{"id":225,"date":"2008-09-17T07:01:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T07:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/?p=225"},"modified":"2009-03-04T15:29:48","modified_gmt":"2009-03-04T15:29:48","slug":"uk-gladiators-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/17\/uk-gladiators-application\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Gladiators Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned last week, <strong>I applied for Gladiators series 2<\/strong> on Friday. The application took about 3 hours to complete starting from scratch, including finding all the bits so of personal and medical information I needed as I needed it. E.g. name, address and contact number of my Doctors.<\/p>\n<p>Half the application detailed typical stuff around personal details, although there were a few oddities such as asking for educational achievements. I\u2019m not sure how that\u2019s possibly relevant, unless there\u2019s some potential for more entertaining TV there?<\/p>\n<p>And that really is the rub with these applications I think. At the end of the day, this is a TV show that\u2019s longevity is dictated by its ratings, which basically means they want entertaining competitors. I predict that as the show goes on, <strong>the competitors selected will become more and more extreme<\/strong> in an attempt to forestall the inexorable ratings slide.<\/p>\n<p>The second part of the application was all about personality and so obviously is the hardest bit to fill in (insert personality related joke here!). <strong>These were the pertinent questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What clubs do you belong to?<\/li>\n<li>What was your greatest sporting achievement?<\/li>\n<li>What would your Gladiator name be?<\/li>\n<li>If there was a film of your life, which actor would play you?<\/li>\n<li>What is you ambition in life?<\/li>\n<li>What is your proudest achievement?<\/li>\n<li>What are your three greatest fears?<\/li>\n<li>What would winning Gladiators mean to you?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s the most embarrassing thing you have ever done?<\/li>\n<li>What is your biggest regret?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They are all pretty tough, you don\u2019t want to come over as too obvious, e.g. <strong>putting down Brad Pit as the actor to play you<\/strong>, or picking a Gladiator name that has been used before, and yes I did check the history of American gladiator names to be sure!<\/p>\n<p>As with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/25\/my-esa-astronaut-application\/\">the ESA Astronauts application<\/a>, if there\u2019s demand for it, I will post my answers up here once there is no need for me to be coy, i.e. I either get through or don\u2019t. So if you want to see them, let me know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>STOP THE PRESS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">I&#8217;ve been invited to try out in Manchester next Wednesday!!<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let you know how it goes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned last week, I applied for Gladiators series 2 on Friday. The application took about 3 hours to complete starting from scratch, including finding all the bits so of personal and medical information I needed as I needed it. E.g. name, address and contact number of my Doctors. Half the application detailed typical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[149,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-225","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-crossfit","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-gladiators-audition","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}