I Am On Television
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About 2 years ago we had a whole hour program on our wedding, mostly me and my mates, and of course the wife, family, friends etc all featured.
The contract for everyone said £1 payment, but nobody ever asked for or saw the £1, just did it for the crack really.
Me and my mates got flown to Mexico for a jolly, and we "won" £5,000 honeymoon vouchers, so didn't get paid, but was worth it!
The contract for everyone said £1 payment, but nobody ever asked for or saw the £1, just did it for the crack really.
Me and my mates got flown to Mexico for a jolly, and we "won" £5,000 honeymoon vouchers, so didn't get paid, but was worth it!
beko1987 said:
I was on Go for It a year or so back.
Didn't get paid, but ITV sent a van and driver to collect all my vacuums, and booked my train ticket and kept me locked in a tiny room for 7 hours with a fridge full of food and drink which I emptied as I was told I could.
I did s
t and was out by round 3 because (amazingly) vacuum cleaner motors sound completely different in a sound tuned studio than they do in my living room which is where I rehersed it all for a month.... Didn't get the £1000 cash prize
Spent the rest of the day whilst everyone else was being filmed drinking free coffee and smoking in the This Morning garden (had to wait for my partner who was in the audience so we could get the train home, I was 3 out of 7 being filmed that day)
They then paid for everything to be delivered back to me which arrived thrown in the back of a transit with a few things damaged annoyingly.
Was a good day out though!
Er, just to clarify: you collect vacuum cleaners and can identify different models from the sounds they make? And you went on a TV programme where you were challenged to do this? Didn't get paid, but ITV sent a van and driver to collect all my vacuums, and booked my train ticket and kept me locked in a tiny room for 7 hours with a fridge full of food and drink which I emptied as I was told I could.
I did s
t and was out by round 3 because (amazingly) vacuum cleaner motors sound completely different in a sound tuned studio than they do in my living room which is where I rehersed it all for a month.... Didn't get the £1000 cash prizeSpent the rest of the day whilst everyone else was being filmed drinking free coffee and smoking in the This Morning garden (had to wait for my partner who was in the audience so we could get the train home, I was 3 out of 7 being filmed that day)
They then paid for everything to be delivered back to me which arrived thrown in the back of a transit with a few things damaged annoyingly.
Was a good day out though!
silentbrown said:
Just joined your username and profile together. I try and follow the SAIS blogs - It's a hell of a job that you do. Unexpected Item In The Bagging Area said:
Er, just to clarify: you collect vacuum cleaners and can identify different models from the sounds they make? And you went on a TV programme where you were challenged to do this?
"Collect" doesn't begin to cover it:https://www.youtube.com/user/beko1987
When we were 18 a friend and I were well known around the local nightclubs, probably more as a pair of tts than anything else, but one afternoon we received a phone call telling us that some filming was being carried out in our favourite club for a tv program and they needed some knobs in the background acting as clubbers. Seemed like our perfect gig so early afternoon we walked through town dressed up to the nines, this was back in the days when to get into a club a shirt and shoes were necessary!
We turned up and were told it was actually crimewatch they were filming, we were does a would be needed to dance on the dance floor or act natural in the club to provide a background for the story. Everyone was given one free drink ticket, however as we knew the bar staff and bouncers, we ended up having far more than one! We quickly identified who the 'victim' was and who the 'suspects' were so we made sure we stuck the other side of them from the camera the whole time, hopefully guaranteeing us some screen time! They played 10 seconds of music to start us dancing then silence while it was actually being filmed so you ended up dancing around like a wally, all to different beats!
It was over about 2 hours later so we staggered out of the club several sheets to the wind then stood in confusion as it was the middle of the afternoon and normal people were still walking round town! Seemed like there was only one thing to do so we went to the nearest pub until the club opened properly later that evening!
We told everyone we knew that we were going to be on it, we even got the pub we were in that evening to switch the football off and put on crimewatch. Our plans for tv careers were dashed when the presenter started the program by saying that the suspects for the crime we had been filmed for had handed themselves in that morning on the condition that the dim wasn't shown!
ts than anything else, but one afternoon we received a phone call telling us that some filming was being carried out in our favourite club for a tv program and they needed some knobs in the background acting as clubbers. Seemed like our perfect gig so early afternoon we walked through town dressed up to the nines, this was back in the days when to get into a club a shirt and shoes were necessary!We turned up and were told it was actually crimewatch they were filming, we were does a would be needed to dance on the dance floor or act natural in the club to provide a background for the story. Everyone was given one free drink ticket, however as we knew the bar staff and bouncers, we ended up having far more than one! We quickly identified who the 'victim' was and who the 'suspects' were so we made sure we stuck the other side of them from the camera the whole time, hopefully guaranteeing us some screen time! They played 10 seconds of music to start us dancing then silence while it was actually being filmed so you ended up dancing around like a wally, all to different beats!
It was over about 2 hours later so we staggered out of the club several sheets to the wind then stood in confusion as it was the middle of the afternoon and normal people were still walking round town! Seemed like there was only one thing to do so we went to the nearest pub until the club opened properly later that evening!
We told everyone we knew that we were going to be on it, we even got the pub we were in that evening to switch the football off and put on crimewatch. Our plans for tv careers were dashed when the presenter started the program by saying that the suspects for the crime we had been filmed for had handed themselves in that morning on the condition that the dim wasn't shown!
I was on Breakfast TV back in 1996 when the BSE crisis was in full swing. I spent a good 30 minutes on the phone talking to the production team the night before telling them what we were all about and then when it came to it I was interviewed in the studio on live TV by Fiona Philips. They then introduced some bloke from Belgium on another screen who they had not mentioned before and who started talking about things that had nothing to do with what I thought I had gone on to talk about. It was actually all a bit of a nightmare and at 7.30 in the morning I was far from my best; put it down to experience.
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I was on Breakfast TV back in 1996 when the BSE crisis was in full swing. I spent a good 30 minutes on the phone talking to the production team the night before telling them what we were all about and then when it came to it I was interviewed in the studio on live TV by Fiona Philips. They then introduced some bloke from Belgium on another screen who they had not mentioned before and who started talking about things that had nothing to do with what I thought I had gone on to talk about. It was actually all a bit of a nightmare and at 7.30 in the morning I was far from my best; put it down to experience.
Feel your pain. Drove from Essex to Hull to a bit to camera and had a similar experience and what I thought would be participation in a one hour programme turned out to be a 30 sec 'insert' piece. My starring role is here if you're interested .....though this meme describes it perfectly!
I was on TV in France back in about 2002, on a school trip to an art museum and they were celebrating their 1,000,000 visitor and so had a whole TV thing for "France 2" and whatever their early-00s French version of The One Show was. We watched it later that evening, they had interviewed my mate because he spoke better French than me, then still subtitled it all for everyone . I was just stood their looking gormless. No payment from that of course.
I was partly on TV but mostly cut, part of my arm appeared on the news. Was just part of my normal work day but I was escorting a Channel 4 News correspondent and her cameraman during a piece about the 2012 Paralympics. Answered a few questions but my bit didn't make it. No payment offered, again, I think it was expected that having the company name on camera would have been enough, certainly it was a "positive" spin piece for Gatwick at the time.
I was hoping to be on Mike Brewer's upcoming "Wheeler Dealers" spin off but had an email last week from the producers to say I haven't made the cut, after a few sessions on Skype and emails back and forth with the producers. Payment would have been "my dream car" but sadly it hasn't worked for me on this occasion.
I was partly on TV but mostly cut, part of my arm appeared on the news. Was just part of my normal work day but I was escorting a Channel 4 News correspondent and her cameraman during a piece about the 2012 Paralympics. Answered a few questions but my bit didn't make it. No payment offered, again, I think it was expected that having the company name on camera would have been enough, certainly it was a "positive" spin piece for Gatwick at the time.
I was hoping to be on Mike Brewer's upcoming "Wheeler Dealers" spin off but had an email last week from the producers to say I haven't made the cut, after a few sessions on Skype and emails back and forth with the producers. Payment would have been "my dream car" but sadly it hasn't worked for me on this occasion.
Just remembered another TV appearance that I did get paid for!
Back in the 80s and early 90s I used to Marshall startline for Rallycross at Brands Hatch. TVS (Forerunner to Meridian TV) organised the 'TVS Southern Rallycross Champaionship) which, when you saw it in TV looked like a weekly competition run on Monday evenings over 6 weeks in Spring but was in fact shot over two midweek days in February. It wasn't a 'closed event' but neither was it publicised but on TV, they edited in crowd scenes from the F1 GP (I think).
The racing was real but occasionally contrived. I remember Will Gollop in his Metro 6R4 in a heat with Group C RX cars which were near as makes no difference, road-spec Novas, Fiestas, etc with a roll cages. From the back of the grid, he lapped the field ...... over a 2.5 lap race!!! The Director reassembled the cars on the grid to re-run the race and asked Will if he 'could make it look a bit more difficult', which he duly obliged, stalling off the line, spinning twice, but still winning by a country mile!
All the Marshalls got £20 fuel money, lunch, beer, a Shell branded coat and a Shell goodie bag. The coat was reversible and we were asked to wear them reversed for the rent-a-crowd podium scenes all shot at the same time at the end of each day.
Smoke and mirrors!
Here I am:
Back in the 80s and early 90s I used to Marshall startline for Rallycross at Brands Hatch. TVS (Forerunner to Meridian TV) organised the 'TVS Southern Rallycross Champaionship) which, when you saw it in TV looked like a weekly competition run on Monday evenings over 6 weeks in Spring but was in fact shot over two midweek days in February. It wasn't a 'closed event' but neither was it publicised but on TV, they edited in crowd scenes from the F1 GP (I think).
The racing was real but occasionally contrived. I remember Will Gollop in his Metro 6R4 in a heat with Group C RX cars which were near as makes no difference, road-spec Novas, Fiestas, etc with a roll cages. From the back of the grid, he lapped the field ...... over a 2.5 lap race!!! The Director reassembled the cars on the grid to re-run the race and asked Will if he 'could make it look a bit more difficult', which he duly obliged, stalling off the line, spinning twice, but still winning by a country mile!
All the Marshalls got £20 fuel money, lunch, beer, a Shell branded coat and a Shell goodie bag. The coat was reversible and we were asked to wear them reversed for the rent-a-crowd podium scenes all shot at the same time at the end of each day.
Smoke and mirrors!
Here I am:
Hol said:
GetCarter said:
Black can man said:
Please tell us more sir .
I appeared quite a lot with French & Saunders, Lenny Henry.. and all the 'alternative' crowd as they were considered then. (I was actor/musician at the time, so did a lot of the musical stuff, off and on camera).superlightr said:
Hol said:
GetCarter said:
Black can man said:
Please tell us more sir .
I appeared quite a lot with French & Saunders, Lenny Henry.. and all the 'alternative' crowd as they were considered then. (I was actor/musician at the time, so did a lot of the musical stuff, off and on camera).Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff