We’ve had threads like this before, but now I have something to add (besides that I went to school with Suzanne Kellogg who plays Alison the make-up girl on Sports Night).
Last night I found out the my Apocalyptic carpool partner was married to the father of the WCW’s Diamond Dallas Page. 'Tis true (she says). Her husband was a preacher in New Jersey. He was also a philanderer, which got him divorced and defrocked.
She says her daughter made the discovery. One night she and her husband were watching the WCW when he commented how much this wrestler, who has the same last name as her father, looks just like her father and grandfather. Another night they saw an interview with him where he talked about being raised by a single mother with very little contact with his father, how he’s a native New Jersey boy, and how his grandfather Page had recently died. My co-worker said her daughter was excited to hear this, because her family’s roots are in New Jersey and her own grandfather Page had recently died. Thinking it too much to be coincidence, she got on the web, tracked him down, made some phone calls, long story short the family was flying out to New Jersey for Christmas anyway to visit Grandmother Page so she’s going to meet with her long lost half brother.
Sigh It’s like something right out of a made for TV movie, and it’s happening to one of my co-workers. This is about as close as I’m ever going to get to anyone the least bit famous (other than Suzanne from Sports Night), so I’m going to milk it for all it’s worth. (Should be a good conversation starter, “Hey, Diamond David Page is the illegitimate son of my co-worker’s ex-husband!”)
So, has anyone else had a brush, near brush, or brush with someone who has had a brush with someone famous? (The more pathetic, the better, so I’m not alone here.)
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy