:00:17. > :00:30.There they go! Oh, there they go! Going nuts. OK, hello and welcome to
:00:31. > :00:34.your Good Friday One Show with Alex Jones. And Vernon Kay. Joining us
:00:35. > :00:40.tonight a funny man who doesn't put all his eggs in one Bass he cannet.
:00:41. > :00:44.He is -- basket. He is like the Easter bunny. If he is not writing
:00:45. > :00:48.or starring in the thick of it, he is doing stand-up or directing hit
:00:49. > :00:55.shows in the States. He has a new lady in his life. She's best known
:00:56. > :01:00.for playing Tanya branding in EastEnders. It's Chris Addison and
:01:01. > :01:05.Jo Joyner. A very happy Easter. This is all for you guys, obviously.
:01:06. > :01:10.Thank you very much. You have two kids, Chris. Yes With all these eggs
:01:11. > :01:14.is it starting to resemble a chocolate factory in your house? The
:01:15. > :01:18.way of keeping them from kids is as soon as they arrive in the house eat
:01:19. > :01:26.them. They can't. It's that simple. Or put them on a raidiator. Very
:01:27. > :01:30.messy. Jo, you have slipped away from your family holiday to join us.
:01:31. > :01:35.We were coming back. We have come back from Cornwall. Did you have a
:01:36. > :01:41.good time? A great time, it was windy. Did you go crabbing? We found
:01:42. > :01:48.one dead one on the first day. What a way to bring the tone down! Later
:01:49. > :01:53.in the show Gyles will be shedding light on an Easter egg hunt with a
:01:54. > :01:58.difference. Yes this egg here is worth an estimated ?20 million. It's
:01:59. > :02:03.one of 45 in the world but two are missing. One is believed to be
:02:04. > :02:11.somewhere in Britain. Join us for the ultimate Easter egg hunt
:02:12. > :02:16.tonight. Wow. ?20 million! Blackpool is famous for its illuminations in
:02:17. > :02:21.the winter months but a new exhibition promises a spectacular
:02:22. > :02:24.light show throughout the summer. Angellica is making sure all the
:02:25. > :02:31.right plugs nr the right sockets before the official switch-on -- are
:02:32. > :02:34.in the. Carrie has been meeting the team preparing to dazzle us. The
:02:35. > :02:40.bright lights of Blackpool have been drawing crowds to the town for over
:02:41. > :02:52.100 years. Each autumn the Prom in aed is lit up by the -- pronenade is
:02:53. > :02:57.lit up. Now the large largest illumination
:02:58. > :03:01.show is the first of the kind to be seen in Europe. Wowing the crowds in
:03:02. > :03:05.Blackpool is no easy feat. This show is relying on a complex mix of
:03:06. > :03:12.modern technology, British design and the ancient skills of Chinese
:03:13. > :03:21.lantern makers. Two months ago work started to transform Blackpool's
:03:22. > :03:28.Winter Gardens. 55 Chinese artisans arrived in town, with 40 shades of
:03:29. > :03:33.satin and thousands of lightbulbs. Max is the show's artistic director
:03:34. > :03:39.meaning it's his vision being brought to life. When I think of the
:03:40. > :03:47.Chinese lantern I think of a red circle of satin and a tassel on the
:03:48. > :03:50.end. You can see the world of wonders which has sculptures
:03:51. > :03:54.including a Blackpool tower and as another example we are in the land
:03:55. > :03:58.of the giants where you are in a garden where everything is scaled up
:03:59. > :04:01.one or 200 times. How do you get from the design to standing here
:04:02. > :04:05.looking at what we are seeing now? The first stage is to develop a
:04:06. > :04:11.computer generated layout. After that, we give them to the Chinese
:04:12. > :04:19.artisans team leader and he will draw patterns on the ground. Then
:04:20. > :04:25.each model will be given to an -- to a team of artisans who will create
:04:26. > :04:30.the volume. After that it will go to a team of electricians. We then send
:04:31. > :04:35.it to the team of fabric ladies. They have to get it very taut as
:04:36. > :04:42.they're putting it on and have to be able to do huge ex-panses. It's a
:04:43. > :04:46.real artform. There is no one else in the world who can do what they
:04:47. > :04:50.do. You have lots of people here that are non-English speakers, what
:04:51. > :05:00.have the challenges been? It's amazing you can communicate a lot
:05:01. > :05:05.with gesticulating. Trying to bring the cultures together is Ching, the
:05:06. > :05:11.project's production manager. She travels the world with the artisans
:05:12. > :05:17.who mainly come from a Chinese city famous for its lantern-making. In
:05:18. > :05:23.the very old days the lanterns were just made of wooden structures or
:05:24. > :05:29.bamboo. Now, because people are more creative, the lanterns are being
:05:30. > :05:33.built bigger and bigger. They have a tradition that passed from
:05:34. > :05:37.generation to generation, you would always find families, they would
:05:38. > :05:41.have the son learning to be an electrician and the daughter
:05:42. > :05:46.learning to do fabric work with silk. How have the cultures, East
:05:47. > :05:49.and West, been mixed together? In China anything we build are more
:05:50. > :05:57.likely to show either good fortune or luck. They are all individual
:05:58. > :06:04.pieces. Here you have experience of the lantern, you are like in a theme
:06:05. > :06:09.park. It's a wonderful idea to combine the Western ideas with the
:06:10. > :06:15.Chinese skills. What are your hopes for the final result? I hope it's a
:06:16. > :06:20.success and British people like it. By the time we turn on the light
:06:21. > :06:24.it's amazing, beautiful light and fabric, because this is the first
:06:25. > :06:31.time we are here and we want to show it in the best way we can. Amazing.
:06:32. > :06:37.I love the lanterns. Very exciting, we can now go live to Angellica at
:06:38. > :06:43.the Winter Gardens for the official switch-on.
:06:44. > :06:47.Alex, and Vernon, we are here with the moment we have been building up
:06:48. > :06:54.to. All we need now is a crowd. Are you ready? All we need is a
:06:55. > :07:08.countdown. So in five, four, three, two, one... Let there be light! It's
:07:09. > :07:13.incredible. It's visually mesmerising. It's spectacular and so
:07:14. > :07:17.much time and effort has gone into it. Two people here have seen it for
:07:18. > :07:22.the first time. What do you think? It's fantastic. Such a magical
:07:23. > :07:26.place. My wife and two kids are loving it, fun lights and education,
:07:27. > :07:30.what more could you ask for? What do you think? It's amazing. For
:07:31. > :07:33.somebody who lives locally and I have friends with small children
:07:34. > :07:39.it's the perfect place to bring them to, it's all-year round and there's
:07:40. > :07:43.so much to look at. Unbelievable. I want to have a quick word with Max,
:07:44. > :07:47.you must be able to breathe now? Just about. A year in the making and
:07:48. > :07:53.to see it lit up is amazing. We are in front of Blackpool Tower and
:07:54. > :07:59.anyone who knows me know that I love New York. I am feeling at home with
:08:00. > :08:02.the Statue of Liberty. There are different zones, you can see some
:08:03. > :08:10.bugs and beasts up there. One zone that I like is Mysteries of China
:08:11. > :08:14.and you can see the warriors guarding. And right now here are the
:08:15. > :08:23.people involved. Well done, give yourselves a round of applause! I am
:08:24. > :08:30.going to leave you now with the Leaning Tower of Pisa as I head off
:08:31. > :08:37.to get fish and chips! I like the Chinese section. It looks very nice,
:08:38. > :08:41.good job it came on. Last night we were chatting to people from Bolton.
:08:42. > :08:45.Tonight we were in Blackpool. Home from home. So many memories. You
:08:46. > :08:49.used to go there a lot. It's one of those things you put in your diary
:08:50. > :09:01.as a kid. Did you go? Last time I went I remember there being, two big
:09:02. > :09:09.memories, a Tarzis with -- Tardis and a massive rotating head of Vera
:09:10. > :09:12.Duckworth! You would remember that We got out in the traffic queue with
:09:13. > :09:16.students and drove back to Manchester in our pants because we
:09:17. > :09:23.got so soaked at Blackpool. We couldn't sit driving home. We got
:09:24. > :09:28.out to look at the illuminations or maybe someone opened the sunroof, I
:09:29. > :09:34.don't know. They should put that head around the M25 for when you get
:09:35. > :09:39.stuck in traffic. That's a brilliant idea. So you two you are in a new
:09:40. > :09:45.sitcom together called Trying Again on Sky Living and you play Matt and
:09:46. > :09:50.Meg and you come back together after Meg has had an affair. What are you
:09:51. > :09:56.doing? Without spoiling it, Chris, is there any hope for this couple
:09:57. > :10:01.You have to hope so, otherwise there's no show. They're supposed to
:10:02. > :10:05.be together, Matt and Meg. But there's been a little wobble. We
:10:06. > :10:09.meet them, we always said it was six months after the thing had finished,
:10:10. > :10:13.and they're trying to get it back on track. All the drama and shouting
:10:14. > :10:15.and screaming that's all out of the way and they're trying to get their
:10:16. > :10:20.lives back on track. It's not that easy! No. It's not at all, which
:10:21. > :10:28.takes us on to this. Here the couple are at a counselling session.
:10:29. > :10:33.It's a huge massive biggie, buying together. Like having a baby. I am
:10:34. > :10:39.not suggesting we have a baby. I am saying it's the same sort of
:10:40. > :10:42.commitment More. Mortgage is a commitment to spend 25 years
:10:43. > :10:47.together, kids have usually left home by the time they're 18. Earlier
:10:48. > :10:54.if they're taken into care. You are unsure about children? We can't...
:10:55. > :11:03.The baby's up in the air. It's like Michael Jackson's baby.
:11:04. > :11:05.It's kind of brilliantly awkward and things - and I