Playin' the fame game

- "Look at me I is on the tele" -

Background  - "my right ear"                             

My first brush with TV fame was when at school I got 'selected' along with 11 other gimps at the school to go see some 'old codgha' at the DT..............Ey - MP Lord Young. Due to the fact that this is a 'massive' news story in my small town, Anglia TV came along for the day.

Besides discovering that someone had released a small snow storm on each of Lord Young's shoulders - a very funny fact when you are 13 - I also discovered how photogenic I am !

Sitting along a lengthy table the camera crew panned down all my school friends 'excited' faces and unfortunately I was second from the end. Sitting watching the news that evening, this was my big moment to be on the tele - as the news footage showed the said same picture, my friends, one-by-one got, their 2 seconds of fame, just as it got to me - yep there's my right ear, CUT, bastards, that's all you see before they cut away to show some dull picture of the DT..........Ey building ! Losers.............

Next attempt came much later on, while on tour with the hardnuts in Norwich (why?) - 'they' came up with the idea to go on Trisha ! Sadly only in the audience and not on the stage - man, there is some right weirdos about !! "I've slept with my sisters husband cause she asked me too"?!!

I think wearing a salmon shirt helped me in getting sat right at the front and thus was seen several times on TV - hurrah ! The highlight being my impression of a mentalist rocking back and forth as the 'orange' Trisha appeared from a side door. Bottled speaking though, too close to tears..................

Trisha as you see her on tele

As she is in real life

I applied for Big Brother this summer but strangely they haven't called me up for a second interview .......................... yet ! I think the fact that I put down my job as an "investigator", may have put them off ! Their, and the nations, loss...............

After deciding to do it in a drunken haze (honest!), ages ago I applied for tickets to be in the Top Of The Pops audience for our "recently formed band C U Next Tuesday", to "see how things are done". Having forgotten about it they then sent through the tickets last weekend !! After an intensive selection process and a live draw at work the lucky three, other than myself, to go are Vickman and my 'work colleagues', Shazza and Rachel.