Home Learning Study STD 2 materials video DD Girnar/Diksha portal video At least we were given the chance to record a rehearsal show in front of a live audience. But even in rehearsal my confidence deserted me. To be honest, I was shitting myself! Our guests included the actress Claire King, who was lovely, thank goodness, and very easy to interview. Instantly I felt Pete was a much better presenter than I was; he seemed so much more relaxed and at ease, both when he chatted to the guests and when he did pieces to camera.
He was a natural in front of the camera, whereas I had to work at it a bit more. I had done my research and prepared the questions I wanted to ask the guests. That wasn’t the problem. What bothered me was when the director started talking in my earpiece while I was doing the interview, firing instructions like ‘Ask them this question’ or ‘Get them to wrap it up now’. It was only what you would expect the director to do, but it was so hard having that going on in one ear while looking as if I was listening to my guest at the same time. As for trying to wrap up the guest, you can’t suddenly stop them mid-sentence; you have to make the conversation flow. And then there was the autocue . . . Let me be the first to admit it: I become a robot when I’m reading it, I know. I lose all expression in my voice and in my face, I just can’t help it. I really cringed when I watched myself back. But in my own defence, I had absolutely no training.
Anyway in spite of me being a robot and struggling to cope with the old talkback (that’s the term for the director talking into an earpiece), the rehearsal show went well. But then it was the real deal and the six-week roller-coaster started. The show was based round having three guests, and from day one finding those guests was a problem. The production team had drawn up a massive list of possible guests, but they kept getting turned down. The feedback the team got was that many potential guests, a lot of them big names, had the idea that our show would be tacky and that it wasn’t the kind of thing they wanted to appear on. Pete and I had been guests on Jonathan Ross’s show earlier in the year. We had put him on the spot and asked him there and then if he would be willing to come on ours. He tried to wriggle out of it on air, but when I pointed out that we had come on his and it was only fair that he came on ours, he agreed. Well, he never did. And I think that was really out of order, Wossy! I reckon he was scared of what questions I would ask him because, yes, I would have come up with some proper cheeky ones for him. Well, why not? A lot of his material is very near the mark.
We started off with some good names, including Nicole Scherzinger from the Pussy Cat Dolls who was launching her solo career and Jack Shepherd from
Corrie I thought I did OK but Nicole apparently didn’t get the format and the critics weren’t especially kind. But then they never are. The audience liked it, though, and so did the viewers. That’s what mattered.
The show was fun . . . different. There were silly challenges between Pete and me, for instance, like guessing which model had had a boob job (of course, I won that!), which allowed us to banter with each other. Parts of the show were outrageous, and Pete and I made a good team, I think. But as the weeks went by it got harder and harder to book what I would call big names, though there were some exceptions, including Rupert Everett, Jermaine Jackson, Craig David and Boy George. Each week as it drew closer to transmission there would be a mad panic when the production team still hadn’t managed to book any guests. Some weeks we were so desperate it would be, like, ‘Fuck, who can we get on the show?’ and so we ended up with a lot of guests who had been on reality shows, and some of our friends – including Michelle Scott-Heaton, as she was then, and her husband Andy. And while it was great interviewing people we knew and liked, it would have been good to interview some people we
know. But perhaps I can understand why people were wary about coming on the show because I can be cheeky, and loud-mouthed, and they probably weren’t used to that from other interviewers. Still, we didn’t let it get to us. The show had to go on and all that. I’d just think ‘Bollocks to you guys!’ about the potential guests who turned us down. They didn’t know what they were missing! An interview with the Pricey was bound to be an experience.
I’ll admit, though, that there were some aspects of the show I really wasn’t too happy about. OK, I’ll just come right out and say it: I thought some of the items were in bad taste. For example, when we had the mud-wrestling couple. I didn’t like it, it was too near the mark and I didn’t want to have it on the show. When I saw the sketch in rehearsal, I actually said to the producer that I wasn’t sure if I wanted that in, but they went ahead anyway and we did get stick for it. It felt as if Pete and I had no control, we were just there to front the chat show and had no real say in its format, and even though I understand that the production team were under pressure, I would have liked to have been more involved in the decision-making.
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