0:00:26 > 0:00:29APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:00:33 > 0:00:38Hello. I'm Frank Skinner and welcome to Room 101,
0:00:38 > 0:00:41the show where three guests compete to get their pet hates
0:00:41 > 0:00:45exiled forever to the dark vault that is Room 101.
0:00:45 > 0:00:49In each round, only one choice can make it into the dreaded room.
0:00:49 > 0:00:51The final decision is mine.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54Joining me tonight are Masterchef's Gregg Wallace,
0:00:54 > 0:00:59presenter and journalist, Gabby Logan, and comedian Sarah Millican.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:01:03 > 0:01:08So, how are you feeling about Room 101?
0:01:08 > 0:01:10Have you found the choices easy to make?
0:01:10 > 0:01:14I did a law degree and so I was trained to argue anything.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17So I can argue both sides, which I hate myself for.
0:01:17 > 0:01:20Even on my first category, I will try and argue vehemently,
0:01:20 > 0:01:24I could argue against it as well, I've found about myself.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27I've found that's a skill that many women possess.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31Right then, let's have our first category.
0:01:35 > 0:01:37Well, it's Food & Drink.
0:01:37 > 0:01:39I think we have to start with our resident expert,
0:01:39 > 0:01:43so let's see what Gregg's food and drink choice is.
0:01:50 > 0:01:54- So what is it? What is it, Gregg? - I really can't stand barbecues.
0:01:54 > 0:01:56- CROWD: Oooh! - Don't "ooh" me!
0:01:56 > 0:01:58Ohhh, you've lost. Ooh!
0:01:58 > 0:02:01We've only just started, don't "ooh" me.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05- Barbecues, I hate them, hate them. - What do you have against them?
0:02:05 > 0:02:08It used to be, you'd get invited to someone's house
0:02:08 > 0:02:11and the worst you'd have to put up with was a buffet.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14Now, men who only ever normally go in the kitchen to throw their
0:02:14 > 0:02:18empty beer cans away, think they've mastered one of the most difficult
0:02:18 > 0:02:22cooking techniques known to man, with absolute disastrous results.
0:02:22 > 0:02:27You're in the garden, no tables and chairs, a steak that needs cutting,
0:02:27 > 0:02:30with a paper plate and a plastic fork.
0:02:30 > 0:02:34You've also got a napkin and a glass of beer, it doesn't work!
0:02:35 > 0:02:38Can I just say, I'm all for al fresco dining,
0:02:38 > 0:02:39just not the barbecue.
0:02:39 > 0:02:41No-one's suggesting for a second
0:02:41 > 0:02:44that you're against al fresco dining.
0:02:44 > 0:02:47The thought never crossed my mind, I won't have that,
0:02:47 > 0:02:51I won't have that hung upon me. See, I love the fact that it's informal,
0:02:51 > 0:02:54you don't get a knife and fork and it's all laid-back.
0:02:54 > 0:02:56Things like a chicken leg and a lamb chop,
0:02:56 > 0:02:59I don't want to eat them with a knife and fork.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02If God gives food a handle...
0:03:02 > 0:03:03let's use it!
0:03:03 > 0:03:06What you're objecting to is the way we eat barbecues,
0:03:06 > 0:03:07rather than the barbecue...
0:03:07 > 0:03:10- No, and the people that cook them. - Because you do...
0:03:10 > 0:03:13I've seen a man with a sausage on fire turning it!
0:03:15 > 0:03:18Isn't it because you're from the professional
0:03:18 > 0:03:21- showbiz cookery world, and... - Showbiz cookery?!
0:03:21 > 0:03:25You keep telling us that it's a very special art, where really,
0:03:25 > 0:03:28really cooking is just making food a bit hotter.
0:03:30 > 0:03:33APPLAUSE
0:03:36 > 0:03:39OK, then, let's have a look at Gabby's choice
0:03:39 > 0:03:41on the food and drink front.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51- Blimey!- This is the buffet.
0:03:52 > 0:03:56This is a heart attack waiting to happen and this, unfortunately,
0:03:56 > 0:03:59seems to be the future of dining. If you look at the States
0:03:59 > 0:04:03and the all you can eat buffet, which is anathema in itself.
0:04:03 > 0:04:05For 4.99, how you can have lobster, steak and prawns,
0:04:05 > 0:04:09as the Vegas hotels advertise, and it not come from some deep-freeze
0:04:09 > 0:04:12and been there 20 years, I don't know. But this is...
0:04:12 > 0:04:16But I think in America, Gabby, "all you can eat" is a challenge.
0:04:16 > 0:04:20That's what I'm worried about, because this trend for over-eating
0:04:20 > 0:04:22and no portion control,
0:04:22 > 0:04:25the buffet is obviously the first stop, you know,
0:04:25 > 0:04:28because you can just keep going, and the combinations of foods
0:04:28 > 0:04:31that you can have on a buffet are infinitesimal.
0:04:31 > 0:04:35I was in South Africa last year and you could have curried prawns,
0:04:35 > 0:04:39lamb chops and spaghetti bolognese on the same plate,
0:04:39 > 0:04:43and one of my colleagues did. You know, it's disgusting to look at,
0:04:43 > 0:04:45to watch somebody eat that combination of food.
0:04:45 > 0:04:47But that's what I love about buffets.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50You don't have to have the salad or the green stuff,
0:04:50 > 0:04:52you can just have the stuff you really like.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55It's sort of like a savoury pick 'n' mix.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59It's fraught with hazards. If you go first to the buffet,
0:04:59 > 0:05:02you look greedy. If you wait, you get stuck in the queue
0:05:02 > 0:05:05with somebody you don't want to talk to.
0:05:05 > 0:05:08That's why you just pop something in,
0:05:08 > 0:05:10then you don't have to talk to anybody.
0:05:10 > 0:05:13You don't have to pile your plate up. You can keep going.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16You get two plates' worth by the time you get to the end of the table.
0:05:16 > 0:05:20I'm amazed that you bother with a plate, Sarah.
0:05:21 > 0:05:26Well, look, I've got a clip now of something which
0:05:26 > 0:05:29I think justifies the whole buffet culture.
0:05:29 > 0:05:30Have a look at this.
0:05:30 > 0:05:34'Guests at a cocktail party need three things, a glass of wine,
0:05:34 > 0:05:37'a plate of hors d'oeuvres and a free hand.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40'Of course, this isn't always possible.'
0:05:40 > 0:05:42Hey! I'm Adam, Carol's husband.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47'Don't let this happen to your guests.
0:05:47 > 0:05:51'Party Plate Clips are a must-have for the sensible host or hostess.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54'Guests can attach a clip to their appetiser dish
0:05:54 > 0:05:56'and then rest their glass of wine in the holder.
0:05:56 > 0:06:00'Even with a ridiculously full glass of wine, the Party Plate Clip
0:06:00 > 0:06:05'keeps everything balanced and easy to hold. Party Plate Clips.'
0:06:07 > 0:06:10APPLAUSE
0:06:13 > 0:06:18- That's brilliant! That's brilliant. - Isn't it just the best thing ever?
0:06:18 > 0:06:21The brilliant thing, it doesn't only fit on a plate,
0:06:21 > 0:06:25it fits very neatly on the dashboard.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30OK, let's see what Sarah's choice is.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37Blimey!
0:06:37 > 0:06:40My choice is Chicken Kiev.
0:06:43 > 0:06:45But a dry Chicken Kiev.
0:06:46 > 0:06:51I'm happy with a normal Chicken Kiev, it's maybe sort of 60% of my diet.
0:06:52 > 0:06:57Oh, you're doing the "Chicken Kiev diet", very popular.
0:06:57 > 0:07:00They're like adult nuggets, aren't they? You can sort of,
0:07:00 > 0:07:04you can get away with it. I can't have nuggets any more, cos I'm 36,
0:07:04 > 0:07:06but I can have a Chicken Kiev.
0:07:06 > 0:07:10Although I've never had one that's the same size as me head before.
0:07:10 > 0:07:16- But why do they get dry, then? - Because they burst in the oven!- Oh.
0:07:16 > 0:07:19It's really annoying, cos I'm looking forward to,
0:07:19 > 0:07:22cos chicken on its own, I could buy chicken on its own
0:07:22 > 0:07:25if I wanted it, but I didn't want it, I want it with the stuff in!
0:07:25 > 0:07:28And I can't cook, so I'm heavily reliant on oveny things.
0:07:28 > 0:07:33I don't know that chicken was ever designed to be a sachet.
0:07:35 > 0:07:39It was one of the first, I have this fact here, in 1976,
0:07:39 > 0:07:43- it was Marks and Spencer's first ever ready-meal.- Wow!
0:07:43 > 0:07:47What about that? And we actually asked about the price.
0:07:47 > 0:07:54- The price of a Chicken Kiev in 1976 was two quid for two.- Whoa!
0:07:54 > 0:07:56Really expensive.
0:07:56 > 0:08:01And then we checked how much it costs in 2012 to buy a similar item.
0:08:01 > 0:08:03Still two quid. Yeah.
0:08:03 > 0:08:07So they were sort of quite elitist in the '70s, weren't they?
0:08:07 > 0:08:09Yeah. And a brilliant investment.
0:08:11 > 0:08:13You know, in these volatile financial times,
0:08:13 > 0:08:16I suggest you put your money in Kievs.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20So, look, you've all argued very well.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22I feel, Sarah, I can't put the Kievs in.
0:08:22 > 0:08:26I feel it's your fault, whereas the Kievs per se are beautiful.
0:08:26 > 0:08:30And I, well, I mean, I love all these things.
0:08:30 > 0:08:34A barbecue, I think it's important that,
0:08:34 > 0:08:37it's the people's cooking and we should champion that.
0:08:37 > 0:08:41So, on this occasion, I am going to put Gabby's choice in.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43So, buffets go into Room 101.
0:08:43 > 0:08:45Thank you.
0:08:45 > 0:08:48APPLAUSE
0:08:54 > 0:08:57Anyway, let's move on to the next category.
0:09:03 > 0:09:07It's People, and I want to find out what people Gregg don't like.
0:09:15 > 0:09:17Ahhhh.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20- Is it the elderly? - Scottish people?
0:09:20 > 0:09:23That's old people at cash machines.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29APPLAUSE
0:09:29 > 0:09:33Now, I can understand, you know, also being a child in the '70s
0:09:33 > 0:09:36and behind them in the queue in the Post Office saying,
0:09:36 > 0:09:40"I don't understand this new money." That was hard enough.
0:09:40 > 0:09:43But now, octogenarians with technology that you need
0:09:43 > 0:09:46to get your cash out, is just disastrous.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49Now, I have a theory that there is a chip in their card
0:09:49 > 0:09:53which lets the machine know how old they are,
0:09:53 > 0:09:57and if they are over 68, they get a game of Pacman.
0:09:57 > 0:10:02That's the only explanation I've got for them being there for 25 minutes.
0:10:02 > 0:10:04I think you're being a bit intolerant.
0:10:04 > 0:10:07Listen, I got a round of applause, there.
0:10:07 > 0:10:10I think we've all suffered the frustration of being
0:10:10 > 0:10:13behind people that don't understand the new technology.
0:10:13 > 0:10:17- Where are old people supposed to get their cash?- A special one.
0:10:17 > 0:10:22Separate cash points for the elderly, with massive buttons.
0:10:22 > 0:10:24I don't know any...
0:10:26 > 0:10:28I think they're pretty good with tech...
0:10:28 > 0:10:31Some of these old geezers can find their way
0:10:31 > 0:10:33around a Thai bride website easily enough.
0:10:37 > 0:10:42My mam's just started going online. She likes to buy clothes online
0:10:42 > 0:10:45- because she likes to put comments on the website.- Oh, yeah?
0:10:45 > 0:10:47But my sister has to tailor them,
0:10:47 > 0:10:50because the last one she wanted to put on was "the top is lovely,
0:10:50 > 0:10:53"but sometimes the tassels go in me dinner."
0:10:53 > 0:10:57I love old people. I genuinely love old people,
0:10:57 > 0:11:01and I was really sad to hear, not so long ago, a few months ago,
0:11:01 > 0:11:05that old people in London are the loneliest in the whole country.
0:11:05 > 0:11:09And cos I live in London, I thought, "Right, I'm going to make an effort
0:11:09 > 0:11:13"when I see old people to smile at them." And they think I'm insane.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17Yeah, they don't like it. I find them quite lazy.
0:11:17 > 0:11:19The woman next door to me,
0:11:19 > 0:11:22she hasn't took her milk in for about two weeks.
0:11:26 > 0:11:30If this doesn't melt your heart, Gregg, I don't know what will.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32This is...it's some old people.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35It's in a restaurant, so it's on your home ground,
0:11:35 > 0:11:39They're trying a bit of interviewing and it doesn't quite work out.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42What time do you want me next week? Bye bye.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47Oh, yeah, yeah, of course, some pepper.
0:11:51 > 0:11:52- What is it?- It's a microphone.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55- What?- A microphone.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59I thought it was pepper!
0:11:59 > 0:12:02APPLAUSE
0:12:03 > 0:12:06Let's see what kind of people Sarah doesn't like.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17- That's you in the car, how lovely.- I know.
0:12:17 > 0:12:21It's experts, so this is a mechanic in this scenario, obviously,
0:12:21 > 0:12:27but also sort of dentists...anybody who knows a lot about something
0:12:27 > 0:12:31that I might have to tap into, that I don't know the vocabulary.
0:12:31 > 0:12:34If I'm in a restaurant and I don't understand the menu,
0:12:34 > 0:12:38I Google it, really quietly, like that.
0:12:38 > 0:12:41And I need to be able to do that in all of these instances.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44I need to check that I'm not being ripped-off.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46And it's the same with mechanics.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48I take my car in,
0:12:48 > 0:12:52I wish I could say it's definitely the flugelbinder, but...
0:12:52 > 0:12:53You could say that,
0:12:53 > 0:12:56but you'd be paying quite a lot of money, almost certainly.
0:12:56 > 0:13:00Well, I went, I had a lump on my wrist
0:13:00 > 0:13:04and I went and saw my doctor and he said, "It's a ganglion."
0:13:04 > 0:13:07And I said, "Oh, right." I said, "What does that mean?"
0:13:07 > 0:13:10He said you had to hit it with a Bible.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13I thought, I'm not paying to see a doctor
0:13:13 > 0:13:16who gives me advice from Medieval England.
0:13:16 > 0:13:19So he said, "OK, I'll send you to see a specialist."
0:13:19 > 0:13:22I went to see this specialist, and I said,
0:13:22 > 0:13:24"Look, I've got a ganglion.
0:13:24 > 0:13:27"My doctor said I should hit it with a Bible."
0:13:27 > 0:13:30And he said, "It's absolutely outrageous
0:13:30 > 0:13:33"that anyone would suggest that in 2010.
0:13:33 > 0:13:37"Hit it with a book representing all the world's religions."
0:13:38 > 0:13:41Fabulous. I could have hugged him.
0:13:44 > 0:13:48I'll tell you what I'll do, I've got a list here of terms,
0:13:48 > 0:13:52some of which are from dentistry and some of which are from mechanics.
0:13:52 > 0:13:55- OK.- And I'm going to ask you three, right, to say which one it is.
0:13:55 > 0:13:59So the first one here, is this dentistry or mechanics?
0:13:59 > 0:14:00The pulp chamber.
0:14:00 > 0:14:01Dentistry.
0:14:01 > 0:14:03- Mechanics.- Dentistry.
0:14:03 > 0:14:07It is, indeed. It's the central cavity of a tooth.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09- Of course it is.- Did you know that?
0:14:09 > 0:14:13See, I've already replaced that on my Micra.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20What about a strut brace?
0:14:20 > 0:14:22Pornography.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26Oh, yes, sorry, that wasn't supposed to be there.
0:14:28 > 0:14:30APPLAUSE
0:14:30 > 0:14:35So let's see what kind of people Gabby Logan doesn't like.
0:14:41 > 0:14:45You'd better say what it is before people, er...
0:14:45 > 0:14:48everyone's a bit edgy at what you're going to say.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56Controversial.
0:14:56 > 0:15:00It's sales assistants, but a very specific kind of sales assistant,
0:15:00 > 0:15:04- because there are very good sales assistants.- Of course.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07But there are also, and I kind of feel like Mary Queen of Shops
0:15:07 > 0:15:11when I get on this rant, but she has highlighted a dearth of talent
0:15:11 > 0:15:16in the sales area across a whole load of services in this country.
0:15:16 > 0:15:19We don't value sales assistants in the way that, for example,
0:15:19 > 0:15:22in America you meet waitresses. That's their career.
0:15:22 > 0:15:27They want to be a waitress. In this country, it's seen as a stop-gap.
0:15:27 > 0:15:31We don't tip properly, we don't give sales people commission in shops.
0:15:31 > 0:15:34So they have no real interest in their products.
0:15:34 > 0:15:35I'll tell you what surprises me.
0:15:35 > 0:15:40I'd have thought that you would get a bit of celebrity treatment.
0:15:40 > 0:15:43I wouldn't even think of that when going into a shop.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46Oh, you want a bit of celebrity treatment. What's the point?
0:15:49 > 0:15:52I was in a shop buying something for my daughter and I said,
0:15:52 > 0:15:55"Is this a true age five, or would you say it comes up
0:15:55 > 0:15:58"a bit big for an age five? Cos she's just about to be six."
0:15:58 > 0:16:00And the girl went, "What?"
0:16:00 > 0:16:04And I said, "Well, you know, does this fit a normal five year old,
0:16:04 > 0:16:06"or is this a bit big for a five year old?"
0:16:06 > 0:16:11- And she turned to the other assistant and went...- No!
0:16:11 > 0:16:14I felt like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. I handed everything to her
0:16:14 > 0:16:18and I went, "Big mistake." And I just walked out of the shop.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20See, I don't have kids.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22I wouldn't have known how to answer that.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25I would have gone, "Is your bairn a bit fat then, is it?"
0:16:26 > 0:16:30We had a courier company and we had some truffles for Sally Clarke,
0:16:30 > 0:16:34a formidable chef, coming back from Italy, and they lost them.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37Four or five days later they got hold of them, and I phoned up.
0:16:37 > 0:16:39They said, "Mr Wallace, we've found your package.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42"We've got it in our London distribution centre."
0:16:42 > 0:16:45I said "At Vauxhall." "That's right."
0:16:45 > 0:16:47"I'm at Covent Garden Market, I'll pick it up."
0:16:47 > 0:16:48"You can't do that, sir.
0:16:48 > 0:16:52"There's nobody down here who's trained to speak to the public."
0:16:54 > 0:16:55True story.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59Loads of chimps running around.
0:16:59 > 0:17:04Could I have a bleurgh-blah?! I've come to pick up a bleurgh-bleugh!
0:17:04 > 0:17:08OK. I'm not keen on putting in shop assistants,
0:17:08 > 0:17:12because if I do I'll never get served in a shop ever again.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15The same reason I wouldn't put in the emergency services,
0:17:15 > 0:17:16if you'd chosen those.
0:17:16 > 0:17:21- And I cannot put in elderly people. - You want to though, Frank.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24- No I don't, I don't.- You so want to. - I think you're too cruel.
0:17:24 > 0:17:29But, I also am very intimidated by experts and so it is
0:17:29 > 0:17:32experts that intimidate us with their knowledge
0:17:32 > 0:17:34that goes into Room 101.
0:17:34 > 0:17:35APPLAUSE
0:17:44 > 0:17:47And so to the next category.
0:17:52 > 0:17:56This is the Wildcard round, because sometimes I feel
0:17:56 > 0:17:59we constrain you too much in your hatred and dislikes.
0:17:59 > 0:18:03So you get free reign. You can pick anything you like
0:18:03 > 0:18:06that winds you up and we're going to start off with Sarah.
0:18:06 > 0:18:09Let's see what really, really gets on Sarah's nerves.
0:18:16 > 0:18:17Um?
0:18:17 > 0:18:19It's erm...
0:18:19 > 0:18:21cats that ignore me.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28I don't have any animals, I'd like to have a pet,
0:18:28 > 0:18:30but I don't have that sort of lifestyle.
0:18:30 > 0:18:34I can't have an animal, so I have to rely on other people's animals,
0:18:34 > 0:18:37stroking strangers' cats, that sort of thing.
0:18:37 > 0:18:41So I will drive along and if I see a bonny looking cat,
0:18:41 > 0:18:44I will pull in and then go and try and find the cat.
0:18:44 > 0:18:49But they're little buggers in that they hide or they just, you know,
0:18:49 > 0:18:52ignore me or they go right underneath a car, not my car.
0:18:52 > 0:18:55it wouldn't be bad if they did that cos I'd have a hatch fitted
0:18:55 > 0:18:56so I could drag them in.
0:18:56 > 0:19:00But they hide right in the centre, where your arm just can't reach.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03I've tried all the way round!
0:19:03 > 0:19:06I need one of those grabby hands that pensioners have
0:19:06 > 0:19:09- for when they drop things. - Or maybe just an old-fashioned rake.
0:19:13 > 0:19:18So they don't, it's like they don't like you, Sarah. Can I suggest that?
0:19:18 > 0:19:20- No, I don't think it's that.- No.
0:19:20 > 0:19:23Can I stroke that one, even if he's got his back to us?
0:19:23 > 0:19:27This is a good thing, cos if you go down here, they can't bite you.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30- Yeah, well that one died in the 1980's.- Oh, it feels real!
0:19:30 > 0:19:33- It is, well it was real. - That's a real stuffed cat.
0:19:33 > 0:19:35Oh! Is this going back anywhere at the end of the show?
0:19:37 > 0:19:40I totally want it.
0:19:40 > 0:19:44I could put something to heat it up so it felt even more...
0:19:46 > 0:19:48I don't think they're like ready meals,
0:19:48 > 0:19:51you can bring them back to life with a microwave.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54I saw a cat through a window recently and I went up
0:19:54 > 0:19:57and I mewed at it. Miaow.
0:19:57 > 0:20:01And it mewed back, but obviously it was silent, so it looked quite sad.
0:20:01 > 0:20:03But it put its paw up,
0:20:03 > 0:20:07it put its paw up at the glass like it was in prison in America,
0:20:07 > 0:20:10and I put my paw up as well and we had a lovely moment.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15- You put YOUR paw? - My hand, whatever.
0:20:15 > 0:20:18Is there part of this that you're in a cat outfit?
0:20:20 > 0:20:25Let's see what Gabby has chosen for her wildcard.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34This is a replica of the Olympic torch.
0:20:35 > 0:20:39But it's gone out. Symbolically it's gone out.
0:20:39 > 0:20:42Because I am trying to put into Room 101
0:20:42 > 0:20:45people who poo-poo the Olympics,
0:20:45 > 0:20:47who have no enthusiasm for the Olympics,
0:20:47 > 0:20:50who put it down, who don't give it a chance.
0:20:50 > 0:20:55On the 27th July, 204 countries are represented in 26 different sports.
0:20:55 > 0:20:57Hundreds of millions of people will turn...
0:20:57 > 0:20:59Am I picking up Five Live on this?
0:21:01 > 0:21:05They're going to turn their eyes around the world on London,
0:21:05 > 0:21:09and it is an amazing city. I'm lucky in my job to travel,
0:21:09 > 0:21:12I've been to different cities and World Cups and all kinds of things,
0:21:12 > 0:21:16and the festival atmosphere of an Olympic Games,
0:21:16 > 0:21:19what it does to a city and a country's self-esteem,
0:21:19 > 0:21:23is incredible. You don't have to love sport, you have to love drama,
0:21:23 > 0:21:27passion, enthusiasm, the human spirit
0:21:27 > 0:21:30and the things that make people unique. That's all you have to love.
0:21:30 > 0:21:34And people who say "I'm going away when the Olympics is on."
0:21:34 > 0:21:38"I'm not watching that. Oh, it's going to be a nightmare."
0:21:38 > 0:21:39It's two weeks, the Olympics.
0:21:39 > 0:21:44I guarantee the most ardent kind of anti-Olympic person
0:21:44 > 0:21:47will be moved when this comes to town, and you will cry
0:21:47 > 0:21:50on an almost daily basis, as somebody triumphs against the odds.
0:21:52 > 0:21:54Blimey!
0:21:54 > 0:21:57Isn't there enough drug abuse in London,
0:21:57 > 0:21:59without bringing in a load of athletes?
0:22:01 > 0:22:04The good thing about the Olympics being in London is that
0:22:04 > 0:22:10when we lose, the runners and whatnot won't have very far to go home.
0:22:12 > 0:22:13Well, I must admit,
0:22:13 > 0:22:19I'm sort of one of the people you're trying to put into Room 101, here.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21I can't get very excited about the Olympics at all.
0:22:21 > 0:22:25The other thing I think, and this is, this is not a joke,
0:22:25 > 0:22:32I hate the logo so much it's put me off the Olympics.
0:22:32 > 0:22:35APPLAUSE
0:22:35 > 0:22:40- I think it really...- It's like the worst jigsaw you've ever seen.
0:22:40 > 0:22:44I think that is just the tiniest part of this Olympic Games...
0:22:44 > 0:22:46I know, but it's everywhere!
0:22:46 > 0:22:50- I could do a better logo than that now.- Oh, you've got one.
0:22:50 > 0:22:55No, I'll do one. I will do a better logo for the Olympics than that.
0:23:04 > 0:23:06LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:23:08 > 0:23:12We beat Paris, Moscow, New York and Madrid for this...
0:23:12 > 0:23:15That's the problem though, that you can't top beating Paris.
0:23:15 > 0:23:19French people crying on the telly, the Olympics can't follow that.
0:23:24 > 0:23:29Anyway, let's see what Gregg Wallace has chosen as his wildcard.
0:23:35 > 0:23:41- Music festivals, and that includes all live music.- What?!
0:23:41 > 0:23:44And I'll tell you what, I know I'm getting old now and I only like
0:23:44 > 0:23:49music by dead people, but I'll tell you why I don't like concerts.
0:23:49 > 0:23:52You go to concerts to listen to music that you like
0:23:52 > 0:23:55by bands who have made songs you like,
0:23:55 > 0:23:58you get there to find half the concert is them playing music
0:23:58 > 0:24:02you've never heard before, cos they want to promote a new album.
0:24:02 > 0:24:05And then they do songs and change them.
0:24:05 > 0:24:09So I went to see Elton John, he had a 15-minute Rocket Man.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12Now, unless there was a bit missing off my LP,
0:24:12 > 0:24:15Rocket Man was about three, three and a half minutes.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17There was a big jazz section in it.
0:24:17 > 0:24:20Now I think, if you go and see a band, you're going to see them
0:24:20 > 0:24:22because you like the music they've done,
0:24:22 > 0:24:24not possibly the music they're going to do,
0:24:24 > 0:24:27and they should just leave their songs alone.
0:24:27 > 0:24:30There's one thing I will say in your, there is,
0:24:30 > 0:24:33occasionally you do see something and you do think to yourself,
0:24:33 > 0:24:38maybe live music just isn't a very good idea after all.
0:24:38 > 0:24:43# My baby's always dancing, And it wouldn't be a bad thing
0:24:43 > 0:24:47# But I don't get no loving, And that's no lie
0:24:47 > 0:24:51# We spent the night in Frisco, At every kind of disco
0:24:51 > 0:24:54# From that night I kissed our love goodbye
0:24:54 > 0:24:59# Don't blame it on the sunshine, Don't blame it on the moonlight
0:24:59 > 0:25:02# Don't blame it on the good times Blame it on the boogie. #
0:25:02 > 0:25:05APPLAUSE
0:25:07 > 0:25:11Do you know, that's actually better than I remember.
0:25:11 > 0:25:14Yes. I thought it was an Elton John gig during a hurricane.
0:25:15 > 0:25:19Well, I have one, cos I feel strongly about this, I feel that
0:25:19 > 0:25:22live music and bands experimenting and that is very important, Gregg.
0:25:22 > 0:25:26I've got one last trump card that I think could win you over.
0:25:26 > 0:25:32You are probably the most famous greengrocer in Britain,
0:25:32 > 0:25:34maybe even in the world, is that true?
0:25:34 > 0:25:38Well, then please welcome the London Vegetable Orchestra.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:25:48 > 0:25:52MUSIC: "Stand By Me" by Ben E. King
0:26:24 > 0:26:27- APPLAUSE - Well done.
0:26:28 > 0:26:30Ohhh, I loved it.
0:26:32 > 0:26:34I loved it.
0:26:34 > 0:26:38I was actually playing a bit of air parsnip.
0:26:38 > 0:26:42Anyway, now apparently the government says you should
0:26:42 > 0:26:45listen to five of their songs a day.
0:26:46 > 0:26:48OK, I'm going to make my choice.
0:26:48 > 0:26:52Well, look, you may have guessed, I'm not going to put live music in,
0:26:52 > 0:26:56it's very, it's very, very crucial to me.
0:26:56 > 0:27:00And, erm...people who, cats who ignore you...
0:27:00 > 0:27:05I think maybe you should get some catnip and everything'll be OK.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08The reason I think I'm going to make this choice, Gabby,
0:27:08 > 0:27:12is because I am one of the people who moan about the Olympics,
0:27:12 > 0:27:15and you know what, I think in a way it's quite bad of me.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18I'm going to change my ways. You were so passionate,
0:27:18 > 0:27:23I am going to put people who moan about the Olympics into Room 101.
0:27:23 > 0:27:25APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:27:31 > 0:27:33And that brings us to the end of the show.
0:27:33 > 0:27:35And so, well done Gabby,
0:27:35 > 0:27:39you've proved to be the most persuasive guest tonight, so you get
0:27:39 > 0:27:43to choose one item to go into Room 101 that's completely unchallenged.
0:27:43 > 0:27:48- What are you going for?- I'm going for shell suits.- Really?- Yes.
0:27:48 > 0:27:52What a shame, I do think, they do say that if you hold a shell suit up
0:27:52 > 0:27:57to your ear, you can hear the roar of the ocean at Southend-on-Sea.
0:27:57 > 0:27:59OK, you have your own way, Gabby.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02I'm going to put shell suits into Room 101.
0:28:02 > 0:28:04APPLAUSE
0:28:05 > 0:28:09In it goes. Thank you very much to Gregg, to Gabby and to Sarah.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11Thank you very much, and playing us out,
0:28:11 > 0:28:13the one and only London Vegetable Orchestra.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:28:16 > 0:28:18MUSIC: "Soul Bossa Nova" by Quincy Jones
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