:00:24. > :00:37.# All by myself... # Don't want to be all by myself any
:00:37. > :00:41.more! #
:00:41. > :00:48.What are you doing? You are not Bridget Jones, you are Alex Jones
:00:48. > :00:55.and you are certainly not alone. There is a whole studio waiting for
:00:55. > :01:00.the show. I'm just waiting for my Mr Right. Nice jumper! Wait until you
:01:00. > :01:21.see my granny pants. What a start. Hello, welcome to The
:01:21. > :01:30.One Show. 119 pounds, 300 calories, zero alcohol units. 182 pounds,
:01:30. > :01:34.eight alcohol units, Matt Baker. Not very good. She was a
:01:34. > :01:42.weight-obsessed, calorie counting thirtysomething who drank too much.
:01:42. > :01:44.She is now a weight-obsessed calorie counting fiftysomething who drank
:01:44. > :01:53.too much. We are joined by the woman that brought her to life, Helen
:01:53. > :01:57.Fielding. I think we have to cut to the chase. All women will be
:01:57. > :02:03.shouting at the television screen, why did you kill off Mark Darcy? I
:02:03. > :02:09.know, I find the reaction quite touching. That people care so much
:02:09. > :02:17.about a fictional character. We loved Mark Darcy. I know, because
:02:17. > :02:22.nobody has actually died. But a piece of us has died. That is very
:02:22. > :02:28.true. We were surprised by the reaction, you were reading endless
:02:28. > :02:36.tweets. I turned on news, was in my pyjamas, and everybody was talking
:02:36. > :02:43.about him being dead. I had to tell Colin, and that was hard. How did he
:02:43. > :02:48.take it? Like the gentleman that he and Mark Darcy are. I had to ask if
:02:48. > :02:52.he was sitting down and had somebody with him. And we were both upset,
:02:52. > :02:57.but we were half laughing because nobody had actually died. It is
:02:57. > :03:03.about Bridget, later in life. Things do happen. It is much better that
:03:03. > :03:10.Mark Darcy should remain as a magnificent memory in the book and
:03:10. > :03:16.that his memory will also always be shiny. But not in a reindeer
:03:16. > :03:19.sweater. We have an hour to get to the bottom of this. You are not
:03:19. > :03:23.alone tonight. Also with those is a man whose early life sounds like it
:03:23. > :03:26.was straight out of Bridget Jones's Diary. Listen to this from his
:03:26. > :03:31.autobiography. Place after placed Diary. Listen to this from his
:03:31. > :03:35.hand-me-down. I don't know what possessed me, but I went into an
:03:35. > :03:38.American dinette on the piazza in Covent Garden 's. I announced in a
:03:38. > :03:46.strange accident that I was Canadian and my name was David Villapando. It
:03:46. > :04:01.is David Villapando himself, Graham Norton is with us tonight. Hello.
:04:01. > :04:07.Hi. Graham, Helen. David Villapando? Did you get the job? I did. It was
:04:07. > :04:12.in the early 80s, in London. Not the best time to have an Irish accent.
:04:12. > :04:19.When did you tell them you were not Canadian? I thought I would be a
:04:19. > :04:25.Canadian. I knew an American called David Villapando. I thought they
:04:25. > :04:30.would be softer on the working Visa. I thought, go Canadian, they
:04:30. > :04:35.will never guess. You are back on BBC One on Friday. Very exciting.
:04:35. > :04:39.You said you are a bit rusty on your radio show. Feel free to ask the
:04:39. > :04:46.question is, if you want a warm up. We are happy. Do the legwork for us.
:04:46. > :04:50.Go for your life. Have you got an hour? Tied for the first surprise.
:04:50. > :04:58.We will also be hearing a lot more about this over the next few weeks.
:04:58. > :05:02.This will be making its way around the Commonwealth head of the games
:05:02. > :05:08.in Glasgow next year. Later, Alex Salmond will come in to collect it.
:05:08. > :05:16.I will handed round so you can touch it. There is only one. Is there not
:05:16. > :05:20.a stand-by in case somebody makes it... Steals it? Security was high
:05:20. > :05:32.with the Olympic torches. But, with this one. We are opening the one
:05:32. > :05:35.show voting lines. You have had your say on Royal Mail shares and beauty
:05:35. > :05:39.pageants for children. Tonight we are going to be talking about these.
:05:39. > :05:45.E-cigarettes. They are very much in the news. You know how these work,
:05:45. > :05:49.you use them sometimes. They split into two parts. A capsule of liquid
:05:49. > :05:53.nicotine and a battery that produces the vapour. You put it together and
:05:53. > :06:01.you have your cigarette. But there is no tobacco or tar in them, so it
:06:01. > :06:08.is a move in the right direction. This is like the Olympic torch
:06:08. > :06:11.version of an e-cigarette. The market for e-cigarettes looks like
:06:11. > :06:15.it is about to explode. With adverts cropping up all over the country
:06:15. > :06:19.that look like this one, here are two views for you. One is from the
:06:19. > :06:26.BMA and the other is from smoker Rod Liddle.
:06:26. > :06:31.Proper, nice cigarettes have been banned in most public places, so
:06:31. > :06:35.people are trying to give up smoking. Increasingly, they are
:06:35. > :06:49.turning to these. This is the e-cigarette. It has an exciting blue
:06:49. > :06:53.tip. Everybody has agreed that these things are much less damaging to the
:06:53. > :06:57.person using them than normal cigarettes. They are an invaluable
:06:57. > :07:01.aid to giving up smoking. 1.5 million are trying to do that with
:07:01. > :07:05.them right now. So, why on earth are the doctors of the BMA trying to ban
:07:05. > :07:13.them from public places? I don't understand. Eggs Benedict, please.
:07:13. > :07:14.He seems pretty sure of himself, but determining how safe and effective
:07:14. > :07:18.they are is a problem that countries determining how safe and effective
:07:18. > :07:25.all over the world are wrestling with. While it is legal to buy and
:07:25. > :07:32.use them here, some restaurants ban them. The BMA wants to take that
:07:32. > :07:36.even further. We think the smoke-free legislation should be
:07:36. > :07:39.extended to cover e-cigarettes for a number of reasons. The current ban
:07:39. > :07:44.in public places has been extremely effective. It has meant it is
:07:44. > :07:49.considered unacceptable to be seen smoking in restaurants and bars. The
:07:49. > :07:54.use of e-cigarettes, where they do look like normal cigarettes and they
:07:54. > :07:56.are used to mimic the effects of normal cigarettes, it may allow
:07:56. > :08:03.smoking behaviour to be considered normal again. They say that these
:08:03. > :08:06.undermine existing legislation, but normal again. They say that these
:08:06. > :08:11.that is an absurdity. The existing legislation is there to stop some
:08:11. > :08:19.people breeding in my second-hand smoke. These produce no smoke. --
:08:19. > :08:25.breathing. They do produce a vapour. We know it contains, amongst other
:08:25. > :08:29.things, nicotine. It can be harmful to people that are exposed to it.
:08:29. > :08:33.E-cigarette vapour also contains a number of other compounds. What we
:08:33. > :08:38.do not know is how safe these compounds are. Tobacco companies
:08:38. > :08:41.have muscled in on the e-cigarettes as well. Many have launched their
:08:41. > :08:46.own ranges or have bought up companies that sell them. Do you
:08:46. > :08:51.want to know what the BMA is worried about? It is worried that these
:08:51. > :08:52.might make smoking glamorous. Have you ever seen anything less
:08:52. > :09:03.glamorous than this? Some studies from America have shown
:09:03. > :09:08.there is a greater awareness of e-cigarettes amongst high school
:09:08. > :09:11.students and greater use. Our concern is that it is creating a
:09:11. > :09:16.market amongst teenagers and other lessons which, potentially, could
:09:16. > :09:21.act as a gateway into developing a tobacco habit in later years. I can
:09:21. > :09:27.see the glamour of proper cigarettes. It suggests say certain
:09:27. > :09:31.devil may care recklessness and that sort of thing. But e-cigarettes? It
:09:31. > :09:36.just tells people you are an addict, a loser who needs this ludicrous
:09:36. > :09:44.contraption to wander around with its glowing blue tip. Anything that
:09:44. > :09:49.can help reduce the impact that smoking has on our public is to be
:09:49. > :09:53.welcomed. I know that smoking is very bad for you and it leads to
:09:53. > :09:57.horrible diseases and I should give it up. My best chance of giving it
:09:57. > :10:03.up is using one of these. Far better than patches or chewing gum. Why on
:10:03. > :10:08.earth would the BMA want to dissuade me from doing that? We do need more
:10:08. > :10:16.research and data to show that they are both safe and effective as a way
:10:16. > :10:20.of getting people to stop smoking. At the moment there are no laws to
:10:20. > :10:23.cover where you can smoke e-cigarettes. Although there are
:10:23. > :10:29.some local bands, for instance on trains. Our vote is this. Should
:10:29. > :10:42.smoking e-cigarettes be banned in public places?
:10:42. > :11:00.Alternatively, you can vote online. The vote ends at 7:35 sharp. What do
:11:00. > :11:01.you two reckon? As somebody who has occasionally used them, do you think
:11:01. > :11:07.you two reckon? As somebody who has they should be banned in public
:11:07. > :11:16.places? I am not sure how you would enforce it. Do you think it sets a
:11:16. > :11:22.good example? You would have to check closely to see if it was a
:11:22. > :11:25.pen. Day to light up. A lot of peering policeman would be going
:11:25. > :11:34.around looking at what people are doing. Well, if some was in a
:11:34. > :11:40.restaurant, then you would know... The thing that confuses me is why
:11:40. > :11:52.they are banned in toilets on aeroplanes. You cannot smoke them on
:11:52. > :11:57.a plane? Why? It is a stupid idea to ban them, then. I have never smoked
:11:57. > :12:01.in my life. But Rod Liddle is such a great advert for smoking that I
:12:02. > :12:09.might take it up. That is your opinion, Graham! Do you think it
:12:09. > :12:12.confuses people? If you don't smoke, you are in a restaurant and somebody
:12:12. > :12:19.starts using one of these e-cigarettes, does it turn into
:12:19. > :12:28.anti-social behaviour? That does not smell, make a noise, it is not
:12:28. > :12:32.anti-social behaviour. It is very elegant. I do wonder what I should
:12:32. > :12:38.feel about this, I see people with vapour pouring out of them. Is it
:12:38. > :12:43.good or bad? You should not care. I try not to, it makes me feel weird.
:12:43. > :12:48.Put it in your smoking balloon and let it go. You may remember last
:12:48. > :12:53.week that we introduced you to the staff of a recruitment firm called
:12:53. > :12:57.Total Jobs. Yes, and their mums. This is a light-hearted experiment
:12:57. > :13:01.to see if mums can improve their child's's performance at work. A
:13:01. > :13:06.very scary thought for many of us. We tried it last week and I was a
:13:06. > :13:16.bag of nerves. Tonight, we get to the nitty-gritty.
:13:16. > :13:23.On any given day in Britain, 29 million people go to work. But not
:13:23. > :13:30.many would take their mums with them. Boss John Salt has decided
:13:30. > :13:36.that mum sends might make perfect business sense for his company,
:13:36. > :13:41.Total Jobs. I am really excited to see if mums know best. Three of his
:13:41. > :13:47.employees are going to have their three mums with them at work for a
:13:47. > :13:50.week. It is morning, and while everyone else is eating breakfast at
:13:51. > :13:57.their desks, the mums are having a mother 's meeting. They are shown
:13:57. > :14:05.evidence of what their offspring are really like at work. For Maggie,
:14:05. > :14:08.Ryan's moment, all is not well. Because he is so hands-on, he likes
:14:08. > :14:11.everything being done in a particular way. I saw that you have
:14:11. > :14:20.requested more holiday? You are hard particular way. I saw that you have
:14:20. > :14:26.work, you are. He can get a bit hot-headed, throw his toys out of
:14:26. > :14:30.the pram. Bbc.co.uk/queensbatonrelay you can wait for someone else to do
:14:30. > :14:36.it for you, or do it. But hold on, he's only 27 and living at home. He
:14:36. > :14:40.is so professional and driven that he wants everybody else to be like
:14:40. > :14:46.that as well. But not everybody is. He can be quite blunt. He can be
:14:46. > :14:49.quite brush. As a new manager, it is something he needs to work on.
:14:49. > :14:53.Maggie is not just a moment, she's something he needs to work on.
:14:53. > :15:00.had teaching assistant at a school for with additional needs. For that
:15:00. > :15:04.role you need to be calm, unique to be nonjudgemental. These attributes
:15:05. > :15:11.that I feel I could share with Ryan, which could help him in his role.
:15:11. > :15:21.So, how will Maggie play it? Parenting skill, at or tender?
:15:21. > :15:26.Dashed tough or tender? How are you? Not bad, you? Not bad. We had a
:15:26. > :15:33.meeting, and I saw some interesting footage. Do you remember being
:15:33. > :15:41.filmed in the office? What you might have got up to? No. I thought there
:15:41. > :15:43.were certain things you could improve on. That would be how you
:15:43. > :15:47.interact with staff. improve on. That would be how you
:15:47. > :15:54.times, when you speak to them, you do not think before you speak. Just
:15:54. > :16:00.think about your tone. Quiet, slow, nice and relaxed. Rather than sort
:16:00. > :16:06.of... Barking at them? Which maybe you do at times. It is not just
:16:06. > :16:10.tough talk. She has a plan to make a better manager. With a blindfold
:16:10. > :16:18.on, you learn how to depend on other people. This team-building exercise
:16:18. > :16:27.is to do with trust and taking instruction. Trust is essential to
:16:27. > :16:32.being a good Li -- good leader. You are walking at a funny angle. You
:16:32. > :16:37.have to be clearer with instructions. Everybody is saying he
:16:37. > :16:45.is so slow, so you have to trust her. I don't trust her. That is the
:16:45. > :16:51.problem so you need to take a deep breath and listen to Gwen. In some
:16:51. > :16:55.ways I do still see Ryan as being a bit of a child. Particularly if he
:16:55. > :17:02.doesn't want to do something, if he is upset. At times like that I see
:17:02. > :17:07.him as the little boy he once was. It is time mummy's little boy gave
:17:07. > :17:14.the directions. Keep walking in a straight line, forward. That's it.
:17:14. > :17:21.Nice, calm, gentle tones. Ryan was actually quite bossy and bullish and
:17:21. > :17:27.his instructions were not as clear. It was like, move over. I have a
:17:27. > :17:32.feeling she can bring some stuff to the areas I am struggling in, to
:17:32. > :17:38.have trust in my team and hopefully earning their trust as a leader.
:17:38. > :17:43.Thanks, mum. Coming up, customer care director Jill gets candy coated
:17:43. > :17:49.feedback on a presentation from her mum, Sheila. It is OK having a joke
:17:49. > :17:55.with the people you work with but it could be senior management. You need
:17:55. > :17:57.to know your audience. Sorry. It is funny, having that voice in
:17:58. > :18:03.the back of your head the whole time, but she is actually there. It
:18:03. > :18:11.was strange lastly, we had all mothers here. Was quite off-putting.
:18:11. > :18:17.Mary looking at me daggers! Parts two of that coming up. Graham's show
:18:17. > :18:20.is back on Friday, can we reveal the guests? Yes, because we have done
:18:20. > :18:27.it, they have all showed up. I guests? Yes, because we have done
:18:27. > :18:32.checked last night, I am sure they are all there. Harrison Ford,
:18:32. > :18:38.Benedict Cumberbatch, Jack Whitehall. It was quite scary
:18:38. > :18:42.because Benedict Cumberbatch was finishing filming and he was on his
:18:42. > :18:47.way to the studio. At the other end, Harrison Ford had a plane he
:18:47. > :18:53.had to catch. The show was getting shorter and shorter! Where is this
:18:53. > :18:59.going to meet? We got there in the end, and it all happened. Harrison
:18:59. > :19:08.Ford, he is not known as God 's gift to chat and actually he was charming
:19:09. > :19:13.and lovely and nice. Benedict Cumberbatch was on the last Cirrus,
:19:13. > :19:23.he is brilliant, he did a very good impression of you -- last series. He
:19:23. > :19:29.does the laugh. I can't do it, you will recognise it. If you said
:19:29. > :19:41.something funny, Alex... Quick, put it on.
:19:41. > :19:54.HE IMPERSONATES GRAHAM. It is so good! Jonathan Ross was
:19:54. > :19:58.complaining he could not get the guests because you manage to get
:19:58. > :20:03.them all. He is being disingenuous because if there was only one chat
:20:03. > :20:06.show in the world, you would still struggle to get guests. You're
:20:06. > :20:10.looking for very rich, famous people and why would they leave the house?
:20:10. > :20:16.They have a very nice life, flatscreen televisions, room
:20:16. > :20:19.service, probably! It is kind of swings and roundabouts. If we get
:20:19. > :20:27.the best guests this week, you will get the best ones next week. Is it
:20:27. > :20:30.hard to fit them into the schedule? It is tough because you think, so
:20:30. > :20:36.and so is in town but you can't get the studio that night. Someone has
:20:36. > :20:46.got to talk to them. But it won't be me. It is very seat of your pants
:20:46. > :20:47.stuff, it can be last-minute, something is concerned, you have
:20:47. > :20:52.kept the studio and it is all hands something is concerned, you have
:20:52. > :20:56.on deck. You always manage to get your guests up off the sofa, we have
:20:56. > :21:05.things planned for you later by the way. There is that laugh again! A
:21:05. > :21:12.really good example was Will Smith, you did a little dance with him and
:21:12. > :21:17.Carlton and Jade on. Did you rehearse this? I had seen them do it
:21:17. > :21:23.but you could tell I had not rehearse this? I had seen them do it
:21:23. > :21:32.rehearsed it. I am older and whiter! It is so bad. Did it get 5 million
:21:32. > :21:37.hits? I think it is now over 20 million. It was all down to Will
:21:37. > :21:46.Smith. He had been on with Gary Barlow and they did the fresh Prince
:21:46. > :21:50.wrap Addicott about 78 -- and it got about 7 million hits. He thought, I
:21:50. > :21:56.can do well with this show, get it out there. He dreamt all that up. He
:21:56. > :22:01.flew in Carlton, it wasn't down to us. He gave us this gift. It was so
:22:01. > :22:05.exciting. The audience went hysterical. I felt like Oprah
:22:05. > :22:14.Winfrey saying, you get a car, you get a car! Really exciting. Have you
:22:14. > :22:21.got the red chair? It is back, it is not in the first show. It will be in
:22:21. > :22:30.the second show, don't worry. Do you watch the show? Sometimes...
:22:30. > :22:40.And I have read bits of your book! Piers Morgan controversially said he
:22:40. > :22:46.is the best in the business. Graham is much better than Piers Morgan. He
:22:46. > :22:52.said that for effect but if you read what he actually said, he said we do
:22:52. > :22:57.different jobs. He sits there for an hour and he really picks apart
:22:57. > :23:03.someone's life. Would you like to do that? If their life was interesting
:23:03. > :23:11.enough. There are not many people who warrants that, I don't think. In
:23:11. > :23:14.a way I think, this is a waste, there are loads of stories we are
:23:14. > :23:20.not getting. But that is someone else's job. I really like the job
:23:20. > :23:25.that I do and sometimes I don't get to do that. You do it brilliantly
:23:25. > :23:31.and it is the dynamics between your guests that works so well. You can
:23:31. > :23:39.keep inviting the guests back, this is your fourth time on The One Show!
:23:39. > :23:47.You can see the Graham Norton show on BBC One this Friday. Much as we
:23:47. > :23:49.admire and sometimes envy your roster of celebrities, we have
:23:49. > :23:55.something that your team can only dream of. Guests may open their
:23:55. > :24:00.hearts are you but are Christine go straight for their potting shed.
:24:00. > :24:09.Now, this is the way to arrive at a celebrity's garden, courtesy of
:24:09. > :24:13.their own transport. You are going celebrity's garden, courtesy of
:24:13. > :24:19.to like this garden. Not a lot, but you are going to like it. That was
:24:19. > :24:28.very good, but go up when you say not a lot. You were close. Yes, of
:24:28. > :24:32.course. The catchphrase and the garden along to the magical couple,
:24:32. > :24:40.Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee. They have lived here on the Thames for 15
:24:40. > :24:45.years. It is a fabulous spot, a garden full of established trees and
:24:45. > :24:51.natural colour. But it can be prone to the odd British flood. This part
:24:51. > :24:56.of the garden, sometimes in the winter, gets covered in river water.
:24:56. > :25:02.I would quite like to pebble this lot. But it would get full of silt.
:25:03. > :25:04.It would look a right mess. And it is not in keeping with the
:25:04. > :25:19.surroundings. This is a thug, do you know about
:25:19. > :25:24.this? This seeds itself down and you will have it absolutely everywhere.
:25:24. > :25:29.Thereof are a few plants I take against but this is a real pain in
:25:29. > :25:39.the posterior. -- there are very few plants. You like that effect, you
:25:40. > :25:45.like a Grossi thing. There is another plant which is very magical.
:25:45. > :25:53.Why don't you just call them Fred or Mary? If we put it in we will call
:25:53. > :26:00.it Christine. There is animal magic in the household, too. This nesting
:26:00. > :26:08.swan returns every year. Over time the two weeks have turned into
:26:08. > :26:14.trees. -- over time the two weeks -- twigs have turned into trees. There
:26:14. > :26:19.used to be rabbits in the act but they retired this year. This is
:26:19. > :26:21.hopper, named after the Beckham baby come born at the same time as Harper
:26:21. > :26:34.seven so I called her hopper seven. I love roses and for my birthday
:26:34. > :26:40.about five years ago, Mum and dad came over and planted all these
:26:40. > :26:47.roses. This is heaven for me. My dad has always been a keen gardener, a
:26:47. > :26:50.surprise chrysanthemum grower. I suppose he got my interest going.
:26:50. > :26:55.Every year he has planted in pots and the hanging baskets. A
:26:55. > :27:03.phenomenal undertaking. It is not just a case of here you are, have a
:27:03. > :27:10.pot plant. He is pretty fit, my dad. With Paul, it was a very different
:27:10. > :27:15.story in his childhood. I come from the most polluted town in the
:27:15. > :27:18.country at one time, a place called South bank near Middlesbrough. A
:27:18. > :27:23.great community but no gardens at all. I never saw a tree until I was
:27:23. > :27:26.about 11. There were not any. It was just rows of terraced houses, toilet
:27:26. > :27:31.about 11. There were not any. It was down the backyard. Do you consider
:27:31. > :27:36.yourself lucky to be able to afford something like this? I have worked
:27:36. > :27:40.like hell for it, why should I be lucky question for a long time I
:27:40. > :27:45.only slept four hours a night, writing, thinking, inventing,
:27:45. > :27:50.changing. Will you ever retire and have time to enjoy this and time
:27:50. > :27:56.with Debbie? We are two lucky people in that we work together. We have
:27:56. > :28:02.been together 33, 34 years, married to 25 we are very relaxed and
:28:02. > :28:10.happy. It upsets some journalists but that's OK, I don't care. I will
:28:10. > :28:16.retire when the work stops. Probably one day they will put me in my box.
:28:16. > :28:22.Make you disappear? No, I will escape!
:28:22. > :28:31.Apparently, a certain somebody has been in that garden, Graham? Here is
:28:31. > :28:37.the hurly-burly of my showbiz life. I know I have been in that garden, I
:28:37. > :28:42.have no recollection why. I was in it and I met Debbie and Paul and
:28:42. > :28:46.they brought me tea. It will shortly after some flooding had taken place.
:28:47. > :28:57.Can you confirm or deny if this is you. It was more after the flooding
:28:57. > :29:05.than that! You have no clue as to why? I don't really know. It is a
:29:05. > :29:15.lovely place. Finding your card earns money. We ask you this
:29:15. > :29:20.question, should smoking e-cigarettes be banned in public
:29:20. > :29:25.places? Here is what smoker Rod Liddle has to say about them.
:29:26. > :29:29.Everybody agrees that these are much less damaging than normal cigarettes
:29:29. > :29:33.and an invaluable way to give up smoking. 1.5 million of us are
:29:33. > :29:37.trying to do that with them right now. So why are the doctors of the
:29:37. > :29:40.BMA trying to ban them from public places?
:29:40. > :29:49.And this is Doctor representative Ram Moorthy. They do produce a
:29:49. > :29:53.vapour, which contains, amongst other things, nicotine. We need more
:29:53. > :29:59.data to show that they are both safe and effective as a way of getting
:29:59. > :30:04.people to stop smoking. We want to know what you think. The question
:30:04. > :30:06.is, should smoking e-cigarettes be banned in public places? We are
:30:06. > :30:33.getting a lot of response on this. You still have some time and we will
:30:33. > :30:37.reveal the results later. In about ten minutes. Onto Bridget Jones. She
:30:37. > :30:41.was a poster girl for a generation of women growing up in the 90s,
:30:41. > :30:51.including me. Her cooking skills are no better than mine. And the celery,
:30:51. > :30:58.mix together and strain. Straining, strain, strain... Perfect. Slice the
:30:58. > :31:12.oranges and great the zest. That was Renee Zellweger, playing
:31:12. > :31:20.Bridget Jones. 14 years on, what has become of you? Real-life Bridgets,
:31:20. > :31:26.did you finally find your Mr Darcy? My name is Chloe and I am a
:31:26. > :31:32.real-life Bridget is. I am Lindsey and I was a real-life Bridget Joe
:31:32. > :31:42.is. Jones was my maiden name and I was a real-life Bridget Jones.
:31:42. > :31:49.People said I looked just like her. There is a certain face I can poll
:31:49. > :31:59.where I look a lot like her. Do you know where the toilets are? She is a
:31:59. > :32:03.very down-to-earth person, very real. When I first realised I had
:32:03. > :32:08.the same birthday, that really made me feel like I had a strong link
:32:08. > :32:12.with her. My friends used to refer to me as Bridget Jones, because of
:32:12. > :32:21.my initials and personal circumstances. Resolution number
:32:21. > :32:25.one. Lose 20 pounds. Number two, always put the pants in the laundry
:32:25. > :32:30.basket. Equally important, find nice, sensible boyfriend to go out
:32:30. > :32:35.with. I would do a lot of diet, and I would write down what I had eaten
:32:35. > :32:43.every day. I think all women approach scales with a sense of fear
:32:43. > :32:45.and loathing. I created my own diet, where you can eat anything that is
:32:45. > :32:51.and loathing. I created my own diet, white or see-through. I scream,
:32:51. > :32:58.vodka, gin. You don't put any weight on. Della why are so many women in
:32:58. > :33:02.their 30s not married, Bridget? When your friends have husbands and
:33:02. > :33:10.boyfriends, as the only single person, you feel alone. When you see
:33:10. > :33:20.it on screen it it must be a common theme. My grandmother would keep
:33:20. > :33:24.asking, are you courting? No. The chances of reaching a crucial moment
:33:24. > :33:32.greatly increase by wearing these. Reid I've had these since 1990. You
:33:32. > :33:36.always go for the big knickers. You need to suck it in or you will not
:33:36. > :33:41.attract them in the first place. I think all women have problems with
:33:41. > :33:42.what they are going to wear, going through 1 million outfits before you
:33:42. > :33:51.what they are going to wear, going can go out. Eventually, I gave up
:33:51. > :34:02.hope. I was convinced I would be a spinster for the rest of my life.
:34:02. > :34:06.One particular ex-boyfriend, he was very much like that, a bad boy, he
:34:06. > :34:12.cheated on me and I would always go back to him, in the same way that
:34:12. > :34:17.Bridget always goes back to Daniel. You have to meet a feud Daniels to
:34:17. > :34:22.know when a Mr Darcy comes along, you have to have something to
:34:22. > :34:29.compare it to. I would like to kiss you goodbye. Do you mind? I do have
:34:29. > :34:34.a Mr Darcy. I feel like he is my prize for being on the Bridget
:34:34. > :34:39.mentoring scheme for so long. My Mr Darcy is Stuart, and we have two
:34:39. > :34:44.boys. My husband is a Royal Marine, he is also ten years younger than
:34:44. > :34:49.me. Bridget Jones did good. It just goes to show that waiting for the
:34:49. > :34:56.right man to come along, it is worth it.
:34:56. > :35:01.A massive thank you to the three girls who took part. And thank you
:35:01. > :35:08.to everybody that wrote in. It really makes us happy to hear your
:35:08. > :35:12.stories. I like the sound of the white diet. The detail, the way that
:35:12. > :35:17.girl squeezed herself into those pants, it was quite remarkable. I
:35:17. > :35:23.find it really moving, watching that. It is so funny. I just started
:35:23. > :35:30.writing Bridget because I was broke, and a newspaper offered me a column
:35:30. > :35:33.as a dating girl in London. Because I am quite private, I thought, I'll
:35:33. > :35:39.make somebody up. I thought they would stop it for being too silly.
:35:39. > :35:44.You must be massively surprised that Bridget has become this phenomenon.
:35:44. > :35:49.She made us feel, girls of a certain age that were single, that we
:35:49. > :35:53.weren't on our own. When I was writing that, I wrote it anonymously
:35:53. > :35:58.because I thought, this is just me that is like this. To satisfy you?
:35:58. > :36:02.Just because I had been offered a column, I was trying to write
:36:02. > :36:08.another novel and I was broke. I just thought it was me being asked,
:36:08. > :36:11.why are you not married, how is your love life, thinking I was a tragic
:36:11. > :36:18.spinster that was going to end up being eaten by a dog. All of those
:36:18. > :36:27.agonising things that you go through. Taking your watch off to
:36:27. > :36:29.get weighed. Silly things. To find out that other people felt the same
:36:29. > :36:34.way, it is quite moving. How scary out that other people felt the same
:36:34. > :36:39.was it, 14 years later, dipping, right, it is time to bring her back?
:36:39. > :36:48.Were you surprised yourself that you put pen to paper? I was, it wasn't
:36:48. > :36:52.actually a pen, it was a computer. What triggered it? I always keep a
:36:52. > :36:56.diary on my computer. I still have the note from 18 months ago, I
:36:56. > :37:02.wonder if I could write a story about so and so? I kind of lost my
:37:02. > :37:04.voice after the success of Bridget. I started writing it without telling
:37:04. > :37:10.voice after the success of Bridget. anyone. I just wrote it secretly.
:37:10. > :37:12.With the first one, if I had known so many people would read it, I
:37:12. > :37:17.wouldn't have dared write it. With this one, I would not dare write it
:37:17. > :37:21.if I thought it was going to be a big thing. So I just wrote it in the
:37:21. > :37:27.armchair I usually write in, and just expressed what I wanted to
:37:28. > :37:35.express. I had been collecting stuff. The world has moved on a
:37:35. > :37:40.lot. My daughter was born by see section. I did a group e-mail saying
:37:40. > :37:43.when she was going to be born, what her name was. And then I sent it to
:37:43. > :37:49.everybody. I have to send another her name was. And then I sent it to
:37:49. > :37:55.e-mail saying, I haven't really had the baby, I'm sorry. So then I
:37:55. > :38:03.couldn't say, actually, I have had the baby now. I started to think
:38:03. > :38:07.that technology, kids, I just collected little files on my laptop.
:38:07. > :38:12.A very honest representation, when he wrote this down. Were you
:38:12. > :38:15.bothered about what the critics, viewers, anybody like that would
:38:15. > :38:20.say, or are you just thinking that is how it is, I am putting it out
:38:20. > :38:24.there? You have to right from the inside out. A lot of people have
:38:24. > :38:29.said the classic tales should be left, happy ending, leave it there?
:38:29. > :38:35.The thing about a happy ending, as you know, it depends on when you
:38:35. > :38:40.stop. As we know, life moves through waves. No, I really wanted, you
:38:40. > :38:45.know, the people that were the fans of registered were in their 30s when
:38:45. > :38:51.they read it. And now they have grown older. People do grow older. A
:38:51. > :38:55.lovely thing is that Bridget's voice still sounds the same. Somebody that
:38:55. > :38:58.may or may not read this weekend is Richard Curtis. He has a message for
:38:58. > :39:02.may or may not read this weekend is you. I remember you writing the
:39:02. > :39:03.first Richard Jones article. Who would have thought 18 years later it
:39:03. > :39:07.would get you on The One Show? I would have thought 18 years later it
:39:08. > :39:12.remember you meeting Colin Firth for the first time. Who would have
:39:12. > :39:16.thought, 18 years later, you would kill him? I'm trying to decide what
:39:16. > :39:20.classic novel to pick up and read this weekend. I think I'll go for
:39:21. > :39:35.this one. Of course. Of course. Used to do a show called this is
:39:36. > :39:40.your life, with all sorts of unexpected people. Who will come
:39:40. > :39:45.next? We have to ask, because he did the first two films, will there be a
:39:45. > :39:49.third for this one? One of the most thrilling moments was the one day I
:39:49. > :39:53.went to the set come in because I am quite frightened of film sets. I
:39:53. > :39:56.remember seeing Colin Firth who, in my mind, remains completely mixed up
:39:56. > :40:02.with Mr Darcy. I cannot distinguish my mind, remains completely mixed up
:40:02. > :40:10.between them. He was saying, my lines that I have written, for the
:40:10. > :40:13.hybrid mixture of the three men, it was a thrilling and confusing moment
:40:13. > :40:19.at the same time. There are new love interest. There is? There is a
:40:19. > :40:35.younger man. And there is a new hero, and I read somewhere the other
:40:35. > :40:39.day, somebody said no English surname is not improved by putting
:40:39. > :40:50.the word Spanker in front of it. So, I thought I would like to take
:40:50. > :40:54.them, see them take life. We hope to see a third film. Lines are closed
:40:54. > :41:03.for the vote. We give you the results shortly. Don't vote, because
:41:03. > :41:07.you may still be charged. We saw Alex at the beginning of the
:41:07. > :41:12.programme, Bridget Jones's Diary, in her PJs. If you are watching us in
:41:12. > :41:17.your pyjamas, do let us know. We want to see the evidence. Send your
:41:17. > :41:23.picture to the usual address. Why are you laughing, Graham? We will be
:41:23. > :41:31.inundated, you watch. Here is our next instalment of the Mums At Work.
:41:31. > :41:35.Website boss John Salt has brought in the mothers of three employees in
:41:35. > :41:40.an effort to help give them a fresh perspective on their work. It would
:41:40. > :41:46.also give him a new insight into the business. John invited each of them
:41:46. > :41:51.in for what seems very like a school parents evening. For Sheila, it was
:41:51. > :41:57.the first time she had been given her daughter Jill's report card. She
:41:57. > :42:00.is customer care director. When I think about Jill, I have worked with
:42:00. > :42:06.her for a long time, the words I would come off with our open,
:42:06. > :42:12.honest, down-to-earth. That comes from me, I am totally open. What you
:42:12. > :42:16.see is what you get. Less confident communicating to her peer group,
:42:16. > :42:19.people on the same level as her or above her. Managing upwards, you
:42:19. > :42:24.often have to to manage the people you work for. She will learn that.
:42:24. > :42:30.The more experience you get of managing upwards, the easier it
:42:30. > :42:32.gets. I agree. With his comments ringing in her years, today, Sheila
:42:32. > :42:37.gets. I agree. With his comments is sitting in on a presentation by
:42:37. > :42:44.Jill to her team. Can she resist giving her daughter advice? Work out
:42:44. > :42:49.how to use my computer. Contra member my password. How do I move it
:42:49. > :42:54.forward is? -- cannot remember my password. A public speaker on her
:42:54. > :43:00.own right, her 67-year-old mother has managed large teams through her
:43:00. > :43:07.career. I started on the factory floor. I worked my way up to being a
:43:07. > :43:08.shift supervisor. My present role is monitoring and measuring performance
:43:08. > :43:13.for my department. Today, she is monitoring and measuring performance
:43:13. > :43:18.doing her best not to interfere too obviously. Over the next couple of
:43:18. > :43:26.weeks it will make it easier for you as well. Any questions? Have you got
:43:26. > :43:29.any questions, Man? When you first started, I can't remember my
:43:29. > :43:33.password, these lot do not need to know that. It's OK having a little
:43:33. > :43:37.joke with the people you work with. But it could be senior management.
:43:37. > :43:45.And you need to know your audience. It doesn't work every time. Sorry,
:43:45. > :43:53.Man. Reid how long did you have to prepare for this? About five
:43:53. > :43:59.minutes. Would you not know a week before, so why did you not practice
:43:59. > :44:08.it bastion Mark I did write it myself. Sorry. Tough love? Well,
:44:08. > :44:15.here comes the nice bit. When is your next presentation? Tomorrow.
:44:15. > :44:27.Who with? The big bosses. Tonight, we will do a bit of training. We
:44:27. > :44:32.will get it spot on. Thanks, Mum. It is the end of the working day. But
:44:32. > :44:39.not for Jill. With hours to go before her presentation, it is back
:44:39. > :44:42.for home work with Mum. Thanks for coming to the presentation today. I
:44:42. > :44:47.just wanted to talk to you about a project we will be undertaking in
:44:47. > :44:56.October. You look a bit more confident because you are stirred
:44:56. > :45:02.up. It is body language. I am conscious of my arms. If you don't
:45:02. > :45:06.know what to do, hold them together. Looking in error, I am surprised I
:45:06. > :45:08.looked quite confident when I was doing it. I'll try it with a brush,
:45:08. > :45:14.looked quite confident when I was next time. Next week, Jill faces up
:45:14. > :45:21.to the bosses. John reveals home truths about Tory to her mum,
:45:21. > :45:28.Jackie. Can him and get her back on track? And the mums introduce a
:45:28. > :45:33.radical new policy to kick-start the day at work.
:45:33. > :45:45.It seems to work. Have you ever thought about including your mum
:45:45. > :45:48.around The Graham Norton Show? I think it is a good idea because
:45:48. > :45:51.mothers know a lot, they have run households and brought up children.
:45:51. > :45:56.When I am cooking in front of my households and brought up children.
:45:56. > :46:05.mother, she will be quiet, quiet, and then say, is that how you
:46:05. > :46:11.chopped tomatoes? Yes, it is! Maybe it would be easier to take to Radio
:46:11. > :46:15.2. I don't think she would be that keen, she is not showbiz struck at
:46:15. > :46:22.all. I say that now, she will be on the phone! You have just never
:46:22. > :46:25.asked! According to a new report, young people in England and Northern
:46:25. > :46:32.Ireland have some of the worst reading, writing and maths
:46:32. > :47:11.skills... LAUGHTER
:47:11. > :47:13.Queen 's English. If you had walked into a school in the 1960s you might
:47:13. > :47:20.have been utterly baffled by what you saw up on the wall. Somewhat
:47:20. > :47:28.completely unrecognisable. That is because children were being taught
:47:28. > :47:30.ITA, the initial teaching alphabet. Retired school teacher Sue Lloyd
:47:30. > :47:40.used to teach ITA. Every time they Retired school teacher Sue Lloyd
:47:40. > :47:48.see that, this is an oo sound, and this is an a sound. This one looks a
:47:48. > :47:58.bit strange. The N and the GR put together. -- and the G are put
:47:58. > :48:05.together. Every word is made up of the 44 sounds. Devised by Sir James
:48:05. > :48:09.Pitman, the ITA alphabet had 44 symbols covering every sound in the
:48:09. > :48:12.English-language. Jordan would learn to read and write using this
:48:12. > :48:17.alphabet and then move over to our standard alphabet when they were
:48:17. > :48:24.older. This attempt to simplify our complex language also meant
:48:24. > :48:30.eliminating capital letters. The A looks like a tent whereas the lower
:48:30. > :48:34.case character looks like a snake and the bond which the teacher
:48:34. > :48:39.writes on the ward and -- on the board and expects the child to write
:48:39. > :48:45.looks different again. Children quickly took to reading and writing
:48:45. > :48:50.in ITA and outperformed their peers using the conventional of the bed.
:48:50. > :48:55.By 1966, more than a thousand schools were teaching ITA to 100,000
:48:55. > :49:05.children. One ITA pupil still has his school books. Written in
:49:05. > :49:09.excellent ITA. Here is a house and a rainbow and a racing car track.
:49:09. > :49:17.Rainbow, that is a difficult one. More, good boy. The teacher always
:49:17. > :49:23.wrote back in ITA so you could read the comments. Outside the classroom,
:49:23. > :49:28.ITA remained unfamiliar. Parents struggled with children's schoolwork
:49:28. > :49:32.and only a few book publishers caught on. How would adults there
:49:32. > :49:38.today? We took to Barking to find out. There was a table set out under
:49:38. > :49:45.a tree in front of the house and the March Hare and the hats were having
:49:45. > :49:54.tea at it. A dormouse was sitting between them fast asleep. And the
:49:54. > :50:03.other two were using it as a... Using it as a cushion, resting their
:50:03. > :50:11.elbows on it. And talking over its head. Very uncomfortable for the
:50:11. > :50:18.dormouse, that. For Matt, life after ITA was not easy. The problem came
:50:19. > :50:24.with the transition to actual language and you had a bit of an
:50:24. > :50:30.uphill struggle learning for a second time. I always have problems
:50:30. > :50:35.with words and it has knocked us back by learning a system that
:50:35. > :50:45.wasn't English. The system fell out of favour with teachers and people's
:50:45. > :50:48.alike. -- and pupils alike. We realised that it was perhaps the
:50:48. > :50:53.method of teaching that was not giving the desired results. Sue
:50:53. > :50:56.Lloyd abandoned the unusual symbols but continued to teach children the
:50:56. > :51:01.sounds of the letters, going on to devise Jolly phonics. Now phonics is
:51:01. > :51:06.a key part of the national curriculum. The ITA story with its
:51:06. > :51:12.halfling symbols and letters didn't have a happy ever after ending but
:51:12. > :51:19.the idea of introducing English through sounds wasn't quite as crazy
:51:19. > :51:24.as it looked. It is quite similar to the way we learn the boss alphabet.
:51:24. > :51:36.Did you struggle with that transition? We saw that early on,
:51:36. > :51:42.let's not go back. Lucy is here with the results of the vote. The results
:51:42. > :51:46.are now in and I am pleased to confirm that 57% of you said yes,
:51:46. > :51:54.e-cigarettes should be banned from public places. People thought that
:51:54. > :51:58.e-cigarettes could be a gateway into conventional smoking and that they
:51:58. > :52:02.normalise smoking. We have become quite successful at becoming
:52:02. > :52:06.smoke-free in places. The figures in England were showing that smoking in
:52:06. > :52:16.England was at its lowest level since smoking began, so why fix
:52:16. > :52:19.something that is not broken? Some people felt that e-cigarettes are an
:52:19. > :52:21.regulated and untested so they were not too sure, but it was a very
:52:21. > :52:29.narrow victory. 43% thought they not too sure, but it was a very
:52:29. > :52:34.were harmless and a good substitute for smoking, could help people stop
:52:34. > :52:38.smoking and ultimately save lives. Regardless of what we think, some
:52:38. > :52:46.companies have a ready banned them. Wetherspoon 's, Starbucks and
:52:46. > :52:49.several airlines have said no to vaping, it already has its own verb.
:52:49. > :52:55.Some people will say that if people vaping, it already has its own verb.
:52:55. > :53:02.switched to e-cigarettes, surely the NHS will save billions because there
:53:02. > :53:07.is no tobacco and tar in them. Cancer research say they are almost
:53:07. > :53:12.certainly the safest way to consume nicotine and we have 100,000 people
:53:12. > :53:17.in the UK a year dying from smoking-related illness, so there is
:53:17. > :53:25.a good oddments. But do they need more testing -- there is a good
:53:25. > :53:30.argument? Do we know what they do in the long term? The Commonwealth
:53:30. > :53:39.Games baton has been at Buckingham Palace today. It is about to travel
:53:39. > :53:44.to Glasgow via Heathrow to start its 118,000 mile journey around the
:53:44. > :53:47.Commonwealth. Scotland's first Minister Alex Salmond has kindly
:53:47. > :53:57.agreed to drop in on his way to terminal five. Welcome. I have
:53:57. > :54:03.passed the baton over, good to see you, welcome back. First of all,
:54:03. > :54:07.before we get onto the baton, we have to ask the question on
:54:07. > :54:13.everybody's lips, whether you live in Scotland or not. Should Helen
:54:14. > :54:19.have killed off Mr Darcy? I didn't kill him! Initially I thought,
:54:19. > :54:23.great, and opening for me. Then I thought I cannot compete with Colin
:54:24. > :54:36.Firth. I think, how could you kill of Darcy? We have already asked her.
:54:36. > :54:44.What about your fans? He would never leave so now his memory will live on
:54:44. > :54:51.untarnished. It is about to go on this epic journey. 100,000 miles, 70
:54:51. > :54:55.countries, setting off from Glasgow tomorrow and doesn't get active
:54:55. > :55:00.Scotland until next June. Mark Beaumont will be guarding it as it
:55:00. > :55:13.goes. There is only one, there is no back-up. It is like Thailand, there
:55:13. > :55:20.is only one -- it is like Highlander.
:55:20. > :55:29.That is the granite you were talking about. It is fabulous. When you
:55:29. > :55:38.watch the golf at Turnberry, every curling stone in the world is made
:55:38. > :55:48.their and the granite gem on top of the Commonwealth baton. And the
:55:48. > :55:52.Queen 's message lit up? You can actually see it. If you hold it to a
:55:52. > :55:57.mirror, you could probably make it out but you're not allowed to until
:55:57. > :56:03.the Queen reads it out next July in Glasgow. Do you know the scene? I
:56:03. > :56:18.think she will say something about opening the games! Is it a message
:56:18. > :56:22.to you? It says, dear Graham. Let's move on, Glasgow will be home to 70
:56:22. > :56:28.nations and territories. We are sure they are going to be brushing up on
:56:28. > :56:32.Scottish history and additions. What we -- traditions. We want to know,
:56:32. > :56:36.what do you know of the Commonwealth? How deep is your
:56:36. > :56:42.knowledge? I have a Commonwealth knowledge badge. We have gold,
:56:42. > :56:46.silver and bronze questions, gold is the hardest, bronze is the easiest,
:56:46. > :56:57.the answer is always a Commonwealth country. Alex, first. We will go for
:56:57. > :57:03.gold. Your question is this. This country's highest mountain, standing
:57:03. > :57:11.at 8,598 metres is Kanchenjunga. What is the bronze question? It is
:57:11. > :57:19.the Himalayas, it is India. You have got it right, he has got a gold!
:57:19. > :57:27.There you are, congratulations. Your turn, Graham, gold, silver or
:57:27. > :57:41.bronze. Ireland is not in the Commonwealth. I will go with bronze.
:57:41. > :57:49.Which country has a 12 pointed star on its flag and is said to represent
:57:49. > :57:56.the Republic's original plans. It is very small. If you get this, I will
:57:56. > :58:07.be amazed. Why is this a bronze question? You have been slightly
:58:07. > :58:19.stitched, it is Nauru. You have ruined Christmas!
:58:19. > :58:27.Which country has a national Rugby side known as New Zealand. New
:58:27. > :58:34.Zealand, I knew that! I was going to say New Zealand whatever the
:58:34. > :58:38.question was! That was my plan. I was going to give you another option
:58:38. > :58:43.but we haven't got time. We asked you to send us photos... Thank you
:58:43. > :58:50.for coming in. Watching the show in pyjamas.
:58:50. > :59:03.This one with a glass of wine, very Bridget Jones! This one is Tom. This
:59:03. > :59:07.is Margaret from Dundee. Thank you to our guests, lovely to have you,
:59:07. > :59:12.thank you for taking part in The One Show vote. All of our very best with
:59:12. > :59:18.Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy and Graham is back on Friday night. We
:59:18. > :59:21.will be back doing it all again tomorrow joined by Brendan O