Wearside man Gary, who was working as an architect in Sunderland, had just set his world record for putting on 211 pairs of pants in 25 minutes back in 2010.
‘I had pictures of the BGT judges on my pants’
‘I was all ready for the big moment. It was eventful,” he told us, in an interview for the Wearside Echoes podcast, sponsored by Mobility Care Solutions.
Within a year, he was preparing to reprise the moment in front of BGT.
“You had the likes of Amanda Holden, David Hasselhoff and Michael McIntyre. My act was to go out on stage, pull up a few pairs of pants. I think I had about 180 pair of them on which I was reasonably comfortable with.
‘The camera man could not keep his camera still’
“I had pictures of the judges on the pants, but rather than having them on my backside for this one, I had them on my crotch. So I had the likes of Amanda Holden blowing a raspberry and the final one was going to be Simon Cowell.”
His hilarious act did have an affect, Gary told us.
“In the rehearsals, the camera man could not keep his camera still to film me. I could see his camera going up and down while he was laughing and trying to keep his laugh in.”
Catch the full story on our podcast
But how did Gary do when his big TV stage moment arrived in front of the judges?
To find out more, you will have to catch episode 4 of our Wearside Echoes podcast which is in to its second series, sponsored by Mobility Care Solutions
Wearside Echoes series 2 is available on all major podcasts platforms and we are delighted to have Mobility Care Solutions on board as our backers.
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