{"id":153058,"date":"2020-07-20T15:55:02","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T13:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/07\/20\/timmy-mallett-and-michaela-strachan-how-we-made-wide-awake-club\/"},"modified":"2020-07-20T15:55:02","modified_gmt":"2020-07-20T13:55:02","slug":"timmy-mallett-and-michaela-strachan-how-we-made-wide-awake-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=153058","title":{"rendered":"Timmy Mallett and Michaela Strachan: how we made Wide Awake Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018We\u2019d start the show by sliding down a tube. Timmy would fart in it to put us off\u2019I was studying musical theatre at the ArtsEd school in London and got picked to join a dance troupe called Wacky Feet, for the Wide Awake Club pilot. I went on to do Seven Brides for Seven Brothers in the West End, then I heard that TV-am were looking for new children\u2019s presenters. At the audition I sang The Chicken Song from Spitting Image waving a rubber chicken in the air. They must have thought, \u201cShe\u2019s completely bonkers,\u201d which was exactly what they were looking for. So I joined in 1986, at the age of 20. I was still doing Seven Brides. I had to be in TV-am by 3.30 in the morning, then do matinee and evening performances at the theatre. Oh, for the energy of youth. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2020\/jul\/20\/wide-awake-club-timmy-mallett-michaela-strachan\" target=\"_blank\">Timmy Mallett and Michaela Strachan: how we made Wide Awake Club<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018We\u2019d start the show by sliding down a tube. Timmy would fart in it to put us off\u2019I was studying musical theatre at the ArtsEd school in London and got picked to join a dance troupe called Wacky Feet, for the Wide Awake Club pilot. I went on to do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}