Hi all, just found you guys when I was browsing around on Digital Spy. You seem like a friendly bunch and I love love love this show !

I auditioned last week in Manchester and I'm sure there must be a few of you lot who did too so I thought it would be useful to have a thread where if you are lucky enough to get the call you could let the rest of us know and we can therefore get back to our real lives and stop staring at our phones willing them to ring

Hi to all , and good luck to all those that auditionned, Neefs xxx

It's no good telling me you were auditioning last week - do you think I have a time machine in my garage or something?

Bugger.

I bet the waiting list is HUGE too!

Sorry Mickey

I wish I could help - I can still get access to this page http://www.channel4.com/4money/ontv/deal_or_no_deal/apply.html but maybe thats cos I saved it !! There will be more auditions at some point I'm sure as this show will run and run !

Good luck, Neefs x

Hi neefs, my wife also auditioned in Manchester last tuesday. She was filmed and the tapes sent off to London to be reviewed by the shows producer. So we are hoping she may be chosen! We were told 220 people were to be chosen out of 900 who auditioned over the two days, this was to have enough contestants for the rest of the year

Hi again neefs.
We were wondering if you read the terms and conditions on the application form at the audition as my wife (Jane) was too nervous and excited to take them in! Did u notice anything to worry about ( like signing to work for endomol for the rest of her life ) or was there nothing to worry about?

What she has signed is a pro forma to release what she films for the sum of £1 . Basically its a token gesture to get around some legal stuff I think. She has also signed a confidentiality agreement that states that she will not reveal ANYTHING about the show before it is aired and also about any other secrets she learns whilst there - basically any spoilers.

None of the finer details were filled in and if she does get onto the show I'm sure if she requested to see the terms and conditions again there would be no problem. I had a quick scan through and it seemed pretty standard legalese - and there was no print that was significally smaller than the rest

I hear there were also auditions in London at the same time - but they are casting for a whole heap of shows, and aparently it was an achievement to get there in the first place as 15,000 or so applications are on their books at the moment (he may have been exaggerating lol) but if you were told 220 out of 900 - I'm loving those odds !! Theyre much better than I thought they would be

Wish your wife good luck from me
Neefs x

Hi neefs! Hi everybody!
thi is Jane, wife of sparkychris! Thanks so much for your comments neefs..... feel much more relieved now as I thought I could be signing up for anything! :wink: was just sooooooo excited on the day that I must confess to just skipping through that form. Naughty me!! Like you, I am hanging around the telephone a lot these days!!!! How did you feel your audition went and what kind of thing did they ask you? I was in there for about 5 mins and they aked me to talk about myself (that all came out like a runaway train! ), then what the banker would make of me, did I consider myself lucky, what did I think I could bring to the show, what did I do, etc. I was aware of how nervous I was but I didn't feel too phased by the filming. The whole day was absolutely fantastic, whatever the outcome!!!! ..... having said that though, I reeeeaaaaaallllly hope they call!!!! VERY good luck neefs and let me know how you get on!
Is there anyone else reading these message boards who has recently had an audition too? Good luck everyone!!!!!!!!

hi again neefs - when dya find out whether you got on?

i wish i could enter but im underage. .

Jonny - if we get on ..... who knows when we find out ? It could be today, tomorrow or in a months time. It all depends on when they review our tapes. Thats why I set this thread up as then when I hear that others have got it I can give up hope and get on with my real life ...... after feeling sick for a few days of course ha ha What I do know is that they are casting for people to run till June but I think they'll want to line people up way beforehand.

Jane - I think my audition was ok - but doesn't everyone ? The guy laughed when he was checking over my form so who knows. I waffled on for ages during the interview and the girls that did it were really nice - i think they had a set list of questions to ask and if you gave a certain answer then they had another etc. eg : If I had any unfulfilled dreams? and I said to travel and work in Aus/Nz. Then they asked if I would do it alone and I said yes ! I'm not sure if this is the right answer - if they are looking for independant thinkers or ones that will ask the group ?? To be honest we could spend every hour of the next week analysing what we wrote/did/said and still be no closer to knowing !!

All we can do is wish each other luck and pretend we're not thinking about it when we drift off to dreamland at work



Neefs xx

you are absolutely right neef, all we can do is (un)patiently wait and keep our fingers crossed that the phone WILL ring and that we CAN get through the day until that happens,.... if it does!!!!
And, you're right, we could annalise the audition forever but we still won't know what they are looking for,.... it was such a fantastic day!!!!!!
Finger crossed for everyone who entered that day and we will all either celebrate together or console each other!
Jane xx

Is it only me and Jane that have been for an audition recently ?
Surely there must be others that have been - aparently there were over a million applications and a thousand or so interviewees ???
Come on Show yourselves

Neefs

hi neef and jane I had an audition at Man at 12 thought it went ok. Got my fingers tightly crossed and praying i get on but not pinning my hopes on it. I was really nervous came out of the audition not really knowing what they were looking for. They did ask me what part i would play in the group and I said I would motivate people don't know if thats what they wanted to hear but i did my best and enjoyed the day. 55,000 people applyied so we did well to get a audition not to sure if i do it again because it i dont get on will be disappointed. If anyone gets a call please let us know good luck to us all

each dark week - when noel has a rest and the contestants have a rest, they interview approx 900 at each regional centre across the uk - that way they have a regional mix of colour , accent ,age sex etc. out of that 900 they choose approx 6 people- my friend told me this when she was interviewed in bristol in december, they informed her 5 days later that she would be filming in january. she also said that they have currently 75,000 applications on file.

this is all second hand - make of it what you will, but it does have the ring of truth.

she also said that they are not looking for luvvies just ordinary people with a story to tell.

Thanks for the info ! 900 people every third week ??? My goodness but thats a task !! And only 6 people ? Well, we will all just have to wait and see. To be honest I've had to try and ignore it all a bit because if I don't then I will be torturing myself for weeks, and I'll never get any uni work done ~ no change there though

I heard from a couple of ex contestants that their call came a few weeks later so we still have hope ?? But I really think its a very slim chance as everyone in the country seems to have applied to get on ha ha ha

Good Luck greeniedeb, we all have the same chance, and analysing your interview will only cause mental anguish and we will probably never know exactly what they are looking for as i'm sure its a wide range of profiles that we could never make ourselves fit if we don't already !!

Its a game of luck all round really - luck to get on and luck with the boxes. Analyasis is pointless

neefs i think the worse thing about it is that they only tell us if we get on the show. I try not to think about the audition but when i watch and see people winning lots of money it makes my agony worse wondering if they have picked me and im willing the phone to ring. I think im getting obessed so i be glad when the timescale is over so i can get on with my life anyway gotta get ready for a night shift good luck

I went for my audition in London three weeks ago and still haven't heard anything
I feel the same, neefs, I keep watching the show and thinking will the phone ring. I would just like to know when they will let people know? As three weeks have past then I feel like hope is slipping away although I have heard that it could be months as they will let people know on an 'as and when' basis. Has anyone who auditioned at the begiining of February in London or Manchester heard anything?

catgirl - I think there were about 4/5 weeks between my audition and hearing that they wanted me (though that was over Xmas).

But as you say, they do call people 'as and when'. I gather they have completed casting up to around May which probably means up to about Sept/Oct in show terms.

Apparently all the various members of staff who do the auditions all have their own shortlists and then they "do battle" with these in front of the producers. Then Endemol hierarchy and Channel 4 itself have to approve selected contestants so it's no wonder there's a fair wait.

All the best!

Aaron (1st show next Wed )

Hi Aaron

Thank you so much for your quick reply. I guess I should probably hear back then within the next couple of weeks if I have got on so fingers crossed. Whatever happens, I really enjoyed the audition and I love watching the show so nothing ventured....I look forward to seeing you on the show next Wednesday - are you able to say how you got on? I guess not until it has been screened but did you enjoy the whole experience?

Catgirl

You've hit the nail on the head there - "Nothing ventured ........"
That was my philosophy when I applied

Still keeping my fingers crossed for everyone, 2 weeks and counting here

Neefs xxx

ps. My drunken friends sugessted sending the production staff pictures of my boobs as that would get me on no worries ........ I think they had too much vodka - what do you think ?