Our 10mins of claim to fame.

Simons view of our 10mins:

Lets face it, for those of you who saw this, it was wet and cold ! I mean, we come all the way to Aussieland to do the gmtv christmas thingy hopes of sun and sand, and it rains on the day where we could prove it too you all.

Well, the whole event got off to a flying start when i bent down to get something out of my rucsack and some over enthusiastic pom accidently kicked me in the head whilst he was trying to hop over the fence. Anyway, it never hurt, although Andrea said that there was quite a "crack" sound.

There must of been about 60 brits turn up for this event, the producer said that if the sun was out then it's usually around 200. 60 was still a fair bit though when it comes to getting squashed, and most of the shots we we're blocked by 6 footers, so you would of only seen two bouncing heads at the begining. Due to the fact that there was just a small number of us they were scraping the barrel for different messages. The producer amused Andrea. She was the most tactless person we've ever met. She asked the audience if somebody had an ill family member and would they like to come up and have an interview to send a message. Some bloke stuck his hand up and it was almost a "Great!, come on up then" from the producer...sheesh! The presenter was a bit of a diva, the camera woman didn't stop eating, and the director was always trying to come up with christmas carols for us to sing. After we did one of the carols, the director indicated that the next link wouldn't be for another 50 mins, that was the cue for most of the audience to leave :) .. Not us die hard wannabies though! They then got everyone up and spread us out to make it look like there was loads of us. (did it work?) The producer asked for the people with signs to be at the front. Cue Andrea's Christmas sprout!
I'm not sure how we looked or anything like that 'cause we were on the otherside of the camera, our internet here is also too bad to look at the clip on their website too. Anyway, we had our moment of fame. For me personally, i'm glad they never interviewed us as we would of just jibbered our words and then really looked like a couple of planks :)

http://www.gm.tv/index.cfm?articleid=23941&cachedarticleaction=streamingpopup&display=video

Andreas view of our 10mins:

Well i did it. I managed to get a picture of a sprout on tele. For all of you wondering what i am talking about. Its traditional on Christmas Day that i have 1 sprout on my plate and its traditional that i dont eat it. Mum (and Simon this year) try to hide it under other veg but i still manage to sniff it out and push it aside.

The gmtv link above has a cracking view of Simon, but i have to admit even i dont recognise myself in it. From what people have been saying though im more on the real tv then the internet :-) so i am actually more famous then Simon.

I reckon if me and Simon had been brave enough we could have got on the camera and sent a message but between the 2 of us we are just 2 shy.

If you watch the vid there is a family from Stroud as well which Simon later had a chat with which was funny. Come all the way to Sydney and Simon meets people from the next village. The women said she recognised Simon but he said to me it was because he has the signature Gardner forehead. :-)