The Hidden Glasgow Forums

has anyone here been on the telly for any reason?reason I ask is terry from Glasgow was on the chase tonight.actually terry is from Clydebank and did not do very well at all.terry has also been on the weakest link,postcode challenge,in it to win it[he did win 64 grand] and also turned up in britains worst cook.

Yes.

come on bt,spill the beans.

You asked for it;

I guessed it would involve cars.never heard of car swap though.

i had a role in a show on BBC3 recently.

Kind of sort of.

At one of the Star Trek conventions I was at in the Thistle hotel back in the 90s, there was a video crew wandering about filming stuff. I didn't give them a second thought at the time, I was too bust enjoying myself and trying to get laid.

However, a couple of months later, I was over at a mates place, and we were surfing the foreign language channels on SKY in search of some porn.

On one channel, I caught sight of what looked like the weird water sculpture thing that the Thistle had in its foyer at the time (how it got broken, and who did the deed is another story for another time...). Sure enough, there was actress Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura) being interviewed in German.

There then followed a montage of shots of general convention atmosphere - folks in Star Trek related costumes and so on. Then a shot of the dealers room, and in the middle distance, walking away from camera, was your humble obedient.

Good one.

The wife was on Antiques Roadshow, but she wasn't worth much

As a child I was on the Untied Shoelace Show, and as an adult I have been in the Audience on BBC Question Time.....I hope the hatrick isnt completed with a feature on Crimewatch

I got into trouble once for deliberately avoiding being on the TV.
During a major incident at a NHS board I worked at, being the senior office on scene, I was asked to be interviewed by a SKY TV news team (you know the usual 'an NHS spokesperson said...'), I managed to avoid it and once the incident was over (it was the middle of the night and I was on call) went home to bed, to be woken some hours later by a rather annoyed director of nursing who had to go and do the interview instead of me

I was in London at Waterloo Station around 8am -it must have been 1998 or possibly 1999. Anyway Anthea Turner, small blond
woman was with some blokes and a TV crew advertising some special discount rates for the Millenium Dome. I was felling
pretty fed up and when the camera was thrust towards me with Anthea Turner asking "Would I visit the Dome if a family ticket was - I think-£56 for 2 adults and 2 kids ?"I sort of let rip on the lines of " We in Scotland are subsidising this rubbish and it would cost me hundreds of pounds to take the family down and I think the whole thing is a waste of money etc etc"
Next day back in Glasgow I had a number of phone calls from colleagues in the London area who had witness a Scotsman
dare tell off Anthea Turner on BBC London tonight news programme over the cost of the Dome. Basically they all said "Quite right Jock. That lot need telling off". So that was my big TV moment!

in my railway days we left out Southside depot to head to the docks for a breakfast, 2 of the guys wanted to go to ibrox to get tickets for a European game, around 18 of us were all standing there in hi viz gear when a people carrier came along with a camera crew filming from the side door, we all turned our backs & pulled out hoods up on our jackets, that night we were on the news "rangers fans queue for tickets" we had our names & clock No's on the back of our jackets, next morning we got the come hither from the depot inspector & he never missed us, also a few other times at train crashes/derailments & once on the Jerry Sadowitz show, not to mention when Frankie came to Easterhouse, must remember to renew my equity card

Back in 1994 I appeared on Box 2000 (remember those 30 second slots they had during ad breaks to advertise charities and such like) on STV when some bullying action group visited my school - the cameras for some bizarre reason were in our word processing class and apparently I was in the background battering the keys fastidiously on an Apple Mac!

Despite my mum's best efforts she never managed to catch it on the video recorder so I never actually saw it (although I know it DID get transmitted) so sadly gone forever....

In London for a Brian Wilson concert at the Royal Festival Hall , we arrived to find that there was a strike by Tube staff over pay and conditions. We took a bus, no problems.
Later that day we were asked to be interviewed by a reporter and camera crew about the strike - were we inconvenienced, what did we think about it etc?
It was clear from the questioning that we were expected to do a Daily Mail style, 'hanging's too good' for them response but said that since it was ok for David Beckham to earn £100,000 a week and pop stars to earn millions, why were we supposed to be annoyed at working people looking for a decent wage.
The interviewer asked the question again, since we were obviously thick Jocks, but we responded as before.
"Great stuff lads," they said, "it should be on tonight's show."
"What programme?" we asked.
"It's the Andrew Neil Show," they replied.
"What, that Tory git?"
Funnily enough it wasn't used; perhaps there were technical problems.