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I've applied for studio audience tickets for the last five years . Never been successful . I see people posting they have been two or three times . What's the secret ?
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I am in the same boat as you but 6 years - I hoped that living "oop north" I would be in with more chance on the Blackpool ones - but no same for a girl in work as well she has applied every year since ticket ballot began, it does seem unfair some people get to go loads of times though - but hey it is a ballot so you takes your chances

I'm such a huge fan I get disappointed when the BBC email comes through saying noooo
Maybe our luck will change soon )))

Multiple applications?

I apply every year and only ever get the "Sorry, but..." e-mail. However I did get to go last week as a friend had tickets and she invited me to come with her! How they allocate them I shall never know. But it's possible that people who have been more than once have been a guest on someone else's winning ticket!

It's a lot of waiting around though and nowhere to get yourself glammed up etc. They offer you tea, coffee and sandwiches etc but you have to pay for it!! Still well worth it though - what a day we had!

I've always got the impression of this forum that there are some people who manage to go regularly?

I have been twice, once as a production guest and then because a friend couldn't use the tickets. Enjoyed one more than the other!!

In all fairness the BBC should keep a database and maybe once you have been you are not eligible for tickets next year?

The only downside is the waiting and queuing- for front seats expect to get there by 6am and have 10 hrs to kill. Get there late and a ticket is not even a guarantee of entry. The audience really seems to be tolerated on sufferance only

Having said all that it is great to be there

For true fans, this is very, very frustrating especially when you see some of the celeb dancers have family taking up three, sometimes four places all the time not just a one off.
That as far as I m concerned is just not fair.
There should be a data base which limits your ability to go to the show, good suggestion satnavvy

pure luck or they know someone who works at the BBC!

It doesn't surprise me really though, because of logistics.

Tickets for Strictly and Britain's Got Talent and X Factor are all the same - free tickets means that there will always be people who will not turn up. So there have to be more tickets than seats because the programme makers want a full house for the telly.
If it was like a gig or a theatre performance where you'd paid for your ticket you'd keep the date free, book your travel and hotel in advance, arrange babysitters, book time off work if that was applicable, get someone in to feed the cat, etc, so you'd be ready go to London/Blackpool for the weekend - presuming you don't live there.
(I don't mean you as in you, Satnavvy. I mean you as in you or me or anyone else)

The ticket ballots for these types of show open and close well in advance and lots of people find themselves unable or unwilling to go, when the time comes. I know if I got a ticket for Strictly I'd have to shell out for railway tickets to London and for two nights in a hotel before I'd spent a penny on food or drink.
That's a big outlay. I'd certainly have to think twice about it and seeing as you only get notification the same week, I bet a lot of people find they can't manage to go because of financial reasons. Or because something has come up in the meantime that they've committed to or for family reasons, etc.

ITV might be more at liberty to sell tickets for those shows, but if the BBC wanted to charge for tickets there'd be outrage, because of the licence fee.

I think im obsessed. Dreamt last night i had tickets and passed by the studios to find people already queuing on a friday afternoon so set up camp to wait too. Len came past and i had my picture taken with him! Maybe this means my next email from the bbc will be a congratulations email. Been lucky enough to go twice and i dont know anyone at the bbc but wld love to go again. Fingers crossed.

I applied a couple of years ago for almost every show. I didn't get any so I wonder if the tickets are allocated to people living nearer London. I'm a few hours away and perhaps BBC think we're more likely not to turn up being further away. Anyone on here living away from London getting any tickets? Would be interested to know.

This year I left it too late to apply. I'm glad I realised from reading on the forums that not everyone who gets a ticket automatically gets in. It would be expensive to book 2 nights hotel and train tickets and then not get in.

Enjoy SCD on Saturday everyone.

I live in London and have never got tickets!