Snowdrop Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 There was a lot of good press and tv appearances associated with Gareth's involvement in the Stop my Stutter tv show, so I thought it would be good to have a record of them altogether. First of all clips of the show itself. These are now the better quality versions. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 And Gareth and Simon on This Morning 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowdrop Posted March 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 There was also some chat on the radio - clips to go here.On "The Surgery" on Radio 1 with Aled <object width="512" height="138"><param name="movie" value="http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/external/player.swf"></param><param'>http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/external/player.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"></param><param name="FlashVars" value="config_settings_showUpdatedInFooter=true&config_settings_showPopoutCta=false&config_settings_showPopoutButton=false&config_plugin_autoResumePlugin_recentlyPlayed=false&config_settings_suppressRelatedLinks=true&config_settings_skin=black&config=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebbc%2Eco%2Euk%2Femp%2Fiplayer%2Fconfig%2Exml&playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebbc%2Eco%2Euk%2Fiplayer%2Fplaylist%2Fp00pj5jk&config_settings_displayMode=audio&config_settings_showFooter=true&"></param><embed src="http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/external/player.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="512" height="138" FlashVars="config_settings_showUpdatedInFooter=true&config_settings_showPopoutCta=false&config_settings_showPopoutButton=false&config_plugin_autoResumePlugin_recentlyPlayed=false&config_settings_suppressRelatedLinks=true&config_settings_skin=black&config=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebbc%2Eco%2Euk%2Femp%2Fiplayer%2Fconfig%2Exml&playlist=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ebbc%2Eco%2Euk%2Fiplayer%2Fplaylist%2Fp00pj5jk&config_settings_displayMode=audio&config_settings_showFooter=true&"></embed></object> There was also a chat about the documentary the day afterwards on The Chris Moyles Show, as Dave and Aled both watched. ChrisMoyles28-02-12.mp3 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowdrop Posted March 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 Feature in The Sun. http://www.thesun.co...am-of-fame.html Gareth Gates: Stutter nearly axed my dream of fame By LAURA CAROE Published: 27th February 2012 GARETH Gates endured hell thanks to stuttering – now he's helping others overcome the speech impediment. The singer has become a speech tutor because he does not want other people's dreams to be ruined like his own career in pop almost was. A moving documentary tonight, Stop My Stutter, charts the progress of a group of young people who sign up for an intense speech therapy course led by Gareth, who found fame on Pop Idol in 2002. And speaking to TV Biz, Gareth — a close runner-up to Will Young in the talent contest ten years ago — admits he would never have entered had he known he would have to talk on the hit ITV1 show. He said: "I thought I was entering a singing competition — I had no idea how much speaking I would have to do. "Once I did, it filled me with dread and fear and I had to just deal with it and do interviews. "I probably wouldn't have even entered if I had known how much speaking was involved." Gareth, now a tutor on the McGuire treatment programme which helped him conquer his own stutter, revealed he struggled sometimes even to say his name. He said: "It's the first thing people ask you, so the fear is already there. "I would call myself different names like Michael, or my middle name Paul, so I'm sure there were hundreds of people when I did Pop Idol thinking, 'I thought he was called Michael or Paul'." He would also pretend he had forgotten his school's name, preferring to look "stupid and thick rather than stammer in front of people". Gareth, who soared to stardom on the back of Pop Idol, said at his lowest point he was on the brink of becoming a recluse. But he eventually found solace in song, and said: "Music became my voice and I wanted to sing all the time simply because I was not able to speak, so it was my way to express myself." Such is his new-found confidence that Gareth said he would never say no to being an X Factor judge. In tonight's show, on BBC3 at 9pm, the participants have four days to learn how to fight their stuttering demons before making a speech in front of an audience. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowdrop Posted March 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 And more in the tv mags. Two in particular had little features. What's on TV TV Choice 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowdrop Posted March 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 Gareth was in the top trending list on twitter during his This Morning interview, then again in the evening when the documentary aired for a good few hours, and then during one of the repeats. The name of the tv show itself was also trending worldwide at one point, so a lot of interest from those watching. which I suppose is the nature of the niche channels like BBC3. And later a lot of people were watching it on the iPlayer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowdrop Posted March 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 And after the event, there was a nice review in The Metro. TV review: Stop My Stutter saw Gareth Gates help stammer sufferers overcome their vocal problems not through overblown set pieces but through simple steps, and was all the more effective for it. By Christopher Hooton - 27th February, 2012 Related Tags:Gareth Gates Gareth Gates was a man inspired to teach in Stop My Stutter (Picture: BBC) Had Gok Wan been attached to this programme he would have no doubt taken an approach to curing the stutter that involved shouting from a mountaintop and skipping naked down Oxford Street. Fortunately however, it was former stammerer Gareth Gates who was in charge, a man who clearly had a passion for helping others and who understood the simple steps that needed to be taken to solve the speech problem having suffered from it himself. Unsurprisingly it proved difficult to make a documentary that was insightful about its subjects thoughts when they were fundamentally unable to communicate them, yet you could still empathise with those enrolled to the McGuire speech programme where Gates teaches and the quick results his methods produced were nothing short of astonishing. Some 600,000 people stammer in Britain but the reasons behind it are rarely discussed, so it was interesting to hear the story behind each case, with causes ranging from a hereditary stutter to confidence issues. This being a BBC Three documentary there was the lurking sense that at times there was some pandering to those who may find the condition amusing, with the show focusing on the absolute worst stammerers, but hopefully even those who found some mirth in the situation were eventually moved by the students' vast improvements at the end. Our very own Sophie did a brilliant blog that's well worth a read: http://sophiebowns.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/stop-my-stutter/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val4Gareth Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 Thank you for collecting all that together. The program was such an inspiring watch and it was so good to see Gareth getting accredited with the praise he so deserved. It will be lovely to be able to come back to this thread and watch and read through it all together. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowdrop Posted March 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 I'm sure there is stuff I've missed, but hopefully that can be added in. There were a few pieces in the local papers that will be worth gathering together too. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbowns1 Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 http://sophiebowns.wordpress.com/2012/02/27/stop-my-stutter/ Can I slip this in ?.... its the blog post I wrote about the programme ...... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowdrop Posted March 10, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 Perfect! Thanks. Added to the post with the Metro review. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SueEl Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 So good to have these on one thread, thanks a million X 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorksheather Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 Thanks Snowdrop , great to have all that together 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest NicolaJayne Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 Thank you for this thread it has been lovely reading all the nice comments about Gareth and the programme. It was amazing what those students achieved with Gareths tuturing in just 4 days. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbowns1 Posted March 11, 2012 Report Share Posted March 11, 2012 Ahhhh that's fantastic !!!- really well put together, thanks for adding my blog post ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suzie Posted March 11, 2012 Report Share Posted March 11, 2012 I clearly missed a lot brilliant idea as made it really easy for me to catch up 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maria_1981 Posted March 12, 2012 Report Share Posted March 12, 2012 Thanks so much Snowdrop for putting all these together thought I already replied but obviously not, its lovely to see it all together and what I loved so much about it is the press only seemed to have respect for him over it, none critisising him for a change x 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowdrop Posted March 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2012 Almost all of this stuff was in the various other threads, which made sense at the time we were discussing it, but this way if we want to check something, it's easy to find. It was lovely to have such positive press. I wouldn't have bothered including anything that was nasty, but I'm pleased to say that this time it all made the grade! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowdrop Posted April 4, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2012 I've updated the links in the first post to include the good quality versions of the show (and This Morning) on YouTube, so you may wish to add them to your favourites, or to a playlist - or to leave a comment/thumbsup. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowdrop Posted April 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 The show was repeated again late last night on BBC3, which means the show is back on the iPlayer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01cx7xv 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbowns1 Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 Awww Lovely! It's on youtube too 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowdrop Posted April 25, 2012 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 I know - I put it on YouTube. And I posted the links for the clips in the first post of this thread! I just thought people might like to know it was on, and to watch it on iPlayer, because it's always better quality, and because the BBC record the number of views, so it's always better if fans watch it on an official media player so long as there is an opportunity to do so. That's why we always prefer to wait until a show is no longer available on iPlayer of ITVplayer before uploading ourselves. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Val4Gareth Posted April 25, 2012 Report Share Posted April 25, 2012 That's why we always prefer to wait until a show is no longer available on iPlayer of ITVplayer before uploading ourselves I agree with what you say Snowdrop. The recording's that are rushed up straight away are usually very poor quality and they don't do Gareth any favours at all. Your recording is brilliant quality. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floz Posted August 1, 2012 Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 Its seems as this was shown again last night / this morning early so its back on iplayer for a week if anyone wants to watch it there http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01cx7xv/sign/Stop_My_Stutter/ 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowdrop Posted August 1, 2012 Author Report Share Posted August 1, 2012 Fantastic, thanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khelda Posted August 13, 2012 Report Share Posted August 13, 2012 McGuire Europe @mcguire_europe For the Belgians amongst our followers: 'Stop my #stutter' with Gareth Gates on Eén tomorrow night! #stotteren http://www.mcguireprogramma.nl/stottertherapie/nieuwsblog-stotteren/Koppen-XL-Stotteraars-die-stotteraars-helpen.html McGuire Programme @mcguireprogram "Stop my Stutter" with Gareth Gates on Belgium TV channel 1 Tuesday, Aug. 14 at 9PM. See preview here: http://www.een.be/programmas/koppen-xl/deze-week 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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