I was once on a TV show called Fan TC,
it was a quiz show for kids hosted by Toby Anstis and Dannii Minogue back in the 90s. It involved 2 sets of fans of e.g. bands, pop artists, and more broad things like Football and roller coasters, pitched against each other in a quiz to see who knew most about the thing they were a fan of. The audience were situated on either side of the contestants, half representing one team and half representing the other, facing the other team's audience.

However, I was dumped in the audience for a team that didn't have enough of it's own supporters to actually make up an audience's worth. So, ladies and gentlemen, I had to proudly pretend for 3 whole fucking hours of filming that I was a fan of Shaun fucking Maguire, because they'd only got about 20 people and they were all ugly, spotty girls. It was pretty damn humiliating, I even had to clap along when he performed his new song. But to make matters worse, the team we were up against were something I actually gave a shit about, Rugby Union. So we spent the whole day getting laughed at by a bunch of soon-to-be rugger-buggers who actually thought we liked the "twat out of Grange Hill"*.

Yeah, well at least I got on TV I guess.

*actually I'm his biggest fan but don't tell anyone
(The Oscillating Gibbon is eating curried squid, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 14:18, Reply)