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Post by Nigel on Aug 9, 2009 16:38:20 GMT
Anybody see Total Wipeout last night, starring our very own T4E Jon?
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 9, 2009 19:27:50 GMT
No I missed it.
To the Iplayer!!!!
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Post by grahamthomson on Aug 10, 2009 10:58:54 GMT
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Post by Cullen on Aug 10, 2009 11:22:12 GMT
I didn't realise it was him! Good lad.
I love Total Wipeout. When I first saw it I thought 'Just another lowest common denominator saturday night crapfest' then promptly pissed myself laughing when someone got a boxing glove to the face. Brilliant.
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Post by Nigel on Aug 10, 2009 11:32:23 GMT
Oddly, Saturday's was the only one that I've seen in its entirety and I knew someone in it! I normally only catch bits of it.
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 10, 2009 11:37:49 GMT
I quite enjoy it. The american version is alright as well.
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Post by Benn on Aug 10, 2009 20:22:01 GMT
WTF?
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Post by grahamthomson on Aug 11, 2009 8:23:30 GMT
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Post by Andy Turnbull on Aug 11, 2009 9:35:19 GMT
Well done Jon on both winning and what you are going to do with those winnings.
Andy
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Post by The Doctor on Aug 11, 2009 11:20:47 GMT
Indeed.
-Ralph
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2009 19:36:09 GMT
I've never seen that show before but now that I have I may consider watching further episodes of it. It's certainly better than Sky's rehash of Gladiators which, while I'm on that subject I noticed that one of the producers of Total Wipeout is Andrew Norgate who was the official timekeeper from ITV's original Gladiators series.
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Post by Hero on Aug 11, 2009 23:51:22 GMT
That's 2 people I know who have been on that show and won now.
Fair play to Jon and how he used the prize-money.
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Post by t4e on Aug 17, 2009 21:43:25 GMT
Only just seen this topic. Thanks for the comments. Yeah mum and Dad are pleased as it's 1 less thing to worry about (re, flying to OZ).
Well spotted with Andy Norgate. What was funny was as he was giving Benny, Rob and myself the briefing for the Wipeout Zone he accidently called it the Eliminator then said 'hang on, I just said eliminator.... it's like im back on Gladiators again!'
It's funny as I almost made it onto Glads last year. Passed all the fitness tests but never made it to final casting. Am glad they never put me on now (even though I tried for every single series since 1997) as I would never had gone for Wipeout otherwise which is way more fun!
They are doing auditions next month for series 3 with filming in Oct. I'd recomend anyone to have a go. It's so much fun and doesn't hurt at all when you fall off things!!
The Champions show (which i had to fly back for just 5 days after getting back from winning my show) is on Sat August 29th at 6:35pm BBC1.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2009 20:28:16 GMT
Somehow I don't think I'll be fit enough to appear on an episode of the show. I suppose it is fun but a bloke with a beer belly isn't exactly the embodiment of a contestant on a physical challenge show.
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Post by Hero on Aug 18, 2009 20:35:49 GMT
Hey Jon. Did you square off against Ricky Hype in the champions show?
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Post by t4e on Aug 18, 2009 20:56:34 GMT
Hey Jon. Did you square off against Ricky Hype in the champions show? ===KEN Ha ha, you know Ricky? We were chatting on the phone today about the champs show as some of the clips show him in it. Yeah he's great. We got on really well. |
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Post by Hero on Aug 18, 2009 21:06:00 GMT
Yeah, Ricky's cool. I know him through the wrestling scene and met a few times.
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Post by Cullen on Sept 2, 2009 10:31:12 GMT
The Champions show was great! Well done Jon for getting so far. It was great talking to you about it at AA - I have massive respect for anyone who goes on Total Wipeout.
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Post by t4e on Sept 2, 2009 13:16:20 GMT
Thanks Cullen! I was useless in the qualifier. They didn't show me on sucker punch but i wasted so much time on there..... I was already covered in mud yet for some stupid reason i was still trying to make my way across the wall, when i should have just thrown myself in the mud and climbed out. I got knocked off 1/2 way on the wall anyway..... would have been about 20sec quicker had i not been a muppet on the sucker punch.
The Sweeper was really really good fun! Before that pile up started the bar was doing a full 360 every 5 sec so your timing had to be absoutely spot on given the bar was also at max height (110-120cm). Once the pile up started to happen (was like seeing a train wreck heading toward you) the bar was rocking around loads and kept changing speeds so trying to time my jump was near impossible...... when Gary in front of me was jumping I had to abort my inital jump and as soon as i was ready to re-jump the bar was right in front of me so just got knocked off....... ah well!
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Post by Nigel on Sept 2, 2009 13:36:35 GMT
Excuses, excuses! Ah well, here's mud in your eye!  |
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Post by t4e on Sept 2, 2009 18:57:04 GMT
I wanna cheer on someone I know for series 3 now! Nige I think you should do it! P.S. Please fall in the mud if you do  |
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