Being filmed for Channel 5

After a rotten night's sleep (it's amazing how noisy night time in London is compared to the peace of an evening in Manchester) I got up about 2 hours before the camera crew were turning up to film my intro for the Channel 5 show where Martin Lewis (the very sexy money expert from GMTV who I've fancied for ages) shows me how to get cut price gym membership thanks to Prudential Health Insurance.

I'd just got myself and the flat looking half decent when they arrived and they set up the camera and sound equipment to film my bit. I sat on the sofa (if they'd known the action that sofa has seen they might have wanted to put down a top sheet first) and got miked up.

Even though the self shooting P/D (Producer/Director) was asking the questions I had to respond the the AP (Assistant Producer) who was sitting by the camera to give me a good eye line. It helped that the AP was quite easy on the eye.

We ran through a couple of lines and I'm proud to say that they were really impressed with how well I did and it was pretty much one take per section. You'd have thought I'd done this kind of thing before.

Then we did a few cutaways of me typing, looking at the Prudential website as I looked up my quote and some shots of my face, eyes and fingers on the keyboard and mouse. Then we did some other cut aways of me flicking through Men's Health 'looking for tips on how to get a better body'.

It was all quite fun and I admit it was nice to be back in front of the camera again. The last time I did anything like that was my Optimax laser vision correction advert a few years back.

So off they went to their next bit of the shoot at a gym and I played some online scrabble with my friend Eric. I tried to get hold of Clive to see if he wanted to go to lunch but he wasn't answering his phone so I got a pizza from the freezer and went to the shop downstairs for a bottle of wine. The guy behind the counter asked how I was and when I was coming back to London full time so I said it might be soon. He said that he'd seen men with camera equipment going in the door earlier on and asked what that was all for. I told him but I'm sure he just thought I was filming porn from the look on his face.

Then after watching a bit of Will and Grace while having a couple of glasses of wine with my pizza I decided to head into town and see what trouble I can get into in Soho of a Friday night.

We'll see shall we?