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[dog barks]
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[TV presenter] If only I had the money.
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Money is the biggest obstacle
on the way to personal freedom.
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If you can sort that one out,
you are laughing.
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Now, I've found 30 people nuts enough
to do something seriously bizarre.
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We're gonna take money on at its own game.
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And we're gonna win.
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Thirty grown men and women
gave up their jobs and homes for a year
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to be in a reality TV show
that doesn't exist.
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Why you do that?
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[audience laughter]
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People sacrificed jobs, careers.
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People's dreams, that's like sacred
that you're fucking with.
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[woman] I remember John, he was saying,
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"I'm gonna go in there,
I'm gonna kill that Nik.
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I'm gonna kill him."
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[Richard Madeley] What was in it for him?
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Was it access to your bank accounts?
Was he just on a power trip?
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We never learned
the why behind all of this.
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I'd love to know what his real name is.
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[interviewer] How long has it been
since you've seen Nik?
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Twenty years.
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At least, yeah.
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[man on tape recording] I never meant
to do anybody any harm.
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[man's voice] And he vanished.
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He... disappeared,
and we never saw him again.
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Where is he?
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["A Summer Place" by Andy Williams plays]
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{\an8}♪ There's a summer place ♪
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♪ Where it may rain ♪
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[laughing] My God.
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♪ Yet I'm safe and warm
For within ♪
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Oh, my God.
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♪ That summer place ♪
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{\an8}♪ Your arms reach out to me ♪
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This is so weird.
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♪ And my heart is free ♪
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It is just like my head
is going a bit, you know...
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{\an8}♪ For it knows ♪
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♪ There are no gloomy skies ♪
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[Daniel chuckling] This is like taking
a massive step back in time.
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[laughs]
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Oh, my God.
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Blockbuster used to be a thing. [laughs]
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How do you get these things?
Who keeps them?
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{\an8}♪ And the sweet secret of ♪
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♪ A summer place ♪
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♪ Is that it's anywhere ♪
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This is what I wanna do.
I wanna... learn how to be a cameraman.
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[exhales]
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Have you any idea how this feels?
It's just like...
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It feels like I'm back there.
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[all scream and cheer]
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[slowly] Ah-ha-ha!
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[Tim] One of the best things
I ever did... was carry on filming.
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Woo! Yeah!
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[cheers]
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I think things are really
gonna turn out all right.
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[singing] See you soon.
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[voices chatter in the background]
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Um...
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I guess it... I think it...
I think it is a salient tale, you know.
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That, um...
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provokes a lot of feelings in anybody.
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That we, um...
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we want something, we want...
we want to escape.
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And, um...
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Or we want to...
escape from our present reality
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and journey towards a better...
a better future for ourselves.
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[Jane] In 2002, I was living with my mum
and dad at home outside of Manchester.
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You know, when you're living back at home,
you've got your day-to-day life routine.
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-I was 21.
-[text tone beeps]
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Doing a typical 9-5 kind of job.
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Going to work, coming home.
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Going out with friends, go for a drink.
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[clubbers chatter]
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[Jane] My dad was, like,
"Where are you going?"
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"What time are you gonna be back?"
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"Where are you?"
"I'll come and pick you up."
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Driving up against the kerb
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and you having to, like,
pretend that you don't know him,
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because you're embarrassed,
because your dad's come to pick you up.
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I was daddy's little girl.
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He loved me so much.
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He kind of wanted me
to be happy all the time.
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He never wanted me to feel like I'd failed
at anything, or be disappointed.
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That was me.
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Every day, it's like,
going round and round and round.
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Same thing, over and over and over again.
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[Tim] Looking back now,
I understand that...
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I was probably a bit bored.
A bit frustrated.
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I wrote five plays.
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[typewriter clacking]
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I didn't become a successful playwright.
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[typewriter dings]
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Then I found...
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Clown.
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[canned laughter]
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And I found Clown said
everything I wanted to say.
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Clown said, "We're all idiots.
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I'm an idiot, you're an idiot,
we're all idiots.
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Let's try and enjoy
ourselves nonetheless."
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[clown horn honks]
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Skinny Bean is my clown. He's, um...
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We've just celebrated 30 years.
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[interviewer] Can you tell me about
Skinny Bean? What's he like?
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Oh, he's very rude.
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[dog barks]
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[interviewer]
Is Skinny Bean similar to Tim?
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Oh, yeah.
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Skinny Bean is Tim.
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Unleashed.
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-[kiss]
-[canned laughter]
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[Tim] I like to provoke
a little bit, and, um...
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I was always wanting to...
just be free to do my own thing, really.
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Well, 2002.
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I was 37.
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I'd been clowning for about 10 years...
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-[down slide-whistle]
-[boing]
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...and wanted something more.
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I could see that it doesn't lead anywhere.
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And that's one of the things
about clowning or entertaining.
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There's no management structure.
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[horn honks]
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[tannoy announcement]
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{\an8}[phone rings]
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{\an8}[Rosy] 2002, I temped in Canary Wharf.
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Doing the same job every day.
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You start the monotony
and when you start monotony,
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life's not exciting.
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Complete boredom.
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It's after a while when you can
sort of do your job...
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with your eyes shut.
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[Lucie] I was on the lookout.
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For something.
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There was something that was missing.
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At the time, I wasn't that young.
I was in my 30s.
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I was a carpet designer.
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Also making presentations
on carpets to architects.
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I had to talk for an hour about carpets.
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[Lucie presenting]
Specification. Texture. Patterns.
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Materials. Orders. Composition.
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I would watch the faces, kind of,
and the people go... eurgh.
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Colour. Design. Durability.
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Ornamentation. Maintenance.
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I always used to think, right,
how can I make this fun?
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I would think about
my style of presenting.
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I would think about what I was saying,
how I was putting things.
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Um, and I just became sort of interested
in the art of presenting.
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[director] So we're turning over.
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And into the lens, please.
Lovely, thank you.
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Hi there. My name's Lucie Maycock
and I want to be a TV presenter
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because it makes me feel wildly excited
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and anything that makes me feel like that
must be a good thing.
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[director] Okay.
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Not very natural, is it?
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[director] Uh, no, it's all right.
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I shouldn't be making it obvious
that I haven't done it before.
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I did really want to be a presenter.
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I was attracted to one of these
little courses that you can do.
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Detectives are beginning to rely
more and more on clairvoyance
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to help solve these murders.
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I wanted to take what I was doing,
give it a boost, and make it more fun.
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-Hi, can I ask you a quick question?
-Yeah.
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What do you think about men in makeup?
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Can't stand it.
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[Lucie] Around the millennium,
I think a lot of people had hopes
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for things to be better, be bigger.
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["Right Here, Right Now"
by Fatboy Slim plays]
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[interviewer] Eight hours left
of the 20th century.
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I wanna get drunk.
I wanna have lots of fun.
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[bagpipes wail]
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[excitedly] Waa...
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-[whistle blows]
-[whistles jingle]
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I'm feelin' not too bad, you know.
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I'm hoping for a nice
next thousand years, you know.
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I hope it's better than the last one.
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[screams]
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I was innocent. I knew nothing, I...
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I was naive, in fact.
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[cheers]
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[whistle blows]
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[jeers]
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I'd just moved to the UK
so everything was new to me.
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It was a brand new life.
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In one of the most
exciting cities in the world.
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And it feels good
to be in London for it as well.
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I'm ready, I'm ready. I'm more than ready.
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♪ Right here, right now ♪
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I was a 23-year-old stranger
living in London
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having no clue how things worked.
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♪ Right here, right now
Right here, right now ♪
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♪ Right here, right now
Right here, right now ♪
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[song drops]
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[Daniel] Totally different person.
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A lot less responsible,
a lot more spontaneous.
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It was different back then.
The UK was different.
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You're led to believe
that you can do anything.
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Everything was possible.
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You felt a sense of invincibility.
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I think we're getting better and better.
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Three lions are coming back.
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A lot happened
in a very short space of time.
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A lot of change happened.
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[cheers]
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Television was changing.
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Reality TV starting.
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This whole psychological thing of watching
people behave like idiots on TV. [laughs]
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[news anchor] Nineteen minutes to 7.
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A very good morning to you
if you're just joining us.
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Now then, how would you feel
if your every move at home
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was watched by millions of people?
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Well, the contestants in Channel 4's
new television and web series
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called Big Brother,
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have volunteered to be
under the microscope
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every day, 24 hours-a-day.
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{\an8}Sally Eden is at the compound
where they'll be living.
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{\an8}Sally, good morning to you. Tell us more.
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{\an8}Good morning to you, John.
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{\an8}Yes, we're at the secret location
in East London
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where these people are locked up
in this particular house.
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Well, before all this happened,
this reality TV,
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you would sat at home, like watching TV,
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but not actually getting past the screen,
or into that, you know, that TV box.
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{\an8}There are 10 strangers
who have never met each other
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{\an8}who were selected from 40,000 applicants.
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You'd had fly-on-the-wall documentaries
before and things like that, but this was...
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This felt live.
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And you can watch it
24 hours a day on the Internet.
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[Daniel] Everyone loved Big Brother.
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I got into it
and I don't watch much television,
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but I was hooked on it.
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Come, Margery.
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Margery. This way.
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[hen clucks]
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[Daniel] It's something addictive,
looking at a group of people.
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Some of them have no talent whatsoever,
they're just Average Joe like you.
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The problem with Darren,
he's a bit... [whistles]
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[Big Brother voiceover] Day 35.
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The meeting is called.
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You're plotting a very dirty plan
on everybody in here.
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What's your game, what are you playing at?
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Craig, you've made
a number of wild accusations.
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[Rosy] People started to discuss it
by the water cooler, in the pub.
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And also the newspapers spun everything.
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So you couldn't escape,
it just became a topic
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that you had to engage in
to be part of society.
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The reason you can't walk out is...
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It's gonna be hell for you out there.
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It's on national TV.
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[Tim] And suddenly you had people
looking directly at the camera...
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{\an8}I've made a mistake.
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[Tim] ...and revealing themselves.
254
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[Rosy] You either love them
or you hate them.
255
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{\an8}And then you get invested in characters.
256
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[Davina McCall]
The winner of Big Brother is...
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-Craig.
-[screams]
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-[fireworks, screams]
-[Big Brother music plays]
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Enjoy the rest of your life.
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[Jane] TV offers fame, and experience,
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and, you know, money.
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To have that world open to you.
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That is amazing.
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That you could have the opportunity
to be on a TV show.
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Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
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Reality television wasn't poo-pooed
like this low form
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that it might be seen as today.
268
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[Daniel] It made you feel special,
and who doesn't like to feel special?
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[cameraman] Can you see what it is yet?
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[Tim] For me, particularly,
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it was about these cameras.
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[cameraman] Looks like a PD100 to me.
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[Tim] I was walking around looking
at this shop which sold these cameras,
274
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and in that shop,
I found my little DV camera.
275
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I said to the guy, "Oh, what's that?"
He said, "Oh, that's a bargain."
276
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"That's only £450."
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And I bought it that same day.
278
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[Tim on camera] Wow. Hey.
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Got some kit here. Some really good kit.
280
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I'm Tim Eagle, and I'm 37 years old,
281
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and most of the time, I'm a clown.
282
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But right now, I've also become
a digital video producer.
283
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There it was in our hands.
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Digital video revolution.
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Grasping the opportunity
to work in a brand new medium.
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I'm a novice when it comes
to making videos
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and using a camera, using the equipment
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but I... I need a challenge.
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There was part of my which was unhappy.
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It was a good life.
But there was still something missing.
291
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-[loud bang]
-Oh, fuck.
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Pfft. Wow, I've just locked myself out.
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Ah, dear.
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I wanted something more.
295
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And I launched myself at it
with all my enthusiasm.
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This would lift me out of this world.
297
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And I would be in that new world.
Whatever that is.
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But I would be
an infinitely better person for it.
299
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It's all about the money.
300
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Money is the biggest obstacle
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on the way to personal freedom.
302
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If you can sort that one out,
you are laughing.
303
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It's not the 9-5 thing.
That's not viable at all.
304
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It's not even that secure.
305
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[text tone beeps]
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What if somebody could offer you
a way out of that.
307
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[John]
Every day was more or less the same.
308
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{\an8}I was bored a lot.
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I think I was looking for an adventure.
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Okay.
311
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Oh, right.
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00:17:23,560 --> 00:17:24,640
This flyer...
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is the thing that I was handed
on the Millennium Bridge.
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[Tim] It was a Thursday.
315
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Gone and bought The Stage.
316
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Reading through.
Always starting at the back of The Stage.
317
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Looking at the classifieds.
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God, it's tiny. I found it though.
319
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This is what I saw,
this was the beginning for me.
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"Want to raise your profile?
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New Reality TV show seeks contestants."
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[John] It was a very simple flyer.
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I think it was
"Take part in Reality TV show."
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"£100,000 for a year."
325
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Oh, "camera operator wanted."
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Hmm.
327
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"Big money job." Hmm.
328
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"Plenty of style
and a taste for the bizarre
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more important than experience."
330
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"Plenty of style
and a taste for the bizarre"?
331
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[Tim] Fantastic.
332
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"More important than experience"?
Even better.
333
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Urgh. Urgh. Come on.
334
00:18:47,400 --> 00:18:49,160
It was pretty mysterious.
335
00:18:50,240 --> 00:18:53,000
It was just one of those
synchronistic happenings of
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see the camera, see the advert,
337
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tingle up the back of my spine,
338
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what's going on?
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00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:01,160
You ever feel like that, you know,
340
00:19:01,240 --> 00:19:06,240
the sniff of an opportunity comes
and you kind of feel it in your bones.
341
00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:12,480
[Jane]
This one email came through, which was,
342
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"If you're up for a challenge
and you want to win £100,000,
343
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then... apply."
344
00:19:19,960 --> 00:19:22,560
You had to write
everything about yourself.
345
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[laughing] I wrote
a big yellow smiley face.
346
00:19:28,440 --> 00:19:31,720
[laughing] "This is me."
Something like that.
347
00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:35,560
I just thought, you know,
my life would change forever.
348
00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:38,080
I could leave home, have my own place.
349
00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:42,480
[haunted fairground music plays]
350
00:19:42,560 --> 00:19:44,320
[interviewer] What was it
about the advert that appealed to you?
351
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Hundred thousand pounds.
352
00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:48,560
[belly laughs] I'm not lying.
353
00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:50,720
[computer crashes]
354
00:19:50,800 --> 00:19:52,640
[children cheer]
355
00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:57,440
It was £100,000.
356
00:19:57,520 --> 00:19:59,200
I'd have paid my student loan,
357
00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:01,040
gone back home, I'd have built a house,
358
00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:03,400
and all I had to do was sacrifice a year.
359
00:20:06,680 --> 00:20:08,640
[Tim] This is it.
I've gotta apply for this now.
360
00:20:09,880 --> 00:20:12,240
That made me open up my email.
361
00:20:12,920 --> 00:20:14,680
Brand new email. What's this? You know.
362
00:20:14,760 --> 00:20:16,400
[fairground music continues]
363
00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:19,560
I sent them this pithy little message.
364
00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:24,080
It was just one of those punts.
365
00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:28,560
Have a little go, email that,
see what happens.
366
00:20:31,920 --> 00:20:32,720
I'm Tim Eagle.
367
00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:34,520
I'm 37.
368
00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:37,560
And for the last 10 years,
I've been a clown.
369
00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:41,040
A character created
for the corporate entertainment world.
370
00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:44,920
They wanted me to make
a little short about me.
371
00:20:46,160 --> 00:20:47,320
As my application.
372
00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:49,320
A year on tour with the Mr. Men Show
373
00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:51,880
or nine months
on a plastic bed at Butlins.
374
00:20:51,960 --> 00:20:55,240
I mean, I know I'd commit
to a creative project and see it through.
375
00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,800
I'm... I'm... Really I'm your man.
376
00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:00,200
Get me on the case.
377
00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:03,800
[reporter] The queue started
in the early hours
378
00:21:03,880 --> 00:21:06,440
and soon grew to be
well over a thousand strong,
379
00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:10,800
would-be members of a girl band
and boy band to be selected on TV.
380
00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:12,920
To be famous
is the best thing in life really.
381
00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:17,880
[Lucie] What was happening on TV,
we were all wanting to be part of that.
382
00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,200
It was there for the taking.
383
00:21:20,280 --> 00:21:22,960
[reporter] Auditions by invitation
have been going on all week.
384
00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,080
Imagine the judges naked,
that'll take the nerves off.
385
00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:29,240
-There you go.
-[laughter]
386
00:21:30,040 --> 00:21:33,920
[reporter] At the moment, TV schedulers
can't get enough of reality game shows.
387
00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:36,680
[male reporter] Girls Aloud didn't exist
just a few weeks ago.
388
00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:39,000
[Tim] There's something
about the television.
389
00:21:40,520 --> 00:21:46,440
{\an8}Seems to symbolise to me some kind of
uplift from what I presently have.
390
00:21:46,920 --> 00:21:48,720
[photographer]
Can you give us a "cheers", Will?
391
00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:50,240
[Tim] The wannabe class.
392
00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:53,160
Isn't everybody in the wannabe class?
393
00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:58,080
[Daniel] You know, things like this
don't happen to the average man.
394
00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:03,320
There are so few people
that ever get a second on television.
395
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,440
And here was an opportunity
where you get to have cameras
396
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:08,480
focussed on you for an entire year.
397
00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:17,040
[email tone dings]
398
00:22:17,120 --> 00:22:21,520
[Jane] The email came through.
I'd been accepted for the audition.
399
00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:24,280
And I thought, "Wow."
400
00:22:25,400 --> 00:22:27,040
[Tim] I got an email back from them.
401
00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:30,720
Nikita Russian Productions.
402
00:22:30,800 --> 00:22:32,800
NRP.
403
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:35,640
I thought, "Is it a girl?"
404
00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:39,400
[loud orchestral music]
405
00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:41,920
Nikita, what kind of a name was that?
406
00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:44,080
Nikita Russian.
407
00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,240
I thought it was a very bizarre name.
408
00:22:49,240 --> 00:22:52,160
Beyond that, I didn't know anything.
409
00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:01,280
Along with the email came... the map.
410
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:06,000
Marked with the cross.
411
00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,960
It allowed us to have
our imagination run wild.
412
00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,960
[Lucie] It was quite
a beautiful place to go to.
413
00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:21,080
I can just remember...
414
00:23:22,120 --> 00:23:26,760
you would have to go on a boat to get
to this venue that was on an island.
415
00:23:26,840 --> 00:23:30,600
Yeah, it's a fucking island
and there's, like, some form of...
416
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:32,840
cricket pavilion,
or something like that, on it.
417
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,440
It almost looked like
some sort of white palace.
418
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:39,360
Words can't describe it.
419
00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:43,000
[gentle waves and birdsong]
420
00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,360
[John] For a 22-year-old, going, right,
421
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:48,960
we've got this... special place,
a private island.
422
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:50,640
It really sort of sold it.
423
00:23:51,680 --> 00:23:53,680
It felt as if it was a big deal.
424
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:55,120
There are people everywhere.
425
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:59,160
Hundreds of people I saw
on that one day auditioning for this.
426
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:02,400
[Jane] Turn up at this venue.
427
00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,200
Suddenly, we're in this room,
which is like,
428
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,240
it was a wooden floor, I remember,
429
00:24:07,320 --> 00:24:09,880
and there was, like,
pillars around the room.
430
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:14,040
[ominous orchestral music]
431
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:17,080
[Tim] I started to meet some of the team.
432
00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:19,480
I met Nikita.
433
00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:26,880
[John] When you found out
Nikita Russian was an actual person,
434
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:30,800
I think we were at the stage
in the process when you thought,
435
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,000
"I don't know anything about people in TV.
436
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:37,200
So maybe there are mad people out there
called Nikita Russian
437
00:24:37,280 --> 00:24:38,880
and this is quite a normal thing."
438
00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:45,360
[Daniel] He's one of those people
that stand out in a crowd.
439
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,240
Nik is six... He's probably six foot six.
440
00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:53,280
He... he's a very handsome man.
He's... he's impressive.
441
00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:56,040
[ominous music intensifies]
442
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:00,760
[Lucie] He had this long hair.
443
00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,880
I'd probably imagine him
being in a film or something.
444
00:25:04,400 --> 00:25:07,080
He was walking around in a certain way.
445
00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:11,600
He looked like he had, like,
a million things going on in his head.
446
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,440
He was just flouncing around, you know,
447
00:25:14,520 --> 00:25:16,280
with his hair billowing behind him.
448
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:20,240
[John] He was there.
449
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:21,720
And then he wasn't there.
450
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:29,800
And then he'd suddenly reappear,
this sort of ethereal thing,
451
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:32,960
this tall, foppish figure behind you.
452
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,160
Then the minute you had a question to ask,
453
00:25:35,240 --> 00:25:36,360
you'd look around again,
454
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:38,200
then he kind of just disappeared,
455
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:39,960
and then you'd sort of see him...
456
00:25:40,840 --> 00:25:42,080
through a doorway.
457
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:49,240
[Lucie] We still didn't know
what the show was about.
458
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:52,720
There was all this talk about it
being commissioned by Channel 4.
459
00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:55,040
It was gonna be
the next big thing, but bigger.
460
00:25:55,120 --> 00:25:59,160
We'd seen enough reality TV shows,
I think by that time to understand that...
461
00:26:00,120 --> 00:26:01,760
maybe there would be a winner.
462
00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:06,120
[Jane] I remember thinking,
463
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,600
"That's the guy that might
pick me for this show."
464
00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:16,880
Nik Russian that day, the games he had
were engineered to challenge you.
465
00:26:20,360 --> 00:26:24,440
You were in sort of small groups
and you had to fall backwards.
466
00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:26,600
They'd catch you.
467
00:26:27,720 --> 00:26:28,880
I found that hard.
468
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:36,000
[orchestral music comes to a head]
469
00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:41,960
All his ideas were about
building trust really quickly.
470
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,280
The challenge where
you had to split into groups
471
00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:48,000
and you had to go off and make this cake.
472
00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:49,680
Now we had no money.
473
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:51,560
We didn't have any ingredients.
474
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:55,680
And we started traipsing
around the streets,
475
00:26:55,760 --> 00:26:57,360
going and knocking on people's doors,
476
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,480
and asking them for an egg.
477
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:01,880
[doorbell rings]
478
00:27:01,960 --> 00:27:03,160
[dog yapping]
479
00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:12,120
Lady opens the door.
480
00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:15,280
"Hello, could we borrow an egg?"
481
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:17,840
And I'm there with my camera,
looking at her.
482
00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:21,600
And the lady goes, "Ooh, all right then."
483
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:28,400
This lady gave us
all the ingredients that we needed
484
00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:30,960
and let them bake a cake in her oven.
485
00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:37,000
{\an8}And we baked this cake,
brought it back to the island,
486
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,960
{\an8}presented it to Nikita, and, um...
487
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:43,480
then we ate it.
488
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:51,520
I felt that was quite a beautiful thing.
489
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:56,520
Here we are, us humans,
knocking on strangers' doors,
490
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:57,840
winning them over.
491
00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:01,240
To give Nikita his credit,
492
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:06,440
I think he believed that he could
send teams of people out into the world,
493
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,000
they could ask for help from strangers,
494
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:10,880
and get it.
495
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:14,640
[Jane] Ah, I got home, I was on a high.
496
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,640
[laughs] I couldn't stop
telling my mum about it.
497
00:28:17,720 --> 00:28:19,640
She was just saying,
"Right, go on tell me."
498
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,440
She'd come in my room,
and she'd, like, sit on the bed.
499
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:24,760
I'd say, "All right,
I think they're gonna pick me."
500
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,000
I said that to me dad, and he just said,
501
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:30,600
"Well, just, you know,
let's wait and see."
502
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:36,720
[00s Nokia ringtone]
503
00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:38,800
[Tim] I was coming back from another job.
504
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:41,600
My phone rang.
505
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,280
And they said, "Yes, we'd love you
to be involved in our project.
506
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,080
You know, come on this adventure with us."
507
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:49,560
And I said, "What!"
508
00:28:50,120 --> 00:28:52,840
"That's it, I've got it, I've got it.
This is my big break. It's come."
509
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:53,920
Fantastic, you know.
510
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,200
"I'm off for a year
and I'm gonna make £100,000.
511
00:28:57,800 --> 00:28:58,840
I'll see ya then."
512
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:04,240
[Daniel] Yeah, it was very exciting
to be one of the lucky 30.
513
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,360
"We think there's something
perhaps a bit special about this.
514
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:11,280
Perhaps there's something
a bit special about you."
515
00:29:13,360 --> 00:29:14,760
A bit of destiny, perhaps.
516
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,600
I just thought, "£100,000.
517
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,640
Wow!" [laughs]
518
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:27,800
[Lucie] Got an email inviting me to London
again for a second audition.
519
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,600
Nik Russian was looking
for a co-presenter.
520
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:32,640
I was, like, "Really?"
521
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:38,920
And then when he invited me to take on
the role as co-presenter on the show,
522
00:29:39,640 --> 00:29:41,600
it was a, "I can't believe
this is happening."
523
00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:44,600
It's the kinda thing that blows your mind.
524
00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:47,040
I was thinking, "Well, you know what,
good things do happen.
525
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,560
Amazing things do happen."
526
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:55,200
I had a good job,
which provided me with a good wage.
527
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:58,160
I handed in my notice
and everybody was quite shocked.
528
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,000
They were, like,
"Come on, you can tell me.
529
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,440
It's Big Brother, isn't it?"
530
00:30:04,040 --> 00:30:07,760
And I said, "It's something
I can't really talk about.
531
00:30:07,840 --> 00:30:09,760
But you'll find out in good time."
532
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:17,360
[email tone dings]
533
00:30:17,440 --> 00:30:20,600
[Jane] I got an email.
534
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:22,920
"You haven't been picked
to join the team."
535
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:29,240
And my dad,
he didn't want me to be a failure.
536
00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:35,520
To go to my dad and say
I didn't get in, after all that.
537
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:39,880
That was hard. That was really hard.
538
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:49,120
[interviewer] What were you expecting
from the launch of this reality TV show?
539
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:51,240
Fanfare.
540
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,680
[crowd cheers]
541
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:56,920
-[contestant screams]
-[presenter laughs]
542
00:30:57,000 --> 00:30:59,400
Perhaps some sort of,
you know, drinks going around.
543
00:31:00,080 --> 00:31:01,200
[presenter] There's Jade.
544
00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:08,680
[John] I think everybody was using this
to try and become someone else.
545
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:10,880
That fantasy.
546
00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:12,640
-This is Alison.
-I'm Alison.
547
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:13,880
-How you doin'?
-Hello, Nigel.
548
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:15,360
-What's your name?
-TJ.
549
00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:16,320
What?
550
00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:20,400
[Daniel] This wonderful opportunity
to be famous and to be loved,
551
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,360
be like the other people
that you saw on television.
552
00:31:24,840 --> 00:31:27,080
Hello! [laughs]
553
00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:28,520
I'm Jade!
554
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,840
[Jane] When I got turned down
from the audition,
555
00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:33,840
it shattered my hopes and dreams.
556
00:31:34,680 --> 00:31:35,640
[email alert tone]
557
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:37,760
But then an email pops up.
558
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:40,240
"Following your audition,
559
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,600
one of the contestants has dropped out.
560
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:47,920
We would like to offer you... the part."
561
00:31:48,000 --> 00:31:49,800
[laughs]
562
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:51,680
[uplifting orchestral music begins]
563
00:31:51,760 --> 00:31:55,560
I was just, like, "Dad! Mum!"
564
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:57,720
I said, "That show! That show!"
565
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:01,160
She said, "What about it?"
I said, "I'm gonna be in it!"
566
00:32:01,240 --> 00:32:05,440
She said, "When?"
I said, "Um, in about a day."
567
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:09,600
[orchestral music builds]
568
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,480
I felt like I'd lifted
10 feet off the floor.
569
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:25,360
Just like, everything that I questioned
about myself
570
00:32:25,440 --> 00:32:29,760
I'm not good enough, or you didn't pick me
because I'm too tall or too small.
571
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:32,040
It was, like, all of a sudden,
572
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,920
my dream is actually happening,
this is all coming true.
573
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:37,960
I knew it was going to be televised
574
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:41,240
so the whole world would get
to share in your journeys
575
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,240
and whatever you did, and the challenges.
576
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:45,520
Egging you on, like,
577
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,120
"Oh, yeah, go on, go for it, you know,
go for it, you're gonna do this."
578
00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,880
[orchestral music continues]
579
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:54,240
My dad, he wasn't gonna
let me go to London.
580
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:57,280
Yeah, he didn't want me to go.
581
00:32:57,360 --> 00:32:59,480
I said, "I'm going. No matter what."
582
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,120
But he kept saying...
583
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:05,640
"What if this goes wrong?"
or "What if that happens?"
584
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:08,320
He just said everything.
585
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,160
He said... everything to put me off.
586
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,360
My mum, she spurred me on
587
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,880
by saying, "You've gotta let her go.
588
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,400
You've got to let her find her own feet.
589
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,360
You've got to let her
explore her own life.
590
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:28,880
Live her own life."
591
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:33,360
I just knew I had to do it.
592
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:34,840
Yeah.
593
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,200
[orchestral finale]
594
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:52,600
[birds chirping]
595
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:54,320
[John] Lots of people asking me
what was gonna happen.
596
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:58,160
And, uh, everything was very mysterious.
597
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,880
We hadn't been told
what was going to happen.
598
00:34:03,920 --> 00:34:07,000
I had to keep explaining
that I'm being told to bring a passport
599
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:08,200
and that's about all I know.
600
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:12,400
I'm basically going on
an adventure for a year.
601
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:15,920
I was thinking, beach holidays,
602
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:18,760
I was thinking, you know,
maybe we'll get sent to New York
603
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,280
and have to go on
some sort of treasure hunt.
604
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:23,080
[Jane] Me dad, he bought me...
605
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:24,760
a fork and spoon,
606
00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,640
something that folded out
and it had a fork and spoon on it,
607
00:34:27,760 --> 00:34:30,640
a tin opener, a pair of scissors,
608
00:34:30,680 --> 00:34:31,800
a charger.
609
00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:33,600
If you were, like, anywhere in the world,
610
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,160
you could charge your phone
and you'd be fine.
611
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,400
It was just... so exciting.
612
00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:46,600
[airplane overhead]
613
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:48,400
[dog barks]
614
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:53,560
-Hi.
-Hello.
615
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:55,280
[John] How you doing? John.
616
00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,640
-And Nick.
-Yeah.
617
00:34:57,680 --> 00:34:58,960
-[man 1] This is Tim.
-Hello, Tim.
618
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:03,120
So, uh, here we are.
619
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:04,760
{\an8}[laughter]
620
00:35:05,920 --> 00:35:07,520
{\an8}[woman's voice] We are in the ghetto.
621
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,480
[car alarm sounds, dog barks]
622
00:35:09,560 --> 00:35:13,360
New Cross is not where I'd think
a reality TV show was gonna start.
623
00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:14,640
It was confusing.
624
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:15,920
[Lucie] Rosy, I've met.
625
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:17,680
John? John. All right, John.
626
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,000
Nick, hiya. Nice to meet you.
627
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:23,360
[Tim] I was expecting
to find the professional team.
628
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:25,480
That would have their own cameras.
629
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:27,200
Well, there wasn't anybody.
630
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:28,640
[Tim on camera] Hello.
631
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:29,840
[laughter]
632
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:31,600
[Tim] I mean, pfff.
633
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:36,040
I really don't like being
a camera operator as it turned out,
634
00:35:36,120 --> 00:35:37,920
because it's really hard work.
635
00:35:38,000 --> 00:35:40,160
You know, I had to suddenly get there,
636
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,960
get my camera out, get it all together,
put it up there, get my boom right.
637
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:45,120
Argh!
638
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,400
Gotta film this, somebody here,
there's somebody over there.
639
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,160
Film that, film that,
film that, film that.
640
00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:50,600
Is it right? Have I got it on?
641
00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:52,080
How much battery have I got left?
642
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:53,640
And the weather's creeping in.
643
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,040
[Rosy] Lucie, what's your surname?
644
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:56,920
Maycock.
645
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:57,800
[Rosy] Hmm?
646
00:35:57,880 --> 00:35:59,600
Maycock. M-A-Y-C-O-C-K.
647
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:04,080
[Lucie] I'd been given
the role of co-presenter, by Nik.
648
00:36:04,160 --> 00:36:05,280
I was a contestant
649
00:36:05,360 --> 00:36:07,640
but I had this extra role as well.
650
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,640
Okay, so just while Rosy's doing that,
651
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,960
let's just make it a bit clearer
who we are and where we are.
652
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,840
Team 2. At the launch of Team 2.
653
00:36:15,920 --> 00:36:18,840
[everyone] Woo, yeah! Yeah!
654
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:23,120
This is the way the teams are gonna work,
there's Captain, Vice Captain.
655
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:25,320
[Nick] Did you have to print all this out
or did they give this to you?
656
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,520
No, this is me being anal.
657
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:29,040
When did you find out you're Team Captain?
658
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:29,920
Wednesday.
659
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:35,880
I assumed as Vice Captain that they
would have said something more to you.
660
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:37,640
[Nick] Am I Vice Captain?
661
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:40,200
-[Rosie laughs]
-[Nick] Am I?!
662
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:43,800
Am I Vice Captain? Fantastic.
663
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:45,400
[Rosy] I thought you were told.
664
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:47,360
No, I hadn't been told Vice Captain.
665
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:52,960
You know, it was a bit like
first day at school.
666
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,680
Nik, he'd said that
he'd like me to be the team leader.
667
00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,640
And, um, I was, like, "Okay, why not?"
668
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,640
The big sister, you know.
669
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,800
I still didn't know
what the show was about.
670
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:11,440
I was waiting for Nik to brief me.
671
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:19,200
And when he asked me to present
the idea of the show to the contestants,
672
00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,320
I remember saying to him,
"Can you tell me first?"
673
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:25,880
And he just had to tell me really quickly
674
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,560
and literally a minute later,
I was talking to everybody
675
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,360
and telling them what, uh,
what their goal was.
676
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:33,960
Okay, what is their challenge?
677
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:38,000
Their challenge is
to basically make one million pounds.
678
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:39,880
Simple as that.
679
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:43,440
They have empty pockets.
They are starting completely from scratch.
680
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,160
And they can do anything they want,
681
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:48,560
they can make this money
any way they choose.
682
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:52,400
-And make a million.
-Yeah.
683
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:54,480
-Between the 10 of us.
-How?
684
00:37:54,560 --> 00:37:57,640
Exactly, that's what you and I
have sort of got to work out and decide.
685
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:00,520
-How to earn money.
-[Rosy] How to earn money.
686
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,760
You'll be back here, next year,
with one million pounds.
687
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,920
[Tim] I had to stay behind this camera,
processing this information.
688
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:15,920
Group of 10. Make a million pounds.
From nothing. Go.
689
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,920
Do we go today back to our own homes?
690
00:38:18,480 --> 00:38:20,680
-[Rosy] Well, uh, obviously...
-Or not?
691
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:22,160
We've no money to pay rent
692
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,960
so you just have to think
of ways of surviving.
693
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:26,480
[nervous laughter]
694
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:29,960
-[Nick] That's ridiculous!
-It is!
695
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:32,640
-[John] You... You're kidding me.
-[Rosy] I'm not kidding you.
696
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:34,800
[Rosy] They said they... Where's Nik?
697
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,680
So we were making
our own prize money.
698
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:40,680
We had to find our own accommodation.
We had to feed ourselves.
699
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,160
-[everyone laughs]
-[woman] Sorry, John.
700
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:44,160
I... I'm...
701
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:46,880
[laughter]
702
00:38:49,000 --> 00:38:49,920
Argh!
703
00:38:52,080 --> 00:38:53,400
{\an8}[man 2] What about food?
704
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:55,920
[Nick] I only brought a quiche, that's it.
705
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:57,120
[laughter]
706
00:38:57,160 --> 00:38:58,640
I've got an egg and cress sandwich.
707
00:38:58,760 --> 00:38:59,920
[Nick] I've brought a quiche!
708
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,360
I've come over to ask you.
You've all obviously just found out
709
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,640
what's gonna be happening to you
over the next 12 months.
710
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:08,800
-And how... What do you feel about that?
-[man 3] Uh...
711
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:14,640
[Daniel] We started to think,
"Where's the grand launch?"
712
00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,840
"Where's the celebrity?"
"Where's the fanfare?"
713
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:20,160
It's not going as I planned.
714
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:22,040
[rain pours]
715
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:26,040
There is this... cog in my head going, gch.
716
00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:27,640
Is there really nothing more?
717
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:29,600
I've given up everything.
718
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:34,000
[Daniel] Have you ever had a dream
and got within touching distance?
719
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:37,960
[Tim] We didn't have any food.
720
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:39,800
Or shelter.
721
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:41,920
What are we gonna do?
722
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,080
[Lucie] I felt anxious.
723
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,280
This is not how it's supposed to be.
724
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,760
I was wondering what was coming next.
Where was this going to end up?
725
00:39:54,320 --> 00:39:56,080
So are you feeling quite positive?
726
00:39:56,160 --> 00:40:00,280
[Lucie] I just thought, "Keep on talking
and it will be fine."
727
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:05,040
Nik Russian was
on the field getting wet with us.
728
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:10,560
Always the shadowy figure
in the background.
729
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,120
Not giving orders or doing anything.
730
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:17,960
[Tim] He was aloof.
731
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:21,560
He stood off us.
732
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:27,600
[interviewer] Seem stressed?
733
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:30,200
[Tim] No, he didn't seem
particularly stressed.
734
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:34,040
It was all going
according to his plan, you know.
735
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:37,840
He'd known it all along, of course.
736
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:40,160
[thunder strikes]
737
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,520
["Scandalo Al Sole"
by Orchestra Johnny Scott plays]