Name: The Up Late Game Show
Genre: Game-Show
Rating: 4.1
Cast: Simon Deering

I wouldn't be up late watching this short lived game show.

I always thought that The Up-Late Game Show was always going to be a short lived series riding off the fame of Big Brother contestant Simon "Hotdogs" Deering. I'll be the first to admit that I didn't like him and his obnoxious personality. If anybody was up late watching this show and actually claimed a prize, well good for them.

If I wasn't asleep and if I was up late at that time back in 2005, I would either be working on an assignment for university, out in the city with mates visiting nightclubs and running amok, or playing videogames.

I was actually in Cairns the night Simon Deering got arrested for urinating outside a nightclub back in July 2005 and was later fined. I thought sucked in to him at the time but upon reflection, everyone makes mistakes and I may have been too harsh.

Fast forward to today and his Big Brother days are all in the past and he is now a well respected real estate agent in Perth as the principal of Simon Deering Property. He has settled down and is happily married with three daughters. Good on him and it's good to see him become a success story away from the media spotlight. I do hope he continues to be successful in everything he does.

As for The Up-Late Game Show, it's a relic of the past and is best long forgotten.

1/10.

The game show genre features TV series with contestants competing against each other in various challenges, tasks, or quizzes to win prizes or rewards. Game shows are designed to engage viewers by presenting exciting and often competitive scenarios that involve participants using their knowledge, skills, and strategies to outperform their opponents and win.

Bill Barretta and Pat Sajak in Wheel of Fortune (1983)

Simon "Hotdogs" Deering of Big Brother fame gives small cash prizes to anyone willing to call a TV show at 3am. The show was renowned for its large production budget

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