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What It’s Like Starring On Take Me Out

Ex Take Me Out contestant Chris Williamson talks about what life is really like behind the scenes on the ITV Show. - Video & production by Dean Hindmarch https://www.deanhindmarch.com/ https://www.instagram.com/deanhindmarch - Listen to all episodes online. Search "Modern Wisdom" on any Podcast App or click here: iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/modern-wisdom/id1347973549 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0XrOqvxlqQI6bmdYHuIVnr?si=iUpczE97SJqe1kNdYBipnw Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/modern-wisdom - I want to hear from you!! Get in touch in the comments below or head to... Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/chriswillx Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chriswillx Email: modernwisdompodcast@gmail.com

Chris WilliamsonhostYusef (Propane Fitness)guestJonny (Propane Fitness)guest
Nov 26, 20181h 5mWatch on YouTube ↗

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  1. 0:00 – 15:00

    Today, we are going…

    1. CW

      Today, we are going to do what it's really like to be on Take Me Out. (instrumental music plays) The fear of every man that goes on Take Me Out is getting a blackout. Don't fall out of the love lift. Don't say anything overtly racist, and don't shit yourself. As long as you don't do those three things, honestly man, the logistics behind it are fucking terrifying. The love lift looks like a well-constructed, safe piece of equipment, but let me tell you, it is one of the most terrifying experiences I've ever had in my life.

    2. YF

      Really?

    3. CW

      You're not allowed to have any more than one Corona, and you have to sign a waiver saying that you've only had one drink. You get to ask these girls one question. That question is picked already for you by the producers, and then gets prepped to the girls.

    4. YF

      Oh, wow.

    5. CW

      On my date on Take Me Out, I did not get arrested, but the police did arrive.

    6. YF

      Why?

    7. CW

      We'll get to that. I went into Arsehole Chris mode. I distinctly remember putting 40 euros down on the bar and saying to the barman, "Do as much damage to me as you can for that money there." The next thing that I remembered was waking up on the central reservation of Tenerife's largest motorway.

    8. JF

      (laughs) (wind blows)

    9. CW

      Welcome back. I've been joined by Jonny and Yusuf from Propin Fitness. Some of you may have seen that we did a podcast, What It's Really Like Living On Love Island. It did pretty well, said nearly two million watch minutes, so I thought, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Let's try another one." So, today, we are going to do what it's really like to be on Take Me Out. (laughs) Uh, it's been six years since I was on, but the memory is burned, etched into, uh, into my nostalgia, so I'm not (laughs) going to be able to get rid of it. So both of you have actually seen the episode that I was on, right?

    10. JF

      We have.

    11. YF

      Saw it on TV when it was on.

    12. CW

      Live.

    13. YF

      Live.

    14. JF

      It's some of the only TV that Yusuf's ever seen.

    15. YF

      I think it's probably the only thing on TV I've ever watched, yeah.

    16. CW

      (laughs) Did you watch it because I was on it, or was it just

    17. NA

      Yeah.

    18. YF

      No, because you were on, yeah.

    19. JF

      Okay. He had to plug the TV in, adjust the aerial.

    20. CW

      (laughs)

    21. YF

      Tune it in.

    22. JF

      Grab a signal and everything.

    23. YF

      He had to go and buy a TV from a charity shop, like, plug it in.

    24. JF

      (laughs)

    25. CW

      Freecycle. Yeah, um, so I was on season two? No, season three. Season three, episode two. So quite early. I think it's on season 10 or 11 now. Um, for anyone who doesn't know, I mean if you don't know what Take Me Out is, wh- where have you been living? Because it's part of the mains. It's like Blind Date, it's like the modern day Blind Date now, isn't it?

    26. JF

      Although there is a Blind Date.

    27. CW

      Yeah. There is.

    28. JF

      Not very good though, is it?

    29. CW

      No.

    30. YF

      Cilla Black died or something.

  2. 15:00 – 30:00

    Yeah. …

    1. CW

      250 people-

    2. Yeah.

    3. ... fear of-

    4. Intimidation.

    5. ... making a fool of yourself, intimidation.

    6. Yeah. It's- it's a very-

    7. When you grow up.

    8. ... very nerve-wracking environment to be in and, like I say, you don't think about the cameras 'cause the cameras are just, they're miles away from you.

    9. Mm-hmm.

    10. They're all on. It's those guys that, like fat lads that sit down-

    11. JF

      The-

    12. CW

      ... and swivel.

    13. JF

      Walk a- oh right, I see.

    14. CW

      You know.

    15. JF

      It's not people walking round with it.

    16. CW

      Not really.

    17. JF

      No.

    18. CW

      You don't notice that as much. But anyway, so you're at the top of the love lift and they'll be counting you in, and then your music starts and you have to choose a song. So you have to submit a song. And this was when I was 24, so I was right in the midst of being promoter wanker. So I was like, "Oh yeah, Jamie Jones, Hungry For The Power?" (laughs) Like, "We can't have any techno or tech house. Uh, how about Example, Love Kick Starts Again?" And I'm like, "Fine. Okay." So-

    19. JF

      (laughs)

    20. CW

      ... like <singing "and the love kick starts again. Boo, boo, boo-boo."</singing

    21. JF

      Completely not what you chose, but...

    22. CW

      If we get popped on YouTube for me singing that-

    23. JF

      (laughs)

    24. CW

      ... I'm gonna be so-

    25. JF

      'Cause that was pitch perfect, so.

    26. CW

      I know it was. So anyway, you're coming down and you step off, and you've already been given the points that you walk to. You walk to the left and you wave at the girls, you walk to the right and you wave at the girls, and then you walk to the middle and you turn around and you go, "Hello, girls. My name's Chris and I'm from Newcastle." "Oh, everybody wave at Chris, hey."

    27. JF

      (laughs)

    28. CW

      "So, Joanne, what do you think of Chris?" And it goes on like that. And you're like, right okay, once you, once you've kind of said the first thing and you've got your first little forwards and backs, you, you're s- pretty sweet.

    29. Have they got a chance to black out during that? Or-

    30. Yeah, yeah. So not during that, but basically they get, they get first first impressions.

  3. 30:00 – 45:00

    Oh, yeah. …

    1. CW

      No.

    2. JF

      Oh, yeah.

    3. CW

      Yeah. No, no. Not for me.

    4. JF

      (laughs)

    5. CW

      And you just think, "Right, okay." You can't get them to say anything anymore because all the crowd's going, "Uh, no. Left, left. Right, right. No, no."

    6. JF

      Oh, really? Right.

    7. CW

      Well, 'cause there's the family of a lot of the-

    8. JF

      Oh, of course.

    9. CW

      ... girls that are there. So it's like, it's basically saying, "Your daughter's pig ugly or boring." In front of everyone she's ever cared about.

    10. JF

      'Cause I suppose the, the girls got themselves to that stage, haven't they? Like you've not allowed them to get there.

    11. CW

      (laughs)

    12. JF

      Like this is the only time where you exercise any level of decision?

    13. CW

      (laughs)

    14. JF

      So like this is the chance for them to look stupid?

    15. CW

      Yeah.

    16. JF

      It's payback.

    17. CW

      In, in fact, it's worse, because you're ... Like, if they say no, you're like, "Fair enough." Like, "I came on the show."

    18. JF

      Mm-hmm.

    19. CW

      That's a risk. If I put myself out there as a girl and let myself get to the last round, I've still got my light on.

    20. JF

      Mm-hmm.

    21. CW

      And you turn me off.

    22. JF

      Yeah.

    23. CW

      That's how I'd feel sh-

    24. A big fat middle finger.

    25. JF

      Yeah.

    26. CW

      Do you have to leave one on? Or has anyone just gone and turned them all off and been like, "I can't be arsed with this."

    27. I'm fucking ... (laughs)

    28. JF

      Yeah.

    29. CW

      Yeah.

    30. That seems-

  4. 45:00 – 1:00:00

    No. …

    1. CW

      can't believe I've never told you this before.

    2. YF

      No.

    3. CW

      Before we do the police story, did this girl just not take a liking to you specifically? Or do you think it wasn't personal, it was just, like, it was just a temperament-

    4. I think it was a combina- so it was a combination of things. First off, she wasn't ... she wasn't making a massive effort. And she used this line of, "Treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen." And I was like, "No, like just ..." Even back then, even 10 years ago, ish, s- six years, seven years ago, I had in the back of my mind, "You should just be being yourself."

    5. Mm-hmm.

    6. "Like, you should just be being truthful and virtuous 'cause that's the best way to operate." And it came across, she came across terribly on TV and-

    7. Anyone I've heard who spouts the "treat 'em mean" line is a fundamental dick. Like, just that-

    8. Just a mani- just a manipulative cow, right? It's like ...

    9. Well, 'cause it, it, it's the same kind of people that think they're really sassy and, and it's like, no, no, you're, you're just a twat.

    10. Just a knob. Yeah. So it went down really badly. She deleted her, uh, Twitter account because she got a little bit of ... she got slated-

    11. Oh.

    12. ... a little bit because of the way that she'd gone on. Anyway, so went on the date, went on the night out. Later on in the evening, they want you to have sex or fight with the person you're with. And I'm like, "Not bothered." They give you a €50 allowance and they basically put you in a bar and they'll allow it to be as natural as possible, and it kind of is. Also, what's really funny is to see the difference between the crew and the kit that ITV have and the crew and the kit that ITV2 have. (laughs)

    13. YF

      (laughs)

    14. CW

      (laughs) It's like going from the most polished, like, there's a security guy and there's a huge van and this, that, and the other, and it's just some dude with, like, a- his iPhone out.

    15. YF

      (laughs)

    16. CW

      (laughs) Just hoping to, desperately hoping to catch, like, picking up change off the floor trying ...

    17. You, you can tell with the production quality as well, when you, like, when you see those, like, after-

    18. Yeah.

    19. ... after the show programs.

    20. It's just, it's complete trying to dredge up any of the last-

    21. So that guy's got £15 budget, so-

    22. ... remaining viewers. Yeah. See what

    23. YF

      I've gotta go plug my phone in over there for a bit.

    24. CW

      (laughs)

    25. YF

      But I'll be back in a moment. (laughs)

    26. CW

      It's like, "Oh shit, I've run out of data."

    27. YF

      (laughs)

    28. CW

      "I've run out of data." So anyway, you're on the night and she'd been doing this thing and she'd handed me her purse to, like, look after, as if ... You know, like, that sassy kit? And I'm like ... so I just took the purse and just went (thuds) and just put it down on the bar and walked off. That didn't go down very well. And anyway, back and forth, back and forth. What happened next was I went into Arsehole Chris mode.

    29. (laughs)

    30. And I remember, distinctly remember putting €40 down, which was what I had left, €40 down on the bar and saying to the barman, "Do as much damage to me as you can for that money there." And he was like-

  5. 1:00:00 – 1:05:47

    Yeah. (laughs) …

    1. CW

      to find love in a library, yeah-

    2. JF

      Yeah. (laughs)

    3. CW

       more often though, aren't you? Like, than-

    4. There is a, there's a program that's going to be coming out soon, within the next year, that I think will highlight exactly how little Love Island is actually searching for love, or how little the people on Love Island are searching for love. They're not looking for love on Love Island. They're definitely l- not looking for it on Take Me Out. Like, the amount of failed dates that occur on Take Me Out I think is a, a good identifier of the fact that we are a lot more incompatible than we think.

    5. Hmm.

    6. You think if ... take a random girl of the right age who broadly looks attractive, and take a random guy that she has verified is attractive by not turning their light off, and he's verified as attractive by not turning hers off, and you think, "Well, how hard can it be?" Look at the outcomes, watch the dates on Take Me Out. More ... I would argue, if you did an analysis, and if anyone would like to, please do so, more than 50% of the dates on Take Me Out will be disasters. Like, it'll finish up with one of them saying that they're not interested in the other one.

    7. JF

      I suppose the only commonality with the people on Take Me Out is that they...

    8. YF

      ... at least don't mind the idea of being on TV.

    9. CW

      Mm-hmm.

    10. JF

      Hm.

    11. CW

      But then there's a lot of them ... Another good thing about Take Me Out is, because it's quite highly produced, it is, and it's so intense, it's a really good on-ramp for being on TV.

    12. JF

      Hm.

    13. CW

      So had I not-

    14. JF

      It catches them with fire, isn't it?

    15. CW

      Had I not been on Take Me Out, my capacity on Love Island would have been severely reduced.

    16. JF

      With the very, like, fear-provoking, uh, in- entrance into the show as well.

    17. CW

      So the, the main thing that's weird about being on TV is that you need to put, uh, during interviews with the camera, either down the pipe or to an interviewer, you need to put the question in your answer and that's such an alien thing to do. So someone will say to you, "So Chris, tell us what you think about your date?" You go, "So my date today was blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." After we've-

    18. JF

      Not just, "It was."

    19. CW

      Yes.

    20. JF

      Yeah.

    21. CW

      So you have to put that in and that just feels so fucking alien.

    22. JF

      Why is that?

    23. CW

      Because they don't want the interviewer's voice to come in.

    24. JF

      Oh, I see.

    25. CW

      They need to just have you speaking, so you need to frame the question within your answer.

    26. JF

      So they want to prop, they want to stage and prompt the content without someone going, "So Chris, tell me."

    27. CW

      Yeah.

    28. JF

      "So Chris."

    29. CW

      Yeah. And they wouldn't have it written or whatever it might be.

    30. JF

      Mm-hmm.

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