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Do you know anyone that has been on a TV programme?

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ongranaryplease · 03/09/2019 20:39

Whether it’s a dating one, a quiz show, a talent one like X Factor or reality TV... Do you know anyone that’s been on a TV programme? Or have you?!

I like hearing about what it’s actually like behind the scenes on the programmes. DS is reasonably close with someone who was on Love Island. He said you’re told exactly who to speak to and what to talk about (shock...) and that some of the people who are portrayed as horrible and moody are the nicest people in there.

Any stories of your own?

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CrazyCatLady159 · 03/09/2019 23:13

I was on channel 4 first dates

MadameJosephine · 03/09/2019 23:13

I was on a game show years ago, it was great fun. I won my heat and came 2nd in the final. It was hosted by Zoe Ball who was really lovely and a Jamie Theakston who was a bit of a knob.

I also work with someone whose DH was the champion of champions on Countdown.

fergusthefrog · 03/09/2019 23:16

@CrazyCatLady159 I love first dates! Did you see your date again?

CrazyCatLady159 · 03/09/2019 23:18

@fergusthefrog no - he was nothing like what I had asked for

Was a fun experience; would 100% do it again - even more so if they actually followed my "type on paper" that I'd filled in beforehand ha!

nowifi · 03/09/2019 23:18

Has anyone ever been on Fun House? That was my dream as a child! That and supermarket sweep

Neighneigh · 03/09/2019 23:24

My dad was on Tomorrow's World for his company having the fastest computer in the world. Being the v early 1990s, it probably had as much power as the Ninkey Nonk.

bruce43mydog · 03/09/2019 23:26

Someone who went to my school was on big brother.

ellzebellze · 03/09/2019 23:32

I know a stuntman. He's jolly hard to spot, even when you know he's in it!

MsJuniper · 03/09/2019 23:43

@Everythingmagnolia - do! It was fun but quite surreal. I just applied and went for an audition and got called a while later to go on.

My top tip is not to go in quickly in the first round. I hung back until some counters had built up. It's partly luck and partly general knowledge so definitely worth a go. The production team were so lovely and looked after us well. It's all run so efficiently, the recording is "as live" so apart from a few pickups to re-record a line or two it was exactly as you see on the show.

I still can't believe it happened tbh - it changed my life in quite a major way as that money topped up our savings enough to afford the deposit on our first home.

MuseumOfYou · 03/09/2019 23:47

Ooh ooh!!! DH and I are in the first episode of a brand new cookery show on Channel 4 this actual Monday, 9th Sept! 5.30pm.
Called Cooking up a Fortune.
You'll know which ones are us because we are the only marital couple in it.

It was massive fun to do, we did all the cookery ourselves in the time given, 10 hr days filming. Absolutely loved it, brilliant experience. Other contestants were fab.
Excited about seeing it, but terrified too. We're also on 10th Sept. And possibly in the final on Friday 13th, if we do well enough. Fingers crossed!

icebearforpresident · 03/09/2019 23:56

A good friend of mine was on a quiz show (which might have only aired in Scotland) called Town to Town, it was hosted by Lorraine Kelly who apparently was lovely.

My father in law is going to be on an episode of flog it. They filmed 3 episodes in one day near my hometown and he ended up going to auction and actually made a bit of cash! He only went to the valuation day because he had nothing else to do, no one expected him to be filmed never mind go to auction!

Herefortheduration · 04/09/2019 00:36

Yes, I was an athlete when I was younger. I've been interviewed on grandstand and several other news programmes. They've also filmed me training and competing. They filmed my family cheering for me. My parents have all the tapes.

BackforGood · 04/09/2019 01:02

I've been in the audience for a couple of things.
I know someone who was on Bargain Hunt
I know someone who was on one of the daytime Quiz shows (is it called 15 to 1 or something like that?). It was quite interesting - he gave a talk about it afterwards. They filmed episodes one after the other and they all had to get changed and pretend they'd come back the next day

I know a couple of people whose house / flat is in 'Doctors' - does that count ?

Toddlerteaplease · 04/09/2019 01:09

I've been on Hospital on BBC2. As it was following two patents on my ward. I got filmed measuring a child who'd had spinal surgery and have always struggled to work out how our height measurement thing works. And S I was being filmed didn't want to ask for help, so guessed a bit and told mum he was 4ft 8.

AlexaAmbidextra · 04/09/2019 03:39

I’ve been in a documentary and on local news several times.

PotterHead1985 · 04/09/2019 03:51

I was on a Sunday church service thingy many many moons ago. Twice.

katewhinesalot · 04/09/2019 05:55

I appeared for about 10 seconds on our local news. Does that count?

SimonJT · 04/09/2019 06:07

I used to be a semi-pro rugby player, so games were sometimes aired and I was a little speck running around.

I have also been on TV as an ‘industry expert’ twice for a breakfast news show.

My ex is in a band so I have joined him for lots of shows he has performed on, strictly, the graham norton show (got to meet Rhianna, cate blanchet and helena bonham carter) the one show (shane ritchie is very orange in real life) are a few. I have done the Brits and the brits after party, I now fully understand why cameras are not allowed at the after party!

CountFosco · 04/09/2019 06:13

I've a few workmates who have been on quizshows and another who has been on one of those property buying shows (yes, they did buy a house). My brother has been on local news in a professional capacity representing his industry. I also was at school with a Big Brother winner.

lovesapinot · 04/09/2019 06:13

When I was younger (many years ago) I was a 'presenter' on Why Don't You? If anyone remembers that?!

I was part of the Birmingham crew.

CrispMornings · 04/09/2019 06:24

Loads. Never think about it. Nevver thought of it as unusual or that mentionable.

TemporaryPermanent · 04/09/2019 06:27

A friebd of mine was on How To Look Good Naked. She enjoyed the experience and loved the clothes she got to keep, but said she felt it was quite a fake atmosphere but then she'd bent the truth considerably when auditioning

MarieVanGoethem · 04/09/2019 06:28

In about 2010 I was on the news doing a ballet class with members of English National Ballet & some of the Olympics Committee & was interviewed afterwards. Quite glad to’ve never seen it. Flashmob I did with ENB a few years later to celebrate an anniversary relating to Martin Luther King was broadcast over in the States I think - it was part of a bigger piece of dance that all got edited together...

Much more interestingly, my brother’s been one of the historians on Who Do You Think You Are...? - he wasn’t allowed to say anything about what he’d been asked to Expert on (though I worked out which of his specialisms it was) & absolutely couldn’t breathe a word about who the celeb was.

Tartyflette · 04/09/2019 06:43

Young guy I knew was in one of the very early X Factors, he was very good looking and a great singer -- Sharon Osbourne was all over him for a while.
Unfortunately he was also personality-lite so lost out to a more drama-queen type bloke who actually won (and subsequently sank without a trace).
A friend (middle-aged nerdy bachelor type) was on eggheads and seems faintly bitter about the experience. They didn't win.
Our very good friends were in a an episode of a daytime house-hunting programme and came over very well. They actually bought one of the houses shown to them (although they had seen it beforehand anyway and they had to pretend the show had found it for them ).

shearwater · 04/09/2019 06:52

Friends were on Homes Under the Hammer. Their house was lovely and they came across well, pretty much as they are IRL.

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