A Reddit user had fellow members of the platform in hysterics this week after admitting to his drunken antics during the filming of an episode of Hell’s Kitchen on ITV.
In a discussion titled ‘Has anybody been in the audience for a TV show, and if so have you got any good anecdotes?’, user Keenadan said he appeared on the programme when Marco Pierre White was head chef.
White took over from Gary Rhodes and Jean-Christophe Novellli to lead series three, two years on from the show’s debut, which featured Gordon Ramsay in the role.
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Detailing his day out, he began: “Me and my girlfriend at the time managed to get a table for Hells Kitchen (the ITV show where celebs cook for diners in a fake restaurant, not the Gordon Ramsey show) when it was hosted by Angus Deyton, and Marco Pierre White was head chef.”
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He continued: “We obviously weren’t high up on the hierarchy to be served any food, bar the odd bread roll chucked our way every now and then by stressed waiting staff. But we were given copious amounts of free wine. I got absolutely s*** faced as I dont really drink, and as I thought I’d be getting food, I hadn’t eaten before I left.
“I remember Angus Deyton doing one of the live links standing directly behind my chair. When I watched it back later, all I could notice was my drunken, wobbly head as I desperately shoved bread into my mouth on live TV.
“I was very hungry.”
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It prompted one user to joke in response: “I’ve ALWAYS wondered what happens to the guests that don’t get served on hells kitchen! And now I know. They get s***faced.”
Another added: “S***faced customers won’t complain about not getting food.”
And a third simply wrote: “Hahaha, that’s hilarious.”
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In another amusing anecdote, meanwhile, a second user discussed his experience on a TV set – and again alcohol played a major role.
“I was in the audience for fantasy football about 20 years ago,” he said. “They gave everyone in the audience a four pack of Carling to loosen us up before the show started. I downed mine in about twenty minutes then got sat in the front row on one of the sofas. Within about two minutes of the show starting I realised I had a bladder with four cans in it and needed to p***. Badly.
“The taping of the show went on far longer than what was actually aired and I came within seconds of p***ing myself on TV. I’ve never felt so trapped in my life! There was no way I could get up from the front row and disrupt the filming so I had to just sit there as it got progressively worse and worse. Thankfully I know absolutely nothing about football ( I was there with my girlfriend at the time who was a massive football and frank skinner fan) and so didn’t laugh at (or understand )any of the jokes. If I had I would absolutely have p***ed myself
“That being said, the p*** at the end of it all was one of the greatest experiences of my life!”
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