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Have you ever been on TV or radio?

MacBoobsPro

MacBoobsPro

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Hehe. I was bored at work (still am) and there was a sound bite on the radio (Galaxy 105) and I sent a random text saying it sounded like Kirsty Gallacher from You've been framed.

I got a call back from Dan O'Connell the DJ and he asked if I could record a sound bite with him. I did and 1 minute later it was on. They mix it all in with what he is saying so it sounds live and spontaneous... seems weird! :D

Anyone else want to claim they are an A List Celeb like me?

I have also appeared on TV playing football :p
 
When I was a wee tot, I was on the news for being one of the first kids to ride the train at the Houston Zoo. I was about 3 months old at the time.

yeah, yeah I'm a star. :)
 
Well, I present a show called ShortCutters on SKY channel 146 (Sumo TV). Its on at 10:30pm each night of interested. :D

I also used to be a film extra, and appeared in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Still Crazy, and Longitude to name a few.
 
Several times when I was a kid. On radio for winning quizzes, or live spots - I was never shy about that for some reason.

A friend and I DJd an alternative show on the local University radio station back in the 80s. That was loads of fun.
 
Radio: A bunch of times. I am a semi-regular caller to WBT 1110 AM talk radio here in Charlotte.

TV: A few times. I was on PBS here in NC back in 1986, when I led my high school's Quiz Bowl team to the state championships (unfortunately, we didn't win). I was also on the news a couple of years ago before the Panthers first preseason game... a local news reporter asked me if football was the most important thing, and I said no, but it was up there in the hierarchy of things. (Yes, I used the word "hierarchy" on TV. I am a geek.) And I'm pretty sure I was in a background shot at another Panthers event.

Newspaper: I was quoted in about 40 newspapers across the US last year concerning the Panthers cheerleader scandal down in Tampa... a reporter for the Charlotte Observer interviewed me to see what I thought about the whole thing, and the story ended up syndicated to all of the Knight Ridder newspapers. Click here to see the story. (Note: I never used the word "titillating". The reporter did. He asked if the story was titillating, and I said yes, it was. Somehow it ended up being my word.)
 
I phoned in to Capital Radio a few years ago. I never normally listen to the radio but for some reason I had tuned in that morning and they were playing this "Birthday Bonanza" game, where they randomly draw a birthday - if it's yours you phone in, if you get through you have to answer 3 multiple choice questions and can win something like £10,000. Well it just so happens it was my birthday... so I decided to call in and I was the first person on! Unfortunately I didn't get all the questions right so didn't win anything but I was a bit cheeky to Chris Tarrant :D A load of people from work and even local estate agents heard me on the radio and remembered it for years as I have a pretty unusual name :eek:

TV... no, only ever been in the audience on a couple of programmes and shown on TV for a split second.
 
I was in the local papers often in high school, as I was on the speech and debate team and did pretty well (in competitions, not with the girls, even though you'd expect debate to be a real turn-on :rolleyes: ).

In college, I was the student in charge of my department's portion of the annual Engineering Open House. One of the participants went on a bathroom break, so I took over their display, which was a tornado box (pretty cool). A TV crew came up and started asking me questions. I knew nothing about it, so instead I discussed the tornado research facility with whom our department worked, the work they were doing to improve building codes, their large wind tunnels, etc. It made the local news for two nights in a row.

There was no tornado research facility.
 
I was a regular guest on my friend's radio show on our Universtiy station. A massive 40 watts of broadcasting power! Also, I recorded a radio commercial when living in Australia. The needed someone with a US accent and I fit the bill. The ad played locally in Charters Towers and Townsville a few years ago. Does that count as my 15 minutes?
 
the band I was in played a live show on the college radio station. There must've been literally tens of listeners.

I wound up on TV when the event I was taping for the college TV station where I worked somehow came to the attention of the local news. Their camera guy got a shot of me at my camera, which was when I realized I needed to lose about 30 lbs. And I did.
 
I remember when I was a kid a couple of my little league baseball games being on the radio. I've also been on WSKY talk radio a couple times. One time I won tickets to a Nascar Truck race in Daytona and I called my wife to let her know as soon as I could, but somebody else had heard it and already called her. I've been on our local ABC quite a few times playing basketball in high school. Just highlights of games. Probably the coolest thing was an article written on me in the Gainesville Sun my senior year in high school. I was about to score my 2000th career point so they sent a reporter out. I hate being interviewed like that. The guy made my sound like an idiot.
 
Yup, I was on TV standing behind the G4 cast for about two hours during their live E3 coverage. I even recorded myself :D
 
I've been on a few things intentionally - Blockbusters (UK quiz show) at 17, the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Edinburgh, BBC Radio 5 two Christmases ago ranting about Amazon UK's crap service.

But I did end up on a BBC main news clip that was shown on the two main evening broadcasts, Newsnight, BBC 24 and BBC World entirely inadvertently. A few years ago, I was in California visiting my friend who, despite being a Democrat for years, wanted Arnie to be governator. So we ended up at a rally where I had my hand enthusiastically pumped by Arnie... and got caught by, of all things, a BBC camera crew who were there, assuming I was American and an Arnie fan. :eek: Got home to find lots of people at work very very confused :confused:
 
MacboobsPro said:
You wouldnt have because you were being filmed :D
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You could be right. It was a sports/news programme (I was hanging onto the side of a wire fence watching Michael Schumacher practice) so it may have been a live broadcast!

Applespider said:
But I did end up on a BBC main news clip that was shown on the two main evening broadcasts, Newsnight, BBC 24 and BBC World entirely inadvertently. A few years ago, I was in California visiting my friend who, despite being a Democrat for years, wanted Arnie to be governator. So we ended up at a rally where I had my hand enthusiastically pumped by Arnie... and got caught by, of all things, a BBC camera crew who were there, assuming I was American and an Arnie fan. :eek: Got home to find lots of people at work very very confused :confused:
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That's brilliant!

"Yeah, I just flew over to the States to show my support for Arnie..." :D
 
I've been cooking on Food Network several times. I hate seeing myself on TV, I briefly glimpsed myself on one of Bobby Flay's Throwdown's a few weeks ago and freaked out... I was just as bad as I thought I'd be :eek:

I would love to be on the radio though :). I should start a podcast: FoodNetworkInsider ;) hahaha, yeah, that would get me fired pretty quick!
 
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