I am very excited for my wife who is about to audition for DOND and really hoping that she is successful applicant! (fingers crossed! )
I have been wondering how they record the shows?..... from reading all your messages here, especially those of Mally, it seems it is three shows a day. Is this done at weekends or do contestants go down in the week for the recordings? She is really excited about the audition and if anyone has any other experiences they may be ble to share with us, that would be great! Cheers! Chris

Hi this is Arlette, a past contestant, I had my audition up in London - then weeks went by and I was called to say "would I like to go on", spent about 10 days in Bristol, they do film 3 shows a day, I stayed in a different hotel than they do now, "good luck to your wife". We all had a great time and lots of friendships are formed. Tell her to bring comfortable shoes as there is a lot of standing to do. Apart from that, let her be herself - enjoy and hopefully win something which is a bonus. They don't film at the weekends, so you get to go home or as my family did came to visit and stayed with me.

Sparkychris

Nice to hear wife has an audition for the show, hope it goes OK and she gets to play

Let us know how it goes and if she gets to play.....

just tell her to be herself and she wount go wrong , good luck , belive me it will be the best thrill of her life , just ask arlette what its like , good luck

Good luck to your wife Chris, hope she gets on!

Hi everyone!! This is Jane, the wife of sparkychris and thanks so much for all your replies to him!! Am really excited bout the audition in 10 days and any advise helps!
Thanks for telling us bout the experience down in Bristol, Arlette, and it sounds like you were down ther for quite some time! Did you have to take time off work for that and is everyone there for so long? How amazing and exciting!!!!
Do many people take their partners with them for the whole time? (have seen them sitting in the audience quite often, so I guess so)?
And,..... is Mr Banker reading what we sy so tht he can suss us out even BEFORE we audition!!??? Hahahahahaha!
Take care everyone and thnks again for your great help! It's good to talk to the pros!!!!

Dear SpikyChris's wife
Although I was there for 10 days you film 3 shows a day so that means at least 15 shows a week, I was on and off quite quickly, the others went back after Christmas from 8 January and were there for a little while to continue filming. Some take their partners for the whole time, yours will not be allowed into the audition. Best of luck - Arlette.

How did your wife get the audition?