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00:00This is weird because we haven't met but I'm just going to 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. Who was the naughtiest bird this week?
00:18Spud the little owl
00:20Spud the little owl?
00:23Where does Spud sleep?
00:25In her aviary. Okay, that's a shame
00:30I'm so nervous. I just need to touch people
00:34Nice to see you. Nice to see you look divine. Hello. Oh, I'm gonna do this with everybody
00:39Thank you
01:05We 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
01:13We have an amazing audience and it's now time to welcome our brilliant guest
01:18He is a triple threat comedian presenter author. He's got a new book called common decency. It's Tom Allen
01:36He's been nominated for 11 Grammys and she's currently in the West End production of the devil wears Prada. It's
01:43Vanessa 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 far away tree. It's Jennifer Saunders
02:10And we have got Hollywood royalty. He starred in 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
02:52You 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
03:02No, no more words
03:05We were on the first show
03:08I'm going to start with this. How do you feel about the set?
03:13I think it's stunning
03:14I'm loving I'm like I like the height
03:16Yeah, go ahead because and I like the back being here being close to the actual back. Yes, you know,
03:23they don't have back. Oh, I'm so sorry
03:29I'm basically on a buffet actually or my parents used to have a buffet and then when I came out
03:35they suddenly changed it to the footstool
03:41Oh
03:47It's all all new I would call this a hunter green possibly. Yes, correct. Very manly kind of
03:55British British screen. Yes hunter would you call emerald green dark teal?
04:01Would 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 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. Wow. Well done Trudy. What would you call this
04:46color, please?
04:46I would call it a very dark teal
04:55I do think as well you guys who work in furniture shops are great. It's not a furniture shop. Oh,
05:02I beg your pardon
05:05It's a boutique. Trudy, I'm sorry. It's a boutique. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I shouldn't have spoke
05:11You don't get this with what you've got
05:14You don't get this in any other shops. Trudy, I'm sorry. I wish I was dead. I wish I was
05:19dead
05:20I mean, this is what I live for as a gay man being insulted by an upholsterer
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. Have you ever bought one?
05:45I bet you've not bought one
05:46You're a Hollywood star. You don't buy furniture
05:48You have to buy a mattress for lifetime
05:51Yeah, that's what they say always invest in a good bed or good shoes. Yeah, because if you're not in
05:55one you're in the other
05:58I love that
06:00And we went in and she was like and she said you gotta lie lie on it lie on the
06:04bed lie on it like they put down that plastic sheet as though
06:07It'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
06:18Basically and then she said how do you sleep which 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
06:49Explain that joke to me because
06:52This is my audience
06:53It's a British
06:55The double meaning of that of course is a nightstand next to the bed the piece of furniture Trudy
06:59But is nightstand because I think it's a Britishism is the double on tonda which is French for fish of
07:05the day. 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
07:15No, I've never heard of nightstand
07:17I thought you just meant an erection
07:19I don't I
07:21Do 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
07:26No, not so quickly, not so quickly
07:28Not so fast
07:29But yeah
07:29Okay, you two, Vanessa and Jennifer, you are linked by hairdresser
07:35By hair
07:35By Sven
07:38There's a battle tonight because Sven does both of us
07:42You booked in first
07:43Well, babes
07:44Mm-hmm
07:45He's got a lot more work to do
07:48He started this morning
07:51He's very creative
07:53I haven't known Sven that long
07:54Oh, six years
07:55I got you
07:56Oh, babes, darling
07:56I miss those days talking about a hairdresser
08:00I miss those days
08:02Jeff, I would love to talk to you about your album. Look at this
08:12Isn't that beautiful?
08:13Isn't that beautiful?
08:15I do think so really well, Fontana, you know, are great and my other people, my friends helped me do
08:22that
08:22The graphics of it, I 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
08:29Yes
08:30Which was still blooming, you get the connection
08:32Oh
08:32Love it
08:33And, um, I love this album very much
08:36It's jazz, you know, we play jazz, we're called Jeff Goldblum and the Mildred Schnitzer Orchestra
08:40And just to name a few
08:42So many
08:43How many in the orchestra?
08:45Five
08:45Two, oh
08:46It was a joke, I made a joke
08:48But last year, the BAFTAs
08:50I had the honour of playing during the In Memoriam section
08:53Oh
08:54I played on the piano with their orchestra
08:57Um
08:57You've sung, you did
08:58You must remember, As Time Goes By
08:59You did, um, oh, I thought it was Ding Dong The Witch is Dead
09:04Don't even
09:06No, that's macabre
09:07Uh, no, it was, it was, uh, you know, it was, uh, As Time Goes By, that beautiful song
09:13And we liked it so much that on this next album I sing a little bit of it and I
09:17play some more
09:17Oh
09:17And there's an orchestra on this one
09:20Which brings me, by the way, you may, you brought, you triggered something else in me just now
09:24This is lovely
09:25Um, Ding Dong, which is dead, Cynthia Erivo, the great Cynthia Erivo
09:30Amazing
09:30And I, on this next album, with strings and a big band, do a newfangled version of, um, If I
09:37Only Had a Brain
09:38Oh
09:38Oh
09:39What a beautiful
09:40Now you'll follow me the hour, you've heard it with the flowers
09:43Yeah
09:45So, and many other surprises but, but thank you for bringing it up, I'm very crazy about this album
09:50We have a clip of you playing, not a song from this album, but I believe the last one, but
09:54it's fantastic
09:55Have a look
09:55OK
09:57MUSIC
09:58MUSIC
09:59MUSIC
10:00MUSIC
10:25MUSIC
10:25MUSIC
10:56MUSIC
10:57MUSIC
10:59MUSIC
11:01and called cocktail lounges around Pittsburgh.
11:03I was 15, I think, at that point.
11:05And said, hey, I hear you need a pianist.
11:07They'd said, no, we don't know what you're talking about.
11:09Who's this? No, no, we don't need a piano.
11:10But a couple of people said, we have a piano,
11:12come over and play it.
11:13I got a couple of gigs that way,
11:15and my parents would drive me to the thing,
11:17and I started to play.
11:18It's almost the seed of what this has become.
11:21Yeah.
11:21Like that, you know.
11:23Exactly.
11:27I have become slightly obsessed with your wife,
11:30because she sometimes performs with you.
11:33We have a clip.
11:35She's spectacular. Here we go.
11:37She's spectacular. Look, look.
11:39That's Emily.
11:40Oh!
11:42Isn't she amazing?
11:44She was in the Olympics.
11:46She, Emily Goldblum, for heaven's sakes,
11:49whom I met at the gym 14 years ago,
11:52she was doing something like that.
11:54I whined it over and said, what are you doing?
11:56Look at that. That's it, the world-famous...
11:57I don't think anyone's listening to you, Blake.
11:59Yeah.
12:01Good point.
12:02It's at the Troubadour.
12:02You know the Troubadour?
12:03Yes.
12:04We performed, we did three sold-out shows.
12:06She's amazing.
12:07Yes.
12:08We did three sold-out shows there,
12:10and Emily, who was in the Olympics,
12:12doing rhythmic gymnastics.
12:14She was, that year that she went to Sydney,
12:16and did that, she was the Pan-American champion.
12:19She was the best of that in North, South America.
12:22She's fantastic.
12:23She's still a world-class athlete, as you can see.
12:25She's doing that.
12:25She's amazing.
12:26We did that a month ago at the Troubadour.
12:30Yeah, wow.
12:30Anyway, that's Emily.
12:31It's just like looking at me at home.
12:35So how do you compete with that?
12:36You know when you go home, and one of you says,
12:39I'll put some toast in, and does four cartwheels,
12:41and puts it in with her toes.
12:43She does, every move is quite a picture.
12:46I bet.
12:48She's astounding, but yes.
12:49But you can also do something rather wonderful.
12:52Well, I do this.
12:53Buckle up, guys.
12:53It's not an Olympic activity yet.
12:55I can wiggle my ears, but one at a time.
12:59Watch, watch this.
13:01Ready?
13:02Yeah.
13:03Oh, my goodness.
13:05Right there.
13:05Right there.
13:06Right there.
13:08Oh!
13:08Oh, ho!
13:09I apologize.
13:11Unbelievable.
13:12I apologize for everything.
13:14Jeff, you've starred, obviously, in Oscar-nominated
13:16Wicked, the biggest musical film in recent memory.
13:20Oh, yeah, yeah.
13:23And this is my favorite thing.
13:25I don't know whether this is true, but please say it is,
13:28that occasionally, you would look down the lens,
13:30and speak directly to the editor, and say,
13:33I like that take, or is that true?
13:36Yes, I would do takes.
13:37I was trying to do a good job, and sometimes, as was my want
13:41to do, I think is the phrase, I would, after a take,
13:44I would go, and he would go, and cut.
13:47OK.
13:48Jeff says, Myron Kirstein.
13:50That's, I say, that's a good one.
13:53Just so you know, our editor's called Steve.
13:54He's happy with any notes you have.
13:58That's your camera, over there.
14:00If you've said something that you're particularly proud of,
14:03Steve.
14:03You just say, Steve, add.
14:04Yes, I think I've been lively tonight, Steve.
14:06And I say any, any genuine moment, that especially,
14:11I like the spontaneous ones, where there's a real connection,
14:14which I've felt strongly with us.
14:17So I say, so far, anything is good for the show.
14:20Fine.
14:22Steve will take that.
14:23Good, Steve.
14:24I trust you completely, Steve.
14:26We all trust Steve.
14:28You are going on tour.
14:30Yes, ma'am.
14:30You're going to start in Wolverhampton.
14:32Oh, I love the Hamptons.
14:35Oh!
14:36I'm starting at the Hamptons.
14:37I haven't even Wikipedia.
14:39You know, this was all arranged, you know, for us.
14:43I don't, I don't know anything about it.
14:44How many, how many gigs, how many towns are you doing?
14:47We're doing a bunch.
14:47They're doing a few.
14:48You know, we've been to Glastonbury in several,
14:50you know, in the last several years, and Ronnie Scott's.
14:52We've played all over the place.
14:54Would you like to know more about Wolverhampton?
14:56Maybe the eateries you should go to, if there's a statue,
14:59a small aquarium.
15:00I believe Corey is here.
15:02Hello.
15:03Hi, Corey.
15:04Hello.
15:04You, you've been to Wolverhampton.
15:06I am from Wolverhampton.
15:08OK, so Jeff's there for a couple of days.
15:10Let's give him the full schedule.
15:11I'd like it laminated.
15:12Where should he go?
15:14Jeff, what you should do is you should get off the train
15:17in Wolverhampton, immediately get back on, and leave Wolverhampton.
15:21No!
15:22No!
15:23No!
15:25No!
15:25No!
15:26Where is it?
15:27Where is it?
15:27I have no idea.
15:28Yes, yes, it's not far.
15:30No, a couple of hours.
15:31OK.
15:32Is there somewhere delicious?
15:33No, it's great.
15:34Wolverhampton's absolutely great.
15:35We have, we have a Nando's.
15:37A Nando's?
15:39Chicken.
15:39It's a chicken restaurant.
15:40Chicken place.
15:41But being on tour, there's always something to do.
15:43Yes.
15:44I love going round Britain on tour.
15:47Always a little museum.
15:48There's a pencil museum.
15:50Yes.
15:51A moss museum.
15:52Yes.
15:52Very interested in pencils.
15:53What do you mean?
15:55I love pencils.
15:55There's a lot of shop mannequins dressed up.
15:58What's your pencil of choice number?
16:00I used to, once I go to my criminal period, when I was eight or nine...
16:07Fine.
16:07I stole the other kids' pencils.
16:09We had those desks that went like that.
16:11Yes.
16:11You know, when everybody was going out in a line, I'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, Geoffrey has all our pencils.
16:24And it was very embarrassing.
16:25And I'm cured.
16:26I'm a very honest...
16:28Honest...
16:29No stealing.
16:30Can I just...
16:30Because the way your face lit up at the sound of a pencil museum...
16:33I hope there is a pencil museum now.
16:36Um...
16:36Do you like a classic HB?
16:38Do you like ones that you can...
16:40No.
16:41I don't like a mechanical pencil.
16:43I'm very particular with my ballpoint pen.
16:46Can I throw this into the mix?
16:48What?
16:49Because this is going to blow your mind.
16:50There is a woman here, in this room, who designs pencils.
16:56No way!
16:57Correct!
16:58I'm getting goosebumps.
16:59I'm telling you...
17:00You're getting goosebumps?
17:01I'm going.
17:02I'm going.
17:02Who designs pencils?
17:04So, Amy, are you here?
17:06Yes.
17:06Amy, tell me what you do with pencils and...
17:10and stationary all round.
17:12So, I develop new types of pencils.
17:15Develop new types of pencils?
17:17Do you?
17:18Because we don't want to upset him because he's our very...
17:20very special guest.
17:21Do you do the...
17:23pencils?
17:25We have one.
17:25Yes.
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,
17:33that you have ever designed?
17:35So, our best pencil is the drawing pencil,
17:39which has the creamiest...
17:41Oh, it's creamy?
17:43It's the creamiest pencil and has the widest core.
17:46Does that mean the lead that goes through it?
17:49Yes.
17:50Is there a pencil museum?
17:51Because I'm...
17:52Did I make it up?
17:52There is.
17:53It's in the Lake District.
17:54Lake District?
17:55Are you going to the Lake District?
17:56I am now.
17:57Yeah.
17:58It's a museum.
17:59I'm going.
18:00Amazing.
18:01You have to.
18:02I'm definitely going.
18:04Amy, how brilliant you're here.
18:06Let's have a round of applause for Amy.
18:07Oh.
18:08I know.
18:09Amazing.
18:09Can I say...
18:09You know what you remind me of the other...
18:11The touring around England in plays?
18:14You all know that play, I'm sure.
18:16The Dresser.
18:17Oh, yes.
18:18Lovely play.
18:19Great.
18:20Courtney did it.
18:21And then Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen redid it in a remake.
18:25Ian McKellen made me eggs.
18:27What?
18:29Scramble.
18:30Scramble.
18:31Little salmon on the side.
18:33Yes, and toast.
18:35Toast?
18:36Lovely.
18:37Sit down or...
18:39Did you get a seat?
18:39No, sit down.
18:40Sit down.
18:41Barstool or chair?
18:42Barstool or chair?
18:43And a proper...
18:44Proper dining table.
18:46Just the two of you.
18:47Just the two.
18:47No, no, no.
18:48It was a group of people.
18:49Gosh, did you do all the eggs at once?
18:50Or did you do them personally?
18:52Personally.
18:52Personally.
18:53Personally.
18:53That's very bespoke.
18:54Bespoke eggs.
18:56Personally.
18:56I tell you, that's how you get the night.
18:58And then you plate them and everything was scrambled.
19:00I had scrambled eggs and smoked salmon this morning.
19:02Yeah.
19:02Oh, thanks.
19:03And toast.
19:04Guys, 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 is it out?
19:12June 5th.
19:13There we go.
19:13Wow.
19:13Night blooms.
19:16Brilliant.
19:18Jeff, no, you are amazing.
19:21Jennifer, we have to talk about your film, The Magic Far Away.
19:24Well, you're saying my film.
19:26I'm in the film.
19:27No, it's your film.
19:29Let's have a clip.
19:30It's just like you said.
19:31It's enchanted and wonderful.
19:33Dad and I just felt like a place like this would bring us all back together again.
19:38Grandma.
19:39I will get them back to the city if it is the last thing I do.
19:42Sorry, guys.
19:43Better start packing.
19:46You wish to cross the lamps, to locate a spell, to save your house from your evil grandma.
19:54We know all of this.
19:56You know all that because we just told you it.
19:58All right, no need to get shirty.
20:06It's just a lovely film.
20:08How much fun was it to me?
20:10Just so much fun.
20:11Gone.
20:11A great wig.
20:12I was going to say your hair was fantastic.
20:14A really good wig.
20:15Can we just have a look at Frida?
20:17Oh, my God.
20:18Look at this.
20:19Look at this wig.
20:19Look at this wig.
20:20There she is.
20:21That's the hair I want.
20:22I love the fact that we're flapping.
20:24I want that hair.
20:25You see nothing?
20:28It's so thick and it just stays in that shape.
20:30I love it because now, you see, this is Sven.
20:34Mm-hmm.
20:34Most of this is, there's a, most of a sort of a nun's hair has been woven into,
20:39in sort of extensions that are...
20:41You really know nuns sell their hair and they get made into extensions?
20:44Yeah.
20:44They do!
20:47Do they really?
20:48Yes.
20:49They sell what for money?
20:50Nuns sell their hair, don't they?
20:52I'm disagreeing because it's Jennifer.
20:54Whatever she says.
20:56Um, I, but I love the accent.
20:58I love everything about Frida.
20:59Yes, Frida.
21:00How did she, how was she created?
21:02Well, because I thought it was a small part.
21:03I wouldn't have to do very much.
21:05And, but they said, will you come in for rehearsal?
21:06And I went, yeah, of course.
21:07And it was with Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy and the children.
21:11And I thought, oh, this is quite...
21:14It's big time, you know, because you sort of been grappled into this big movie.
21:19And, um, I thought I'd better, I'd better try hard.
21:22But I had no idea what was going to come out of my mouth when I first opened my mouth.
21:26And I thought, do you know, I might go a little bit Danish
21:28because I can make...
21:30LAUGHTER
21:31Because I can make the Danish noises.
21:34You know, the tick and the takk and the birra-ba-da.
21:36LAUGHTER
21:36It's almost fluent.
21:38Yes!
21:39That's them, yeah?
21:39Yeah, tak, tak, tak, tak, tak, tak, tak.
21:43Yeah.
21:43So I put a little inflection of Danish into when I read the part.
21:48And when we'd finished, they went, we love the German.
21:50And I went...
21:51LAUGHTER
21:52No.
21:53I said, it was sort of more, no, German's good.
21:56German's good.
21:56I thought, damn.
21:57Yeah.
21:58I had to do the whole...
21:59I had to learn a German accent then and do the whole thing in German.
22:02But it gave me the character.
22:03Yes.
22:04It was lovely.
22:05So lovely.
22:05You guys are so good at accents.
22:07The preparedness that you've been given in schools is amazing.
22:12And you have to show up for...
22:14You said what?
22:15I'm not training.
22:16You're not training?
22:17LAUGHTER
22:18It's extraordinary.
22:19I mean, they can throw on an American accent immediately
22:22and, like, refine it so it's Midwestern, there's New York,
22:25what time period it is, but also do all these other ones.
22:28It's really... I'm very impressed.
22:30I admire that terrifically too.
22:31I admire it, terrifically.
22:32I'm a very big artist.
22:33I'm a very big artist.
22:35You are.
22:36Can you do a London accent?
22:38Not really.
22:40Not so much!
22:43But, like...
22:45I want to talk more about the film because the location is so beautiful.
22:50Tell me you were somewhere lovely.
22:52We were in a very lovely part of the countryside.
22:54Yeah.
22:55And near a wood, near a wood, because it is called The Magic Faraway Tree.
23:00It is about a tree that's magic and very far away.
23:03LAUGHTER
23:03You don't know where it was, do you?
23:05I don't know where it was.
23:06I think it was in a studio, but there we are.
23:09Never mind.
23:10LAUGHTER
23:11Very lovely.
23:13There is somebody here, because I believe you also have a place in the countryside.
23:17Yes.
23:17There is.
23:17There is somebody who lives, I think, in your neck of the woods.
23:20Oh, gosh.
23:21Is that scary?
23:22Slightly.
23:24Go on, go on.
23:25They do something rather magical.
23:26Is it in my hood?
23:27It's...
23:27I believe it is in your hood.
23:30OK.
23:30Anna, hello.
23:32What have you done this week?
23:33So, my neighbours 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.
23:42Wow.
23:42A thousand toads in the last few weeks.
23:44Wow.
23:44A thousand toads!
23:46Wow.
23:47A thousand toads!
23:47That saved a thousand toads.
23:51Wow.
23:51Are you...
23:52Are you...
23:54Is it like directing?
23:56Like...
23:56Like signs?
23:58No signposts.
23:59No signposts.
24:00So, I have my head torch and my gloves and a bucket, and we pick them up off the road,
24:05we put them in the bucket, and we help them to get to the gate near the pond, so they're
24:10not going
24:10to be on the road.
24:11Have you thought about building, I don't know, a tunnel?
24:15Do they say...
24:16I know this is a weird question, but I've committed to it.
24:19Do they say thank you?
24:21No, but they have the most beautiful little chirping sound.
24:25You can hear them when it's a really quiet evening.
24:28You can hear them kind of chirping, chirping, chirping in the pond, and they're really amazing.
24:31They're very sweet.
24:32Very, very good.
24:34Hey...
24:38Hey, do you know the end of that P.T. Anderson movie who did this year's One Bad Left
24:42and Another?
24:43Oh, yeah, I know.
24:45Yeah, of course.
24:46Magnolia.
24:47Magnolia.
24:48Where all the toads or frogs, you know, fall from the sky.
24:51Spoiler alert, Jeff!
24:52Spoiler alert!
24:53That happens right at the end.
24:54Steve, Steve, if you feel...
24:56Cut that into this segment.
24:59I love it!
25:03If you could save one animal...
25:06Oh.
25:06What would it have been?
25:07I would save a horse.
25:08Would you?
25:09Yes.
25:09Well, I'd need the hair for my extensions.
25:11I'd have to be chopping off...
25:14Yes, I think for the hair.
25:16For the hooves.
25:17Yeah.
25:18For the mental health.
25:23What would you say, Tom?
25:25You know what?
25:25None of them.
25:26I think...
25:28You know, people say, oh, it's so relaxing to go and spend time.
25:30In nature.
25:31When you look closely, all they're doing is eating each other.
25:35It's disgusting.
25:37You watch those David Attenborough films.
25:39Horrifying.
25:40Absolutely.
25:40People love it, don't they?
25:41Put it on while they're having their tea.
25:42A lion ripping a gazelle to shreds.
25:47You know, they fall asleep while they're watching a dolphin drown a whale.
25:53Horrible.
25:53Horrible.
25:53Why would you save any of them?
25:55I think the sooner we get rid of them, the better.
26:02I just think, you know...
26:03Yeah, yeah.
26:05It's a different view.
26:06And I think that's what this show is about.
26:08Correct.
26:10It's very...
26:10It's like question time, but for drunk celebrities.
26:16OK, Jennifer, when can we see The Magic Faraway Tree?
26:20I think it's out on March the 27th.
26:23Correct.
26:23Yes.
26:24We can't wait, we'll all go.
26:25A blue pattern.
26:26A blue pattern.
26:30Vanessa, I have to talk to you about The Devil Wears Prada.
26:34I went on Friday, every seat is full and they are screaming.
26:38And when you come up, the most beautiful thing, people are like...
26:42I was sitting next to somebody who was like in tears, screaming, standing up.
26:47It's a thing.
26:48It's like a rock concert.
26:50Describe the show just for anyone who doesn't know.
26:52Well, there's a young girl named Andy Sachs, who is a journalist, based on a true story.
26:58And she lives in New York.
27:00She applies for a job at Runway Magazine, which is a very famous fashion magazine, a.k.a. Vogue.
27:07And she has no idea who Miranda Priestly is, nor her reputation.
27:11And she gets the job as the assistant.
27:14And now they're doing a sequel to the movie.
27:16I know.
27:17So who knows what's going to happen this time.
27:19There's much excitement.
27:20Yeah.
27:21Let's have a clip of The Devil Wears Prada starring you.
27:25Oh, my God.
27:26What if I don't want this life?
27:28Everybody wants to be us.
27:31The Devil Wears Prada
27:36The Devil Wears Prada
27:40The Devil Wears Prada
27:47That's all.
27:49That's all.
27:50Wow.
27:51Wow.
27:52Wow.
27:52Wow.
27:53What a fun role to play.
27:55You must love it.
27:56It's fun.
27:57I can show up and be in a bad mood and not care because I can just be miserable the
28:01whole time.
28:02Yeah.
28:02And it doesn't matter.
28:03It just makes the role better.
28:04But, you know, I have to say, I love this country and I got a chance to meet the king.
28:11Like, you know, I've done things not just as a tourist and not just as a working actor, but these
28:18extraordinary experiences.
28:18You know, I did the Royal Variety Show.
28:21I mean, it's been, it's been heaven.
28:23How much fun was it working with Elton?
28:26Oh, my God.
28:27I mean, not only is he a legend and, you know, growing up listening to his music and going to
28:32his house in Windsor.
28:33Stop.
28:33Again, another opportunity that, you know, a normal tourist would never get.
28:38You know, tons of fresh...
28:41LAUGHTER
28:43You are living the life.
28:45He is so honest.
28:47That's what I love about him.
28:48He's so frank.
28:49And the first time I met him, we were doing the workshop in January 2024 and he had just had
28:55his first knee surgery.
28:57And I walked into the rehearsal room and his sweats were down by his ankles and he was showing everybody
29:03his scar, but all I saw was his bum.
29:05I was like, OK, good.
29:06Yeah.
29:07We're going to be friends.
29:09What about the dressing rooms?
29:10The difference between Broadway, if you like, and the West End.
29:13On Broadway, you can, uh, choose your, well, you can choose your paint colour and, and...
29:18Blood colour.
29:18Oh, yeah.
29:19Stop.
29:20Yeah, yeah, yeah.
29:21Dark teal.
29:22LAUGHTER
29:23Trudy.
29:24A little bit of dark teal.
29:26Yes.
29:26Yeah.
29:27Is that coffee?
29:28Modka?
29:28Modka?
29:29I don't like colours being called after drinks.
29:33Well, it's Trudy.
29:35Hard work is Trudy.
29:36Should we give Trudy, do you?
29:39I'm quite frightened of Trudy.
29:41Cognac, it's not a good, nice Cognac.
29:42Well, Cognac's beautiful to drink, obviously.
29:44But, um...
29:46Yeah, we just had an old-fashioned before we came on.
29:49Good God!
29:50Good God!
29:51Good God!
29:52Um, this is what I love, Vanessa.
29:55I'm just sharing this with the group.
29:56You have something rather special on your rider, and it is a dog.
30:01Now, I agree.
30:02When you look at Vanessa, beautiful, like, sort of, absolutely gorgeous, that bone structure,
30:07you think, small, a little, like a powder puff of a dog on a top of cushion.
30:13Yeah?
30:14Ladies and gentlemen, meet Roscoe.
30:16Yeah!
30:17Oh, wow!
30:18Wow!
30:19There he is!
30:20Roscoe.
30:21Is that a great Dane?
30:22Yeah.
30:23Beautiful!
30:24He's so beautiful.
30:25And he comes to every show.
30:29He's got his giant bed next to my...
30:31Look at him!
30:33He's amazing!
30:34He's enormous!
30:35He's a great Dane?
30:36He's a great Dane.
30:36Uh, I had a great Dane.
30:38Did you?
30:38Can't remember his name.
30:39But, uh...
30:42The name...
30:43It's a joke!
30:44It's a proper joke.
30:45What's his name?
30:46Roscoe.
30:47Like, Roscoe Chicken and Waffles.
30:48I love Roscoe Chicken and Waffles.
30:50Roscoe Chicken and Waffles.
30:50Roscoe Lee Brown.
30:51You didn't know Roscoe Lee Brown, did you?
30:52I know who he was, but it wasn't...
30:55What's going on?
30:56I don't know.
30:56I know Roscoe Lee Brown.
30:57I don't know.
30:58I don't know.
31:00I want my ham.
31:01I want my ham.
31:02Two trains running.
31:03I saw Roscoe Lee Brown.
31:05Anyway.
31:05It does...
31:05It does feel sometimes like I'm in a nursing home.
31:08LAUGHTER
31:10LAUGHTER
31:10LAUGHTER
31:11LAUGHTER
31:12LAUGHTER
31:13I'm joking.
31:14That was the best thing in league ever!
31:16There was a few moments when there was this talk of this Roscoe fella
31:21that nobody knew except you guys knew him very well.
31:24Chicken and Waffles and the dog and the cognac.
31:28LAUGHTER
31:30Gosh, I am older than I realise.
31:33LAUGHTER
31:34So, to be clear, you have Roscoe, you have Woody, you love your dog.
31:38Woody, we have Woody, so we have three dogs.
31:40Yeah, Jennifer.
31:40Do you have a dog?
31:41Of course I have a dog.
31:42And you have a dog.
31:43I breastfeed him.
31:44No.
31:46I do.
31:48Tom, you, I believe, you're on the fence regarding a dog.
31:51I would love a dog, but I worry about having a dog
31:53because I'm away a lot and they're obviously a big responsibility,
31:57but I would like a dog.
31:58Shall we tip the scales?
32:00Yeah, I'd like that.
32:01Are you ready to meet a dog?
32:02Oh, no!
32:04Oh, no!
32:04Please welcome Percy!
32:06Oh!
32:07Oh, no!
32:08Oh!
32:10No way!
32:11Come on, Percy!
32:12Come on, Percy!
32:14Oh, Percy!
32:16This is Heather, who owns Percy.
32:18Look, how can you not stroke him?
32:21I will, I will!
32:22What do you think?
32:23I gave him a biscuit.
32:23I love him.
32:24I gave him a biscuit so he's happy.
32:26Oh, look!
32:28Percy loves you.
32:29Hang on, I feel like this isn't fair.
32:30You've got treats for him.
32:32He's never got...
32:32Oh, Percy!
32:34Would you like a little treat?
32:36Lively.
32:36Do you like a little treat?
32:37Come on, then.
32:37Come on, then.
32:38Sit on, this is Tom.
32:39No, never.
32:40He's more interested in you.
32:41This is the story of my life!
32:42I mean, he's just got standard done.
32:44Oh, come on.
32:45Seven.
32:45Don't spill me.
32:47Look, he's taken to you, look at that.
32:50You're a good boy.
32:52I love you.
32:53You want to go and live with me?
32:54You want to come and live with me?
32:55You can have a dog like that.
32:56I don't know whether you can take this dog.
32:59He's your dog.
33:00He's your dog.
33:01OK, he needs to leave.
33:02Thank you so much.
33:03Thank you, Percy.
33:04Thank you, Heather.
33:05Nice to meet you.
33:06Yes, you're right.
33:07Hi, Percy.
33:08You got attached to it already.
33:10What do you think?
33:11I don't think he actually liked me that much.
33:13Don't take it on lightly, unless you can commit to a lifelong...
33:17Absolutely.
33:18Responsibility, you're right.
33:19And I spend a lot of money on furniture, so will they...
33:21I don't want them weeing up against it.
33:23Thank you so much.
33:25So, Vanessa, Devil Wears Prada is on...
33:28Until when and where, please?
33:30We are at the Dominion Theatre.
33:32I am going to be there till October 17th,
33:35and the show will run definitely until next year for sure.
33:38OK.
33:46I commit right now to attend every show until you're out of it.
33:49I'm going to be at every show.
33:51When you're not in Wolverhampton, having a chicken wrap.
33:55Tom, you are going to musical theatre.
33:58You're about to star in Titanic.
34:00Indeed.
34:00And I'm very...
34:02There we go.
34:03About to set sail.
34:05It is...
34:06Tell us all about it.
34:08Well, it is the most extraordinary show.
34:11I saw it when it first opened over here.
34:13It started in America.
34:14It's like the most ridiculous retelling of the film Titanic.
34:18And it's as though Celine Dion was actually on board
34:21the ship of dreams, and she got drunk,
34:24and this is how she remembers the story of Titanic.
34:27And it's told through her songs.
34:29So Celine Dion is the narrator in the show.
34:32So that's kind of bonkers enough as it is.
34:34And then added on to that is you've got people like me
34:37who play, you know, Rose, the Kate Winslet character.
34:41Her mother is Ruth, and that's played by me.
34:43Yes.
34:43So...
34:45And not really in period dress at all.
34:47I have an Alice band on with some birds attached to it.
34:49Don't ask why.
34:50Just enjoy it.
34:51And it's just such bonkers fun.
34:53We're all coming.
34:54Well, I think you would all love it.
34:56We would.
34:56There's something about it that's just kind of out of this world.
34:59It's just joy.
34:59Just joy for a couple of hours.
35:01I can't wait.
35:01Where's it on?
35:02It's on at the Criterion Theatre, and I'm in it until the 12th of April,
35:07but it's booking through until June.
35:09We can't wait to sit.
35:11Thank you, one person.
35:14He is coming.
35:17Tom, is it true that your theatre is haunted?
35:20Well, they say there's a man in the circle who sometimes walks across,
35:24and I thought I saw him, but it turned out it was just the lighting man.
35:29I think there are stories about him, but the more you look for him,
35:33I think the less he's going to appear, right?
35:34It's like a husband, isn't it?
35:38Yeah, there's supposed to be one in the Dominion.
35:40Her name is Eleanor.
35:42She was like 10 years old, and there used to be some giant beer vat
35:46or some kind of brewery in the bottom, and there was an explosion,
35:50and beer apparently flooded that whole Tottenham Court area.
35:55And this was a young girl that died in this flood of beer,
35:59and she is a 10-year-old girl.
36:02Drunk.
36:03Absolute drunk.
36:05Stumbling around.
36:09The Drury Lane Theatre, there used to be just the bottom half
36:13of a man sitting in a seat sometimes.
36:16Yes.
36:17Would you like to chat to somebody who converses with ghosts?
36:20Yes.
36:21Yes.
36:22Maxine.
36:23Hi.
36:24Hello.
36:24What is your advice to Tom?
36:27He's going to be performing, singing.
36:30He looks up to the circle.
36:32Should he bow?
36:33What happens when you see them?
36:35I think if you want to see this ghost, you can ask.
36:40I mean, they will reveal themselves to you.
36:43What do you mean?
36:44If you ask.
36:44When you say reveal themselves.
36:46As in show...
36:48As in show their spirit body.
36:51Oh my goodness.
36:53Should I be on my own when I ask?
36:55Or...
36:55Well, I don't think that matters really.
36:58It doesn't matter.
36:59I just think the cleaner is sometimes there, so...
37:03How brave are you feeling?
37:04Are you happy to see them if they appear in front of you?
37:07Well, I suppose, how do you know if they're a malevolent spirit?
37:10Or a happy spirit?
37:11Well, you know, you're a good chap, aren't you?
37:13I mean, generally...
37:13You'd be really bitchy about your performance.
37:15Yeah, like, oh, bitchy!
37:18If you're the kind of person that's not got a good energy yourself,
37:22you know, you're kind of an evil person, you're acting in...
37:26No, no, he's very childish.
37:27No, I know, I know.
37:28But if you were, you can then attract beings that aren't so nice.
37:33Well, it seems like a lot of pressure now.
37:35Yeah.
37:37Will you let us know, please?
37:38Well, I will, but not if it's a bad spirit.
37:41It'll reflect terribly badly on me.
37:43It'll be like a parent, a parent's evening, like,
37:46I did my best!
37:49When was the last time you spoke to a spirit?
37:52Um, yesterday.
37:54Oh.
37:54I did a reading for somebody and I see them and they talk to me.
37:58Wow.
37:58Is there anyone here?
38:00I'm not working right now and I think that's the misconception.
38:03Oh, I like the way you just clock on and clock on.
38:06What do you got?
38:07Thank you, Maxine. Let's hear it for Maxine.
38:13Fantastic.
38:14You like that movie called it right?
38:15It's a union thing.
38:16I get it.
38:17It's a union thing.
38:18It's a union thing.
38:19Hey, you know, in this life, you've turned it to an angle.
38:22You know who you look like?
38:23Go on.
38:24Very young, handsome John Travolta.
38:26Yes.
38:27Correct.
38:28Correct.
38:29Wow.
38:30Correct.
38:31Until I was just sitting here a moment ago when you were talking to the spirit lady.
38:35Tom.
38:35Yes.
38:35Oh, my goodness.
38:36And I was possessed by the spirit of John Travolta since he shaved his head.
38:43Tom, you have also written a very brilliant book.
38:46Oh.
38:46It's a novel.
38:48Your first novel.
38:49My first novel, yes.
38:50Common Decency.
38:51Tell us all about it, please.
38:53Well, I've written two non-fiction books about myself and this is the first time I've created a world and
38:58some characters to inhabit it.
39:00And I wanted to write about suburbia because I think it's a sort of boring place that everybody ignores.
39:06But actually, I've realised that's where all drama happens.
39:09But it's about the sort of secrets and lies that exist in our kind of otherwise quite mundane lives.
39:14So I wanted to...
39:15I just...
39:16I like the idea of kind of...
39:17Well, I live in suburbia now.
39:18I live in Bromley, which is kind of archetypally suburban.
39:20And I like...
39:21And I'm on a WhatsApp group.
39:22And I've come to love all those trappings of, you know, people on...
39:25Do you have a WhatsApp group, you know, with your neighbours?
39:27Oh, where they all like...
39:28You know, it's supposed to be to help your neighbours, but it's just, you know, a load of, you know,
39:32idiots shouting nonsense into the wind.
39:35And how often do you ever post?
39:37No, I just like to watch it.
39:38The only time I like it is when people say they're putting out furniture on their driveway, something which I
39:42like to call street tapas.
39:47I love that!
39:49I like...
39:51You know, but I like the sort of community aspect of it.
39:54I've always enjoyed that kind of thing of it all.
39:57I'm loving your face, James.
39:59Oh, you love to run over those toads.
40:02LAUGHTER
40:04You've put your foot down.
40:07You do WhatsApp groups?
40:09I... I can't...
40:10WhatsApp groups are the bane of my life.
40:13Really?
40:14I can't spare them.
40:15Can you like... Do you like a WhatsApp group?
40:16I like one of the families.
40:17I like this one, just my family is enough.
40:20But then when they start having private conversations within the WhatsApp group...
40:24Disgusting.
40:25You then get a ping and it's just a fucking emoji.
40:28LAUGHTER
40:29I just can't bear them.
40:31Yeah, fine.
40:32Unless it's family. Family is fine.
40:33Family is fine.
40:34And if it's...
40:35If you've got one thing, like it's a holiday or something, and then it's got its purpose, but don't mince
40:40about within it.
40:41Fine.
40:42Keep it strict.
40:44Fine.
40:44I like it.
40:45APPLAUSE
40:47There's a character in your book that I love called Miranda.
40:52Oh, yes.
40:53We'll talk about her.
40:54Well, I've tried to write about different generations as well, because, again, I like the way that people mix in
40:58the best parts of suburbia.
41:01And Miranda is somebody whose true past isn't really known.
41:05However, she is somebody who, even though she's in her 80s, wants to experience all of life.
41:10She's had a bucket list, and now she has a different sort of list.
41:13You can say it.
41:14Her fuck it list.
41:14Oh.
41:15And that includes things like taking acid.
41:18Because I just sort of think, if I make it to an old age, rather than sort of going out
41:24with a whimper, wouldn't it be great to experience acid?
41:28Or to try all those things you never thought you could try before?
41:31Why not?
41:32Dawn and I, my friend Dawn French and I, once thought we'd be really daring, and we got an ecstasy
41:37tablet.
41:38Oh, goodness me.
41:39And we thought we could take...
41:41Well, I think it was something with a rabbit on it.
41:43It was about that big.
41:45And we thought, one day, I said, well, be alone.
41:48And then it became such a matter of planning as to when we could take half an ecstasy tablet.
41:56And so we kept it and kept it on Dawn's mantelpiece like that.
42:00And then one day, just about six months later, we've gone, OK, we're ready.
42:04We had water.
42:06We didn't know what to expect at all.
42:09The pill had gone.
42:10No!
42:13Your dog was looking lively that day.
42:17And it was quite a relief to be honest.
42:19You were like, thank goodness.
42:19Thank God, we don't do that anymore.
42:21Yeah.
42:21No drugs for us.
42:22The dog was out in the garden, jumping up and down.
42:26Having sex with the dragon.
42:29This brilliant book is out when, please?
42:31It's out on the 21st of May and you can pre-order it right now.
42:35Am I allowed to give this to Jack?
42:36I won't keep it.
42:37I'm not keeping it.
42:38It's not like the puppy dog.
42:39I'd love you to have a coffee.
42:39Really.
42:40Here, tell me when to stop.
42:42There.
42:43Left or right?
42:44Left.
42:45Tell me when to stop.
42:47Now.
42:48We all need to discuss the planning application, of course.
42:52Interrupted Donald.
42:54I assume that's what this is all about.
42:56We are going to need to take action if the rumours are true about changing the area.
43:00I love it.
43:01There you go.
43:04There are definitely moments of exposition.
43:06You have to realise that you have to cover it.
43:08Right.
43:09That is it.
43:11I just want to check, do you feel like you've covered everything?
43:14Is there anything you want to sell a bit harder?
43:18I don't want to sell anything more, but I have not covered even the tip of the iceberg.
43:23No.
43:24Jeff, I've got to go night-night.
43:26I never thought I'd say that to a guest.
43:28Not tonight, on another occasion.
43:29Please.
43:30Because my curiosity has been inflamed by this audience, by you, and by this group.
43:36My God.
43:37Tom.
43:37Anything else?
43:38I went to buy rotisserie chicken yesterday for lunch, and they sold out before lunchtime.
43:46Who is having a rotisserie chicken for breakfast?
43:49Some people are perverts.
43:52Well, thank you all.
43:53We are so grateful.
43:55We are off to eat salami.
43:57Happy with that?
43:58Yeah.
43:58Good.
43:59I would like to thank my utterly brilliant guests.
44:02Tom Allen.
44:04Vanessa Williams.
44:07Jennifer Saunders.
44:10And Jeff Goldblum.
44:13We are back next week.
44:15And I'll be joined by Joanne, Nally, Gus Khan, and Niall Horan.
44:19Thank you so much for watching.
44:20Good night.
44:21Michael Taequann, thank you.
44:23Thank you very much.
44:26The Makeover Challenge goes Olympic.
44:29RuPaul's Drag Race UK versus the World, next on BBC One.
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