swearing on national tv? fuck yeah! with added extra gameshows
rather than whoring a repost in full, the story is here www.b3ta.com/questions/cringe/post314749

To which I hinted at appearing on another show, oh yes

So anyway, there's me oooh around 1994 and how I ended up on that bastion of student tv Win Lose or Draw.
They were looking for contestants at an audition in Brum. I was at Coventry uni at the time and one of the housemates was a childhood friend of the Coogans, and the one who eventually got thrown off Top gear for a drink drive rap was at the time doing the auditions, they were short a few heads so gave housey a ring, and we all trollied off to the audition and then went on a bit of a bender around Brum on the company credit card, awesome!

A couple of months later we all got letters and fuck me if I didn't win through! got a flight up to Glasgow, spent 30 mins in a taxi with a man whos accent was so broad you could have landed a plane on it.

Nothing remarkably amazing happened, I met Big Bob Mills, Kris "Yak yak yak" Akabusi, Andy Crane, Anna Walker and someone else, made a jokey student drugs gag that got edited out, won (a whopping £250, trophy and got to keep the A2 poster of the caricature of myself and my female contestant opposition which I still have to this day) missed my flight home and lost the VHS of my appearance.

Not sure this counts either but the first ever game of the ill-fated ITV digital was a League Cup match of Cambridge vs West Brom, the highlight of which was a mate ringing me at the game and asking me to shut the fuck up because apparently all they could here on the telly was some muffled commentary and me heartily and with great volume abusing the linesman!
(Halfy By light alone, Thu 11 Jun 2009, 22:08, Reply)