I’ve really delved back into the archives for this one.
Before
this blog I blogged for
The Journal, mostly about being the Bagman of TyneBridge Morris, but somehow tales of Chateau Midden and media tartery got
involved too.
The first of the following is from the Facebook Archives.
The
second is The Journal blog mentioned therein, it was so long ago it is no longer
available online.
Bon Appetite
·
p2 today's Journal "Bentonbag turns down Come Dine With Me" - makes the offer sound more substantial than it actually was. There's journalism for you.
Hagrid Wow Ben! Did you
get a tentative offer then? Do tell! X
Bentonbag
See http://blogs.journallive.co.uk/journalblogcentral/
for the full story. Actually it was just an on-spec email sent out to probably
hundreds of people by the producers trying to find applicants. I suspect anyone with a website located
somewhere in the North East had one. Pity
you and herself aren't still in Whitley Bay - you could have been on.
White
Rose Don’t
think that Ben. Members of Betty Lupton's Ladle Laikers have been on the One Show and will soon
appear on Goks Fashion Fix courtesy of speculative e-mails.
Fay
You snubbed
them. Tut.
COME DINE WITH ME?
Last
week I received this interesting email via Tyne Bridge Morris’ web site address
for the Bagman
“Hello there
I hope you don’t mind me contacting you but I came across this
email address on the Tyne Bridge Morris website.
I am a producer/director
working on Channel 4’s popular cookery series Come Dine With Me and we are
looking for people to take part in an upcoming episode that will be filmed in
and around Newcastle. I don’t know if you’re familiar with the show but in it
four people from the same local area who don’t know each other beforehand
compete to host the best dinner party with the winner walking away with £1000.
A lot of the show’s success comes from it’s casting and we try and
bring together a group of four people from very different walks of life who’s
paths would never normally cross on each show.
We are looking for outgoing,
confident people who are happy to voice their own opinions and I wondered
whether anybody from the Tyne Bridge Morris or indeed any of your friends or
family members would be interested in applying to take part?
We are going to be filming in the area the week of the 14th
of February Monday to Friday and I have attached a flyer and a poster with more
information to this email. Basic requirements are though that people be over
18, have no professional culinary training/experience, and live within
approximately 30 minutes’ drive of Newcastle.
I would be extremely grateful if there would be any way that you
could forward this information on to your other committee members (or indeed
anyone you know who may be interested) – we are trying to get the word out as
far and wide as possible! There are contact details on there or they can
contact me directly at this email address or on 0207 157 4921 and I can give
them more information about how the show works and talk them through the
application process.
Any help you would be able to give me would be very gratefully
received and feel free to drop me a line if you have any questions about the
show that I can answer.
Best wishes
Emma Ford
Producer/Director – Come Dine With Me”
I politely declined but did, as requested, forward Emma’s email to everyone in or associated with Tyne Bridge and most of the people I know on Tyneside, together with this covering note
“My reputation as a media tart has obviously gone far but as I don't cook and never give dinner parties there's no way I'm interested in this one
But
if you are, or know someone who might be, do feel free to use this
information/appeal appropriately
Cheers
Ben”
Pearl emailed back with
“Remember your triumph on the Weakest Link - now come on, you
can cook!!!”
Needless to say neither comment has changed my mind.
But if you’re game for it – go for it.
Happy New Year
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