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Post by infofreako on Aug 21, 2017 23:20:37 GMT
Made a couple of brief on screen appearances as an audience member on Al Murrays compete for the meat. That was a very odd gameshow. I do have an upcoming appearance on a BBC4 documentary in November. I'm sure I will add proper details nearer the time
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Post by junet on Aug 21, 2017 23:43:25 GMT
I was on Fifteen to One a long time ago. The man who auditioned us was the man who played Dennis Tanner in Coronation Street.
I was so nervous I could hardly speak and went out in the first round, and although this was a programme that I had previously loved I couldn't bear to watch it after that.
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Post by mallardo on Aug 22, 2017 9:15:39 GMT
Not been on TV but I had a scene in a low budget movie once upon a time. I was actually a crew member on the film but they needed someone with lots of hair to be an anonymous rock musician in a coffee shop scene so they drafted me. I had four lines. I have the DVD so if I want to be reminded of what I looked like at 21 - not good! - there I am.
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Post by Tibidabo on Aug 22, 2017 9:17:25 GMT
they needed someone with lots of hair I presume @theatremonkey wasn't available? |
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Post by jampot on Aug 22, 2017 9:38:15 GMT
Back in 82 i was one of the children on kids sat morning prog "No 73"
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Post by Angram on Aug 22, 2017 9:43:24 GMT
I was on Fifteen to One a long time ago. The man who auditioned us was the man who played Dennis Tanner in Coronation Street. Philip Lowrie - yes my first audition was with him (1991 iirc), second time (2000) it was William G. himself. Finished 2nd in 2000. Not really interested in the revived format, too padded out. No waffle on the William G. version. Missed out on the hot seat in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire by .11 of a second  . Won £8k on The Chase though! Two of us up against Mark Labbett and just managed to beat him in the final chase. Unfortunately didn't get chance to meet either Mark or Bradley properly as they had two more shows to record that day, straight out of the door into a taxi afterwards. On 15 to 1 you at least got a group photo with William G. & Laura (voiceover, aka Mrs William G.). I was also caught by the cameras at Wimbledon last year, waving my little Union Jack during Andy Murray's semi-final. |
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Post by n1david on Aug 22, 2017 9:57:32 GMT
Well I will put my hand up to having been on Pointless - it was quite a memorable show and my Dad and I have been referred to several times by Richard and Xander since our appearance...
When asked about my interests on the show I said I went to the theatre 2-3 times a week and then was scared that a theatre question would come up (it didn't).
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2017 11:17:41 GMT
I've been on Songs of Praise a couple of times over the last year...they keep recycling some hymns that my choir were a part of the 'congregation' for ...though we are an intensely secular choir so we had to do some fast learning...but the cameras seems to love our 'corner' and well, this hair does stand out...
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Post by tysilio2 on Aug 22, 2017 12:20:02 GMT
Was on screen in a Welsh language film shown on S4C 20ish years ago about a man (Tom Jones??) who was one of a number of Welsh miners who took part in the Spanish Civil War. The brass band I played in led his homecoming parade in the film, shot at a temperature of around 0°C in driving snow!!
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Post by stuartww on Aug 22, 2017 12:23:47 GMT
Back in around 1994/1995 I was in the audience of a free concert at the Royal Albert Hall that Anneka Rice had to put on for one of the Challenge Anneka episodes - you see me walking in, and the camera pans past a couple of times when I was in my seat.
In 1998 I was in the audience for Top of the Pops (Andy Williams, Roxette, E17, Skunk Anansie and a video of Boyzone where we had to pretend they were actually there. I even saw into Albert Square while we were queuing. Both the Challenge Anneka and Top of The Pops were recorded on a VHS tape that my then flatmate videoed over with something she wanted to watch! i was not impressed.
I can also be seen walking down the road on the Garter Ceremony episode of The Queen's Castle - 3 episode series about the day to day running of Windsor Castle. That's got to be about 12 years ago now!
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Post by Tibidabo on Aug 22, 2017 12:40:52 GMT
Guitar Star a couple of years ago, sitting behind the dreamy Miloš Karadaglić, filmed at the newly constructed Milton Court, part of the Guildhall Conservatoire.
Also, in a Colgate advert many decades years ago - at school one day we were told we had an extra break and to go and play. On the roof was a photographer. We knew nothing about it until an advert came out featuring 'Alice' who was 'in a control group of children who used Colgate.' They then showed a picture of the whole school playing with a line drawn down the middle of the playground - girls on the right used Colgate and ones on the left didn't. They zoomed in on 'Alice,' pretending one of the girls was her when she was young. Total cobblers of course - 'Alice' was, in fact, the bitchy girl from the year above who once nicked my flying saucers. Also, despite being one of those on the side of the picture who 'used' Colgate, I had about 35 fillings!
We think we were used because our uniform was very old fashioned, so legitimately looked as though the photo could have been taken 20 years before. I've searched and searched on YouTube, but can't find the ad.
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Post by Snciole on Aug 22, 2017 12:43:16 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2017 12:44:10 GMT
Oh I was also interviewed by Sky news about Nick Clegg back in 2010...but no idea if it made it to air!
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Post by n1david on Aug 22, 2017 12:55:41 GMT
My Pointless appearance is here (I'm David G):
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Post by Honoured Guest on Aug 22, 2017 13:11:20 GMT
I applied to enter the Big Brother house but, sadly for the nation, was rejected after Day Two of auditions.
Those early, adrenaline-fuelled auditions are still amongst my most vivid memories.
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Post by mosiemo on Aug 22, 2017 13:11:22 GMT
That's the first episode of EastEnders I watched in over 10 or so years because I know the guy that Ian's shaking hands with, and I only watched it because he was going to be in it! |
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Post by Marwood on Aug 22, 2017 14:01:55 GMT
When BBC Four screened Judi Dench's interview with Richard Eyre at the BFI a couple of years ago, I can be seen during the end credits. I was sat front row when Cillian Murphy interviewed Ken Loach a week or two previously for the same series of interviews, but I never got to see the screening of that. Unfortunately neither are on the BBC website at the moment so I will have to remain an International Man Of Mystery for the time being.
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Post by richey on Aug 22, 2017 15:01:16 GMT
My few appearances were in the audience of Deal or No Deal, several times sat prominently behind Noel Edmonds head.
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Post by shady23 on Aug 23, 2017 7:46:38 GMT
I've been on Loose Women a few times and on X Factor, BGT, Question Time etc.
Much prefer a live show as those recorded ones last a lifetime.
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Post by tonyloco on Aug 23, 2017 13:38:58 GMT
I can't resist joining in this discussion. Firstly, I am very annoyed that 'The Chase' is currently replaced by Bradley Walsh's over-complicated 'Cash Trapped' and I am very glad to hear that losing contestants on the various TV quizzes really do have a great day.
I have never been on a TV quiz or competition but I did have a small featured role in a recent BBC documentary called 'Cue the Queen' about the monarch's annual Christmas Speech. I appear near the start in the EMI Archives explaining to the fragrant Kirsty Young how gramophone records were made by the acoustic process before electrical recording was invented in 1925 and making a fool of myself demonstrating this by speaking loudly into a recording horn. Kirsty was a delight and I could have stayed chatting to her all day but the producer of the show had other ideas!
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Post by shady23 on Aug 23, 2017 15:24:14 GMT
I've been on Loose Women a few times You are Denise Welch and I claim my £5. We do come from the same town, coincidently. |
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Post by TallPaul on Aug 24, 2017 13:17:32 GMT
I was loitering outside the Royal Festival Hall when Man Up, starring Simon Pegg, was being filmed. I somehow managed to miss it at the cinema, so when it was on TV t'other day, I was really excited to finally see myself. Sadly, it seems I ended up on the cutting room floor!
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Post by boybooshka on Aug 24, 2017 14:25:59 GMT
Back in the early days of the National Lottery when Mystic Meg used to make predictions about next week's winners on the results show, my workplace syndicate won a small amount but had lots of matches with things she predicted, star signs, type of workplace, names beginning with a to z etc. We got invited to appear on the show, stand in the middle of the stage and tell Anthea Turner how much we'd won (56p each if i recall correctly), as well as comment on the quality of the food in the BBC canteen. A lot of fun if a little embarrassing. Terry Wogan was on that week too though and i got to meet him which was a real pleasure.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2017 20:34:59 GMT
I was on a reality TV show called Freshers on ITV2. It was in my second year, and I was a "Freshers Angel" looking after the new students. I basically got drunk for two weeks and was shown a couple of times, it was a lot of fun to shoot, but its interesting filming those kind of shows, because you realise just how much is real and what isn't.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2017 10:00:02 GMT
Third row aisle seat in the audience of "Superstar" (the ITV / ALW casting thing). On the screen surprisingly often. CCTV in my local Tesco. Every Thursday afternoon. Not buying anything, just giving them a quick burst of something I'm currently working on - see how it goes down with the audience, that kind of thing. This made me laugh out loud, you're wasted on this unappreciative audience theatremonkey |
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Post by mallardo on Aug 25, 2017 10:10:00 GMT
^Aw, it's a living, you know, it's a living. All I ever needed was the music and the mirror etc, etc.
If we're talking Chorus Line, TM, I rather saw you as the "I Can Do That" guy.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 26, 2017 10:06:01 GMT
Third row aisle seat in the audience of "Superstar" (the ITV / ALW casting thing). On the screen surprisingly often. CCTV in my local Tesco. Every Thursday afternoon. Not buying anything, just giving them a quick burst of something I'm currently working on - see how it goes down with the audience, that kind of thing. This made me laugh out loud, you're wasted on this unappreciative audience theatremonkey We're trying not to encourage him. Those taxis are costing a fortune. |
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Post by cheesy116 on Aug 26, 2017 10:23:15 GMT
I was an extra on Waterloo Road for 2 years when it filmed up here, and an extra on a recent bbc3 show called Clique. That's as exciting as my TV appearances get!
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. Won £8k on The Chase though! Two of us up against Mark Labbett and just managed to beat him in the final chase. Unfortunately didn't get chance to meet either Mark or Bradley properly as they had two more shows to record that day, straight out of the door into a taxi afterwards. On 15 to 1 you at least got a group photo with William G. & Laura (voiceover, aka Mrs William G.).
