08/12/2017 The One Show

Hello and welcome to The One Show

with Patrick Kielty.

And Alex Jones.

This Christmas, she'll be

stinking up our screens

in David Walliams' Ratburger

and filling our stockings

with her album of show

tunes and standards.

It is Sheridan Smith.

Look, thanks

for joining us. You are so busy. I

am sure you are here for a rest.

They have let me come away. I am

filming for an ITV drama.

You will

be singing for us later, City Of

Stars From La La Land. The project

you are filming for ITV is a

complete contrast.

I play a cleaner.

Was that much of a stretch?

Not at

all. I am a scrubber, aren't I?

Also, you have the showbiz

Hollywood's singing, you have the

BAFTAs and the Olivier awards.

Keeping your feet on the ground can

you like to hang out with stars like

Barry Manilow. Who else do we have?

Dolly Parton. Barbara Streisand.

They are my dogs. When your dogs

have those names.

You have seven but

you have brought two tonight. Which

one is that?

That is Pandora and

little dumbo with his ears, but bold

one. And that is Leslie, my make up

artist. I love that they have just

been on the show. That is cool.

A new Hollywood film about a little

boy with a facial condition that

leads to other children bullying him

has proved a hit around the world.

Wonder may be a drama

but the struggles he has fitting

in and being accepted

are based on fact.

Every now and then film comes along

offering people a glimpse into a

unique struggle. Wonder is one such

film.

Next week I start fifth grade.

Since I have never been to a real

school before, I am petrified.

It

tells the story of a ten-year-old

boy with a rare facial difference as

he starts mainstream school for the

first time.

Dear God, please make

them be nice to him.

It is a

heart-warming tale of acceptance

also a story some families in the UK

can directly relate to.

I think

we're all done if you want to get

dressed and do your teeth.

That is

fine. This is Stuart Fulton he is 12

and living with a rare neurological

disorder.

His sixth and seventh nerd

don't work for this area. It bunches

his tongue and makes him struggle

with his teeth.

Tell me about the

anxiety you feel as a parent with

him going out into the world.

Things

like when he started secondary

school, I was worried about people

making comments. Will it affect him?

When people look they do not know

what is wrong with him. Some of them

up and ask sometimes. You can

explain it to him. Once his

personality punches through and you

realise he is a cheeky kid who is a

bit different.

Mrs Taylor told me

you did really well in PA yesterday.

See you later. Love you. According

to the reality, Changing Faces,

15,000 children are born each year

with a physical difference. Stuart

attends mainstream school and it has

a learning assistant. Tell me about

how things are at school?

He says

that it is Taylor is always there

for me. Thank you. -- Mrs Taylor. If

they need explaining, I explain to

them.

How difficult can it be for

children with facial differences?

In

mainstream school, it is very

difficult. Not many people have a to

one.

They are vulnerable. You not

ugly.

You would say that.

You are my

man. Because I am your mamma, I know

you the most.

What do Stewart and

his family make of it? You thought

it was very good.

He made a lot of

friends in the end out of what

happened.

I connected with on so

many levels. Once I started getting

into it you realise that so much of

that film does ring true.

Did you

get that? It is not what you look

like, it is how you are in now.

Thanks to Stuart and his family.

You have played lots of people based

on real-life characters. Is it

tougher creating a character from

scratch? How does it work?

I love

playing real people. You have

cemetery such that you lose yourself

in it for that this is hard for me,

the whole kind of being me think. I

like to lose myself in characters.

When they are real people you get to

know them. The lovely Lisa who I

played in the C Word, you just get a

connection.

All these characters

have the fact in, the -- in common

that they are not scared to stand up

for other people's rights.

I will

batter you. Go on, try me. This

place is all wrong. They are not the

least bit interested in the young

redhead from Liverpool. I don't want

to think about all the benefits of

having a baby. I thought about that.

Love and satisfaction. No, the

benefit. Child benefit. Family

credit. I hate you but I refused to

let this family go under.

There we

go.

APPLAUSE

Is it funny when you watch yourself

back? You started doing so much

comedy. Gavin and Stacey, Two Pints

Of Lager, and now you are a serious

actor.

I am just grateful I'm

getting to have a go at all

different things. David doing

Ratburger, I looks like an idiot.

Then doing serious dramas. I am very

lucky.

Is a real mix. It has been 20

years he had been on our screens

doing amazing roles. Now doing these

big, serious, meaty roles. Did you

get your work ethic from your

parents? You have talked about them

throughout your career.

They are

real heroes. My mum and dad are a

country and western duo. He used a

gig with them and sing with them.

They were grafters, working class

families. I got my work ethic from

them. That is a brilliant picture. I

have a picture. There I am full

little me.

That is proper show

business. It actually is for the lad

has what it is all about. Getting up

there and doing a turn night after

night.

I guess. That was my

training. I never went to drama

school. Going with them from such a

young age but that was my training.

Your dad was the motivation behind

this new, lovely album you have.

Absolutely. I had always said, it is

weird when actors do albums. But my

dad said, why can't you do it? His

voice was ringing in my ear when

they asked me this time. I do want

to dedicate it to my pops. There is

a sleeve inside with a dedication to

him. Had he suggested some of the

things? He did not know I was going

to make it but I am sure he will be

very proud.

Absolutely.

You lost

your dad last year and you are doing

this album now. It is a top ten

album. He was a singer. He said, you

should sing as well as actor because

he would have twice as much chance

to get work.

All the tracks on the

album, they tell the story. Where

are you taking us from beginning to

end?

Tell us about the process,

darling? Simon that it is all new to

me for three get to see these

lovely, amazing musicians. --

It is

all new. Each song has a different

bit of my personality. There are

some vulnerable ones.

That is you

singing Crazy.

What is that telling

you? It is telling me I had a bit of

a meltdown. That is the first track.

You were in Funny Gal and I thought

you were great.

When your dad passes

you cannot take time of a show.

Everyone goes through grief. I am

happy that I am back and I hope he

likes this album.

You will be

singing at the end of the show was

that we have been hamming it all

day. Really badly at singing, you do

not want to hear that.

When it comes to women's clothing, I

find it difficult to get the right

fit. In the tights I am wearing now

I am a size eight.

I think Ruth can help. Our clothes

sizing system can be deeply

frustrating. It is particularly bad

in women's fashion. A dress size

that fits you perfectly well in one

shop can be really quite wide of the

mark in another. It was not always

meant to be like this. 60 years ago,

the first, large scale survey of

British women's do sizes tried to

overhaul the dress size system of

getting the measure of 5000 women.

I

find the clothes are too big in the

hip and the bust.

It was the

brainchild of Philip kewn it. What

would it be like in the late 40s,

early 50s, as a customer?

It was

going into the high street shops at

that time. Everyone had their own

codes for sizing.

I have a couple of

old things here. There is a label on

it.

To fit, OS. 95 to 105

centimetres.

These are both about

the same size.

There are three

different sizes for two garments

that are both the same size.

He was

convinced we needed a simple set of

standard sizes to fit real women. He

needed to find out what thousands of

the measured and he could not do it

alone. June McAfee was one of the

measure is. Her daughter still has

the scrapbooks. This is your mum,

this lady.

She would start as a

machinist and work her way up.

Your

mother would have been measuring all

these various measurements. Bust,

Ark, anterior. So the call to front

waste. So much more of an involved

process than I had ever expected.

He

gathered 200,000 individual

measurements. He hired models to

represent the average body shapes he

recovered. Mrs Short, Mrs average,

Mrs medium, and Ms Wall, modelled by

June herself. This is your mother?

Yes, Miss Tool was my mum.

This

system is simplified to just a

handful of standard sizes. They were

named after a string of arbitrary

numbers. The ones we know today. So,

why? Despite the ground-breaking

research, why is British sizing is

still so indifferent.

An extremely

good question. It is a guideline and

not the law. Retailers were quite

content with making a living as they

were going. Some of them are not

willing to change from the old

systems to the new system.

The dream

of better fishing -- fitting fashion

lives on at the University of

Manchester. It is believed we need

to move more to bespoke clothing

fitted to our unique shapes. Rather

than using tape measures like they

did in 1957, what are you using now?

We use a body scan it using infrared

sensors. They project infrared light

onto the body surface as a pattern.

They are used to render the curve of

the body to a virtual person.

Simeon

and his team run opens coming days

so anyone can access their

measurements and I are going to give

it a go.

Visually you have

indications of posture and

relationships of body parts to one

another and all the measurements you

would need to understand the sizing.

According to his data in the 1950s I

would have been a medium statue

woman with a medium bust. Could

these sizes be a thing of the past?

And like to be in a position where

we could use this technology to

bodies patterns which represent

specific dimensions of individuals

submit could help the industry move

towards mass customisation and

made-to-measure.

It is a way

forward.

Sheridan, are you like me and try

on something in one shop...

Two you want me to leave, this

sounds like a girl thing.

There can

be one food that has lovely food and

in another shop, everyone is so

thin!

My weight goes up and down

like a yo-yo.

You are looking

incredibly stylish tonight. Can you

talk us through this other

contemporary look from the runway

this season? This is you in

Ratburger with David Walliams.

We

like that look.

It is a good look.

We saw the picture on your social

media feed and are now fancy one of

these. What's that?

It is a blanket

but you are a mermaid, I am such a

child, it is ridiculous!

So when you

have your bottle of wine and you are

on the sofa how do you get up and

pee?

You just drop it!

Last time you

came on we remember that you didn't

have any tattooists.

You told us you weren't

considering getting any either

because you were worried

about a certain someone's reaction.

I would not like that because Matt

mum will kill me, she will ring me

up straight afterwards and say, you

are not getting a tad too!

That was

2011.

What does Amman make of your

body art?

I love tattoos. Now I've

got them all over me. My mum does

not know about a lot of them but she

hates the mother passion. She went

absolutely mad. My lovely make up

artist who you saw earlier with the

dogs, she covers it in seconds so we

are fine now.

Your mum is watching

tonight, isn't she. What is she

called?

Marilyn.

Marilyn, she has

said it all.

You've played so many different

parts but what is your dream role?

Comedy, drama, stage, screen? Who

would you love to play.

Dolly

Parton.

I think you've got some

tough competition.

Guilty.

That was

amazing. He did a brilliant Nine To

Five. What is it about Dolly?

I just

love her music and I have grown up

with country music so she is my

idol. If I ever got married I would

have my hen party at Dollywood.

Great idea.

You know that she wrote Nine To Five

when she was sitting in her trailer,

tapping her nails.

Pour myself a cup

of ambition...! I think shed and has

the edge. It would be great to see

you as Dolly, let's hope it happens

-- I think that Sheridan has the

edge. Sheridan will be singing the

beautiful City Of Stars from La La

Land.

On Monday we'll finally be filling

the studio with some festive cheer

when we put up our decorations -

not before time in my opinion.

So stand by for plenty of Christmas

films from around the country.

Tonight's is different as we look

at how people of other faiths -

and none - celebrate

the holiday season.

I am Ariane.

And Graham, and we are

atheists.

We are the Sangu family

and we British seek.

I am Kate and I

at Wycombe high priestess.

I'm a

Hindu.

I'm a Buddhist.

And Debbie,

and we are rabbis.

Is a Muslim I

look forward to Christmas, I feel it

is the only opportunity we have is a

country to breathe and think about

life, a chance to meet my neighbours

and be happy. I think it is

something that transcends religions

and for the past few years I've been

invited by my local church to take

part in the Christmas service where

I have been asked to read parts of

the old Testament. It has taken me

out of my comfort zone and placed me

into a congregation of Christians.

And to be part of something that is

really important for them has become

special for me. I think it is a

relationship that has helped us as a

community.

As a reformed Wood

Christmas is a lovely time of year

but it is not a religious

celebration. -- as a reformed due.

We have just done eight days of

Hanukkah so we're pretty much

partied out. When we had finished it

and watched the Queen's Speech we

could light the candles and

celebrate.

I kind of embrace it as a

cultural phenomenon. It's

traditionally celebratory time of

year but that in itself can bring

its own sense of expectation, that

we should be happy. It almost

highlights what we may feel is

lacking in our life, I think it is

good to know that others are

suffering and develop compassion.

Just because they are not Christian

does not mean they cannot celebrate

love, togetherness and family, these

things are universal.

You don't need

to go to church pray to do that.

Ariane started buying Christmas

decorations in September! Calendars

and sparkly things.

I even like

Christmas carols, I started working

on the music, the other day, didn't

yes!

The Christmas tree was a

tradition when I was a child in

India growing up, we have put up the

tree on Christmas eve and then it

will be Santa Claus time. I love

cooking the traditional dinner but

with a bit of a twist and that twist

is with those of spices. Christmas

has become too commercialised in my

opinion. It has to be brought back

to its spiritual roots of being

loving, kind and humble to each

other.

As Wiccans we celebrate you

look, before Christmas. It heralds

the onset of spring, and many of the

traditions of Yule celebrate

Christmas, we have the Yule on the

fire and the chocolate log on the

table. Whereas for Christians

Christmas is the celebration of the

birth of the son of God. Wiccans and

pagans celebrate the birth of the

Sun which brings light and warmth

and fire to the land.

As a British

seek family the way we view

Christmas is not necessarily on a

spiritual or religious level but

more of a cultural one.

With the

kids Christmas begins with the day

they open the first door on the

Advent calendar on December the 1st.

My favourite thing at Christmas when

I open my presence.

Giving and

sharing.

When not only have advent

calendars, we put up a Christmas

tree and decorations so they are

very excited.

Yuletide blessings to

all.

Have a happy atheist Christmas.

Merry Christmas. Have a very

peaceful Christmas.

Merry Christmas!

Thank you to everyone who took part

in the film, we are getting down and

the tinsel from the attic as soon as

we go off air this evening. Are we

getting into the Christmas spirit?

Come on!

That's about it from us for tonight

- on Monday's show Matt

and I will be joined by Sarah Parish

and Robbie Williams.

Now we leave you with the

multi-talented Sheridan Smith and

and City of Stars from her

new album, Sheridan.

Thank you!

# City of stars

# Are you shining just for me?

# City of stars

# There's so much that I can't see

# Who knows?

# I felt it from the first

embrace

# I shared with you

# That now our dreams

# They've finally come true

# City of stars

# Just one thing everybody wants

# There in the bars

# And through the smokescreen

# Of the crowded

restaurants

# It's love

Yes, all we're looking

for

# Is love from someone

else

# A rush

# A glance

# A touch

# A dance

# A look in somebody's eyes

# To light up the skies

# To open the world

# And send it reeling

# A voice that says

# I'll be here

# And you'll be alright

# I don't care if I know

# Just where I will go

# 'Cause all that I need

# Is this crazy feeling

# A rat-tat-tat of my heart

# Think I want it to stay

# City of stars

# Are you shining just for me?

# City of stars

# You never shined so brightly #