How many people in the US have “been on tv”. There Isaacs got in my hometown who’s whole identity is that he was a contestant on a committe cooking show. I’m trying to gauge how common it is for a random person that you might meet at a bar to have been on TV. By this I mean:
- non actors
- not the news -not just in the audience
I think that predominantly leaves game show contestants and reality tv show contestants. What do you think?
I, random internet stranger, was a featured extra on an episode of America’s Most Wanted in 1988 (I can not find the episode online though). There’s 1 for ya.
I knew a girl who was on one of those “ghost hunter” type shows, as one of the locals they interview at the beginning who tell the story of the ghost in whatever building they’re investigating.
She wasn’t a local, she was on vacation there wandering around and they asked her if she wanted to be on the show and then they just told her what the story was and she repeated it back to them on camera like it was some sort of local legend lol.
Not me. I’m always in the newspapers though.
I did a fair amount of hitch hiking along the west coast last summer. A shockingly large number of people in SoCal told me about their 15 minutes of fame. One guy was one of the CGI pirates from pirates of the Caribbean 3, another had done fairly well in some game show I can’t remember, but the wildest was Jake and Logan Paul’s dad. North of the Sierria Nevada those stories dropped off quickly.
Never been on tv
Don’t know if that counts, but I’ve been interviewed for a promotional video for the LEGO company.
I was on TV a bunch in college when I was in marching band and we’d get airtime coming into and out of commercial breaks. Does that count?
I got interviewed on the local news once about a visiting animal expert when I was in elementary school, best I got. I don’t really remember much about it other than getting to pet a boa constrictor and the light on the camera being very bright.
I was in the shot when the Steelers won the Superbowl in Feb 09 after that awesome touchdown. And lots of other times but I work in TV.
My best friend was on The People’s Court.
She has a small claims case against a mechanic or something. She lost, but was paid a per diem for her time that was similar to the amount she was seeking anyways. She says good things about meeting Judge Marilyn Milian.
My friend didn’t seek being put in the show, she was approached by the producers when she showed up to the courthouse. Said, “why not”.
I was on a kids show as “participating audience” in the very early 90s.
Idk about statistics but I feel those were, at least for a period of time, pretty common to have locally broadcast.
