:00:14. > :00:21.Tonight on the show, the star of Legally Blond. Are you excited by
:00:21. > :00:31.the comedy and music? Are you going to dump in my bag?! Let's start the
:00:31. > :00:41.
:00:41. > :00:48.Hearing CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
:00:48. > :00:53.Wow. Thank you very much. Good evening one. Good evening all.
:00:53. > :00:59.A very warm welcome. You're too kind. Too kind. We have got a
:00:59. > :01:01.fantastic show you tonight from the deep south of America, Reese
:01:02. > :01:09.Witherspoon is with us. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
:01:09. > :01:18.I know! I know! From the deep south of America, smooth talking American,
:01:18. > :01:20.Reginald D Hunter joins us. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
:01:20. > :01:21.From the deep south of Surrey, Doctor Who star, Alex Kingston is
:01:21. > :01:26.here! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
:01:26. > :01:30.Yes! Yes! Plus we have got music from my new favourite band. You may
:01:30. > :01:38.not know them yet, but you will love them. It is The Musgraves,
:01:38. > :01:45.ladies and gentlemen. Alex Kingston is here. She has had
:01:45. > :01:50.a varied career, has had Alex, from ER to where she had an affair with
:01:50. > :01:57.a doctor, to Doctor Who, she is terribly versatile. Alex is about
:01:57. > :02:00.to appear in the new episode of Upstairs, Downstairs. If you
:02:00. > :02:03.imagine Downton Abbey, that's it! Laugh
:02:03. > :02:12.LAUGHTER . It is people doing nothing but
:02:12. > :02:15.having sex upstairs and downstairs. It is a bit like a night bus!
:02:15. > :02:19.LAUGHTER I imagine!
:02:19. > :02:25.So delighted that Reese Witherspoon is joining us again. She is here to
:02:25. > :02:31.tell us about her new film This Means War. But she will always be
:02:31. > :02:37.loved for her role in the brilliant Legally Blond. There she is lying
:02:37. > :02:41.down in a park. In America, quite glamorous. In Britain, less so.
:02:41. > :02:46.Reese starred in Water For Elephants. I know! It was a
:02:46. > :02:49.beautiful film. Reese won't mind me saying, but there was a raunchy sex
:02:49. > :02:56.scene between the two lead characters. Do you want to see it?
:02:56. > :03:02.Do you? Do you? Let's get some guests on.
:03:02. > :03:05.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Later we will behaving music from
:03:05. > :03:12.The Musgraves. But first it is Reginald D Hunter.
:03:12. > :03:20.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Hello, sir. How are you?
:03:20. > :03:30.Sit yourself down. Marvellous. It is Alex Kingston. A vision. A
:03:30. > :03:30.
:03:30. > :03:40.vision. Hello my darling. Mwah. Mwah. And it is Reese Witherspoon.
:03:40. > :03:40.
:03:41. > :03:45.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Mwah. Mwah.
:03:45. > :03:51.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Oh. You are all so welcome. This is
:03:51. > :03:55.very exciting. You are so far away. I am very far
:03:55. > :04:00.from my wine. Don't you think it is fantastic to
:04:00. > :04:07.see an American drinking wine on your show? Because usually they
:04:07. > :04:13.have Coca-Cola and water. You don't see me without the wine!
:04:13. > :04:17.You have earnt a drink. We have fin finished our premiere.
:04:17. > :04:22.I have to check, are you all right? Since the last time you were here,
:04:22. > :04:29.you had an accident? I did. Not a very show business accident,
:04:29. > :04:31.you didn't fall off a horse or anything? Or a wagon!
:04:31. > :04:36.LAUGHTER I got hit by a car. It is not funny.
:04:36. > :04:39.I got hit by a car. Is there a steel hip going on?
:04:40. > :04:48.very hard headed because I landed on my head and that's the only
:04:48. > :04:52.thing. I have a scar right here hence my new hairdo. But yeah, I
:04:52. > :04:57.know, miraculously and thank God, I am fine.
:04:57. > :04:59.Did you have con cushion? I don't remember!
:04:59. > :05:03.LAUGHTER I don't remember much about it.
:05:03. > :05:10.And what happened to the driver? Well, she was 85 and they took away
:05:10. > :05:16.her driver's licence. Oh. But they gave her a bus pass
:05:17. > :05:20.though. LAUGHTER
:05:20. > :05:23.Alex here, you didn't even need a car to get into an accident in the
:05:23. > :05:25.street, did you? No, no, I didn't need a car. I was jetlagged I had
:05:25. > :05:31.just come off a flight and I was working with Irish comedians
:05:31. > :05:36.actually and we were walking down the street and I walked into a lamp
:05:36. > :05:42.post. Irish comedians made you walk into a lamp post?
:05:42. > :05:44.I heard about them drinking a lot, I never heard that. I was a little
:05:45. > :05:54.disorientated because one was extremely tall and the other was
:05:54. > :05:55.extremely short. They do that. They do that.
:05:56. > :05:59.LAUGHTER I was talking and walking and going
:05:59. > :06:02.like that all the time and bonk. A cartoon walk in. I fell back and I
:06:02. > :06:06.was so embarrassed because I thought I would be the butt of the
:06:06. > :06:11.comediennes jokes and I pretended I would be fine and that night I
:06:11. > :06:16.started to feel whoozy and I got up and I said, "I think I'm going to
:06:16. > :06:23.be sick." The next thing I knew, I was being woken up by a doctor on
:06:23. > :06:28.the floor and I had fallen flat on my face and had bitten through my
:06:28. > :06:34.lower lip and knocked my front teeth out. I had to go to the ER.
:06:34. > :06:40.Where they knew you? Where they knew me!
:06:40. > :06:44.You know that girl! Sew that lip up.
:06:45. > :06:50.Now, Reese Witherspoon, you are back and bigger than ever.
:06:50. > :06:55.Fantastic new film. This Means War, it opens on 2nd March.
:06:55. > :06:59.Yes. And it is a film with action?
:06:59. > :07:03.we have a lot of action in this movie. This is my first action
:07:03. > :07:08.movie and I was familiar with the comedy part, but the action part
:07:08. > :07:14.through me a little with the guns and bad guys chasing us. I had to
:07:14. > :07:16.find myself laughing most of the time. This is ridiculous!
:07:16. > :07:19.LAUGHTER Me in an action movie. It is so
:07:19. > :07:22.stupid! LAUGHTER
:07:23. > :07:29.So two guys are after you? Yes. They are CIA agents? Yes.
:07:29. > :07:32.It is a movie! But that allows all this funny stuff to happen? Yes.
:07:32. > :07:38.There are two spies, they are best friends and they are good at what
:07:38. > :07:42.they do and they sort of end up falling in love with the same girl
:07:42. > :07:46.and say, "Let her decide and may the best man win." and in the
:07:46. > :07:49.process they begin to sabotage each other and they are determined to
:07:49. > :07:55.kill each other. What is really clever and I don't
:07:55. > :08:01.know how they do it, but you are dating both guys, but you never
:08:01. > :08:05.come across... Slutty. There. But people in America tend to do
:08:05. > :08:09.much more more double, triple dating, it is a normal thing in
:08:09. > :08:12.America. I heard this.
:08:12. > :08:16.In England we never had that culture. Normally, you just date
:08:16. > :08:20.one person, don't you? Really. Until you break-up and then you
:08:20. > :08:22.date someone else. And then you date another guy and
:08:23. > :08:26.he is real cute. But in America, you seem to have
:08:26. > :08:36.lots on the go at the same time until you make up your mind, is
:08:36. > :08:39.
:08:39. > :08:41.that true? It is the land of the free!
:08:41. > :08:44.LAUGHTER Reginald, you dated in both places,
:08:44. > :08:47.is it true? Which places? LAUGHTER
:08:47. > :08:55.America and here. LAUGHTER
:08:55. > :08:55.LAUGHTER I
:08:55. > :08:56.I don't
:08:56. > :08:56.I don't know
:08:56. > :08:58.I don't know much
:08:58. > :09:00.I don't know much about you, but I a assume you and me both go
:09:00. > :09:10.different places. Yes. You have stopped making an effort when it
:09:10. > :09:15.
:09:15. > :09:18.comes to dating at all? What? LAUGHTER
:09:18. > :09:20.Even when you do have a girlfriend, you don't, it sounds like you don't
:09:20. > :09:22.make much of an effort to flatter them. What? What?
:09:22. > :09:27.LAUGHTER These are all words in your mouth.
:09:27. > :09:31.Is it one of my ex-girlfriends that you are researching? There was that
:09:31. > :09:34.story that you went on holidays with a girlfriend and you were
:09:34. > :09:38.flying home? Yes. Yes, that happened m
:09:38. > :09:46.That doesn't make you sound like the best boyfriend in the world
:09:46. > :09:51.snoovmt it is one -- It is one story. It was just, we was on
:09:51. > :09:56.holiday and her ass had got baked and she was acting she didn't know
:09:56. > :10:01.why. I knew you are supposed to - I didn't even want to say and she
:10:01. > :10:11.knew I had something on my mind that I could say and she made it
:10:11. > :10:16.come down to if, "If you were a man." I said your ass got baked. I
:10:16. > :10:24.like your ass and you act like the airline is engaged in a conspiracy
:10:24. > :10:28.to make the seats tighter. So you told her she had a fat ass? Wait a
:10:28. > :10:31.minute. LAUGHTER
:10:31. > :10:33.I did not go out of my way to do this. I was naive and wanted to
:10:33. > :10:37.have a conversation. She was complaining about the seats on the
:10:37. > :10:47.plane being really small and she did not... You know we are on
:10:47. > :10:48.television right now? I understand that.
:10:48. > :10:55.LAUGHTER Everybody you know is watching this.
:10:55. > :10:59.We are on television, but that doesn't make me not be right!
:10:59. > :11:07.LAUGHTER Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. Alex is not
:11:07. > :11:15.convinced. Don't, just don't look at our asss!
:11:15. > :11:18.You're late, baby. You're late. LAUGHTER
:11:18. > :11:24.It is automatic. It is automatic. We have got a clip of the movie and
:11:24. > :11:28.this is you and your friend played by Chelsea Handler and you are
:11:28. > :11:32.discussing your your options of these men, but because they are CIA
:11:32. > :11:37.agents they are eavesdropping on the whole thing. I will ask you
:11:37. > :11:39.questions about the products. OK. P The people and you will tell
:11:39. > :11:46.me who you like. I don't know. They are both
:11:46. > :11:56.incredible. I have to go home and clean tartar sauce out of Bob's
:11:56. > :11:57.
:11:57. > :12:03.beard. Is there anything bad about them? One has girlie hands. Like
:12:03. > :12:07.little T-rex hands and Tok is British. What is that supposed to
:12:07. > :12:13.me? So I need you to get into decision making mode and I need you
:12:13. > :12:23.to do it quickly. You know what I need? I need a deadline. I am going
:12:23. > :12:28.
:12:28. > :12:30.to give myself an amount of time to make this decision. One week.
:12:30. > :12:34.APPLAUSE Reese, you are happily married, you
:12:34. > :12:38.are all loved up. You You finally went on your honeymoon? Yes.
:12:38. > :12:43.You were just working, you couldn't get the time? I was working and I
:12:43. > :12:47.couldn't get the time. Did he go to a lot of trouble to
:12:47. > :12:56.get you in terms of trouble that guys go to, I am not asking too
:12:56. > :13:02.personal a question. Really? No, he pursued me. He was very sweet and
:13:02. > :13:05.sent lots of flowers and went to nice restaurants and things. We
:13:05. > :13:12.haven't seem to be going too lately!
:13:12. > :13:18.Have you ever pursued anyone out of curiosity? Like pursued a man? Well,
:13:18. > :13:23.not really - I mean, if I saw a guy and I thought he was cute I would
:13:23. > :13:25.let a friend of his knows. So you would let him know that you
:13:25. > :13:35.could pursue -- that he could pursue you.
:13:35. > :13:42.
:13:42. > :13:44.But I am not calling him. No. That sounds very empowering.
:13:44. > :13:46.LAUGHTER And now, you live in this beautiful
:13:46. > :13:49.home in California and you talked to us about your mennagery, you
:13:49. > :13:53.have got two donkeys? I have got two donkeys, no, just two. I
:13:53. > :14:03.thought they said said three. They were just cheering the idea of
:14:03. > :14:06.
:14:06. > :14:07.you having donkeys. Some people like ass!
:14:07. > :14:14.APPLAUSE We found a lovely picture of you
:14:14. > :14:21.and your family. Is it Disneyland, Disney World, it is Flash Mountain.
:14:21. > :14:25.Yeah, that's us. There you were a the top with your
:14:25. > :14:31.hair a-go-go. Your daughter is you. She is the spitting image of you.
:14:31. > :14:33.She is adorable. LAUGHTER
:14:33. > :14:38.Loads of people have these pictures. We asked people in the audience do
:14:38. > :14:43.they have pictures of themselves on rollercoasters and rides and my
:14:43. > :14:48.favourite is this one. It It comes from a lady called Jackie. Where is
:14:48. > :14:51.Jackie? There is Jackie. Hi. Where was this Jacqui? Chessington World
:14:51. > :14:57.of Adventures. Lovely. Who is in the boat with
:14:57. > :15:03.you? My husband, my daughter and my son. OK. Now I'm glad you say it is
:15:03. > :15:13.your husband because fear can make people react in different ways. So
:15:13. > :15:23.
:15:23. > :15:24.this is how Jackie's house dealt with his fear.
:15:24. > :15:27.LAUGHTER Actually, on the web, on the web,
:15:27. > :15:34.we found some good examples of the rides. OK, look at this child. He
:15:34. > :15:38.will be traumatised for life. LAUGHTER
:15:38. > :15:48.The wind must not change! Oh this is a mother and daughter. I
:15:48. > :15:51.
:15:51. > :15:54.am not sure who is more frightened! LAUGHTER
:15:54. > :15:58.Isn't it funny that we pay to do it. We pay to be this scared. You know
:15:58. > :16:00.the way when you are going really fast and you go up and down and
:16:01. > :16:10.sometimes when you are really frightened you think, "I am so
:16:11. > :16:25.
:16:25. > :16:25.LAUGHTER APPLAUSE
:16:25. > :16:25.APPLAUSE That's
:16:25. > :16:25.That's a
:16:26. > :16:26.That's a really
:16:26. > :16:29.That's a really unfortunate
:16:29. > :16:33.That's a really unfortunate ride! I want my money back!
:16:33. > :16:41.Now, Alex Kingston, I follow your career with interest. I am glad you
:16:41. > :16:50.are back on television in Upstairs, Downstairs. No, we love Upstairs,
:16:50. > :16:54.Downstairs. Who do you play? I play the step sister of Eileen Atkins
:16:54. > :16:59.character, Lady Mulholland who has just died and I join the household.
:16:59. > :17:05.I am a mysterious lady, you don't know who she is or what what she is
:17:05. > :17:09.about, but she is an adventure ess in that classic style of women at
:17:09. > :17:14.those times, they are not married and they have been to university
:17:14. > :17:18.and she is going off, she is an archaeologist, she has been living
:17:18. > :17:22.in North Africa and quite free, quite modern compared to the rest
:17:22. > :17:27.of the household. In the press conference... Yes.
:17:27. > :17:33.Am I right in thinking they revealed that she is a period
:17:33. > :17:36.lesbian? Well, let's just say she lives upstairs, but she goes down
:17:36. > :17:38.town! LAUGHTER
:17:38. > :17:45.I hear you! LAUGHTER
:17:45. > :17:51.Yes. And this time it is during the war? It is on the eve of the Second
:17:51. > :17:55.World War. This series is 1938 so it is just before the outbreak of
:17:55. > :18:01.the Second World War. It is on Sunday, 19th February?
:18:01. > :18:09.How many episodes? Six. There is more. We have a little
:18:09. > :18:13.clip. This is an exotic visitor. was established in the house. He
:18:13. > :18:17.was Eileen Atkins man servant and he stayed in the house, but yes,
:18:17. > :18:27.quite an interesting, exotic character.
:18:27. > :18:28.
:18:28. > :18:35.They may regret inviting him to Excuse me. This is a domestic
:18:35. > :18:39.garden and there are adjacent residences.
:18:39. > :18:46.I do not consider your actions to be safe. And you know all about
:18:46. > :18:49.safety, wouldn't you? Give that gun to me. Your husband charged me with
:18:49. > :18:59.this. Well, he isn't here and you are
:18:59. > :18:59.
:18:59. > :19:04.provoking a disturbance. Do as Lady Lady Agnus says and give her the
:19:04. > :19:08.gun. Forgive me if I was overzealous.
:19:08. > :19:13.have twice had occasion to fire one in the past. The spectacle has
:19:13. > :19:23.concluded and since we are in England, I suggest you make some
:19:23. > :19:38.
:19:38. > :19:40.Can I tell you when we were shooting that scene, I sort of felt
:19:40. > :19:44.terribly confident because I had shot a gun and I thought I knew
:19:44. > :19:46.what I was doing and I grabbed the gun and I was doing all this, "I
:19:46. > :19:49.know what I am doing." The entire cast was... I was just pointing the
:19:49. > :19:53.gun wherever and the master of arms he was like, "No, you don't do
:19:53. > :19:56.that." I hadn't got a clue what I was doing. But don't I look like a
:19:56. > :20:02.lesbian? LAUGHTER
:20:02. > :20:12.Reese, you have done the English dramas as well? Vanity Fair. And
:20:12. > :20:13.
:20:13. > :20:19.the Importance of Being Earnest? The Importance of Being Earnest was
:20:19. > :20:24.my first one here. I was 22 years old and I just had a baby and I was
:20:24. > :20:29.terrified and I came over here early for three months and I
:20:29. > :20:38.trained with my dialect coach and they told me I was going to do my
:20:38. > :20:48.scene with Judi Dench., "Just Shoot me now.". Were you a bit shy to
:20:48. > :20:55.
:20:55. > :20:56.begin with? He at first. She was like, "Speak up, I can't hear you."
:20:56. > :20:59.LAUGHTER You know that thing when you mumble
:20:59. > :21:01.and you think, "Nobody is really hearing me.". Did you find the
:21:01. > :21:04.English accent easy? Not easy, but not terribly hard only because I
:21:04. > :21:07.had to spend time losing my southern accent and I had practise
:21:07. > :21:11.to change my dialect. Do you have a favourite phrase?
:21:11. > :21:14.course, you can. LAUGHTER
:21:14. > :21:20.I just like it when people say that. Can I have that? Course you can.
:21:21. > :21:24.you find when you get angry, you revert back to southern? Yes, I
:21:24. > :21:34.become a junkyard dog. Talking of posh, Reese, you are
:21:34. > :21:38.
:21:38. > :21:41.quite posh, reason you? Me? Yeah. LAUGHTER
:21:41. > :21:42.Wait a minute, I heard you were some sort of American aristocracy,
:21:42. > :21:44.didn't one of your forefathers sign the declaration.
:21:44. > :21:54.Yes, one of my forefathers signed the declaration of independence.
:21:54. > :21:55.
:21:55. > :22:00.That is quite posh? You should see where we live.
:22:00. > :22:06.You like the Royal Family? watched the Royal Wedding.
:22:06. > :22:12.Did you really cry? Hungover, I don't know. Praying for Loose Women
:22:12. > :22:19.to come on. When will it end? But you got to meet them? I did,
:22:19. > :22:24.yeah. They came to Los Angeles to raise money for a charity that
:22:24. > :22:29.helps animals in Africa so I got to meet them at a private reception.
:22:30. > :22:36.I think we have got a picture of you and Kate. No, it is a nice
:22:36. > :22:43.picture. I am so excited. Did you show them your donkeys?
:22:43. > :22:47.Kate good at it? She is new to it all? She was lovely and funny. She
:22:47. > :22:52.said really sweet girlie things. I don't know, I think she is handling
:22:52. > :22:57.herself beautifully. You have to remember, we are American and we
:22:57. > :23:03.wouldn't really know the difference!
:23:03. > :23:11.Oh dear. One thing - I met Alex a lot on the show. One thing I didn't
:23:12. > :23:16.know about you, you started life as a life model? Yes. Yes, I did. I
:23:16. > :23:20.started modelling for my mum's adult education class and I was
:23:20. > :23:30.about... LAUGHTER
:23:30. > :23:32.
:23:32. > :23:34.That sounds really wrong. LAUGHTER
:23:34. > :23:36.And then basically yes, this is all through my student days and even
:23:36. > :23:39.beyond I would supplement by modelling for artists.
:23:39. > :23:43.It sounds quite dodgy. Didn't you have to do dancing while you were
:23:43. > :23:50.doing the nude modelling? There was one particular artist whose name
:23:50. > :23:53.was Cecil Collins and he was a wonderful old, fantastic artist
:23:53. > :23:57.artist actually and he had a record player and he would put on music
:23:57. > :24:00.and it was a bit like freeze dance and I would then move and he would
:24:01. > :24:10.stop the music and I would have to freeze in the pose, but it wasn't
:24:11. > :24:13.
:24:13. > :24:15.always music. Sometimes he would have records of wind.
:24:15. > :24:18.LAUGHTER Or stormy seas or something and I
:24:18. > :24:22.would be a stormy sea. You would do interpretive dance?
:24:22. > :24:27.would interpretive dance naked. LAUGHTER
:24:27. > :24:30.Yeah. Feel free to interpret.
:24:30. > :24:34.And then, you know, he would stop and then he would say 30 seconds
:24:34. > :24:36.and they would have to do it and I would have to do another pose and
:24:37. > :24:40.whatever and yeah, that's what I did.
:24:40. > :24:46.It sounds fun. Can I tell you, it was very freeing.
:24:46. > :24:50.It really was. I felt empowered. And you never hit a pose and said,
:24:50. > :24:57."Darn it, I wish I hadn't.". Do you know sometimes I questioned the
:24:57. > :25:01.choice of when the music would stop. LAUGHTER
:25:01. > :25:06.There was nothing I could do about She took her modelling one step
:25:06. > :25:16.further and turned it into a dramatic thing... What are you
:25:16. > :25:17.
:25:17. > :25:20.doing? Alex Kingston was the star of My Guy Magazine. These have so
:25:20. > :25:24.stood the test of time. These are difficult because they are photo
:25:24. > :25:29.stories. I don't know if you are familiar with this. It is photo
:25:29. > :25:34.stories and she poses and and there is little dialogue buttons. There
:25:34. > :25:39.is Alex and she is doing so much acting there. An awful lot of
:25:39. > :25:47.acting. She has the flowers and the pose. I'm acting, I'm I'm acting.
:25:47. > :25:52.What could she be thinking? It is hard to guess. What she is actually
:25:52. > :25:57.thinking, "Damn it, it was probably the lec pris board and I have --
:25:57. > :25:59.electricity board and I've probably missed them." I didn't see that
:25:59. > :26:02.coming! LAUGHTER
:26:02. > :26:08.You are so mean. You do very good fear, I think you
:26:08. > :26:10.will agree, ladies and gentlemen. LAUGHTER
:26:11. > :26:16.And then the story concludes in a later episode. Yes, there is about
:26:16. > :26:20.four or five episodes of this and this is the last one. So doesn't
:26:20. > :26:25.she look worried here ladies and gentlemen, something awful is going
:26:25. > :26:32.to happen. "but if that's the man from the electricity board, then
:26:32. > :26:40.who is done stairs? It -- downstairs? It must be the killer.".
:26:40. > :26:45.I got into RADA on that. Here is a familiar face. Look
:26:45. > :26:50.everyone, it is George Michael. It really is George Michael. No,
:26:51. > :26:54.seriously that is Gorge Michael. What does it say, "It will be just
:26:54. > :27:04.like old times, going out every night chasing girls."
:27:04. > :27:11.
:27:11. > :27:14.Sweet. APPLAUSE
:27:14. > :27:16.Now, moving on because Reginald D Hunter you were on tour, but thanks
:27:16. > :27:20.to popular popular tour, you are back on tour. There are extra dates.
:27:20. > :27:28.When does it run up to now? March.
:27:28. > :27:33.It is called Sometimes The Devil Tells The Truth. There is a DVD.
:27:33. > :27:37.You are a perfect host. I am going to show a clip. That's
:27:37. > :27:42.him talking there. Had is him talk there.
:27:42. > :27:48.Oh man, I was back in Georgia recently. I was there. My family
:27:48. > :27:52.friends, when I got there, the first thing they do, especially
:27:52. > :27:57.ones that haven't seen me for a long while. The first thing they
:27:57. > :28:07.want to do is ask me about Britain. There is a lot of white people, a
:28:07. > :28:11.
:28:11. > :28:12.lot of height, I say, "Man this is where they make white people, man."
:28:12. > :28:22.LAUGHTER It is like white people's Africa
:28:22. > :28:33.
:28:33. > :28:39.Africa. LAUGHTER
:28:39. > :28:49.Are you a complete angaphile? not sure what that means.
:28:49. > :28:51.
:28:51. > :29:01.A lover of England. Unless all ang glows come from England.
:29:01. > :29:03.
:29:03. > :29:05.-- angloes come from England. I am fond of white people.
:29:05. > :29:08.APPLAUSE Do you spend any time in the States
:29:08. > :29:11.now, do you go back at all? I just got back. I go for Christmas now
:29:11. > :29:14.usually and catch up to them and let them tell me what they think
:29:14. > :29:18.about what I'm doing and what I'm saying.
:29:18. > :29:23.Don't you prefer Christmas here though because it is cold and
:29:23. > :29:29.Christmas in America is a bit strange, well in LA? What? Isn't
:29:29. > :29:33.it? We have Christmas in America! I know! You need to be somewhere
:29:33. > :29:35.cold for Christmas. We have got cold places in America
:29:35. > :29:42.too. But you are from the south, it is
:29:42. > :29:49.not cold in the south. It does get cold, yes. Like snowy?
:29:49. > :29:59.Once every ten years. We have about four cold days in a row usually and
:29:59. > :30:03.
:30:03. > :30:04.that's, you know, thick, cold. And what do you eat?
:30:04. > :30:09.LAUGHTER What answer are you looking for
:30:09. > :30:13.here? LAUGHTER
:30:13. > :30:14.I mean like do you have turkey? we do.
:30:14. > :30:19.LAUGHTER Yes, we do have turkey.
:30:19. > :30:27.They love a turkey. You have to remember that pilgrims
:30:27. > :30:29.who were Anglo-Saxon... LAUGHTER
:30:29. > :30:34.From England, white people, they came to Georgia too. They spray it
:30:34. > :30:39.and just, and a lot of them have Scottish in them too, they brought
:30:39. > :30:46.the traditions and stuff, yeah, they got Indians to eat turkey and
:30:46. > :30:50.they got black folks to eat turkey. Well, I mean we didn't get the
:30:50. > :30:55.finest kits. LAUGHTER
:30:55. > :30:57.Yeah, yeah, yeah, we eat turkey. LAUGHTER
:30:57. > :31:07.What do you eat at Christmas? turkey.
:31:07. > :31:12.Do you eat cranberry sauce? Macaroni sauce and potato salad?
:31:12. > :31:20.Now that's American. You have some sort of thing, you
:31:20. > :31:27.call it pea Tayto salad - potato salad, but there is green stuff on
:31:27. > :31:36.the top and and marshmallows. There is a green bit on the top that is
:31:36. > :31:38.like... Somebody was feeding you something funny.
:31:38. > :31:48.APPLAUSE That was mould.
:31:48. > :31:54.
:31:54. > :31:55.They were trying to impress you. They put green shi t in it!
:31:55. > :32:01.LAUGHTER LA has a culture shock for anyone.
:32:02. > :32:05.You must have found it when you went over for ER? Yes.
:32:05. > :32:12.That must have been an odd experience? It took me a long time
:32:12. > :32:16.to get settled actually. I actually did feel very lost actually
:32:16. > :32:20.initially and, but after a while then it sort of settled in. And I
:32:20. > :32:30.bought myself a, what the English people - you think we are all
:32:30. > :32:52.
:32:52. > :32:54.terribly proper, but when an English person goes... Uptight.
:32:54. > :32:57.LAUGHTER But when an English person goes to
:32:57. > :33:00.LA in particular, the first thing that an English person wants to do
:33:00. > :33:02.is get a convertible or get a big old retro car or something so of
:33:02. > :33:05.course, I got a 1970 elder rad owe cadillac... A pimp mobile.
:33:05. > :33:07.And that's what I kind of drove around and I thought I was super
:33:07. > :33:10.cool except she kept breaking down all the time.
:33:10. > :33:15.I have just come back from LA, there is lovely weather. If a man
:33:15. > :33:19.or woman come up to you and they are friendly, engaging and
:33:19. > :33:27.attractive, and they are really interested in you, they are
:33:27. > :33:32.networking. Several time timesI was talking to ladies, a beautiful lady
:33:32. > :33:36.strikes up conversation with you, "Your card.". When Americans come
:33:36. > :33:39.here and sit on the Tube, the Underground, because Americans are
:33:39. > :33:46.friendly and when they are friendly on the Tube with English people,
:33:46. > :33:50.the English people just go, "What do they want from me?" Americans
:33:50. > :33:54.don't have any compulsion about going, "I heard a lot about you. I
:33:54. > :34:00.want to pick your brain." If you say that to the average English
:34:00. > :34:05.person, they would be like, "I think not.". You seem so American,
:34:05. > :34:10.but you found LA a bit of a shock, coming from the south, didn't you?
:34:10. > :34:15.Yeah. I had never really been to LA until I was 14 years old.
:34:15. > :34:22.Did you find them rude? Yes. Or did they think you were polite?
:34:22. > :34:26.I had to say, yes, mam and no, sir. I had to call everybody Mrs Adams
:34:26. > :34:31.or Mr Smith. I wasn't used to it when, you know, everybody was sort
:34:31. > :34:34.of calling each other. I don't know, there was no revance for your
:34:34. > :34:40.elders. Do you carry on the tradition with
:34:40. > :34:45.your own children now? Well, I try, but it's, it's a huge task trying
:34:45. > :34:55.to get those task. They will say please and thank you, but mam and
:34:55. > :34:59.
:34:59. > :35:02.sir has gone... My mother used to punch me in the face...
:35:02. > :35:07.LAUGHTER Well, what a top tip!
:35:07. > :35:13.Lovely talking to everyone tonight. It is time for some music. Before
:35:13. > :35:20.we hear tonight's stories in the red red chair. I want to introduce
:35:20. > :35:29.you to one of my favourite bands. Performing their single The Last Of
:35:29. > :35:36.# She got the last, # She got the last, last, last of
:35:36. > :35:39.# She got the last, # She got the last, last, last of
:35:39. > :35:42.# If you could peel my heart, # Pull back the folds of sorrow,
:35:42. > :35:45.# You'll see there's nothing left to see.
:35:45. > :35:49.# But take a closer look and you'll find her faint, faint footprints
:35:49. > :35:57.taking the final piece of me. # Cause when you're too in love you
:35:57. > :36:06.cannot see the edge. # There is no danger in giving her
:36:06. > :36:11.want she asks for. # She got the last,
:36:11. > :36:17.# She got the last, last, last of # She got the last,
:36:17. > :36:23.# She got the last, last, last of # She took it all she took it all.
:36:23. > :36:33.# She got the last, # She got the last, last, last of
:36:33. > :36:48.
:36:48. > :36:51.# What can I offer you? # No it's not fair to see the days
:36:51. > :36:53.energy you give me when you get nothing for yourself.
:36:53. > :36:59.# But I was too in love to notice anything.
:36:59. > :37:02.# I saw no danger in giving her what she asked for.
:37:02. > :37:04.# She got the last, she got the last, she got the last, last, last
:37:04. > :37:14.of me. # She got the last,
:37:14. > :37:18.
:37:18. > :37:21.# She got the last, last, last of # She took it all, she took it all.
:37:21. > :37:28.# She took it all she took it all. # She got the last,
:37:28. > :37:36.# She got the last, last, last of # Oh she sunk her claws in me,
:37:36. > :37:39.# And drew my blood so secretly, # But she was nothing but a liar,
:37:39. > :37:46.# Closer to a vampire, vampire, vampire, vampire, vampire.
:37:46. > :37:53.# She got the last, # She got the last, last, last of
:37:53. > :38:03.# She got the last, # She got the last, last, last of
:38:03. > :38:04.
:38:04. > :38:07.# She took it all she took it all. # She took it all, she took it all.
:38:07. > :38:09.# She got the last, she got the last, she got the last, last, last
:38:09. > :38:13.of me. # She got the last,
:38:13. > :38:16.# She got the last of me. # She took it all from me.
:38:16. > :38:26.# She got the last of me. # She took it all from me.
:38:26. > :38:35.
:38:35. > :38:38.# She got the last of me. The Musgraves.
:38:38. > :38:43.Come over here. Come and join us. Hello, sir.
:38:43. > :38:48.Hello. Come and sit down. There is
:38:48. > :38:58.Reginald and Alex and it is all very lovely.
:38:58. > :39:01.
:39:01. > :39:04.There you go. Sit yourself down, sir. Oh, we liked that, didn't we?
:39:04. > :39:08.Matthew Bennett, you are representing The Musgraves?
:39:08. > :39:16.best I can. Now, you poor things because the
:39:16. > :39:22.lord give giveth and the lord taketh away.
:39:22. > :39:28.This is the first time on TV, I had a good night's sleep and six owe
:39:28. > :39:35.o'clock in the morning, it is the drummer, "Have I overslept? The van
:39:35. > :39:42.has been nicked. All our clothes, all our stuff. I mean look at this.
:39:42. > :39:48.That's proof. It has definitely been stolen when you see that.
:39:48. > :39:53.The Musgraves CD is out now. Please, buy more than one.
:39:53. > :39:57.It is like a read live Band Aid, but we get all the money!
:39:58. > :40:02.Listen, I hope 2012 will be brilliant for you. Everyone just
:40:02. > :40:10.buy loads. Just so you know, Oprah would give
:40:10. > :40:13.him a house! APPLAUSE
:40:13. > :40:15.OK, before we we go tonight, just in time for a story in the red
:40:15. > :40:25.chair. Who is up first? Who is up first? Hello.
:40:25. > :40:30.
:40:30. > :40:32.Hi, what's your name? Ayah. LAUGHTER
:40:33. > :40:39.That sounds like something you would say stalling for time!
:40:39. > :40:49.It is like pulling letters out of a Scrabble bag. Tas high score, but I
:40:49. > :40:50.
:40:50. > :41:00.am not sure? What is your surname? Vandabush.
:41:00. > :41:02.
:41:02. > :41:05.Show won the name Lottery, didn't she? I have a wonderful bush!
:41:05. > :41:15.OK, I am sorry, we are just laughing at you!
:41:15. > :41:19.
:41:19. > :41:28.And that's not right. Do you come from a a large family of Vandabush,
:41:28. > :41:38.are there many of you you? No, just my dad's side. My mum is not one
:41:38. > :41:42.
:41:42. > :41:50.any more. Vandabush.
:41:50. > :41:55.It sounds like a Swedish porn name. OK. OK. Off you go with your story.
:41:55. > :42:01.OK, I was in Belgium with my boyfriend at the time and his
:42:01. > :42:06.parents and we had such a lovely time that his parents invited me to
:42:06. > :42:11.stay, me and my boyfriend to stay with them at the hotel which
:42:11. > :42:16.meant... Wait a minute, this is as dodgy as it sounds?
:42:16. > :42:26.It gets worse. Oh no!
:42:26. > :42:26.
:42:26. > :42:31.And yeah, we ended up sharing a king sized bed... What? What?
:42:31. > :42:35.my boyfriend and his mum and his dad and my boyfriend obviously in
:42:35. > :42:45.the middle of the night didn't feel comfortable sleeping between me and
:42:45. > :42:55.
:42:55. > :42:58.his mum. LAUGHTER
:42:58. > :43:00.And he woke me up and got up and pushed me towards his mum and I
:43:00. > :43:03.suddenly woke up hearing someone saying, "Aya, Aya, David is on the
:43:03. > :43:08.other side." It turned out I was making up with his mum.
:43:08. > :43:13.LAUGHTER That was so wrong.
:43:13. > :43:20.If you would like to join me in the red chair, go to our website at
:43:20. > :43:24.this very address. Thank you to my guests the night, The Musgraves,
:43:24. > :43:34.Reginald D Hunter, Alex Kingston and and Reese Witherspoon.
:43:34. > :43:36.