Chapter 7: The Show
MOAM studio in Seoul - "Okay we're here let's get you guys ready." I say trying to keep my cool.
As we are walking towards the changing rooms I am having a curious glance around cause you know I'm nosy and see the crew setting up the desks for the show, I gotta say right now I'm squealing on the inside I can't believe that me, a girl born and raised in the desert is in a big city living it up and getting to see behind the scenes of the phenomenon that is BTS.
We get everything prepared for the boys coming on set and I take my place behind the cameras when we're done.
The show begins with Ho dong being Ho Dong, all you real fans will get it, but all the 'students' take their place and chat about silly things until Jin bursts through the door. *bang* bi*ch that's right it's BTS you can scream now. The guys jump as Jin passionately walks in with the boys shouting his greetings.
"Wow, Jin you've still got it, charisma." Soo geun jokes as they introduce themselves and say their parts just before they dive into the fun and games. The boys give in their application and pick who they want to sit with. Throughout the first half of filming I sat there in utter awe as I watched the hilarious show go on, but being behind the scene made me realise that there was a lot more to this show than meets the eye.
For a start, not everything was funny some terrible jokes were made, mostly by Jin *cough* more specifically his dad jokes, and also the hours put into the show like god you don't understand how many segments and chats get cut out of the final show it's crazy.
Anyway, the boys were doing their question segment when Heechul and Jungkook started whispering to each-other "yah, what are you two up to?" Kyung hoon asks wanting in on the secret. "He's telling me about their new assistant she's here with them today and is a huge fan of the show." Heechul explains. "Ah, I see, why don't we get her on then?" He suggests "Good idea we can pull her up for a game, at the break I'll ask her if she's good at anything and we can see if it's true." Jung kook says mischievously. "We can also embarrass her a bit as well of course." Heechul says smiling like the great evil genius he is.
Meanwhile I sit there oblivious to what's actually going on until Jang hoon pipes up asking what the three boys were doing. "Nothing just talking about young guy stuff, you wouldn't know about it." Kyung hoon says cheekily. " Yah, I'm not that old!" Jang hoon exclaims before going on a mini rant as per usual. That's when I should of knew, dam this great show, it's too distracting.
After the question segment where Jang hoon got most of the correct answers and did his celebrations into the jimmy jib, we all had a food break, cause you know a girls gotta eat and guys too.
"Do you guys need anything else?" I ask as I hand J-hope some water, "no we're good." RM replies "oh wait Claire, can I ask you something?" Jung kook says suddenly, " sure what is it?" "Oh nothing much I was just wondering if you were particularly good at anything like a game or competition of sorts." Well this is random hmmm let's think "I'm not sure give me a second." I say with my hand on my chin. What am I good at? That's a great question as it sure beats me. "Oh wait there is something, I'm pretty good at the boxing game, the one you get at the arcade, actually I'm pretty confident on arcade games in general." I say thinking back to my 11 year old self who lived in the arcade back in America. "Ah that's good we will definitely put you up to the test one day, I like games myself you see so watch out." Jung kook says to try and avoid suspicion. "Oh it's on!" I retort.
The break was nearly over when Jung kook grabbed Heechul and Kyung hoon into the dressing room to plan.
Everyone was back to work and the cameras were once again rolling, the boys were doing some skits and having some fun when Jung kook challenges Ho dong to a game of strength. They agree on the boxing machine that they played with other guests in the past and Ho dong would only accept the challenge if he could bring his member of staff who beat him the first time onto his team. This is when Heechul sides with Jung kook saying " Wait let Jung kook pick a partner too to make it fair." So Ho dong reluctantly agrees and asks him to choose "I pick Claire." Claire? Who's..... ME!?
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