On Thursday May 2nd we travelled from Liverpool to London to be part of the audience for the One Show. Back in September 2018 when Fame U.K. Reunion launched I’d missed out on being part of the audience. I’d contacted the BBC weeks beforehand to see how to get tickets for the audience only to be told they don’t normally have audiences. Then the day before transmission they contacted me asking to help them find Fame fans for the audience!
I live in Cornwall and despite what felt like hours trying to make the journey work for myself it wasn’t meant to be. Besides as we were launching someone needed to be on hand to deal with all the enquiries and messages to the Facebook page, of which there were many. Actually my phone nearly exploded that night!
So I contacted other fans that lived near London and arranged for them to attend. However, this time I was determined to be there.
Originally Loretta Chandler was just going to be part of the
audience with us so I decided as we’d be travelling together we’d go First
class. However after Erica Gimpel dropped out of the Reunion and Loretta
stepped in to be part of the Concerts she came to the U.K. early and was then
part of the cast appearing on the show.
We spent about 5 hours travelling there and back just to
record a 30 minute show but it was great to be part of the cast return to U.K.
TV.
It may have been
pouring with rain outside but inside the fans were meeting for the first time.
It’s a really small studio and there were probably about 30 of us there. After
being briefed by an assistant to basically make as much noise as possible we
were taken to the studio. The presenters Matt Baker and Angelica Bell were
practicing their entrance which was fun as they were wearing leg warmers and
headbands. There was a lot of excited energy as the presenters and then the cast
made their way through the crowd. Michael and I hid at the back as we had no desire
to actually be seen. A video featurette, which did show me from the original
film we made, was followed by the cast and Sue Hinds being interviewed. It was
wonderful to be part of. The audience had
been asked to submit questions but time was short and only Dennis Haddock got
to ask a question. Really the Fame cast could have taken over the whole show.
When the show ended it was a mad rush to get back to Euston
Train Station to catch our train and we didn’t stay for the audience photo
however our train was delayed slightly so we could have stayed after all. The
cast were travelling back on the same train although they were in a different
first class carriage. It felt bizarre standing at Euston Station surround by
the cast of Fame as we waited for our train to be announced. I couldn’t help
thinking why they weren’t being mobbed! In the end only one fan who had been at
the One Show came and asked for photos.
As we’d travelled with Loretta’s sister Cloretta, Loretta
travelled back in our carriage and we had a fun couple of hours. Loretta was
fun and we were pretty loud. I kept seeing the faces of some of the other
passengers and thought that any minute we’d be thrown out of the carriage but
we weren’t. We arrived back in Liverpool tired but happy. What a great way to
start the Reunion Weekend!
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