Have you ever been in the media?

66Mustang

Wondering after reading other threads, if people have ever been in the media. TV, radio, newspaper, or, I guess these days a high profile YouTube or social media channel would count as well?

I personally have never been on any sort of public media but have family members who have.

Wondering about others.

Just a warning be careful about sharing too much that you become personally identifiable.

Hannah_Alumni

I have over the years. But then, when I was at school, it was common that if you school did something or a long-standing teacher was leaving, there'd be a picture of all the students in the paper! 

I also found through ancestry research, that many people are in the papers with announcements, some having photographs. I wonder how many of us have been mentioned without knowing. 

66Mustang

Good point @Hannah_Scope!

I should change my statement to: I have never knowingly been in the media!  

noman

I was around 11/12 years old at the time (over 50 years ago) i was wagging school and was in the center of manchester when i was stopped by some fella who started asking me questions about george best,like what i thought about him as a player etc.

Shortly after this i got a belt round the earhole off me mam for wagging it,how the hell did she know i was wagging it from school,turns out the fella asking me the questions was a reporter with the local rag and my picture was in the paper......

66Mustang

Ha ha ha @noman that's brilliant

Sandy_123

Yes news papers and radio and TV 

michael57

back in the day i tested the bst hormone on a herd of 140 cows recorded every day for a year half were injected every 14 days half were not and believe me it worked with no long term effects on the animals it just makes them eat more it was mainly meant for 3rd world countries it was also on an episode of the x files 

Jimm_Scope

I wrote a small part of a guardian article once. And I've been on a youtube podcast due to a previous online community I was in charge of. (definitely not high-profile though so perhaps doesn't count?, it was in a very niche videogame sub-genre) 

nightjars

My sister Tina. In the daily  mail last year on , what would have been her birthday. She passed in 2021 aged 55years with cp. Her story, in Entitled -extraordinary lives section. It was so difficult for me to write. How do you get over her amazing life in 500 words! Tina was often in the local news, because of her communication. She was sometimes the first to try a new voice/ lightwriter machine. So proud of her and miss her ball of energy she was , full of true grit and determination. 

happyfella

I have over the years been in the media a lot. I have been in lots of newspapers, appeared on the BBC and on ITV. I had to travel a lot around the country to appear on different radio stations. I was also invited to appear at the Isle of Wight festival, but turned it down as that was about the time I started to get ill.

Rosie_Scope

I was in the local paper dressed as a mouse when I was five, but that's about it for my experience of fame and fortune

michael57

i remember back in the day jeff capes was doing the rounds with the reporters and he visited the farm me and dad worked on down on the moors he wanted to try pitching hay bales he was rather shocked to see how many hay bales we loaded in a day 5 trailers 240  bales per trailer load all 5 with 2 prong picks  take em back to the rick and unload them he managed about 5 bales and admitted defeat  

Autism_at_40

I was in the local newspaper this year because I volunteered to make blankets for old people for Age UK.

OverlyAnxious

I've been in a newspaper at least 3 times.  And on TV at least twice. 

I say at least as there may be more I've forgotten, or indeed more that I wasn't aware of as suggested above.

WelshBlue

In my football playing days I used to be in the local papers weekly ... reminded me I have a press cuttings book somewhere.  Would be interesting to look at how fit and agile I once was 

My daughter has been on the news and twitter after saving the life of a pro rugby player

The funniest is my son being interviewed by Sky News on the way to Euro 2016 and how the Welsh weren't going for trouble ... 6 hours later Sky News showed images of their stand off with Russian Ultras outside a pub 

Was a viral video circulating for months with Welsh and English fans singing their solidarity ... mind you there was also a video of him naked behind a bar in a gay club serving customers.  Can choose your friends ... 

gaz1960

Photo in local paper this month at a coffee morning,luckily I had ducked down just as the photo was taken,so I'm mostly unseen 😅