Thanks to x_moonshine_x for allowing me to post her story of what happen at the secret party, and there are some piccies too.
I’m presuming I’m the only one from here who went seeing as no one else has posted anything up yet…
Anyway, had a fantastic day and here’s a slightly shortened version of the account I just posted in my journal as well as a few pics! Enjoy! =)
We begin our tale in Bristol train station when we ran to the loos to change and ended up touching up our make-up with another 15 girls or so. Not too obvious at all where we were all heading to. Once we were done reapplying lip-gloss and fluffing up our hair we headed outside the station to wait for the E4 people to pick us up, as planned, and vetted our company for the day.
The guys from E4 turned up, as well as the coaches, and we were ushered into two groups to queue up while we were crossed off the register and our IDs were checked. Well, not everyone’s ID, apparently there was no way on earth we needed to prove we were over 18, it was plainly obvious and man, I feel old.
The guyE4 guy handed us all poker chips as we made our way onto the coach – they were in exchange for drinks, food and ice-cream – as well as a disclaimer where we all proceeded to sign our lives away (it’s not like we had any clue what all the gibberish meant).We were driven to the secret location, which happened to be an old derelict church/cathedral that had been pimped out like a club. The walls were scrawled with graffiti, there were massive balloons everywhere, a couple of bars, disco lights, a stage, a load of antique style chairs, several suits of amour, as well as a huge velvet draped bed and a load of massive cushions underneath a tent-like canopy.
After dropping our bags off at the cloak room we decided we better head to the loos before they started filming and passed Mr. Joe Dempsey on our way. Once we were out of his earshot we were squeeing like a couple of school girls on speed lol, it doesn’t take much, does it?
When we got back inside they were setting up a couple of shots, getting ready to film and taking pictures of the cast over on the bed . The crew and so on picked off around half of the crowd and placed them behind the cast, before quickly deciding they wanted a few over on the bed because you could see it in shot as well. Myself and my mate were grabbed, as well as around 6 others. We really went for it, only to fall over in a heap when they shouted cut and get yelled at (in a jokey way) by the director for getting overexcited lol. They did another take and we, umm, sort of wrecked the bed in the process by jumping up and down – the sheets ended up all over the place.
The director then told the cast to go over and relax on the bed and we all looked at each other before shuffling quite unceremoniously to the edges to make space. They decided not to sit with us though and instead hung around in the chairs just beside it. A couple of minutes later several people stood near them started asking for pics and stuff and I suddenly found myself rather desperate for a pic with Mitch. Like I was going to miss out on the opportunity if others were doing it! I didn’t get the chance then, but a couple of the girls sat on the bed with us called him over for a pic and he ended up sat there with us for like 15 minutes. Dev came over and just had to comment on the fact he was in bed with 8 girls lol.
While all of this was happening April was stood beside us, posing for pics in a massive gold picture frame and soon Larissa came to join her. Once they were done, they sat down on top of the bar for a while before Larissa rather ungracefully fell off it and announced, ‘I was showing you what not to do!’
They were all called for filming again and we were joined by Kaya and Daniel (Effy and Kenneth) for a while. Shortly after that one of the crew told us off for lounging around and made us get up and dance… oopsie lol. So we got up and threw ourselves into it, along with Kaya and Daniel and one of the guys who plays one of Jal’s brothers. Daniel wrecked his army hat in the process before quickly realising it doubled up as a balaclava and getting it stuck on his head. We all fell around laughing for five minutes.
A couple more shots were filmed, which involved Joe walking around the place and finding all of his fellow cast members, who were dotted around all over the shop. We moved to the front, right up by the stage, for this bit. The director lost a couple of the cast at this point, including Mike lol.
Oh yeah, I suppose I should mention the fact that Nick and Hannah weren’t filming on Thursday, but more about that later… Draw your own conclusions.
They wrapped up filming for around 5pm and then brought a DJ on when the actual party started – the alcohol came out then, including this funky vodka cocktail they were serving out of huge bathtubs behind the bar. We decided to grab an orange juice first and headed outside for some air, where we found Mitch chatting to a couple of others. My mate kept telling me to go over, but yeah, I was scared, I’ll admit it haha! It’d been over a year since I’d gone up to a celeb and asked for a pic, I was out of practise…
After she suggested going and getting a proper drink for Dutch courage, I told her I was building up to it and then managed to catch his eye and finally ask him. He was really lovely actually, rather soft spoken and kept stroking my arm. River took the picture and he then triple checked that I was OK with it, all the while touching my arm and stroking my back and I was willing him to stop before I jumped him. He headed off then to do a couple of interviews and I don’t think I’ve been that happy in a long while lmao.
The party itself was a right laugh, everyone went a little crazy and as my mate said, it was so incredibly Skins. There was one guy wandering around for the majority of it with a lampshade on his head, people were throwing rugs around and glitter and at one point there was even a American Pie: The Wedding style dance off. Now that was great, bloody hilarious! Those guys deserve a medal for that!
Grabbed a couple of pictures with Joe (sort of overwhelmed and not at all how I imagined him) and Mike (we both look like raging alcoholics), and we also happened to stumble across Nick on our search for Mike. He’d obviously only just come in because no one had really noticed him yet, so we decided to go over.
I’d just asked him for a picture when someone thrust a phone into his hand wanting him to talk to their friend, he ran out because he couldn’t hear and promised he’d be back. A part of me thought he wouldn’t come back, but he did and put his arm around me straight away. I hate him; he must be the tallest man on earth. We had a bit of trouble deciding whether the picture had taken or not, which involved me jumping back in the picture as the flash went off for a second time and Nick was laughing. My mate asked him why he hadn’t been filming and he said they hadn’t wanted him and admitted he’d come for the free bar. We also saw Hannah walking around with April later in the evening but she didn’t hang around long.
Mitch got completely trashed, or so it seemed. He came racing into the main room at one point with Kaya slung over his shoulder and ran straight into the middle of the crowd. He was jumping up and down and shouting and acting like a complete head case to be honest, the same with Daniel lol. We got the proof when we saw him talking, blurry eyed, to one of the cameras later on.
Come almost 8:30pm we decided to get our bags and jackets and headed to get the coach, we were so tired by then it was untrue and we were meant to be going out in Bristol for a while, too.
Anyway, pics anyone? Sorry about the quality of the majority of these, we’re having evil e-mailing problems, and also, don’t look at me in my pic with Nick, just look at him, keep looking at him…
