:00:16. > :00:22.Hello and welcome to The One Show with Patrick Kielty.
:00:23. > :00:33.And for the final time before her big arrival, it's Alex Jones! Thank
:00:34. > :00:38.you. How are you feeling? Very excited, a bit anxious and I'll miss
:00:39. > :00:44.everybody. We're going to make it through the next half an hour. I
:00:45. > :00:51.can't promise that. Hot water and towels! We have a lovely show as we
:00:52. > :01:00.are joined by two stars from the new BBC talent show, Let It Shine,
:01:01. > :01:08.but... Ooh! And the audience from The Price Is Right! Do they have
:01:09. > :01:12.what it takes to get on our sofa? First is a teenager called Gary,
:01:13. > :01:13.playing in front of one of the biggest and most enthusiastic
:01:14. > :01:17.audiences of his career. The # The power of love
:01:18. > :01:44.# The power of love that woman was definitely more into
:01:45. > :01:50.her gin and tonic. That was Gary Barlow on Phoenix Nights. Next,
:01:51. > :01:53.young lady called Mel, taking karaoke to a whole new audience,
:01:54. > :02:09.whether they want it or not. # Ooh nobody knows it
:02:10. > :02:17.# I gave you my heart # Gave you my heart! With a love of
:02:18. > :02:24.power ballads like that, they definitely deserve to take their
:02:25. > :02:39.seats. It is Gary Barlow and Mel Giedroyc. Hello, love!
:02:40. > :02:48.Jonesy! Nice to have you here. Last show, I couldn't have wished for
:02:49. > :02:54.better guests. Do we need hot towels? Just in case. Very exciting,
:02:55. > :02:59.the new show is exciting. Gary, I know your career has been building
:03:00. > :03:08.to this moment, working with Mel. Absolutely, she is great fun.
:03:09. > :03:09.Through gritted teeth! It is an audition show and you are no
:03:10. > :03:18.strangers to auditions. Mel, tell us about Mamma Mia. I
:03:19. > :03:25.tried out for Mamma Mia, for one of the comedy lady parts, the ladies
:03:26. > :03:29.with the hairbrushes. Anyway, I'd never been to an audition before,
:03:30. > :03:36.especially musical theatre. I brought a boom box with a Marc
:03:37. > :03:43.Bolland CD. Not sheet music? Mistake number one! Basically I'd put the CD
:03:44. > :03:51.on and I sang along with Marc Bolland. Very badly. And I was shown
:03:52. > :03:58.the door. Was it brutal? It was a bit. I had a little cry. Are they a
:03:59. > :04:05.bit hostile? They were all smiles, they killed with kindness, which is
:04:06. > :04:09.worse. Worse, yeah. We will be talking about Let It Shine later and
:04:10. > :04:17.we have an David Bowie exclusive. As we approach what would have been his
:04:18. > :04:22.70th birthday this weekend. It is absolutely amazing, on BBC Two this
:04:23. > :04:27.weekend. When you complain to a company, you go straight to the top,
:04:28. > :04:31.if you are as important as these two but what if the person in charge is
:04:32. > :04:35.so hands-off that they don't know the name of their company? That
:04:36. > :04:40.makes things tricky, Joe has met a boss who doesn't trouble himself
:04:41. > :04:47.with such details. Perched beside the Pennines on the banks of the
:04:48. > :04:52.River Derwent, Consett has a proud history as a steel-making town. Like
:04:53. > :04:55.many industrial towns, when the steelworks shot in the 80s, people
:04:56. > :05:00.had to adjust to the loss of their main employer. These days, the area
:05:01. > :05:06.boasts a surprisingly high number of company directors because the small
:05:07. > :05:11.town of Consett has become home to over 1000 online businesses. Many of
:05:12. > :05:17.them are links to gambling and adult websites. On paper, at least, those
:05:18. > :05:21.businesses are run by about 400 people in Consett, many with little
:05:22. > :05:29.or no business experience. Hello, John? Like former steelworker, John
:05:30. > :05:32.Mawson. At one point he was the director of eight companies. How
:05:33. > :05:39.come? We were approached by somebody from where we used to live and they
:05:40. > :05:45.asked if we wanted to have some free money, all we had to do was fine. We
:05:46. > :05:51.got 50 quid. All we were told is that we would get letters and all we
:05:52. > :05:56.had to do was post them back and that's all we've ever had to do. So
:05:57. > :06:01.you're 50 quid was for signing and forwarding some post? Yes. There
:06:02. > :06:10.were about 1200 firms, all of them the brainchild of one enterprising
:06:11. > :06:14.local, Simon Dowson, who set up a company who sets up companies, Shell
:06:15. > :06:20.companies to be precise. Why shell companies? To operate here legally,
:06:21. > :06:26.overseas firms must have UK-based firms and directors. Simon Dowson's
:06:27. > :06:30.business provided that, turning over millions of pounds every year. Many
:06:31. > :06:34.of his recruits like John said they had no idea what the businesses they
:06:35. > :06:37.were involved with actually did. Can you remember the names of the
:06:38. > :06:47.companies you were the director of? The only one I can remember, Thunder
:06:48. > :06:56.Flash. That was responsible for title websites? -- for adult
:06:57. > :06:59.websites? Yes. The boost of businesses caught the eye of the
:07:00. > :07:02.insolvency service who found that no laws had been broken although many
:07:03. > :07:09.of the businesses had been closed on its advice. The MPMP once rules
:07:10. > :07:14.around shell companies to be tightened so that consumers know who
:07:15. > :07:24.is really in charge. We must go through all kinds of hoops for all
:07:25. > :07:28.sorts of reasons to do with tax evasion but you can be a director
:07:29. > :07:33.without any of those kinds of requirements. Regulations are in
:07:34. > :07:37.place but no one is monitoring to make sure we know who is running
:07:38. > :07:42.companies. All companies in the UK with companies house. They told us
:07:43. > :07:46.that all newly appointed company directors are warned of their
:07:47. > :07:50.responsibilities like filing accounts and they face persecution
:07:51. > :07:53.if these aren't met. And as for Simon Dowson, the man behind this,
:07:54. > :07:59.he has agreed to give me an interview. At the time of starting
:08:00. > :08:02.the business I had nothing. I was unable to pay my mortgage, my
:08:03. > :08:06.council tax and this opportunity came along and we took it. We
:08:07. > :08:11.diversify away from the norm and we have brought an alternative to the
:08:12. > :08:16.area. How much of the money you bring in from overseas goes into the
:08:17. > :08:22.local community? It's important to say that it is not just the fees
:08:23. > :08:27.paid to individuals that go to the locality, every fee that we have
:08:28. > :08:31.generated have gone to the locality, a very high percentage because we've
:08:32. > :08:37.always had local staff and offices. Do people always know what they are
:08:38. > :08:43.becoming the director of? Not out of hand, people were not unaware but
:08:44. > :08:46.they like the opportunity of additional revenue and they
:08:47. > :08:51.overlooked what it was for but at no time was anybody ever not advised
:08:52. > :08:55.clearly what they were doing. I heard the suggestion that you may
:08:56. > :09:00.think of yourself as a Robin Hood, taking the online money and bringing
:09:01. > :09:07.it here? I don't think I am Robin Hood but I also don't think I am
:09:08. > :09:14.Dick Turpin either. Simon is no longer in the Shell company business
:09:15. > :09:19.so it seems that Consett's time as the boom town for company directors
:09:20. > :09:24.is now over. Now we must talk about the brand-new show on BBC One
:09:25. > :09:31.tomorrow night. He's looking excited. I am excited. It all
:09:32. > :09:39.started, I've been trying to make a musical with all of the music from
:09:40. > :09:44.Take That for two years and I need a band, a five piece boy band for the
:09:45. > :09:49.musical. I sat down with the BBC and we were talking about shows and new
:09:50. > :09:53.opportunities and ideas and I thought, you know what, I'd like to
:09:54. > :09:59.cast on TV a boy band for the show soap we started working on it. We
:10:00. > :10:03.have some fine judges and hosts and we also have, I can tell you, some
:10:04. > :10:11.really great talent, some as young as 16. Amazing, young, fearless,
:10:12. > :10:14.great talent. We have seen some footage and it is the creme de la
:10:15. > :10:21.creme, to be fair. You are not looking for mini-mes, are you, they
:10:22. > :10:25.don't have to be lookalikes? It is a boy band with a new story, we don't
:10:26. > :10:36.need lookalikes, what I'm looking for in the show is the energy of
:10:37. > :10:43.Take That in 1992. Pray! Ambitious, fierce. The dance routine, sweaty
:10:44. > :10:48.armpits? Oh, yeah! Those dressed shirts that went down a little bit
:10:49. > :10:55.too far. LAUGHTER Very nice! And you are presenting,
:10:56. > :11:02.Mel, with Graham. Yes. How do the audition stages work? We have
:11:03. > :11:08.recorded already five audition shows. I can sense the excitement
:11:09. > :11:12.building! Basically they're on their own for those auditions, they aren't
:11:13. > :11:17.in any kind of group formation yet. So they have to go out in front of
:11:18. > :11:25.500 people in a live studio scenario. The amazing judges
:11:26. > :11:34.including Martin Kemp, Kempo! That's a bit familiar! And Dannii Minogue,
:11:35. > :11:41.the wonderful Dannii Minogue. And of course the chief judge here, and
:11:42. > :11:47.Amber Riley is here with us. From Glee. She's amazing. Off the scale.
:11:48. > :11:53.No pressure, they have to get out and perform. What a line-up. You
:11:54. > :11:57.know, it's interesting because obviously we've been working on the
:11:58. > :12:01.show for over a year, trying to think of how we're going to school
:12:02. > :12:06.and the mechanics but what you can't quantify is the talent, and they are
:12:07. > :12:13.the heart of the show -- of how we are going to score. It was a relief
:12:14. > :12:17.that they came on and blew the audience away. I don't know how you
:12:18. > :12:21.chose them, the standard is so good. We don't want to give anything away
:12:22. > :12:25.but we are going to show a small clip of one of the hopefuls.
:12:26. > :12:35.My name is Nikki, I'm 17 years old and I'm from South Wales.
:12:36. > :12:41.# Anywhere, I would have followed you
:12:42. > :13:00.# Ooh! # Is not giving up on you!
:13:01. > :13:12.Nicky! Don't leave it there! What happened? That's cruel. I'm terrible
:13:13. > :13:19.at keeping secrets. That's all we are allowed to have. He was great.
:13:20. > :13:23.So if they make it to the end? They are standing on the 15th star and
:13:24. > :13:29.age judge has a maximum of five stars, so if all judges give
:13:30. > :13:33.maximum, you get 20 but you just need number 15 to light up to get to
:13:34. > :13:44.the next round. Some of them go beyond 15. Some go less than 15. You
:13:45. > :13:48.are a teaser! There's a big musical number at the start? Even start us.
:13:49. > :13:56.We were surprised to hear that you are part of this! Although you have
:13:57. > :14:02.a number one single? Thank you very much, that's true. Did you know
:14:03. > :14:09.that, Gary? Really? With Gareth Malone. I can't the name. --
:14:10. > :14:16.remember the name. It was for Children in Need. Wake Me Up. Not
:14:17. > :14:23.that one! Are you singing and dancing? Well, there may be some
:14:24. > :14:29.impromptu dancing. Graham's quite good at dancing. Very good. We were
:14:30. > :14:35.trying to work out how we start the series and for me, the best way to
:14:36. > :14:42.Kameni Kate is through song, so I decided to write a song but then I
:14:43. > :14:50.had the job to go to the racing them and ask them about how they felt
:14:51. > :14:54.about doing a rap. So they are rapping, brilliantly. You can see
:14:55. > :15:00.the full opening number. It is very strong. It is on the iPlayer, after
:15:01. > :15:05.this show. Let It Shine starts tomorrow on BBC One at 7pm. One
:15:06. > :15:06.piece of advice that Gary will give to the winner is never to forget
:15:07. > :15:21.where you're coming from. Ooh! Midge Ure is all too aware of this.
:15:22. > :15:26.Here he is, taking us back to the streets where his dreams began.
:15:27. > :15:37.Vienna, my name will always be tied to that city. But my well name was
:15:38. > :15:43.tied to somewhere else - Glasgow. Right on this spot is where my flat
:15:44. > :15:47.would have been. If you just look over here, these red stone
:15:48. > :15:52.buildings, that is a posh person of the place where I was born. I shared
:15:53. > :15:56.the bedroom with my brother and sister, whilst our parents slept in
:15:57. > :16:02.the sitting room. My dad was a van driver. Mum kept us on our toes. The
:16:03. > :16:07.tenements may have looked grim, but we were a community. I lived around
:16:08. > :16:12.the corn frer my gran and two aunts. As you were out playing she would
:16:13. > :16:19.hang out the window, on the top floor of this block and she would
:16:20. > :16:25.make you up a jam sandwich, stick it inside a paper bag, wrap it up and
:16:26. > :16:31.throw it out the window. And I've still got the knack! I was
:16:32. > :16:35.growing up at a time when the old Glasgow was being replaced by a new,
:16:36. > :16:39.modern version. My family were caught up in that change, when we
:16:40. > :16:44.were moved to here, Bucking ham Drive. To us, it was a palace. Not
:16:45. > :16:48.only did we have our own rooms. I shared a room with my brother, but
:16:49. > :16:53.my sister had her own room. It was amazing. If you walked past you
:16:54. > :16:58.would have undoubtedly heard music coming from the bedroom. My brother
:16:59. > :17:03.and I pumping out heavy rock. Music was big, big, big news here. Making
:17:04. > :17:08.a living from music, my parents didn't see that one coming. It was
:17:09. > :17:15.important to them that we moved up a rung of the ladder. But I dreamed of
:17:16. > :17:18.doing exactly what I do. When I come back here, I'll come around here to
:17:19. > :17:24.remind me of what I was wishing for in this very spot.
:17:25. > :17:32.This school is where I first became a musician. Back then it was called
:17:33. > :17:38.Rutherford Academy. I never felt comfortable in places like this, in
:17:39. > :17:47.halls like this. I didn't quite. About deep ya had no interest to me
:17:48. > :17:50.whatsoever. I immersed myself in music, learning the guitar in the
:17:51. > :17:55.school club. So, this is the very guitar that I got when I was 10
:17:56. > :18:03.years old. It cost my parents half my dad's wages, which was ?3.
:18:04. > :18:05.# It takes a rude man to sing a rude song
:18:06. > :18:11.# I'm worried now # But I won't be worried long.
:18:12. > :18:16.I had no worries. I was soon playing in local groups, earning a few quid.
:18:17. > :18:22.At 18, I was in my first proper band. This place here was the
:18:23. > :18:28.Electric Garden. I played here with Salvation. And this is Billy, the
:18:29. > :18:32.key booshd player. This is the first time we have met in a long time.
:18:33. > :18:40.These are the hair styles. Notice the hair! Notice the players! My
:18:41. > :18:45.Spanish hat. Many, many dodgy outfits. It was quite a scary thing
:18:46. > :18:49.performing in those days. The girls would stand at the front of the
:18:50. > :18:55.stage here and look at you adoringly. The boy friends stood
:18:56. > :19:02.behind them going... We had the look, we had the songs,
:19:03. > :19:10.but there was one problem. Jim said, you are Jim Ure. She said, I am Jim
:19:11. > :19:21.McGinly. We cannot have two Jims. As it is my band and I am older, you
:19:22. > :19:25.are now Midge. Salvation became one of the biggest gigging bands in
:19:26. > :19:30.Scotland at the time. I remember travelling back from Inverness. Get
:19:31. > :19:35.back at 5-6am in the morning. Did that for three or four years. All of
:19:36. > :19:41.a sudden, bang, bang, bang, bang, things took off. Four years later,
:19:42. > :19:47.Salvation changed their name to Slick. We were at number one with
:19:48. > :19:53.Forever and Ever. I became lead singer with ultra vox, who would
:19:54. > :19:55.take me to many places, including Vienna, but I would be nothing
:19:56. > :20:06.without Glasgow. There he is. Come on Glasgow. They
:20:07. > :20:11.are always nice films. Thank you. Next week is a year since we lost
:20:12. > :20:18.one of our greatest ever musicians, to commemorate what would have been
:20:19. > :20:23.David Bowie's 70th birthday, BBC Two will look at his last years, his
:20:24. > :20:28.last album and in this clip, his last tour.
:20:29. > :20:35.It is the happenest I have seen that man in 42 years, it was that tour.
:20:36. > :20:40.I have never seen him like that before.
:20:41. > :20:43.# Rebel, rebel # You've torn your dress
:20:44. > :20:47.# Rebel, rebel # Face is a mess
:20:48. > :20:50.# How could they know # Hot tramp, I love you so...
:20:51. > :20:59.You bet! It is so, so good.
:21:00. > :21:09.Any Bowie fans, you have to check this out. We are joined by Francis
:21:10. > :21:12.Whately and David's friend and frequent collaborator, guitarist
:21:13. > :21:16.Earl Slick. You made an amazing documentary about David Bowie during
:21:17. > :21:19.the five years where he changed music. What was so special about the
:21:20. > :21:24.final years and the work he did in them? We said look at David, he
:21:25. > :21:30.changes all the time. Isn't that amazing. In this one, we say, isn't
:21:31. > :21:35.it amazing, but what he's talking about remains entirely consistent.
:21:36. > :21:40.So, the themes he's talking about in the '60s, he's talking about on
:21:41. > :21:44.these two albums, too. So the themes of alienation, mortality, fame, they
:21:45. > :21:50.are his big things. He was changing all the time. Master of disguise
:21:51. > :21:58.really. He said I am not a cam mealion. He said the whole job of
:21:59. > :22:03.one is to fit into your environment. He said, I don't think I do that. If
:22:04. > :22:10.I do, I am doing something wrong. I get it. He seemed to be a lot more
:22:11. > :22:17.of himself in the last few years. Would you agree with that. Earl is
:22:18. > :22:18.the one to ask. You have worked with him throughout, since 1974, haven't
:22:19. > :22:37.you? He let himself change. Most people
:22:38. > :22:41.don't. Most people get stuck where they are. Here I am, I am
:22:42. > :22:53.comfortable. I will stay here forever. I will furnish it. It was
:22:54. > :23:00.not David. Whatever he felt, he did. That is where that cameleon thing
:23:01. > :23:04.is. In one of the brilliant things about
:23:05. > :23:07.the documentary is when you look at today's media, everybody puts
:23:08. > :23:12.everything out there, yet he managed to bring out the second last album
:23:13. > :23:17.and nobody knew. How difficult was it? You had to sign a
:23:18. > :23:22.non-disclosure. I signed it. I didn't have to sign it. I signed it
:23:23. > :23:30.because I was asked to. All anybody had to do was ask to be quiet. Out
:23:31. > :23:38.of respect, we would have been. It is funny doing interviews during
:23:39. > :23:47.that time for other things and you know, so... You know. And then I had
:23:48. > :23:52.done, a guitar player magazine. You get it here. It is American. It is
:23:53. > :23:58.kind of like, when it comes to guitar magazines, it is like the Big
:23:59. > :24:02.Daddy. And the Editor in Chief has been a friend of mine for years. And
:24:03. > :24:08.I got the front cover and we did the interview and the whole thing before
:24:09. > :24:13.I could say anything. I remember after the news that the
:24:14. > :24:19.record was released. He called me and he was like, not happy with me.
:24:20. > :24:23.I said, hey, my word's the word. That was it, man, and I had to stick
:24:24. > :24:31.with it. He understood it, but you know. I said, sorry. There was no
:24:32. > :24:35.skop to get. Mel is a huge Bowie fan. This is a
:24:36. > :24:40.dream for you to be on the show talking about this. Years and years
:24:41. > :24:51.ago, you got very close to him. Albeit that you didn't know. I was a
:24:52. > :24:55.wait re... This sounds creepy. I was a waitress in 1997, in a pretentious
:24:56. > :25:03.place in the middle of London, where a lot of the pop stars of the time
:25:04. > :25:07.used to come and get their coffee. 87, Bowie comes in with his
:25:08. > :25:14.entourage. I was very young. I was not allowed to serve him. I was too
:25:15. > :25:26.junior, but I saw his food being prepared... Was there much? What did
:25:27. > :25:32.you do? I licked his cake! No, guys, not a big horrid, it was
:25:33. > :25:43.like a little cat. It was a tiny little... And on that bombshell
:25:44. > :25:51.David Bowie: The Last Five Years is on tomorrow, BBC Two. 9pm. From
:25:52. > :25:58.Monet's Poplars to van Gogh's Mulberry Bush, trees have been a
:25:59. > :26:01.work of art. Nobody cares about the leaves tonight because it is the
:26:02. > :26:07.last show before you head off to have your little baby.
:26:08. > :26:11.Everybody on this show today, we had a little cake. Everyone was sending
:26:12. > :26:17.you loads of love and loads of best wishes, but we have here a message
:26:18. > :26:22.from two very special one show viewers, just for you. Look at this.
:26:23. > :26:27.When Matthew was first born, a lot of people say their babies are
:26:28. > :26:30.absolutely beautiful, I didn't get that impression when Matthew was
:26:31. > :26:36.born. He was the chubbiest baby around and the midwife she had never
:26:37. > :26:40.known a breast fed baby get so big so quickly. That is the way he was.
:26:41. > :26:43.He didn't have any wrists, any ankles. He didn't have any neck. He
:26:44. > :26:56.was just a little chubby baby. Don't worry. Go with your instincts.
:26:57. > :27:00.You will be fine. It is the wonderful time. It is the best
:27:01. > :27:10.chapter of your whole life. Our initial memory of Alex, when we
:27:11. > :27:16.saw her first, was her mass of very dark hair, which stood up on end.
:27:17. > :27:24.And for the first few months of her life she was known as the last of
:27:25. > :27:28.the mo hee Kens. We refer to it today when her hair is sticking up
:27:29. > :27:34.at a funny angle. We went to a zoo when she was five months and the
:27:35. > :27:39.monkeys just congregated around the pram looking at her. They couldn't
:27:40. > :27:45.believe there was a baby there that looked exactly like them.
:27:46. > :27:51.Children bring a lot of trouble, but they bring mostly joy. You will be a
:27:52. > :27:59.great mum, Alex and I cannot wait to see my new grandchild.
:28:00. > :28:04.Don't do it! I promised myself I wouldn't. I saw that in rehearsals
:28:05. > :28:13.and I almost went myself. It is such a special time. What advice do you
:28:14. > :28:20.have? She is your playlist, care -- get your playlist for your birth.
:28:21. > :28:27.None of these phones. A good camera. Got a little present.
:28:28. > :28:32.Thanks, Gary. Oh, look! And this as well.
:28:33. > :28:37.You might need more than one! Look!
:28:38. > :28:43.For the new arrival. I have got a little gift as well. You know I
:28:44. > :28:52.talked quite a lot about this - I have brought out my own range.
:28:53. > :28:57.That was meant to look cute. I had no idea how it was to look, it looks
:28:58. > :29:01.like you are breast-feeding a Bond villain! I am so sorry about that T
:29:02. > :29:06.from everybody, we wish you all the best. It is the best team ever here.
:29:07. > :29:09.I will miss everybody very much. See you very, very soon.
:29:10. > :29:22.We are back on Monday. Body of a young woman's
:29:23. > :29:25.just been found,