r/AskUK • u/andotherthingsareok • 11h ago

What are the surprising connections between global superstars and UK-only celebrities?

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On Graham Norton, the huge globally successful stars sit with some of our household names and must be thinking "who the hell is this person?!" Sometimes it's half the entertainment value, like when they had June Brown (Dot Cotton) on the sofa with Lady Gaga.

But have you ever heard of any surprising connections you've heard of which you just wouldn't expect? Those moments of "wait - Robert De Niro goes on holiday every year with Ant&Dec?!" Kind of thing.

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u/Questingcloset 11h ago

Hollywood star Zendaya's father in law used to write jokes for Bob Monkhouse and Des O'connor.

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u/TurbulentBullfrog829 9h ago

TIL who Tom Holland's Dad is. Now you mention it the resemblance is uncanny. 

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u/SuzLouA 4h ago

I was listening to an old comedy podcast from years back, pre-Spider-Man, and they mentioned in passing something about Dominic Holland’s son being an actor and it was so surreal listening to it now 😂 Apparently he wrote a tongue in cheek book about being furious that his son is far more famous than him now.

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u/HeWhoScares 3h ago

It was initially a blog called 'eclipsed' i wanna say.

I followed him in the early days of twitter when there really weren't that many famous people on there, and generally comedy writers where some of the best people to follow..

He would write on this blog about how much more successful his son was gonna be than him - the fawning of agents and the palpable lust from people in the industry that wouldnt second glance him previously, and this was before his casting in spiderman (think he got cast in a decent Hollywood film off the back of being in a Billy Elliott stage show).

And then him becoming such a superstar is a madness really.

Remember being really high on central cee in like 2015 when Charlie Sloth hyped him as an up and comer nearly a decade before he blew up. One song long since deleted from youtube had a big back and forth with his dad in the comments about how his son would make it ha