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00:00It because we haven't met but I'm just gonna say out loud. I'm obsessed by you
00:05Everybody this is Chris. Say hello. Hi
00:09Chris does this extraordinary thing on social where he talks to birds who was the naughtiest bird this week
00:17Spud the little owl
00:22Where does spud sleep?
00:24In her avery. Okay, that's a shame
00:28I'm so nervous. I just need me to touch people
00:33Nice to see you. Nice to see you look divine. Hello. Oh, I'm gonna do this with everybody get ready
00:38I'm so nervous
01:06I'm so nervous
01:08I'm so nervous
01:08And approve of the carpet to be honest
01:10It is too late if you loathe we have an amazing audience and it's now time to welcome our brilliant
01:16guests
01:17He is a triple threat comedian presenter author. He's got a new book called common decency. It's Tom Allen
01:35I've been nominated for 11 Grammys and she's currently in the West End production of the devil wears Prada. It's
01:42Vanessa Williams
01:51She is the writer and star of absolutely fabulous and national treasure and she's here to talk about her new
01:58film the magic faraway tree
01:59It's Jennifer Saunders
02:11We started everything from Jurassic Park to the Grand Budapest Hotel
02:16He's also a musician and has a new album out. It's the wonderful Wizard of Oz himself Jeff Goldblum
02:30You're amazing
02:38Thank you so much. Have a seat
02:41This is I can't believe it. Thank you for coming on the first and possibly last show
02:48We'll end with the conga
02:51Imagine you said you said it's the last show. I'll be cut to in a blink of an eye
02:5730 years from now the longest running show ever
03:00No, no more words
03:04We were on the first show
03:07I'm going to start with this, but how do you feel about the set?
03:12I think it's stunning
03:13I'm loving I'm like I like the height
03:15Yeah, go ahead
03:16Because and I like the back being here being close to the actual back
03:21Yes, you know, they don't have back. Oh, I'm so sorry
03:28I'm basically on a buffet actually or my parents used to have a buffet and then when I came out
03:34They suddenly changed it to the footstool
03:43This is its maiden voyage, right? It's all all new I would call this a hunter green possibly
03:50Yes, correct very manly kind of
03:53British screen. Yes
03:56Hunter would you call him?
03:58emerald green dark teal
04:00Would you dark white teal?
04:03Would you like to meet the woman who chose the color of the sofa?
04:07Here's the scene we go to a basement a sort of sofa workshop
04:12Oh, yeah, we all go as a gang. We meet a woman called Trudy
04:16We couldn't decide between two colors Trudy is here Trudy
04:20you
04:28Trudy you you chose this color did you not it was really you chose the color amongst
04:3570 other options
04:38And redesigned and made the sofa that it goes on wow well done Trudy
04:44What would you call this color, please? I would call it a very dark teal?
04:56I do think as well you guys who work in furniture shops are great
04:59It's not a furniture shop. Oh, I beg your pardon
05:04It's a boutique, Trudy, I'm sorry, it's a boutique, I'm sorry
05:10You don't get this with what you've got
05:13Okay, Trudy, I'm sorry I wish I was dead
05:17I wish I was dead
05:19I mean, this is what I live for as a gay man being insulted by an upholsterer
05:28I
05:28The last time I bought any furniture though
05:30I went in to buy a mattress and I walked into the shop and the woman said hi, I'm Faye
05:34and I went oh my god
05:38Good mattress a deep one I hope
05:40You know what buying a mattress is complicated
05:42Have you ever bought one? I bet you've not bought one you're a hollywood star. You don't buy furniture
05:48You have to buy a mattress for lifetime. Yeah, that's what they say always invest in a good bed or
05:53good shoes
05:53Yeah, because if you're not in one you're in the other
05:57Love that
05:57You can have that
05:58And it we went and then she was like and she said you gotta lie on it lie on the
06:03bed lie on it
06:04Like they put down that plastic sheet as though it's going to be so comfortable. I'm going to immediately piss
06:08myself
06:10So I'm sliding all over the place and and then she gets on the bed next to me
06:15What I know and then she said a cuddle for it basically and then she said how do you sleep
06:19which sounds sort of accusatory?
06:22Something you shout at people in court is that how do you sleep?
06:25And I said well, I don't know. I'm usually asleep and she said well, are you supported? I said I've
06:29got some very good friends
06:34And then before I went she said and and do you have nightstands and I said well that is absolutely
06:39none of your business
06:45That's what I think
06:48Explain that joke to me because
06:51You sound on my audience, Deb
06:53It's going to be a long night guys
06:54The double meaning of that of course is a nightstand next to the bed the piece of furniture trudy
06:58But is nightstand because I think it's a britishism is the double entendre which is french for fish of the
07:04day, I think
07:06I
07:07Is a nightstand is that is that like a like a one night again counter a one night encounter?
07:13Yeah, we don't say that in america
07:14I thought you just meant an erection
07:18Do you know what I thought of many things this way it was gonna go
07:24I didn't think we'd be here with three minutes
07:25Not so quickly not so quick not so fast
07:28Okay, you two vanessa and jennifer you are linked by hairdresser
07:38There's a battle tonight because sven does both of us you booked in first
07:45He's got a lot more work to do
07:48It started this morning
07:50He's very creative i haven't known spend that long six years
07:54I miss those days talking about a hairdresser
08:01Jeff i would love to talk to you about your album look at this
08:06Is it lovely thank you thank you
08:11It's and isn't that beautiful
08:14Do you think so really well fontana you know are great and my other people my friends uh helped me
08:21do that the the graphics of it
08:23I do like it night blooms is the name of it
08:26It's a kind of a companion piece to our other our other fourth album which was still blooming you get
08:30the connection
08:31Oh
08:33I love this album very much
08:36It's jazz you know we play jazz we're called jeff goldblum and the mildred schnitzer orchestra and just to name
08:41a few
08:41How many in the orchestra
08:46Last year the baftas i had the honor of playing during the in memoriam section
08:53I played on the piano with their orchestra
08:56You must remember as time goes by
08:58Oh, I thought it was ding dong the witch is dead
09:03Don't even
09:05No, that's macabre
09:07No, it was it was uh, you know, it was as time goes by that beautiful song and we liked
09:13it so much that on this next album
09:14I sing a little bit of it and I play some more and there's an and there's an orchestra on
09:18this one
09:19Which brings me by the way you may you brought you triggered something else in me just now. This is
09:23lovely
09:24Um ding dong which is dead cynthia erivo the great cynthia erivo amazing and I on this next album with
09:31strings and a big band do a
09:33Newfangled version of um if I only had a brain
09:37Oh
09:37Oh
09:44So and many other surprises, but but thank you for bringing it up
09:47I'm very crazy about this album. We have a clip of you playing not a song from this album, but
09:52I believe the last one, but it's fantastic
09:54Okay
10:18Isn't it lovely
10:21It's so lovely
10:25I'll tell you they love it
10:29You were you paid when you were young I love this story
10:32I don't know if it's true and used to phone restaurants to saying I hear you need a pianist
10:36Can you imagine when you were really like 15?
10:39I was sort of I had some moxie or something like that and I was full of beans and even
10:43though around 10 years old after my dad said
10:45If you find something you love to do that may be a vocational guidepost and I've set my
10:51heart to an acting career but around the same time I was taking and fall in love with jazz and
10:56the piano and I
10:57Thought I was being clever and looked at the phone book and called cocktail lounges around Pittsburgh
11:02I was 15 I think at that point and said hey, I hear you need a pianist
11:06They'd said no, we don't know what you're talking about. Who's this? No, no, we don't like never mind
11:09But a couple of people said we have a piano come over and play it
11:12I got a couple of gigs that way and my parents would drive me to the thing and I started
11:17to play
11:17It's almost the seed of what this has become. Yeah, like that, you know
11:26I have become slightly obsessed with your wife because she sometimes performs with you. We have a clip
11:34She's spectacular. Here we go. She's
11:36This is Emily. Look, look. That's Emily
11:41Isn't she amazing? She was in the Olympics
11:46She, Emily Goldblum, for heaven's sakes, whom I met at the gym 14 years ago
11:51She was doing something like that. I wanted to go and said, what are you doing? Look at that
11:55That's at the world famous troubadour. I don't think anyone's listening to you playing
12:00Good point. That's at the troubadour. You know the troubadour? Yes
12:03We perform. We did three sold-out shows. She's amazing
12:07We did three sold-out shows there and Emily who was in the Olympics doing rhythmic gymnastics
12:13She was that year that she went to Sydney and did that she was the pan-american champion
12:17She was the best of that in North South America. She's fantastic. She's still a world-class athlete as you
12:23can see
12:24She's doing that. She's amazing. We did that a month ago at the troubadour
12:29Anyway, that's Emily
12:30This is just like looking at me at home
12:34So how do you compete with that? You know when you go home and one of you says i'll put
12:38some toast in and does four cartwheels and puts it in with her
12:41her toes
12:42She does every every move is a is quite a picture
12:47She's astounding but yes, but you can also do something rather wonderful. Well, I do this
12:52It's not a little bit activity yet. I can wiggle my ears, but one at a time watch
12:59This ready. Yeah
13:07Oh
13:13Jeff you've started obviously in oscar-nominated wicked the biggest musical film in
13:22And this is my favorite thing I don't know whether this is true
13:25But please say it is that occasionally you would look down the lens and speak directly to the editor and
13:32say I like that
13:33Take or is that true? Yes, I would do takes
13:36I was trying to do a good job and sometimes as was my want to do
13:40I think is the phrase I would after a take I would go
13:44And he would go and cut okay
13:47Jeff says Myron Kirstein. That's that's I say that's that's a good one
13:52Just so you know our editors called Steve. He's happy with any notes you have
13:58Over there if you said something that you're particularly proud of you just say Steve ad yes, I think I've
14:04been lively tonight
14:05Steve and I say any any genuine moment that especially I like the spontaneous ones
14:12Where there's a real connection, which I've felt strongly with us. So I say so far anything is uh good
14:18for the show
14:19Fine
14:27You are going on tour you're going to start in wolverhampton. Oh, I love the hamptons
14:37You know, this was all arranged, you know, uh for us
14:41I don't how many how many how many how many how many towns are you doing?
14:46We're doing they're doing a few you know, we've been to glastonbury and several you know in the last several
14:50years and ronnie scott's
14:51We've played all over the place would you like to know more about wolverhampton?
14:55Maybe the eateries you should go to if there's a statue a small aquarium. I believe cory is here. Hello.
15:02Hi, cory
15:03Hello, you you've been to wolverhampton. I am from wolverhampton. Okay, so Jeff's there for a couple of days
15:08Let's give him a full schedule. I'd like it laminated. Where should we go?
15:13Jeff what you should do is you should get off the train in wolverhampton
15:17immediately get back on and leave
15:19A couple of hours, okay, is there somewhere delicious? No, it's great. Wolverhampton is absolutely great. We have we have
15:35a Nando's
15:39Chicken place
15:40But being on tour there's always something to do. Well, yes, no, I love going around britain on tour always
15:46a little museum
15:47There's a pencil museum
15:49Yes, very interested
15:52What do you mean? I love pencils. There's a lot of shop mannequins
15:57What's your pencil of choice? What do I used to I used to once I go to my criminal period
16:03when I was
16:04Eight or nine fine. I stole yeah other kids pencil. We had those desks that went like that. Yes
16:10You know when everybody was going out in a line
16:12I'd be the last one and I'd wait behind
16:14And I'd open up desks and I'd steal their pencils
16:17I hoarded and collected pencils until one day somebody went jeffrey has all our pencils and then it was very
16:24embarrassing and i'm cured
16:25I'm a very honest
16:27Honest
16:28No stealing because the way your face lit up at the sound of the pencil music. I hope there is
16:33a pencil museum now
16:35Do you like a classic hb do you like ones that you can
16:39No, I don't like a mechanical pencil. I'm very particular with my ballpoint pen can I throw this into the
16:46mix?
16:47Because this is going to blow your mind. There is a woman here
16:51In this room who designs
16:54pencils no
16:56Correct. I'm getting goosebumps. I'm telling you you're getting goosebumps
17:03Amy are you here?
17:05Amy tell me what you do with pencils and and stationary all round
17:11So I develop new types of pencils
17:14Develop new types of pencils
17:16Do you because we don't want to upset him because he's our very special guest do you do the
17:23pencils we have one
17:25Well, I'm open-minded, but I don't like them
17:29What's the best thing if that's not too much pressure that you have ever designed so our
17:36Best pencil is the drawing pencil which has the creamiest. Oh, it's creamy
17:41It's the creamiest pencil and has the widest core. Does that mean the lead that goes through it?
17:48Yes, is there a pencil museum because I'm did I make it up there is it's in the lake district
17:53lake district
17:54Are you going to the lake district?
17:55I am now
17:58I'm going
18:02Thank you, Amy. How brilliant that you're here. Let's have a round of applause for Amy
18:07Can I say you know you remind me of the other
18:10The touring around england in plays you all know that play i'm sure the dresser. Oh, yes
18:17Yes, lovely play
18:19And then and then anthony hopkins and ian mckellen redid it in a remake ian mckellen made me eggs
18:26what
18:30Little salmon on the side
18:32My dad some toast
18:34Toast lovely
18:36Sit down or sat did you get a seat? No, sit down sit down
18:40And a proper proper dining table yeah just the two of you just no no no it was a group
18:47of people gosh
18:48Did you do all the eggs at once or did you do them personally?
18:51Personally that's very bespoke eggs
18:55I tell you that's how you get the night
18:56Plate them and everything was scrambled i had scrambled eggs and smoked salmon this morning
19:01Yeah, oh
19:04About two hours ago we started talking about night blooms yeah, and i would just like to lift this up
19:09and say when when is it out?
19:11june 5th there we go
19:15Brilliant
19:20Um jennifer we have to talk about your film the magic faraway well you're saying my film i'm in the
19:26film no it's your phone
19:27Okay uh let's have a clip it's just like you said it's enchanted and wonderful
19:32Dad and i just felt like a place like this will bring us all back together again
19:37Grandma i will get them back to the city if it is the last thing i do
19:41Sorry guys better start packing
19:45You wish to cross the lamps to locate a spell to save your house from your evil grandma
19:53We know all of this you know all that because we just told you it all right no need to
19:58get shirty
20:03Oh
20:04It's just a lovely film
20:07How much fun was it to me just so much fun gone a great wig i can see your hair
20:12A really good wig we just have oh my god look at this wig look at this
20:20That's the hair i want another fact that we're flacking i want that hair
20:24You see nothing it's so thick and it just stays in that shape i love it because now you see
20:32this is sven
20:32most of this is there's a most of a sort of a nun's hair has been woven into in sort
20:38of extensions that are
20:40You know nuns sell their hair and they get made into extensions they do
20:46They really yeah they said what for money yeah thank you thank you i'm just agreeing because it's jennifer
20:53Whatever she said um i but i love the accent i love everything about frida how did she how was
21:00she created
21:01Because i thought it was a small part i wouldn't have to do very much and but they said will
21:04you
21:04Come in for rehearsal and i went yeah of course and it was with andrew garfield and claire foy
21:09And the children and i thought oh this is great this big time you know because you sort of been
21:15grappled
21:16into this big movie and um i thought i better i better try hard but i had no idea what
21:22was going
21:23to come out of my mouth when i first opened my mouth and i thought you know i might go
21:27a little bit
21:27danish because i can make
21:30because i can make the danish noises you know the ticket yes it's almost fluent yes
21:41yeah yeah yeah so i put a little inflection of danish into when i read the part and when we
21:48finished they went we love the german and i went no i said i was sort of more j no
21:54german's good german's
21:55good i thought damn yeah i had to do the whole i had to learn a german accent then and
21:59do the whole
22:00thing in german but it gave me the character yes it's lovely so lovely you guys are so good at
22:05accents
22:06the preparedness that you've given you've been given in in schools is amazing and you have to show up
22:12for you say what i'm not training you you're not training it's extraordinary i mean they can throw
22:19on an american accent immediately and like refine it so it's midwestern there's a new york
22:24what period time period is but also do all these other ones it's really i'm very impressed i admire
22:29that terrific i admire you're a great artist you are can you do a london accent not really
22:38i want to talk more about this one because the location is so beautiful tell me you were
22:50somewhere we were in a very lovely part of the countryside um and near a wood near a wood
22:57because it is called the magic faraway tree it is about a tree that's magic and very far away
23:01you don't know where it was i don't know where it was i think it was in a studio but
23:06there we are never
23:08mind um there is somebody here because i believe you also have a place in the countryside yes there
23:16is there is somebody who lives i think in your neck of the woods and would is that scary slightly
23:23they go on they do something rather magical in my hood it's i believe it is in your hood okay
23:29anna
23:29hello what have you done this week so my neighbours and i have been helping toads cross the road to
23:35prevent them getting squashed by the cars as they're migrating to their pond to breed and we've had i
23:41think we've helped about a thousand toads in the last few weeks wow a thousand toads
23:45saved a thousand toads wow are you are you is it like directing like like signs no no signposts no
23:58signposts so i have my head torch and my gloves and a bucket and we pick them up off the
24:04road we put
24:04them in the bucket and we help them to get to the gate near the pond so they're not going
24:09to be on the
24:09road have you thought about building i don't know a tunnel did they say i know this is a word
24:16question but i've committed to it did they say thank you no but they have the most beautiful little
24:23chirping sound you can hear them when it's a really quiet evening you can hear them kind of chirping
24:28chirping chirping in the pond and they're really amazing they're very sweet very very good hey
24:37hey do you know the end of that pt anderson movie who did this year's one bed left another
24:43oh yeah i know yeah of course magnolia magnolia where all the toads or frogs you know come
24:49we fall from spoiler alert jeff spoiler alert that happens right at the end steve steve if you feel cut
24:55that into i love it if you could save one animal oh what would have been i would save a
25:07horse would
25:08you yes well i'd need the hair for my extensions i'd have to be chopping off yes i think for
25:14the hair
25:14because for the hooves yeah for the mental health
25:22what would you say you know what none of them i think you know people say oh it's so relaxing
25:29to
25:29go and spend time in nature but you look closely all they're doing is eating each other it's disgusting
25:36you watch those david attenborough films horrifying so people love it don't they put it on while
25:41they're having their tea a lion ripping a gazelle to shreds you know they fall asleep while they're
25:47watching a dolphin drown a whale horrible why would you save any of them i think the sooner we get
25:55rid
25:55of them the better i just think you know yeah yeah it's a different view that's and i think that's
26:06what this show is about correct it's very it's like question time but for drunk celebrities
26:15okay jennifer when can we see the magic faraway tree i think it's out on march the 27th correct yes
26:22we can't wait we'll all go
26:30vanessa i have to talk to you about the devil wears prada i went on friday every seat is full
26:36and they are
26:36screaming and when you come up the most beautiful thing people are like i was sitting next to somebody
26:43who was like in tears screaming standing up it's a thing it's like a rock concert yeah describe the show
26:50just for anyone who doesn't know well uh there's a young girl named andy sax who is a journalist
26:55based on a true story and um she lives in new york she applies for a job at runway magazine
27:02which is a very
27:03famous fashion magazine aka vogue and she has no idea who miranda priestly is nor her reputation
27:10and she gets the job as the assistant and now they're doing a sequel to the movie i know who
27:16knows
27:17what's going to happen wow there's much excitement let's have a clip of the devil wears prada star oh my
27:24god
27:25what if i don't want this life everybody wants to be us
27:46that's all
27:52what fun role to play you must love it it's it's fun i can show up and be in a
27:58bad mood and not care because
27:59i can just be miserable the whole time yeah and it doesn't matter just makes the world better but
28:04you know i i have to say it's i i love this country and i got a chance to meet
28:10the king like
28:10you know i've done things not just as a tourist and not just as a working actor but these extraordinary
28:17experiences you know i did the royal variety show i mean it's it's been it's been heaven how much fun
28:23was
28:24it working with elton oh my god i mean not only is he a legend and you know growing up
28:30listening to
28:30his music and going to his house in windsor again another opportunity that i you know a normal tourist
28:36would never get you know oh i don't know
28:42you are living the life he's so honest that's what i love about him he's so frank
28:48and the first time i met him we were uh doing the workshop in january 2024
28:53and he had just had his first knee surgery and i walked into the rehearsal room and his
28:59sweats were down by his ankles and he was showing everybody his scar but all i saw was his bum's
29:04like
29:04yeah okay good yeah we're gonna be friends um what about the dressing rooms the difference between
29:10broadway if you like and the west end on broadway you can uh choose your well you can choose your
29:15paint color and and rug shot oh yeah that's stop yeah yeah yeah dark teal
29:24yes yeah is that coffee mocha mocha i don't like colors being called after drinks that's the
29:39oh yeah it's not a good nice cone well cognac's beautiful to drink obviously but um yeah we just
29:46had an old-fashioned before we came on um this is what i love vanessa i'm just sharing this with
29:55the
29:55group you have something rather special on your rider and it is a dog now i agree when you look
30:02at vanessa beautiful like sort of absolutely gorgeous that brain structure you think small a
30:08little like a powder puff of a dog on a top of cushion yeah ladies and gentlemen meet roscoe yeah
30:15oh wow wow wow there he is is that a great dame yeah he's so beautiful and he comes to
30:26comes every
30:27show yeah he's got his giant bed next to my makeup table look at him he's amazing yeah he's enormous
30:34he's
30:34a great dame he's a great dame he's a great dame i had a great dame did you what i
30:37can't remember his name
30:38but uh okay it's a joke it's a proper joke it's a joke what's his name roscoe like roscoe chicken
30:47and
30:47waffles i love roscoe chicken and waffles roscoe lee brown you didn't know roscoe lee brown did you
30:51i know who he was but it wasn't what's going on i don't know i don't know i want my
30:59ham i want my ham
31:01trains two trains running i saw roscoe lee brown anyway it does it does feel sometimes like i'm in
31:06a nursing home
31:18there was this talk of this roscoe fella that nobody knew except you guys knew and very well
31:23chicken and waffles and the dog and the bit of the cognac
31:27oh my gosh i am older than i realize so to be clear you have roscoe you have woody you
31:36love your dog
31:37we have woody so we have three dogs yeah you have a dog of course i have a dog i
31:42breastfeed him
31:42no i do tom you i believe you're on the fence regarding a dog i would love a dog but
31:51i worry about
31:52having a dog because i'm away a lot and um they're obviously a big responsibility but i would like
31:56a dog shall we tip the scales yeah i'd like that to meet a dog oh my god please welcome
32:04percy oh
32:06oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my
32:16god oh my god oh my god oh my god oh
32:16this is heather who owns percy look how can you not
32:19i will i will i will i will i love you i love him i gave him a biscuit so
32:24he's happy
32:26look percy loves you hang on i feel like this isn't fair you've got treats for him he's never
32:39interested in you this is the story of my life i mean he's just yeah god's kind of dog
32:46look he's taken to you look at that
32:51yeah you wanna go and live with me you wanna come and live with me i don't know whether you
32:56can take this dog he's your dog he's your dog okay he needs to leave thank you so much thank
33:02you
33:02percy thank you very much hi hi percy you got attached to it already what do you think i mean
33:10i
33:11don't think he actually like me that much don't take it on lightly unless you can commit to a
33:15lifelong responsibility you're right and i spend a lot of money on furniture so will they i don't want
33:21them weeing up against it thank you so much so vanessa devil wears prada is on until when and where
33:29please we are at the dominion theater i am going to be there till october 17th and the show will
33:35run
33:35definitely until next year okay thank you
33:45i'm going i commit right now to attend every show until you're out of it i'm going to be at
33:49every show
33:50when you're not in wolverhampton having a chicken wrap
33:54tom you are going to musical theater you're about to star in titan yes indeed and i'm i'm very
34:01there we go yeah about to set sail it is tell us all about it well it is the most
34:08extraordinary show
34:10i saw it when it first opened over here it started in america it's like the most ridiculous retelling of
34:16the film titanic um and it's as though celine dion was actually on board the ship of dreams
34:22and she got drunk and this is how she remembers the story of titanic and it's told through her songs
34:28so celine dion is the narrator in the in the show so that's kind of bonkers enough as it is
34:33and then added on to that is you've got people like me who play um you know rose the kate
34:38winslet
34:39character uh her mother is ruth and that's played by me so um and and not really in period dress
34:45at
34:45all just i have an alice band on with some birds attached to it don't ask why just enjoy it
34:50and
34:50it's just such bonkers fun we're all coming well i think you would all love it i think there's
34:55there's something about it that's just kind of out of this world it's just joy just joy for a couple
34:59of hours you can't wait where's it on it's on at the criterion theater and um i'm in it until
35:05the 12th of
35:06april but it's booking through until until june we can't wait to sit thank you thank you one person
35:13please come on is it true that your theater is haunted well they say there's a man in the circle
35:22who sometimes walks across and i thought i saw him but it turned out it was just the lighting man
35:27there um i think there are there are stories about him there but the more you look for him i
35:32think the
35:32less he's going to appear right it's like it's like a husband isn't it yeah there's supposed to
35:38be one in the dominion her name is eleanor she was uh like 10 years old and there used to
35:43be some giant
35:44beer vat or some kind of brewery in the in the bottom and there was an explosion and beer apparently
35:51flooded that whole tottenham court area no and this was a young girl that died in this flood of beer
35:58and she is a 10 year old daughter girl absolute drunk
36:08the drury lane theater there used to be just the bottom half of a man sitting in a seat so
36:14no yes
36:16would you like to chat to somebody who converses with ghosts yes yes maxi hello hello hello what is your
36:25advice to tom he's going to be performing singing he looks up to the circle should he bow what happens
36:33when you see when you see them i think if you want to see this ghost you can ask i
36:39mean they they will
36:40reveal themselves to you spirit when you say reveal themselves as in show um as in show their spirit body
36:50oh my
36:51goodness should i be on my own when i ask or well i don't think that matters really doesn't the
36:57ghost
36:57it doesn't matter i just think the cleaner is sometimes there so how brave are you feeling are
37:03you happy to see them if they appear in front of you well i suppose how do you know if
37:07they're if they're
37:08a malevolent spirit or all right well like you know you're you're a good chap aren't you i mean you
37:12know generally about your performance you're the kind of person that's not got a good energy yourself
37:21you know you're you're kind of an evil person you're acting in no no i know i know but if
37:28you were
37:29you can then attract beings that aren't so nice well it seems like a lot of pressure
37:35will you let us know please well i will but not if it's a bad spirit it will be
37:41terribly badly on me a parent a parent's evening like i did my best
37:48when was the last time you spoke to a spirit um yesterday um i did a reading for somebody and
37:55i
37:55see them and they talked to me wow is there anyone here i'm not working right now and i think
38:01that's
38:01the misconception oh i like the way you just clock on and clocked on
38:18hey you know in this life you've turned it to an angle you know who you look like go on
38:23very young
38:24handsome john travolta yes correct correct until i was just sitting here a moment ago when you were
38:32talking to the spirit lady yes oh my goodness and i was possessed by the spirit of john travolta since
38:39he shaved his head uh tom you have also written a very brilliant book oh well it's a novel your
38:47first
38:47novel first novel yeah uh common decency tell us all about it well i i've written two non-fiction
38:54books about myself and this is the first time i've created a world and some characters in to inhabit
38:59it um and i wanted to write about suburbia because um i think it's sort of boring place that everybody
39:04ignores but actually i've realized that's where all drama happens but it's about the sort of secrets and
39:09lies that exist in our kind of otherwise quite mundane life so i wanted to i just i like the
39:15idea of kind of
39:16well i live in suburbia now i live in bromley which is kind of archetypally suburban and i like and
39:20i'm on
39:20a whatsapp group and i've come to love all those trappings of you know people on do you have a
39:25whatsapp
39:25you know with your neighbors oh where they all like you know it's supposed to be to help your neighbors
39:29but it's just you know a load of you know idiots shouting nonsense into the wind and how often do
39:35you
39:35do you ever post no i just like to watch the only time i like it is when people say
39:38they're putting out
39:39furniture on their driveway something which i like to call street tapas
39:43i love that i like you know but i like the sort of community aspect of it i've always enjoyed
39:54that
39:54kind of thing of it all i'm loving your face james oh you love to run over those toads
40:08i i i can't whatsapp groups are the bane of my life really bear them can you like do you
40:14like a
40:15whatsapp group i like one of the family i like this one just my family is enough but then when
40:20they start
40:20having private conversations within the whatsapp group disgusting you then get a ping and it's just a
40:26fucking emoji i just can't bear them yeah unless it's family family family is fine and if it's
40:34if you've got one thing like it's a holiday or something and then it's got its purpose but don't
40:39mince about within it fine keep it strict fine i like it um there's a character in your book
40:49that i love oh called miranda oh yes well i talk about well i've tried to write about different
40:54generations as well because again i like the way that people mix in in the best part in the best
40:59parts of uh suburbia and miranda is somebody who's whose true past isn't really known however she is a
41:05somebody who even though she's in her 80s wants to experience all of life she's had a bucket list
41:10and now she has a different sort of list you can say her bucket list oh and that includes things
41:15like
41:16taking acid because i just sort of think if i make it to an old age rather than sort of
41:22going
41:23out with a whimper wouldn't it be great to experience acid or to try all those things you never thought
41:29you could try before why not dawn and i my friend dawn french and i once thought we'd be really
41:34daring
41:35and we got an ecstasy tablet oh goodness me and we thought we could take well i think it was
41:41something
41:41with a rabbit on it it was about that big and we thought one day i said well be alone
41:47it became
41:48such a matter of planning as to when we could take half an ecstasy tablet and so we kept it
41:56and kept
41:57it on dawn's mantelpiece like that and then one day just about six months later when we've gone okay
42:02right we're ready we had water we had we didn't know what to expect at all the pill had gone
42:09no
42:12your dog was looking lively that day and it was quite a relief yeah you were like thank goodness
42:18thank god we don't do that anymore yeah no drugs for us the dog was out in the garden jumping
42:23up and down
42:25having sex with the traffic um this brilliant book is out when please it's out on the 21st of may
42:32and you can pre-order it right now am i allowed to give this to i won't keep it i'm
42:36not keeping it
42:37i like the puppy dog really here tell me when to stop uh there left or right left uh tell
42:44me when to stop
42:46now uh we all need to discuss the planning application of course interrupted donald
42:52i assume that's what this is all about we are going to need to take action if the rumors are
42:57true
42:57about changing the area i love it there are definitely moments of exposition you have to realize
43:05that is it i just want to check do you feel like you've covered everything is there anything
43:15you want to sell a bit harder i don't want to sell anything more but i have not covered even
43:20the tip of
43:22no jeff i've got to go night night i never thought i'd say that on another occasion because my curiosity
43:30has been inflamed by this audience by you and by this group my god tom anything else um i went
43:38to buy
43:38rotisserie chicken yesterday for lunch and they sold out before lunch time
43:44who is having a registry chicken for breakfast some people are perverts
43:51well thank you all we are so grateful uh we are off to eat salami happy with that
43:57yeah good i would like to thank my utterly brilliant guests tom allen
44:05vanessa williams jennifer saunders and jeff goldblum
44:12we are back next week and i'll be joined by joanne mcnally guzpan and niall horan thank you so much
44:19for
44:19watching good night
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