:00:09. > :00:14.Tonight, I have Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson and I'm in the middle of
:00:14. > :00:21.Victorian London. It is a real pea- souper! LAUGHTER In the fog, I can
:00:21. > :00:31.hear the bells of Old London Town. AUDIENCE: Ding dong. I can hear the
:00:31. > :00:32.
:00:32. > :00:42.barges on the Thames. AUDIENCE: FOGHORN Hello, love, I
:00:42. > :00:48.
:00:48. > :00:58.would do anything for a quid! APPLAUSE
:00:58. > :01:01.Oh. Oh! Thank you very much. Good evening. Good evening. Welcome all.
:01:01. > :01:09.We've got a great show for you tonight. Star of the new Sherlock
:01:09. > :01:15.Holmes film, Hollywood megastar, Robert Downey Jr is here. APPLAUSE
:01:15. > :01:21.And Dr Watson, the Oscar-nominated Jude Law is here! APPLAUSE
:01:21. > :01:29.Glamorous Strictly judge Alesha Dixon is here. APPLAUSE Globe-
:01:29. > :01:35.trotting comedy superstar Eddie Izzard is here! APPLAUSE Plus we'll
:01:35. > :01:43.be having music from the wonderful Rebecca Ferguson. APPLAUSE
:01:43. > :01:46.Beautiful. Loving her album. She shot to fame on last year's X
:01:46. > :01:50.Factor and, on Sunday, it was announced that the winner of this
:01:50. > :01:53.year's X Factor was No, it's gone already! I can only apologise.
:01:53. > :01:57.We've managed to grab Alesha Dixon just before tomorrow's Strictly
:01:57. > :02:07.Final. All of this year's stars are up in Blackpool for the big event.
:02:07. > :02:07.
:02:07. > :02:10.Here's Russell Grant arriving. Delighted to welcome back Eddie
:02:10. > :02:14.Izzard. Eddie has become a fitness fanatic after his astonishing
:02:14. > :02:24.marathon running for Sport Relief. Everywhere he went he was greeted
:02:24. > :02:31.by cheering crowds. Well, not there. Surely somewhere? Found two! So
:02:31. > :02:36.pleased to have Robert and Jude here.
:02:36. > :02:40.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE I know! They can't hear you. They're going to be
:02:40. > :02:46.joining us direct from the premiere of their new Sherlock Holmes movie.
:02:46. > :02:51.I love all those stories. My favourite was where Holmes gets
:02:51. > :03:01.held hostage by a mad man. Do we have a picture of Holmes being held
:03:01. > :03:03.
:03:03. > :03:10.hostage by a mad man? There we go. LAUGHTER Run, Holmes, run! Later on
:03:10. > :03:20.we will be having music from Rebecca Ferguson. First, Eddie
:03:20. > :03:27.
:03:27. > :03:36.Izzard. APPLAUSE And she's all- singing, she's all-dancing, it's
:03:36. > :03:46.Alesha Dixon! Sit yourself down. How lovely to see you all. Nice to
:03:46. > :03:51.
:03:51. > :03:56.see you. Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law are on their way. Are you
:03:56. > :04:01.managing to stay awake? I'm all right. I haven't done quite one of
:04:01. > :04:07.these 23 hours and then do a show! Good for you. You say good for him,
:04:07. > :04:12.it is fine now. LAUGHTER He will be drooling on your shoulder later!
:04:12. > :04:19.You can use my hair as a cushion. What's been going on since I have
:04:19. > :04:23.been away? When did you leave? year ago! Oh! LAUGHTER Did you know
:04:23. > :04:28.Kate and Wills got married? they in Strictly Come Dancing?
:04:28. > :04:32.would be a good booking. I'm not into Royalty, but well done to them.
:04:32. > :04:39.I like the fact they had a split and got back together. It means it
:04:39. > :04:47.is real. As opposed to arranged by people with hair! You know down the
:04:47. > :04:53.years it has been arranged. The Duke of so-and-so will marry the
:04:53. > :04:58.Earl of what's it. As a woman, you wouldn't have let your sister wear
:04:58. > :05:04.that dress, would you? I would! wouldn't. I would. It is your
:05:04. > :05:09.special day, you would have gone, "No!" I'm going to say something -
:05:09. > :05:16.listen. I will be really honest now. I thought Pippa looked amazing. I
:05:16. > :05:23.don't understand what the fuss is over the bum! APPLAUSE Because I...
:05:23. > :05:28.It is like a backlash! No, I love bums. I wish I could have a bum!
:05:28. > :05:35.She looked lovely. Beautiful. But she didn't have a bum that made me
:05:35. > :05:44.go, "I want Pippa's bum!" Honestly. It was the Royal Wedding, Alesha.
:05:44. > :05:50.LAUGHTER The arse on her! LAUGHTER Yeah, but there were a lot of
:05:50. > :05:57.people saying that. That is why her bum became the big story. I missed
:05:57. > :06:03.the wedding. A lot of things I have missed. Did she do a bum-centric
:06:03. > :06:09.move? No. She had a gown that revealed her bum... She didn't have
:06:09. > :06:19.to pick up something off the floor? She did. Kate was walking like that.
:06:19. > :06:23.
:06:23. > :06:27.And then Pippa would do a... she didn't! APPLAUSE Just that...
:06:27. > :06:33.Listen, tomorrow night is a very exciting night in the world of
:06:33. > :06:37.Strictly. Yes. Barring shocks, who will win? I think it will be
:06:37. > :06:42.between Harry or Chelsee. Yes? Chelsee is a brilliant dancer. A
:06:42. > :06:48.lot of the women have a soft spot for Harry. CHEERING There you go.
:06:48. > :06:53.You haven't seen any of it? I know that people... Catch up! I know
:06:53. > :06:59.people dance. Yes. And there are two of them. Yes. Yes. That's -
:06:59. > :07:06.it's - I have no idea. LAUGHTER There should be someone dying, I
:07:06. > :07:09.feel. No! Strictly Come Leg Break or something! The ultimate fighter
:07:09. > :07:14.and they put ultimate fighter and Strictly Come Dancing. Strictly
:07:14. > :07:22.Come Dancing Come Cage Fighting! That is a good idea. That is good.
:07:22. > :07:27.I would be watching. It's been a mad series, so - a friend of the
:07:27. > :07:30.show - Nancy Dell'Olio... LAUGHTER She was going to... I wish I had
:07:30. > :07:36.seen that. So many people have said when she was a guest on the show.
:07:36. > :07:45.You couldn't work out what she did. She doesn't know! She is a lawyer!
:07:45. > :07:49.She was going to sue you? Well, apparently. What? What happened?
:07:50. > :07:53.LAUGHTER Alesha suggested... I was commenting on her dance, she was
:07:53. > :07:57.dancing the rumba. In the rumba you should have your knees together. I
:07:57. > :08:01.said her knees were too far apart and it wasn't particularly feminine.
:08:01. > :08:10.At the end, I did say she should have stayed in the coffin but that
:08:10. > :08:14.was a joke! APPLAUSE We have a picture of her. I was joking! With
:08:14. > :08:24.the judges, it is never personal. When she said she was going to sue
:08:24. > :08:30.me, I thought this is a dancing competition! In a coffin! LAUGHTER
:08:30. > :08:36.What was she thinking? This will go well?! LAUGHTER The choreographer
:08:36. > :08:39.has put me in a coffin! I know. I know. Not a good look. I didn't
:08:39. > :08:44.realise she started in a coffin, I thought that was a phrase - she
:08:44. > :08:49.should have stayed in the coffin! That night at Wembley was genius.
:08:49. > :08:53.It was wicked. It was a great atmosphere. It was amazing.
:08:53. > :09:02.haven't seen the show. I am looking forward to you seeing this picture.
:09:02. > :09:09.Feast your eyes on Russell Grant in a cannon! LAUGHTER It's a dancing
:09:09. > :09:15.competition. This is Strictly Come Blow Yourself Out Of A Cannon! What
:09:15. > :09:21.are the producers doing, we are going to up the game and shoot
:09:21. > :09:25.people out of cannons. It doesn't matter how many Strictly Come
:09:25. > :09:29.Dancings go by, you will always remember the crazy moments. You are
:09:29. > :09:35.- you are the most successful contestant of all time. According
:09:35. > :09:41.to? The number of tens? OK. That is nice to know. You knew that!
:09:41. > :09:46.didn't. You did! I didn't. You told me backstage. I didn't! She was in
:09:46. > :09:53.make-up, don't forget to tell them I got more tens than anybody else.
:09:53. > :09:58.She did. She didn't! I hope I hold the record, though. Because you
:09:58. > :10:02.were a controversial booking for the thing, has that blown over now?
:10:02. > :10:06.Definitely. It's been three years. Three incredibly successful series
:10:06. > :10:12.of the show. With anything like that, you have to understand that
:10:12. > :10:16.there will be a storm, but you have to weather it. Weren't there people
:10:16. > :10:19.outside your house? It was very intrusive. If you are going to be
:10:19. > :10:23.in this industry, you have to accept that things don't always go
:10:23. > :10:27.your way. You are a judge on a dancing competition? Of course. In
:10:27. > :10:31.hindsight, that is what got me through it. You have to keep a
:10:31. > :10:37.clear perspective on things and like you say, it is just a dance
:10:37. > :10:42.show. Nobody died. LAUGHTER So you have to be positive and look at the
:10:42. > :10:46.bigger picture and what is really important in life. Knife fights, I
:10:46. > :10:50.have said... LAUGHTER It will bring the element of danger and
:10:51. > :10:54.violence... I'm worried now. following through on a line here.
:10:54. > :11:01.Eddie, you are back from Australia, that makes you tired. On top of
:11:01. > :11:06.that, you are training again? we should train forever. We are all
:11:06. > :11:10.hunter-gathers. These bodies were designed. Some of us were probably
:11:10. > :11:15.waiters and hopers hoping that food would run into our mouths. We all
:11:15. > :11:20.need to go out and try and find that kind of sandwich. LAUGHTER
:11:20. > :11:25.now we don't. For the last 2,000 years, we have been saying, "Let's
:11:25. > :11:31.watch telly and eat pizza." We have to be out there. That is why I am
:11:31. > :11:38.doing barefoot running. Like... Forest Gump. Isn't running bad
:11:38. > :11:44.enough? It is not Forest Gump. He didn't know why he was running.
:11:44. > :11:49.didn't have a spiritual level? had a chocolate box level! LAUGHTER
:11:50. > :11:55.I knew why I was running. It is healthy... Let's remind everyone
:11:55. > :12:03.because, listen to this, Sports Relief, you did how many marathons?
:12:03. > :12:09.43. In how many days? 51. Wow! Wait, by doing that, Eddie raised almost
:12:09. > :12:14.�3 million. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Incredible.
:12:14. > :12:17.It wasn't �3 million, it was only �1.8 million. I got told by
:12:17. > :12:24.somebody who knows what you did is physically impossible and that
:12:24. > :12:28.experts should poke you with a stick. Well, there was an
:12:28. > :12:33.interesting point. After I did two, I thought I could stop now and I
:12:33. > :12:37.could dine out on the story. Yes, I once ran two marathons in two days.
:12:37. > :12:45.I could have done that. Then it went to three, four. After 15, no-
:12:45. > :12:48.one believed me. That was the interesting thing. I just ran to
:12:48. > :12:52.North Wales from London - yeah, all right, what do you want? It was
:12:53. > :12:57.like saying you had eaten a car. You climbed Mount Kilimanjaro,
:12:57. > :13:02.which seemed impressive at the time but now doesn't look so good.
:13:02. > :13:05.Graham! It is the hardest thing I have done in my life. Try 43
:13:05. > :13:10.marathons! LAUGHTER It did look very tough. You had trouble...
:13:10. > :13:14.Trouble with everything. You had a peeing incident on the mountain?
:13:14. > :13:19.That was the worst part. For guys, it is easy. You can do it anywhere.
:13:19. > :13:23.For us, it was difficult. You had to find anywhere. I found somewhere
:13:23. > :13:27.private and I was pleased with myself till I nearly fell off the
:13:28. > :13:32.side of the mountain and I am grabbing on for dear life. When I
:13:32. > :13:37.emerged, "Was I gone long?" I tried to act calm. I was so embarrassed
:13:37. > :13:45.because of how it happened. Yes! You know what I mean? Did you go
:13:45. > :13:54.all over yourself? No, no! Can you imagine? What's that?! LAUGHTER
:13:54. > :13:58.Like the fountains in Vegas! What's that?! APPLAUSE Oh dear. It is
:13:59. > :14:01.almost Christmas. It is a lovely time of the year when we like to
:14:02. > :14:05.spend time with our families and hope there is something good on the
:14:05. > :14:11.telly so we don't have to talk them. The Strictly Christmas Day Special,
:14:11. > :14:16.is that all done? All done. It was so bizarre having Christmas trees
:14:16. > :14:20.and snow... In the middle of the series? I know. It will be fab.
:14:20. > :14:26.There are other Christmas telly treats. They come from you. A new
:14:26. > :14:31.version of Treasure Island is on Sky, you play Long John Silver?
:14:31. > :14:36.Indeed. I have only seen bits of it. The production values on this thing
:14:36. > :14:41.are phenomenal? It is a beautiful version of it. Treasure Island had
:14:41. > :14:51.almost got to a place where it was pantomime and I said I wouldn't do
:14:51. > :15:02.
:15:02. > :15:07.it unless we did a kick ass version of it. We did the Geoodfellas
:15:07. > :15:17.Goodfellas version. It looks like a movie rather than a TV show. Here
:15:17. > :15:31.
:15:31. > :15:41.There you are. Come on board, Hawkins. Is this our ship? Here she
:15:41. > :15:45.
:15:45. > :15:52.is. Bought and fitted. You could sail her tomorrow. I say she is a
:15:52. > :15:56.lovely ship, Sir. Well-chosen. Thank you. I always say a man who
:15:56. > :16:04.could choose a good horse could choose a good ship just by looking
:16:04. > :16:09.at its arse. You look like you know the way around a horse's arse?
:16:10. > :16:17.It is on Sky1 on New Year's Day and the day after. I believe you call
:16:17. > :16:24.that January 2nd! LAUGHTER What happened to ooh ar? You never say
:16:24. > :16:28.Jim Lad, we took all of that out. And we wanted this to be a down-
:16:28. > :16:32.and-dirty - it is like, imagine when Tim Burton did the first
:16:32. > :16:42.Batman, he took it into a place with edge and that is what this
:16:42. > :16:46.story is. It is a magnificent cast. Having come from this place of
:16:46. > :16:50.comedy, it is wonderful to be playing with these people. Also,
:16:50. > :16:55.you are in another Christmas treat, Lost Christmas? That goes out on
:16:55. > :17:00.18th December on BBC One. What is that about? It is an urban
:17:00. > :17:05.fairytale. It is like A Wonderful Life. It is set in Manchester. It's
:17:05. > :17:11.a beautiful story. It is quite dark. The family will love it. Sounds
:17:11. > :17:16.Christmassy? They will like that. Very good. Now, moving on. Who are
:17:16. > :17:24.my next guests tonight? Elementary, my dear Watson, it's the stars of
:17:24. > :17:34.the new Sherlock Holmes movie, Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law! Oh!
:17:34. > :17:35.
:17:35. > :17:45.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Hello. Good to see you. Hello. How are you?
:17:45. > :17:49.Very nice to see you. APPLAUSE It is fair to say they are pleased to
:17:49. > :17:56.see you. Good. They thought I was lying! Robert Downey Jr and Jude
:17:56. > :17:59.Law, I am sure! How was the premiere? Wet. Really? A little wet.
:17:59. > :18:05.I always feel vaguely guilty when friends from America come over to
:18:05. > :18:11.premieres. They have been in LA and it pours with rain! Jude, lovely
:18:11. > :18:18.suit and everything. You look lovely. LAUGHTER Is this your red
:18:18. > :18:22.carpet look? Have you changed? Is this what you did the red carpet
:18:22. > :18:29.in? Yes. Here is what you don't understand. Am I meant to read
:18:29. > :18:37.between the lines? No. You have a beanie on! That's fine. I have been
:18:37. > :18:39.scalped for my new - I'm doing a film and I have got the most
:18:39. > :18:47.hideous haircut you have ever seen...
:18:47. > :18:54.AUDIENCE: Off, off! It won't happen. You will see it in the cinemas next
:18:55. > :18:59.year! Yeah! We don't reveal trade secrets around here! Listen,
:19:00. > :19:06.Sherlock Holmes is back - it's called Sherlock Holmes: Game of
:19:06. > :19:10.Shadows. First one, $524 million. That is phenomenal and a Golden
:19:10. > :19:16.Globe for you? Thanks. Could have been either one of us. It was just
:19:16. > :19:20.my night! LAUGHTER I wasn't nominated. Well, then, maybe next
:19:20. > :19:24.time! LAUGHTER It is always weird talking about a sequel, if I say it
:19:24. > :19:29.is better than the first one, it is like I am slagging the first one
:19:29. > :19:35.off. It is better? We were more confident this time. More confident.
:19:35. > :19:40.Usually sequels suck. Quite often. This one doesn't. Why are you
:19:40. > :19:45.looking at each other? I don't know. It is true, quite often you have to
:19:45. > :19:50.be - we are talking about Treasure Island 2 already and we have to be
:19:50. > :19:55.careful because I did Treasure Island... Yes. The island with the
:19:55. > :20:00.other treasure! Listen, a lot has been made of the chemistry between
:20:00. > :20:06.the two of you. Was that just luck? Did you know each other before the
:20:06. > :20:10.first film? No. No. We hadn't met. What we immediately loved was the
:20:10. > :20:18.idea of this domestic life and taking these two guys who basically,
:20:18. > :20:22.as in the books, lived together and the idea of this domesticity but
:20:22. > :20:27.under gunfire. Did you do your laundry? Did you turn the lights
:20:27. > :20:31.off? We thought there was something to run with there. We have explored
:20:31. > :20:37.it a bit more on this one, with more explosions and running through
:20:37. > :20:41.woods. I loved that bit. Thanks. You hang out, even your days off -
:20:41. > :20:48.was it the first movie you would go to the gym before you went to the
:20:48. > :20:54.set? What was it that German journalist asked us? Did you pump
:20:54. > :20:58.up before? Every morning! LAUGHTER Sometimes on Sundays, too! I love
:20:58. > :21:02.this guy and we had a great time and I think it translated into this
:21:02. > :21:10.kind of, you know how it is, you have a professionalism relationship
:21:10. > :21:15.with somebody and it kind of... Develops. There was an honesty, too.
:21:15. > :21:19.People would say, "Tell us a funny story." All the funny stories are
:21:19. > :21:25.in the film. What we tried to do every day was look at the scenario
:21:25. > :21:34.and we would try and find a witty way... There is one funny story. I
:21:34. > :21:42.will remind you of it and you can tell it! Yes. Go! Chatshow gold!
:21:42. > :21:51.You tell it? I'm not going to tell it. I'll tell it! APPLAUSE And he
:21:51. > :21:56.will! They are shooting this scene where a guy comes in, right, and he
:21:56. > :22:01.had forgotten to wear any underwear... And then you take it
:22:01. > :22:07.from there! LAUGHTER Then there was an explosion... No. There was this
:22:07. > :22:12.scene where we walk into a room of carnage. There are all these rubber
:22:12. > :22:16.bodies strewn away, fake dummy bodies that are in impossible
:22:16. > :22:24.twisted positions. Covered in blood. Robert goes, "Check this out."
:22:24. > :22:33.There is a big hand lying there and just... And an extra went, "By the
:22:33. > :22:42.love of God !" And sits up. LAUGHTER That's a good story.
:22:42. > :22:48.you work it out with him? Why would I do that?! LAUGHTER It was right
:22:48. > :22:55.before... It scared us, too. problem was, the guy goes, "I can
:22:55. > :22:58.say I have had the honour of having my hand stomped on by the great
:22:58. > :23:05.Sherlock Holmes." In America, it would be, "Lawsuit!" Jude and I
:23:05. > :23:09.haven't looked at each other and this just happened. I go back and I
:23:09. > :23:14.look at him and he just looked at me like that and I couldn't stop
:23:14. > :23:18.laughing for an hour. I have heard different versions of events
:23:18. > :23:23.whether it was Guy Ritchie's idea or whether it was your idea for
:23:23. > :23:30.Sherlock Holmes to drag up. Was that yours? It was. Were you
:23:30. > :23:40.surprised at how you looked? You are a beautiful man? Thank you.
:23:40. > :23:44.
:23:44. > :23:50.CHEERING It is true. LAUGHTER would probably kick myself out of
:23:50. > :23:55.bed. I looked like my sister was on a round of steroids. LAUGHTER
:23:56. > :24:05.trying to think if I was Watson's girl what would be the most
:24:05. > :24:11.unsavoury disguise for Sherlock to show up wearing. There is that
:24:11. > :24:16.picture of you. I don't want to cause a rift. We have a picture of
:24:16. > :24:25.Jude as a woman. This is a film that you were in as well! Look at
:24:25. > :24:32.Jude. AUDIENCE: Wooh! Now...
:24:32. > :24:39.APPLAUSE That is a good look. I should shave! Not sure how great
:24:39. > :24:49.I feel about that. You look good. Embrace it. Men dressing as women
:24:49. > :24:51.
:24:51. > :24:56.is bizarre! LAUGHTER I don't. I am a transvestite. It is a gift. You
:24:56. > :25:02.just are a transvestite! That is under... That's my experience.
:25:02. > :25:08.will let you be the judge. Here you are in action in drag. How many
:25:08. > :25:13.were you expect something Half a dozen. Who are they? A wedding
:25:13. > :25:23.present. Lovely ceremony by the way. John... Just a minute, darling.
:25:23. > :25:28.
:25:29. > :25:38.you trust me? No. I should have to do something about that. Who is up
:25:39. > :25:42.
:25:42. > :25:52.for it next? Shut the door, John. It had to be done. She's safe now.
:25:52. > :25:54.
:25:54. > :25:59.In my own defence I timed it perfectly! APPLAUSE Very good.
:25:59. > :26:09.Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows opened tonight and it is not in 3D.
:26:09. > :26:09.
:26:09. > :26:17.I am so pleased. You don't need 3D all the time. Says the man who
:26:17. > :26:20.appeared in Hugo recently! Yes. LAUGHTER You can be in both!
:26:20. > :26:25.Talking of producing things, Robert Downey Jr, you have something
:26:25. > :26:31.special on the way. You are about to be a daddy? Yeah.
:26:31. > :26:37.Congratulations. APPLAUSE When is it going to happen? She is due in
:26:37. > :26:41.February. Oh. She is ten weeks out. How exciting! Thanks. You are on
:26:41. > :26:44.record saying whatever else happens I am not going to reveal the sex of
:26:44. > :26:52.the baby and I won't reveal what it is called. Then a couple of weeks
:26:52. > :26:57.ago, what did you do? I had poor impulse control! LAUGHTER So, I
:26:57. > :27:03.revealed the gender. How did that go when you got home? Swell, it's
:27:03. > :27:08.fine! LAUGHTER She knows I have a problem. When you saying it, did
:27:08. > :27:15.you realise you were doing a wrong thing? I made the decision to and
:27:15. > :27:21.said no, right as I was saying it. You screwed up? Yes. It's been a
:27:21. > :27:29.while! LAUGHTER And the baby is still happening in ten weeks?
:27:29. > :27:36.He's decided to come along anyway! I may have come up to you drunk at
:27:36. > :27:43.a party and may have already said this. I'm not sure. I loved
:27:43. > :27:49.Families. Families was so good... CHEERING Well done that person!
:27:49. > :27:58.Families was genius. Did you not enjoy it? Oh God! There you are.
:27:59. > :28:02.Oh! I'm the one on the right! LAUGHTER Earlier, you were in the
:28:02. > :28:07.National Youth Theatre? When I was about 13. I used to do that
:28:07. > :28:17.alongside school. People still speak of your performance in
:28:17. > :28:22.Bodywork. Do they? Yes. Really? Who, what people? Me! LAUGHTER I played
:28:22. > :28:29.Adrenaline. How do you know this stuff? I know these things. You
:28:29. > :28:38.were marvellous. Thanks. Did you see it? No! How do you know? I'm a
:28:38. > :28:46.chatshow host! I say this stuff! LAUGHTER Adrenaline is a character?
:28:46. > :28:50.It was written... As opposed to a liquid? It was set inside a body so
:28:51. > :29:00.- the National Youth Theatre, all these kids, everyone plays
:29:01. > :29:03.
:29:03. > :29:08.different parts. Who played Penis?! LAUGHTER He was 18. Very tall.
:29:08. > :29:13.did other jobs, too. You worked in a clothes shop? I worked - that was
:29:13. > :29:18.my first job out of school, selling T-shirts. We used to - yeah. It was
:29:18. > :29:26.in the summer. It was - not sure if I'm allowed to say. It was the Hark
:29:26. > :29:32.Rock Cafe. You can't say that! can! I sold T-shirts for a summer.
:29:32. > :29:37.Didn't you get bored? People would ask for two black, two white. What
:29:37. > :29:44.kind of black? Jet black? Off black? Very dark black? Show me the
:29:44. > :29:49.black. Jet black! I'll have a jet black! Terrible way of entertaining
:29:49. > :29:57.yourself. In terms of - you grew up in a showbiz house. You were going
:29:57. > :30:06.to end up in showbiz? I guess so. I tried sales. What did you do?
:30:06. > :30:11.shoes. LAUGHTER That is inverted sales. That's receives. I have had
:30:11. > :30:15.a bunch of regular jobs. I think I had sticky fingers. Is that why the
:30:15. > :30:23.jobs didn't last that long? I have kept jobs for a while. Depends on
:30:23. > :30:29.how long it takes for them to find out! Alesha, you haven't kept jobs
:30:29. > :30:32.very long? No. Sticky fingers? But boring jobs. Cleaning schools.
:30:32. > :30:39.They lasted a week. That's as long as I would last. Then you would
:30:39. > :30:45.walk? I would go. You do a bit of MC-ing? Yes. LAUGHTER I'm out of
:30:45. > :30:50.here, that kind of thing! I was MC- ing on the side. I was getting more
:30:50. > :30:53.money for the MC-ing... You are so greedy! It is really hard if you
:30:53. > :30:58.are going to be a creative performer, you are making stuff out
:30:58. > :31:03.of nothing, you are making things that happen, it is difficult doing
:31:03. > :31:08.sensible jobs because you tend to talk to people - I remember working
:31:08. > :31:12.in Covent Garden in a restaurant for three weeks. I had to give it
:31:12. > :31:17.in because the guy said, "You will never become an actor!" I thought,
:31:17. > :31:21."I can't stand here talking to you." I wanted us to do stuff. I
:31:21. > :31:27.grew up in a Britain that I felt nothing - you couldn't do anything
:31:27. > :31:32.and I wanted to do everything. And doing gigs in French which I did
:31:32. > :31:36.this year. It was the same at school. I wanted to act and they
:31:36. > :31:41.just laughed. Absolutely. I told a guy that I was going to go to
:31:41. > :31:44.London and get an agent. He laughed in my face. I thought that is not
:31:44. > :31:51.positive. When you are young and you are at school, and you say you
:31:51. > :31:58.want to sing or act, it sounds ludicrous. Your dad was director
:31:58. > :32:02.and producer? Yes. Was it easy to believe going into it? He didn't
:32:02. > :32:06.encourage me. If you wanted to do acting, did you feel it wasn't
:32:06. > :32:11.going to be a bizarre idea? didn't think about it. I told my
:32:11. > :32:17.friends I was going to be hugely successful and they should keep an
:32:17. > :32:23.eye out for me. If they needed me, I would be doing the tables at the
:32:23. > :32:30.restaurant! Wasn't it Sting who was one of your customers? He was. Here
:32:30. > :32:34.is what happened. I'm doing the tables, it was a Sunday, and I look
:32:34. > :32:39.up and I guess like between - he was going to see some theatre or
:32:39. > :32:45.something - he had a meal. I went over. I served him some tea. Then
:32:45. > :32:50.he was done. I said, "May I take that?" He said, "No, it's fine. You
:32:50. > :32:54.you can leave it right here." He looked at me and said, "I realised
:32:54. > :33:02.you and I will be close friends one day." That is the way I used to
:33:02. > :33:12.think. All right. I will leave it there. LAUGHTER And now... Are you
:33:12. > :33:15.close friends? We are very, very close. Very good. APPLAUSE Well,
:33:15. > :33:19.look at you all now, a veritable sofa of stars. And now we're going
:33:19. > :33:22.to meet a new star in the making, cos it's time for music. In a
:33:22. > :33:24.moment, we'll be hearing tonight's stories in the Big Red Chair, but
:33:24. > :33:34.first, performing Nothing's Real But Love, please welcome Rebecca
:33:34. > :33:49.
:33:49. > :33:59.# Standing in a line # Wonder why it don't move
:33:59. > :34:03.# Tryna get a hand # Watching people break the rules
:34:03. > :34:06.# And maybe the man in charge, doesn't like my face
:34:06. > :34:13.# But then this world's not always good
:34:13. > :34:23.# And nothing's real but love # Nothing's real but love
:34:23. > :34:25.
:34:25. > :34:33.# No money, no house, no car, can beat love
:34:33. > :34:40.# They watch us open-mouthed # As we joke around like fools
:34:40. > :34:47.# See who can be the worst # Watch what I can do
:34:47. > :34:49.# But then the door gets slammed, slammed right in my face
:34:49. > :34:56.# And I guess this world's not always good
:34:57. > :35:03.# And nothing's real but love # Nothing's real but love
:35:03. > :35:09.# No house, no car, no job, can beat love
:35:09. > :35:18.# It won't fill you up # No money, no house, no car, is
:35:18. > :35:28.like love # La la la la la la
:35:28. > :35:33.# Yeaaah # I put it all away
:35:33. > :35:41.# Holding it down for a rainy day # But what if that day don't come
:35:41. > :35:49.# I need love # No money, no house, no car, is
:35:49. > :35:52.like love # It don't fill you up
:35:52. > :35:58.# It won't build you up # It won't fill you up
:35:58. > :36:03.# It's not love! # And nothing's real but love
:36:03. > :36:10.# No money, no house, no car, is like love
:36:10. > :36:20.# Nothing's real but love # No money, no house, no car, is
:36:20. > :36:27.
:36:27. > :36:36.CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Rebecca Ferguson, ladies and
:36:36. > :36:41.gentlemen. Come and join me. Oh beautiful! That was gorgeous. Mwah!
:36:41. > :36:51.Come and have a seat. There you go. Eddie, Alesha, Jude, Robert. All
:36:51. > :36:57.
:36:57. > :37:03.good. That is off the new album Heaven. It is out now. It's
:37:03. > :37:13.brilliant. Congratulations. Thank you. Very glad you co-wrote - did
:37:13. > :37:14.
:37:14. > :37:19.you co-write the whole thing? She is not an idiot! APPLAUSE
:37:19. > :37:24.does help! I know you didn't win, but that is a good thing. To me, it
:37:24. > :37:31.has been. Winning is not great. is the real deal! Winning is the
:37:31. > :37:41.beginning of the end! Won a Golden Globe, leave it! And the film was
:37:41. > :37:41.
:37:41. > :37:46.very successful... Thanks, pal. Very nearly the end! It is nearly
:37:46. > :37:52.time for us to go. We have time for a story or two in the Red Chair.
:37:52. > :37:58.Who is up first? Hello, small person. Hi. You will go flying!
:37:58. > :38:05.LAUGHTER What is your name? Beth. Where are you from? Nottingham.
:38:05. > :38:10.what do you do? I live at uni in London. Studying? English and
:38:10. > :38:20.American literature. What do you hope to do with that? LAUGHTER
:38:20. > :38:22.
:38:22. > :38:28.not too sure. OK. Right, delight us with your story? OK. Everybody who
:38:28. > :38:31.knows me knows I love Robert Downey Jr more than life itself. I was
:38:31. > :38:35.walking down Regent Street today and I saw a bus with the Sherlock
:38:35. > :38:40.Holmes poster on the side. I got so distracted by the photo that I
:38:40. > :38:43.walked into a road, straight into a woman on a bike and knocked her
:38:43. > :38:50.completely off balance. I don't think she was happy. I did explain
:38:50. > :38:57.why I was so unfocused. I think she let me off. Did she look like
:38:57. > :39:03.this?! LAUGHTER I like the way strangers are getting hurt because
:39:03. > :39:09.of this film. That poor woman cycling. Terrible. Who is next?
:39:09. > :39:16.Hello. Hello. What is your name? Valerie. Valerie. Where do you
:39:16. > :39:25.live? Surrey. CHEERING They are loving Surrey. Off you go. OK. A
:39:25. > :39:31.few years ago, I went to Center Parc in France with my husband and
:39:31. > :39:36.son. We did a detour to the zoological gardens near Paris. I
:39:36. > :39:44.was driving a panda car which was a soft-top. When we got there they
:39:44. > :39:52.said it was OK to go in in this car. Yes? We went into the place, and
:39:52. > :39:56.went into the bear enclosure and... What?! You went into a bear
:39:56. > :40:01.enclosure? Yes. This was the bear. I don't know if you can see that?
:40:01. > :40:08.That is a proper bear. A proper bear. And it came towards the car
:40:08. > :40:15.and then it climbed on to the car and the top of the car started to
:40:15. > :40:23.bulge in and we all got scared. LAUGHTER My husband opened the
:40:23. > :40:30.window slightly to throw some nuts out... What?! And then it didn't
:40:30. > :40:36.work. And then it kind of still clung on. And I was rocking the car
:40:36. > :40:40.backwards and forwards to try and move the bear. And eventually I did
:40:40. > :40:47.this. It got hold of the car again and it was hanging on to the wing
:40:47. > :40:51.mirror. And then eventually I managed to shake it off again and
:40:51. > :40:56.my husband opened the door and threw the whole of the nuts out of
:40:56. > :41:01.the car and the bear was distracted so I close ds the window and we
:41:01. > :41:04.drove -- closed the window and we drove and got out of the enclosure.
:41:04. > :41:12.We realised the wing mirror was missing so we thought well, what
:41:12. > :41:16.shall we do? We debated. At that point, I felt where's my son?
:41:16. > :41:21.LAUGHTER Wing mirror fell off... was hiding on the backseat under
:41:21. > :41:27.anything that he could find not to look to see what was going on.
:41:27. > :41:37.Anyway, we went back in to look for the wing mirror. No! You idiot! You
:41:37. > :41:40.
:41:40. > :41:44.are an idiot! APPLAUSE The kid got out the window? No. They went back
:41:44. > :41:50.in! LAUGHTER Robert was there to distract the bear! There is
:41:50. > :41:54.something that - that story was going absolutely nowhere for so
:41:54. > :41:58.long until the bear - so bring the bear closer in the story first. She
:41:58. > :42:05.should have got that out. You will see her backstage. I want to know
:42:06. > :42:12.what happened. The kid's lost? Lost somewhere in the car? Can you get
:42:12. > :42:20.her back in the chair? We want the end of the story. OK. APPLAUSE
:42:20. > :42:28.this allowed? You are not going to tip me out again? I promise!
:42:28. > :42:35.LAUGHTER We remember where we were in the story. You decided to go
:42:35. > :42:41.back in the enclosure. LAUGHTER look for the wing mirror. Yes!
:42:41. > :42:44.Where's the kid? The kid's in the backseat. He's on the backseat. We
:42:44. > :42:49.couldn't see the wing mirror and the bears had gone. We thought,
:42:49. > :42:54.well, if we meet up with the French traffic police how do we explain
:42:54. > :42:59.the wing mirror? They won't believe us. So we left. And my son kind of
:42:59. > :43:09.appeared from the back and I said, "Well, look at this way, you can
:43:09. > :43:19.think of the Panda outwitting a brown bear!" APPLAUSE I did promise.
:43:19. > :43:20.
:43:20. > :43:24.You can walk. Quickly! Walk quickly. Well done, everyone. If you'd like
:43:24. > :43:28.to join us on the show and have a go in the Red Chair, you can
:43:28. > :43:30.contact us via our website at this address. Thank you to my guests,
:43:30. > :43:34.Rebecca Ferguson, Eddie Izzard, Alesha Dixon, Jude Law and Robert
:43:34. > :43:37.Downey Jr. Join me next week for a festive show which will include