Have you ever been on Telly?

[WomenHour]

I once was about 15 years ago getting my GCSEs results.

I’ve been on The Weakest Link, The One Show, the news (both accidentally as a passer by and interviewed live!) and the odd match of the day, too (in the crowd).

I accidentally got in the background when Katie Price was filming her reality TV show in my local Tesco . I looked dog rough with no makeup so sort of scuttled past with my head down!

My arm was on Brookside, when they were filming at Alton Towers (I think it might have been a Damien & Debbie special) and I was there on a school trip, low shot, just at the very edge of the screen.

Please no more PMs, though - I simply don't have enough minutes left in my life to answer everybody who asks for autographs.

Actually, I was on the radio in 1999, as one of the contestants in Virgin Radio's win £1m competition (the Chris Evans era). I got down to the final 17 and ended up as one of the 16 who left empty-handed.

The local paper ran two separate features on me over two separate weeks - the first one full of excitement that 'Local of X-Town could win £1m' and then the more sombre follow-up 'Local of X-Town didn't win £1m'.

The woman who did actually win turned up a few months later on The Weakest Link and won it - she got something like £3K. I think Anne asked her what she'd do if she won the money, but she had the good grace not to say "Probably just pile it up on top of all the rest!" There was a limo at the radio station waiting to whisk the winner off for an interview on whatever ITV breakfast show was on at the time, but it massively over-ran, so she never got to be on the show. Maybe her application for TWL was in determination that she would eventually get on telly one way or another!

Yes, about 25 years ago on a local news segment. I was dressed as a pirate and got paid £85 for my pirate acting which was RADA standard rate, even though my pirate acting was below RADA standards.

My ex was an extra in a film, he made me watch the film on several occasions, I never once saw anything that I could say was definitively him. It was a shit film too.

Is anybody else here reminded of Mick on Gavin & Stacey, where they filmed him for half an hour or more giving his considered professional opinions on something in great detail and, in the final edit, they just had him saying one brief throwaway sentence that didn't really mean anything and made him sound a bit dim?! He'd gathered and invited everybody around to watch it as well!

A close up whilst at Wimbledon!

A close up whilst at Wimbledon!

So which one are you, then: Serena or Cliff?

I was, in middle school when we were filmed for the local news naming a baby in Africa whose village we had donated boxes of clothes and food to. I clearly remember being told what to write on my slip and it was all rigged!

Is anybody else here reminded of Mick on Gavin & Stacey, where they filmed him for half an hour or more giving his considered professional opinions on something in great detail and, in the final edit, they just had him saying one brief throwaway sentence that didn't really mean anything and made him sound a bit dim?! He'd gathered and invited everybody around to watch it as well!

Well, it's not what you expect on the way to work, is it?

Yes. Going into court as a witness

My first job was at a university as an apprentice, there was a group of around 15 of us. A TV company wanted to televise one of the lecturers there speaking about his involvement in developing the hydrogen bomb, so he lectured to the apprentice group. He actually broke down in tears at one point so it was pretty uncomfortable watching both live and then on tv....

Ooh, how did I forget to put that I was as extra (‘supporting artist’) on Casualty!!

@SorrelBlackbeak

I was in Morse. I witnessed an opera singer getting murdered which was very very shocking!

I was an extra in the same Morse!

I was an extra in a (awful!) film when I was a kid, but still had my moment on the big screen

I got to appear with my kids on a TV advert last year.

Very jealous of the poster who was in the audience of Ricky Lake!! That is an amazing claim to fame.

In the background during a news bulletin.

I was a legal clerk and there was some high profile case or other going on at the High Court. I'd been at some run of the mill thing and as I left, there was a tv crew interviewing a reporter about the case outside.

I didn't know, but my mother phoned me up that evening and asked why I was still wearing my father's old overcoat. She lived in Milton Keynes and I was in Croydon, so for a few seconds I thought she might have developed second sight!

I was on for less than a second in the crowd at a football match. I was gobsmacked by how many friends and workmates actually saw me!

When I was a teenager I was in a documentary about what people do on Sundays (they filmed us on a Monday though and we had to pretend it was Sunday), I was only in it briefly though.

A few years ago I was in a documentary about my brother, much more involved in that one, studio paid for my flights to the UK and everything.

Was supposed to go on Good Morning Britain but it was cancelled as some bigger news came up.

On Parallel 9 as a kid - segment on rollerblading

On a game show in 2002

BBC documentary about my work in 2015

No, but my father has about three times

My voice was. It was on a documentary about trainee teachers. I can be heard saying 'fallopian tubes.'

About once a month, it sucks because I always look fatter than I think I am and my voice sounds weird. I try not to watch myself if I can help it.

Top of the Pops, SMTV and CDUK a lot in the crowd

X Factor performing

Twice that I remember, but I feel like I might be forgetting others.

The first time was as a teenager on a satellite channel, as they interviewed my mum about our rescue dogs. And when I was an adult, on the local BBC news, for a breastfeeding protest outside a discriminating swimming pool.