Fame At Last - Starred on Rove

Location: Melbourne
Weather: Cold n'Wet

So there we were in the hostel kitchen about to cook dinner, when Rove Live comes on TV. Rove is a chat show hosted by Rove McManus, kind of the Aussie equivalent of Jonathan Ross, I suppose. His show is filmed in Melbourne and he suddenly says "The first 300 people to get down to Olympic Park tonight will get a free torch". So Pat, Dave, Damien, Jenny, Tomako and me literally drop everything and run the 2k's or so down the river to Olympic Park! We just made it there, must've been the last 10 people to get in! it is quite a popular show after all. On the way Dave had the
idea that perhaps we were going to make a shape or word with the torches and he was dead right. We were each given a quality Energiser torch and a top of the range safety hat! Pat was well happy about that, as he works on stage shows and needed a new one. The hat was needed because the 'organisers' were looking from above in a crane and directed us in letter shapes. After about 45 minutes of hanging about and it starting to rain, all the Olympic Park spotlights went out, we turned on our torches and did our thing...forming the words ROVE and then LIVE to mark the end of the show! Sadly because we were in Olympic Park and there weren't any TV's about we didn't actually see ourselves, but we're told we looked pretty good, honest! It was also quite amusing walking back to the hostel wearing out safety hats and torches and walking through the bar like we were some kind of maintenance crew!

By JamesReed on 02.09.04 @ 07:43 AM GMT