Have you had your 15 minutes of fame?

I was on Bargain Hunt in 2009. My friend and I were the red team and had the lovely Anita Manning as our expert. We won by making a profit of £4!

At 16 in 1967 - the 'star' of a short film by a Swiss group of young film makers (two of whom are still famous and active in film circles) ... very popular at the 67 Swiss film festival. And twice on Question Time.

Wow what a clever, interesting, glitzy lot GNers are!
Not had any bit of fame.
DS when he was about 10yrs old had short clip of him on Pebble Mill at One. We were in Wales watching a sheep dog trial. When someone from the film crew asked if my son would like to have a go rounding up some sheep using a special whistle to call A very clever sheep dog.
Afterwards he was given a little woolly sheep for his efforts, he promptly asked for one for his wee sister. Happily they had another one that they kindly gave to his DS.
We didn't know when the programme would show the event and as it was on in the daytime, we had to video and watch every episode till it was shown weeks later!

Maggiemaybe - there's a lot of luck in quizzes! So far we've got 3 of the 5 needed and I think we may need one or two reserves. I've just checked Rummikub, don't think I've heard of it before! Well done with the Wotsits!!

aloe? also!

Well, numberplease, I love a good quiz, but you and Elrel are out of my league!

I made it to the local papers, and from there to the Sun and Mail, when I won World Cup final tickets in Paris in 1998 by estimating how many Wotsits would fit in a football. I estimated by cutting a ball up and filling one half with them . I aloe sort of made the Guardian when they reported on the first national Rummikub championships that I took part in. Not by name though, as I only came sixth.

I was on page three of the Sun in the sixties , it was a broadsheet then and page three girls always wore clothes .I had on jeans and a polo neck

Who would like to join Elrel and me in applying to go on Eggheads? Come on, we need clever people to counterbalance me!

I'm often in local press because of various community activities, some drama based some not. DH and I also featured prominently in press/radio in a long running environmental campaign several years ago, with DH appearing on several news broadcasts. Have also made docudrama with Kirsty Wark's production company

Been on BBC and ITV because of my WW2 website because I was an evacuee from the London Blitz, plus had my poems read out on Channel 4.
I was on TV in summer when showing me talking to the children from around this area taking part in a mock evacuation at the Great Central Station in Loughborough and telling them about being machine gunned on the evacuee train.

I only found out because I was with a friend of hers who was delivering a 60th birthday card to her about a week after it aired

Could have backfired, though! ('Ooh, she looks older than that, doesn't she...?' )

Someone I know went on May the Best House Win (or wotever it's called )
I know for a fact that she knocked 9 years off her age

Around 5 yrs ago my DH and I were on 'To Buy or Not To Buy'. We didn't buy any of the houses we were shown, mainly because we couldn't sell our house at the time. It was great fun spending two days filming with the BBC crew though.

This thread is surreal.

Ana

BambiSS3 - Love the cabaret costume!

I've been interviewed a lot on local & national radio & TV here & abroad. A World in Action programme was made in 1996 as a result of our experience & research in relation to our daughter's death.
The best interview was last year because of the quality of the interviewer - Jim Naughtie on Radio 4 Today & I won't spoil it by doing any more. I am not sure that being interviewed in itself makes you famous as most people forget what they've heard within 5 mins of it being broadcast (or so I was told by media trainers).

This thread is surreal...

Don't know what happened with the pics, folks! The upside down one is of me appearing in The Good Old Days! Here is the Jon. Pertwee one!

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Very interesting to read Greenock Grans post. I have the reverse problem. From the age of 16, I appeared in countless shows (West End, touring Theatre), and had small parts in TV, film and radio. I sang with bands, and had my own cabaret show that I toured the country with.
I have now retired from 'Showbiz' , but run three very successful choirs, putting on big concerts to raise money for charities.
I find it strange going from the glitz and glam, being asked for my autograph at stage doors etc to being known as "the choir lady" , and nobody knowing me as a performer.
Tell your son to make the most of it, Greenock Gran. It's not very exciting when you are NOT recognised! I have attached a pic of myself with Jon Pertwee when we worked together shortly before his death, and this Christmas, with my wonderful choirs raising £3000,
Diana

Same here Nana3, absolutely zilch, though I frequently perform brilliantly on University Challenge from the comfort of my sofa.

crossstitchgill. - Congratulations on your 15-1 win. It's unsurprising that you fared a lot better than I did when I can't even remember the presenter's name, William G, not Robert as I thought. Just before it started an elderly dresser came out and very carefully went over his jacket with a clothes brush which I thought touching. It looked as if they'd been together for many years. There were some interesting people in the 15 including a young magician.

I hope he apologised for getting in your way Anniebach
(was that before or after he played Jesus Christ?)

No, but five seconds on tv 1990 at the Free Nelson Mandela Concert . My other moment of fame was stepping on the foot of Mel Gibson as he climbed out his canal barge , but no tv camera there

A few minor times which only goes to show how rubbish some interviewers are! First time 40 years ago when I worked for a pig breeding family who were deeply into Transcental Meditation and Anglia TV did a news article on a few of us management meditating in the office - strap line: down on the farm even the pigs are meditating. Trite.

second time on Esther Rantzen about mothers in law. My darling MIL and I went on because I said I hoped I would be a perfect MIL as I had the perfect role model (hope my DDIL finds it so but I'm sure not!). Especially as I had divorced her son 11 years earlier and still remained close. She -ER - wasn't interested as all she wanted was negative reports on MILs especially about potty training! It was a 5pm show and what was interesting was that virtually the only people who saw it were 3 male friends and I wondered what they were doing watching ER at that time!

another time a friend and I in our late 50s were accosted by an interviewer for Channel 4 on elderly women gaining weight - interest dropped off when I said I hoped that at my age I was mature enough for it not to be anything but a health issue. Didn't say anything about my weight at that time!