{"id":968,"date":"2013-10-25T20:54:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T20:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/?p=968"},"modified":"2014-07-14T10:20:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-14T10:20:45","slug":"virgin-holidays-saysgive-me-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/virgin-holidays-saysgive-me-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Holidays says&#8230;Give me a Break!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginholidays.co.uk\/\">Virgin Holidays<\/a>\u00a0has launched <a href=\"http:\/\/givemeabreak.virginholidays.co.uk\/\">&#8216;Give Me a Break&#8217;<\/a>, an interactive TV travel show featuring four TV and stage favourites including award-winning comic Shappi Khorsandi, &#8216;Snog, Marry, Avoid?&#8217; presenter Ellie Taylor and hilarious stand up Justin Moorhouse. The programme will air exclusively online during October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/shutterstock_92732179.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-969\" title=\"shutterstock_92732179\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/shutterstock_92732179-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/shutterstock_92732179-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/shutterstock_92732179.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Give Me a Break&#8217;\u00a0will see the rib tickling explorers sent off to secret destinations for a Virgin Holiday &#8211; albeit one with a twist. Kicking off with Shappi journeying to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/country\/south_africa\/\">South Africa<\/a>, all of the participants will follow itineraries decided entirely by an audience watching at home, in real time, via the Virgin Holidays Facebook and Twitter feeds, and a dedicated website &#8211; www.GMAB.co.uk. From sunrise to sunset they will be at the mercy of their viewers&#8217; imaginations with the audience in control of where they go, what they do &#8211; even what they eat or wear. Fans will see them journey from one extreme to another on their adventures&#8230;from going face-to-face with indigenous wild animals, riding a Segway across an exotic vineyard, lunching with a cruise ship captain or following in the footsteps of the stars. Each trip trips will culminate in a 20 minute show where the audience will be able to see how their participation has shaped their holidays, and how they &#8216;unleashed their mojo&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone who contributes to the holidays by suggesting activities will get the chance to get their own mojo back on their own Virgin Holiday, by winning a trip to the same destinations.<\/p>\n<p>Shappi comments: &#8220;I&#8217;m so excited about my involvement in &#8216;Give Me a Break&#8217;. I love seeing new places and doing new things on holiday &#8211; which as a first time visitor to South Africa certainly won&#8217;t be a problem. And waking up each morning not knowing what I am going to do will be really liberating&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;ll be a lot of fun putting my mojo in hands of the Virgin Holidays fans. All I can say is &#8216;be gentle with me&#8217;!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ellie Taylor says: &#8220;Give Me A Break&#8217; is going to be a real adventure. I hope to meet some great local characters on my travels and I trust the Virgin Holidays fans to think of some fun activities for me and my mojo. A holiday should be all about seeing new things, so I hope to get the chance to delve in culturally. Particularly the local customs involving cocktails.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And speaking about his participation, Mancunian funnyman Justin Moorhouse commented: &#8220;A holiday? For free? And all I have to do is what you tell me? Sign me up. I&#8217;m from the North West and at this time of year anything that gets me out of Manchester will unleash my mojo!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Give Me a Break&#8217;\u00a0forms the latest part of the Virgin Holidays &#8216;Unleash Your Mojo&#8217; campaign, designed to show that on a Virgin Holiday, you get back to the very best version of yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Sounds good to us&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Virgin Holidays<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgin Holidays\u00a0has launched &#8216;Give Me a Break&#8217;, an interactive TV travel show featuring four TV and stage favourites including award-winning comic Shappi Khorsandi, &#8216;Snog, Marry, Avoid?&#8217; presenter Ellie Taylor and hilarious stand up Justin Moorhouse. The programme will air exclusively online during October. &#8216;Give Me a Break&#8217;\u00a0will see the rib tickling explorers sent off to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"post_views_count":753,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[129],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":972,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holiday-weather.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}