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Lisa's biog
Promising career leads to Scrapheap
Lisa Rogers made quite an impact when she joined the Scrapheap team in 2002. Bizarrely, she came back for more last year and now she's into her third series. Is she as mad as Robert?
Lisa began her television career working as a researcher and she has a degree in drama. Before Scrapheap, Lisa was already a familiar face on British television. She started her presenting life on Channel 4's Under The Moon and had a long association with Channel 4's Big Breakfast. She has presented the weekly football show Match Day on the ITV Sport Channel and also regularly reports for ITV1's On the Ball. She's presented Carlton TV's motoring series Pulling Power, BBC1's Football Fever and BBC Choice's 45 Minutes of Football. She has also been a regular presenter on BBC Play UK's Top of the Pops at Play and BBC2's Top of the Pops Plus. And she starred in the TV drama series Lock, Stock – her acting debut.
Most recently Lisa has been presenting The Block on ITV1 and 2.
So, on the surface at least, Lisa does not seem particularly stupid or self-destructive. So why is she still here? We wanted to get some idea of why this talented and personable person is still risking life, limb and reputation in the fiery crucible that is Scrapheap Challenge.
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About Lisa
 Last time we spoke to you, your car was misbehaving. Did it see the error of its ways or become supplies for the Scrapheap teams?
 That car was part-exchanged for my current car but judging by the age and state of it when it left me, it probably has gone to that great scrapheap in the sky by now (well, south Wales anyway). My new car is a VW beetle, very pokey as it's basically a two-litre, fuel-injected Golf with a beetle on the outside. But its days are numbered as after my diesel Audi it seems very, very thirsty.
Alongside Scrapheap, you were filming for ITV's The Block – what was that like? Did you ever get confused and start decorating one of the challenges or try to build a sand racer on Brighton beach?
It was all fine until I asked one of the Scrapheap teams what colour they were going to rag-roll their build area and whether the noise from their neighbours was keeping them awake at night. Not really, but it was quite tiring doing two (and for the first six weeks, three) jobs at the same time. But then, who needs sleep or weekends?!
With these hands-on shows under your belt, have you undertaken any constructions of your own?
I'd love to say yes, but time is really the problem. Working so much, I don't get time to do much else at the moment but when things calm down a bit ... watch out bits of my flat that need decorating – and my dad's vintage car!
What was the last album you listened to?
Scissor Sisters.
What's the best film you've seen this year?
Lost in translation.
Books or TV? Which can you not live without?
Books every time.
After a long day on Scrapheap Challenge, what do you do to unwind?
Mercilessly take the Mick out of Robert or the teams, (or they do the same to me). To be honest, by the time Robert and I have driven home after a day on the heap (separately, of course!), it can be as late as one in the morning. So it's less a case of needing to unwind and more a case of racing to actually make it to my bed without falling asleep on the stairs fully clothed with my grubby boots on!
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About Scrapheap Challenge
So, your third series of Scrapheap. Do you think you could build your own bodge-mobile yet?
Not sure, but I'd like to try. Not sure engineering would be so keen on me trying though. I can be a bit accident prone.
Any favourite challenges this year?
The second semi final is a classic – funny and scary. It's close between the teams and of course Robert and I dressed in comedy outfits.
What's the stress level like on the heap? Are the comments blue enough to make your granny blush or are the teams angelic artisans?
Obviously, myself and Rob are angelic (ha ha) but it is very stressful for the teams. Sometimes, the comments are enough to make me blush, never mind my granny. OK, so Rogers blushing has never actually been witnessed on the heap but when time is ticking away and things aren't going right, the teams are under a huge amount of pressure and things are bound to get a little blue.
How many Scrapheap team members would it take to screw in a light bulb?
Six. One to screw it in, two to screw it in the other way, and three to shout over the build area wall that their light bulb is bigger, brighter and already screwed in.
Do you see differences in the teams? Are there those who follow the orders of their captain to the letter and then those who have a distributed team model where each person has a full say in a democratic manner?
All the teams are different. Some work together very well with a team captain and everyone doing their job. These are often teams who work together anyway and so the dynamic is already set. But you do get teams where someone has assumed the captaincy but you feel that someone else would rather have been the captain – then tempers start to fray when people don't like being told what to do. It's usually very funny to watch though.
What advice would you give to anyone wanting to be on Scrapheap?
Just do it. It's the most fun you can legally have in this country between April and July. And don't worry if your technical knowledge isn't the best – you'll have an expert to help with that. As long as you've got a problem-solving brain and can weld you'll be fine.
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Lisa's biog
