Have you appeared in any TV shows?

My mum and myself were on an edition of the Antuiques roadshow in 2012, at Cawdor Castle. We were in the background, as an expert vauled some eggs.

Then in 2016, whilst on holiday in South Shields, mum and myself visited the metrocentre, where the Bank of England were showing the new plastic £5 notes to the public. BBC Look North (Newcastle) reporter Jerry Jackson was there, and interviewed us. Mum made a comment which appeared at the end of the report :

Reporter : "What do you think of Winston Churchill being on the back of the new Five pound note?"

Mum : "Rabbie burns should be on ours!"

You came on holiday to Shields!?! Feel sorry for you.

In 1996 i didn’t appear in person but was in a phone in competition on CBBC Sunday programme ‘phone in karaoke’ which I won but sadly never got my prize which was a snake winder skateboard and a 9-11 album.

In early 1998 I was in a news report about state of school buildings in Rotherham on Look North.

Whilst at the same secondary school I was seen on a report on Calendar who were filming due to William Hague visiting when he was leader of the Conservative party.

In summer of 2010 I was on South Bank during an outdoor segment on This Morning about swimwear and managed to get in shot briefly.

I was on Granada’s Reports’ “Seen and Heard” when I was 7. I said “stupid cow” on television during a debate about bad language.

Back in about 1999 I was in Leeds railway station heading for uni in Huddersfield. Everything had gone pear shaped due to a signalling failure and I was standing in the concourse looking at the monitors working out how I my journey was going to happen.

I hadn't realised, but sitting underneath those monitors was Alan Whitehouse from Look North and his camera op and sound recordist, who proceded to attempt a to vox pop me. "Sorry Alan, my train is actually on time", I made my excuses and headed to the platform where it turned out that the train was roughly on time but was going to take a diversion route and would end up late at my destination. And I never made it onto Look North.

Got my birthday photo shown on TV-am.
Vox pop for Sky News in 2002 for the Golden Jubilee.
Audience for Countdown when the conundrum wasn’t guessed, I didn’t guess it but I could see myself. (Audience for 8 Out Of 10 Cats does Countdown Christmas special in 2014, but we were sat at the back!)
Audience for Judge Rinder in 2015. This was quite interesting as we were behind the claimant. One of the sessions exceeded over 2 hours, it was only 20 minutes once it was on TV.

In 2012; My mum & I were in the audience for a live OB of the Irish Lotto draw on the north quays near Custom House Quay in Dublin. It was held there on the weekend of The Irish Tall Ships Festival. We were both there looking at the fine ships along the quays. They looked really impressive to view when you become the specatator. There was a big enough crowd for the live draw. I was just walking back with mum to Dublin City Centre to head home on the bus to have our dinner. But the lotto guys were there handing out balloons to the public. We just decided then to stay in for the fun of it.

The notably famous Irish lotto machines were set up on a live stage in front of the River Liffey with guys from RTÉ & an OB team.

All of us in the crowd had to do a practice first to get ourselves geared up with a lot of cheering for the live draw which was shown on RTÉ One. Nuala Carey, who was the presenter, was doing a practice in front of the camera to check if everything was working on the night. When the draw began on TV for real; there was a huge cheer for the crowd when Nuala appeared on stage this time.

I was little disappointed as I didn't clearly see myself in the crowd afterwards when I watched it back on the RTÉ Player when I arrived home. I also did not buy myself a ticket for the draw either as with many others in the live audience. But it was a really good experience being in a live TV broadcast for the first time as I enjoyed every minute of it.

It was probably one of those unexpected once in a lifetime TV events but mum & I enjoyed it as everyone did on the night.

I was interviewed by BBC Look North (NE&C) last year about some Oxford University hub. Also (just) seen on the NBC Today show plaza in 2015.

Oh yes forgot that I got a birthday card mention with Andi Peters in the broom cupboard one morning.

When I was twelve my family managed to afford one year for me at a performing arts school in London. While that one year was all I had (far too expensive for any more), I had at least a couple of small TV roles during that time, all of which are now preserved on Youtube:

Scandalous Women (BBC2, 3rd January 2001)
Brief non-speaking role at 38:45 in the video above. Not much but it was my first aired appearance and a huge deal for me and my family at the time. I got £50 for it - the school might have got a share too.

Tales of Uplift & Moral Improvement - The Boy With No Patience (BBC Choice, 3rd July 2001) and Generosity (17th July 2001)
Two episodes of an obscure series of dark comedies on BBC Choice, both starring Rik Mayall. I was a huge fan of him at the time, and while we didn't share many scenes we briefly met outside of filming but I was too starstruck to talk much. For years there was almost nothing relating to the series online, but since Mayall's death a few websites have appeared at least.

Victoria and Albert (BBC1, 27th August 2001)
The big one. I'm in the first 4:30 minutes of the above video playing Prince Alfie, sitting next to future Downton Abbey/Doctor Who star Penelope Wilton. The cast list for this was incredible - Diana Rigg, Peter Ustinov, Nigel Hawthorne and more, I met a few of them on and off set but didn't know who most of them were at the time.
This by far is probably the most major thing I've ever done - I was paid about £550 for it (again I'm not sure how much the school got but that was a lot to 12 year old me seventeen years ago!) but by then the term had ended, I knew I wouldn't be going back to the stage school in September, and I sat in my room sulking instead of watching it on TV. I didn't see this or any of the clips posted above until 2010 or later, when they all slowly appeared online.

Not online (thank god) - me in the audience of Deal or No Deal and Golden Balls in 2007. In the former I opened one of the Viewer Competition boxes at the end, which now get cut out of Challenge repeats so that'll never air again.

I at least finally had another telly appearance, if just as boring old me, two years ago during the final of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest - I'm the skinny weird bloke in the audience behind Mans and Loreen (at 1:05:23) getting a bit too excited that I'm visible on TV in front of hundreds of millions of viewers.

Something to laugh about with the (future) kids, I suppose...

EDIT: A few more I've remembered - I was a phone-in caller on Nickelodeon and The Disney Channel back in 1999 (taped at the time but long disappeared), in the audience of the US sitcom 'Melissa & Joey' about three years ago (fun to be part of a whooping American audience even though I had no idea what the hell the show was), in the audience of 2016's Top of the Pops Christmas/New Year specials, and, when glancing at Susan Boyle's debut album in HMV Oxford Street in 2009, a TV camera slowly crept up behind me - I disappeared off sharpish when I realised so hopefully it didn't get aired!

I appeared in the audience of a local late night show DIY TV, as one of the issues being discussed was the 1991 Newcastle Riots, and a play about the riots I had performed in. I neither wanted to, nor had the chance to be interviewed by Eamonn Holmes.

My left shoulder also appeared in an episode of Families in 1993.

2000 - Audience member of The Wright Stuff. Just after Princess replaced Anglia.
2001 - Channel 4 News - Discussing the New Deal employment scheme when I was unemployed at a project in Peckham.
2007 - In the audience for Martin Lewis's C5 show filmed at Princess.