Tag: Brett Hyrjak

After reading about the end of the ITV bingo show I can’t say that I am surprised about the news. It was a great idea and an excellently produced show, but it had a lot of things going against it: Firstly the show was obviously an hour long advert for ITV online. Anyone winning one […]

It is around this time of year when normally this site and my blog would be full of news about the National Bingo caller of the year competition: but as the contest is suspended this year this months rambling piece will be more reflective on my experiences as being a contestant and a former title […]

It has been a while since I have said this: Armed robbery in the bingo!!!! A club in bradford has recently been robbed at knifepoint, no-one was hurt but they still left with a bundle of cash. This story reminds me of a couple of years ago when a glut of bingo clubs in London […]

hello there all, now this is an interesting piece by Venetia Thompson about a new craze going around in the ‘higher circles of society’………WINE BINGO! Basically if you don’t want to read the article it is basically about wine tasting (after you get Venetia’s ‘stereotypical’ view of bingo halls….now theres a suprise), but with bingo […]

Just been reading this article claiming that online bingo is the reason that people are being driven away from the bingo halls. This I don’t think is strictly true in my opinion. I have found that it is only a small proportion of bingo hall players play online and in club…..some statistics say that it […]

wowsers, I can’t believe I have been working on the telly now for 2 years!!!! It seems to have flown by! I remember the first few weeks of the show when the set was drab and dreary and we were calling the games just like we did in club. And now look at us: It’s […]

Once upon a time I was training a new batch of bingo callers in Bexleyheath and we were doing the thing you do right at the beginning of the meeting where you say who you are and what you have done and what are your ambitions for the future are etc etc…..some peoples ambitions were […]

Just before starting work last night i was flicking through the channels on the telly and heard the word ‘bingo’. My ears immediately pricked up and found out that Paul o’Grady was talking to Denise van Outen about her love for bingo on his afternoon chat show. It was a really nice minutes worth of […]

Just browsing the web a charming article all about the bingo world. It looks like that the bingo industry are trying to promote the energy saving message to the customers. I for one think that this is a great idea, especially as we are getting into the season where bills and the suchlike start to […]

You know that in the 50’s and 60’s countless old theatres, cinemas, and other buildings were converted into bingo halls to satisfy the nations new found lust for the great game and now in the 21st century it looks as if religion is taking the bingo halls back!!!!! This article on the BBC website explains […]