How to Fail in a Reality TV Audition

How I managed to get an audition for ‘Blind Date’ … and then blow it.

We’re not talking ‘recent’ here.

This was way, way back in 1990. I think it’s taken me this long to come to terms with it. I’m genuinely embarrassed about it and write this self deprecating story as an attempt at a sort of penance and cathartic cleansing.

In those days, a notice was posted in a local newspaper inviting people to apply, either by turning up at a specific location where there was an…