Have you ever seen someone you knew on telly?

[BeckyRac]

I saw a school friend on Waterloo road years ago.

A particularly disliked family member was on Trisha i think it was , can't quite remember but it was one of those stages like Jeremy Kyle but with a woman. My somewhat upwardly mobile DM rang me to tell me in hugh dudgeon that this woman could be so terribly tacky and common , until I asked evily why my DM was watching Trisha in the first place (nothing wrong at all with watching it but it would have horrified my DM that anyone would know she watched such a thing )

The woman was truly horrible and unpleasant and continued that theme on the show. As a huge plus I could then make DM squirm any time I mentioned it for the next ten years result. especialky because the woman was married to her family so she couldn't even blame DF's lesser family

Yes, some friends and their kids were on some sort of family game show once, can't remember what it was called though.

I know one of the Royal Ballet dancers, and see him on telly every so often.

Another friend has been in Midsomer Murders.

Someone I went to school with is in Game of Thrones which is one of my favourite shows.

My DS purchased a 'willys jeep' on an episode of wheeler dealers'. He was also on a football advert where a crowd in a pub sang a savage garden song, he also starred as an extra in a ballroom scene in a film called Vera.... his identical twin boys were also in a scene in a drama series.

Lots of people I know on various game shows etc

My estranged brother in a prison documentary... As an inmate...

Quite a few! One of my best friends was interviewed on Sky News last month in his St John Ambulance role about helping to deliver the COVID vaccine roll-out!

My best friend was on a BBC game show that only lasted one series- Epic Win. You can still see her on YouTube and she is still very into the thing that got her on there.

My old history teacher won or got quite well through 15 to 1 I think. Another acquaintance from that school was on Antiques House on Sky with her mum. Also a teacher in the junior dept of that school was in a Songs of Praise choir. We had progress reports on their preparation and people tuned in to see her- I think someone managed to freeze frame it. Same school also had a few people get to be cheerleaders on SMTV Live- we all tuned in to watch. One of my drama teachers had been in Brookside, too for a few eps. The glamour!

A boy I went to VI form with is an actor and was the face of a Pizza Hut ad in Europe and another boy in my year played rugby for England so was on TV a bit- super tall so hard to miss him. A girl from that school is now a Dr and was interviewed on the TV news after running out to help treat Westminster Bridge attack victims. She's actually a really horrible person though so that was strange to watch- although she obviously did a wonderful thing.

Someone I knew vaguely at uni turned up in a 3-line role in The Windsors and someone else I vaguely know from my hobby works for BoJo so has been on the news in that capacity. Someone I used to quiz against also popped up as a feted team captain/unstoppable answer machine on Uni Challenge and one of my best friends has been on a date with Bobby Seagull of Uni Challenge fame!

Someone a few years above me at school who left randomly partway through VI form turned up on Baby Beauty Queens running a pageant franchise! It was a bit of a change from school where she was best known for having really long hair, a floaty/fussy taste in clothes and shoes and being the only girl in school to play the harp! She had a really god awful surname which she had understandably changed to a very clearly made up one. They used a venue very near me for their pageant and I got my mum to check it was them as unbelievable amount of coincidences otherwise and she recognised the very wafty mum as well as the daughter!

Oh also someone on couples come dine with me. She was VERY proud about it, it was the highest level of cringe ever.

Not really me but my husbands cousin is an actress so we see her quite a lot and he went to school with Ben the magician

A lot of people in my work don't know I was on the chase until I come up on the yearly bloopers

Oh I forgot my friend is a Bbc news presenter!

Yes. Mostly work related. I used to work in the entertainment industry, and my current job means I work with a lot of public figures.

In the 1960's I was about 9.
I remember my dm's sil, who was married to my very quiet uncle.
She was an Enoch Powell supporter and a racist

My poor dm when my aunt was on TV bring interviewed.
We all cringed.

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Shared a hot tub in lets say "adult club health club" watching the local new program and they were interviewing him about school funding .
He was a primary head teacher .

An old neighbour of mine was in "Finding Alice" She played the Coroner at the inquest and I thought she was fantastic in the part. I hadn't seen her for years and it was a lovely surprise.

My daughters friend was on an extra slice with a cake she baked. It was a surprise to see her.

Jeremy Kyle before he was on tv, was a bossy gitt even back then

My father has been on TV a few times over the years.
He won "The Weakest Link"
and has been on Channel 5 news talking about astronomy etc.

Daughters friends parents were in game of thrones

Just remembered, a friend was in the background of the arresting suite in 24 hours in police custody. She's a policewoman.

Someone I knew from school was on come dine with me and won it...he was bullied as a kid for being gay, it was lovely to see him doing so well for himself (his house is lovely and he's clearly in a happy relationship)

A few, including myself. My workplace was featured on a local news article a few years back, and myself and a few colleagues were seen briefly in the background. A relative works for a charity that has been featured on the news more than once, and I’ve seen them in the background too.

Someone my friend briefly dated was on either Trisha or Jeremy Kyle, can’t remember which, when he had drama in his next relationship. That was cringe-worthy and I couldn’t keep watching.

I did some work experience at a non-league football club as a teen, and spent a fair bit of time with the chairman and owner. When they had a decent run in the FA Cup several years later, it was strange to see him interviewed on TV in the same way as the big name premiership club owners. Especially as I hadn’t watched the match, just walked in to a room and this guy I knew was being interviewed on Sky Sports.

I've just remembered my brother went to school with a boy who starred as a naked man in a National Lottery advert They lived in our village.

Went to school with an X factor contestant. They ended up being in a very successful boyband and they are now very famous. It blows my mind when I think where they came from.

DH several times as a contestant on 15 to 1, DS on Spanish regional news items on a couple of occasions and an episode of Hinterland when at University. I was on an arts programme on BBC2 called Arena as a student many, many years ago.