Does anyone else wonder what life is like for ordinary people who've been gunged or gotten messy on TV on stuff like GYOB or NHP or any of the other shows where it was standard?

What's it like going about your daily life, knowing your humiliation was seen by millions of people?

Did they hear about it endlessly from folks for years afterwards?

Do they know how their moment has been seen innumerable times by a niche fandom who regard it as a pivotal moment in their development?

It's something I've been wondering a bit recently

Interesting thread.

I always wondered how gunged guests on live shows like Noels House Party who got impromptu gunged how they got home if they didn't have a change of clothes.

Widgy

Great thread - remember one similar a while back.

In GYOB, I think they were transported to the showers by some sort of laundry basket. There was a behind the scenes segment where Dick from Dick and Dom was seen being wheeled away from the Dunk Tank having been dunked in a laundry basket on wheels.

For Live and Kicking it seems the gungee was given a dressing gown to wear on the way to the showers. There was the picture of Lee from Blue doing this with the gunge scrapped out his hair, but you can still see it clinging to his black shiny Adidas kit. Great pic and it must of been fun walking around all squelchy.

For NHP, the grunge tank was revolved around out of sight, so I'd imagine it was a case of scrapping as much gunge off and then heading to the showers straightaway.

Would love it if anyone on here could give further insight.

I'm not sure that they'd necessarily consider it "humiliation". I think that for most people this would just be a minor embarrassment at the time, but not something where they'd cringe at the memory years later.

Take out the mess, and imagine that they'd been on some other TV program (e.g. "Antiques Roadshow"). They might mention it nowadays as a minor claim to fame, but the novelty would wear off pretty quickly. I suspect that they'd get a few comments from friends/family for about a week afterwards ("Hey, I saw you on TV last weekend!") but that would be it.


Probably not, and I suspect they'd be a bit creeped out if they knew.

I've wondered about this a bit recently. I posted something about people who were the victims of set up gungings and how they'd been afterwards, particularly if the victim really didn't take it very well (which was very rare in most cases). I think most of the victims were probably teased about it for a bit and then life went on as normal. In fact, I read a comment on one of the videos of a NHP "trip round the house" gunging that was written by the man on the receiving end. He said that he found it a big laugh and he was given a clean up and a change of clothes afterwards.
I sometimes wonder what I would have been like if I'd been set up on a TV gunging. If it had been during the NHP era, when I was an anxiety ridden teenager, I'd have been traumatised and might never have left the house again. Nowadays I don't know how I would react, but probably less dramatically than my teens.

When I was a teenager, I actually had a phobia that I'd get picked on and dumped in mud or pied or something, and be the focus of attention and humiliation. My fear was that I'd be excited and people would notice. So instead of 'oh shit, I'm all muddy - ha ha ha' it would be 'Hey look, he's liking it so much he's got a hard-on'. Either that or 'look how red he is getting. He must secretly like it or something'. At any rate, my secret life of a wammer would be exposed and I'd be horrified at everyone realizing I was a freak. Of course, now I know we're not freaks.

I agree with Flank, I doubt it would be any kind of humiliation to most people, more like just crazy and unusual fun, with the added bonus of actually being on TV in an era when that was still very rare for ordinary people. The show producers would also try and weed out anyone with an obvious humiliation reaction, they'd want fun, "party people" types who would entertain the audience.

Of course back then there was no publicly accessible Internet so niche fetishes were much more niche and very unlikely to be discovered, even in the sex business. I rememner once asking a video dealer in Amsterdam, back about 1991, who had lots of naked oil wrestling videos on display, if he had any fully clothed ones - he looked at me like I'd asked for a deep-fried badger in chocolate sauce. Nowadays niches are a lot less niche, but unless the person taking part happens to have someone into WAM in their social circle it probably won't occur to them. How subsequently finding out might affect them, that's going to vary massively person to person. But at the same time, almost anything someone does on TV is probably going to be a fetish to someone, somewhere. Dancing in tight shiny clothes? Wearing leather? Climbing a ladder? Milking a cow? Rule 34 and all that.

There was a local media follow-up to one gungeing. Tracy, the extremely cute secretary who kept playing practical jokes at work, and was nominated for a surprise trip to the NHP gunge tank, was in the local newspaper the following day, with grinning workmates and a bunch of flowers they'd bought as some sort of compensation.

I followed Annabel Giles on twitter for a while and she was asked to RT an advert for a gunge tank or gunge event, which she did, and I saw a couple of guys asking her how it felt being gunged, with a kind of creepy vibe about, and she ignored them I think. It must have been years since she was gunged on NHP, as revenge because she spotted that she was being setup for a gotcha Oscar.
Was a great hunting, wearing sheer black hosiery and boots.

I read that on a show like What Would You Do, they didn't have changes of clothes or anything. They mostly just pied people and gave contestants access to a shower/hosing off and they just went home very wet. I guess that's not so different from riding the wet rides at Disney (which I love lol).

Thinking about this a bit more, I recently read an interview with someone who had a small role in the original "Ghostbusters" film (from 1984). There's a scene right at the start, where Venkman is doing an experiment with 2 college students, asking them to guess cards and giving electric shocks for wrong answers.

The actor playing the female student was on screen for about 2 minutes, but she didn't appear in the rest of the film. She said in the interview that she was recognised in the street for years afterwards. However, I think the key point is that it's a popular film, which people have seen multiple times. (Chances are, some of you can visualise the person I'm talking about without re-watching the scene.)

By contrast, each episode of NHP was shown once and never repeated. Similarly, there were no box-set DVD collections of an entire series. So, the vast majority of people either saw it once or never saw it at all; for the people who saw it once, their memories would fade. (How well do you remember anyone who appeared in the non-gunge segments of the episodes?)

Whilst not on the same scale as a TV gunging - my school had a tradition each year of a Christmas show where every year a couple of guys would be called onto stage and messed up in some way. Most of them were very good sports about it, had a bit of teasing for a couple of weeks afterwards but nothing too long term.
One year a guy had cheated with the girlfriend of one of the performers and so got it a lot worse, a bucket of flour over his head followed by a bucket of water. He was forever known as 'Slimer' after that

I never really though it was random for some reason I always though everybody knew it was about to happen especially if it was an tv or a public thing