I'm to sexy for TV... YEAH...!
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Queenstown,
New Zealand
Saturday, December 4, 2004
After a busy day surfing the web, updating these never ending travelpods, we decided to go out and drown our sorrows, instead of sitting inside getting depressed. Our friends from the original bus had now arrived in QT, so it was nice to meet up with all of them again.
Now I wouldn't usually bore you with the details of yet another night out, but tonight was different. It has got to have been our funniest night out so far.
It started in the World Bar, not particularly interesting inside, apart from their speciality cocktails, served in none other than teapots, a novel idea! It was in this bar, Dan got a big ego boost...
Can you remember the 2 Welsh girls I talked about winning the fancy dress competition?, well they joined us for the night out, and all was going well until, like most women, they started arguing. It wasn't until Dan followed them outside that we realised what they were arguing about, him. Even though he told them he had a girlfriend, they still decided to knock ten bells out of each other outside, and when I mean hit, I mean proper Welsh full fist punches! They must breed them tough down in the Valleys. Anyway Dan returned into the bar and told us the story, making him a legend, well for the night anyway.
But that was just the start of what was going to be a very funny night...
I've never made it a secret of what I think of people that dress up and act like Gangster Rappers, with all the Bling Bling Bollox; they are just all twats! Anyway enough of my feelings - [oh and apologies if any of you are indeed a gangster rapper that wears bling bling - no dis respect ya!] Whilst watching the International Goldfish Racing in another bar, I noticed a bloke dressed in a red and white tracksuit, with matching red trainers, bandana and cap, bling bling'd up to the max, and to top it off a red glowstick hang from his neck! Now I'm no oil painting but this guy was pig ugly but still seemed to have 4 women dancing around him.
01. International Goldfish Racing!
After muttering to myself "how" and "why" I turned my attentions back to our goldfish from England.It wasn't until later, when we had moved onto yet another bar, that I noticed the same bloke dancing away again. To this day I don't know why I went up to him, and why I said what I did, but I did. I strolled up and introduced myself as a BBC researcher from England looking for people for a new English TV show. The title of the show was "Too Sexy for TV" [Don't ask]
I said to him that I was on the look out for sexy people and I noticed he had 4 women around him earlier in a bar. Would it be alright if I interviewed him later on in the night, so that he could tell the viewers how he did it!
To say he fell for it is an understatement, Flash [his name - yeah I know!] even went us far as telling all his mates that he had been spotted, and later told Louise that he always thought he had a face for TV [you can see why we did it now cant you!]
But how could I be from a TV show without a crew? Let me introduce you to:
Dave - Director
Dan - Video, lighting and Acoustics
Louise - Make up
Katie - didn't want a thing to do with it!
So at the end of the night, well 6am, so morning really, we left the bar, followed by Flash's entourage, to a car park where Dan [our lighting man remember] said would be the best place to shoot.
Everyone played their roles brilliantly; Dave played a bossy director, always saying cut, changing things and shouting at Flash's mates when they got in the shot.
02. The deadly Cocktail Teapots!
Louise, on the absence of any make up, made do with Lip sil, by taking the wrapper off and saying it was blusher, then rubbing it on his cheeks!Sadly, the battery on the camera was dieing so I didn't get to ask him many questions, instead I just got him to do pieces to the camera "for the adverts". For this we got him to look into the camera and "I'm to sexy for TV... Yeah" Not just once though, five times, each time getting him to shout louder into the camera!
His friends were starting to get suspicious now so we decided to call it a day, but not before we got one of his friends to do it to!
We left them, promising to send them a tape. We couldn't believe what we had done! We haven't laughed so much like before. Yes it was very cruel, but as you can see from the movies, he deserved it! For your information, we found out why he calls himself Flash - because his real name was Gordon!!!
[As you can tell from the clips, I have had to film them off a TV onto my digital camera as its on video. Because of the size of them, I can't upload all the interview, just small sections of it. You will just have to wait until I get home to watch it all! If the videos dont wont then i have uploaded a photo of him so you can see what he looks like]
