What is your claim to fame?

Half the nation wants to be famous, according to new research.

But have you already had your 15 minutes of fame?

Maybe you've been in your local paper for doing something special?

Or have you been in the background of a TV show or film?

Maybe you've bumped into someone famous?

E-mail and tell us what your claim to fame is!

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Your comments

My great uncle played football for Glasgow Rangers with Alex Ferguson and his wife is still in touch with him. Another great uncle played for a different Scottish side and played for Scotland, also another distant relative coached the Scottish cycling team in the recent Commonwealth Games. My brother has also been on the front of my local newspaper and I was on the radio!

Kathryn, 12, Rugby

I got to meet Alan Gibbons and I stayed with him during the whole 15 minutes of our school break. Also, my two sisters saw Sir Ian McKellen and other celebrities filming a scene in a cathedral from the story 'Da Vinci Code'!

Sadia, 13, Leicester

The father of a girl I know plays the vet in the Archers.

Josephine, 12, London

I had a picture I drew printed in a newspaper once and won lots of prizes!

Olivia, 12, Winchester

I met Prince Diana and have been on TV lots of times!

Jobhan, 14, Birmingham

My best friend was once on Blue Peter making a honey cake for the Jewish new year!

Maura, 13, London

I am going to be in two of my local newspapers next week as I've got through to the next round of the Lyra auditions!

Lydia, 11, Enfield

I met Jacqueline Wilson and she complimented my dress sense!

Anna, 11, Bigign Hill

I am a model and do lots of photo shoots in Sri Lanka and sometimes in the US. It's funny when people recognise me from magazine covers when I am in the street, but I love it anyway!

Samantha, 14, Newbridge

I've been on TV three times for being home-schooled, because in Spain not many people are home-schooled. I've also been in the newspaper once.

Stefi, 11, Spain

I was on international news because I walked on custard at my school. We were also on live radio at lunchtime!

Becky, 12, East Grinstead

My mum used to be in Coronation Street when she was younger.

Ellie, 13, Leeds

When I was about five, I appeared as an extra in a drama called "Daylight Robbery".

Amy, 13, London

I used to live in America and we lived across the street from Britney Spears' parents!

Maeve, 13, Derry

When I was eight I was on the front of the Great Yarmouth brochure and I was also inside. I have been in the paper more than once and have also been on TV before.

Kelly, 14, Great Yarmouth

Well, my question was published on a Newsround webchat yesterday!

Abigail, 10, Derby

Simon Rix from the Kaiser Chiefs lives on my street!

Ellie, 13, Leeds

I was in the paper for organising a 'sponge the teacher' fundraising activity. It rocked and we raised loads of money so we adopted a child from Guatemala.

Hanna, 12, London

I have had my fifteen minutes of fame! I am a Community Correspondent for my local news programme and I had to report for them about a road and had a whole five minutes of film to myself!

Kate, 14, Nottingham

I have been on Xchange doing African drumming, appeared in the background of Blue Peter when Matt went collecting bags, started of a story on CBBC called Telling Tales and had my emails read a couple of times!

De-Graft, 10, Milton Keynes

I met Jacqueline Wilson and I got her new book 'Candyfloss' singed!

Carys, 12, Llandeilo

I was on TV for a few seconds when my mum did a campaign to get my brother into a school for disabled children.

Kirsten, 12, Renfrewshire

My uncle, Mike Newell, directed the latest Harry Potter film!

Katharine, 14, Stourbridge

I've been in the local Leicester paper loads of times. I was on the TV, radio and paper when our school sports hall opened as Gary Linaker came to open it!

Adam, 11, Leicester

When I was born I was born eight weeks early and in the hospital they were doing a feature on premature babies so I was on the TV! I was also on a Dutch programme about a medieval village, an English programme about Lapland and recently on the cover of my local paper!

Helen, 13, Thornbury

I was in the newspaper for being in my school choir. My second cousin works for the Queen and is known quite well by her - I know, hard to believe but it's actually true!

Charis, 12, Coventry

I've been on TV in a programme's audience and I've met McFly and been on the radio. Oh, and my great uncle chatted up Adam Ant's mum in a launderette! How cool!

Samantha, 15, Chigwell

When I was little I went on a TV programme with my Dad but I was very shy and was in my Dad's arms the whole time.

Eleanor, 10, Birmingham

I was in a programme with my friend on CBBC and we made these tennis rackets with wire coat hangers and tights!

Louie, 15, Kent

I went to the Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban UK premiere and interviewed the cast. It was later shown on Xchange as a dream on sequence. I think that's a pretty good claim to fame!

Laura, 15, Midhurst

I was born on the same day as Harry Potter and J.K Rowling plus I'm related to Wallace Hartley Conductor of the Titanic Orchestra!

Grace, 8, Rathmell

When I was 4 years old I was filmed on a commercial for a costume shop and I was dressed as an Red Indian.

Ashleigh, 15, USA

I was on the front of a newspaper with a clown when I was supposed to be "sick". My teacher brought it in and questioned me! Oops!

Alice, 14, Omagh

I don't have a claim to fame but my mum was once on TV a few years ago, but I didn't see her-I was watching The Simpsons on the other side!

Anne, 14, Orpington

I was on Newsround for like a second in the Lyra auditions !!

Emily, 13, Peterborough

I was on the news on the Giant Christmas Cracker. I also met Andy Serkis, Sean Astin, Elijah Wood, James and Oliver Phelps, the Matrix twins and the guy who plays Tom Riddle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.

Laura, 12, Bucks

I was on a childrens' tv show last year. And this year I'm going to be in a stage production of the Wizard of Oz starring Dani Harmer (Tracy Beaker)

Selina, 13, Maidstone

I was in the background of the CBBC program called 'You Get Me'

Laila, 15, Hounslow

I'm well pleased because my cousin taught Danny Mcfly guitar for 3 years before he joined McFly and also my friend's brother's friend is mates with Danny Son of Dork...those are both my favourite bands so i'm happy.

Sarah, 15, Chester

I've been on the front cover of a board game, in the magazine Cool Cats and in the newspaper because of gardening in our school.

Hayley, 12, Manchester

I've been on TV 3 times! I went on All or Nothing with my friend Anna. I then went on Blue Peter and played the cabbage game! I also went on the Saturday Show and gunged Simon!

Charlotte, 15, Salisbury

A couple of years ago the 'Best of Friends' BBC show was being filmed at my school and I was shown in the background during my PE lesson. We recorded the program but I don't like watching it cos I look really weird in my PE kit!

Emma, 12, Cheshire

I have been on BBC news and also one of those chat programs because my class were singing in a choir!

Sophie, 12, London

I went on live telly for the Red House Book awards and then I went onto the program Xchange as well!

Harriet, 11, Godstone

I had almost a whole article written on me in the newspaper. It was the Queen's Golden Jubilee and I presented some flowers to the Countess of Wessex. She was very nice.

Amelia, 12, Salisbury

A news team came to our school to film. We were told not to walk pass the set but I did and go it loads of trouble but hey I was on the TV.

Akash, 12, Milton Keynes

I've been in the newspaper a couple of times and I'm related through marriage to Sara Cox.

Sarah, 15, Stourbridge

I have been in the local paper 4 times, The Sun once, on BBC7 and in She magazine once. I've had my 15 minutes of fame definitely.

Sean, 12, Leamington Spa

I was once in my local newspaper for something at school when I was younger... and I haven't had any experiences with celebrities but my dad has because he was in the year below John Lennon when he went to school!!

Georgia, 12, Liverpool

I've been in the local paper for winning a BBC music bursary scheme and when I was younger they used our sofa in a popular TV drama which used to be on in the nineties.

Michelle, 15, Huddersfield

When I was little my playgroup was filmed for this kids' TV programme and because I was crying they put me on at the end when all the name credits go up!

Lydia, 13, Buxton

I was on TV on a programme looking for the next generation of tennis players.

Alex, 11, Manchester

I've been in the newspaper when our lollipop lady got stabbed and when I went to a dancing event. I've also been in the magazine Cross Stitch Crazy!

Mica, 12, Wolverhampton

Well, there was a Kambani arts project which we did comparing African and British art at the Guildhall gallery and we were filmed by the BBC and we should be on TV soon as part of an African documentary!

Christina, 12, London

When I was a baby, I was on the front cover of a baby magazine!

Zoe, 11, Chichester