Assuming that this isn’t some strange internet prank masquerading as a psychology experiment and I haven’t been persuaded to make up a memory, I think I noticed them once or twice, but there was so much else going on in the episodes that I just shelved the memory.
Meanwhile, why would the young Ben Elton be hanging around the studio while the episode was being made? It’s not like the writer has a lot to do once they’ve handed over the scripts; it’s in the producer’s hands then, and if they want any writerly help they can just phone the writer up. Even if Elton was hanging around, he wouldn’t necessarily notice an extra being put in the background any more than any random viewer, or have any cause to remember it three decades later.
