Audition Result

About 3 weeks ago I was in London for an audition for the UK version of the US quiz show 500 Questions. If you haven't seen the show, well, it might be worth your while looking it up on Youtube, as it's not without interest, although like most shows it is possible to point out some flaws in the format. I don't know how many shows, if any, you've ever auditioned for, but the usual outcome is either you'll get on the show, in which case they'll call you back, or you won't, in which case you often just don't hear from the production company again. So I have to pay tribute to the good people making 500 Questions. On the day they said that whether we're through to the next stage of auditions or not, they'd be in touch. They got back to me during the last week - sadly to tell me that I wasn't going forward, but at least they got in touch to tell me.

They're funny things auditions, and I'll come clean here, I enjoy them. So I'm not all that gutted about not getting on. Yes, sure, I'd have loved to have been on the show, but hey, I had a nice day out in London and got to take part in the audition which I enjoyed anyway. So driving the best part of 180 miles there and back in a day seemed worth it.

Yes, I enjoy auditions. Not that I've had that many of them really. The last one was in 2014 for Fifteen to One, and before that in about 2012 for Breakaway. In fact, I'll show you the list at the and of this post.

Out of all of them I think that the most exciting was probably the first, for the first series of Eggheads, which was exciting because I'd never had an audition before. The first Mastermind audition was possibly the most nerve wracking because all 4 of my nominated specialist subjects were rejected during the audition and I had to come up with others right off the top of my head. The most enjoyable was possibly Breakaway - mainly because when we played the game I broke away as soon as I was allowed and went right through to the end. Sorry, things like that I enjoy. Little things and all of that.

Here's the full list of my applications and auditions: -

* Who Wants to Be A Millionaire - the phone audition wasn't an audition as such. It was a simple question with a numerical answer. Get close enough and you were on.

# Mastermind Champion of Champions wasn't an audition as such. It was a chat with Laura from the production team about whether I was interested, and what my specialist(s) might be if I was invited.

Show	Year	Outcome
The Weakest Link	2001	Unsuccessful application
Eggheads	2003	Unsuccessful Audition
Come and Have A Go If You Think You’re Smart Enough	2004	Successful Phone Audition
Eggheads	2005	Successful Audition
Mastermind	2006	Successful Audition
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?	2006	Successful Audition*
Mastermind	2007	Successful Phone Audition
Are You An Egghead?	2009	Successful Phone and Face To Face Auditions
Britain’s Best Brain	2009	Unsuccessful Phone Audition
Brain of Britain (Radio)	2009	Successful Phone Audition
Mastermind Champion of Champions	2010	Successful Phone audition#
Only Connect	2010	Successful Audition
Breakaway	2012	Unsuccessful Audition
Pointless	2012, 2013, 2014	Unsuccessful applications – no audition
Fifteen to One	2014	Successful Audition
500 Questions	2016	Unsuccessful Audition