Were you or your family ever on a real life type tv program?

amdublin · 22-01-2011 4:32pm #1

I'm watching Grand Designs Revisited.

Has anyone ever been on a reality type program?

I remember once reading an article "Changing Rooms ruined my life". Apparently Laurence LLewelyn Bowen turned their house into a bordello

Anyone got any stories of during the filming or after etc etc?!

Edit.
Oh and what's it like years later?
Do people recognize you from it?

starbelgrade · 22-01-2011 4:56pm

Does Garda Patrol count?

amdublin · 22-01-2011 5:04pm

starbelgrade wrote: »

Does Garda Patrol count?

Oh yes!

Twas a great little reality comedy show that was.

What were you on it for ??

4zn76tysfajdxp · 22-01-2011 5:10pm

amdublin wrote: »

Oh yes!

Twas a great little reality comedy show that was.

What were you on it for ??

starbelgrade is Malcolm MacArthur.

TeddyTedson · 22-01-2011 5:12pm

No but I've made amateur porn.

bonerm · 22-01-2011 5:12pm

Aitana Disgusting Tablecloth wrote: »

starbelgrade is Malcolm MacArthur.

unbelievable! (+ g,b,u)

rebel10 · 22-01-2011 5:13pm

No, but I would love to go on "Location, location, location". Have no interest in buying a house, but would love to spend some hours in close personal contact with Phil. mmmmm.......

timewilltell · 22-01-2011 5:15pm

Sadly I have done reality TV.

*Cringes*

bonerm · 22-01-2011 5:16pm

TeddyTedson wrote: »

No but I've made amateur porn.

That's what she said.

rebel10 · 22-01-2011 5:20pm

timewilltell wrote: »

Sadly I have done reality TV.

*Cringes*

Me: "Oh do tell". Sees user name, waits patiently

ChunkyLover_53 · 22-01-2011 5:20pm

Freddie Starr ate my Hamster.

It used to be Richard Gere's

TeddyTedson · 22-01-2011 5:21pm

bonerm wrote: »

That's what she said.

Your mom tells you these things?

amdublin · 22-01-2011 5:22pm

Aitana Disgusting Tablecloth wrote: »

starbelgrade is Malcolm MacArthur.

He got internets in prisons?!

timewilltell wrote: »

Sadly I have done reality TV.

*Cringes*

Tell all please!

bonerm · 22-01-2011 5:24pm

TeddyTedson wrote: »

Your mom tells you these things?

Yes. Why do you ask?

timewilltell · 22-01-2011 5:28pm

amdublin wrote: »

He got internets in prisons?!

Tell all please!

I can't give too much away but it was 4 years ago..and it was to do with a hotel!

CorkMan · 22-01-2011 5:31pm

I was on MTV Cribs before.

rebel10 · 22-01-2011 5:31pm

timewilltell wrote: »

I can't give too much away but it was 4 years ago..and it was to do with a hotel!

"Paradise hotel"? Remember watching that when i was living in the states. Please tell me you didn't!

timewilltell · 22-01-2011 5:33pm

rebel10 wrote: »

"Paradise hotel"? Remember watching that when i was living in the states. Please tell me you didn't!

Definitely not! :cool:

joe stodge · 22-01-2011 5:34pm

im on operation transformation every week guess who i am.

amdublin · 22-01-2011 5:35pm

Was it Irish?

Fawlty hotel or something??? But think that was more recent.....

phasers · 22-01-2011 5:39pm

Yeah, my sister was on a programme on Channel 4, I was about 9 or 10 at the time and they interviewed me briefly

All I remember is that my sister pretended her boyfriends big house in Rathfarnham was hers instead of our house in Clondalkin

bogtreader · 22-01-2011 5:45pm

My wife was on consuming passions a few years ago on RTE.
She was recognised for about 2 weeks nothing after that.
Fame is so fickle:(

Seaneh · 22-01-2011 5:48pm

I'm saying nothing...

timewilltell · 22-01-2011 5:49pm

amdublin wrote: »

Was it Irish?

Fawlty hotel or something??? But think that was more recent.....

No, it was when I was in TY, part of a series called 'No Experience Required.'

Why, I ask myself.

LizT · 22-01-2011 5:51pm

timewilltell wrote: »

No, it was when I was in TY, part of a series called 'No Experience Required.'

Why, I ask myself.

I saw that! Was it the hotel in Athlone?

My friend was one of the programmes in that series too!

Seaneh · 22-01-2011 5:52pm

timewilltell wrote: »

No, it was when I was in TY, part of a series called 'No Experience Required.'

why, I ask myself.

I feel your pain/shame...

timewilltell · 22-01-2011 5:53pm

lizt wrote: »

I saw that! Was it the hotel in Athlone?

My friend was one of the programmes in that series too!

Yes! THis country really is too small at times! :rolleyes::rolleyes:

Sky King · 22-01-2011 6:03pm

I was interviewed by gerry ryan on one of those get your kid to say something stupid for our entertainment programmes back in the 80's

I never forgave my ma for putting me on that

Cavehill Red · 22-01-2011 6:05pm

I went on RTE's Cabin Fever and drowned.

rebel10 · 22-01-2011 6:27pm

kilkenny flyer wrote: »

I was interviewed by gerry ryan on one of those get your kid to say something stupid for our entertainment programmes back in the 80's

I never forgave my ma for putting me on that

"School around the corner"! My favourite tv show as a child, even if i didn't get why all the adults were laughing at one of my peers. That is something to boast about, sure all the nans up and down the country would have loved you too!

amdublin · 22-01-2011 6:32pm

Around 1982 my name came up on the "birthday roll" on that Saturday morning show - Anything Goes or something??

The "birthday roll" lol

basically just like the credits at the end of a program.

Sky King · 22-01-2011 6:32pm

Gerry: Why are you friends with Billy?
Me: Well Gerry it's like this. I live out in the country, and there's no one else to be friends with.

(face palm)

rebel10 · 22-01-2011 6:38pm

kilkenny flyer wrote: »

Gerry: Why are you friends with Billy?
Me: Well Gerry it's like this. I live out in the country, and there's no one else to be friends with.

(face palm)

The things that came out of those kids! Some of them even let the cat out of the bag regarding extramarital affairs, their parents sex lives, their hatred for one another etc. etc. You could always spot two red heads in the audience. I would love to watch clips of it now.

Diddler1977 · 22-01-2011 6:38pm

bogtreader wrote: »

My wife was on consuming passions a few years ago on RTE.

What was Consuming Passions?

amdublin · 22-01-2011 6:40pm

Diddler1977 wrote: »

What was Consuming Passions?

Was it smutty?

Sounds smutty.

Diddler1977 · 22-01-2011 6:44pm

Diddler1977 wrote: »

What was Consuming Passions?

http://www.rte.ie/tv/consumingpassions/s2ep1.html

byhookorbycrook · 22-01-2011 7:01pm

Did a programme on MS, through Irish -it seems the subset of people with MS who have fluent Irish is quite small:D. I only did it to show that life can go on, it's not the end of the world.

pow wow · 22-01-2011 7:14pm

amdublin wrote: »

Around 1982 my name came up on the "birthday roll" on that Saturday morning show - Anything Goes or something??

The "birthday roll" lol basically just like the credits at the end of a program.

Birthday Roller. Amateur.

BickNarry · 22-01-2011 7:26pm

CorkMan wrote: »

I was on MTV Cribs before.

No you weren't. You can't copy and paste your way outta this one either!

watsdstory22 · 22-01-2011 7:28pm

rebel10 wrote: »

"Paradise hotel"? Remember watching that when i was living in the states. Please tell me you didn't!

I love that programme!!!haha

Biggins · 22-01-2011 7:34pm

Yes. A member of my family was on a reality based programme.

Pherekydes · 22-01-2011 7:39pm

Most of what is represented as reality TV is in fact totally contrived TV. No one in my extended family was on any of that ****e.

My father was on TV for a result in the 1969 General Election. He was on 2 quiz shows and I was on one. My sister was on a documentary about treatment for fear of flying. That's it.

Oh yeah, the wife and our four youngest were on breakfast TV (TV AM?) late 2009 when Jedward were still on the X-Factor.

TeddyTedson · 23-01-2011 5:31pm

bonerm wrote: »

Yes. Why do you ask?

...Because...
......Because....
I'm banging her dude, I though it was obvious?

awesom_o · 23-01-2011 5:59pm

Back in the day, when tg4 couldn't get people to participate in their programs they made for kids, they'd just get kids from irish speaking schools. Hudaí was always recorded in Dublin, so I was always roped in by my school to take part.

My mam is still proud to this day.