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This is Steve Allen's, a little bit extra,

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everybody. Welcome along to your free podcast

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for today. It's Thursday, Jan

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the nineteenth. I can't believe it was the nineteenth either

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to hop race through. Don't know? Love for sure.

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I'm still drinking tons of water because

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as you know, I fill my my bottle up from the

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tap, not my tap, but but the one of

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them because we have thirteen kitchens in our building.

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Thirteen kitchen. In fact, there might be fourteen actually

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if I include the canteen. And we've

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got these special taps that

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on one side of the tap, you push it and it gives

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you boiling hot water. So you don't have to wait for

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a kettle to boil. We don't have any kettle. And you can

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get the boiling hot water to make you cup of tea. And then

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the other side of the tap, you push the

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the blue button and you get ice

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cold water. Filtered, ice cold

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water is fantastic, and that's in every single

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one of our kitchens. So as you can imagine,

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we get through coupious amounts of water, which

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is lovely. Anyway, where do we begin today?

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Oh, bad. There might be some bad news on

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the prince Harry front. You might

1:04

want to making a film funny

1:07

how they love being celebrities, isn't it? Although

1:09

their popularity is waned in America,

1:11

I think the Americans have sussed out. They're just

1:13

a pair of ungrateful little nobodies. It's

1:15

as simple as that to you. You can't put it any clear,

1:17

but then I want make a feel because they like playing celebrity.

1:20

Which has been odd because I thought they left the country to

1:22

get away from all of that that got more lies,

1:25

more lies. Shukera. Whatever.

1:27

Whenever. She's

1:30

discovered that her

1:33

husband, who's called Gerard Peake,

1:35

I think. Name is football p k.

1:38

And she apparently found an empty jam

1:40

jar in the fridge after returning her from

1:42

traveling, implying somebody else had

1:44

been staying. And imagine you opened up the fridge

1:46

you go. Wait a minute. What's this? Some

1:49

some sort of jam. We don't eat jam.

1:52

Who's been staying here? Who's been staying here?

1:54

And then it turns out that he's been cheating.

1:57

Finally, isn't it? You cheat. You wait till

1:59

the wife goes away on tour. They've been together eleven

2:01

years. And then, all of a sudden,

2:03

he moves somebody into the house. And

2:05

you think, you're gonna get caught out of

2:07

Fickle. I've always said football was the dimest

2:10

people you ever have a conversation with.

2:12

But anyway, she split

2:14

in June and straw

2:16

wood jam by the way just in case you were wondering. I know you

2:18

panic over these little things and they were

2:20

good, but you obviously found the grass.

2:22

The other side of the fence was a bit greener. And

2:24

a bit more available. So she

2:26

found a jar and then she sort of worked

2:29

out that that

2:31

he was cheating. Which is great. I love it. I

2:33

love it. My people cheat because it always comes as such

2:35

a surprise. I was reading up and watching.

2:37

Do you remember Chrisley knows best?

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This program that we got here.

2:42

And it was of this camphold man

2:45

and his family devout Christians

2:47

apparently we're told. Anyway, him and the wife

2:49

convicted fraudsters convicted

2:51

fraudsters. And it was very

2:53

interesting because he

2:55

wasn't paying his taxes. He's he's

2:57

an out and out crook. Their business

2:59

didn't do as well as they were thinking it was doing,

3:02

so they were borrowing money from

3:04

banks, from just about anybody to get their

3:06

hands on. And Chrisley, when

3:08

I first watched him, I remember talking about him on the

3:10

program going, is this man gay?

3:13

He was so camp unaffected. I

3:15

thought he's gay. And I went, oh, no. No.

3:17

He's he's he's married with five children.

3:20

Anyway, turns out his business

3:22

partner in the estate agents that they had

3:24

together. And him

3:27

had an affair and he's a

3:29

man and he was married as well

3:31

and he decided that because Chrisley

3:34

told Chrisley and his wife for crooks. He

3:36

knew all about the checks and what they hadn't paid

3:38

and everything else. So he went to the police, went to the

3:40

FBI. And they they gave him immunity

3:43

from prosecution. If he

3:45

told them everything, he knew about Todd Chrisley,

3:47

who had been on this program, as I say, deeply,

3:50

deeply affected, deeply affected.

3:52

And they lived this lavish lifestyle, but it

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was all on borrowed money. They

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they dropped the banks of about thirty million

3:59

quids And unfortunately, his

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his his mother, his very ancient

4:03

might have died by now. I don't know. You know, the shock

4:05

had been going to prison for twelve years, and the wife

4:07

for seven years. They're still protesting their innocence

4:09

and and and using God as their excuse,

4:12

which really, really annoyingly when

4:14

somebody goes God will look after us.

4:16

You're a crook and a sinner, and

4:18

that's why you've got a prison for twelve years,

4:20

which he'll probably serve about eighty five percent

4:22

of his time. In the meanwhile, You gotta

4:24

die die, you innocent puppet.

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And it was interesting because

4:30

they've got children. You imagine you

4:32

sort of discover that the lifestyle that you're

4:34

living in this very nice house

4:36

on an estate, if you please, and

4:38

you get came with an acre. It's very nice. Very

4:40

nice. I think they paid about three million for it. And then

4:42

you sort of you live in this lifestyle, then you suddenly

4:44

realize, your father hasn't got any money.

4:47

Your father had been having an affair with a

4:49

bloke at work your daddy is

4:51

bisexual and you didn't know

4:53

about it. Well, I tell you, I knew within two

4:55

minutes. Two minutes of watching on the

4:57

on the television. And so twelve

4:59

years, they'll serve about eighty five percent

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of the time, but they're still sitting there.

5:03

Him and the crooked wife, you know,

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God will look after us. You know, God, God

5:07

will help us, didn't know her, you know,

5:09

kept and they're they're likening themselves to

5:12

know her. Goni goes to prove how stupid these

5:14

people are. If they went anywhere near a

5:16

church, I'd be very, very surprised because hellfire

5:18

and damnation, God would have sent

5:20

down a thunderbolt. You know,

5:22

to sort and it's always the Christians. We

5:24

have these people on television, these

5:26

preachers who commit the most

5:28

heinous crimes. One of them They they

5:30

do these shows in front of thousands

5:32

in these auditoriums. And the idea is they

5:35

want your money. That's what they're in,

5:37

you want you wanna go to heaven. Give us money.

5:39

Give us money. I thought it was free. I had no

5:41

idea. When I went to church, it was free. Yeah. I

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mean I mean I I which bus you take as

5:45

well. It's one seven and it drops you off the

5:47

gates of heaven. You go inside. You go, I've been a very

5:49

good boy and they go you're in. But if you want to go to

5:51

any of these huge revivalists

5:53

gatherings. I mean, it really is. It's gonna give

5:55

us your money. You know, would you like would you like a

5:57

prayer, you know, twenty dollars. Would

5:59

you like a sort of a bible with your name in

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it? Thirty dollars. And so it goes

6:03

on. And we've had them over the years.

6:05

Tammy Fay Baker was an out

6:07

and out crook. There was another one who

6:09

sort of stood on television. When

6:12

in front of all these people, he went, oh god.

6:15

Oh, God. I have

6:17

sinned. Turned out he'd been

6:19

paying up with with hookers. Hookers,

6:21

and he's supposed to be a man of God. I

6:23

mean, really, really embarrassing. Really

6:26

embarrassing. But anyway, Todd Crisley, prison.

6:28

Of course, you like it in there. He'll

6:31

like it in there. He'll have a bit of a fun

6:33

time for sort of eighty years or something. When he

6:35

comes out, he'll never work ever again.

6:37

But his mother has now had to start up

6:39

a business and she's in her nineties or something

6:41

because she hasn't got any money. And

6:44

yet here she is with a new wig on every week

6:46

and they filmed in the house and all their houses

6:48

have gone. And as I say,

6:50

just an out and out crook. And

6:52

yet still sitting there with the

6:54

wife, you'll find them on YouTube protesting

6:56

their innocence and going,

6:58

listen, God will help us through this. But we we are

7:00

gonna fight this. And I think you've been found

7:02

guilty in an American court. There's

7:04

no there's no finding of you innocent. You're a

7:06

pair of crooks. You know, it's really

7:08

embarrassing. James Martin warns

7:11

the the smiling viewers you should never store

7:13

eggs in the fridge. Oh,

7:16

chatting to the host Holly and Pip

7:18

Skoffield. He explained all eggs of pork. Oh, I

7:20

had I had to criticize this morning,

7:22

I'm afraid. They did one of those crappy

7:24

programs the other day where both

7:26

Philip and Holly stood there with some

7:28

woman talking about the

7:30

power of crystals. And

7:33

Philip has bought into it as well, typical

7:35

typical. He looks like the kind of person who'd

7:37

fall for that guff. And she's going, and

7:39

different crystals do different things. I'm thinking,

7:41

why do people fall for this? What

7:43

old rubbish are you spinning them? Because

7:46

Holly's got a company. And I think you

7:48

find she sells crystals. It was basically,

7:50

you know, trying to hoodwink the viewers into

7:52

crystals do this and they give out

7:54

energy. No, they don't. It's

7:56

a piece of rock and then Philip admitted

7:58

that he had one of these crystals by his front

8:00

door that I bet you ever mate. I bet

8:03

you have. Julian Sands

8:05

named as the Hiker who went missing in the

8:07

San Gabriel mountains from

8:10

room with a view. And

8:12

he's been missing since Friday evening.

8:15

Now I know him from a room with a view,

8:17

and he was in Warlock as well. He vanished

8:19

five days ago. He's sixty five,

8:22

and this is a particularly dangerous

8:24

Californian mountain range.

8:26

The last time he was seen was Friday evening

8:28

and in the

8:30

San Gabriel mount his family have heard from him

8:33

since, but they've warned that severe weather

8:35

on the mountains is difficult. If the

8:37

weather comes down quickly, you got to of

8:39

take take refuge somewhere,

8:41

but they're also looking for another

8:43

hiker, Bob Gregory, in the Crystal Lake. It

8:45

sounds delightful, doesn't it Crystal

8:47

Lakes? And you go, it's dangerous.

8:50

It's like people go climbing Everest

8:52

and then they go, I remember talking to someone who

8:54

climbed Everest. And and I said, what's

8:56

it like? This is bloody dangerous

8:58

because the snow covers these

9:00

crevasses, which go down some as much

9:02

as two miles these I

9:05

think they're called fishes in the in

9:07

the rocks. So if you fell down one of

9:09

them, if you if you put the wrong

9:11

foot out they're not gonna find

9:13

you. They'll find you years ago. I remember there

9:15

was a mountaineer

9:17

years years ago. His name will come to me in

9:19

a moment. And when they went climbing, I think Everest,

9:21

they found his decomposed body.

9:23

The only thing that was left of

9:25

him was a leg. There

9:28

was a leg because the birds, the crows, and

9:30

everything else had come down and eaten him.

9:32

But his leg was there with its

9:34

boot still on in the snow. It was the most

9:36

peculiar picture I'd ever seen. Well,

9:38

it wasn't there wasn't even a skeleton. It

9:40

had been everything had gone apart

9:42

from this foot. Of this

9:45

climber. And I think it was in it was it

9:47

was other in the Alps or something like that. Whatever he

9:49

was, he'd he'd been climbing years and years

9:51

ago, And the only thing left was his

9:53

foot after all the the the

9:55

birds and all the other predatory

9:57

creatures on the mountain and had their go

9:59

at him. And and that was

10:01

it. I think he probably frozen to

10:03

death. Foot found in snow, I

10:05

think it might come under. I can't remember actually, but

10:07

it's one of those sort of things. And he

10:09

was very famous. Can't remember

10:11

what his name was though. I said,

10:13

that famous I can't remember because there's so many of

10:15

these stories they pop into your mind very

10:17

quickly. And then you sort of you try and remember

10:19

all the little different bits and pieces.

10:22

But so climber's

10:24

foot found on mountain might

10:27

might find it as well. And it's and it's

10:29

perfectly preserved because obviously of the

10:31

freezing temperature, nothing on earth

10:33

would get me to climb a mountain. Why would you want

10:35

to do it? But Julian Sands, we

10:37

do know. Oh, it's a birthday today.

10:39

We celebrate AVDBD

10:42

drabble. Yes, Michael Crawford is

10:44

eighty one today, many

10:46

happy returns of the day Michael.

10:48

And you know, the

10:50

man who sort of made his name on so many

10:52

different areas apart from

10:54

some mother's du Avam, where he was sort of,

10:56

you know, the hapless hapless one. And then

10:58

he went on stage and he played

11:00

PT Barnum, where he learned to walk the

11:02

tight rope. And and

11:04

then He tried various other shows. He was

11:06

in Billie, which was at

11:08

the theater hall jewelry lane. And

11:12

then, he auditioned

11:14

for Phantom and they kept it really quiet

11:16

because a number of people had had singles

11:18

in the charts from Phantom, including

11:20

Steve Harley of Cockney Rebel.

11:22

And every second, he'll actually get get the

11:24

gig. No. They gave it to Michael Crawford.

11:27

if he's going, Michael Crawford,

11:29

does he sing? Did

11:31

he ever sing? He

11:33

sang and every night.

11:35

At a Majesty's Theatre, the queue would go round

11:37

the block for returns to see Michael

11:39

Crawford on stage as the phantom of

11:41

the opera. And bloody

11:43

brilliant he was too. Absolutely

11:45

brilliant. You couldn't, you know, you just

11:47

couldn't fault it for doing anything. If he does

11:49

something, puts his heart and soul into it,

11:51

and he put his heart and soul into Phantom. But

11:53

he's eighty one now. Eighty

11:55

one, so I think he deserves to

11:57

be able to put his feet up. And have

11:59

a little bit of a rest, which is very nice.

12:02

TikTok star, Sam's fellow

12:04

influencers Fowl act at Invite

12:06

only Sam Smith Conference, South

12:08

Australia. And

12:10

concert goer complains, the Sam's Knits

12:12

show for influences and celebs was ruined

12:14

by one woman. I think Sam

12:16

Smith's got a new boyfriend. I remember seeing a picture of one

12:18

of the papers today. He's a he's a

12:20

designer. And

12:23

There was one one influencer grossed

12:25

out the crowd by urinating in

12:28

front of in front of concert

12:30

goers. I'm not a fan of Sam

12:32

Smith. I'm really not. I don't know

12:34

why. His name is the book. Does

12:36

it does it not look like him? No.

12:39

This is one called Christian. He's pictured

12:41

in all the papers today. Christian.

12:44

He's a he's a fashion designer.

12:47

And they they sort

12:49

of pictured snuggling up

12:52

and soggy wacky kind of

12:54

them. Like that kind of thing. And I remember

12:56

thinking, oh, it's in the bizarre column today. Have

12:58

you got it? Can't hear

13:00

you. Can't Yeah.

13:03

There you go. Got a

13:05

boyfriend. Got a boyfriend. ITV

13:08

says there's no place on the channel to Jeremy

13:10

Clarkson's views about Meghan Mark cool. But

13:12

that doesn't make any difference because

13:14

it it means that there's no place

13:16

on the channel for his views. They're not gonna

13:18

stop him working though. This

13:20

is somebody called Carlin

13:23

McCall, who's CEO of the firm.

13:27

Stop the booj into who wants to be a millionaire as the channel

13:29

weighs up whether to renew the contract. I've

13:31

got no idea who she is actually.

13:34

So m p, miss McCall,

13:37

oh, she's an an MP. She

13:39

said there was no place for his views.

13:41

Another one MP would never heard of before. They

13:43

just sort of come out and they stick their sort of

13:45

six pentathin. Dolly Parton. That has always been

13:47

rumors about dolly Parton's sexuality. She

13:50

has a friend who travels with

13:52

her female and

13:55

They share the same bed. And

13:57

she's she's dismissed all the

13:59

comments. In fact, she says it on stage. You

14:01

know, I don't see there's anything in the matter with

14:03

sharing a bit with somebody. That's two people who

14:05

like each other doesn't have to be

14:07

sexual. And let's face it. I mean, God knows she's

14:09

seventy six now. There can't be much of that going

14:11

on anywhere. But she's talked about this long

14:13

lasting marriage to Cole, Cole Thomas

14:15

Dean, who very

14:17

rarely is seen. But she

14:19

keeps the myth going that it's a private

14:22

romance and they've been married for fifty six

14:24

years. So there you go. She said, he

14:26

just loves living on the farm. Taken care of

14:28

the property as he had for many years, and we have a

14:30

lot to talk about and all the rest of it.

14:32

But as I say, there's always been rumors

14:34

about Dolly Parton. But to be brutally honest

14:36

with you, who cares? Who

14:38

cares? You know, I just don't see

14:40

that there's any problem with anything. But unfortunately,

14:42

if you're a dolly partner and somebody of her

14:44

agent from her her generation, they

14:46

they don't sort of understand why people would have

14:48

an unhealthy interest in this or an unhealthy

14:51

thought on two women sharing a bed. I mean,

14:53

potentially, you're not gonna be seeing Dolly Parton on Love

14:55

Island, any time soon. That we don't want

14:57

to see anybody on Love Island at

14:59

all. I don't think she'd

15:01

fit in. No. I really don't actually.

15:05

Although she could sing to them. You know, it should

15:07

be quite nice. But I I don't

15:09

think she's ever been seen on a beach. I don't remember

15:11

seeing any pictures of Dolly Parr on on a beach.

15:14

No. It's there there's too much work that's

15:16

gone on. And she's have she couldn't

15:18

lie down because then the whigs would

15:20

get all covered in sand and all the rest, and she'd

15:22

have to take the whig off and, oh, go far

15:24

too complicated. Banking

15:26

on a TV smash, this is the

15:29

the bank of Dave. I've seen

15:31

he's very infuriating. He's very

15:33

infuriating. What he is, he's a businessman. He

15:35

threw his hat into the ring for a high

15:37

profile job, but

15:39

it was not to be. As his

15:41

rejection letter received within days made clear, the

15:43

interview panel decided he would not be sifted

15:45

through to the next stage.

15:47

And so he began his

15:49

building, his career as a building labor. He's now thought

15:51

to be worth five hundred million. I always hate it

15:53

when they go. Oh, it's thought to be worth five hundred million

15:55

year. Yeah. Whatever. But anyway,

15:57

he's he's been trying to save Burnley.

15:59

So what he did I mean, it's not legally a bank

16:02

because he wasn't granted a license,

16:04

but he he lends money to loads

16:06

of people. It's as simple as that. That's

16:08

what he does. They made a film about him.

16:10

Adam Lambert slams

16:12

the prospect of white

16:14

lotuses, Theo James playing George Michael, he

16:16

says another straight man playing a

16:18

gay icon. But they can do that, you see.

16:20

I mean, I think Adam's wrong on this one.

16:23

I think straight man play gay men so

16:25

much better. I

16:27

do. I really do. You know, so

16:29

Theo James playing George Michael

16:31

because Adam Lambert has said, I would

16:33

love to play the late singer. Just because

16:35

you're gay, doesn't mean you can play gay. Do

16:37

you know what I mean? It's, you know,

16:39

it's straight men play it so much better.

16:42

Gay men play straight characters very

16:44

well. Very well. I mean, you've only got to act for about an hour and a

16:46

half. It's not that difficult year darling. I really love

16:48

you. Oh. Yeah. There you go.

16:50

Yeah. Whatever. It's like, you know,

16:52

Todd Chrisley. Gay is a goose,

16:54

ladies and gentlemen, and everybody now

16:56

reckons the wife knew all about it. I mean, she can't be

16:58

that dumb. She can't be that dumb. Listen,

17:00

if I spotted it within about a minute, everybody

17:02

else must have done. Goldberg claps

17:05

back at the view Heckler who called

17:07

her an old broad. She's

17:10

sixty seven. She said, I am an old broad and I'm happy about it. I don't think

17:12

sixty seven is old. I

17:14

really don't. I love the idea that somebody

17:16

dared to heckle will

17:18

be Goldberg. I mean, she could haveslayed them

17:21

alive, but it was a sassy

17:23

audience member. No. It was a bit of a

17:25

thicker actually. Madonna admits growing up

17:27

with her mother, like me, is a challenge

17:29

for her six children. But of

17:31

course, most of her children aren't really hers. They

17:33

were all adopted. You know, all

17:35

sorts of difficult people. So so she's

17:37

got short loads of them. I mean, it's almost a football

17:39

team. But I'd

17:41

I'd don't know something about madonna that's not

17:43

it is as I just don't like

17:46

I know all these kids get adopted, but in

17:48

fact, two of these cases that she went over

17:50

to another country. Set up this orphanage, then just said, oh, that one and

17:52

that one. And the next thing, they find themselves in

17:55

America. You know, it's very laudable, but, you know,

17:57

she's going on tour. She's

17:59

going on tour. As we pointed out yesterday, but

18:01

so funny, I turned on Lorraine,

18:03

you know, she asked, you're wonderful.

18:05

You're marvelous. You're good. Just and

18:07

that you get the feelings, don't believe a word of it because that's

18:09

not Lorraine Kelly. That's

18:11

an act. Okay? She is

18:13

not Lorraine Kelly that we know

18:16

she argued with the tax man, and the tax man

18:18

agreed that what you see on the television is not Lorraine

18:20

Kelly. It's obviously an act. She's

18:22

pretending to be interested in these people. And they

18:24

had Ross King from American, he said, and got

18:26

a great story for

18:28

you about Madonna. And I thought,

18:30

Darling, we've already done it.

18:33

We did it hours before. But of course, he's

18:35

so late with his news in America. There's

18:37

nothing that's new with Ross King who used to be married

18:39

to a friend of mine. A long, long time

18:41

ago, but he's now looking fairly ancient.

18:44

And, you know, if his eyes get

18:46

any more shots, you know, his eyes will

18:48

be asleep, but it's a case we got madonna's going on

18:50

tour. But we did this this morning love at

18:52

five o'clock. Goodness sake,

18:54

honestly. Also, recovery is

18:56

possible. Marion Kees,

18:58

she's the Irish author, and

19:00

she's struggled with alcoholism. She's now

19:02

been sober for twenty nine years.

19:05

Sounds like a nightmare to me. A nightmare,

19:07

Kim Kardashian, by his predecessor

19:10

Diana's amathist and diamond cross

19:12

necklace. For hundred thousand dollars.

19:14

I hate the idea. Kim Kardashian

19:16

possesses something from a member of our royal family

19:18

that just cheapens it immediately.

19:20

I mean, I've I've seen pictures of Diana wearing it

19:23

and it's very lovely and obviously Kardashian wears

19:25

only two hundred thousand dollars I'll buy

19:27

it. Pamela Anderson names

19:29

the what? What's that? She

19:33

Yes. Yes. She buys all sorts of

19:35

things, but the trouble is she's got no class. No

19:37

clarks. She's one of the Kardashians. Have your bum

19:39

lifted love. That'll be good. Pamela Anderson

19:41

names the only man she's ever truly been

19:43

in love with. She says, Tommy Lee

19:45

was that one man who's been

19:48

her true love. They made a porno together. I

19:50

don't know if you've ever seen it, but she's

19:52

performing an act on him. I mean, to

19:54

be honest with you, her one claim to fame

19:56

is she was in Baywatch and that

19:58

is it. The rest of it is just tits and a

20:00

red swimsuit. I mean, there's nothing more going on. There's

20:02

nothing between the ears or anything. Last

20:05

husband was a guy called Dan

20:07

Hayhurst. They wed in

20:09

twenty twenty. And they

20:11

split up two years later, because you can well imagine,

20:13

can't you? She also went to wed to kid

20:15

rock and Rick Salamone,

20:17

not once but twice. So she's been married

20:19

to four different men. And she

20:21

obviously likes bad boys and things like that,

20:23

but, you know, we all know about the the

20:26

porno dear. It's a little bit old

20:28

fashioned now. Dancing on ice is Ekinsoo hits

20:30

back as viewers launch hundreds of Ofcom

20:32

complaints at her skating debut. Basically,

20:34

she was wearing like one of these all in one

20:37

body stockings with strategically placed it.

20:39

Well, of course, she's been on Love Island.

20:41

Of course, she's she's been on Love Island. She take all

20:43

the clothes off everywhere. She's not you're not proud of

20:45

it. She'll just take them all off. But it was

20:47

too little it's supposed to be a family show. She looked like

20:49

a bit bit brassy, I'm afraid. So I

20:51

wasn't a big fan of it. But and then at

20:53

one point, she's crawling over the ice. It was

20:55

a bit like watching Jemma Collins, except in Jemma

20:58

Collins' case, the ice started cracking. And they

21:00

went, titanic, titanic, you know, and

21:02

they had to sort of chop it. The farmer who starred on

21:04

this farming life has been killed by one of his

21:06

own cows. This is a guy called

21:08

Derek Roan. He starred on this

21:10

farming life. And

21:13

again, another cow

21:15

thing, which is not not

21:17

so good at all, because

21:20

cows are very heavy and very

21:22

dangerous. And if they fall on you

21:24

or they attack you, there's a very good

21:26

chance, a very very good chance that

21:28

you're going to die. Okay? And BBC

21:30

shows scrapped under

21:32

mysterious circumstances leaving TV

21:35

insiders matching their heads. He's one of the

21:37

most famous surrogacy father, so it seemed

21:39

a great idea for Tom

21:41

Daly to make a BBC document. Tree, but

21:43

the show which drawn his experience of starting a

21:45

family with Duston, who's his

21:47

husband, has now been scrapped.

21:49

He has diaper Tom claims he didn't have enough

21:51

time to complete the show as he was

21:53

in training. So they haven't

21:55

they've started making it, but they haven't finished it, and

21:57

it obviously didn't hit the the deadline, but

21:59

the producers said there was a time limit in which the

22:02

documentary could be made, and he didn't complete

22:04

it, so they scraped it. Which is a bit

22:06

of shame in it. Somebody else will pick up

22:08

on it. And go, look, during your own time, but

22:10

you can't just sort of leave a whole studio sitting

22:12

there waiting while you fanny around doing something

22:14

with the Olympics. You know, either you can make

22:16

the program or you can't

22:18

make the program. It's like we make a program every

22:20

day, and Gartner's a huge audience.

22:23

Huge audience. I was on with Tom

22:25

Swallbrook yesterday. On

22:27

his program talking

22:29

about sweets. They they they kept

22:31

going on. You know, James O'Brien was talking

22:33

about me bringing cake in, which of course is

22:35

just blatantly a lie. I don't bring cake

22:37

in. Cake is when somebody celebrates a birthday

22:39

and the management provided cake or filling

22:41

that pizzas all out there. And we

22:43

had all these people who were

22:45

phoning up James O'Brien going,

22:47

you know, it's it's a temptation if somebody leaves

22:49

sweets out for I think we have to other

22:51

you're just weak. Just

22:54

weak. You know, you have to go it's it's like how these

22:56

people manage in life. I've got no idea. They they

22:58

must find it a nightmare to go into a sweet shop

23:00

because they go, sweets. Sweet. Sweet. Sweet.

23:02

So good to eat sweets. And you

23:04

think, but my sweet to eat in every day.

23:07

But today, they've only got satzumas. It's

23:09

the healthy side of it. No no

23:11

sweeties today. Well, there is

23:13

for my team. For my team -- Yeah.

23:15

-- and sandwiches. And sandwiches for

23:17

my team. But the the the other

23:19

boys and girls out there none

23:21

of whom are overweight, I have to tell

23:24

you, is that satsumas

23:26

and nardicots. They've got both, which is the same

23:28

kind of thing. It's just Posh

23:30

satsumas. So I thought that was quite interesting.

23:32

But then as I said to Thomas Walbrigg, you

23:34

know, because he said, why don't you bring all these sweets in? I said

23:36

a bit rewarding. People you

23:38

work with. It's a case saying thank you very much indeed for making my

23:41

program what it is with the news bulletins and all

23:43

the bits and pieces. And that's my way of saying

23:45

thank you. I said I bet

23:47

you buy for your children on their birthdays, sweets.

23:49

I bet you also at Easter, get

23:51

them Easter eggs, and at Christmas they get chocolate

23:53

father Christmas. What's the difference?

23:55

You were rewarding somebody for being good throughout the

23:58

year. That's what I'm doing. I mean, I do it on

24:00

a daily basis, you know,

24:02

but no. So just

24:04

they they'll never last They'll never laugh.

24:06

I'll tell you there'll be there'll be outrage,

24:08

people picketing, walking up and down outside

24:10

the building, bring back the

24:12

sweets, bring back the sweets, and all this

24:14

practice stuff about. Don't eat cake. Don't eat cake to make your fat.

24:16

Well, don't bloody well eat cake them for God

24:19

saying. I'm surrounded by idiots, not here

24:21

in this building, but just generally in

24:23

the world complete idiots.

24:25

Anyway, have a have a great great

24:27

great day, and we're we're completely

24:29

Friday show tomorrow. Busy weekend,

24:32

busy weekend, and Jack's not

24:34

gonna be with us tomorrow, so

24:36

he's here this morning. He

24:38

won't be with us tomorrow, but he'll be he'll be sort

24:40

of in good hands as they'd say, two

24:42

of them. Have a lovely day. Don't forget

24:45

to down please, please, please download. It didn't cost you a

24:47

penny piece. We've got thousands. So if you're going into a

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hospital or having anything done or you're in

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24:53

it. Just plug it into your telephone, plug in

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24:57

and off you go and may

24:59

your own gold go with you. I'll talk to you

25:01

tomorrow till then please. Stay

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