05/12/2011 Blue Peter


05/12/2011

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What's your favourite thing about Christmas? Food. I love the food.

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Christmas pudding. Can't wait for Hello. We have got a show packed

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with celebrities today. Ed Sheeran, the pop star that everybody's

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talking about, is going to be joining us in the studio. I see it

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as an early Christmas present. Here he is! Ed Sheeran's a singer/song

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writer who's taken the British music scene by storm. His debut

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album Plus became the best-selling digital debut album ever.

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Here's the tip of the iceberg when it comes to pop stars and

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celebrities today. It's the one and only Ed Sheeran.

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Ed, come in. Lovely to see you. I missed you last time. I was

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delighted when you said you could come back and be a guest presenter.

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Good to be here. I hear we didn't have to work too hard to persuade

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you? It's been a childhood dream. I had a list when I was younger and

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this is one of them ticked off. Well, to thank you for coming in

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again, we are going to upgrade your Blue Peter badge to a silver badge.

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Oh. This is because you have done something extra for us. Should I

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give that to you? You can keep that as well. You are going to work for

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it as well and do a Christmas make for us, aren't you? Yes, I'm going

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to make a sparkly star. That is certainly going to make us feel

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very festive. If you are not yet in the Christmas mood, don't worry.

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Watch this. There was a brand-new BBC One Christmas promo on your TV

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screens at the weekend and guess who not only got to go backstage

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and meet the celebrities, but also got to star in it? Yep, it's our

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very own Barney. I'm on the set of one of the

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biggest ever Christmas promos to be filmed by the BBC. We have the

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piano, the tree, surrounded by this beautiful Winter Wonderland. There

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are going to be over 30 celebrities getting involved, Gary Lineker, the

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cast of EastEnders and little old Yes, I'm going to be in the promo.

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So, the plan is to get 30 plus BBC One celebs, including Bruce Forsyth,

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Matt Smith and Shane Richie into one big Christmassy house, singing

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a musical number from the stage show Oliver. I'm so excited to be

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involved in this, but I don't feel very Christmassy yet so I'd better

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get changed. So what does Christmas have

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normally? Mince pies, singing Christmas Carols and of course the

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reindeer jumper. Look at that! How amazing. So excited to be wearing

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this. I'm all dressed and ready to go. All I need to know now is what

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I'm doing. Hopefully the director Ben will know. It's a very easy

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shot. Quite a big moment though in the sketch. The idea is that you,

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with a few Holby City and EastEnders people, come through,

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the doors open, you stagger in with all this food laden with food

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trying to get it all in and then we cut away. Don't drop the food,

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don't look down the camera. Don't laugh when you are not supposed to.

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OK. Don't er... What are the other rules. Don't do anything I think.

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Just don't do anything. Be pretty. I'm going to get into character.

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It's a bit like a music video. Each celeb is in their own little scene

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which makes up part of the song, then we all come together at the

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end to sing the final line. So while I wait for my scene, I grab

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Fraser to find out how it's done, he's the creative director. Movies

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can take years to film sometimes, this is over three days this one,

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this short promo? Four days. We have three days with the celebrity

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stars and we have an extra day to film up a the bits that help us

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butt it together -- all the bits. It's Christmas, I'm with the stars

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of EastEnders and Holby City and have to walk through a door

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carrying some mince pies ready for the Christmas party.

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Try it. May need to do this a few times. Barney, you are angled to

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the side as if you are peering in, please. Action. Get out, go, go, go

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go,, go, keep going! Paramedics just in case, please...

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director wants to come out quickly. We did, everybody went flying and I

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ended up carrying somebody else's tray. This will be about a second

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in the actual promo. It's mad. Fun though. Thank you for the bread

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sticks. Go, go, go, go, go... Well done, everybody. That's us

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finished now. We've got a break and then we are coming back to do some

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green screen, more special effects than bread sticks but I can't wait!

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I decide to find out what the other celebs like about Christmas and

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Thunderball all seem to have one thing on their mind. What's your

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favourite thing about food Christmas? Food. Food. From the

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moment I get up, I have a big breakfast. Big lunch, eat too much,

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try and sleep. A big pile of roast potatoes and loads of turkey.

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may have a bacon sandwich, something like that. I love

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Christmas pudding. There's a theme here. Christmas chocolate.

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Christmas is just about getting all the food to make everyone feel fat

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and uncomfortable for the evening, then we play board games. Hungry

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now, shame we can't eat the props. Back to the filming and it's time

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for the clever bit. For the final line of the song, all the celebs

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will be singing together. But because of their hectic schedules,

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they can't all be here at the same time, so director Ben has to film

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the shot in front of a green screen background awill youing him to film

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them in small groups like this one, but then he edits them together so

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it looks like they were in the same room at the same time. Sounds

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complicated. It is! Straight down the lens, bum, bum,

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bum... All right. So this is the finale.

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This is where we all sing together and there'll be about 40

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celebrities in the one room. They'll be put in later. Are you

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talking to them? I am. There's a little camera there. Hi mum.

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mum. # Consider yourself, one of us... #

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Perfect. Let's move on to this set, please. The special effects don't

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end there. The walls of the house are going to magically fall down to

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reveal everyone in the Winter Wonderland scene. For that, they

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need another set, more green screen and very clever CGI.

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# For after some consideration we can state

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# Consider yourself one of us... # Thank you very, very much, guys,

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fantastic. That's how the acting side of it works. I've come to meet

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Peter, the musical director in charge of the singing. Why are you

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recording it twice? We use a lot of the stuff recorded on set. Some of

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it may have noises, coughs and stuff. With the record, you record

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the band and the studio and then the single, go from the top and add

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to it to get the best quality. We use the booth over there with the

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guys, they come in, re-record it like a mix and match the two...

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have taken to you # So strong # It's clear we're # Going to get

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along My turn # Consider yourself one of us

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Great, Barney, perfect. It's period stepping out the booth like that.

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My voice is now on track, it's been recorded and that will be put with

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everybody else's and hopefully you will hear me singing at the end of

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the promo. Exciting! And this is how it turned out. Here

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And now for the grand finale. after some consideration

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# We can state # Consider yourself

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# One of us... # When I watch that, I'm going to be

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going, he's there, no, he's there, he's there. Well done, Barney.

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We'll have our own sing-along in a while, it's an exclusive

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performance from Pixie Lott. Are you keen? Very, yes. You are a fan,

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aren't you? She's great, yes. this is your moment? Yes, a Blue

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Peter make. Dream. Not just any make, the Christmas decoration, a

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lot of pressure? The Christmas star, yes. All you need is six coat

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hangers, you can find them in your parents' wardrobe, don't tell them

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you are taking them, they'll be annoyed. These are the views of Ed

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annoyed. These are the views of Ed Sheeran, not Blue Peter. Stretch

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them out into a diamond like that and you end up with one I made

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earlier, nice one. They could have laughed.

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He said there's one he made earlier!

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Angle the hook into the middle and add the sixth one into the middle

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there, make sure you have some tape. Take it round the top. Not the

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middle but just the top and the bottom to make it sturdy on either

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side of the star. You are doing well there. Strikes

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me this isn't your first Blue Peter make? I made a Blue Peter bat cave

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when I was around six I think. Lots of paper mache and water and gunk

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and stuff like that. It was quite fun. Wicked. Once that's all done

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up, it should look like another one I made earlier, spent a lot of time,

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as you can see. Talking of things you made earlier. That-dah. Nice

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and solid and stuck together. Get some tinsel from your local

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tinsel shop. Put some on you to doll you up a bit. Much needed!

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Cheers! Use some tinsel and go around the

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edge of the thing, maybe scrunch it up so you can put it through the

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holes. Who decorates the tree in the Sheeran household? Probably one

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of my parents because me and my brother are never there, but yes,

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my dad used to, you know all the pins they get on the floor, when I

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was younger to occupy me because I was hyper he was like I'll give you

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1p every single pin you pick up and I thought I would be a millionaire

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by the end of it. I was there for hours and I got �3 and he got rid

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of me for the day which is good! OK. We should have a Blue Peter appeal

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for you. But you are doing all right. Put it all around the edge

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like that and it will end up like this. This is nicely decorated. You

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have added some baubles? You will get some from the bauble shop, you

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can probably find it! What is a bubble shop and a tinsel shop?!

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find some garden wire, either from your mum or dad. If your mum wears

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the trousers, she probably has some bauble wire, and if your dad

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doesn't, then he probably doesn't. What?! Just go to the parent that

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does the gardening. Yes, thread it up and do it up quite tight. That

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hides all the hooks? Yes, cover it up with the tinsel so it looks nice

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and pretty and there you have it, a Christmas star. You can all maken

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eco version, we have one covered in pine cones, ivy. Little robins.

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and tinsel. Any Christmas traditions in the Sheeran

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household? We tend to watch films, I think everybody does that. There

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you have it. And pick up pine needles? Yes, Christmas star,

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courtesy of Sheezer. If you haven't decorated your tree yet, look at

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this next film for instraition. I went to one of the most famous

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households in the country to help them put up their tree. Brace

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yourselves for some flash photography -- illustration.

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Every iconic landmark has a Christmas tree and almost every

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home in Britain has one. Including the most famous address

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in the country. Number Ten Downing Street.

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So how do they choose the tree that will stand here? They won a

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competition. The champion tree growers' prize is to see their tree

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displayed here outside the Prime Minister, David Cameron's front

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Minister, David Cameron's front door.

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This year's winner comes from The Tree Barn in Christmas Common. It's

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a real place! I've come to see the champion Christmas tree for myself

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before it heads off to Number Ten. The man in charge is Andrew Ingram.

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So this is it, the tree that will be heading to Number Ten? That's

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right. Why have you cut the branches off the bottom then?

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tree is bigger than we need. It's got to be five metres tall. This is

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seven or eight metres, we don't need the bottom half so in order

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for it to be easier for us to cut it, we trim the lower branches.

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long has this been growing for? 25 years. It looks good. I'm sure

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it will look good outside Number Ten. I should feel sad we are

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chopping this tree down, shouldn't I? No, it's destiny. What it's

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meant to do? Yes. Right, then, let's get it ready for Mr Cameron.

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A round of applause is in order. What do we do with this now then?

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It's going to go through the netter, we'll net it to protect it while

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transporting it to London. Whilst growing Christmas trees recycle

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carbon dioxide by turning it into oxygen. Every acre of trees grown

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produce the daily oxygen for 16 people and don't worry, for every

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tree cut down, at least two others are planted.

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That's it. Wrapped and ready to go to Downing Street. I'll see you

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Here it comes. Christmas tree has made its way from Christmas Common

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and is almost there at its final destination, Number Ten.

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Well done. Wow, it's tall, isn't it? They've put the tree in place

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 114 seconds

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and now I'm going to unwrap it. OK. Andy! Oh, no, did that just happen.

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I won't be in charge of the star at Downing Street. The tree is up. The

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decorating is well under way, but to finish it off, I've enlisted the

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help of our latest gold badge winners, Jonah, Lauren and Toby.

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Eight-year-old Jonah from Surrey won his gold badge for making a

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life-saving call to 999 emergency services team when his grandad

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collapsed. Law reason is ten from Wiltshire, she has cerebral palsy

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as a result of contracting meningitis at six weeks old.

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Despite this, she's continued to challenge herself and raise money

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for the Meningitis Trust -- Lauren. Most recently, she cycled 25 miles

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and raised over �4,000. Eight-year-old Toby from Guernsey

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spotted an unexploded World War bomb whilst playing outside at Cubs.

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He acted calmly and ensured the right people were informed so no-

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one was hurt. Good work, guys! The tree going up is national news.

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So the street is lined with members of the press. Now, there's only one

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thing left to go. 4, 3, 2, 1... Look at that. A round of applause.

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Merry Christmas, everybody. I haven't put up a single Christmas

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decoration at any house yet. But to be honest, I don't think I need to

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any more. This tops it all. A Christmas tree for the Prime

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Minister decorated by three amazing kids.

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Do you know what, I expected the Prime Minister's tree to be bigger

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than that, I don't know why. You cheeky thing, anyway, don't you

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read the newspapers, were in troubled times. You are going to

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give this away tonight aren't you? I'm at the Apollo tonight, yes.

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Pixie Lott will be pr forming for us while I tell you what is

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happening on Blue Peter tomorrow. The author of How To Train Your

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Dragon, Cressida Cowell, will be here to announce the nominations

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for the Book Awards. We'll be at The Clothes Show live with Georgia

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Locke and Alexandra Burke and the megastar Nicole Scherzinger will be

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here in this very studio! We've been friends for a while pixie, a

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couple of weeks ago I invited you to a gig to play and we had a

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conversation about Stevie Wonder collaborating on your new album.

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Tell us more about that? I was very lucky, in the right place at the

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right time in LA and he's my all- time favourite, I grew up listening

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to him and he was in the same restaurant. I met him, was

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overwhelmed, it was quite a moment for me, but then I wrote a song and

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he collaborates on it, playing the harmonica. He sounds amazing, so I

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was very lucky. You can hear that on Young, Foolish and Happy,

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Pixie's album. Right now she's going to sing Everybody Hurts from

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# I don't know how to turn it all around

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# When I feel hopeless can see my way out

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# Dawn so low will I ever get back # When I am broken and I've just

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had enough # Pick up the pieces and I'll put

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myself all together # Crying it out there's no doubt it

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got to get better # And it's alright to go in let

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your tears fall down # And everything crushes to the

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ground # And it's alright do it if it

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makes it out alive # Sometimes

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# It's so hard not to let emotion burge

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# Turn my head upside down on a thread, huhuh

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# Cut me loose so I can stanch fade up again

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# I feel love is bitter empty space # Pick up the pieces and I'll put

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myself all together # Crying it out there's no doubt it

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got to get better # And it's alright to go in let

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your tears fall down # And everything crushes to the

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ground # And it's alright do it if it

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makes it out alive # Everybody hurts sometimes

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# Sometimes # So when you're stuck and can't

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move on # You're allowed to cry, we all get

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hurt sometimes # And it's alright

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# To go in and let your tears fall down

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# When everything crashes to the ground

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