60 Minute Makover

[fairy!]

I watched 60 Minute Makeover 3 times last week on ITV1 (they do up rooms in peoples houses)... one day the makeover was �19,000 the next it was �18,000 & the next it was �12,000... who pays??

[Loosehead]

The TV company, it's very cheap TV for them, they'll get it back on the first advert probably

[Englishbird]

I was talking about this to someone the other day.  This is not specific to 60 min make over.

A guy i know did some wrought iron fencing work �5k in a garden makeover programme - he had to do the work for half price and in return he got a credit on the website (not on the programme). The lady whose garden was being made over - happened to be the producers daughter and to my knowledge he never saw a penny of the �2.5k owed.

My friends friend lived on a house boat and looked into getting a make over on that - he was told it would cost around �20k and that it was only the designer that he got for free.  The designer would only have been there for 1/2 a day's filming.

Lastly one of the Gordon Ramsey programme was in a hotel which again the same friend knows and frequents.  They had a delivery of partridge, which Gordon Ramsey went out to and declared that it wasn't fresh enough.  They then phoned the company up an hour later and asked them to re-deliver the partridge, the supplier - being rather peeved - asked to speak to GR, who obligingly came on the phone and said "yes sorry mate, there was nothing wrong with the partridge, it was just for the cameras"

I am a fan of these make over programes but this has dissapointed me somewhat.