"Hello, who's that?"
"Urm, it's Lyndsey"I was confused. This number had called me. I hate when people call you and ask who you are. Do you not understand how phones work?
"Hi Lyndsey, it's Capital FM. What are you doing tomorrow night?"
"I... I don't really know."
I was lying. I had work. I always worked on a Tuesday.
"Well how would you like to walk the red carpet alongside all of the celebrities
at the Thor première tomorrow?"
Well duh! I said yes. Kat Dennings was going to be there. That woman is one of my idols. Hilarious, gorgeous and ridiculously talented, I could watch her movies all day.
My prize involved train travel to London from Cardiff, a nights stay in the K West Hotel & Spa and tickets to see the première of Thor: The Dark World, where I could walk the red carpet too. I was ridiculously thrilled and immediately cried off work. (I told them why - don't worry, I'm not going to get sacked for faking illnesses or anything). I picked up the tickets and packed, ready for my cinematic adventure the next day.
We got our train to London and rushed to the swanky hotel. We'd done a bit of research on it during the night and it looked really upmarket - definitely nothing that we could've afforded.
When we got there, they upgraded our room, UPGRADED! We also had breakfast included in the room. This just got better and better. We went upstairs and couldn't believe the room. It was gorgeous.
We got ready and headed off on the Tube to Leicester Square ready for the film. It was packed there with people hoping to get to see/meet/touch/marry their favourite actor or actress. We were ushered in long before the celebrities got near where we were waiting which really depressed me as I wanted to hug Kat Dennings... or hump her leg... whichever came naturally.
Alex Zane presented which was cool because I think he's really entertaining. And then we were made to walk the red carpet. Which is insanely soft and bouncy. There are no words for how badly I wanted to take off my shoes and just plod along in my socks. It was an amazing feeling, knowing everyone was watching in envy and that we were going to be surrounded by celebrities.
We had to sit inside for over an hour waiting for everyone to come in and the two people who were meant to be sat next to us didn't even turn up. So we stole their sweets. Naturally.
We'd each been given a free bottle of water, a Yorkie bar and a bag of popcorn which I thought was a great extra.
The film itself was brilliant. It was really funny and even included a not-really-necessary-but-definitely-enjoyable topless scene with Chris Hemsworth. The cast and crew were all sat at the front of the cinema and you heard them laugh at this point so you knew that one of them had made a smart comment about it. It was really cool to be able to be part of that.
Once the film was over we all headed outside to catch a glimpse of the stars. Unfortunately, Kat dove straight into her car which I was devastated about. I did get to see Chris for a moment although I didn't get anywhere near him. The only other celebs I spotted were Tom and Danny from McFly who are ridiculously small. Like crazy small. They were really slim and quite short too, it was mad. I never would've guessed that from the times that I've seen them on TV. I suppose that shows that you shouldn't believe everything that you see on TV.
Afterwards, we had a few drinks in the Yates bar on the square, before getting the tube back to the hotel. It was a genuinely gorgeous evening.
The next morning we had our free breakfast which was unbelievably small and not very filling, like most pretentious food, before heading back to the train home.
Unfortunately our train was an early one so we didn't have any spare time to roam around the city, but we had an unbelievably amazing time.
Roll on our next chance to mingle with the A-List! ... and possibly McFly...
