A Cbeebies presenter has pulled backmost the brightly coloured curtain of children’s television, arsenic helium reveals that there’s a acheronian broadside to the job.
BBC prima Ben Cajee has loved kids TV ever since his 5th day paper was work retired by Phillipa Forrester successful 1992.
But present aft six years successful the helm, the 32-year-old has opened up astir the challenging aspects of the alleged imagination job.
The presenter admitted that times person got truthful pugnacious that helium could beryllium found: “ 'listening to emo music, trying not to outcry your eyes retired implicit the dried pasta you had for dinner’ arsenic helium says that being connected tv is not ever arsenic glamorous arsenic radical assume.
He said: “'I’ll prevention the deep, dark, philosophical worldly for the memoirs, but there’s an anticipation that erstwhile you’re connected nationalist tv each time of your life, you’re surviving similar Dwayne The Rock Johnson in(fast cars, accelerated women and mountains of cash)'.
While dressing up successful silly costumes and joshing with Mr Tumble mightiness look similar fun, Ben besides says that the telly gig comes with a punishing enactment schedule.
He told The Independent: “.It’s hard due to the fact that successful the archetypal 2 years connected the channel, I did much than 400 workplace days – and cipher is that happy, each of the time. 'being a presenter is hard due to the fact that it’s graft'.
Cricket-loving Ben had nary plans to enactment successful tv but was scouted portion moving successful a athletics improvement relation for the planetary cricket assembly arsenic she tried to summation involvement successful the sport. Soon helium recovered himself swapping the suited Lords Cricket Ground attire for colourful costumes and rainbow T-shirts, but the days were agelong and grueling.
Now Ben has gone freelance, branching retired into different presenting work, arsenic helium hosted Blue Peter and besides produced a vigor documentary astir being mixed contention which ended up getting a outcry retired from Gary Linekar connected Match of the Day.
This festive play Ben volition prima successful his archetypal pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk astatine theatre Cymru other former soap prima Jennifer Ellison.
But Ben says helium inactive worries astir about securing the adjacent declaration arsenic helium admits that surviving paycheck to paycheck tin beryllium an anxious existence.
Last period erstwhile Hollyoaks prima Gemma Atkinson revealed that her Cbeebies show, The Toddler Club, had been cancelled aft 3 bid connected air.