica Lewinsky, amongst others.

Wow, Curb_it flies into the lead with Bill Clinton.

I trust you washe.... no I won't go there.

hawksmoor

I've shaken hands with Alan Curbishley, who may have shaken hands with his brother, who may have shaken hands with Pete Townshend.

iainment

I shook hands with Jack Charlton, who would've shaken hands with most 1st Division, international and European competetion footballers he played against, and also many of the 60s luminaries when England won the world cup.
So probably through that I have 2nd, 3rd and 4th handshakes with nearly everyone in the whole universe.
I also shook hands with my next door neighbour when he moved in, still trying to work out the links from that.

Missed It

I've shaken hands with Buzz Adrin who, immediately after the lunar module landed on the moon, gave Neil Armstrong a handshake.

Henry Irving

I shook hand with both Chris Powell and Reamsofverse.

Beat that : - )

Valiantphil

Shook hands with a guy called Martin, a very skilled radio engineer who serviced the pre-recorded call-to-prayer equipment in the automatic, remote mosques of Libya.

He had shaken hands with Colonel G.

Friend Or Defoe

Henry Irving said:

I shook hand with both Chris Powell and Reamsofverse.

Beat that : - )

I shook hands with Powell on the pitch at Carlisle after we had sealed promotion. :-)

He would've shaken hands with Spike Lee.

Swisdom

Shaken hands with my step mother whose father won the FA Cup with Charlton
He was also best mates with Sam Bartram

OR

Shaken hands with Kenneth Noye's nephew whom I used to go to school with. Kenneth allegedly shook hands with some men involved in the brinks mat robbery

OR

Shaken hands with Paul Elliott who maybe once shook hands with Richard Rufus.....but almost certainly shook hands with the queen.

OR

Shook hands with an ex-colleague who was personal friends with Neil Armstrong as evidenced by the photos in his office or Armstrong on the moon and of Armstrong shaking hands with my ex-colleague - Philip Wroughton

CAFCsayer

I've shaken hands with my uncle, who's shaken hands with Wayne Bridge, who's shaken hands with his missus, who's shaken hands with John Terry's todge

Algarveaddick

Swisdom said:

Shaken hands with Kenneth Noye's nephew whom I used to go to school with. Kenneth allegedly shook hands with some men involved in the brinks mat robbery

I shook hands with the man who is the son of the undercover cop Noye killed in his back garden, so there's our connection Swis'... :-)

sam3110

Seeing as I can't do directly, I have shaken hands with my old Manager at Adidas, who during the time around the Olympics shook hands with most of the Olympic Squad, including Jessica Ennis, Mo Farah and Sir Chris Hoy as well as a couple of the royal family and David Beckham.

Though directly I have shaken hands with Ennis, Becks and Hoy

The_President

Greenie said:

Ive shaken hands with Rick Parfitt who's shaken hands with our next King.
Ive also shook hands with Eric Clapton who as everyone knows is God.

No,no,no - I've shaken hands with Mark Fish, who must have shaken hands with Clive Mendonca, who is definitely God.
Oh, and he's shaken hands with Madiba Mandela too !.

man_at_milletts

The_President said:

Greenie said:

Ive shaken hands with Rick Parfitt who's shaken hands with our next King.
Ive also shook hands with Eric Clapton who as everyone knows is God.

No,no,no - I've shaken hands with Mark Fish, who must have shaken hands with Clive Mendonca, who is definitely God.
Oh, and he's shaken hands with Madiba Mandela too !.

Nelson Mandela, I like it.

Anyone up the ante? Saddam Hussein, The Pope perhaps.

McBobbin

I've shaken hands with someone who has shaken hands with Idi Amin, and someone else who has was shaken hands with Kenyan dictator Daniel arap Moi,

McBobbin

My dad has shaken the hand of lots of nuns and catholic priests (no, not like that... I hope) and surely one of them has at least touched the Pope. the dirty bastards.

Riviera

I've shaken hands with Kevin Bacon.
I win.