0:00:02 > 0:00:03'Attention!
0:00:03 > 0:00:05'The My Life In Care videos are about to receive
0:00:05 > 0:00:07'their world premiere in the TV room.
0:00:07 > 0:00:11'The inside story of what life is really like in Ashdene Ridge.'
0:00:11 > 0:00:13WHOOPEE CUSHION FARTS
0:00:13 > 0:00:15'And next up, it's Tyler.'
0:00:18 > 0:00:19I am Tyler Lewis.
0:00:19 > 0:00:23Now, I'm sure you'll all agree, it's time to inject a little bit of magic
0:00:23 > 0:00:26into these boring My Life In Care video thingies.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28This looks very precious.
0:00:30 > 0:00:33It's lucky I'm very careful with precious things.
0:00:33 > 0:00:35'Magic's the best.'
0:00:35 > 0:00:37It's just...magic.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39GLASS TINKLES
0:00:39 > 0:00:41That might not have gone so well.
0:00:47 > 0:00:49Where's it gone?
0:00:50 > 0:00:54It's the perfect fit, but not really my style.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Thank you.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58I can't get enough of this stuff.
0:00:58 > 0:01:02I would literally buy the whole magic shop if I could.
0:01:02 > 0:01:04There's nothing like the feeling
0:01:04 > 0:01:07of when you've got a room full of people hanging on your every move
0:01:07 > 0:01:11while you make the impossible happen before their very eyes.
0:01:13 > 0:01:15The way I see it, it's like you have your magicians
0:01:15 > 0:01:17and you have your ordinary people.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20And there's like a special bond between those of us
0:01:20 > 0:01:21who can do magic.
0:01:21 > 0:01:23There certainly was between me and Chanelle.
0:01:23 > 0:01:27She was this really amazing girl whose dad owned a magic shop.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29Could it get any better than that?
0:01:29 > 0:01:30Close your eyes.
0:01:35 > 0:01:38- I love it. - Has magic always been your thing?
0:01:40 > 0:01:42Pretty much.
0:01:42 > 0:01:45I like how you can make reality seem like it isn't reality.
0:01:45 > 0:01:47Never saw it like that.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50'But sadly, even a master conjuror can't
0:01:50 > 0:01:52'magic his way out of real-life problems.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55'And my problem was that Chanelle was a disappearing girl
0:01:55 > 0:01:57'in more ways than one.'
0:01:57 > 0:01:59Everyone say, "Goodbye, Chanelle."
0:01:59 > 0:02:00Bye, Chanelle!
0:02:03 > 0:02:04OK, so, on three.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06One, two, three!
0:02:10 > 0:02:12Whoa!
0:02:12 > 0:02:15- THEY CHANT:- Tyler! Tyler! Tyler!
0:02:15 > 0:02:17Cos no sooner than me and Chanelle met,
0:02:17 > 0:02:19she had to move miles away to Ireland.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21I might be back one day.
0:02:21 > 0:02:22You know what this is?
0:02:24 > 0:02:25What?
0:02:25 > 0:02:27It's just bad timing.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30'Maybe I might be able to get her to reappear one day.
0:02:30 > 0:02:32'I guess I'll just have to keep practising.'
0:02:33 > 0:02:36Anyway, lucky I'm so good at magic that
0:02:36 > 0:02:38I can fix a broken heart just like that.
0:02:41 > 0:02:43The thing is, though,
0:02:43 > 0:02:46you can't spend all your time on a stage in a magician's costume.
0:02:46 > 0:02:50For one thing, the hat plays havoc with your hair.
0:02:50 > 0:02:54But luckily there is a way of using the same skills in real life.
0:02:55 > 0:02:57And that...
0:02:57 > 0:02:58That is the art of scamming.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04A very useful talent to have.
0:03:06 > 0:03:07- Move, this is really important.- Why?
0:03:07 > 0:03:10Tyler wants to find out who his dad is
0:03:10 > 0:03:12and those two are too thick to do it themselves.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14Hang on, you don't know your dad.
0:03:14 > 0:03:15He met him, once.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24- Flippin' heck! It's him!- Who?
0:03:24 > 0:03:27Michael Sutton-Allan, the multi-billionaire.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29No way. Are you sure?
0:03:29 > 0:03:31Check the photo, pin brain.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33It is!
0:03:33 > 0:03:36You should get a DNA test, take him to court. You'd be rich!
0:03:36 > 0:03:38I want a finder's fee.
0:03:38 > 0:03:40Tyler does have a better photo of him and his dad.
0:03:40 > 0:03:41Let me see it.
0:03:45 > 0:03:47With Johnny it was almost too easy,
0:03:47 > 0:03:50but I've scammed some of the best in the business, too.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52- You looking for Tyler?- Uh-huh.
0:03:52 > 0:03:54- He's in the garden with a mate.- Who?
0:03:54 > 0:03:56Big lad called Steve something.
0:03:56 > 0:03:57Steve McLeavy?
0:03:57 > 0:03:59That's the one.
0:04:04 > 0:04:06Tyler.
0:04:06 > 0:04:08Tyler!
0:04:08 > 0:04:10Rick?
0:04:10 > 0:04:12Who's done this to you?
0:04:12 > 0:04:13Look, you can't tell anyone.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15He'll kill me if he knows I grassed him up!
0:04:15 > 0:04:17You can't let him get away with this.
0:04:17 > 0:04:20- I shouldn't have gambled his money. - How much more do you owe him?
0:04:20 > 0:04:2220.
0:04:22 > 0:04:26Take this and tell him if he touches you again, I'll kill him myself.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28Cheers, mate!
0:04:28 > 0:04:30MIKE CACKLES
0:04:30 > 0:04:31No way.
0:04:32 > 0:04:33I told you I could scam you!
0:04:33 > 0:04:36Now, I'm not saying that every scam works every time.
0:04:36 > 0:04:37No-one is perfect.
0:04:38 > 0:04:41Take the touch-the-telly challenge we had here once.
0:04:41 > 0:04:42..two, one!
0:04:44 > 0:04:47I deliberately got myself knocked out early
0:04:47 > 0:04:50so I could use my scamming powers to bring victory to our team.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52- Watch this.- Tyler, watch out!
0:04:53 > 0:04:56'And this is the way it works with scamming. Some you win...'
0:04:57 > 0:04:59What are you doing?
0:04:59 > 0:05:01You better get another plate ready,
0:05:01 > 0:05:05cos Frank is going to start chewing Rick's arm off any minute.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10Hey, Frank?
0:05:15 > 0:05:18There's football and then there's Special Sauce.
0:05:18 > 0:05:20'..but some you lose.'
0:05:20 > 0:05:21PHONE RINGS
0:05:21 > 0:05:22Well, well, well, look at that.
0:05:24 > 0:05:26Hello, Ashdene Ridge.
0:05:26 > 0:05:28HIGH-PITCHED: Er...
0:05:28 > 0:05:30- Hello there.- Hello, can I help?
0:05:30 > 0:05:32I was just wondering
0:05:32 > 0:05:35if I could have the deep-pan lunch special with a bottle of cola.
0:05:35 > 0:05:37I can't believe you're still hungry, Tyler.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40You just had that massive plate of spaghetti!
0:05:40 > 0:05:42Hey, Tyler, that is just pathetic.
0:05:42 > 0:05:45I'm so sorry, did you think I'd have to answer it in the office?
0:05:45 > 0:05:48Oh, er, sorry, can't hear you. Bye!
0:05:48 > 0:05:51But as long as you get the result in the end...
0:05:51 > 0:05:53We won! Yes! We won!
0:05:53 > 0:05:55I did it, I won!
0:05:55 > 0:05:56..that's what counts.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59- THEY CHANT:- Team Tyler! Team Tyler!
0:05:59 > 0:06:00Idiot!
0:06:02 > 0:06:06And now the moment you've all been waiting for.
0:06:06 > 0:06:07It's time for...
0:06:08 > 0:06:10..some comedy.
0:06:10 > 0:06:13THEY GROAN
0:06:13 > 0:06:15Cos comedy is definitely my thing.
0:06:18 > 0:06:21- What have you done to yourself? - I got into a fight, didn't I?
0:06:21 > 0:06:24- You should have seen the other guy! - Ignore him.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27He's sort of like the house clown.
0:06:27 > 0:06:28Well, he's not very funny.
0:06:28 > 0:06:32'The way I see it, comedy is my gift to the Dumping Ground.'
0:06:32 > 0:06:35My name's Eleanor and I love you, Johnny.
0:06:35 > 0:06:38Should have sent you to that special home, not Kitty.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42- Oh, you're so mean, but I forgive you. Give me a kiss!- Get off!
0:06:42 > 0:06:45'It's amazing the way I can cheer everybody up with my comic gifts.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49'I shudder to think what this place would be like without me
0:06:49 > 0:06:51- 'to lighten the mood.' - It's just noise!
0:06:51 > 0:06:53I'm playing all the right notes, just not in the right order.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55Leave my piano alone!
0:06:55 > 0:06:58Why can you never have a laugh, Gus?
0:06:58 > 0:07:00It's what makes you feel better.
0:07:00 > 0:07:01Cos I don't understand funny.
0:07:02 > 0:07:04'But it's like with anything.
0:07:04 > 0:07:07'If you're going to do it seriously, you need to aim high.'
0:07:07 > 0:07:10I am going to be the first person ever to make the Queen laugh.
0:07:10 > 0:07:11No-one can.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13'One golden rule...'
0:07:13 > 0:07:14Will you vote for me?
0:07:14 > 0:07:15If I laugh.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17'..know your audience.'
0:07:17 > 0:07:21OK, well, there were two sizzling sausages in a pan and one
0:07:21 > 0:07:24of them said to the other one, "Is it me or is it hot in here?"
0:07:24 > 0:07:26'Some will go for the verbal humour.'
0:07:27 > 0:07:31And the other one turned and said, "Ah, a talking sausage!"
0:07:31 > 0:07:33Badum-tish.
0:07:33 > 0:07:34Tough crowd, eh?
0:07:34 > 0:07:38'Others might be big fans of slapstick, like Rick...'
0:07:39 > 0:07:40Oh! Come here!
0:07:42 > 0:07:45'..and Gina. She was a big slapstick fan.'
0:07:47 > 0:07:51'I'll admit, the super-soaker routine is a tough one to top.
0:07:51 > 0:07:55'Especially with the accidental flour-in-the-face bonus finale.'
0:07:55 > 0:07:57But you can't rest on your laurels.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00You always have to be thinking bigger and better.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02Argh!
0:08:02 > 0:08:04What the foam?!
0:08:09 > 0:08:10Grr...
0:08:11 > 0:08:13TYLER LAUGHS
0:08:15 > 0:08:16'But if you have the vision,
0:08:16 > 0:08:19'the sky's the limit in your quest to bestow the gift of laughter.'
0:08:19 > 0:08:20Idiot!
0:08:20 > 0:08:22She's coming. Ready?
0:08:22 > 0:08:24Do-do-do...
0:08:24 > 0:08:26- Three, two, one...- It's coming!
0:08:26 > 0:08:27# Always... #
0:08:36 > 0:08:38And if you follow up the visual humour
0:08:38 > 0:08:40- with some classic wordplay...- Tyler!
0:08:40 > 0:08:42..then that, my friends,
0:08:42 > 0:08:45is when you start moving into comic genius territory.
0:08:45 > 0:08:46I've got poem for you.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49- Tyler...- Once there was a young girl called Elektra,
0:08:49 > 0:08:51who got hit in the face with a squelcher!
0:08:51 > 0:08:53- I'm going to kill him!- Outside, now.
0:08:53 > 0:08:57Tyler, this is no time for one of your silly jokes.
0:08:57 > 0:08:59- This isn't over.- Ooh, I'm scared.
0:08:59 > 0:09:02But behind the super-confident performer,
0:09:02 > 0:09:04there's a person that worries about normal stuff,
0:09:04 > 0:09:06just like everyone else in Dumping Ground.
0:09:06 > 0:09:11Or, as I like to think of them, my audience.
0:09:11 > 0:09:12'I worry about things like...
0:09:12 > 0:09:15'how to cope if suddenly loads of people want to foster you.'
0:09:15 > 0:09:17You've got to call me back.
0:09:17 > 0:09:20They are going to force me to get fostered.
0:09:20 > 0:09:21What?
0:09:21 > 0:09:25Don't worry. Maybe no-one will want you.
0:09:25 > 0:09:26You're joking, right?
0:09:26 > 0:09:28Who wouldn't want to take this face home?
0:09:28 > 0:09:29I'm doomed!
0:09:29 > 0:09:32'And never knowing your dad, that's bound to throw up a few worries.'
0:09:32 > 0:09:35Say if you knew your mum wasn't fat...
0:09:35 > 0:09:37but...
0:09:37 > 0:09:39you'd never seen your dad.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43What if he's a great big porker?
0:09:44 > 0:09:47Even if your dad's a great big porker,
0:09:47 > 0:09:50doesn't mean you'll turn out like that.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52Are you sure?
0:09:52 > 0:09:54'Having an artistic temperament
0:09:54 > 0:09:56'makes you worry about all sorts of stuff.
0:09:58 > 0:10:00'Like the mean things people say to you.'
0:10:02 > 0:10:05You know something? You're not right up here.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07- Don't say that!- Why?
0:10:08 > 0:10:09Everybody else thinks it.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13'And when you've got an imagination as vivid as mine,
0:10:13 > 0:10:15'you can sometimes overthink things.'
0:10:18 > 0:10:21- Watch it!- Can you hear that? DRIPPING WATER
0:10:21 > 0:10:23- Hear what?- That dripping noise.
0:10:23 > 0:10:26You really have lost it, haven't you?
0:10:26 > 0:10:28From what I hear, it runs in the family.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Your mum used to hear things, too, didn't she?
0:10:31 > 0:10:33After all, you know what they say -
0:10:33 > 0:10:36there's a thin line between genius and madness.
0:10:36 > 0:10:37Who says that?
0:10:37 > 0:10:38Usually mad people.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42I wanted to know what happened to my mum.
0:10:42 > 0:10:45What's brought that on?
0:10:45 > 0:10:46She was mad, wasn't she?
0:10:48 > 0:10:51She found it a bit difficult to cope, that's all.
0:10:51 > 0:10:54If she's mad, then I'm mad, too.
0:10:54 > 0:10:55Doesn't work like that.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58She's got curly hair, I've got curly hair.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01- Yep.- She's got brown eyes, I've got brown eyes.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04- Yeah.- I've got all that from her...
0:11:04 > 0:11:06Why not this?
0:11:06 > 0:11:10You're your own person, Tyler. Not everything is inherited.
0:11:11 > 0:11:12OK.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15Time to talk about something a little more tricky.
0:11:17 > 0:11:18My mum.
0:11:19 > 0:11:21She's the only family I've got.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23And it's funny,
0:11:23 > 0:11:26because in some ways we hardly know each other at all, really.
0:11:26 > 0:11:29We've spent so little time together.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31So, come on, what have you been up to?
0:11:32 > 0:11:34The usual stuff.
0:11:34 > 0:11:35How about school?
0:11:35 > 0:11:37Mm, same old.
0:11:37 > 0:11:39You've grown.
0:11:39 > 0:11:40Have I?
0:11:40 > 0:11:42And what's with the hair?
0:11:42 > 0:11:43I like it big and wild.
0:11:45 > 0:11:49'But that doesn't stop her being the most important person in my life.
0:11:49 > 0:11:52'Back in the day, when I had no contact with her at all,
0:11:52 > 0:11:56'I just had to cling on to anything I could remember her by.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58'Before it all went up in smoke, that is.'
0:12:00 > 0:12:02- No, it's not safe.- But my things!
0:12:02 > 0:12:04'Yeah, thanks for that, Carmen.'
0:12:04 > 0:12:06I'm so sorry, Tyler.
0:12:07 > 0:12:09I haven't forgotten.
0:12:09 > 0:12:10Still don't forgive myself.
0:12:10 > 0:12:12It's all right, Carmen.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14I've already forgiven you.
0:12:17 > 0:12:20Is that something precious?
0:12:20 > 0:12:22The only birthday card I ever got from my mum.
0:12:25 > 0:12:26I'm sorry.
0:12:26 > 0:12:30Sorry it's the only one or sorry you set fire to it?
0:12:31 > 0:12:32Both.
0:12:34 > 0:12:37Back then the thought of actually spending time with Mum
0:12:37 > 0:12:38was like an impossible dream.
0:12:38 > 0:12:42But you know that old saying about being careful what you wish for?
0:12:42 > 0:12:46Well, the day Mum visited, I got to understand what that means.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48How about an ice cream?
0:12:48 > 0:12:50I'll be sick!
0:12:50 > 0:12:52- That's £3, please.- Erm...
0:12:55 > 0:12:56Thank you.
0:12:59 > 0:13:00Oi!
0:13:04 > 0:13:05Come on!
0:13:05 > 0:13:07Where are we going?
0:13:07 > 0:13:08Just run!
0:13:08 > 0:13:09What have you done?!
0:13:12 > 0:13:14- Oi! Come back here!- Mum!
0:13:14 > 0:13:16'Not great, I know.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18'But at least my mum is back in my life now.'
0:13:19 > 0:13:21- I'll wait for you.- For how long?
0:13:21 > 0:13:23Two weeks, two years...
0:13:23 > 0:13:25It doesn't matter,
0:13:25 > 0:13:26because I'll always be here.
0:13:28 > 0:13:30When did my little boy grow up, eh?
0:13:35 > 0:13:38But I know one day we'll be together properly
0:13:38 > 0:13:40and everything will be OK.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43So I guess until then I'll just have to be patient.
0:13:45 > 0:13:47And trust in the power of magic.