Pat Sharp is coming to the Electric Ballroom 

IS Fun House legend Pat Sharp set to launch an immersive experience themed on his smash hit children’s show in the heart of Camden Town?

The popular former children’s TV host teased the possibility in an interview with the New Journal as he prepares to DJ a night of 1990s nostalgia at the Electric Ballroom.

He said: “We had been looking at an immersive attraction. We like to think that’s got a bit of chance. We have to think about the kind of people who would hopefully come and join in the Fun House. It would probably be parents with kids.”

Mr Sharp said the show would be in the style of immersive experiences popping up across the capital, citing the Crystal Maze in the West End as an example.

He said discussions were ongoing and focused on who owned “the rights to enable us to do such a thing”. And Mr Sharp said that he had fond memories of Camden Town, going to the market as a teenager and the former Gilgamesh nightclub.

“It was a nice place to walk around I remember when I was 16. You’d always see a good hairdo there, especially on a Sunday. Not mine now, but someone else’s.”

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Mr Sharp – who dispensed with his trademark mullet haircut decades ago – said he was looking forward to playing the Ballroom for the first time.

“I haven’t been there before actually, I’ve waited until I’m 63,” he said.

“It’s a DJ set basically – I do quite a lot of them now, from Dubai to Butlins. It’s 80s and 90s classics. But I’m very much a live DJ – it’s totally interactive. Every song I play, there is talking with the crowd.

“The Electric Ballroom really will be a fun house.

“Anyone who wants a selfie will actually get one. I grab the phones from the crowd and take shots of me looking back at them looking back in the crowd. I embrace it, and the nostalgia. Sometimes people turn up in red and yellow Fun House T-shirts.”

Mr Sharp’s Fun House was a prime-time show that ran from 1989 to 1999 – an era of five main TV channels, before the internet and on-demand television transformed entertainment.

Pat’s unmistakable hairdo

It featured a variety of “messy games”, a Fun Kart Grand Prix before contestants entered the fun house while answering questions and trying to grab the power prize.

The theme tune is indelibly printed in the long-term memory of fans, now in their 40s and 50s. Mr Sharp said: “Just the other day I had this guy coming up to me saying – deep voice – are you Pat? Yeah? Then he said ‘you made my childhood’.

“It’s funny because actually although Fun House ran for 10 years it was not so intrusive in my life as the daily radio shows. I would take a holiday from Capital Radio and go in once a year for a week only. We filmed the whole series of 14 weeks of shows in one go. So it was 10 weeks of my life.”

He reflected that the age of the Fun House show on television was now dead.

“The 15- year-olds who were watching back in the day are now swanning around on their mobile phone,” he said.

“If you told them watch at a certain time. They’d think you were mad.”

The Electric Ballroom

Mr Sharp recalled the audition that got him his big break, where he met “the twins”, Melanie and Martina Grant, for the first time.

He said: “The twins were there and also another set of girls. We auditioned how we thought it would be.

“I think it was popular because it was a very very different kids’ show. It was very bright, very messy and there were fantastic prizes that were immense.”

Mr Sharp said he was over the moon to be a loved character from his old television days, and said he was often asked by fans if he had ever had a relationship with one or both of the twins.

His standard response is “no”, but adding: “They are in the boot. They’re sealed. Waiting for the right moment to come out. We remain great friends but right now it’s just me.”

The Fun House show is at the Electric Ballroom on March 28 with Pat Sharp’s set starting at 10pm.