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I was on 'Millionaire Hotseat' it was a great experience. Eddie McGuire the host was very good at making us feel comfortable...oh and wining $50,000 made it a brilliant day out

I was on 'Millionaire Hotseat' it was a great experience. Eddie McGuire the host was very good at making us feel comfortable...oh and wining $50,000 made it a brilliant day out

Oh wow! And what a win! And here's me thinking I'd done well winning 148 pounds on the lottery this weekend .

London Marathon, 1989 - a few seconds crossing Tower Bridge, with hundreds of others, at the halfway point. My OH spotted me on TV, I doubt I would have done, but she taped it for me (remember videotape?).

The floods in Morpeth 5 years ago - our county headquarters and the library completely trashed, as was a large portion of the rest of this lovely market town on a loop in the River Wansbeck. We just stood outside the buildings on the Monday after, for what seemed like hours ... and ended up as background on all the local (and national) news programmes. Agree that presenters are all weeny when you see them in real life ... (and most seem to have weird shaped heads )

And I may be on an upcoming episode of Helicopter Heroes, after being just behind a
head-on crash back in June. Very weird and surreal experience, just after such a shock, to see a sound man and camera man among all the paramedics, police and other drivers.

I have been in the audience of a few TV shows, I quite enjoy this - free entertainment. I was at Andrew Denton's 'Enough Rope' when he interviewed Kyle Sandilands, very revealing. When I was in L.A went to Dr Phil

And here's me thinking I'd done well winning 148 pounds on the lottery this weekend .

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Believe me, you DID do well

Ballerina x

Yep first time in 20 odd yrs.....

I was an audience member on Kilroy once and had my say. It was in the 80s. I was so aghast at how awful I looked on it that it made me video- camera shy for life. I'm great on the radio though.

@GMH I was that show all the time, probably saw you on it.
I was on the ABC news walking out of my local general store, they were filming about the loss of pay phones. I had on the worst clothes in my wardrobe and they filmed me sideways eeeekkkkk. However I recorded it and made my family watch it over and over just to torture them

@wineoclock It was on Nov 2011, but if u remember Eddie talking about the Greyhound the crew own called Hotseat? Or the question I didn't know the answer to (but got it right anyway LOL); who won 4 grand slam tennis titles in 1970..Margaret Court, Evonne Gooligong, Rod Laver, Roy Emerson?

Glamour photography was quite "new" in this country 15 years ago and my before/after pic was so amazing that i was featured on The Ernie Sigley show in some photo examples. and then on a series of tv ads. so was just my picture but i actually had someone stop me in the street and ask if it was me

Thankfully they didnt publish up my "less clothed" version.. tasteful of course

@GMH. I don't remember it but now you are going to have to tell me the answer!!!

I've been on TV a few of times and on the radio but quite a while ago now. I was in some programs about tattooing, 'The Girlie Show' and a series called 'Tattoo You' and hated it. It was back when tattooing began to get mainstream but the media only wanted to explore the salacious and tacky perceptions about it. Radio people were always about pitting me against some 'expert' who hated tattoos and wanted to discredit the industry. All very tasteless and negative really. So when I declined subsequent invitations the media lost interest in me thankfully.
I have been in a Bollywood movie briefly which was great fun and Little Britain filmed a sketch at my studio.
I found 'media types' to be false and narcissistic with no real experience of the real world and only focused on their own self importance. They were astonished to find I really didn't give a toss about my 15 mins of fame lol. Behind the scenes was interesting but very tiring. The people that do all the hard work were fabulous and fun, the rest of them were pretty much assholes. Except for David Walliams.....he's a very funny, cool human being.
Of course , now it's all about how you look and getting your tits out pretending to be some kind of rock star. A tattooist is only deemed important if they tattoo 'celebs'. No thanks. They can keep their money and take their ego's elsewhere x