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Coming up, three celebs become 12 again.

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I had a section that said My Future Husband and there was a picture of Aaron Carter.

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My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight. I turned down Picasso.

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And I ended up going into school stinking of sour milk.

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And we catch up with JLS,

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who told us what mattered when they were kids.

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"It doesn't matter what your name was!"

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Want to find out more?

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Well, have you ever wondered what it would have been like

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to be best mates with your favourite celebs when they were your age?

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What did they get up to?

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What were their favourite songs?

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And what TV shows did they watch?

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Because despite the glamorous lifestyles they now lead,

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once they were a kid with a dream, just like you.

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This show lets you look back in time with your favourite celebs

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as they become 12 Again.

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# Baby, baby We're on the rocket... #

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As a pop superstar, her debut single went straight in at number one

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and she's been storming the charts ever since.

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That's now. But back in 2003,

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Pixie Lott's school life was full of glee.

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I think I was just very excited about everything,

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because I'd just been introduced to a school where you can perform and act

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and dance and sing all the time, and I was so excited about writing songs

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and making music.

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My name's Steve Backshall.

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He's the wild man of CBBC, ready to take on the most deadly challenges.

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HE LAUGHS

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And even back in 1985, Steve Backshall was ready for adventure.

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I was a miniature version of what I am now.

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A lot of the things that I do now,

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in terms of wildlife and the outdoors

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and sports and being active, really I was already doing when I was 12.

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-FLASH GORDON THEME

-Citizens!

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From the King in The Legend Of Dick And Dom to Prince Vultan in Flash Gordon,

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he's a living legend in the acting world today.

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But back in 1948,

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Brian Blessed was far from TV royalty.

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I'm a Yorkshire boy, I'm the son of a coal miner.

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And 12 years of age, I was a very happy boy.

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Today they may all be massive stars,

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but what did they look like when they were 12?

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I had really long, thick, curly, crazy hair.

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I had to get braces on my bottom teeth.

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I was a greasy, stinky, spotty little kid.

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I was an absolute state.

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I was scrawny, wiry,

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clear skin with broad shoulders,

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deceptively broad shoulders.

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I think I was into, like, bright colours.

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If I saw a top and it was a really bold colour,

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I'd be like, "Wow, it's amazing."

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At 12 years old, I wore shorts and T-shirt pretty much all day long.

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Um, barefoot almost all the time.

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Very rarely wore shoes.

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It was an age when you kind of introduced yourself to make-up

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and stuff, and once I tried on this new eye shadow

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and I went downstairs, we were about to go and visit my grandad,

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and my mum made me go and take it off.

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So that's what our celebs looked like. But what did they get up to?

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First thing in the morning, I'd go out, take the dog for a run,

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and then I would milk the goats before going to school.

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Goat milking?! So how did that go for a pint-sized action hero?

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Most of the time the goat would take exception to it,

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boot the pan of milk all over me,

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and I'd end up going into school stinking of sour milk.

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And that pretty much determined my entire life when I was a kid.

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Nice! Goat milk smelling trousers?

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I'm glad I didn't have to sit next to you, Steve.

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Anyway, in London for Pixie, life was a lot more glamorous.

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I was always doing music, dancing, everything,

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so I was singing and dancing all the time.

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I used to go to recording studios in the evening

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and start, like, writing songs,

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and that was from the age of 12, so that's when I just started to do all that.

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While Pixie was strutting the stage school corridors

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and striking deals with agents... I think...

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Back in Yorkshire,

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Brian was about to meet the most famous artist on the planet.

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After the war, there was a huge world peace congress in Sheffield.

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And people said, "They've got Picasso here,

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"the world's greatest painter."

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And I said, "He's not Picasso."

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And I got through all the kids to the front,

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and there's Picasso, he's talking away about himself.

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And I said, "If you're Picasso, draw me something."

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And he drew a dove of peace in about 15 seconds.

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I said, "That shows you're not Picasso. That's not a dove.

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"I'll draw you a dove."

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And he said to me, "You know, it is the first time I have a critic."

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And I gave him my dove and he accepted it.

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And I turned down his dove.

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My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight. I turned down Picasso.

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I'm not surprised your dad was cross, Brian.

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Picasso's paintings have sold for over 100 million.

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Brian's paintings so far...haven't.

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Picasso is one of the greatest and most influential artists of the 20th century.

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Brian...isn't.

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Right, time to move on from the visual artists

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to the recording artists, and find out what Brian, Steve and Pixie

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were listening to when they were 12.

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My music heroes were always the big singers, cos when I grew up,

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I used to sing their songs and I used to use them as my audition songs.

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I loved a lot of Motown that my mum grew me up on, so Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye...

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# I bet you wonder how I knew... #

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Motown started in Detroit, a city famous for making motorcars.

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Hence the name, Motown.

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The music is often described as soul music with a pop appeal.

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Artists like Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder

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played an important role in making black music popular

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with white audiences in America.

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# Baby, everything is all right... #

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And bands like The Jackson 5...

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..and The Supremes...

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# Baby, maybe... #

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..were some of the first ever girl and boy bands.

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Which incidentally was Pixie's other love at 12.

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# I want it that way... #

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Backstreet Boys, who I loved.

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# We are two worlds apart... #

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I do actually remember, when I was about 12,

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because I loved the Backstreet Boys,

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there was a boy band member called Nick Carter.

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# You say that I want it... #

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And then I found out he had a younger brother called Aaron Carter.

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# I know a girl who's tough but sweet... #

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So he used to be my crush when I was younger.

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# She's so fine she can't be beat... #

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Like Pixie, Aaron started in show biz young.

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Let's hear it for Aaron Carter!

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He was lead singer in his first band at seven

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and released his first single at ten.

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# I've got a crush on you... #

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We used to make our own little websites,

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you put on your favourite things, and I had a little section that said

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My Future Husband, and there was a picture of Aaron Carter.

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Er, join the queue, Pixie, because you have got competition.

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I just want to cuddle him cos he's so cute.

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He's dead little and cute and I want to put him in my cupboard and keep him forever!

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Creepy.

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Aaron may have been popular when Pixie was 12,

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but back in 1948,

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Brian was listening to the biggest stars on the planet.

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There was always a competition between Crosby and Al Jolson.

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Both Al Jolson and Bing Crosby were international superstars.

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More than just singers, they were both all-round entertainers.

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# Cos I just fell in love with your pretty baby face... #

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Al Jolson was the vitality of the age. Bing Crosby was more laid-back.

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# I'm dreaming

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# Of a white Christmas... #

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Although different,

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both singers can lay claim to some serious achievements.

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Bing Crosby's song White Christmas

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is the biggest-selling single of all time.

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And Al Jolson's movie The Jazz Singer

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was the first full-length talking movie ever.

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Al Jolson was a man who gripped people.

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Al Jolson had such enormous powers.

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Al Jolson, though, is probably most famous for performing

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in a style of make-up known as blackface.

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# How I love ya How I love ya, my... #

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Although not acceptable today, back in the 1940s this style of make-up

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for musical performances was considered family entertainment,

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with even the BBC's Black & White Minstrel Show running until 1978.

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But for Al Jolson, it's just one of the aspects that made him known

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as the world's greatest entertainer.

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# Baby face. #

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Right, time to find out if singers in 1985 were as classic

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as Jolson and Crosby.

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At 12, I was probably pretty much following the charts,

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following what everyone else liked.

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It wasn't until my mid-teens that I started

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really getting into music and getting into things like The Smiths.

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# Stop me, oh, oh, oh, stop me

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# Stop me if you think that you've heard this one before... #

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Formed in Manchester in 1982, The Smiths are regarded by many

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as the most influential British indie band of the 1980s.

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But I'll have to stop you there, Steve, as this classic track was released when you were 14.

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We need you to tell us what you were actually listening to

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when you were 12.

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There is one tune from the year that I was 12.

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It was by someone called Jennifer Rush,

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and it was called The Power Of Love.

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# Cos I am your lady

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# And you are my man... #

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It just makes the hairs go up on the back of my neck

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and makes me want to be violently ill.

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# The power of love... #

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OK, I can see why you mentioned The Smiths now,

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but this track, believe it or not, was massive in the UK in 1985.

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It just went on forever.

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It was never off number one at the Top Of The Pops.

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Every week we were coming back and praying, "Please don't let it be Jennifer Rush.

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"Please don't let it be Jennifer Rush." And it always was.

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Not only was it the biggest-selling song of the year,

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it also broke the record for the largest-selling single ever

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by a woman.

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It also outsold two other tracks in the same year with the same name,

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one by Huey Lewis...

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# That's the power of love... #

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..and also that year's Christmas number one, by Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

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# The power of love... #

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Spoilt for choice,

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it was this Power Of Love that really got on Steve's nerves.

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# Sometimes I am frightened... #

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If I never hear that song again, I will be a very happy man.

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# By the power of love. #

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All right, Steve, you can take the fingers out your ears now.

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Still to come, we catch up with the massive boy band JLS.

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Sorry, Mum, sorry, Dad.

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I'm not apologising, my mum should never have been cutting my hair.

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Send me to the barber's!

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And we find out what TV our celebs tuned into when they were 12.

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And suddenly, someone had got what?

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Television?

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I was watching a lot of Nickelodeon.

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I can remember the first time I met Michaela, and I was dumbstruck.

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I had no idea what to say to her.

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But first, it's time to see what big moments had an impact on our celebs

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when they were 12.

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And for Brian, 1948 saw the return

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of a long-overdue sporting competition.

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The Olympics excited us.

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The whole concept meant an awful lot to us,

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because we'd missed out on the Olympics because of the war.

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After a 12-year gap because of World War II,

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London was the host of the first Summer Olympics since the 1936 Games in Berlin.

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And so in 1948, there was an excitement everywhere.

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RADIO ANNOUNCER: In Britain, here at least was a proper setting

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for the 14th Olympiad of this restless modern era.

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Even though times were tough due to post-war rationing

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and a hard financial climate,

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85,000 spectators gathered in Wembley Stadium

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for the opening ceremony,

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including the Royal family.

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I proclaim open...

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the Olympic Games of London.

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Great Britain won a total of 23 medals,

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including one for the Games' most historical event.

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In those days, the marathon, which of course celebrated the victory

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of the Athenians over the Persians,

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that man ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens,

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was the great one to win.

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And in 1948, we got the silver medal. We almost won it.

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While the country was celebrating sporting triumph at home in 1948,

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when Pixie was 12, Britain was facing conflict in the Middle East.

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NEWSREADER: America starts the war against Saddam Hussein.

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Missiles hit Baghdad in southern Iraq.

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The big thing that happened when I was 12, in 2003, was the Iraq War.

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The USA along with its allies, including Britain,

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feared that Iraq's leader, Saddam Hussein, was hiding

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weapons of mass destruction.

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Saddam Hussein and his sons must leave Iraq within 48 hours.

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Their refusal to do so will result in military conflict,

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commenced at a time of our choosing.

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Saddam Hussein didn't surrender.

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And war began on the 19th of March.

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The purpose of the war was to disarm Iraq of those weapons,

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but also to end Saddam Hussein's support for terrorism,

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and free the Iraqi people from dictatorship.

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The invasion of Iraq was very unpopular globally,

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especially when no weapons of mass destruction were found.

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And most people thought the troops should have been withdrawn.

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This massive anti-war demonstration is just getting under way here.

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There's been one of the biggest demonstrations in decades.

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People have taken to the streets today to protest

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against war in Iraq.

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But the Iraqi people were happy

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when Saddam Hussein was removed from power.

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NEWSREADER: They're celebrating in the streets of Baghdad,

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and they're showing their hatred of the Iraqi leader for the first time.

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With Saddam Hussein gone, the troops left Iraq

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and the war officially ended on 18 December, 2011.

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When Steve was 12 in 1986, Europe was confronted by an unseen danger.

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Good evening. The Soviet Union admitted this evening

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that there's been an accident at one of its nuclear power stations,

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and it said there'd been casualties.

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It's believed to be the first time Moscow has admitted such an incident,

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and the way in which the news was given suggests it's a serious one.

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When the reactor exploded at Chernobyl,

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this was something that just seemed totally unreal.

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On the morning of 26 April, 1986,

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a nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Power Station in Ukraine exploded.

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It was the worst nuclear accident in history.

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All of our fears kind of came to realisation.

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The explosion and fire at the Chernobyl plant released

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large quantities of radioactive contamination into the atmosphere.

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Nuclear fallout was found in nearly every country

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in the northern hemisphere,

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including parts of the UK.

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As a kid, in my young mind,

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it was a real dark, brooding cloud over most of my teens.

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The overall effects of the disaster are difficult to measure,

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but there's been an increase in serious diseases

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amongst those living in the most contaminated areas near Chernobyl,

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and the disaster made nuclear power very unpopular with many.

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The nearby town of Pripyat was evacuated to try and limit

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the amount of people who would get sick from the radiation.

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And the town is exactly the same today

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as it was when everyone left it.

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A 30km exclusion zone still circles the power plant,

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and a big concrete shelter covers the reactor that exploded

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on that day.

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Still to come...

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We ask the all-important question,

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what would our celebs do if they were 12 again?

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Follow your dreams. There is no-one like you!

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Make sure that you do whatever makes yourself happy.

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Be proud of who you are, because it's really important

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and it's really good.

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Before that, it's time to take two minutes with JLS

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and find out what they were like as kids.

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# All that I do is to make you proud... #

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I was short when I was 12, boy.

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I was so short.

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Look how tall everyone is. I don't know if you can see that. But...

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You're actually a whole head shorter than everybody!

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-No, I'm like a whole half a body shorter.

-That's hilarious.

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And being vertically challenged wasn't the only issue

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the boys faced at 12.

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Why is it, though, that your mum

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-used to think she could cut your hair?

-I know! I used to hate it...

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Why is that?

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-I did!

-My mum used to cut my hair all the time.

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She used to put the most craziest lines in my hair, like,

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all zigzags going around my head, and like the bowl-cut,

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where she'd just do, like, skin there and a number two on top.

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I hated it. That's the one thing that I just...

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Sorry, Mum, sorry, Dad.

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No, I'm not apologising,

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my mum should never have been cutting my hair. Send me to the barber's!

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They may have been strangers to the barber's at 12,

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but they were no strangers to adventure.

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When I was 12 years old, I was very adventurous.

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-Wild?

-Yeah, I was like, you know...

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-Still wild?

-Still wild, still trying to find my fashion.

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Still doing things outside of the box.

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-Ritse, you're still trying to find your fashion now.

-Whatever!

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Nothing's changed from you being 12!

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So, JLS weren't exactly fashion icons,

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but what were they watching when they were kids?

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-Wrestling. Absolutely. Definitely.

-It was all about wrestling.

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It was just about The Rock.

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Yo, this is The Rock, kicking it with the Refugee Camp

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and you're 'bout to smell what The Rock is cooking.

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Everyone knows The Rock.

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He's considered to be the most electrifying

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wrestler in sports entertainment.

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But did you know that back in 2000,

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his famous catchphrase had its own song?

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# It doesn't matter! #

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-# I sold like 17 million records

-It doesn't matter how many records you sold! #

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Ritse, what was your name when you was little?

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It doesn't matter what your name was!

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Let's go back to what really does matter - the JLS interview,

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and it's confession time.

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I ain't going to be afraid to admit it, me and my friend Chris,

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we sang two songs in school, we did like a talent show.

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One song was Spice Girls - Wannabe.

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# If you wanna be my lover... #

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-And the other song was Peter Andre - Mysterious Girl.

-What?!

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Yeah. I can't remember if I was Peter Andre or Bubbler Ranx.

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All right, Marvin, not the coolest confession from being 12.

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Come on, JB, any advice that doesn't involve

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going swimming in your jeans?

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I'd tell my 12-year-old self to keep playing my instruments

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and keep doing my languages.

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Because in ten years, you're going to be travelling the world.

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I would have told my 12-year-old self, "Why did it take you so long to kiss a girl?"

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Hey, don't be picking on Oritse, he's just being honest!

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Now it's time to get back to business and find out

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what Pixie, Brian and Steve were wild about watching

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when they were 12.

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One of the programmes I remember most vividly from 12 years old

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was The Really Wild Show.

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The Really Wild Show was the Deadly 60 of its day,

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and for kids like Steve who were nuts about nature,

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it was must-see TV.

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Chris Packham was on it...

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He's on my nose, he's not doing me any harm at all.

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..and Terry Nutkins was on it...

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Isn't that incredible?

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-..and Michaela Strachan.

-Sorry I'm late, chaps.

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Bit of bother with the law.

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They seemed to me to be omnipotent, they seemed to know everything.

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It is actually completely harmless.

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It's just pretending to be a dangerous snake.

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So, you're a fraud.

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When it came to wildlife, they were just popping with information and facts.

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And that was something that I thought, "Yeah, I'd really like to be like that."

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This capuchin, for instance, can't actually smile,

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and in the animal kingdom, apart from us,

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there's only one animal that can. And that's the chimpanzee.

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The things that always hit home most about wildlife programmes

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when you're a kid are the moments when the animal turns round and bites you.

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They don't half like to peck!

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That happened quite regularly on Really Wild Show.

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As a lifelong fan, Steve's dream came true in 2004

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when he joined the team.

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Hello, and welcome to a very special Really Wild Show.

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I ended up working on The Really Wild Show. I ended up presenting it.

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Which was just the most extraordinary thing.

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I can remember the first time I met Michaela, and I was dumbstruck.

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I had no idea what to say to her.

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I hear you've been practising your reading on a very attractive bird.

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Michaela, what are you like?!

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Oh, that type of bird!

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-Hello, darling.

-BIRD SQUAWKS

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So while Steve wasn't having much luck with the birds...

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literally...

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I haven't seen what's out there.

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..Pixie was more interested in watching comedy kids' TV

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from the USA.

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I was watching a lot of Nickelodeon,

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so it was all, like, Keenan And Kel, which I still love.

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And now it's time for Keenan from Keenan And Kel.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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Just like today, when Pixie was 12, Nickelodeon shows were huge.

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But instead of iCarly and Victorious,

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Keenan And Kel was the must-watch show

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and they often appeared on the big CBBC programmes of the day,

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even if they couldn't pronounce the names of British towns.

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OK, I got joke number four, it's from Paul from... Shingford?

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-That's Chingford.

-Chingford! Chingford, OK, OK.

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Never mind, Keenan, I often say "Shing-ford" wrong too.

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Whilst Pixie was all about

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kids' TV channels in the noughties,

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Brian's family back in the '40s didn't even have television.

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We had a wooden radio,

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and you had the Home Service,

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lots of serious programmes and scientific programmes,

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and then the BBC Light Programme shared with them drama.

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And you would get The War Of The Worlds.

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The War Of The Worlds was written by HG Wells over a century ago,

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and is the story of an alien invasion of planet Earth.

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As one of the most popular sci-fi stories ever written,

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it's been retold many times,

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even as a Hollywood blockbuster starring Tom Cruise.

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But back in 1948, Brian heard it on the radio.

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VOICE ON RADIO: We now know that in the early years of the 20th century,

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this world was being watched closely by intelligences

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greater than man.

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I found it magical.

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It's the best science fiction ever written.

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Brian was blown away by what he heard on the radio.

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But in America, when the story was broadcast in 1938,

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-everyone thought it was real.

-RADIO ANNOUNCER: Scouting planes report three Martian machines visible

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above treetops moving north towards Somerville

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with population fleeing ahead of them.

0:24:510:24:53

Many Americans thought the planet was actually under attack

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by Martians.

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Even the armed forces were put on alert.

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The United States Navy was in New York Harbour,

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and the boys, the sailors, were all on shore leave.

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And they were all recalled that night for active duty,

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in order to defend America against the Martians.

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I don't know, alien attacks? That's a crazy idea.

0:25:160:25:19

But then again, Brian had some crazy ideas of his own.

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I remember once saying to my dad, "Dad, Dad, wouldn't it be marvellous

0:25:230:25:27

"if we could actually see The War Of The Worlds?"

0:25:270:25:31

And my dad said, "I don't know it'll ever happen, lad."

0:25:310:25:34

And then that amazing thing happened.

0:25:340:25:38

Suddenly someone had got what?

0:25:390:25:42

Television?

0:25:420:25:43

Yep, TV became a reality.

0:25:430:25:46

Even if the Martians didn't.

0:25:460:25:48

So those were the TV memories of our three celebs.

0:25:520:25:55

But what do they remember most about being 12?

0:25:550:25:58

The best thing to me about being 12 was freedom,

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was the fact that for every weekend and long periods of holidays,

0:26:010:26:06

I would just go out and enjoy being outside.

0:26:060:26:10

I was doing what I loved every day - music, dancing, drama.

0:26:100:26:13

I was with all of my best friends.

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We were always happy, always hyper, always running around.

0:26:150:26:18

I was just really excited for life,

0:26:180:26:20

and I hope that that will always stay with me.

0:26:200:26:24

The best thing about being 12 was having brilliant teachers,

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who embraced my imagination and encouraged me to grow,

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and to let me fulfil my dreams.

0:26:300:26:35

I remember learning about rejection and going to auditions

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and not getting the part or not looking right for something,

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or getting something and then it being taken away from you,

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and loads of things like that. And I think it's good to learn at that age,

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because then, you know, you're all set up for when you're older.

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If I was 12 again now, I would go running out of the house,

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go straight down, see the goats, chase the peacocks,

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just live a day exactly as it was when I was 12.

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If I had to say anything to my 12-year-old self,

0:27:070:27:11

I would say to just make sure you enjoy yourself,

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make sure that you do whatever makes yourself happy.

0:27:140:27:18

Be proud of who you are, because it's really important

0:27:180:27:22

and it's really good.

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I think the most important thing, 12-year-olds, is to really, you know, follow your dreams.

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There is no-one like you!

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You have got something that nobody else has got.

0:27:310:27:35

You've got to use that gift, and don't let anybody put you off.

0:27:350:27:39

Don't let the so-and-sos grind you down.

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Yeah, and if Picasso offers you a picture, take it!

0:27:430:27:46

So what have we learnt?

0:27:460:27:48

If you value your hearing, never share an elevator with this woman.

0:27:480:27:53

# I am your lady... #

0:27:530:27:56

Beware obsessive pop fans!

0:27:560:27:59

He's dead little and cute

0:27:590:28:00

and I want to put him in my cupboard and keep him forever!

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And surprisingly, WWE wrestlers are keen chefs!

0:28:030:28:07

You're 'bout to smell what The Rock is cooking!

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