Seeing someone you know on TV

Oooh gosh no, i'd be watching it. It would make me more interested in it if I knew the person. Not odd at all.

I am nosey so I would want to know what happened. Incidentally, what channel is it on ?? It sounds quite good!

Its on Crime and Investigation channel. When it happened they came into work and took her computer and interviewed some people so we wonder if they are going to show any of those bits.

In the same year that happened we had someone who was convicted of child porn and another guy who was locked up for attemped murder after stabbing his girlfriend. It was rather an eventful year.

The Dad of a girl who I lived with at uni was an actor. It was always odd to see him pop up on TV.

Nasri Patel and her husband were customers at my dad's shop...very strange to see documentary on them the other day.

I used to go to school with Amy Winehouse.

Ben Barnes, aka Prince Caspian, did my course at uni and we had the odd seminars together.

T'is sad to see Amy's decline played out so publicly.

Not at all, I'd be really interested in something like that. As for seeing someone you know on TV, Michael Owen has a huge house nearby and used to be in the local shops all the time. The young girl in the sandwich shop almost passed out when he ordered his lunch and he plays golf at the same club as my H.

I think I'd probably watch it too if I was in the same situation as you.

My friend's daughter had a serious accident back in July and it was very strange seeing her on TV on the news.]

I also went to dance class and school with a girl who is a regular on Casualty. Always strange.

A friend of mine works for Camden Council's housing department, and when that man who murdered two prostitutes in north London was arrested and the news reports said he was living in Camden Council accommodation, I joked to a mutual friend that with his luck, our friend might have been the guy who housed him!

Which of course turned out to be the case. ?

Not that he could have done anything else under the circumstances - my friend went through all the correct procedures, the guy ticked all the right boxes and of course no-one knew that he was a serial killer at the time.

I would watch too. In a similar vein, a girl from my school (Jodi Jones) was murdered by her boyfriend a few years ago, anything on TV about it became strangely compelling veiwing, even though you knew it was macabre.

On a lighter note, I know a regular on BBC1 news, it's still odd seeing him on there, even though he's been doing it for years now.

Some interesting connections people have.

I had a little panic earlier as it seemed I don't actually get the crime channel on my sky box, I have had to add it and Sky said it could take up to 4 hours before it could come on, I hope my box is updated in time.

I think I would be interested too.

The Yorkshire Ripper lived two doors away from my Grandma - my uncle was arrested because they thought he was him. He had a beard!

Also when I worked at Bradford and Bingley, there was a series of rapes around the area. They sais never to go to our cars in the huge car park by ourselves so we always walked with a couple of lads from our office - one of them turned out to be the rapist ?

The Irish groundsman at my school's playing fields turned out to be an active IRA terrorist - he took the job in the first place because it allowed him to order large quantities of fertiliser without suspicion.

Fortunately, he was caught at the planning stages.

I don't think it's weird to be fascinated by this, it's just human nature to be curious (hell, I'd be all excited about the prospect of seeing a colleague involved in scandal on TV. ?)

As for people I know... I know natasha kaplinsky from uni (although we were in different colleges, different years and read different subjects, we were both involved in the union and in politics and still see each other now and again). She's absolutely lovely and not deserving of the vast majority of narrow minded chippy crap which gets spouted about her. Having said that, I do find it a bit cringey sometimes to watch her.

My father was involved in an infamous trial many years ago (as counsel, not defendant ?) and occasionally gets called upon to appear on documentaries, and although I'm desperately proud of him, I find it cringey to watch him on the box too.

My own TV appearances have been wholly shameful and regretful and are therefore Not Talked About.

I know Bill Nighy and his ex-partner Diana Quick (have met them both, and their daughter, a few times) and it's always weird to see them in films and on TV. I had no idea who they were when I first met them, as I was quite young.

My brother's a tennis coach, and I get very excited whenever I see him and his player on TV (Wimbledon usually, but sometimes other tournaments) and it's still quite surreal.

Wow, some of these are quite shocking!

My Dad is on tv fairly regularly which is funny, but he works in a different country so we don't see him as much over here. His most cringey moment was when he was on a plane and they were showing the news from earlier that day and there was a report on him, he said people were staring but pretending not to which must have been a bit creepy!

An ex boyfriend of mine from uni now works for the production company which makes the Derren Brown programmes and the real hustle - I've seen him appear briefly in a few programmes and it is quite odd - a bit cringeworthy too.

My dad was interviewed on Newsnight in the mid-1990s, talking about sadomasochism (as one does).

What made it infinitely funnier was that he was a very old friend (since university) of the person interviewing him (one of the higher-profile Newsnight regulars, though I'd probably best not say which one), and it was very very obvious that they were both struggling to keep a straight face. Especially as the other guy being interviewed was a rentaquote Tory lunatic who seemed to think that people into S&M were all paedophiles and should be castrated for their own good.

(I should probably stress that my dad was there to talk about the legal aspects of S&M, not to recount his own personal experiences...)

Oh, and JK is weirdly obsessed with a colleague of mine who regularly pops up as a talking head on those three-hour Channel 4 clip shows.

My sister wouldn't know if I was all over the news, bless her - she's as oblivious as I am to these kinds of things. Put it this way, she lived a couple of doors away to a fairly famous film actor for almost a year and walked their children to school together most days, without realising who he was. D'oh ?

As most know, I briefly dated someone a long time ago who is now a Hollywood actor. I can't bring myself to watch anything he's in - it is just the weirdest mixture of bizarre familiarity and confusion. My brain can't cope with it at all.