{"id":1560,"date":"2010-09-27T22:39:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T21:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/?p=1560"},"modified":"2012-05-29T21:52:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T20:52:00","slug":"barefaced-horror-on-national-tv-sorry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/2010\/09\/barefaced-horror-on-national-tv-sorry\/","title":{"rendered":"Barefaced horror on national TV &#8211; sorry."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh happy day.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1562\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1562\" style=\"width: 135px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sack-of-tatt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1562\" title=\"sack of tatt\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/sack-of-tatt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Security woman carrying me in on her head <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Up at 5am, looking like a sack of tatties, arrived at the BBC to prepare for presenting Call Kaye on Radio Scotland\u00a0in Glasgow at 7am\u00a0as\u00a0Kaye\u00a0Adams\u00a0was having a well earned break. Sitting, baggy and slumped preparing the show when I get the call &#8216;come through we are ready to do \u00a0the trailer&#8217; OK I said and shuffled through to the radio studio.<\/p>\n<p>And then I heard the terrifying words.<\/p>\n<p>No Alison, not in there it&#8217;s\u00a0 a television trailer.<\/p>\n<p>What?<\/p>\n<p>The trailer goes out on TV.<\/p>\n<p>Immediate nausea hit me as I gasped <strong>but I haven&#8217;t got any slap.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Oh.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Have you?<\/p>\n<p>No sorry.<br \/>\nCan I do the trailer with a bag over my head?<\/p>\n<p>No.<\/p>\n<p>Sure?<\/p>\n<p>Yes.<\/p>\n<p>Oh. Ok better get ready for the national grid to surge as everyone lunges at their TV and turns it off.<\/p>\n<p>She laughed, bless her.<\/p>\n<p>I meant it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1561\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1561\" style=\"width: 122px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Wrinkle-faced-bat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1561\" title=\"Wrinkle faced bat\" src=\"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Wrinkle-faced-bat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"122\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1561\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wrinkle faced bat - or me? You will never know.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So if you were unfortunate enough to clock the tired, faced old bat this morning at 8.30am. Yes that was me and yes I did look shocking. I don&#8217;t go to the shops without my slap on \u2013 so national TV at 8.30am was a tad traumatic \u2013 for you more than me I suspect \u2013 and that&#8217;s saying something.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh happy day. Up at 5am, looking like a sack of tatties, arrived at the BBC to prepare for presenting Call Kaye on Radio Scotland\u00a0in&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,24,104,83,1161,77,1],"tags":[333,320,321,28,814,816,815],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alisonsdiary.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}