Claim to Fame or not?

2 Oct 2007

When I was an eleven year old girl guide our group along with others got chosen to be part of a tv documentry for channel 4.
The documentry was based on a young / teenage girls view on growing up and going through puberty.
So we all trouped to Redwood Lodge in Bristol for the documentry to be filmed in girl guide uniform!!. I was so excited at the prospect of being on tv, then I found out we would actually have to talk about breasts, periods redface

and boys (yuk):shock:. I wasn`t as excited any more!!. I my idea was to just blend into the background looking all lovely in my uniform, how wrong was I?
So the day progressed and we all aired our views for the camera. Everything was going fine and dandy until............ I slipped in the toilets wacked my head on the basin so hard I was seeing stars!! and had to sit out for the rest of the afternoon!! sad

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For the end of the documentry they wanted everyone to prance around in a circle with a person stood in the middle. As the felt sorry for me I got chosen to stand in the middle of the circle in a growbag :shock: whilst everyone else skipped around me singing..... " I must I must improve my bust, the bigger the better the tighter the sweater" surprised

ops:, oh the embarassment when i think of it now :lol2:
So has anyone else got any embarassing claims to fame?.

2 Oct 2007

Yes! I was Robert The Robot in a childrens program redface

I was also in Hamlet with Frances De La Tour and in Machine Wreckers with Simon Callow and Maggie Steed.
Oh and I was on the beach with my sis while they were filming with John Betjamen poet Lauriet and they used us in the final cut.
I'm sure there's more......
Love
Fire xx

2 Oct 2007

I once was a witch in our school production of Canterbury Tales, which involved holding hands with other 'wtiches' (my best friends....enough said lol) and skipping around a really old tree in our school grounds. Afterwards we were paranoid that we had accidentally invoked some evil - even though we were only acting. No i suppose that doesnt count for a claim to fame does it?
I did, however, sit next to David Attenborough in the BBC canteen when i worked there many years ago..... Still not good enough?
Ok then maybe i should just remain infamous as Mistress_39 lol! No rude comments thanks hee hee :twisted:

2 Oct 2007

I bet quite a few people have been on a T.V here :rascal:
Shaz x

2 Oct 2007

i was mortified cos Mr Bone rang into This Morning with Richard and Judy to enter a comp for Rosemary Conley to help him lose weight, and was picked to go on the show redface

If that wasnt bad enough, She came to our house to film a piece for airing on the show. Thank god I was at work.
The film crew were jammed like sardines with all their equipment into a bursting at the seams battered volvo estate, while she turns up, dripping in gold jewellery, and designer clothes in a chauffeur driven Rolls Royce.
The curtains in the locality certainly twitched that day....suddenly everyone needed to mow their lawn or polish their knockers (door knockers that is!! lol

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Still cringe when I think about it too surprised

ops: :oops:

2 Oct 2007

yes I was born in stepney....... biggrin

3 Oct 2007

I once appeared on a Sunday morning children's show (part of the CBBC schedule) when I was 12. A group of us taken to a local 'beauty spot' and asked questions about a book we had all read. The filming lasted a day and I only appeared a total of 5 minutes. but it was national television on BBC2 so I can't complain. Lol.
Oh and I was also featured in a national paper too in a report on football back in 1994/5. The Guardian I think it was. The picture was spread of two pages and I was in centre. Awesome.

3 Oct 2007

I had Murray Walker mention my name :shock: :shock: during the coverage of a motor race at Silverstone, after he came and interviewed me in the pitlane. :shock:
I smiled like a cheshire cat all day (and the next, and the.....) He was a hero of mine (I know)

3 Oct 2007

I had a text read out on radio suffolk last night lol

3 Oct 2007

Quote by martin_bg_2000_uk
I had Murray Walker mention my name :shock: :shock: during the coverage of a motor race at Silverstone, after he came and interviewed me in the pitlane. :shock:
I smiled like a cheshire cat all day (and the next, and the.....) He was a hero of mine (I know)

You're not with the Williams team are you?
wink

3 Oct 2007

Noooooo, not Williams.
and it was some time ago

3 Oct 2007

Many years ago the class I was teaching was chosen to take part in a BBC educational program for schools. Although they had a theme they did seem to make it up as they went along. I spent the whole time standing behind the lights as I was told this was the safest place to avoid being on camera. I also managed to make sure that I was only ever referred to as "their teacher" I was so glad I avoided being on camera ... they put 10 pounds on you redface

Oh and Piers Morgan was married to my ex partner's niece. Met him many times at family do's. He's much nicer in person rotflmao

4 Oct 2007

I was on the telly on Brucie's Big Night when i was about 12. Had to do a golden shot type thing to shoot a ball in a goal. Met Stewpot (the DJ), Cleo Laine, Tony Godden and Brucie himself.
Now if you have any clue what i'm talking about and recognise more than one name then you're showing you're age lol

Jack x

4 Oct 2007

Oh, and we had a letter and our pics in the Daily Mail once!
I know but we were young and didn't know any better to be reading it confused

Jack x

4 Oct 2007

Ohh just thought of another one redface

I was in the school production of Joseph and his technicoloured dreamcoat. Before you get to excited I was playing the part of an Ishmiliate (sp). As I was riding my hobby horse across the stage I was so busy looking at the audiance I "rode" straight into the wall surprised

ops: :giggle:
Glad im not the only one who has an embarassing claim to fame tho!

4 Oct 2007

When 15 I got a part time job working backstage at the Grand Theatre W' to meet many local celebrities.
I had to help with the very quick scenery stages between acts. Once I lifted the heavy weight off the props that held the scenery up too early and the 12foot high side of Granny's cottage in Red Riding Hood started to falll towards the actors still on stage ...luckily a couple of stage hands managed to grab the prop and prevent the scenery crashing on to the trio of actors on stage. redface

Another time of the chorus girls asked me to undo her basque between scenes ...never have my hands shaken so much when undressing a lady lol

4 Oct 2007

does being in the same class as po from the tellytubby's count? :giggle:

5 Oct 2007

I,ve been interviewed on the radio, Live... at in the flipping morning in the middle of playing fields. When it began to rain so hard, I had rain pouring down my face, soaked hair and was steadily sinking into the mud !!!
Theres three of us..... I was the 2nd to be interviewed! We all agree what were gonna say. The silly women before me said my part.... and her own :mad: so I had to make it up on the spot and talk for 5 mins on the issue, without mentioning what the third person was supposed to say and ruin it for him!!
I blagged it best I could...... rolleyes

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When I got home my kids were rolling on the floor laughing. They had taped it and when they played it back, the 1st and 3rd person come over great. When it got to me, all you could hear was the interviewer introduce me ask me my first question.......all the rest was the sound of thunder and lightening and terrible interference due to the weather.
I refused to do the tv interview!!:? lol

5 Oct 2007

Well there was the time I sang the "Shake & Vac" song live on local radio redface

5 Oct 2007

I was at Mr Blobby's wedding