31/10/2017 The One Show

Hello and welcome to

The One Show with Amol Rajan.

And Alex Jones.

Happy Halloween everyone!

And while we hope you're having

a suitably spine-tingling

Tuesday tonight's it's

all about magic and sparkle.

So please welcome the Queen

of Latin - Debbie McGee.

And her glamorous assistant, the

lovely Giovanni Pernice.

APPLAUSE

Lovely to see you. How are you?

Lovely to see you.

Debbie! It's your

birthday.

Thank you.

Joe Panik

minute strike me as the most Italian

man I've ever met, the kind of man

who has been showering Debbie with

gifts all day.

Absolutely, we have

been to lunch together and I

prepared a beautiful picture of us.

And flowers.

Was it a lovely posh

lunch?

No. It was a quick lunch.

We

have been rehearsing all day.

Normally we don't stop for lunch, we

have bananas and chocolate to keep

us going.

But because it was her

birthday we wanted to have lunch for

half an hour.

One of those famous

coffee shops.

You got away with

that! Debbie, you are doing

extremely well on Strictly and we

will chat everything Strictly in a

second but Shirley Ballas, the head

judge, said you're standing leg is

the best she has ever seen. Lots of

people including Amol might not know

what a standing leg is.

What is a

standing leg?

This is a picture of

Debbie doing it.

If I did one of

those it would be very embarrassing.

It might be but we want our viewers

to recreate it will reinvent it at

least. If you are brave enough clap

a partner or a wall, that might be

safer, and send a photo of your best

standing legs and we will get

Giovanni to pick the best at the end

of the show.

No pressure!

More from

you in a second, guys.

It may surprise you to hear

that the scariest thing lurking

in the hedgerows tonight won't be

swarms of eight-year-olds hyped up

on food colouring and E numbers.

George has the full horror story.

Two years ago on The One Show went

to France to look at the devastation

invasive Asian Hornets were causing

to honeybee populations. At the time

there were none in the UK but it

seemed inevitable they would

eventually reach our shores. And I'm

now hightailing it down to an apiary

in Woolacombe because we've had the

tip-off that beekeepers and farmers

have been dreading. Just a few

hundred meters from the sea on the

North Devon coast and more than 150

miles from France Martin's apiary

was the last place he expected to

make a potentially catastrophic

destruction.

I was disbelieving to

start with because I thought the

Asian hornet is in France, why would

they be here in an apiary in North

Devon? I just saw the key features,

yellow legs, large wings, orange

yellow segment on the last but one

bit of the abdomen and I thought,

yeah, you know, it's a hornet.

You

were the first person to see this

Asian hornet. What did you feel

like?

It gets personal when you see

your bees getting eaten and you are

helpless to do anything about it.

There might be 500,000 of them but

these are my extended family, I

refer to them as my girls, most

beekeepers do.

How worried are you?

If this insect becomes established

in the UK, what effect will that

have on you?

It's not overstating it

to say that beekeeping as we know it

would come to an end because 40% of

the colonies in France are destroyed

by the Asian hornet every year.

And

Asian hornet can kill up to 50

honeybees in a day. With an average

colony size of about 6000

individuals, they could decimate the

British honeybee population. The

National bee unit acting on orders

from Defra made locating the

hornets' nest the top priority and

within 48 hours of receiving

Martin's photos they tracked it down

to an unassuming headship in a

residential area little more than

500 metres away. Now more is Defra's

Chief non-native species officer.

The hornets are flying into the

hedge.

It's quite big.

About three

feet up, about a foot and a bit in

diameter.

This is a wasp which lives

normally in the far east. How did it

get into Western Europe?

The French

actually think that how it arrived

is it came in on a consignment of

ceramic pots, just once native Queen

arrived in 2004 and from that the

whole invasion of Europe has

occurred. It is now in seven

European countries.

Seven? From one

Queen?

Probably from a single queen.

Why is everybody getting really

concerned about this Asian hornet?

This nest potentially could produce

dozens or hundreds of Queens, which

had off and hibernate for the winter

and each one found spending nest and

colony next year.

It's really

important you get every colony

because if you miss one next year

there could be 15 colonies.

Absolutely.

And then 100 and then

500.

The main thing is we detect

them very fast and destroy them as

soon as we find them.

But to ensure

the complete destruction of the

colony, his team have to wait until

dusk when all the workers have

returned to the nest. The team then

leap into action poisoning the nest

inside and out, taking care not to

harm other wildlife. It's essential

no Queen is capable of starting

another colony surviving.

I feel sort of sad about it because

these insects are remarkable and

fantastic animals but they do like

eating honeybees. And that's a

problem, and if we are going to save

our honeybees in the UK, we need to

be constantly vigilant and deal with

every incidence of this invader.

And we've had an update from George.

Now is apparently a vital time

in the fight against Asian hornets

so if you spot one or what you think

might be a nest you need to take

a photo and send it off

for analysis ASAP.

The details of who to contact

will be on our website -

so please do what you can

to save our honeybees.

Come on!

Save our honeybees. Aside

from hornets and Halloween, is there

anything you are scared of?

No but I

had a problem with Hornets the first

week of strictly. I don't know if

they were Asian ones but they were

huge.

That is why we booked you,

Debbie. That's what we like on the

show.

I had a real problem, they the

bedroom. I could hear them buzzing

under the lights. I had a couple of

dead ones and they were big so I was

frightened. But then I've been

training with Giovanni and I went

home and there was a carpet of about

40 I 40 I think I counted on my

bedroom carpet near the window.

You

need to report this problem, you

need to mention it.

I got the

exterminators in and they killed

off, they found a nest above the

office downstairs. Three days later

twice I have the same in my bedroom

and there was another nest above the

bedroom. Scary.

Nothing scary about

your performances on strict Li so

far.

They are, the Charleston last

week was.

You have made it to the

halfway point and I'm sure you will

go all the way but let's look at

your highlights so far.

APPLAUSE

My heart was in my mouth.

It is your

second week of the top of the

leaderboard after the Charleston at

Halloween. When you first saw

Debbie, Joe Bunney, did you have any

idea she would be this good?

No.

Admire his honesty.

When we meet all

of the celebrities, as you know, we

have a small part in the group

number altogether. I danced a little

bit with her and I thought a little

bit that something was going there.

Because, you can feel. But it was

when we started doing the proper

practising in week one when I

understood she could really do it.

You've got a good one.

I have a good

one.

Have you been blown away by the

public's reaction because even a

minute into your dance on Saturday

there were 20,000 tweets. That must

be so encouraging.

I can't tell you,

Alex, for both of us, we are

completely blown away. We had no

idea that we would have this

reaction. It's fantastic for me

being an old woman, 59 today. But

the reaction has been right across

the age board. I get stopped in the

street by everybody and 20-year-olds

are coming up and saying we have

joined the gym, we want to look like

you when we are your age. It is such

a great feeling every week to get to

dance with him and also to know that

you are inspiring people.

Did you

know only one person... No people

ever have won it over 40. One person

was 39 when he won it.

No pressure!

It is funny you mention the pressure

because you have been dubbed Bendy

McGee and the bookmakers are

slashing the odds. Had he gone from

enjoying its Chuvaev feeling under

pressure you've got to stay at the

top of the leaderboard? -- have you

gone from enjoying it to feeling the

pressure was Mick no, I love it, I'm

grateful I got the opportunity to do

it and we have a great friendship

and we giggle most of the day when I

remember the steps.

I need to make

her look good, so of course we have

to try and be the best but it is a

beautiful competition. Would just

need to do our best, that is what it

is.

This morning Prue Leith made a

bit of an error, by accident she

announced the winner of this year's

Bake Off.

Can you imagine, Debbie,

if you ever did something like that?

What are you saying?

You did do

something like that.

I'm very sad to

see The Reverend Richard go much

going, he fell over at one point, so

he went, you know, and had to go and

be treated and everything else. So

now we're waiting to see what's

going to happen in the results show

tonight.

APPLAUSE

I can completely empathise, that's

just the type of thing I would do,

absolutely.

Well, this isn't an

excuse because Giovanni is always

saying you are blonde, and I am very

blonde. But it was the first week,

and in my head I went into my radio

show on the Sunday morning having

had four hours sleep saying to

yourself, you mustn't give away who

it is and the first thing I did was

give it away and then I realised

what I'd done so it made it worse I

was trying to get out of it, by

saying he got knocked out and was

injured and had to see the

paramedics. It was so embarrassing.

What are you dancing this week?

We

are dancing the tango. Yes, so it's

a completely different dance to the

Charleston. It has to be more sharp,

staccato, elegant, sophisticated, so

completely different character to

last week.

It's much harder for me.

It's much easier for me to be a

cheeky Charleston.

I have a feeling

they are going to be all right.

Yes.

With shops selling fake blood

and fancy dress for months on end -

and costumes featuring everyone

from Forrest Gump to Donald Trump -

it's easy to become a little

cynical about Halloween.

But surely four-year-old Isla Nelson

can find the fun in fright night?

What are you up to, dad?

Carving a

pumpkin.

Make it look good this

year.

They always look good.

Remember last year you tried to

carve us lightly and it ended up

looking like Schreck.

Keeping it

simple this year, going to do the

Eiffel Tower.

Does this mean we have

to lead pumpkin all week?

Everyone

loves pumpkin.

Every now and then

but not every meal for a month. No

one even likes pumpkin, dad. You

just eat it to get rid of it.

Looking forward to Halloween?

Yeah,

I don't really get it, though.

What

don't you get?

You know how you said

don't speak to strangers?

Yeah.

Never takes weeks from them. Have

come at Halloween you send me to

strangers' houses.

The thing is...

I

demand to know.

You are

overthinking.

It's just another

thing that confuses kids and don't

even get me started on bonfire

Night.

Bonfire Night?

Don't play

with fire, kids, but here, hold a

sparkle.

But...

Me and my pals have

been talking about this at nursery.

Honestly, dad, we don't know whether

we are coming or going.

Well, I

suppose I'd better get lunch ready.

What are we having?

Your favourite,

pumpkin sandwiches!

Oh!

APPLAUSE

I love it, no, dad!

Thanks to Isla and her dad Mark.

Debbie, I bet Paul used to terrorise

the local trick or treaters

with his magic tricks?

No, our house, all the kids in the

area new Paul and so ours was the

house they came to because they

wanted a trick and they miss him.

She has a point, it is strange to be

sent to strangers Osterby houses.

I

am on her side, definitely.

What

about Halloween in Italy? Scary

pasta shapes?

We don't have

Halloween in Italy.

We are going to

talk more about Paul's magic in a

moment. You don't need to be a

magician to master the art of

illusion as The One Show's artist in

residence

Adebanji's

been finding out.

I would not normally be throwing

water as a flying chair while it

hangs in the air but today I'm doing

something pretty surreal, and I'm

doing it in tribute to the master of

surrealist art. Salvador Dali. Born

in Spain in 1904, Dali defined

serialism, bizarre and imaginative

interpretations of everyday

subjects. This painting, the

persistence of memory, is thought to

be a meditation on time --

surrealism. It is another of Dali's

works that deals with time but I'm

hoping to recreate today. This 1948

piece Dali Atomicus, featured Dali

himself frozen in time surrounded by

flying cats and floating easels. It

was a collaboration with

photographer Philippe Halsman. That

image was captured long before photo

editing software had even been

dreamt of. So, how hard is it going

to be to recreate the exact same

shot using the exact same basic

techniques? Guernsey -based

photographer Mark Taylor is going to

give it a go. -- Karl Taylor. Karl,

why did you want to read this

picture?

Well, this photo has really

inspired me and inspired my work and

my career in many ways. What really

interests me about it is the amount

of activity and motion that is

frozen in time.

How did they get

this original shot?

They had to

suspend everything on wires to make

it look like it was floating in the

air. But because they're throwing

water and cats into the picture it

took many, many attempts. What was

the most difficult thing to achieve

was everything happening at exactly

the same time. You can see in these

shots here where they failed, I

think it took them 28 attempts until

Dali was happy with the final

result.

To recreate the photo

exactly Carl has spent weeks

building a replica of the set. Today

it's standing ready with its

floating props hanging in their

exact position is.

The difficult

part was matching the lighting. What

I use is a technique called Ray

tracing where you find out where the

shadow point of an object is and

trace a line to the object, we can

determine approximately where the

light source was.

The part of Dali

will be played by local actor Dave

Hyatt but there is one thing we

won't be retreating. So, obviously

we can't use cats, so what have you

used to replace them?

Well, I've got

a toaster because I liked the energy

of things popping out of the

toaster, it was kind of similar to

the energy of the cats.

Right.

And

here I have used the melting clock

from another of Dali's famous

paintings The Persistence Of Memory.

With everything place we are set, my

role is to throw the water into the

shot just before Dave jumps and it

all has to be captured in the

millisecond it happens by Karl.

Go!

Too high, too high.

OK, so we go again.

I went to early.

So dam close!

So what is the news, Karl?

On our

29th attempt we captured that and it

is so close to the original.

Come

on, boys! Dali and Housman took

their shot on the 28th take and

hours to just one more. Not about

result at all. -- not a bad result

at all.

Thank you, Adebanji. Debbie, tell us

about the trick that Paul did back

in 1987.

Paul was asked to create

something which would cause a few

raw. He hated bland television. We

created this big Iron Maiden

illusion which is where there were

big spikes. Paul was put in it which

you can see now. He shows that they

are real spikes and then he gets

handcuffed with metal handcuffs and

foot cuffs in it. There are some

ball bearings which start going

down. He has to get out of it by the

time the ball bearings go down. If

they clear, the door closes and he

will be pierced.

It sounds

terrifying.

Through rehearsals, he

always got out, even the dress run.

But the live show at night, what

nobody knew except for a few of us

that he created a second mechanism.

This is how the show ended. Tell us

what you are seeing and what you are

thinking? Phone with a close this,

the ball bearings are going,

everyone in the studio are so tense

because they know he has to get out

before all the ball bearings go

down.

You can see something has gone

through the ball bearings and the

door closes and he hasn't got out.

It was all planned. There is no

music at the end of the show.

Normally he would say is the next

week on the end of the magic show.

The credits would roll and it all

went quiet. I knew, the director and

producer new, Paul new and a couple

of the special effects people who

built the second mechanism that that

is it. The audience in the studio

who were live, somewhere

journalists. One was Anne Robinson

before people knew who she was. Paul

said he made how horrible because

she was furious. Because he got her

and she tried to run to get her

phone in another room, he stopped

her and would not let her ring her

editor! Every switchboard was jammed

for three days because people didn't

know what channel they were

watching. In those days they didn't

and it caused this great big thing.

People just wanted to know that Paul

was a cave. They always said he had

to go back and record something and

say everybody I am fine, but he had

pre-recorded that.

As TV goes, it

was riveting.

It's time to meet -

the fourth member of Team Rickshaw

who'll be setting-off on their epic

500-mile ride to the Clyde

in just nine days' time.

It's all to raise money

for Children in Need.

And this is Greg's story.

My name is Greg and I live in dumb

Firmin. -- Dunfermline. I live close

to my family so I often pop around.

I was born in Poland. When I was

nine my dad died. My mum and her new

boyfriend moved to Scotland. I did

not want to leave my friends and my

school. I could not even speak

English. My mum bought a one-bedroom

house so she made me sleep in the

living room. I slept the two years

on an old sofa with just a blanket

on top of me. My mum would buy

herself dinners and make herself

dinner but when I came back from

school I had to make food myself.

She seemed to lock herself in her

room and didn't want to talk to me.

I still had no friends at that

point. They were thinking I was a

bit different because they would try

to talk to me that I did not even

know what they were trying to say to

me. That was I think the lowest

time. When I was 13 or 14, I met two

friends at school. Teachers said to

them he is new, he needs friends, go

and speak to him. One of them said

they were going to play basketball

and I said basketball, I could try

it.

Every session he came in, it was

the same clothing, the same shoes,

just getting more rapid, more dirty.

Bells started to ring when he went

really quiet and then flew off the

handle. Me and Greg had a

conversation about everything that

was going on. From there it went to

child protection, to social

services.

That is when everything

started getting better. I started

Twilight basketball and met my

foster family.

The first time I met

Greg was through my two boys Jackie

and Lewis.

He was really quiet. He

is not like he is now.

We went for

some shoes for Greg and they would

two sizes smaller than he was

wearing. The shoes he was wearing

were five and he was seven. I could

not believe how he squeezed his feet

into them.

I got a chance to move

from my house and I was collected.

He came into my room and said, can I

call you don't? I said, you can call

you anything -- I said you can call

me anything. He asked to call her

mum. He was looking for something.

He has never really had a mum and

dad.

If it was not for Twilight

basketball, my life would be very

different.

We use sport and

basketball to engage with

disadvantaged children across

Scotland. Greg got so much in terms

of Twilight from finding a new

family so he wanted to give back to

the programme so he started doing

some coaching.

When I heard I got

picked for the rickshaw challenge I

was like, yes, I've got this, I can

do it. The training I have been

doing is just cycling from my work

and back. It will be really

different but I will just think

about going back to my family. It

will get me thinking that I am doing

this for a good cause so I should

keep going.

Greg, I know you will be

awesome that this challenge. You

will put your heart and soul into

it. Good luck, buddy.

I just hope

you do well on the rickshaw and do

us proud.

We are really proud of

you, Greg. Good luck!

I'm taking

part in the rickshaw challenge but

we need your help so please donate.

CHEERING

APPLAUSE

What an inspirational guy.

He is so mature.

He is a credit to

the lovely couple who wrought him

up.

I would love to meet him. It

would be a privilege.

And if you want to support Greg,

Team Rickshaw and Children in Need,

you can donate by sending

a simple text message -

Debbie has the numbers you need.

You can donate £5 by texting

the word TEAM to 70405.

To donate £10, just text

the word TEAM to 70410.

And to donate £20 text

the word TEAM to 70420.

You have done this before! Thank you

very much.

Those texts will cost your donation

plus your standard network message

charge and all of your donation

will go to BBC Children in Need.

You must be 16 or over and please

ask for the bill payer's permission.

For full terms and conditions,

please go to bbc.co.uk/pudsey -

where you can also donate online

if you want to give

a different amount.

And don't forget -

that's also the website to go

to if you want to sign up

for our virtual rickshaw.

You can use your own pedal

power to help raise

money for Team Rickshaw

and Children in Need.

Yes. Early on we asked to see your

standing legs because Debbie is a

master of it, and we have some

brilliant ones in. Here we are. This

is a her dad. That is very good.

This is Claire and Milly doing their

standing legs. Very good.

This is

12-year-old Grace. That is good!

I

like the ghost as well.

I think this

is fantastic.

Who is this?

This is

ridiculous. This is Mandy and her

daughter doing her standing legs.

Let's bring the cake in because it

is your birthday!

# Happy birthday to you, happy

birthday to you, happy birthday dear

Debbie!

That's it for tonight's show -

thanks to our guests

Debbie and Giovanni.

They'll be back in action

on the Strictly dance floor

on Saturday night at 6:50pm,

here on BBC One.

If you do see something which you

think is an Asian hornet nest, do

not attack it because they are

dangerous.

On tomorrow's show - Liza Tarbuck,

Victoria Coren-Mitchell

and Andrew Marr will all be here.

We'll see you then!