The BBC has written to me at home. It was a hand written envelope with a personal note inside from a BBC researcher inviting me to take part in a documentary on people’s attitudes to money and how they spend it.
She assured me that the BBC has “ an impressive track record for producing high standard documentaries.”
My first thought was that I might be an ideal participant …professional executive with penny pinching ways that hark back to my student days when “ The Pauper’s Cookbook “ was my bible. Eyebrows might rise at my efforts to grow my own, recycle and my personal clothes allowance is so small most women would gasp in amazement.
Certainly not what you would expect from a PR exec!
But why put myself through this? Do I really want people sitting at home knowing what my money habits are?
Celebrity trivia is so at the forefront of media content today - who would have thought 5 years ago The Sun would have put as the main front page story, as it did last week, that Lily Allen is “preggers”?
We are being lured into a culture of exposing every aspect of our lives ….be it on twitter, facebook or national TV.
From my experience broadcast programmes have largely written the plot before filming starts and the “guinea pig” simply has to fit into the strands of the story.
So while I may make fascinating TV fodder, I’ll give this one a wide berth.
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