This thread has been brilliant.
I went out with someone in the mid-Eighties a few times who was always applying for game shows. He wasn't trying to be famous. He just thought it would be fun. It was a much more innocent era.
I couldn't understand it. He used to talk about the Holy Grail of game shows at the time, which was a putative show about guessing prices of household goods. He'd get me to test him from an Argos catalogue.
You might be beginning to detect the reason our relationship was short-lived.
It sounded shit to me. Of course, it turned out to be The Price Is Right, which was a huge hit and possibly the reason why I'm not a TV producer. He didn't get on it, btw.
But after we broke up he phoned me to say he was going to be on a TV quiz called .
I am so grateful for this topic because I looked it up and the first YouTube clip I found is him. How amazing is that? He's the one in the middle on the croupiers' team.
The premise of the show was that there were three teams of three people from a particular job. They answered questions on their own job and then on the other teams' jobs. Try to stay awake.
He was a blackjack dealer in a casino, which impressed me at the time, because I assumed you'd have to be really good at maths to do it.
When I watched the episode, he and his two colleagues crashed and burned at the maths questions. It was embarrassing. They could barely count beyond their fingers and toes. I don't know why he told me to watch it. If it had been me I'd have wanted to crawl away and hide for years.
He was very nice though.
Another friend was on a show called . Oh, man, that was bad. I can't begin to wonder what possessed him to go on it.
Another boyfriend's brother was on Blind Date but didn't get picked. He acquitted himself well and I often used to wonder why I wasn't going out with him and not his brother.
I'm going to try and find their episodes now.