We all surface around 10am and luckily, Hayley had slept fine for her first night in shared accommodation! Hurrah! I’m so blimming excited about today and want to get cracking to go see “America’s Got Talent”. Bring on the Hoff!!! We hit the metro and get off at 7th Metro centre and then jump in a cab to the theatre where it’s being filmed.
There’s a really strict screening process as we wait to enter the theatre. We’re not allowed large handbags, mobiles or cameras on us when we’re watching the filming. Boo hiss! I want a picture with Shazza Osbourne! So we file in and then get seated and watch the special people around us! It’s full of high school performing kids, who are screaming and hollering at the warm up guy! It’s mental and so damn American! The warm up guy is fairly funny but we have to endure him for at least 2 hours before the real action starts! Before that happens, we get spoken to by the stage manager and some other behind the scenes man who talks through all these staged actions we, as an audience, have to do! Yup, it’s all fake folks!! He made us do the following – imagine cheesy American accent:
1. Act shocked guys, I mean really shocked! You just cant believe what you’re seeing on stage
2. Now act bored. Come on people, really focus on this. Yawn away!
3. This time we want laughter! Think of the funniest thing you’ve seen and laugh away folks
4. Now guys, we want boos! The act up here STINKS and you need to tell them that! Go on and make the X sign! And shout ‘OFF OFF OFF’
5. And finally crazy applause people! Come on, let’s go crazy! We want this act to go all the way to Vegas! It’s the best act you’ve ever seen and they’re gonna win the competition! Whoop, Holler y’all!
So, there you have it! All the reactions you see on TV are staged and edited by the peeps who can….very eye opening!
However, enough of that chat. The fun is about to begin as they bring in the Celebrity Judges – we’re all so excited, even though Dave and Aaron would never admit it! First up it’s Piers Morgan – who has got far too much make up on, then next is Sharon Osbourne, looking oh so glam and then……….THE HOFF!! Haha, this guy is a tool but a bit of a legend it has to be said – he comes down the aisle with his Baywatch jacket, life raft thingy and shades on– haha – what a muppet! They all get seated and then it’s stop, start, stop, start after that for another 3hours! We went in at 12.30 and left the place near 6pm!!!
But I don’t care, it was great to see what really happens behind the scenes. These judges get touched up – make up and hair wise – after EVERY act! Crazy chat! All judges had a bit of idle chat with the crowd but that was in between takes. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to go near them as they were surrounded by bodyguards most of the time! Damn it!
The acts we saw included: roller skating dance troupe, rubbish poet, crazy kite man, a belter of a singer who got all emotional when she got put through, cute wee kids that danced to RUN DMC and a few other freaks that I can’t remember!
All very crazy but I loved it. After that, we had a peek around Macy’s and grabbed some Mexican food for tea. Then it was back to the hostel to get ready and hit the town! LA nightlife here we come – how exciting!
After having a few bevvies in the hostel and getting annoyed by Greasy Paul, we head out around 10pm in a cab towards Sunset Boulevard. We wanted to go to the Dragonfly on Santa Monica, but the cab driver was Armenian and didn’t know where it was! Haha – he was funny chat, apparently had Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart in his cab once…
We get dropped off outside Whiskey a go go – where the Doors were discovered – and then spy The Viper Room across the street! Whoohoo, let’s go see where River Phoenix died of an overdose, how very macabre. Anyway, the place is really small and has a wee stage where some indie type band are playing. I like the atmosphere and it’s a quirky wee place. We stay there for a bit and watch Aaron get more and more tanked. Seriously, he’s turned into a lightweight this holiday! Haha.
Vanstone and I get chatting to the security dudes outside as we want to go for a boogie, they tell us to try up the road in various bars, but they all deny us when they spy our flipflops!! Er hello?! It’s a Monday night AND these are nice pretty flipflops AND I’m wearing a nice dress – raaaaaaaa – poncey American gimps! After being denied by a few swanky places, we end up at Saddler’s Ranch which is a cheesy place and has a mechanical Rodeo bull thing you can ride. Well, us being us we decide to persuade Aaron to do it – haha – he’s so wasted he wont last long! He has a few go’s on it and just goes flying! Bless him...the place shuts at 2am and so we head out onto the street to flag a cab down. After 10 mins we manage to hail one and its another Armenian cab driver - how random! Unfortunately, he doesnt have any famous people chat to entertain us with...but he does like to race blimming motorbikes at traffic lights - argh!!! We get dropped off at the Wendy's up the road for some post drinking grub and we get chatting to some randoms for AGES!
There’s a really strict screening process as we wait to enter the theatre. We’re not allowed large handbags, mobiles or cameras on us when we’re watching the filming. Boo hiss! I want a picture with Shazza Osbourne! So we file in and then get seated and watch the special people around us! It’s full of high school performing kids, who are screaming and hollering at the warm up guy! It’s mental and so damn American! The warm up guy is fairly funny but we have to endure him for at least 2 hours before the real action starts! Before that happens, we get spoken to by the stage manager and some other behind the scenes man who talks through all these staged actions we, as an audience, have to do! Yup, it’s all fake folks!! He made us do the following – imagine cheesy American accent:
1. Act shocked guys, I mean really shocked! You just cant believe what you’re seeing on stage
2. Now act bored. Come on people, really focus on this. Yawn away!
3. This time we want laughter! Think of the funniest thing you’ve seen and laugh away folks
4. Now guys, we want boos! The act up here STINKS and you need to tell them that! Go on and make the X sign! And shout ‘OFF OFF OFF’
5. And finally crazy applause people! Come on, let’s go crazy! We want this act to go all the way to Vegas! It’s the best act you’ve ever seen and they’re gonna win the competition! Whoop, Holler y’all!
So, there you have it! All the reactions you see on TV are staged and edited by the peeps who can….very eye opening!
However, enough of that chat. The fun is about to begin as they bring in the Celebrity Judges – we’re all so excited, even though Dave and Aaron would never admit it! First up it’s Piers Morgan – who has got far too much make up on, then next is Sharon Osbourne, looking oh so glam and then……….THE HOFF!! Haha, this guy is a tool but a bit of a legend it has to be said – he comes down the aisle with his Baywatch jacket, life raft thingy and shades on– haha – what a muppet! They all get seated and then it’s stop, start, stop, start after that for another 3hours! We went in at 12.30 and left the place near 6pm!!!
But I don’t care, it was great to see what really happens behind the scenes. These judges get touched up – make up and hair wise – after EVERY act! Crazy chat! All judges had a bit of idle chat with the crowd but that was in between takes. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to go near them as they were surrounded by bodyguards most of the time! Damn it!
The acts we saw included: roller skating dance troupe, rubbish poet, crazy kite man, a belter of a singer who got all emotional when she got put through, cute wee kids that danced to RUN DMC and a few other freaks that I can’t remember!
All very crazy but I loved it. After that, we had a peek around Macy’s and grabbed some Mexican food for tea. Then it was back to the hostel to get ready and hit the town! LA nightlife here we come – how exciting!
After having a few bevvies in the hostel and getting annoyed by Greasy Paul, we head out around 10pm in a cab towards Sunset Boulevard. We wanted to go to the Dragonfly on Santa Monica, but the cab driver was Armenian and didn’t know where it was! Haha – he was funny chat, apparently had Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart in his cab once…
We get dropped off outside Whiskey a go go – where the Doors were discovered – and then spy The Viper Room across the street! Whoohoo, let’s go see where River Phoenix died of an overdose, how very macabre. Anyway, the place is really small and has a wee stage where some indie type band are playing. I like the atmosphere and it’s a quirky wee place. We stay there for a bit and watch Aaron get more and more tanked. Seriously, he’s turned into a lightweight this holiday! Haha.
Vanstone and I get chatting to the security dudes outside as we want to go for a boogie, they tell us to try up the road in various bars, but they all deny us when they spy our flipflops!! Er hello?! It’s a Monday night AND these are nice pretty flipflops AND I’m wearing a nice dress – raaaaaaaa – poncey American gimps! After being denied by a few swanky places, we end up at Saddler’s Ranch which is a cheesy place and has a mechanical Rodeo bull thing you can ride. Well, us being us we decide to persuade Aaron to do it – haha – he’s so wasted he wont last long! He has a few go’s on it and just goes flying! Bless him...the place shuts at 2am and so we head out onto the street to flag a cab down. After 10 mins we manage to hail one and its another Armenian cab driver - how random! Unfortunately, he doesnt have any famous people chat to entertain us with...but he does like to race blimming motorbikes at traffic lights - argh!!! We get dropped off at the Wendy's up the road for some post drinking grub and we get chatting to some randoms for AGES!
Eventually, we stagger into the hostel and see greasy Paul in the room, who had just got in from his night. He was schmoozing some place else....anyways....Hayley's phone is now working - yay! so we all have a girlie cheer about that but then get promptly told to be quiet by Paul - how rude! He'd only just got into bed - GIMP!
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