working on tv

[fatboy]

any one ever worked on tv or filmed working
we have been working along side the diy sos crew for the pass 10 days

 

[White Room]

Hows that been....

 

[fatboy]

yer really good to be honest was good fun met some funny people and made some new mates and contacts

 

[Dougs Third Go]

Trevortine, did DIY SOS too, Garythetiler did one, but not sure if it was DIY SOS.

 

[cam_low]

Fatboy are you the shields lad ?

 

[fatboy]

No mate sorry we was there from start to finish tho was fun and met some funny people

 

[The D]

Does crime watch count ??

 

[afright]

Was offered work on DIY sos turned it down they wanted me over a ten day period would have to travel 100 mile every day you donate it all for nowt I declined the offer,charity begins at home.Fatboy have you been working in Maidstone for them ?

 

[jonnyc]

Have been asked a few times years ago but never took offer up. It was always for free and didn't think it was worth the agro .one of them was for johnny revell who used to be chris Evans side kick until they fell out.He then went in in to the tv renovation game .
He asked me to cost to do his own kitchen floor and because I knew Paris ceramics I got him a really good deal as he lived next door to one of my employees and the carrot dangle was that we would appear on his show doing his floor.
He secured the deal and paid for stone and then used someone else to fix it because I charged vat.
I was seriously hacked off with him.
There have been other offers but the angle is always think of the publicity!!!
I would rather just get paid for doing a job

 

[afright]

I saw one of the diy sos and the workers that are always on the programe get a mention but the ones that donate there time dont get a look in ,no not for me.

 

[cam_low]

Revolution tiling been there fatboy ?

 

[Dougs Third Go]

I'd turn it down if offered, no way would I do it for nowt or to the dubious methods they must stipulate to get it done on time, unless of course there's more background prep than what we see on tv......anyway, Nick Knowles, why doesn't he do the tiling ahem?

 

[fatboy]

I think soo buddy

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Revolution tiling been there fatboy ?

Yer I think so

 

[fatboy]

We was helping on the Maidstone one as its just up the road

 

[fatboy]

Revolution tiling been there fatboy ?

Why you ask that then buddy

 

[fatboy]

I want a sigma tile cutter lol that's going on the wish list

 

[afright]

We was helping on the Maidstone one as its just up the road

Yes that's the one I turned down I think it was for a soldier might of done it if it was for a few days and they paid travel expense's.

 

[nybor62]

i just missed out getting a part in one of the rambo movies , i was working in israel in eilat , the casting manager was looking for guys over 6ft with blonde hair and blue eyes , there was a cafe were we all went in the morn , but i was late on the day this guy came looking for extras , gutted , it was good money aswell . they filmed in the sinai desert

 

[jonnyc]

i just missed out getting a part in one of the rambo movies , i was working in israel in eilat , the casting manager was looking for guys over 6ft with blonde hair and blue eyes , there was a cafe were we all went in the morn , but i was late on the day this guy came looking for extras , gutted , it was good money aswell . they filmed in the sinai desert

think we used to drink at the same bar in eilat!!!
i got a part in the movie massada after a long time trying to get in .was a roman sopldier ,syrian archer and german barbarian.great laugh and easily the best money in israel for travellers.
i actually had two words to say to peter otoole but they cut them out i amonly seen nodding.
i was set up to do a cowboy movie after but unfortunately one of the bedouin arab boys who was dressed as a roman in a big scene where we short of westerners , turned his spear upside down and stabbed me in the foot. that was the end of my movie carreer but i still have the pair of sandals whicg were used in ben hur original with a hole in them as souvenir!!!
what years were you in israel nybor? i used to live on the roof of a cafe on beach or on top of the lifesavers look out to avoid those rats

 

[jonnyc]

just remembered name of cafe nybor62. it was the peace cafe for all the dregs of travelling humanity.but you could get a days work digging holes in the dessert heat for £ 5 a day, if you got there at 4am in the morning.and then took ages to get paid.
lovely people to work for over there .i think not

 

[trevortine]

Yup as doug said I done one last year, travelled 160 miles each day, helped out with all sorts and then done bathroom and kitchen at end. Spent four months and earned just short of twenty grand earlier this year on a job all off the back of it.

 

[jonnyc]

Don't quite understand post. Did you have to work for free for four months and then got a job off the back for 20k

 

[trevortine]

Don't quite understand post. Did you have to work for free for four months and then got a job off the back for 20k

worked for free for nine days and the big job came around about three months later

 

[cam_low]

Cos he's the shields lad and he came into work the other day saying he'd been doing DIY SOS with his partner tiling, I started a thread the day before this one asking if anyone knew him in here !