Hmm. I went to Reading Carnival today, to see the parade, hang around, listen to music, eat jerk chicken, and NOT APPEAR ON THE TELEVISION (I wasn’t even wearing lipstick) and I was barely there before a microphone got stuck in my face and a camera pointed at me and I was interviewed for Meridian news.
As my thoughts were basically running wholly on jerk chicken, I’m afraid I babbled something like, “It’s great, it’s fun, we’re all having great fun, we’re about to eat some great jerk chicken, yeah the parade was great and fun, great great great!” before I escaped, thanking the Lord that I had been incoherent enough so that the clip would never possibly be used.
It was used on the news tonight. I didn’t see it, but my friends have contacted me to tell me so. Fortunately nobody asked my name, so only about four people will have identified the babbling woman as me. If you did catch it, let me assure you—I’m better with words on paper. Honestly.
(PS The jerk chicken was really great. And we had fun.)
Sooo funny!
Bet you were great
Let that be a lesson to you never to go out (a) without lipstick and (b) without having a soundbite carefully prepared and ready to go.
LOL, Julie! You’re normally so chilled and media-friendly, that I cannot believe you babbled or were even vague incoherent.
(but glad you enjoyed the parade and the chicken!)
Lipstick. And soundbite. Okay. Got it.
This preparation is going to make my trips to Tesco much more complicated.
LOL, that happened to me in London once as I was coming out of the tube, I babbled so much I was sure it wouldn’t be used. Thankfully only a few people watched the news that night.
Sorry I missed your one though
P.S. Looking forward to tomorrow night BTW where the talk is billed as telling me everything I need to know about writing romance (!) Quite a tall order I’d have thought
LOL Lorraine, wish I’d seen you on the news!
See you tomorrow night. Hope you’re not too disappointed…it might not be absolutely *everything*.