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The Claudia Winkleman Show S01E01 (2026)
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00:00This is weird because we haven't met but I'm just gonna say out loud. I'm obsessed by you
00:06Everybody this is Chris. Say hello. Hi
00:10Chris does this extraordinary thing on social where he talks to birds
00:16Who was the naughtiest bird this week? Spud, the little owl
00:20Spud the little owl
00:23Where does Spud sleep?
00:25In her Avery. Okay, that's a shame
00:30I'm so nervous. I didn't need to touch people
00:34Nice to see you. Nice to see you look divine. Hello. Oh, I'm gonna do this with everybody
01:04Thank you for joining us we are incredibly grateful
01:07We hope you like the colorway and approve of the carpet to be honest
01:11It is too late if you loathe we have an amazing audience and it's now time to welcome our brilliant
01:17guest
01:18He is a triple threat comedian presenter author. He's got a new book called common decency. It's Tom Allen
01:32He's the star of ugly Betty and desperate housewives has been nominated for 11
01:38Grammys and she's currently in the West End production of the Devil Wears Prada. It's Vanessa Williams
01:52She is the writer and star of absolutely fabulous and national treasure and she's here to talk about her new
01:59film the magic faraway tree
02:00It's Jennifer Saunders
02:13He started everything from Jurassic Park to the Grand Budapest Hotel
02:17He's also a musician and has a new album out. It's the wonderful Wizard of Oz himself Jeff Goldblum
02:39Thank you so much. Have a seat this is I can't believe it. Thank you for coming on the first
02:46and possibly last
02:47No, it won't be
02:49We're going to enjoy ourselves. We'll end with the conga
02:52Can you imagine you said you said it's the last show I'll be cut to in a blink of an
02:57eye
02:5830 years from now the longest running show ever
03:08I'm going to start with this. How do you feel about the set? I I think it's stunning
03:14I'm loving I'm like I like the height. Yeah, go ahead because and I like the back being here being
03:20close to the actual back
03:22Yes, they don't have back. Oh, I'm so sorry
03:29I'm basically on a buffet actually
03:32Or my parents used to have a buffet and then when I came out they suddenly changed it to the
03:36footstool
03:45I
03:47It's all all new. I would call this a hunter green possibly. Yes, correct. Very manly kind of
03:54British screen. Yes
03:57Hunter would you call
03:58I'm emerald green dark teal would you dark white teal
04:04Would you like to meet the woman who chose the color of the sofa?
04:08Here's the scene we go to a basement a sort of sofa workshop. Oh, yeah, we all go as a
04:15gang
04:15We meet a woman called Trudy. We couldn't decide between two colors Trudy is here Trudy
04:29You
04:30You you chose this color. Did you not it was really you chose the color amongst 70 other options
04:39And we designed and made the sofa that it goes on well done Trudy
04:45What would you call this color, please? I would call it a very dark teal?
04:57I do think as well you guys who work in furniture shops are great
05:00It's not a furniture shop. Oh, I beg your pardon
05:05It's a bootie
05:07I'm sorry
05:11You don't get this with what you've got
05:14I wish I was dead
05:21This is what I live for as a gay man being assaulted by an upholsterer
05:29I
05:29The last time I bought any furniture though
05:31I went in to buy a mattress and I walked into the shop and the woman said hi, I'm Faye
05:35and I went oh my god
05:39Good mattress a deep one. I hope you know what buying a mattress is complicated
05:43Have you ever bought one? I bet you've not bought one. You're a Hollywood star. You don't buy furniture
05:49You have to buy a mattress for a lifetime. Yeah, that's what they say always invest in a good bed
05:53or good shoes
05:54Yeah, because if you're not in one you're in the other
05:58Love that
05:58You can have that
05:59And we went and then she was like and she said you're gonna lie on it lie on the bed
06:04lie on it
06:05Like they put down that plastic sheet as though it's gonna be so comfortable. I'm gonna immediately piss myself
06:11So I'm sliding all over the place and and then she gets on the bed next to me
06:16What I know and then she said a cuddle for it basically and then she said how do you sleep
06:20which sounds sort of accusatory?
06:23Something you shout at people in court is that how do you sleep?
06:26And I said well, I don't know. I'm usually asleep and she said well, are you supported? I said I've
06:30got some very good friends
06:35And then before I went she said and and do you have nightstands and I said well that is absolutely
06:40none of your business
06:46That's what I think
06:49Explain that joke to me because
06:52You sound like my audience. I think it's a British
06:54It's gonna be a long night guys
06:55The double meaning of that of course is a nightstand next to the bed the piece of furniture Trudy
06:59But his nightstand because I think it's a Britishism is the double entendre which is French for fish of the
07:05day, I think
07:07It's a nightstand is that is that like a like a one night again counter a one-night encounter. Yeah,
07:14we don't say that in America
07:17You just meant an erection
07:19Do you know I thought of many things this way it was gonna go
07:25I didn't think we'd be here with three minute quickly not so quickly not so fast, but yeah
07:30Okay, you two vanessa and jennifer you are linked by hairdresser
07:39There's a battle tonight because sven does both of us you booked him first
07:43well, babes
07:46He's got a lot more work to do
07:48Yeah, it started this morning
07:51He's very creative. I haven't known spend that six years
07:55I miss those days talking about a hairdresser
08:02Jeff I would love to talk to you about your album. Look at this
08:07Thank you
08:13Isn't that beautiful
08:15Do you think so really well fontana you know are great and my other people my friends helped me do
08:22that
08:23The graphics of it. I do like it night blooms is the name of it
08:27It's a kind of a companion piece to our other I rather fourth album
08:29Which was still blooming you get the connection
08:33And um, I love this album very much. It's jazz. You know, we play jazz
08:38We're called jeff goldblum in the mildred schnitz orchestra and just to name a few
08:42So yeah, how many in the orchestra?
08:45Five
08:45Two
08:45Oh
08:46That was a joke I made a joke but last year the baftas
08:50I had the honor of playing during the in memoriam section. Oh
08:54I played on the piano with their orchestra
08:57So you must remember as time goes by
08:59Oh, I thought it was ding dong the witch is dead
09:08Cynthia Erivo the great cynthia Erivo amazing and I on this next
09:08Oh, you know, it was it was you know, it was as time goes by that beautiful song
09:13And we liked it so much that on this next album
09:15I sing a little bit of it and I play some more and there's some and there's an orchestra on
09:19this one
09:20Which brings me by the way you may you brought you triggered something else in me just now. This is
09:24lovely
09:25Um ding dong which is dead cynthia Erivo the great cynthia Erivo amazing and I on this next album with
09:32strings and a big band do a
09:34Newfangled version of um if I only had a brain
09:44So and many other surprises but but thank you for bringing it up
09:48I'm very crazy about this album. We have a clip of you playing not a song from this album, but
09:53I believe the last one
09:54But it's fantastic. Okay
09:56Oh
10:20Isn't it lovely
10:22It's so lovely
10:26I'll tell you they love it
10:30You were you played when you were young I love this story
10:33I don't know if it's true and you used to phone restaurants just saying I hear you need a pianist
10:37Can you imagine when you were really like 15?
10:40I was sort of I had some moxie or something like that and I was full of beans
10:44And even though around 10 years old after my dad said if you find something you love to do
10:48That may be a vocational guidepost and I'd set my
10:52Heart to an acting career but around the same time I was taking and had fallen in love with jazz
10:57and the piano
10:57And I thought I was being clever and looked at the phone book and called cocktail lounges around
11:03Pittsburgh I was 15 I think at that point and said hey, I hear you need a pianist
11:07They'd said no, we don't know what you're talking about. Who's this? No, no, we don't like never mind
11:10But a couple of people said we have a piano come over and play it
11:13I got a couple of gigs that way and my parents would drive me to the thing and I started
11:18to play
11:18It's almost the seed of what this has become. Yeah, like that, you know
11:27I have become slightly obsessed with your wife because she sometimes
11:32Performs with you. We have a clip. She's spectacular. Here we go. She's
11:37This is Emily look look that's Emily
11:42Isn't she amazing? She's and she was in the olympics
11:47She emily goldblum for heaven's sakes whom I met at the gym 14 years ago
11:52She was doing something like that. I won't want to go and said what are you doing? Look at that.
11:56That's it
11:57The world famous anyone's listening to you
11:59Good point at the troubadour you know the troubadour yes
12:04We perform we did three sold out she's amazing
12:08We did three sold out shows there and emily who was in the olympics doing rhythmic gymnastics
12:14She was that year that she went to sydney and did that she was the pan-american champion
12:18She was the best of that in north south america. She's fantastic. She's still a world-class athlete as you
12:24can see
12:25She's doing that we did that a month ago at the troubadour
12:29Anyway, that's emily goldblum. It's just like looking at me at home
12:35How do you compete with that you know when you go home and one of you says i'll put some
12:39toast in and does four cartwheels and puts it in with her
12:42Her toes she does every every move is a is quite a picture
12:46I bet she's doing something astounding but yes, but you can also do something rather wonderful well
12:52I do this it's not an olympic activity yet
12:54I can wiggle my ears but one at a time watch
12:59Watch watch this ready yeah
13:13Jeff you've started obviously in oscar-nominated wicked the biggest musical film
13:19In recent memory
13:23And this is my favorite thing I don't know whether this is true
13:26But please say it is that occasionally you would look down the lens
13:31And speak directly to the editor and say I like that take or is that true?
13:36Yes, I would do takes I was trying to do a good job and sometimes
13:39As was my want to do I think is the phrase I would after a take I would go
13:44Uh and he would go and cut okay
13:48Jeff says uh myron karstein that's uh that's I say that's that's a good one just so you know our
13:54editor's called steve
13:55He's happy with any notes you have
13:58That's your camera over there if you said something that you're particularly proud of you just say steve add
14:04Yes, I think I've been lively tonight steve and I say any any genuine moment that especially I like the
14:11spontaneous ones
14:13Yes, uh where there's a real connection which I've felt strongly with us
14:16So I say so far anything is uh good for the show
14:20Fine thank you
14:22Steve will take that
14:24I trust you completely we all trust steve
14:27Um you are going on tour
14:30Yes you're going to start in wolverhampton
14:32Oh, I love the hamptons
14:36Starting in the hamptons
14:37You're going to love the hamptons
14:39You know this was all arranged, you know, uh for us
14:42I don't how many how many how many how many how many towns are you doing?
14:47We're doing they're doing a bit you know
14:48We've been to glastonbury and several you know in the last several years and ronnie scott's we played all over
14:53the place
14:53Would you like to know more about wolverhampton?
14:56Maybe the eateries you should go to if there's a statue a small aquarium. I believe corey is here. Hello.
15:03Hi, corey. Hello
15:04You you've been to wolverhampton. I am from wolverhampton. Okay, so jeff's there for a couple of days
15:09Let's give him a full schedule. I'd like it laminated. Where should we go?
15:14Jeff what you should do is you should get off the train in wolverhampton immediately get back on and leave
15:25For a couple of hours, okay, is there somewhere delicious? No, it's great. Wolverhampton is absolutely great
15:35We have uh, we have a nando's
15:37Oh, why?
15:38It's a chicken restaurant a chicken place
15:41But being on tour there's always something to do. Well, yes, I love going around britain on tour always a
15:47little museum
15:48There's a pencil museum
15:50Yes
15:52I'm very interested in pencils. What do you mean? I love pencils. There's a lot of shop mannequins dressed up
15:58What's your pencil of choice number? I used to I used to once I go to my criminal period when
16:05I was
16:05Eight or nine fine. I stole yeah other kids pencil. We had those desks that went like that
16:11Yes, you know when everybody was going out in a line
16:13I'd be the last one and I'd wait behind
16:15And I'd open up desks and I'd steal their pencils
16:18I hoarded and collected pencils until one day somebody went jeffrey has all our pencils and then it was very
16:25embarrassing and i've i'm cured
16:26I'm a very honest honest
16:29No stealing because the way your face lit up at the sound of the pencil music. I hope there is
16:34a pencil museum now
16:36Do you like a classic hb do you like ones that you can
16:40Oh, no, I don't like a mechanical pencil i'm very particular with my ballpoint pen can I throw this into
16:47the mix
16:49Because this is going to blow your mind there is a woman here in this room who designs
16:55pencils no
16:56No way correct i'm getting goosebumps i'm telling you
17:00You're getting goosebumps i'm telling you
17:04Amy are you here amy tell me what you do with pencils and and stationary all round
17:12So i develop new types of pencils
17:17Do you because we don't want to upset him because he's our very special guest do you do the
17:24pencils we have one
17:26Well i'm open-minded but i don't like them
17:30What's the best thing if that's not too much pressure that you have ever designed so our best
17:37Pencil is the drawing pencil which has the creamiest oh it's creamy it's the creamiest pencil and has the widest
17:45core
17:46Does that mean the lead that goes through it
17:49Yes
17:49Is there a pencil museum because i'm did i make it up there is it's in the lake district lake
17:54district are you going to the lake district?
17:57We are now
17:59I'm going
18:00Amazing you have to you're definitely going thank you amy how brilliant you're here let's have a round of applause
18:06for amy
18:07Oh i know can i say you know you remind me of the other you the touring around england
18:13In plays you all know that play i'm sure the dresser oh yes lovely play
18:20And then and then anthony hopkins and ian mckellen redid it in a remake
18:25Ian mckellen made me eggs
18:27What?
18:32Little salmon on the side yes
18:38Do you get a sit now sit down sit down
18:42And a proper proper dining table yeah just the two of you just no no no there's a group of
18:48people gosh
18:49Did you do all the eggs at once or did it in person?
18:52Personally that's very bespoke
18:54I love that
18:55Personally i tell you that's how you get the night
18:57And you plate them and everything's scrambled i had scrambled eggs and smoked salmon this morning
19:02Yeah
19:02Oh
19:03Guys about two hours ago we started talking about night blooms
19:08Yes
19:08And i would just like to lift this up and say when when is it out june 5th there we
19:13go
19:13Wow
19:13Night blooms
19:17Brilliant jeff no you are amazing
19:20Um jennifer we have to talk about your film the magic for our wait
19:24Were you saying my film i'm in the film no it's your film okay let's have a clip
19:58It's just like you said it's enchanted and wonderful
20:05It's just a lovely film how much fun was it to me just so much fun gone a great wig
20:12I would say your hair
20:13A really good wig we just have a look at freedom oh my god look at this wig look at
20:20There she is
20:21That's the hair i want
20:22I love the fact that we're flacking
20:24I want that hair
20:25You see nothing it's so thick and it just stays in that shape i love it because now
20:32You see this is sven most of this is there's a most of a sort of a nun's hair has
20:37been woven into
20:38In sort of extensions that are you know nuns sell their hair and they get made into extensions they do
20:47They really yeah they said what for money
20:50Nuns sell their hair don't yeah thank you thank you
20:52I'm just agreeing because it's jennifer whatever she says
20:56Um i but i love the accent i love everything about freedom how did she how was she created
21:02Because i thought it was a small part i wouldn't have to do very much and but they said will
21:05you come in for rehearsal
21:06And i went yeah of course and it was with andrew garfield and claire foy and the children and i
21:12thought oh this is great
21:14This big time you know because you sort of been grappled into this big movie and um i thought i
21:20better i better
21:20Try hard but i had no idea what was going to come out of my mouth
21:24When i first opened my mouth and i thought you know i might go a little bit danish because i
21:29can make
21:31Because i can make the danish noises do you know the ticket yes
21:37It's almost fluent yes
21:42Yeah so i put a little inflection of danish into when i read the part and when we'd finished they
21:49went we love the german and i went
21:53No i said i was sort of more j no german's good german's good i thought damn yeah i had
21:58to do the whole i had to learn a german accent then and do the whole thing in german
22:02But it gave me the character yes it's lovely so lovely you guys are so good at accents the preparedness
22:08that
22:08You've given you've been given in in schools is amazing and you have to show up for you say what
22:15i'm not training you you're not
22:18It's extraordinary i mean they can throw on an american accent immediately and like refine it so it's midwestern
22:24There's a new york what period time period is but also do all these other ones it's really i'm very
22:29impressed
22:30I admire that terrific i admire you're a great artist
22:36Can you do a london accent not really
22:45I want to talk more about this one because the location is so beautiful tell me you were
22:51Somewhere we were in a very lovely part of the countryside um and near a wood
22:57Near a wood because it is called the magic fire away tree it is about a tree that's magic and
23:01very far away
23:03You don't know where it was i don't know where it was i think it was in a studio but
23:07there we are never mind
23:13There is somebody here because i believe you also have a place in the countryside yes
23:17There is there is somebody who lives i think in your neck of the woods and would is that scary
23:21slightly
23:24Go on they do something rather magical in my hood it's i believe it is in your hood okay anna
23:30hello
23:31What have you done this week so my neighbors and i have been helping toads cross the road
23:36To prevent them getting squashed by the cars as they're migrating to their pond to breed and we've had i
23:42think we've helped about a thousand toads in the last few weeks
23:47Wow
23:51Are you are you
23:54Is it like directing like like signs no signposts no signposts so i have my head torch and my gloves
24:02and a bucket
24:03And we pick them up off the road we put them in the bucket and we help them to get
24:08to the gate near the pond
24:09So they're not going to be on the road have you thought about building i don't know a tunnel
24:15Did they say i know this is a word question but i've committed to it did they say thank you
24:21No but they have the most beautiful little chirping sound you can hear them when it's a really quiet evening
24:27You can hear them kind of chirping chirping chirping in the pond and they're really amazing they're very sweet very
24:33very good hey
24:39Do you know the end of that pt anderson movie who did this year's one battle after another oh yeah
24:44i know yeah of course magnolia
24:47Where all the toads or frogs you know come you fall from the sky spoiler alert jeff spoiler alert
24:53That happens right at the end steve steve if you feel cut that into
25:02If you could save one animal oh what would have been i would save a horse would you yes well
25:10i'd need the hair for my extensions
25:13Yes i think for the hair because for the hooves yeah for the mental health
25:23What would you say you know what none of them
25:28You know people say oh it's so relaxing to go and spend time in nature but you look closely all
25:33they're doing is eating each other
25:36It's disgusting you watch those david attenborough films horrifying
25:40People love it don't they put it on while they're having their tea a lion
25:44Ripping a gazelle to shreds
25:47You know they fall asleep while they're watching a dolphin drown a whale
25:53Horrible why would you save any of them i think the sooner we get rid of them the better
26:01I just think you know yeah yeah
26:05It's a different view that's and i think that's what this show is about correct
26:09It's very it's like question time but for drunk celebrities
26:16Okay jennifer when can we see the magic faraway tree i think it's out on march the 27th correct
26:23Yes we 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
26:37And they are screaming and when you come up the most beautiful thing people are like
26:43Somebody who was like in tears screaming standing up it's a thing it's like a rock concert yeah
26:49Describe the show just for anyone who doesn't know well uh there's a young girl named andy sachs who is
26:55a journalist
26:56based on a true story and
26:59She lives in new york she applies for a job at runway magazine which is a very famous fashion magazine
27:06aka vogue and she has no idea who miranda priestly is nor her reputation
27:11And she gets the job as the assistant and now they're doing a sequel to the movie i know
27:17So who knows what's going to happen this time there's much excitement
27:21Let's have a clip of the devil wears prada star oh my god
27:26What if i don't want this life everybody wants to be us
27:30The devil wears prada star oh my god
27:45That's all
27:53What a fun role to play you must love it it's it's fun i can show up and be in
27:59a bad mood and not care because i can
28:00Just be miserable the whole time yeah and it doesn't matter just makes the world better
28:04But you know i i have to say it's
28:07I i love this country and i got a chance to meet the king like you know i've done things
28:13Not just as a tourist and not just as a working
28:16Actor but these extraordinary experiences you know i did the royal variety show i mean it's it's been
28:22It's been heaven how much fun was it working with elton oh my god i mean
28:28Not only is he a legend and you know growing up listening to his music and going to his house
28:32in windsor again
28:33Stop another opportunity that i you know a normal tourist would never get you know
28:43You are living the life he's so honest that's what i love about him
28:48He's so frank and the first time i met him we were uh doing the workshop in january 2024
28:54And he had just had his first knee surgery and i walked into the rehearsal room and his
29:00Sweats were down by his ankles and he was showing everybody his scar but all i saw was his bum
29:05was like yeah okay
29:07We're gonna be friends um what about the dressing rooms the difference between broadway if you like and the west
29:13end
29:13On broadway you can uh choose your well you can choose your paint color and and rug color
29:18Yes that's stop yeah yeah yeah dark teal
29:25Yes yeah is that coffee mocha mocha i don't like colors being called after drinks that's the
29:32thing
29:34Trudy
29:39I'm quite frightened oh yeah it's not a good nice cone well cognac's beautiful to drink obviously
29:44But um yeah we just had an old-fashioned before we came on
29:53This is what i love vanessa i'm just sharing this with the group you have something rather special
29:57on your rider and it is a dog now i agree when you look at vanessa beautiful like sort of
30:06absolutely
30:06gorgeous that brain structure you think small a little like a powder puff of a dog on a top of
30:12cushion
30:13yeah ladies and gentlemen meet roscoe yeah
30:17oh wow wow wow there he is
30:20is that a great dane yeah
30:22yeah he's so beautiful and he comes to comes every show yeah he's got his giant bed next to my
30:31make-up table look at him he's amazing yeah he's enormous he's a great dane he's a great dane i
30:37had a
30:37great dane can't remember his name but uh
30:41okay
30:43it's a joke it's a proper joke it's joe what's his name
30:46roscoe like roscoe chicken and waffles i love roscoe chicken and waffles
30:50rosco lee brown you didn't know rosco lee brown did you i know who he was but it wasn't what's
30:55going on i don't know i don't know i want my ham i want my ham trains two trains running
31:03i saw rosco lee brown anyway it does it does feel sometimes like i'm in a nursing home
31:13i'm in a nursing home
31:18and there was this talk of this roscoe fella that nobody knew
31:22except you guys knew him very well chicken and waffles and the dog and the bit of the cognac
31:30gosh i am older than i realized
31:34so to be clear you have roscoe you have woody you love your dog we have woody we
31:39so we have three dogs yeah you have a dog of course i have a dog i breastfeed him
31:43no now i do tom you i believe you're on the fence regarding a dog
31:51i would love a dog but i worry about having a dog because i'm away a lot
31:54and um they're obviously a big responsibility but i would like a dog
31:58shall we tip the scales yeah i'd like that to meet a dog oh my god please welcome percy
32:06oh
32:16this is heather who owns percy look how can you not
32:20i will i will
32:22what do you think i love him i gave him a biscuit so he's happy
32:27look percy loves you hang on i feel like this isn't fair you've got treats for him he's never
32:32oh
32:34would you like a little treat lively like a little treat come on then come on
32:38come on this is tom no never interested in you this is the story of my life
32:42i mean he's just yeah god's kind of dog come on come on come on come on seven
32:45he's seven look he's taken to you look at that
32:52yeah you wanna go and live with me you wanna come and live with me you can have a dog
32:56like that i don't know whether
32:57you can take this dog he's your dog he's your dog okay he needs to leave thank you so much
33:03thank you
33:03percy thank you for having me nice to meet you yes you're right hi percy you got attached to it
33:09already
33:10what do you think i mean i don't think he actually like me that much don't take it on lightly
33:14unless
33:15you're can commit to a lifelong responsibility you're right and i spend a lot of money on furniture so
33:21will they i don't want them weeing up against it thank you so much so vanessa devil wears parada is
33:27on
33:28until when and where please we are at the dominion theater i am going to be there till october 17th
33:35and the show will run definitely until next year for sure okay thank you
33:46i'm going i commit right now to attend every show until you're out of it i'm going to be in
33:50every
33:50show when you're not in wolverhampton having a chicken rat
33:55tom you are going to musical theater you're about to star in titanique indeed and i'm i'm very
34:02there we go yeah that's set sail it is tell us all about it well it is the most extraordinary
34:10show i saw it when it first opened over here it started in america it's like the most ridiculous
34:16retelling of the film titanic um and it's as though celine dion was actually on board the ship of dreams
34:23and she got drunk and this is how she remembers the story of titanic and it's told through her songs
34:28so silly dion is the narrator in the in the show so that's kind of bonkers enough as it is
34:34and then
34:35added on to that is you've got people like me who play um you know rose the kate winslet character
34:40uh
34:40her mother is ruth and that's played by me so um and and and not really in period dress at
34:46all just
34:47i have an alice band on with some birds attached to it don't ask why just enjoy it and it's
34:52just such
34:52bonkers fun we're all coming well i think you would all love it i think there's something about
34:57it that's just kind of out of this world it's just joy just joy for a couple of hours you
35:01can't wait
35:01where's it on it's on at the criterion theater and um i'm in it until the 12th of april but
35:07it's booking through until until june we can't wait to sit thank you thank you one person
35:17tom is it true that your theater is haunted well they say there's a man in the circle who sometimes
35:24walks across and i thought i saw him but it turned out it was just the lighting man
35:28there um i think there are there are stories about him there but the more you look for him i
35:33think the
35:33lessee's going to appear right it's like it's like a husband isn't it um yeah there's supposed
35:39to be one in the dominion her name is eleanor she was uh like 10 years old and there used
35:44to be some
35:44giant beer vat or some kind of brewery in the in the bottom and there was an explosion and beer
35:52apparently flooded that whole tottenham court area no and this was a young girl that died in this flood
35:58of beer and she is a 10 year old daughter girl absolute drunk
36:09the drury lane theater there used to be just the bottom half of a man sitting in a seat so
36:15no yes
36:17would you like to chat to somebody who converses with ghosts yes yes maxine hello hello hello what is
36:25your advice to tom he's going to be performing singing he looks up to the circle should he bow what
36:34happens when you see when you see them i think if you want to see this ghost you can ask
36:40i mean they
36:41they will reveal themselves to you spirit when you say reveal themselves as in show
36:48um as in show their spirit body oh my goodness should i be on my own when i ask or
36:55well i don't think
36:57that matters really it doesn't matter i just think the cleaner is sometimes there so how brave are you
37:04feeling are you happy to see them if they appear in front of you well i suppose how do you
37:08know if
37:08they're if they're a malevolent spirit or all right well you know you're a good chap aren't you i mean
37:13you
37:13know generally about your performance you're the kind of person that's not got a good energy yourself
37:22you know you're you're kind of an evil person you're acting in no no he's very no i know i
37:28know
37:28but if you were you can then attract beings that aren't so nice well it seems like a lot of
37:34pressure
37:36will you let us know please well i will but not if it's a bad spirit it'll be like terribly
37:42badly
37:42on me it'll be like a parent a parent's evening like i did my best when was the last time
37:50you spoke
37:51to a spirit um yesterday um i did a reading for somebody and i see them and they talk to
37:58me wow is
37:58there anyone here i'm not working right now and i think that's the misconception oh i like the way
38:03that you just clock on and clocked up
38:19hey you know in this life you turned it to an angle you know who you look like go on
38:24go very young
38:25handsome john travolta yes correct correct wow until i was just sitting here a moment ago when you
38:33were talking to the spirit lady oh my goodness and i was possessed by the spirit of john travolta since
38:40he shaved his head uh tom you have also written a very brilliant book oh well it's a novel your
38:48first
38:48novel first novel yeah uh common decency tell us all about it well i i've written two non-fiction
38:55books about myself and this is the first time i've created a world and some characters in to inhabit it
39:00and i wanted to write about suburbia because um i think it's sort of boring place that everybody ignores
39:05but actually i've realized that's where all drama happens but it's about the sort of secrets and lies
39:10that exist in our kind of otherwise quite mundane life so i wanted to i just i like the idea
39:16of kind of
39:17well i live in suburbia now i live in bromley which is kind of archetypally suburban and i like and
39:21i'm on
39:21a whatsapp group and i've come to love all those trappings of you know people on do you have a
39:26whatsapp you know with your neighbors oh where they all like you know it's supposed to be to help your
39:29neighbors but it's just you know a load of you know idiots shouting nonsense into the wind and how often
39:36do you do you ever post no i just like to watch it the only time i like it is
39:39when people say they're
39:39putting out furniture on their driveway something which i like to call street tapas
39:44i love that i like you know but i like the sort of community aspect of it i always enjoyed
39:55that
39:55kind of thing of it all i'm loving your face jenny oh you love to run over those toads
40:04you've put your foot down oh you do whatsapp groups i i i can't whatsapp groups are the bane of
40:12my
40:13life really can you like do you like a whatsapp group i like one of the family i like there's
40:18one
40:18just my family is enough but then when they start having private conversations within the whatsapp
40:24group disgusting you then get a ping and it's just a emoji just can't bear them yeah unless it's
40:32family family family is fine and if it's if you've got one thing like it's a holiday or something and
40:38then it's got its purpose but don't mince about within it fine keep it strict fine i like it um
40:46there's
40:47a character in your book that i love oh called miranda oh yes well i talk about well i've tried
40:54to write about different generations as well because again i like the way that people mix in
40:58in the best part in the best parts of uh suburbia and miranda is somebody who's whose true past isn't
41:05really known however she is a somebody who even though she's in her 80s wants to experience all of
41:09life she's had a bucket list and now she has a different sort of list you can say her bucket
41:14list
41:14oh and that includes things like taking acid because i just sort of think if i make it to an
41:21old age rather than sort of going out with a whimper wouldn't it be great to experience acid or to
41:29try
41:29all those things you never thought you could try before why not dawn and i my friend dawn french and
41:34i once thought we'd be really daring and we got an ecstasy tablet oh goodness me and we thought we
41:40could
41:40take well i think it was something with a rabbit on it it was about that big and we thought
41:46one day
41:47i said well be alone it became such a matter of planning as to when we could take half an
41:54ecstasy
41:55tablet and so we kept it and kept it on dawn's mantelpiece like that and then one day just about
42:02six months later when we've gone okay right we're ready we had water we had we didn't know what to
42:08expect at all the pill had gone no your dog was looking lively that day and it was quite a
42:18relief
42:18yeah thank goodness thank god we don't do that anymore yeah no drugs for us the dog was out in
42:23the
42:23garden jumping up and down having sex with the truck um this brilliant book is out when please
42:31it's out on the 21st of may and you can pre-order it right now am i allowed to give
42:35this to jeff i won't
42:37keep it i'm not kidding i like the puppy dog really here tell me when to stop uh there left
42:43or right
42:44left uh tell me when to stop now uh we all need to discuss the planning application of course
42:52interrupted donald i assume that's what this is all about we are going to need to take action
42:57if the rumors are true about changing the area i love it there are definitely moments of exposition
43:05you have to realize you have to cover it right that is it i just want to check do you
43:12feel like
43:13you've covered everything is there anything you want to sell a bit harder i don't want to sell
43:18anything more but i have not covered even the tip of the iceberg no jeff i've got to go night
43:26night
43:26i never thought i'd say that to a guest not tonight on another occasion no please because my curiosity has
43:31been inflamed by this audience by you and by this group my god tom anything else um i went to
43:39buy rotisserie
43:40chicken yesterday for lunch and they sold out before lunch time who is having a rotisserie chicken for
43:47breakfast some people are perverts well thank you all we are so grateful uh we are off to eat salami
43:57happy with that yeah good i would like to thank my utterly brilliant guest tom allen
44:07jennifer saunders and jeff goldblum we are back next week and i'll be joined by joanne mcnally
44:17gus khan and niall horan thank you so much for watching good night
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