fameseeker
When a child, I had a hankering to be famous. After my debut on TV as David Wilkie opened our junior school pool* (they edited out his phrase on getting out of the pool "It's ***** cold in there!") I yearned to get on TV again with repeated submissions to Jimll Fixit (yes I thought that was his name) and Tony Hart's Gallery.

Nearest I came was having an idea from a garland made from folded bits of paper on the wittily entitled "Why don't you... (switch off the television set and go and do something less boring instead)?". I remember my whole class watched the TV to see my credit appear at the bottom of the screen. That just shows how dull life was in Bishops Waltham.

Then we moved from Bishops Waltham to the much more exciting Romsey where camera crews from Southampton would regularly visit to film Inspector Wexford. One could bump into the likes of George Baker, Lawrie McMenemy, Esther Rantzen and Leslie Thomas at fetes, in the pub or down the cafe. I always used to try to walk "casually" into shot but only once managed it - in a local news report on a Victorian Fayre, wearing my full length Laura Ashley dress. Success!

I doubt if that will make youtube though :)

*Probably also Amanda Holden's TV debut as she was at the same school. Can't say that I remember her though.
(biscuitsocks random gene expression, Fri 12 Jun 2009, 19:23, Reply)