Like a few of my other stories
this one is from when I used to work for the "BBCish"

Although not a full employee I did have access to the staff bar at Television Centre and was in there one Friday evening with some of my co-workers when we were approached by a runner looking for audience members for a program being filmed down in Studio 4. Jumping at the chance three of us agree and head downstairs to begin hitting the free bar before getting into our seats at the last possible moment.

We walk into the studio via the back door and straight up the steps to our seats and it was only then that we found out what was being filmed, ITV had rented the studio and were filming "Britain Sings Christmas".

Looking at each other in horror we took our seats near the front and prepared ourselves for an aural raping the likes of which none of us had experienced before. About 30 seconds into the first "Celebrity" singer we looked at each other and without a word stood up and strode up the stairs and made a beeline for the exit.

Unfortunately I don't know if we were caught on camera running in terror or not but I learned a very valuable lesson that night, ask what the show is before accepting instead of getting distracted by the free bar!
(bill, Mon 15 Jun 2009, 15:46, Reply)