18/04/2014 The One Show

There they go! Oh, there they go! Going nuts. OK, hello and welcome to

your Good Friday One Show with Alex Jones. And Vernon Kay. Joining us

tonight a funny man who doesn't put all his eggs in one Bass he cannet.

He is -- basket. He is like the Easter bunny. If he is not writing

or starring in the thick of it, he is doing stand-up or directing hit

shows in the States. He has a new lady in his life. She's best known

for playing Tanya branding in EastEnders. It's Chris Addison and

Jo Joyner. A very happy Easter. This is all for you guys, obviously.

Thank you very much. You have two kids, Chris. Yes With all these eggs

is it starting to resemble a chocolate factory in your house? The

way of keeping them from kids is as soon as they arrive in the house eat

them. They can't. It's that simple. Or put them on a raidiator. Very

messy. Jo, you have slipped away from your family holiday to join us.

We were coming back. We have come back from Cornwall. Did you have a

good time? A great time, it was windy. Did you go crabbing? We found

one dead one on the first day. What a way to bring the tone down! Later

in the show Gyles will be shedding light on an Easter egg hunt with a

difference. Yes this egg here is worth an estimated ?20 million. It's

one of 45 in the world but two are missing. One is believed to be

somewhere in Britain. Join us for the ultimate Easter egg hunt

tonight. Wow. ?20 million! Blackpool is famous for its illuminations in

the winter months but a new exhibition promises a spectacular

light show throughout the summer. Angellica is making sure all the

right plugs nr the right sockets before the official switch-on -- are

in the. Carrie has been meeting the team preparing to dazzle us. The

bright lights of Blackpool have been drawing crowds to the town for over

100 years. Each autumn the Prom in aed is lit up by the -- pronenade is

lit up. Now the large largest illumination

show is the first of the kind to be seen in Europe. Wowing the crowds in

Blackpool is no easy feat. This show is relying on a complex mix of

modern technology, British design and the ancient skills of Chinese

lantern makers. Two months ago work started to transform Blackpool's

Winter Gardens. 55 Chinese artisans arrived in town, with 40 shades of

satin and thousands of lightbulbs. Max is the show's artistic director

meaning it's his vision being brought to life. When I think of the

Chinese lantern I think of a red circle of satin and a tassel on the

end. You can see the world of wonders which has sculptures

including a Blackpool tower and as another example we are in the land

of the giants where you are in a garden where everything is scaled up

one or 200 times. How do you get from the design to standing here

looking at what we are seeing now? The first stage is to develop a

computer generated layout. After that, we give them to the Chinese

artisans team leader and he will draw patterns on the ground. Then

each model will be given to an -- to a team of artisans who will create

the volume. After that it will go to a team of electricians. We then send

it to the team of fabric ladies. They have to get it very taut as

they're putting it on and have to be able to do huge ex-panses. It's a

real artform. There is no one else in the world who can do what they

do. You have lots of people here that are non-English speakers, what

have the challenges been? It's amazing you can communicate a lot

with gesticulating. Trying to bring the cultures together is Ching, the

project's production manager. She travels the world with the artisans

who mainly come from a Chinese city famous for its lantern-making. In

the very old days the lanterns were just made of wooden structures or

bamboo. Now, because people are more creative, the lanterns are being

built bigger and bigger. They have a tradition that passed from

generation to generation, you would always find families, they would

have the son learning to be an electrician and the daughter

learning to do fabric work with silk. How have the cultures, East

and West, been mixed together? In China anything we build are more

likely to show either good fortune or luck. They are all individual

pieces. Here you have experience of the lantern, you are like in a theme

park. It's a wonderful idea to combine the Western ideas with the

Chinese skills. What are your hopes for the final result? I hope it's a

success and British people like it. By the time we turn on the light

it's amazing, beautiful light and fabric, because this is the first

time we are here and we want to show it in the best way we can. Amazing.

I love the lanterns. Very exciting, we can now go live to Angellica at

the Winter Gardens for the official switch-on.

Alex, and Vernon, we are here with the moment we have been building up

to. All we need now is a crowd. Are you ready? All we need is a

countdown. So in five, four, three, two, one... Let there be light! It's

incredible. It's visually mesmerising. It's spectacular and so

much time and effort has gone into it. Two people here have seen it for

the first time. What do you think? It's fantastic. Such a magical

place. My wife and two kids are loving it, fun lights and education,

what more could you ask for? What do you think? It's amazing. For

somebody who lives locally and I have friends with small children

it's the perfect place to bring them to, it's all-year round and there's

so much to look at. Unbelievable. I want to have a quick word with Max,

you must be able to breathe now? Just about. A year in the making and

to see it lit up is amazing. We are in front of Blackpool Tower and

anyone who knows me know that I love New York. I am feeling at home with

the Statue of Liberty. There are different zones, you can see some

bugs and beasts up there. One zone that I like is Mysteries of China

and you can see the warriors guarding. And right now here are the

people involved. Well done, give yourselves a round of applause! I am

going to leave you now with the Leaning Tower of Pisa as I head off

to get fish and chips! I like the Chinese section. It looks very nice,

good job it came on. Last night we were chatting to people from Bolton.

Tonight we were in Blackpool. Home from home. So many memories. You

used to go there a lot. It's one of those things you put in your diary

as a kid. Did you go? Last time I went I remember there being, two big

memories, a Tarzis with -- Tardis and a massive rotating head of Vera

Duckworth! You would remember that We got out in the traffic queue with

students and drove back to Manchester in our pants because we

got so soaked at Blackpool. We couldn't sit driving home. We got

out to look at the illuminations or maybe someone opened the sunroof, I

don't know. They should put that head around the M25 for when you get

stuck in traffic. That's a brilliant idea. So you two you are in a new

sitcom together called Trying Again on Sky Living and you play Matt and

Meg and you come back together after Meg has had an affair. What are you

doing? Without spoiling it, Chris, is there any hope for this couple

You have to hope so, otherwise there's no show. They're supposed to

be together, Matt and Meg. But there's been a little wobble. We

meet them, we always said it was six months after the thing had finished,

and they're trying to get it back on track. All the drama and shouting

and screaming that's all out of the way and they're trying to get their

lives back on track. It's not that easy! No. It's not at all, which

takes us on to this. Here the couple are at a counselling session.

It's a huge massive biggie, buying together. Like having a baby. I am

not suggesting we have a baby. I am saying it's the same sort of

commitment More. Mortgage is a commitment to spend 25 years

together, kids have usually left home by the time they're 18. Earlier

if they're taken into care. You are unsure about children? We can't...

The baby's up in the air. It's like Michael Jackson's baby.

It's kind of brilliantly awkward and things - and I