How many people in the US have “been on tv”. There Isaacs got in my hometown who’s whole identity is that he was a contestant on a committe cooking show. I’m trying to gauge how common it is for a random person that you might meet at a bar to have been on TV. By this I mean:
- non actors
- not the news -not just in the audience
I think that predominantly leaves game show contestants and reality tv show contestants. What do you think?
I, random internet stranger, was a featured extra on an episode of America’s Most Wanted in 1988 (I can not find the episode online though). There’s 1 for ya.
I did a fair amount of hitch hiking along the west coast last summer. A shockingly large number of people in SoCal told me about their 15 minutes of fame. One guy was one of the CGI pirates from pirates of the Caribbean 3, another had done fairly well in some game show I can’t remember, but the wildest was Jake and Logan Paul’s dad. North of the Sierria Nevada those stories dropped off quickly.
I was on TV a bunch in college when I was in marching band and we’d get airtime coming into and out of commercial breaks. Does that count?
I got interviewed on the local news once about a visiting animal expert when I was in elementary school, best I got. I don’t really remember much about it other than getting to pet a boa constrictor and the light on the camera being very bright.
I knew a girl who was on one of those “ghost hunter” type shows, as one of the locals they interview at the beginning who tell the story of the ghost in whatever building they’re investigating.
She wasn’t a local, she was on vacation there wandering around and they asked her if she wanted to be on the show and then they just told her what the story was and she repeated it back to them on camera like it was some sort of local legend lol.