Runner Up Was My Favorite for Gala Bingo Caller of the Year

July 3, 2008 · Tagged: Gala Bingo

I might be biased but my favorite for the winner of the Gala Bingo Caller of the Year was the Gala Stockland Green bingo caller from Sutton-Coldfield, Tracey Claire! The reason for my bias is the fact that we are both women, so take it from whence it comes, and she was the only female caller in the competition. Tracey has a really good story; she actually took her job as a bingo caller up quite by accident. She was working in the Bingo Club diner and had to fill in for a colleague who was ill. So there was Tracy, calling bingo numbers on the state, dressed in her pinny and cap, in-between cooking sausages. Then when a permanent calling position came up, she applied for it and got it.

The forty four year old has worked at the bingo club for seven years, but has been playing bingo for the last twenty years and she came in second against a field of seven men, so I think she really did well. She did win a cash prize and a trophy, but it is a real pity that the National Bingo Calling Competition has been called of for this year, because I think she stood quite a good chance of winning it! The winner was Michael Edwards, who won for the second year running.

Tracey who is a mother of two said that she was nervous, but she had a really good time. However it was tiring and she is pretty shattered after the event and would be happy to get back to her regular calling job. She should receive some notoriety for coming in second, who knows perhaps we shall hear her voice calling on an online bingo game quite soon.