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the whole show podcast. Thank

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you. Morning, everybody. Welcome along

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to your free podcast for today, Thursday,

1:08

February the sixteenth. And we kicked off with

1:10

the fact that Raquel Welch has

1:12

died. The the ripe old

1:14

age as they call it now of eighty two. Now

1:16

I remember, she came over to

1:18

this country. She

1:20

a, she married a Brit at

1:23

some point in her career. And

1:26

but she appeared on the Wogan show

1:29

plugging her book. Now,

1:31

the BBC were very funny in those

1:33

days about, you know, you could have

1:35

the book there, but you couldn't hold it up

1:37

to the camera. That was a blatant

1:40

plug. And the BBC were very funny about it.

1:42

remember when Betty Davis came

1:44

over the legendary Betty Davis and

1:46

was being interviewed by Wogan, and he's chatting about Hollywood

1:48

and all the rest of it. And she then she said, when

1:51

don't we gonna talk about my book?

1:53

And she held it up to the camera, and Raquel

1:55

Welch did the same thing. You know,

1:57

I'm here to talk about my book and held it up to

1:59

the camera. You can hear them in Woken's earpiece

2:01

going. Get her to put the book down. Get her to put the book

2:03

down because I think the show was live. Otherwise, you could've

2:05

you could've cut it out quite easily. She

2:08

was famous for, I suppose, fantastic

2:11

voyage. Millions years BC would be

2:13

the the thing that she was most famous

2:15

for because she came out of the

2:17

ocean and she was very glam and all the rest of it. I'm

2:19

to honest with you. You

2:22

know, even after she

2:25

she sort of all sort of opted out of

2:27

the movie business. She was still wracked

2:29

well. She was a bit like Sofia La Renci.

2:31

Always looked glamorous. And I'm

2:33

looking at picture of it now. And

2:35

if that's an eighty two year old woman, there's

2:38

hope for all of us. But as I said before,

2:40

you can look fantastic on the outside. You can

2:42

have your cosmetic surgery done. Your

2:44

hair wigs pieces, and she does have huge

2:46

wig collection. Which she sells on

2:48

QVC. She wasn't there, but they would say this

2:50

is the reco Welsh wing collection.

2:52

Was it QVC? Was it one of the other shopping channels?

2:55

But whatever it was, I mean, she was very

2:57

successful business woman, but it was

2:59

those two films. Even though,

3:01

I think she got a golden

3:03

globe for her role in the three Muscetees.

3:06

Because she just looked glam and Hollywood

3:08

liked glam people, but she had

3:10

a brief illness. And they

3:12

say she was one of the most sought after styles. I don't

3:15

think she was. I know I'm not decrying her in any

3:17

way. I'm just thinking she was famous because

3:19

she was glamorous and busty and looked

3:21

good in in sort of a fur lined

3:23

bikini in one million years BC. And that's

3:25

why people liked her. She was she was the forerunner

3:28

to to sex symbols. People were going,

3:30

my gold, she was a sex seventy go She

3:32

looked good. Like Ursula Andress,

3:34

in the Bond movie, she came out of the sea,

3:37

and he was singing underneath

3:39

her hood hoodie, my honey. And

3:41

she became famous for that one role. She could have done million

3:43

and one other things, but she would only be remembered

3:46

for that. And so in case of Raquel

3:48

Welch, that'd be an interesting funeral.

3:50

I don't know who she was married

3:52

to at the end of her life, but

3:55

the family obviously but I mean, you know, the family

3:57

had gutted as indeed you would expect them to be,

3:59

as indeed you would expect them to be. We're

4:01

a little bit gutted about the fact the BBC of stolen

4:03

Allan Carver ITV chose to quiz show.

4:06

As part of their new Saturday night lineup because

4:08

they've got rid of Norlikey Norlikey,

4:11

so they've got to find somebody else and they think

4:13

Allan Carr is the one to do it. However,

4:15

Going back the other way, Claudia Winkleman

4:18

has joined Saturday Night Takeaway, which

4:20

returns, I think, at the end

4:22

of the month. I'm pretty certain.

4:25

And so they were they

4:27

were sort of hoping that he would have

4:29

done the David

4:31

Williams role I think on

4:33

on Britain's got talent. I mean, personally,

4:36

I think he's just two camp. I was

4:38

watching the Housewives of must have been a repeat

4:40

program actually. The Housewives of

4:42

Cheshire. What a revolting bunch

4:44

of people they were. They were standing up, walking

4:46

off the set, doing everything else. Some of them

4:48

didn't like Dawn, whoever she was, and

4:50

all these other people. And it was all held together

4:53

loosely by Brian Dowling. I didn't

4:55

even know he was still working. Came as a big shock

4:57

to me. But he was there sort of trying to hold

4:59

this thing together and they all end up shouting over

5:01

him and shouting at each other and you said

5:03

this and I said that, I'm thinking, this

5:05

program is ghastly. It really is ghastly,

5:08

but we seem to like those sort of things. Gantzen

5:11

roses would

5:13

have been canceled Now

5:15

if they came up, slash

5:18

who is the guitar is born, Saul

5:20

Hudson. You can understand why you changed it to

5:22

slash. It makes it sound a bit more butch, I suppose.

5:24

He said, I'm just glad we didn't have the internet back

5:26

there because, you know, they

5:28

they would have been sort of goofed

5:31

off on a number of different levels.

5:34

I have heard of slash. I have heard

5:36

of Gums and Roses, but I couldn't tell you any of their

5:39

songs. I have no idea any of their

5:41

songs. They would sort of they were probably very popular.

5:43

And very nice. Even Freddie hasn't got the faintest

5:45

idea on what their songs were. I don't know why. Isn't

5:47

it funny? Why should we not know this? It's probably because

5:49

they've got a limit. I bet you anything Jack

5:52

would know. Jack would know what their

5:54

what their hits were. So they've got

5:57

see, they're they're not just an American rock

5:59

band. They're American hard

6:01

rock band as in Hard

6:04

Rock, hallelujah. Remember that

6:06

one? And they've had

6:08

nominations and they've done on various record

6:10

labels including Gessen records.

6:13

And they're also known can't say what they're

6:15

also known as very rude, but they have sweet

6:17

child of mine. Don't cry. I mean, they're just

6:19

tons and tons of records. And presumably

6:21

the fans absolutely adored them, but I didn't

6:23

know enough about them. I couldn't I

6:25

can't sit in the car and listen to thrash

6:29

as I call it.

6:31

Emetale are gonna air an episode with

6:33

an all male cast in the storyline focusing

6:36

on men's mental health. It's very funny

6:38

when you watch the the

6:41

the pub in Emmerdale, in

6:43

the wall pack. And you suddenly realize

6:45

that it's taken over by people holding

6:47

boom microphone and all the restaurants. Anyway, the camera

6:50

pulls back because you don't see them because it looks fairly

6:52

small. But in fact, when you see pictures of it,

6:54

it actually looks an awful lot better. So

6:56

They're gonna bring Patty Kirk back

6:58

played by Dominic Brunt, who's gonna struggle

7:01

with depression and loneliness because he's split with

7:03

his wife, Chaz. And

7:06

so it's gonna go so and their answer

7:08

is or their excuse for putting this on

7:10

is because it reflects today's rights

7:12

society. Because somebody

7:15

wrote to me the other day and said, you were quite right.

7:18

When we were looking for this missing well,

7:20

lady at the moment who might have not fallen in the river, I

7:22

said yesterday on the program, I think

7:24

the police said they know something,

7:27

and they did. She apparently has

7:29

alcoholic problems. So she was on their

7:31

high risk register. Because somebody

7:33

wrote to me and said you were right yet again. I said

7:35

I just thought there was something about it. They weren't

7:37

being totally people just don't vanish

7:40

like that. Well, having said that, we've had loads of

7:42

people over the years who've completely disappeared.

7:44

But in this particular case, she'd

7:46

already been seen by the police two

7:49

weeks previously because of these

7:51

drink related issues. I mean, just

7:54

just really dreadful. Really dreadful. I mean, I

7:56

I don't predict a happy ending on this one. I

7:58

don't think I'm alone in that. For

8:00

Birmingham, a peaky blinders theme

8:02

park. What? You

8:04

know they were called peaky blinders? Why they were called

8:07

peaky blinders? Because they

8:10

used to have razor blades.

8:12

Yes. They would slash people. They would

8:15

slash you. So, I mean, on a theme park

8:17

based on what not to go near

8:19

anybody in that one. They had a theme park on the tell yesterday,

8:21

which is very good. It was in Notchcam

8:23

show us a minute like that. And it's a tram

8:25

theme park, working trams. And

8:27

they've got about sixty of them. And

8:29

I thought, look, brilliant. It was built up out of nothing

8:32

and they decided to start collecting them. And

8:34

now they've got loads of them. As I say, sixteen,

8:36

you go up there. They get about a hundred and twenty thousand

8:38

visitors a year. And you can go there and

8:40

you can probably use their tea room. And then you go on all

8:42

these different trams and they just got up

8:44

there. I mean, happy days. Blackpool

8:46

still has trams, croydon, still

8:48

has trams, but these are the old trams,

8:51

which probably look more like the ones in Blackpool

8:53

than the ones in Croydon, I suspect.

8:57

Viewers of BBC One's one show, that that

8:59

must be counted them on one hand. I don't think there's many

9:01

people. A very little bit baffled by Sam

9:03

Smith who reveals his dreamer becoming

9:05

a fisher them. I

9:08

mean, I also think it's mad

9:10

as a fruit bat. I'd got no idea what he's

9:12

talking about, and it's

9:14

interesting because viewers

9:17

of the show, Sam Smith revealed the dream of becoming

9:19

a fisher them. In a chat about the secret

9:21

love of fly fishing, and they corrected the presenter

9:23

who misgendered them as fishermen. Apparently,

9:26

they are fisher them. Well, you can go

9:29

and nod off because I don't care. I'm

9:31

gonna call them fishermen. My brother's a fisherman.

9:33

Man, you don't get fisher women but not fisher

9:35

them. That is just Stupid.

9:38

Absolutely stupid. So Rowan and Keating

9:41

are Sam Smith. Oh, you're a big fan of fishing.

9:44

And and he said, yes. Says you're a fisherman.

9:46

went no fish of them. And

9:48

you think to yourself, you know, go

9:51

away. We know you look stupid in that outfit of

9:53

the Brit awards. Whatever you wanna do, love, you do

9:55

whatever you wanna do, but the

9:57

very idea that Sam Sam

9:59

Smith will be found by the side of a river dangling

10:02

his rod in the wall is almost too hilarious,

10:04

but the non binary pop star who

10:06

uses the pronouns they all them. I'm just not interested.

10:09

I don't have to be interested. You know,

10:11

like I'm not interested in Harry. Because apparently,

10:13

it turns out Prince Harry is not a prince

10:15

anymore. Is he? Said

10:17

that he he would come to the coronation

10:21

but he wants a meeting with Charles beforehand.

10:23

And I'm thinking, I think

10:25

not dear. Who in God's name do you

10:27

think you are? You've written a book

10:29

scathing about the royal family. You're

10:31

just a pretty little boy who

10:33

basically has always got his own way and you

10:35

think that before you decide whether to come

10:37

to you're gonna have sort of a meeting with

10:39

Prince Charles. He's a bit busy love.

10:42

He's a bit busy. Okay? Like you're not

10:44

busy. He's very busy. But

10:46

imagine, I'll have a meeting first so we can

10:48

sort things out. He doesn't wanna sort things out.

10:50

I'll tell you what you give the hundred million back.

10:52

And stop doing these ridiculous podcasts and stop

10:55

writing silly books. And we might be might be

10:57

on a level, but but why on earth should should

10:59

Charles want a meeting with you? You're a

11:01

son. You'll do what you're told. Okay?

11:03

If you don't wanna do what you're told, then,

11:06

you know, stay where you are. Cycle up and

11:08

down, you drive on your bicycle and try not to fall

11:10

over. Okay? Everybody will be happy. Harry

11:14

Potter could be set for a shock return. Apparently,

11:17

they're thinking about bringing the cursed child

11:20

to the big screen. It's literally

11:22

stone throw from here. It's been running for

11:25

ages and ages. But according to the sun,

11:27

they think the show could be coming to a big screen.

11:29

Now because I I don't know enough about

11:31

Harry Potter. I've never seen the cursed

11:33

child and But

11:35

I'm sure it's wonderful, but they'll have to

11:37

find lots of other people. To appear in it because

11:39

I the the one time children who

11:41

appeared in it, they're a little bit older now.

11:44

It's like s club seven, as we were saying the

11:46

other day, they were very young when they were jumping

11:48

about on the stage, you go, reach for all the stars,

11:50

climb everything, man. And reach for all the stars.

11:52

And then one of the columnist wrote in the paper today

11:54

and said, I for one, We'll be glad to see

11:56

back of them. I never liked the first time around.

11:59

That doesn't help, does it? Sting

12:01

Gordon Sumner set to become a fellow

12:03

of the IVORS Academy joining

12:05

people like Paul McCartney and Elton John. Has

12:08

he written any decent songs recently? I

12:10

don't know. I don't know. Ritchie

12:13

Sambora, as I say, he was he

12:15

was just sort of back a minute ago as potato

12:18

on the mask singer. That's how desperate they

12:20

were to get some publicity. And

12:23

He says he's got plans to reunite with Bon

12:26

Jovi and make new music. I

12:28

mean, he's sixty three, but he bit older

12:31

than sixty three because these rock people

12:33

have rough kind of lies. But doesn't say you

12:35

must have taken that when they all the crowd out, take

12:37

it. Oh, take it. He took the head off and they're still

12:39

going Take it, and I still got the same head.

12:41

Take it off. And it was Richie

12:43

Sambo, but nobody would know who he was. I

12:45

wouldn't have did some. I'd have looked at him and got to know

12:48

his name. I wouldn't have known

12:50

what he looked like. Leonardo DeCaprio enjoying

12:52

a boy's night out night out.

12:54

He's faced a bit of a backlash for his connection to

12:56

a model called Eaton Polani. He's

12:59

forty eight. She's nineteen.

13:01

It did go out to watch a

13:04

game, the Los Angeles Clippers game on Tuesday

13:06

evening. Because he had his baseball cap

13:08

on and his mask on, nobody knew who it was,

13:11

which is probably just as well actually. Harry

13:13

Styles fans are banned from camping or

13:15

chewing outside the Perth Arena days prior

13:17

to the content. This is how big he's got.

13:20

Little Harry Styles. Little

13:22

Harry Styles, so he's doing Perth

13:24

Then he travels to Melbourne and

13:26

to Sydney. Fans will be allowed to queue

13:28

from eight AM. Well, they're gonna

13:31

get there really, really early. I know

13:33

they are. I know. Chris

13:35

Paccum breaks down, reading

13:37

a heart wrenching letter from Ken Bruce's nonverbal

13:40

son Murray. Nonverbals.

13:44

Is is this another one? I'm not understanding. Does he

13:46

speak? I don't know if he speaks or if he just doesn't

13:48

do it. I know that his name is

13:51

because Chris has got asperger's and

13:53

Murray came up with with

13:55

script ideas for his own film. He's never,

13:58

oh, we're right. He's never spoken. And

14:00

communicates via a tablet. So

14:02

he's he's never actually spoken. So there

14:04

you go. When filming the Spring Watch, the presenter

14:06

took a moment to read his emails and was in tears when

14:09

he saw Murray's He said so I

14:11

asked if you had all the world stage to speak

14:13

for non speaking autistic people, what

14:15

would you say? And and

14:17

so it goes it goes on and that's how

14:19

Chris Packam was affected. And

14:21

finally, Joe Lysett's ten thousand

14:24

pound protest against David Beckham's Qatar

14:26

deal nominated for a major award.

14:29

It's not bad, is it? So it's the British

14:31

LGBTQ Awards. Shortlist,

14:33

Joe Lysett, Superkins, Alex Paul,

14:36

Rupaul, Alex Scott, so Rupaul,

14:39

Charles and Sir Rob Stewart,

14:41

all nominated for for major

14:43

honors. It'd be quite interesting. Actually,

14:45

Beyonce slammed the Grammy's speech thanking

14:48

the queer community after

14:51

the gig for which she got paid twenty four

14:53

million. Dave Beckerman, he got

14:55

ten million, didn't he? But a little

14:58

bit a little bit embarrassing actually because

15:00

he shouldn't have done it. He has a lot of gay fans. I

15:02

mean, be honest, he might have gay fans. But

15:04

David Beckham is obviously too mean. And then somebody

15:06

said, well, you know, perhaps they wanna keep their coffers

15:08

topped up or thought, no. They need to pay bloody debts.

15:11

But like Jordan, pay your debts. Arjun,

15:13

she's apparently launching her singing career

15:16

yet again. I don't know why she

15:18

bothered the last time. She's I mean, she's seriously toned

15:20

deaf. And then there was another piece in one of the papers there,

15:22

two page spread on trying to relaunch Jemma

15:24

Collins, you know, because she's like, you know,

15:27

she's like under Jemma under GC. Other

15:29

GC and, you know, you got to love yourself

15:31

and all the rest of it. She's the most miserable person

15:33

ever meet in your entire life. The only time she was funny is

15:35

when she fell down the trap door, That was the only

15:37

time that we all loved and went, hey, that was good. You

15:40

should bring that into the act. And then, no, really,

15:42

she doesn't have an act. The act is being Jemma

15:44

Collins. Because I'm the GC because she

15:46

went out with various people. We think she's finished with

15:48

Rami. But there again, she doesn't last

15:50

with she she claims that she goes out with loads

15:52

of people and then just tosses them into the

15:54

curb. You know, make

15:56

a bit watch your will ladies and gentlemen. Anyway, have

15:59

a lovely day. I'll be back with you tomorrow morning.

16:02

At the same time. Don't forget to

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download and to podcast and

16:07

to to have nice nice

16:09

day as we get ever closer to the live show

16:11

at the Leicester Square Theatre. I'll

16:13

talk to you tomorrow at the same time till then

16:16

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