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Day one done and I did better than I thought I would. But my expectations couldn't be lower! It was a long day - pick up at the hotel at 6.15am and back at the hotel at 5.30pm. But don't ever let anyone who works in front of the cameras on TV shows complain about hard work. It was really hard work though.
The day was very like when you have one of those dreams where you suddenly have to sit your A levels again, but you can't remember any of the coursework. Also it was like a dream because the room was full of an unusual grouping of celebrities. Only a dream or a TV booker could throw something like this together.
It's a nice bunch of people. Hooray.
Hold on, also I was recording a TV show. This was definitely a dream, wasn't it?
Anyway I avoided all the snacks, chose the healthy lunch option and refused the sticky toffee pudding.
Now no spoilers if you recognise the following-
The bathroom at the shooting venue was unusual in that it was a single lockable room, but it didn't just have a toilet, but two urinals. I guess if a family was coming in that this might be helpful, but unless you were very good friends you probably wouldn't get a situation where all three toilets were being used at once.
Even more unusually one of the urinals was for women. Or I guess anyone who wanted to sit down to wee but didn't fancy using the actual toilet. I have never seen this before. And the fact that there were instructions for use on the wall suggests that not many other people have either.
What a world we live in.
There's also a helpful bit of advice on the wall "Remember not to leave your baby unattended at any time." It's an easy thing to forget, so it's great to have reminders. Especially in a non-communal toilet. You can get bedazzled by the extra urinals. And then intrigued by the sitdown urinal. And then you walk out with your baby still on the changing table.
Must have happened. Or there wouldn't be a sign.
