Went to a filming of the BBC's 'Live at the Apollo' last night and had a truly brilliant night. We got there, expecting the usual queuing nonsense, only to find the lovely Martin the ticket company had already reserved us seats, so we could head off and come back when the door opened.
When we took our seats, we had AMAZING seats, just 10 rows from the front and at the front of the block so we had bags of leg (and bump) room.
We were also sat right behind where all the 'celebrities' sit. The Z-list roll call for the evening was: Lee Stafford ('celebrity' hairdresser) who was permanently inextricable cuddled up with terrifyingly thin Jessica-Jane Clement (BBC's the Real Hustle); the bloke who plays Arthur in Merlin; Ian Beale's kids from Eastenders; 'mental' Stacey from Eastenders; Esther Ranzen (looking rather glam actually); Lee Dixon (who despite/because of being ex-Arsenal, got boo-ed a LOT); Claire Sweeney (in a hideous 'hiding-her-fame' velvet trilby; and, the la pièce de résistance, Neil and Christine Hamilton!
The first show was presented by Al Murray's Pub Landlord character, complete with motorised bar. Comedians were Chris Addison (brilliant) and Tim Vine (truly, truly awful.) There were lots of audience shots and the occasional camera shoved in my face, being on the end of the row, but nothing too horrendous.
Show two was presented by the very funny Jason Manford (who described himself as looking like a fat Michael Owen). He told us his wife had just had twins and then when he started talking about her pregnancy, I had a bit of a sinking feeling. Unsurprisingly when he got to a bit about how huge his wife's boobs had been and how he'd fancied his wife something rotten with a huge belly, a very gleeful cameraman shoved a camera right in my face. So now BBC1 are going to hear 'huge boobs and belly' and more than likely cut to a shot of me trying to crawl into my own seat, shot from underneath to show of the maximum number of chins. Marvellous. At least Dyl will be making his TV debut though!
Jason's guest was the truly brilliant and hilarious Michael McIntyre who thoroughly stole both the show and the night. In honour of this, I just have to post a clip of my favourite 'Kings of Leon' sketch of his, as it's a) genius and b) from the last series of Live at the Apollo, so very apt - enjoy!:
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