CHANGING ROOMS

Hi, the one and only Agent DeLunTrash here.

Hows it going?

A few months ago whilst watching the Lexus Sunday theatre, Celia saw an advertisment looking for people to partake in everyones favourite �renovate a room� show, Changing Rooms. Inspired by this, Celia wrote to Carol Smilie from the BBC to ask if perhaps her and her team of jolly (yet skIlled) handymen and decorators would like to come and work their magic on the St.Albans office.

A few months (not to mention seven rounds of golf, three slumber parties and seven thousand pounds) later, Carol called to let us know that she and the team would be over within the week to film the much to be hyped, CeliaSays Christmas Changing Rooms Special. (YAY!)

Now Tom (Hanks that is), as I�m sure you are aware, has been happily plodding away at renovating the office over the last few months. Quite understandably, he was a bit upset, to say the least when he heard of us calling the celebrity professionals in. Okay, so he totally spat the dummy. But a quiet chat from Celia soon turned something resembling The Incredible Hulk back into what we like to call �our Tom�. How did she do it? I hear you ask. Well, we agreed that Tom could be the second designer on the show. Crafty, eh?

We had decided to renovate the stables and the second dining room.

So Carol, Andy (Handy Andy that is) and Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen arrived late afternoon with their entorage of attractive groupies and team of 108 technical crew. You know what happens next. (if you�ve never seen the show, it goes like this: Alright, so there are two sets of contestants who swap rooms and are given some fantastically ourageous, full of crap designer. Each designer tells the contestants what �theme� they have in mind. The designer opens up a can of ugy paint with a screwdriver, the contestants gasp and screw up their faces. They then have two days to re-decorate their designated room supposedly whilst keeping to a budget. While all this happenes Handy Andy moans and makes some shelving units while Carol makes cushion covers and curtains whilst still finding time to wander around generally getting in everyones way. At the end of the two days the designers pretend to be worried abot being six pounds fourty five pence over buget as each team is led back into their own room with closed eyes. They are then revealed their rooms. The women cry, the men stay silent, then the other contestants run in with the designers who pop open the champage. They all hug and laugh and I presume proceed to get a littlle bit tipsy. Roll credits. Wow that was longer than I expected.

And this is the point where I begin get bored and decide to insert a whole load of pictures of our two days of fun complete with nice little captions�

I'll tell you what, whilst looking, why not hum the opening theme tune. It's fun, I'm doing it now, trust me, I am.

CELIASAYS DOES
CHANGING ROOMS

This is the publicity photo that we got sent upon the acceptance of our application. Handy Andy later informed me that Julia Roberts took this picture. (TEE HE HE)

Here's Carol. She's painting the roof of the stable. Ofcourse, she was using the wrong colour. It was meant to be "Steamboat Blue". Nobody had the heart to tell her the truth. So what did we do? We got up at 3am to paint over it. She never noticed.

Here is Lawrence in what was the dining room. He thoughtfully took into consideration the nights of planned activities that Tom organises for us and so turned it into a much needed disco/ karaoke room. Something that Celia had actually previoulsy considered only last year. Wow, what a coincidence. Lawrence described thsi room as "Simply cosmic."

Handy Andy actually has a team of bonafide craftsmen to do all the work for him. I dicovered that all he actually does is drink cups of tea and play a stupid game which involves hin hiding behind doors and jumping out at people holding a drill just inches from their faces. He finds it hillarious. You try telling that to Tom who screamed so loudly he didn't regain his voice for two days. Celia banned himfrom the house for a whole afternoon as a result. Here he is mid-flight. Ha ha and ha. Stupid man.

So there we have it. Changing Rooms, CeliaSays style. You can expect to see it on NZ screens in 2-3 years. If you can't wait that long it will be released on both video and DVD. I suggest you get the DVD. It has deleted scenes which involve a food fight and everyone doing the karaoke Grease mega-mix, not to mention the audio commenty featuring myself, Carol and Andy.

It was fun, but in the world of CeliaSays, it was just another couple of days at work.

Abrazos!

Agent DeLunTrash xxx

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