On TV in a Bin Bag (Famous for 15 minutes?)

Member Name: alocin

Product:	Famous for 15 minutes?
Date:	21/04/03 (92 review reads)
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Advantages: Appeared on TV

Disadvantages: The humiliation!, Fear it may be discovered in archives

Yes I was once on TV - dressed in a bin bag. It all happened a long time ago...

When I was young (about 7 or 8) all of a decade ago I was in the Brownies (junior Girl Guides). We used to have lots of fun playing and doing things to get badges to sew on our sashes, and attend meetings. Ah those were the days. Now I have a non-identical twin sister who is a whole minute younger than me, and she went to Brownies as well. Our Brownie "pack" was special as there were, including us, five sets of twins. Five sets!

This was seen as a cute story to put in the local paper and on the regional news. The newspaper people came along and took a photo of the five sets all standing in pairs and ran the story under the headline "Double Trouble" - how original! This was fine, and we still have the cutting to prove it. The problem started when the TV people arrived.

Why the leaders decided to pick this evening to do the fashion parade I'll never know - they probably thought it would be cute. The reporter came along with the lights and cameras and got all set up. All the Brownies were as hyped up as only small girls in the face of TV cameras can be, and then they announced the evening activity. A fashion parade. Sounds fine in theory, but the outfits were to be constructed from bin bags and other assorted bits of recycled rubbishy bits like crisp packets. And guess who one of the models turned out to be. Moi.

7 and 8 year olds generally have limited fashion constructing talent, and with only bin bags and crisp packets to work with you can imagine what a state I was in by the time I appeared on camera. I can't remember saying much in our few seconds interview but there I was - on TV wearing my Brownie uniform covered by a bin bag with wrappers stuck on it. Ah my moment of fame. Luckily we moved not long after as I think I would have had to have changed my name if I still lived in the region this was shown, just in case some
one dug it up from the archives. If I ever become famous I just know this will be brought out so I plan to live a life of obscurity - no one I know now must find out!

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