Aibu to audition for hunted when I have a 3 year old and 8 month old?

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Do you think it's unfair on the children to leave them

Could you do it and just hide in their bedroom? Make sure you complain about how annoying 8 month olds are and how you can’t wait to get away from the 3 year old for added realism - no one would suspect you were there.

@LoonyLunaLou it’s not optional-when you pick through the rules etc on the website when applying they have too do all those things in some series’

My husband was wanting to apply until he saw how rigid it was with that sort of thing.

I think you have to make contact with your family, draw cash out and visit your home location. Theres quite tight rules, if I remember correctly you also have to change locations every two days and you can’t draw all your money out in one go. It’s designed to stop people just wild camping and then heading to the extraction point.

3 yr old and 8 month old?

You probably feel fairly hunted anyway so you might as well!

A lot of the contestants have older kids who understand more - they seem to be ok, it’s whether you could cope. It always annoys me when people come back to see family - they know what they signed up for- deal with it or don’t do it!

My kids would probably love it - miss me slightly but if they were told what it was for they’d be well up for it.

I googled it, it sounds good, I've just put S5E1 on.

Yes, @Sexykitten2005 is right, there are clearly several rules you have to obey, such as changing location frequently, using an ATM at regular intervals, making contact with some specified person/family member, to make it ‘better tv’.

I find the people at the base doing the ‘hunting’ so irritating — they behave as though they’re taking down Saddam Hussein with his finger on the launcher of a warhead, rather than Anneka Rice or a pair of schoolteachers from Solihull — I’d watch the hell out of a reverse version where someone kicks them out of a lorry and Anneka Rice, helped by the general public, tracks them down.

It’s like the heist. It would be really easy if you could whatever (DP and I would spend the money on a months holiday to somewhere we don’t have an extradition treaty with) but there’s definitely some rules there. They must have to change the location of the money a couple of times and they must have to go on a couple of big out of character spending sprees. It kind of ruins it but does make better tv

So happy to have found other people who lie in bed at night wondering about CCTV and canal towpaths. Totally here to hide you in my attic if needed

I can put you up in Watford. We've got a summer house that's so full of clutter, you'd never be found! And we've got a bike for your big escape. We grow tomatoes and raspberries in summer so you won't go hungry. I'll leave the key under the mat.
PM me.

DD loves watching Hunted with me, we want to go on the show together, but she's only 11 we've also just binged the new series of The Heist. Love the idea of mumsnet coming together to harbour a fugitive!

*My job (to a certain degree) uses some of the surveillance techniques you see on the programme and it always is a huge topic of debate in our office."

It is a huge debate in everybody's office. I have lost track of the umber of conversations I have had about strategy for this. I love the idea of a mumsnet team but a code of some sort would be necessary. And of course with the most recent rules where you can't take anything even internet access would be tricky.

Someone I know is on the current series and they win!

Part of watching it is the anticipation of if anyone wins or not... So cheers for that.

North London and happy to help! Won’t put exact town in case they find this thread!

First year watching. I loved Mervyn and wanted him to win. I didn't like that posh couple that grassed him up in the cafe. They didn't have to say where he was going . I think they were hoping they'd get a cash prize or something. Its episode 3 this week and theres one couple we've not seen , is this normal?

It is all fake! You would still have contact with your children etc.

I haven’t seen this since the first series. When was that? Loved it. I haven’t seen it since as I sort of assumed it’s not as good or full of fake-seekers, like all the reality shows eventually go. Maybe not?

North London here too - and you can borrow a beagle for any tracking purposes if, by which, you need to track squirrels & bark at trees.

I can provide home baked shortbread & copious amounts of coffee. And I'll stock up on blister plasters I've put thought into this.

The first couple of series were good but now it's all fake and set up.

Thanks for the spoiler from a PP.

I can’t believe it, I thought there was only celeb hunted! I’ve seen all of those but didn’t even think of checking for a normal hunted!

I now have 5 series to binge 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

OP, I’m in if you do it, u can use my house in central Scotland as a hiding place

You can hide in our Anderson bomb shelter... behind the raspberry canes and deck chairs....

You could stay with me

I love the show even if it's stupid sometimes. Only thing is I wish the hunters didnt take it so seriously, stop calling them fugitives and call them contestants ffs it's a game!

I love/hate this programme too.
A reverse series would be great, where the hunters are hunted by a team of amateurs.
There is a blonde woman hunter in one of the volvos who is always so triumphant and mean, I would love to see her cowering in a ditch while a drone circled overhead and the dogs approached.

Why don't people of hunted use WhatsApp instead of traceable phone calls?

I kind of factor the artifice into my perception of the show, of course it's a tv show first and a manhunt second. Of course some of the more dramatic moments are engineered.

Still love it tho. I'd hide in a hedge.