Saturday afternoon saw me and James head down to the London Television Centre at Southbank.
No, StudentBeans.com wasn’t about to make its TV debut! We were there to be part of the studio audience for ITV’s latest game show ‘Who Dares, Sings’, presented by Denise Van Outen and Ben Shepherd.
To put it simply the game show was a glamourised karaoke competition, where, instead of a free round at a hotel bar in Benidorm, the prize was £50,000.
I wish I could say that ITV requested the presence of the UK’s leading student website but I’d be lying. James applied for tickets like everyone else through ApplauseStore.com after the website had been posted on the Bean Board.
There was plenty of audience participation, where we sang along to karaoke classics like Chain Reaction, Winner Takes It All and air-guitared to Bohemian Rhapsody.
We were kept entertained in-between takes by Andy, our warm-up guy who ensured that everyone he talked to was left red-cheeked by the end of the conversation (much to the audience’s comedic delight!).
Though we were let in thirty minutes late and left with sore throats (we had to clap/cheer/wave madly on cue) we had a fantastic evening. The fact that it was totally free was even better!
If you’re in the London area or don’t mind travelling, then keep your eye on the Bean Board for shows like Big Brother, Top Gear and The Lily Allen Show wanting you to be a part of their audience!
The tickets are always completely free, and there are loads of shows that want glamourous, fun and outrageously noisy studio audiences. In exchange you get B-List celeb sightings and the chance to wave madly saying ‘Hi Mum!’ on Prime-Time TV.
