SOS Island Boot Camp Day 5: D-DAY
Friday 5th October 2013Of the 16 people to do boot camp, only 8 will make it to SOS Island itself. Today's the day we find out who made the cut.…
SOS Island Boot Camp Day 4: FOOD
Thursday 4th October 2013With shelter, water and fire done, today's task was obviously going to be FOOD!!I shot this vid last night as a bit of a trailer:https://youtu.be/Q52bBmOGTP4And then I…
SOS Island Boot Camp Day 3: FIRE
Wednesday 3rd October 2013Sort of getting into the hang of things now, although everything is exhausting and hot and sweaty and hard. But, come on, this is survival-lite: we stay…
SOS Island Boot Camp Day 2: WATER
Tuesday 1st October 2013So then. We built a decent shelter yesterday but Les thought it was too big. But then he's probably never woken to find himself BAKED in a…
SOS Island Boot Camp Day 1: SHELTER
Monday 30th September 2013Day One started a bit like this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCjLS4lLBWMThen this happened:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS8yaHtl_UsAnd then we went LIVE TO THE WORLD!! Sadly, the official Boot Camp videos are no longer available on…
SOS Island | Introductions
Sunday was spent getting to know the other contestants - Murad from Jordan, Veronica from Italy, Rosa from Texas, Brittany from LA, Robin from Sweden, Chris from LA, Kalyn from Canada, Liron from Israel, Tom from Perth, Alex from Moscow, Tan from Sydney, Natalie from Brighton, Jo from South Africa, Karen from Boston and the aforementioned Mert from Istanbul.
SOS Island | Help make me a winner!!!
Saturday 28th September 2013So that’s New York out of the way, time to get ready for the next thing: SAMSUNG’S SOS ISLAND!! So here’s the deal: 16 contestants are flown…
I Was On CBS This Morning This Morning
With consummate (freakish?) professionalism, I awoke 30 seconds before my alarm went off at 6.30am. After a quick shower and change of clothes, I made my blood sacrifices to Bacchus, jumped in the waiting limo and sped off towards the CBS Broadcast Centre. I was met at the door and taken up to the newsfloor. Now this is more like it! A nice big studio for me to run about. The warehouse-y interiors looked a bit like my old office in Liverpool. I was a bit disappointed to discover that the brickwork wasn’t real, but this is television, folks! IT’S ALL MADE OF MAGIC.
Hell’s Noodles
Monday 23rd September 2013 - Part 2RANT ALERT!!Today involved a LOT of scooting around on the New York Subway system.When I was here back in the summer of 1999 (to…
Graham’s Ghostbusters Tour of New York
Monday 23rd September 2013 - Part 1Today I paid homage to the most New York of all New York films: Ghostbusters. The timeless story of four schlubby pest control operatives…