0:00:02 > 0:00:04Good evening. I'm Elton John, and I've only agreed to be on
0:00:04 > 0:00:08the show if Graham promises to make no mention of my flamboyant past.
0:00:10 > 0:00:13Welcome to the Graham Norton Show!
0:00:28 > 0:00:30CHEERING
0:00:30 > 0:00:34Oh! Oh! Oh!
0:00:34 > 0:00:37Oh-ho-ho! Thank you very much.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40Thank you, good evening.
0:00:40 > 0:00:43Good evening. Lovely to see you all.
0:00:43 > 0:00:46Thank you for being here.
0:00:46 > 0:00:49Very nice. Now, of course, the big news this week -
0:00:49 > 0:00:52there's been agreement on how to work out the divorce bill,
0:00:52 > 0:00:56and it could total up to £45 billion.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58Bit depressing, I mean, they only got engaged on Monday.
0:01:00 > 0:01:04No, no. Huge congratulations to Prince Harry on his engagement
0:01:04 > 0:01:06to Meghan Markle. Isn't it wonderful?
0:01:06 > 0:01:08It's nice, isn't it? It's nice, yes.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11It's your classic riches-to-riches story.
0:01:11 > 0:01:14That's Meghan on the right, waving.
0:01:14 > 0:01:18"Bye, commoners. I'm a princess!"
0:01:18 > 0:01:22Meghan has said she can't wait to start undertaking Royal engagements,
0:01:22 > 0:01:24and meet the British public.
0:01:24 > 0:01:25Wow, she is a good actress.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29Meghan's already good friends with Wills and Kate.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31They've been on a few double dates,
0:01:31 > 0:01:34but, to avoid the press, Meghan has been wearing a disguise.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Wouldn't it be amazing if she was in that thing?
0:01:40 > 0:01:42Let's get some guests on! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:01:42 > 0:01:44Later, we'll be meeting the always-entertaining
0:01:44 > 0:01:47Mr Robbie Williams!
0:01:47 > 0:01:50Yeah. He'll be talking about his new book.
0:01:50 > 0:01:53But first, she has sold over 42 million albums,
0:01:53 > 0:01:55won three Grammys,
0:01:55 > 0:01:58and is simply one of the coolest pop stars on the planet.
0:01:58 > 0:01:59Please welcome Pink!
0:01:59 > 0:02:02CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:02:02 > 0:02:06Yes! The actual Pink! It's Pink, everybody. Hey! Hello, darling.
0:02:06 > 0:02:09- Lovely to see you. Welcome back. - Thank you.
0:02:09 > 0:02:12- It's Pink, everybody.- Hi.
0:02:12 > 0:02:16He's a writer, actor, comedian, academic.
0:02:16 > 0:02:17Is there anything this man can't do?
0:02:17 > 0:02:20Please welcome Mr Stephen Fry!
0:02:20 > 0:02:21CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:02:21 > 0:02:23- Oh!- Thank you. Thank you very much.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26- The greyhound from the slips!- Hi. - Come here and sit down.- Thank you.
0:02:26 > 0:02:28Pink, hello. What a pleasure.
0:02:28 > 0:02:32She's the British actress who starred in An Education, Drive,
0:02:32 > 0:02:33The Great Gatsby and Suffragette.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36It's always a pleasure to welcome Carey Mulligan!
0:02:36 > 0:02:38CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:02:38 > 0:02:42Look at you! Hello, my dear. Lovely to see you.
0:02:42 > 0:02:45Mwah! Have a seat, Carey Mulligan.
0:02:45 > 0:02:49And he's here to celebrate an extraordinary 50 years in the music
0:02:49 > 0:02:53business with his ultimate greatest hits collection, Diamonds.
0:02:53 > 0:02:55Please welcome a true music legend -
0:02:55 > 0:02:57Sir Elton John!
0:02:57 > 0:02:59CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:03:04 > 0:03:08Good to see you. Come in, come in, come in!
0:03:09 > 0:03:11- Oh! Whoo!- Mwah.
0:03:11 > 0:03:14Aw, mwah.
0:03:15 > 0:03:19Aw! Have a seat, all. you're all very welcome.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21- Nice to see you all.- Thank you.
0:03:21 > 0:03:23Now, it is an embarrassment of musicians.
0:03:23 > 0:03:25Obviously, we've got Sir Elton, Robbie Williams coming on later,
0:03:25 > 0:03:27- but, Pink, you are performing.- Yes.
0:03:27 > 0:03:29CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:03:32 > 0:03:33Is that going to be weird,
0:03:33 > 0:03:36- performing in front of Elton and Robbie or do you...?- I mean...
0:03:36 > 0:03:40Erm... I'm going to try not to be awful.
0:03:40 > 0:03:42We played at a festival together in Belgium.
0:03:42 > 0:03:45- Yes, it was fun.- And what are you giving us tonight?
0:03:45 > 0:03:46- What About Us?- Oh, brilliant.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:03:49 > 0:03:52This album, Beautiful Trauma, which is such a huge success,
0:03:52 > 0:03:55I didn't realise until you were coming on the show that it's been
0:03:55 > 0:03:58- five years of no Pink in the world. - Five or six.
0:03:58 > 0:04:01Yeah, yeah. I didn't realise that either.
0:04:01 > 0:04:07- How did that happen?- I was doing bake sales and kindergarten.
0:04:07 > 0:04:10I read somewhere, when you decided to bring out a new record,
0:04:10 > 0:04:13your record company sat you down for "the talk".
0:04:13 > 0:04:17The talk, that if you are over 35 as a female pop star,
0:04:17 > 0:04:20- that radio probably won't play you. - No!
0:04:20 > 0:04:23- Yes.- I have that trouble myself.
0:04:26 > 0:04:27Holy mackerel!
0:04:27 > 0:04:29Well, you've proved them wrong.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32- I did.- Yeah, big time.- Very, very much. And that's nice.- Yeah.
0:04:32 > 0:04:34APPLAUSE
0:04:35 > 0:04:39So, in terms of musical credentials,
0:04:39 > 0:04:43Stephen, I'm right in saying that you're not a great gift to song?
0:04:43 > 0:04:45No. There are so many things I can't do.
0:04:45 > 0:04:48I can't do that. I've never been able to cross my legs.
0:04:48 > 0:04:50Even when I was in kindergarten,
0:04:50 > 0:04:52there was a little play mat and all the other children...
0:04:52 > 0:04:55- And my knees were touching my cheeks.- Aw!- I could not...
0:04:55 > 0:04:57I can't do that. They would break, my hips.
0:04:57 > 0:04:58But I've never been able to sing.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01It's official. I'll tell you why it's official.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03John Schlesinger, the film director, was a friend,
0:05:03 > 0:05:06and when he died there was a funeral at a synagogue in North London.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09And I found myself next to Paul McCartney at this funeral.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12And after a couple of hymns and songs and things,
0:05:12 > 0:05:15he turned to me and said... Because I always mime, because I can't sing.
0:05:15 > 0:05:19He said, "Sing, you're not singing. Sing!"
0:05:19 > 0:05:22And I said, "Actually, Paul, I can't sing."
0:05:22 > 0:05:24"Everybody can sing. Sing!"
0:05:24 > 0:05:25So the next one came up and I started to sing.
0:05:25 > 0:05:29"Shut up, you're right, you can't sing!"
0:05:29 > 0:05:31So if Paul McCartney tells you can't sing, you can't sing.
0:05:31 > 0:05:33It's official.
0:05:33 > 0:05:36Carey Mulligan, you've married into the music industry.
0:05:36 > 0:05:39- Yeah.- With Marcus, Marcus Mumford.
0:05:39 > 0:05:40Now, you've talked on the show, though,
0:05:40 > 0:05:44about how you are a proper fan and you've written proper fan letters
0:05:44 > 0:05:46to actors, but did you write fan letters to pop stars?
0:05:46 > 0:05:49- Were you a fan of those...?- I...
0:05:49 > 0:05:52Yeah, I wrote to Eminem.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54Yeah, yeah.
0:05:54 > 0:05:56- How old were you?- So sweet. - I was 18.
0:05:56 > 0:06:01No, I was 17. I was applying to drama school,
0:06:01 > 0:06:05and I watched 8 Mile and he does that Lose Yourself song.
0:06:05 > 0:06:07I can't say anything like this without sounding...
0:06:07 > 0:06:10And I got really kind of...
0:06:10 > 0:06:12- It spoke to you? - Yeah, it really spoke to me.
0:06:12 > 0:06:14Yeah, 8 Mile, yeah!
0:06:14 > 0:06:19I wrote a very long letter detailing how he had inspired me to go in,
0:06:19 > 0:06:22and, like, crush it in my drama school auditions.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24- Oh, and did he write back? - No, he didn't.- Aw.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27See, he doesn't read letters, that's how that girl died in Dear Stan.
0:06:30 > 0:06:32He should really read the letters.
0:06:32 > 0:06:34Eminem, he's on the album.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36- Yes!- Yeah.- I wrote him an e-mail.
0:06:39 > 0:06:40And did he write back?
0:06:40 > 0:06:42I professed my undying love for him in this e-mail.
0:06:42 > 0:06:46And I said, "I love you. I've always loved you.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49"I've loved you since I got your autograph in 2001 at the MTV Music
0:06:49 > 0:06:51"Video Awards, I love that you always work with the same people,
0:06:51 > 0:06:54"for instance, Rihanna, who's hotter than me, but I'm funnier.
0:06:54 > 0:06:58"Can you just help me get my rap Grammy?"
0:06:58 > 0:07:01And he just wrote back, "OK."
0:07:01 > 0:07:02- And that was it.- Wow.- One word.
0:07:02 > 0:07:07But you kind of corrected some of his less politically...
0:07:07 > 0:07:11Well, he was accused of being homophobic by so many people,
0:07:11 > 0:07:14- because of his lyrics, which I thought was nonsense.- Yeah.
0:07:14 > 0:07:16And I came out and supported the fact that he isn't.
0:07:16 > 0:07:20I appeared on the Grammys with him doing Stan, instead of Dido.
0:07:20 > 0:07:22- I did the Dido part.- Oh, right.- Yes.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25I was the one that took the "L" out of Dido!
0:07:28 > 0:07:29Whoa.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35And we became friends and we've been amazing friends ever since.
0:07:35 > 0:07:37He's an amazing guy. I spoke to him last week.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39I interviewed him last week for a magazine.
0:07:39 > 0:07:42- I just adore him.- I do, too.
0:07:42 > 0:07:43He's quite a poet, isn't he?
0:07:43 > 0:07:46Am I allowed to say what's in your house?
0:07:46 > 0:07:50Oh, yes. For my marriage, when David and I did our civil partnership...
0:07:52 > 0:07:54I got this package from Eminem,
0:07:54 > 0:07:56and it shows you how homophobic he isn't.
0:07:56 > 0:07:59We had two diamond-encrusted cock rings on...
0:08:02 > 0:08:04..on velvet cushions.
0:08:06 > 0:08:09- For the men who have everything. - Yes, yes, exactly.
0:08:09 > 0:08:12And I have to say, they have remained unused.
0:08:14 > 0:08:16APPLAUSE
0:08:16 > 0:08:18- Well, talking of diamonds...- Yeah.
0:08:18 > 0:08:21..you bring us your ultimate collection -
0:08:21 > 0:08:25Diamonds. This is out now and it really is fantastic.
0:08:25 > 0:08:29It is the definitive collection of your work.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32What is it, it's nearly 50 tracks?
0:08:32 > 0:08:33Right.
0:08:33 > 0:08:35You know this, right?
0:08:35 > 0:08:39- Have you seen this before? - I have, yes.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42- I've had my movement, yes. - Why Diamonds?
0:08:42 > 0:08:45I chose the title because I didn't want it to be called
0:08:45 > 0:08:48Greatest Hits Volume Three or Four or whatever, cos it's boring.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50And I've always liked diamonds
0:08:50 > 0:08:53and I've always worn diamonds and I just thought,
0:08:53 > 0:08:55"Diamonds is what the world needs at the moment."
0:08:55 > 0:08:58For me, anyway. So it's a cheerful title.
0:08:58 > 0:09:01And you, very kindly, or someone,
0:09:01 > 0:09:03has put together a kind of a montage
0:09:03 > 0:09:06of some of your career and this is it.
0:09:13 > 0:09:17By the time I came to the song, I was singing like this!
0:09:17 > 0:09:22# I'm still standing better than I've ever been
0:09:22 > 0:09:24# Looking like a true survivor
0:09:24 > 0:09:27# Feeling like a little kid
0:09:27 > 0:09:29# I'm still standing...
0:09:29 > 0:09:32# And I think it's gonna be a long, long time
0:09:32 > 0:09:36# Till touchdown brings me round again to find
0:09:36 > 0:09:38# Oh, no, no, no...
0:09:38 > 0:09:42# I'm a rocket man...
0:09:42 > 0:09:45# Saturday, Saturday, Saturday
0:09:45 > 0:09:49# Don't give us none of your aggravation
0:09:49 > 0:09:51# We had it with your discipline
0:09:51 > 0:09:55# Oh, Saturday night's all right for fighting
0:09:55 > 0:09:59# Get a little action in...
0:09:59 > 0:10:03# Hold me closer Tiny Dancer
0:10:05 > 0:10:10# Count the headlights on the highway...
0:10:10 > 0:10:13# Philadelphia freedom
0:10:13 > 0:10:18# I love-ove-ove you
0:10:18 > 0:10:21# Yes, I do
0:10:26 > 0:10:34# How wonderful life is while you're in the world. #
0:10:34 > 0:10:36- APPLAUSE - Thank you.
0:10:42 > 0:10:43Thank you.
0:10:48 > 0:10:49- Well, no, to see it...- Yes.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52To see it kind of Reader Digested like that...
0:10:52 > 0:10:55It brings back so many memories for all of us,
0:10:55 > 0:10:57I can't imagine what that does to your head, watching that.
0:10:57 > 0:10:59I don't really reflect on things very much.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02When you see things like that, you think, God, how did I do this?
0:11:02 > 0:11:05How do I cram it all in? We had so much fun.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08And, you know, I've always loved doing what I've done
0:11:08 > 0:11:10and I've always been lucky enough to be able to do what I've done.
0:11:10 > 0:11:12And, you know, the secret to longevity,
0:11:12 > 0:11:15as you can ask Pink as a performer,
0:11:15 > 0:11:19is if you can play live, it doesn't matter how many hits you've got,
0:11:19 > 0:11:21you will always be successful.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24And the other thing that I think this whole collection is,
0:11:24 > 0:11:26it's not just a celebration of you but also of Bernie, Bernie Taupin,
0:11:26 > 0:11:30- and the work you've done together. - We've never had an argument.
0:11:30 > 0:11:31We've never written a song in the same room.
0:11:31 > 0:11:33He gives me a lyric, I go away,
0:11:33 > 0:11:37I write the music and then I call him in and I play it to him.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40We've kept the process fresh by doing that so that even now,
0:11:40 > 0:11:41when I get a lyric,
0:11:41 > 0:11:44which will probably be my thousandth lyric from him,
0:11:44 > 0:11:46I go away and I get excited by looking at the lyric
0:11:46 > 0:11:48and writing the song. So it hasn't changed.
0:11:48 > 0:11:51So it's never got old and even though I've behaved so badly
0:11:51 > 0:11:54at times in my life and he has rang me up the next day and said,
0:11:54 > 0:11:56"Do you remember what you did last night?" And I go, "No..."
0:11:57 > 0:12:00We've never had an argument.
0:12:00 > 0:12:02And I'm so proud of the fact that in this business,
0:12:02 > 0:12:05erm, we are stronger together now than we ever have been
0:12:05 > 0:12:09and that makes me feel good.
0:12:09 > 0:12:12And all these years later, your first hit, Your Song,
0:12:12 > 0:12:16was just voted, I think, the nation's favourite Elton John song.
0:12:16 > 0:12:19- Yeah.- Am I right in thinking that's yours, Stephen?
0:12:19 > 0:12:20I love it, absolutely love it.
0:12:20 > 0:12:24Do you remember we did a sketch with Rowan Atkinson, mocking the lyrics?
0:12:24 > 0:12:26- Yes, of course. - These things I forget, your eyes,
0:12:26 > 0:12:28are they green or are they blue?
0:12:28 > 0:12:30The lyrics are extraordinary.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33Because they're so... Nothing had been heard like that before
0:12:33 > 0:12:35and the way it married with your voice, it is still...
0:12:35 > 0:12:38And that was the last song that was played on that package, I noticed,
0:12:38 > 0:12:39because it just speaks in a way...
0:12:39 > 0:12:41That and Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me,
0:12:41 > 0:12:44because I always think of George Michael when I hear that.
0:12:44 > 0:12:45The extraordinary thing you did.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47- Thank God it wasn't Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep!- Well..
0:12:50 > 0:12:52- Do you have a favourite, Pink? - What's that?
0:12:52 > 0:12:54- Do you have a favourite Elton John song?- I feel like,
0:12:54 > 0:12:56just throw a dart and that's my favourite.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58But I will say, if I have to say, Tiny Dancer.
0:12:58 > 0:13:01- CAREY:- I was going to say Tiny Dancer! That's my favourite.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03And at the moment, isn't that your favourite at the moment,
0:13:03 > 0:13:05- Tiny Dancer?- I love Tiny Dancer. It's funny,
0:13:05 > 0:13:08I've played these songs so many times but the more you play them,
0:13:08 > 0:13:11you realise how wonderful the lyrics are.
0:13:11 > 0:13:15And the older you get, you hopefully have more fun with the song.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18People like Frank Sinatra used to do it and they have sung those songs
0:13:18 > 0:13:21so many times. Nina Simone, every time you saw her sing,
0:13:21 > 0:13:24- she'd interpret a song differently. And that's what...- The storytelling.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26The lyrics are so crucial.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29Yeah, the lyrics... He's a storyteller, you know?
0:13:29 > 0:13:30Up until about two years ago,
0:13:30 > 0:13:33I thought it was "lay me down in sheets of amber."
0:13:33 > 0:13:36I was like, "He has sheets of amber, you guys!"
0:13:36 > 0:13:38LAUGHTER
0:13:38 > 0:13:41- Isn't it that? What is it? - I think it's sheets of...linen?
0:13:41 > 0:13:45- What is it?- Lay me down in sheets of linen.- Yeah, it's linen.- Oh, linen.
0:13:45 > 0:13:48People thought it was "Hold me closer, Tony Danza".
0:13:48 > 0:13:50LAUGHTER
0:13:50 > 0:13:53- Tony Danza from Taxi? - Tony Danza, yeah!
0:13:54 > 0:13:56But you say, we had a lot of fun. You're still having fun.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Of course, life is about having fun.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01- But my fun is focused now on my children.- Yeah.
0:14:01 > 0:14:05I'm lucky enough to still have the career, but my fun is now...
0:14:05 > 0:14:09I'm going to my youngest's Nativity play tomorrow and I'm so excited.
0:14:09 > 0:14:11- AUDIENCE:- Aw! - That's what my life is about now.
0:14:11 > 0:14:16And it's all about them and the focus is off of me and onto them
0:14:16 > 0:14:19and at this stage of my life, it's kind of nice to be able to do that.
0:14:19 > 0:14:23In terms of Zachary and Elijah, is there a favourite Dad's music?
0:14:23 > 0:14:26No. They like AC/DC.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28LAUGHTER
0:14:28 > 0:14:31They do like Tiny Dancer, they like Levon.
0:14:31 > 0:14:34But they really like... It's Thunderstruck.
0:14:34 > 0:14:36Because it was Iron Man.
0:14:36 > 0:14:39They love AC/DC. And that's what we have to put on in the car
0:14:39 > 0:14:40when we go in the morning.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43They like I'm Still Standing, but it's AC/DC first.
0:14:43 > 0:14:45- That's a great visual! - Pink, your little boy,
0:14:45 > 0:14:47the last time you were here, you were saying
0:14:47 > 0:14:48that he wasn't particularly a fan.
0:14:48 > 0:14:51- Has it changed? - He cries when I sing.
0:14:51 > 0:14:55- No!- Yes... Well, now he's stopped crying, finally.
0:14:55 > 0:14:57He's 11 months now. He just looks away.
0:14:57 > 0:14:58- AUDIENCE:- Aw!
0:14:58 > 0:15:03- Oh! Oh, how cute.- And Willow tells me my singing is distracting.
0:15:04 > 0:15:07- Thank you?- I thought Willow was quite into it, no?
0:15:07 > 0:15:09- She likes Sia.- OK.
0:15:09 > 0:15:12- She prefers Sia. - Oh, kids are cruel, aren't they?
0:15:13 > 0:15:16I picked her up from first grade and one of her little friends was like,
0:15:16 > 0:15:17# So, raise your glass up... #
0:15:17 > 0:15:19Singing to me and Willow rolled her eyes, and she goes,
0:15:19 > 0:15:21"That's not even one of the good ones."
0:15:24 > 0:15:26- Thank you?- How old is Willow?- Six.
0:15:26 > 0:15:27Six.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32Now, talking of children's favourites, Harry Potter,
0:15:32 > 0:15:36the audio books, how many hours of Harry Potter did you have to read?
0:15:36 > 0:15:38God, I think it's over 100, isn't it?
0:15:39 > 0:15:42Of course, when it started, my agent called me up and said,
0:15:42 > 0:15:45"There's this book called Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone."
0:15:45 > 0:15:48That's what it is called in England. In America, it's sorcerer.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51Obviously, philosophers are a rather frightening idea in America!
0:15:51 > 0:15:53LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:15:55 > 0:15:58- All right, all right.- Sorry, sorry.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01Anyway, it was a book and so I read it,
0:16:01 > 0:16:03and there was this boy and apparently he was a wizard
0:16:03 > 0:16:05and I met the author who was called Jo Rowling
0:16:05 > 0:16:08and she was really nice and we read the book and she said,
0:16:08 > 0:16:11"Oh, actually, there's another one, there's a second one, I've written."
0:16:11 > 0:16:13And I said, "Good for you!"
0:16:14 > 0:16:17Little realising what would happen, but over the years,
0:16:17 > 0:16:21this extraordinary phenomenon blossomed and I loved reading them.
0:16:21 > 0:16:25Occasionally, people... There was a man who stopped me in the street
0:16:25 > 0:16:27not long ago and he pointed, shouted across the street,
0:16:27 > 0:16:29"My children go to bed with you!"
0:16:30 > 0:16:32Shush!
0:16:32 > 0:16:34Please rephrase that!
0:16:36 > 0:16:39Now, Carey Mulligan's film is Mudbound.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42Now, this film, it's currently available on Netflix,
0:16:42 > 0:16:44it's streaming now,
0:16:44 > 0:16:46but it has had the most incredible reviews
0:16:46 > 0:16:50and there's a lot of awards buzz about it, so whet their appetite.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52- What is it about?- It's about a really interesting period of history
0:16:52 > 0:16:54that I didn't know very much about.
0:16:54 > 0:16:57So, it's post-Second World War, pre-civil rights.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00So, it's about two families living on the same land and two soldiers
0:17:00 > 0:17:03coming home from the war, one is white and one is black.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05And the battalions were all segregated,
0:17:05 > 0:17:09so black soldiers were going over and fighting for their country
0:17:09 > 0:17:11but then coming home to a segregated society,
0:17:11 > 0:17:13so it is kind of about that, but it's a family drama within that.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16- So it's about these two soldiers who become friends.- In Mississippi,
0:17:16 > 0:17:18- is it?- Mississippi, yeah. - It's the mud state, isn't it?- Yeah.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21We were filming out in Louisiana, filming outside of New Orleans.
0:17:21 > 0:17:25Very hot, very muddy, lots of mosquitoes and extraordinarily,
0:17:25 > 0:17:28we had a snake wrangler on set
0:17:28 > 0:17:30and his only job was to go around the set
0:17:30 > 0:17:33and clear the deadly snakes that were trying to kill us.
0:17:33 > 0:17:36So he would go around and sort of pocket these snakes
0:17:36 > 0:17:39- and put them in a bucket in the back of his van.- What kind of snakes?
0:17:39 > 0:17:42The very dangerous ones, apparently. I mean, I didn't get to...
0:17:42 > 0:17:44- STUMBLING:- I don't know the species.
0:17:44 > 0:17:46Speciesh? I've just taken Day Nurse, sorry!
0:17:48 > 0:17:51The species of the snakes, I'm not entirely...
0:17:51 > 0:17:53LAUGHTER
0:17:53 > 0:17:56Needless to say, they were trying to kill us, and he saved us all.
0:17:56 > 0:18:01We've got a little clip. This is you... Basically, things start well,
0:18:01 > 0:18:02- and then...- It is all going great
0:18:02 > 0:18:05- and then we move to the mud.- And things go wrong.- Things go wrong.
0:18:05 > 0:18:11This is you begging your husband not to make a bad situation even worse.
0:18:11 > 0:18:14When you told me you were bringing me to this godforsaken place,
0:18:14 > 0:18:16I barely said a word. When you informed me
0:18:16 > 0:18:18that he was coming to live with us, I went along.
0:18:18 > 0:18:21And when our Stokes told you you'd been fleeced by that man
0:18:21 > 0:18:23you rented the house from, I kept my mouth shut.
0:18:23 > 0:18:25But I'm telling you now, we are not getting rid of that piano.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28It's the one civilised thing in this place,
0:18:28 > 0:18:29so your father can either sleep in the lean-to
0:18:29 > 0:18:30or he can sleep in the bed with you,
0:18:30 > 0:18:32because I am not staying here without my piano.
0:18:32 > 0:18:35- You know what, you are overtired. - No, I'm not.
0:18:35 > 0:18:37APPLAUSE
0:18:41 > 0:18:45And there is a sort of unrecognisable Mary J Blige
0:18:45 > 0:18:49- in this film.- Yeah. She's amazing. - Again, fabulous reviews.
0:18:49 > 0:18:52How hard is it for an actress to get over the fact
0:18:52 > 0:18:54that that's Mary J Blige?
0:18:54 > 0:18:56Quite hard, initially, yeah.
0:18:56 > 0:19:01Because, you know... It's like, you know, I was sitting...
0:19:01 > 0:19:04I've just been feeling completely... It may be the Day Nurse,
0:19:04 > 0:19:06but I'm sitting here next to these extraordinary people.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08It's completely blowing my mind,
0:19:08 > 0:19:10but I look at Pink and I'm thinking in my head,
0:19:10 > 0:19:13I'm singing Just Like A Pill and I can't stop singing it.
0:19:13 > 0:19:15And Elton, I'm like # Tiny Dancer! #
0:19:15 > 0:19:20It's quite hard to concentrate on people around me.
0:19:20 > 0:19:22So, with Mary, that was going on in my head for the first couple of days
0:19:22 > 0:19:25and then she became this character
0:19:25 > 0:19:28and then it was just... She was a totally different person.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30Because, Pink, I know you wanted to work with Mary J Blige.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33I did, she was one of the first people I ever approached.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36I walked into her trailer, a long, long, long time ago,
0:19:36 > 0:19:38on my first album and said, "Would you work with me?"
0:19:38 > 0:19:41and she looked at me and said, "No."
0:19:41 > 0:19:46And I was like, "Cool, I love you, I love you so much. Bye!"
0:19:46 > 0:19:50But I respected it. I like when people are honest.
0:19:50 > 0:19:51Rather than, "Yeah, call me!"
0:19:53 > 0:19:57- So, I liked it.- Elton, you've made a few forays into film.
0:19:57 > 0:20:01You were just in a big British hit, Kingsman: The Golden Circle.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04Yes, I didn't know what I was kind of letting myself in for,
0:20:04 > 0:20:06but I enjoyed it. I didn't think I was going to enjoy it
0:20:06 > 0:20:08because I don't like doing music videos.
0:20:08 > 0:20:09In fact, I stopped doing them years ago,
0:20:09 > 0:20:12because there was a lot of hanging around backstage and I get bored.
0:20:12 > 0:20:13But actually, I had incredible fun,
0:20:13 > 0:20:16but my scenes were with Colin Firth and Julianne Moore,
0:20:16 > 0:20:18so it was pretty fantastic.
0:20:18 > 0:20:20And let's not forget, your marvellous work
0:20:20 > 0:20:23in one of the most successful British films of all time,
0:20:23 > 0:20:25that film is Spice World.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:20:27 > 0:20:29Yes. There you are.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34Doing your cameo. Do you have any memory of that day at all?
0:20:34 > 0:20:37It was done at the BBC, that's all.
0:20:37 > 0:20:38That's all I can remember.
0:20:38 > 0:20:40In the BBC lobby, I think.
0:20:40 > 0:20:42I'm pretty sure I was in that film as well.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45- Yeah, you were.- I was, I think, a judge or something.
0:20:45 > 0:20:49- Yeah.- I remember, they were so... The reason I did it,
0:20:49 > 0:20:51I don't know if you were the same,
0:20:51 > 0:20:52was because I had nephews and nieces,
0:20:52 > 0:20:55- and if I hadn't done it, they would have killed me!- Exactly.
0:20:55 > 0:20:56Because I could get their autographs,
0:20:56 > 0:20:57that's how huge they were.
0:20:57 > 0:21:00There was this period when they were bigger than anything on the planet,
0:21:00 > 0:21:02- wasn't there?- Exactly. - And I remember,
0:21:02 > 0:21:04Victoria Beckham came up... Not Beckham, she wasn't then.
0:21:04 > 0:21:07- Victoria whatever she was then. - Adams.- Adams, thank you.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09- Posh Spice, I think her name was. - Posh Spice.
0:21:09 > 0:21:11And she'd read one of my novels. She said, "You wrote a book
0:21:11 > 0:21:15"called The Hippopotamus," and I just fell in love, completely.
0:21:15 > 0:21:18I just thought what a brilliant, stylish, clever woman.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21Whatever you think, these Spice Girls, no,
0:21:21 > 0:21:23they've got something, I think.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26And actually, I remember...
0:21:26 > 0:21:29- The Prince of Wales... - She was lying.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33It was before Wikipedia, so how would she have looked it up?
0:21:33 > 0:21:37But there was the 50th...
0:21:37 > 0:21:39There was a special show for the 50th birthday
0:21:39 > 0:21:41of the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles. And they were on it
0:21:41 > 0:21:44And I was emceeing it or whatever it was, hosting it,
0:21:44 > 0:21:46and there was a line-up afterwards.
0:21:46 > 0:21:50And, I mean, they didn't care, it was all Girl Power.
0:21:50 > 0:21:51The Prince of Wales,
0:21:51 > 0:21:53"Hello, wonderful, lovely, thank you so much."
0:21:53 > 0:21:56And he got to them and the first thing...
0:21:56 > 0:21:58- Emma Bunting?- Baby Spice. LAUGHTER
0:21:58 > 0:22:03She said, "Oh, Sir, Sir, Highness, Sir?
0:22:03 > 0:22:06"Do you have a Prince Albert?"
0:22:06 > 0:22:10And he said, "Yes, I'm his great-great-grandson, yes."
0:22:10 > 0:22:12"No, do you HAVE one?"
0:22:12 > 0:22:15He said, "Well, he was the husband of Queen Victoria."
0:22:15 > 0:22:17And he looked at me, completely baffled,
0:22:17 > 0:22:20and he didn't know what a Prince Albert was.
0:22:20 > 0:22:24So I had to say, "Well, Sir, it's an item of intimate jewellery."
0:22:25 > 0:22:28"What do you mean, sort of...?" I said, "No, further south."
0:22:30 > 0:22:33"Is it called a Prince Albert?" I said, "Yes."
0:22:33 > 0:22:36And he was like, "Oh, my heavens!" He had to have a lie down, I think.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41I admired their spunk, as it were, to, you know...
0:22:41 > 0:22:44That's how an Australian would put it.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46- It's an icebreaker?- Yeah.
0:22:46 > 0:22:49- To ask him...- I think we have a picture of the moment he met them.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52- There he is.- That's me in the background.
0:22:52 > 0:22:54Everyone seems very distracted by Geri.
0:22:56 > 0:22:58Prince Charles is just pointing at her absentmindedly.
0:22:58 > 0:23:02Do you know, he did tell me... I think it's OK to repeat this,
0:23:02 > 0:23:04but the Prince of Wales did tell me once
0:23:04 > 0:23:07that the best piece of advice his father had ever given him...
0:23:07 > 0:23:09He said, "When you're doing a photograph
0:23:09 > 0:23:12"and you're doing a line-up and there are women,
0:23:12 > 0:23:14"always look only into their eyes.
0:23:14 > 0:23:17"Don't for a second let your eyes drop to their chest."
0:23:17 > 0:23:19Because that's when the photograph goes off.
0:23:19 > 0:23:21And if you look, he's not looking down.
0:23:21 > 0:23:24All the rest of us, even us gay boys, are looking at her.
0:23:24 > 0:23:25LAUGHTER
0:23:25 > 0:23:27He is very smartly...
0:23:27 > 0:23:32LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:23:32 > 0:23:34- Now, Stephen Fry has a book. He's got a book out.- Heavens.
0:23:34 > 0:23:37- I know he has.- Yes.- Oh, bless you! - I've got it here. It's called...
0:23:37 > 0:23:39- Is it in your cupboard? - It is in my cupboard.
0:23:39 > 0:23:41My capacious cupboard. It's called Mythos.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43Now, this is Greek myths retold.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46And it is one of those things, when you go through this book,
0:23:46 > 0:23:48you realise that actually, we know,
0:23:48 > 0:23:50I think people think we don't know these stories, but actually,
0:23:50 > 0:23:53when you see all the names, they're all things...
0:23:53 > 0:23:54They're deep within the DNA, as it were,
0:23:54 > 0:23:57of our culture, aren't they? I mean... Yeah.
0:23:57 > 0:23:59I remember when the internet started,
0:23:59 > 0:24:02I remember thinking it was the most magnificent thing
0:24:02 > 0:24:04that had ever happened in human history.
0:24:04 > 0:24:05Even greater than printing,
0:24:05 > 0:24:07it would bring us all together
0:24:07 > 0:24:10and it reminded me of Pandora, who was...
0:24:10 > 0:24:11The gods made this woman,
0:24:11 > 0:24:15the first woman and it means "all gifted" in Greek, Pandora,
0:24:15 > 0:24:18and they sent her down with this box
0:24:18 > 0:24:21and she arrived and she had all the gifts
0:24:21 > 0:24:24and she was perfect and everyone fell in love with her,
0:24:24 > 0:24:26but she couldn't help but open this box.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28And things flew out of the box.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30Now, that was the internet. I thought it was perfect,
0:24:30 > 0:24:32I thought it was going to break down barriers,
0:24:32 > 0:24:34we would all understand each other,
0:24:34 > 0:24:38everything would be love and knowledge and tolerance
0:24:38 > 0:24:40and a genuine empathy,
0:24:40 > 0:24:43all the national barriers would break down, instead of which,
0:24:43 > 0:24:47like Pandora's Box, out flew all the ills of the world, you know,
0:24:47 > 0:24:50in the case of Pandora, it was starvation and murder
0:24:50 > 0:24:54and lies and hatred and intolerance and all these things
0:24:54 > 0:24:57flew out and these pests settled in the world.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00And that's the terror of the internet, it seemed to happen.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03It was going to be so great, and what went wrong?
0:25:03 > 0:25:04- It was a Pandora's Box.- Yeah.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07But it's interesting, because all these stories,
0:25:07 > 0:25:09- they warn us of all these dangers.- They do.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12- And they're great stories. - And they all have a moral in the end
0:25:12 > 0:25:14and these are such old stories and yet what you're saying
0:25:14 > 0:25:18- sort of means we have learned nothing from them.- Absolutely squid.
0:25:18 > 0:25:22- Yeah. Nothing.- And not to be... Did you know all the stories?
0:25:22 > 0:25:24I was obsessed with them as a child,
0:25:24 > 0:25:26but obviously I researched them again,
0:25:26 > 0:25:28busied myself in looking them up
0:25:28 > 0:25:31and they are so great, they are, aren't they? Have you enjoyed them?
0:25:31 > 0:25:35I have. Oddly, I studied Greek and Roman civilisation at university.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37Did you really?
0:25:37 > 0:25:40For a year, because they failed no-one.
0:25:40 > 0:25:41LAUGHTER
0:25:43 > 0:25:46- And who was your favourite hero? - Honestly, I did nothing.
0:25:46 > 0:25:52I picked my nose and burnt holes in a coffee cup, that was all I did.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55Nothing. So this was very good to read.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57They were fresh to my mind.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59Right, it's time to meet our final guest.
0:25:59 > 0:26:00For the last 27 years,
0:26:00 > 0:26:03this pop superstar has been part of our lives.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06Now he unveils his own life in the new book, Reveal.
0:26:06 > 0:26:09Please welcome Mr Robbie Williams! APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:26:09 > 0:26:13MUSIC: Rock DJ by Robbie Williams
0:26:14 > 0:26:16Hello, how are you?
0:26:21 > 0:26:24- Lovely to see you.- Hello, darling, nice to meet you.
0:26:25 > 0:26:28- Hello.- It's you!- Hi. - You look very good.- Thank you.
0:26:29 > 0:26:32Hi, babe!
0:26:32 > 0:26:33- Hi, everybody! - CHEERING
0:26:33 > 0:26:36- Sit here.- Where am I sitting?
0:26:36 > 0:26:39- Wow!- Hello!- I've got a book.
0:26:39 > 0:26:41Oh, yes, you do. You do!
0:26:41 > 0:26:45That is fascinating. Mine's about farting.
0:26:45 > 0:26:48I have to say, we love having you on the show, Robbie Williams.
0:26:48 > 0:26:50- Thank you very much. - You always tell great stories.
0:26:50 > 0:26:54But do the people who love you, your friends and family,
0:26:54 > 0:26:55are they sitting at home now
0:26:55 > 0:26:58sort of terrified of what stories you're going to tell?
0:26:58 > 0:27:00Er... Yeah, they are.
0:27:00 > 0:27:04And I'd like to apologise to all of my family, my wife,
0:27:04 > 0:27:07and all of the celebrities I'm about to slag off!
0:27:07 > 0:27:10Well, no, of course, your wife... I think, was your wife...
0:27:10 > 0:27:12Was she genuinely was upset after you told the story
0:27:12 > 0:27:13about her giving birth?
0:27:13 > 0:27:17Yeah, she was genuinely upset, yeah, because I said,
0:27:17 > 0:27:20the birth of our first child, Teddy, I said that it...
0:27:20 > 0:27:22Because I was in the delivery room
0:27:22 > 0:27:26and the head was coming through and it reminded me...
0:27:26 > 0:27:29Well, I thought it was like my favourite pub burning down.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35But I am delighted to discover that
0:27:35 > 0:27:38she's opened an off-licence round the back.
0:27:40 > 0:27:42With the second child...
0:27:42 > 0:27:46Oh, it's going to be a quiet Christmas in the Williams house!
0:27:50 > 0:27:52Now, before we get to the book, I have to say,
0:27:52 > 0:27:54you know everyone on the couch,
0:27:54 > 0:27:55but have you met Pink in the flesh before?
0:27:55 > 0:27:57- We've met before.- Once, yeah.
0:27:57 > 0:28:01Once in Los Angeles and Pink's got a...
0:28:01 > 0:28:03We've got a mutual friend
0:28:03 > 0:28:06and her mutual friend got hold of me on e-mail
0:28:06 > 0:28:08and said Pink wants to talk to you,
0:28:08 > 0:28:10is it all right if I give her your e-mail?
0:28:10 > 0:28:12And I'm like, "Please do!
0:28:12 > 0:28:15"Very excited to find out what Pink wants!"
0:28:15 > 0:28:18And then you sent an e-mail back and it was sort of, like,
0:28:18 > 0:28:21I'm not making head nor tail of this, I don't understand it at all.
0:28:21 > 0:28:26And, er, there was like several e-mails before you were like,
0:28:26 > 0:28:28"Wait, are you Robbie the chef?"
0:28:28 > 0:28:32LAUGHTER
0:28:32 > 0:28:35"No, I'm Robbie the Williams."
0:28:37 > 0:28:39- Well, we'd... - What were you saying to him?
0:28:39 > 0:28:41I think I was asking him about salmon!
0:28:41 > 0:28:42I don't remember!
0:28:44 > 0:28:45And I tried my best to answer.
0:28:47 > 0:28:48Yeah. But we laughed.
0:28:48 > 0:28:51We did. Now, the book, the book.
0:28:51 > 0:28:55Reveal, here it is. By Chris Heath, who obviously spent
0:28:55 > 0:28:59an awful lot of time with you and had access to, kind of, your life.
0:28:59 > 0:29:01This is so you.
0:29:01 > 0:29:04Because a lot of these books can feel a bit guarded,
0:29:04 > 0:29:06a bit filtered and this doesn't.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08- No, it's not.- No, it really isn't.
0:29:08 > 0:29:11And actually what's really nice is that Chris Heath kind of
0:29:11 > 0:29:13puts in the book, you know,
0:29:13 > 0:29:16after he'll listen to you and Aida talking, "And I said to them,
0:29:16 > 0:29:19" 'Is it OK to put this in the book?' " And you say yes.
0:29:19 > 0:29:23I think the problem is that I don't proofread them.
0:29:23 > 0:29:25So, if I'd have proofread it,
0:29:25 > 0:29:27if I had read it at all, I'd have known,
0:29:27 > 0:29:29"Oh, God, they can't know that about me!
0:29:29 > 0:29:31"That makes me look an awful person."
0:29:31 > 0:29:36But all the awful stuff is in there and hopefully interesting bits
0:29:36 > 0:29:38and I hope to make you laugh.
0:29:38 > 0:29:41And they are amazing stories, but obviously, they're not...
0:29:41 > 0:29:43You're not the only person in the book.
0:29:43 > 0:29:45Did you contact other people, for instance, Geri Halliwell,
0:29:45 > 0:29:49did you ring her and say, is it OK if I put that story about...?
0:29:49 > 0:29:51No, I haven't done that.
0:29:51 > 0:29:52LAUGHTER
0:29:52 > 0:29:55No, she doesn't come out of it badly, it's just...
0:29:55 > 0:29:58Yeah, yeah, yeah, she doesn't come out of it badly, no.
0:29:58 > 0:30:00So, you were dating at the time.
0:30:00 > 0:30:04Well, we weren't dating, we were friends and you know...
0:30:04 > 0:30:09And, erm... I used to have this flat in Notting Hill
0:30:09 > 0:30:13and the window was...
0:30:13 > 0:30:16It was quite public, it was quite a public flat,
0:30:16 > 0:30:19and I'd be watching the TV and a bus would pull up
0:30:19 > 0:30:21and it'd be the top deck and they'd just be like,
0:30:21 > 0:30:24watching Robbie Williams watch the television,
0:30:24 > 0:30:27every 20 minutes.
0:30:27 > 0:30:28And that particular evening,
0:30:28 > 0:30:33Geri was around at the flat and I don't know how,
0:30:33 > 0:30:39but 20-25 paparazzi were outside and they were letting the flash lights
0:30:39 > 0:30:42go off like this trying to get us to come to the window.
0:30:42 > 0:30:44And I thought, "I'm going to phone the police
0:30:44 > 0:30:46"and see what my rights are. I don't want to bother the police,
0:30:46 > 0:30:49"but I'd like to know, cos this is weird."
0:30:49 > 0:30:50And the policeman came around and I said,
0:30:50 > 0:30:53"I'm really sorry to get you round, mate,
0:30:53 > 0:30:57"I don't want to be a hindrance, but I've got all of these paparazzi
0:30:57 > 0:30:59"and I just want to know what my rights are."
0:30:59 > 0:31:02And the policeman goes, "Can I stop you?"
0:31:02 > 0:31:07And I said, "Yeah." And he said, "When you start out in your career,
0:31:07 > 0:31:09"that's when you want the press, isn't it?
0:31:09 > 0:31:12"But then when the press want something from you,
0:31:12 > 0:31:16"you don't like that, do you?" And I'm thinking, "Oh, no...
0:31:16 > 0:31:19"Now I've got a policeman in my house,
0:31:19 > 0:31:21"and a Geri Halliwell hiding in the cupboard
0:31:21 > 0:31:24"right next to the policeman while we're having this conversation."
0:31:24 > 0:31:26And I'm like, "I've just got to get him out,"
0:31:26 > 0:31:29because I don't want to be told off.
0:31:29 > 0:31:31And I'm like, "Yeah, thanks, mate,
0:31:31 > 0:31:34"thanks for coming round, you're right, I'm sorry." Doff the cap,
0:31:34 > 0:31:35off he went. And I'm like,
0:31:35 > 0:31:40"Oh, Geri, we can't do anything about the paparazzi
0:31:40 > 0:31:42"and we should get out of here."
0:31:42 > 0:31:46And I had the genius idea to put her in a holdall.
0:31:48 > 0:31:50She's a very small person.
0:31:50 > 0:31:54And I literally put her in this duffle bag
0:31:54 > 0:31:57and put her over my shoulder
0:31:57 > 0:31:59and, like, the paparazzi are all taking pictures
0:31:59 > 0:32:01and I'm like, "Hi, guys..."
0:32:01 > 0:32:06She had her car and I put her in the boot of her car.
0:32:06 > 0:32:09Right? Which...is funny.
0:32:09 > 0:32:11And, er...
0:32:11 > 0:32:13When we got to the service station and I had a KFC,
0:32:13 > 0:32:16- I could have let her out.- No!
0:32:16 > 0:32:18I could have let her out, but, you know...
0:32:19 > 0:32:23..nature called and I had to have that chicken.
0:32:24 > 0:32:27So, yeah, that was the moment Geri Halliwell was put in a holdall
0:32:27 > 0:32:29in my house. It's in the book.
0:32:29 > 0:32:31And there is something about...
0:32:31 > 0:32:35You guys have probably done this too, that rock star bad behaviour.
0:32:35 > 0:32:36That...
0:32:36 > 0:32:39I don't know what it is about rock stars.
0:32:39 > 0:32:42Have you ever done the television out the window?
0:32:42 > 0:32:44- No.- Television out the window?
0:32:44 > 0:32:47- PINK:- Oh, no.- Did you ever think about doing the television
0:32:47 > 0:32:51out the window, but you knew it was just a stupid mug's game?
0:32:51 > 0:32:53My manager threw a television out the window,
0:32:53 > 0:32:54in Australia and then Perth.
0:32:54 > 0:32:56And, erm...
0:32:56 > 0:32:59Suddenly, my Australian promoter came up, just in a bed sheet,
0:32:59 > 0:33:03saying "Darling, it's like Beirut down there!"
0:33:03 > 0:33:05Erm...
0:33:05 > 0:33:07But, no, I've never...
0:33:07 > 0:33:10- I've never done that. - But the thing about these books is,
0:33:10 > 0:33:13they are... Because you are doing one right now, Elton, aren't you?
0:33:13 > 0:33:14A book, yeah.
0:33:14 > 0:33:16And are you going to be...?
0:33:16 > 0:33:18- Yes, I am.- OK.- Yeah.
0:33:18 > 0:33:20Should people be worried?
0:33:20 > 0:33:22Some people, yeah.
0:33:23 > 0:33:25It's not a nasty book. But there are...
0:33:25 > 0:33:27I mean, I've lived the rock and roll life
0:33:27 > 0:33:30- and a lot of things have happened. - Did you put Leo Sayer in a holdall?
0:33:32 > 0:33:34No, but I'd like to have done.
0:33:36 > 0:33:38He'd be perfect! Hop in, Leo!
0:33:38 > 0:33:42# You make me feel like dancing! #
0:33:42 > 0:33:46Carey Mulligan, I doubt you would write an autobiography, would you?
0:33:46 > 0:33:49- No, no.- Cos you don't even tell people what you do for a living.
0:33:49 > 0:33:52No, I can't handle the disappointment.
0:33:52 > 0:33:54You say you're an actress and they go,
0:33:54 > 0:33:55"Oh, wow! What have you been in?"
0:33:55 > 0:33:58And then you list off, like, 15 independent films
0:33:58 > 0:34:01that had an audience of, about, my mum and...
0:34:01 > 0:34:04..my next-door neighbours and they look so crushed
0:34:04 > 0:34:09that I just lie and I say, like, I'm studying geography at university.
0:34:09 > 0:34:12I told someone I was a documentary film-maker last week.
0:34:12 > 0:34:14It was an Uber driver and he told me his favourite film was Saw.
0:34:14 > 0:34:17And then he asked me what I did.
0:34:17 > 0:34:19And I said I'm making a documentary.
0:34:19 > 0:34:22Because I was going to sort of filmy place and it looked like...
0:34:22 > 0:34:24So I didn't want to crush him.
0:34:24 > 0:34:27You don't really want a driver whose favourite film is Saw!
0:34:28 > 0:34:33That's a bit of a worry! Did you have your finger on your phone?
0:34:34 > 0:34:36- That was, like, the first thing he said.- Whoa!- Yeah.
0:34:36 > 0:34:39- That is weird! It was a bit weird. - That was the opener?
0:34:39 > 0:34:42That was his opener, because I was going to a film studio.
0:34:42 > 0:34:44He was like, "I love movies, my favourite movie is Saw..."
0:34:44 > 0:34:48- And The Human Centipede! - "What do you do?" Yeah.
0:34:48 > 0:34:49Errrr!
0:34:51 > 0:34:53Robbie, very quickly, because Pink is about to perform,
0:34:53 > 0:34:57can you just quickly tell us the story about being in LA
0:34:57 > 0:35:00- and meeting the gangster?- Yeah.
0:35:00 > 0:35:02So, erm... I...
0:35:02 > 0:35:04In Los Angeles, before children,
0:35:04 > 0:35:06I used to have this house that was just for football.
0:35:06 > 0:35:08I had a football pitch in the back.
0:35:08 > 0:35:10- This is so rock and roll, I love this.- I remember that.
0:35:10 > 0:35:13- Yeah, you came up. - A special house for football?
0:35:13 > 0:35:14A special house for football.
0:35:14 > 0:35:16And then the kids came and that was the end of that.
0:35:16 > 0:35:18That was the end of the fun.
0:35:19 > 0:35:23So I'm up there one evening playing football
0:35:23 > 0:35:25and there's a lot of people up there, a small drive,
0:35:25 > 0:35:27somebody's parked on the drive
0:35:27 > 0:35:31and my neighbour can't get his car up the drive.
0:35:31 > 0:35:35My neighbour is Joe Pesci.
0:35:35 > 0:35:37- Oh, yeah.- There he is.
0:35:37 > 0:35:43That's the exact look he gave as he turned into the football pitch
0:35:43 > 0:35:45with a nine iron and came at everyone.
0:35:45 > 0:35:49"You mother... I'll do this... You mother... Your car..."
0:35:49 > 0:35:52And it was absolutely terrifying.
0:35:52 > 0:35:56Because, you know, he does that face so well.
0:35:56 > 0:36:00And I was absolutely mortified and pretended it wasn't my house.
0:36:00 > 0:36:03"I don't know, he's an idiot, the guy that owns the place."
0:36:03 > 0:36:05You should have been like Macaulay Culkin
0:36:05 > 0:36:08and done all these booby-traps for him.
0:36:08 > 0:36:13I didn't think. So I sort of scarper and I get out of there
0:36:13 > 0:36:18and the next day, I hastily arrange a sign that says no parking.
0:36:18 > 0:36:21And I stick it down so everybody knows,
0:36:21 > 0:36:24including Mr Joey Pesci - sorry, mate -
0:36:24 > 0:36:29that, you know I was doing something to stop this from happening.
0:36:29 > 0:36:33That evening, I went to an Italian restaurant
0:36:33 > 0:36:37and the guy came over to me and he went,
0:36:37 > 0:36:40"Hey... I really like what you did for Joey."
0:36:45 > 0:36:50- Oh!- So now I'm... Like, I'm socially awkward and socially unaware
0:36:50 > 0:36:53and I'm now proper shitting myself.
0:36:53 > 0:36:57And I'm watching people as they leave the restaurant,
0:36:57 > 0:37:01kind of go up to him and kiss him like this
0:37:01 > 0:37:06and, like, 20 people have done it and I don't want to go to the loo.
0:37:06 > 0:37:08Because I don't want him to see me again.
0:37:08 > 0:37:11I don't want him to know I'm leaving.
0:37:11 > 0:37:13I'm thinking, I must go to the loo, I can do it.
0:37:13 > 0:37:17So I go to the loo and I'm coming back and as I'm leaving...
0:37:17 > 0:37:20..this Italian restaurant... Will you stand up a second?
0:37:20 > 0:37:23He's stood on some stairs, this guy,
0:37:23 > 0:37:25this gangster dude and I sort of, like,
0:37:25 > 0:37:28was so nervous I went over to him and just went...
0:37:31 > 0:37:32Kissed his Adam's apple.
0:37:36 > 0:37:41- I'm still alive!- You're still alive! - Still alive.- Very good.
0:37:41 > 0:37:43OK, it is time for music.
0:37:43 > 0:37:45- Pink, if you'd like to go over to your band?- OK.
0:37:45 > 0:37:51CHEERING There she goes!
0:37:51 > 0:37:52Performing What About Us
0:37:52 > 0:37:56from the new album Beautiful Trauma, it is Pink!
0:38:09 > 0:38:13# We are searchlights, we can see in the dark
0:38:17 > 0:38:23# We are rockets, pointed up at the stars
0:38:25 > 0:38:30# We are billions of beautiful hearts
0:38:34 > 0:38:39# And you sold us down the river too far
0:38:42 > 0:38:44# What about us?
0:38:44 > 0:38:48# What about all the times you said you had the answers?
0:38:50 > 0:38:52# What about us?
0:38:52 > 0:38:56# What about all the broken happy ever afters?
0:38:59 > 0:39:01# What about us?
0:39:01 > 0:39:05# What about all the plans that ended in disaster?
0:39:07 > 0:39:11# What about love? What about trust?
0:39:11 > 0:39:13# What about us?
0:39:16 > 0:39:21# We are problems that want to be solved
0:39:24 > 0:39:30# We are children that need to be loved
0:39:32 > 0:39:38# We were willin', we came when you called
0:39:41 > 0:39:49# But man, you fooled us, enough is enough, oh
0:39:49 > 0:39:51# What about us?
0:39:51 > 0:39:56# What about all the times you said you had the answers?
0:39:58 > 0:40:00# What about us?
0:40:00 > 0:40:04# What about all the broken happy ever afters?
0:40:04 > 0:40:08# Oh, what about us?
0:40:08 > 0:40:14# What about all the plans that ended in disaster?
0:40:14 > 0:40:18# What about love? What about trust?
0:40:18 > 0:40:21# What about us?
0:40:30 > 0:40:33# Oh, what about us?
0:40:33 > 0:40:38# What about all the plans that ended in disaster?
0:40:40 > 0:40:44# Sticks and stones, they may break these bones
0:40:44 > 0:40:49# But then I'll be ready, are you ready?
0:40:49 > 0:40:53# It's the start of us, waking up, come on
0:40:53 > 0:40:57# Are you ready? I'll be ready
0:40:57 > 0:41:02# I don't want control, I want to let go
0:41:02 > 0:41:06# Are you ready? I'll be ready
0:41:06 > 0:41:10# Cos now it's time to let them know
0:41:10 > 0:41:16- # We are ready - What about us?
0:41:16 > 0:41:20# What about all the times you said you had the answers?
0:41:22 > 0:41:24# So what about us?
0:41:24 > 0:41:29# What about all the broken happy ever afters?
0:41:29 > 0:41:33# Oh, what about us?
0:41:33 > 0:41:37# What about all the plans that ended in disaster?
0:41:38 > 0:41:43# Oh, what about love? What about trust?
0:41:43 > 0:41:45# What about us?
0:41:47 > 0:41:50# What about us? What about us?
0:41:50 > 0:41:55# What about us? #
0:41:55 > 0:41:56APPLAUSE AND CHEERING
0:41:56 > 0:42:00Oh! Pink, everybody!
0:42:00 > 0:42:02Beautiful job!
0:42:05 > 0:42:07Nailed it, nailed it!
0:42:10 > 0:42:13- Come back and join us. There she is!- Thanks.
0:42:13 > 0:42:18I agree, you've got the pinkest iPhone cover in the world!
0:42:18 > 0:42:21Very quickly, Pink, I totally forgot to mention earlier,
0:42:21 > 0:42:24you at the AMAs, the American Music Awards,
0:42:24 > 0:42:25I don't know if you saw this.
0:42:25 > 0:42:27- I became a stuntwoman.- Yes. CHEERING
0:42:27 > 0:42:30So, you were hanging, how many feet?
0:42:30 > 0:42:31- That's you in the purple there? - That's me.
0:42:31 > 0:42:35- That little ant. - How many floors up are you there?
0:42:35 > 0:42:37Erm... I don't know how many floors, I was 200 feet.
0:42:37 > 0:42:39Wow! We've got a close-up of you. It is really you.
0:42:39 > 0:42:43But the best part was the people inside the rooms.
0:42:43 > 0:42:44- So it's a hotel?- Yes.
0:42:44 > 0:42:48- And people were in their rooms? - They were just like... "Hey!"
0:42:48 > 0:42:51- And you were singing live? - Yes, I was.- What possessed you?
0:42:51 > 0:42:52Erm...
0:42:52 > 0:42:55- Oh, I don't know, I was terrified. - Were you? I'm glad you were scared,
0:42:55 > 0:42:57because it would be weird if you weren't.
0:42:57 > 0:42:58I don't need to do that again.
0:42:58 > 0:43:00- No.- Check!- Yeah.
0:43:00 > 0:43:03- But you have become fond of the aerial...- I do.
0:43:03 > 0:43:05- I love it, it's fun. - Didn't you have an accident once,
0:43:05 > 0:43:08- where you were pulled off stage? - I did.- I remember.- Into a barricade.
0:43:08 > 0:43:11- That's right.- It was the first time I've ever impressed my husband.
0:43:11 > 0:43:13Because he's a stunt driver and everything.
0:43:13 > 0:43:15He was like, finally, a real crash!
0:43:17 > 0:43:20- He shares a name with Carey, doesn't he?- I know.- He's a Carey as well.
0:43:20 > 0:43:22He got beat up for having that name.
0:43:22 > 0:43:24- Oh, really?- Yeah.
0:43:24 > 0:43:25Well, that's a happy story.
0:43:25 > 0:43:27LAUGHTER
0:43:29 > 0:43:31No, because everyone said it was a girl's name.
0:43:31 > 0:43:33Yeah, it's kind of unisex.
0:43:33 > 0:43:37- I think so.- Cary Grant. Though he didn't have the E.- Good point, yeah.
0:43:37 > 0:43:40We could talk about this a long time, but let's not.
0:43:41 > 0:43:44Normally, I feel bad leaving the couch to go to the red chair,
0:43:44 > 0:43:45but, no, this is good.
0:43:47 > 0:43:49So, let's go for a visit to the Big Red Chair.
0:43:49 > 0:43:51Who's there? Hello.
0:43:51 > 0:43:53- Hello.- Hi, what's your name? - Hamish.- Hamish.
0:43:53 > 0:43:55- Lovely. Where are you from, Hamish? - Herefordshire.
0:43:55 > 0:43:58OK. And do you work in Herefordshire?
0:43:58 > 0:44:02No, I'm now living in London. I'm training to be a theatre director.
0:44:02 > 0:44:04Oh, right! He's training to be one.
0:44:04 > 0:44:06Not one yet.
0:44:06 > 0:44:09But soon. Do you graduate?
0:44:09 > 0:44:13I graduate this... Well, summer of 2018.
0:44:13 > 0:44:15OK. Then he'll be ready.
0:44:15 > 0:44:17OK, Hamish, off you go with your story.
0:44:17 > 0:44:20So I was on a family holiday at Center Parcs
0:44:20 > 0:44:23and we were racing down the rapids that they have there
0:44:23 > 0:44:27I saw my dad up ahead of me so I thought to slow him down,
0:44:27 > 0:44:30I would kind of stealthily sneak up on him
0:44:30 > 0:44:33and pull down his swimming trunks, to slow him down and overtake.
0:44:33 > 0:44:35So I did exactly that, snuck up on him,
0:44:35 > 0:44:38pulled down his swimming trunks and he turns around
0:44:38 > 0:44:40and it's not my dad...
0:44:40 > 0:44:42LAUGHTER DROWNS SPEECH
0:44:42 > 0:44:44And I had no idea what to do, I'm staring at him,
0:44:44 > 0:44:47so I just slowly start to slide them back up.
0:44:48 > 0:44:51- Give him a little pat. - That's a great story.
0:44:51 > 0:44:53You can walk, Hamish, you can walk!
0:44:56 > 0:45:01- That was good. - I wondered who that was!
0:45:01 > 0:45:02I rather enjoyed it.
0:45:04 > 0:45:06Have we loaded the chair?
0:45:06 > 0:45:08- Oh, we have! Hello.- Oh, no...
0:45:09 > 0:45:12- Hello! - CHEERING
0:45:12 > 0:45:15- It's my wife!- It is. I thought it was.
0:45:15 > 0:45:17I believe I know you. It's Aida, isn't it?
0:45:17 > 0:45:19It is. Hi, Graham!
0:45:19 > 0:45:22- Hi, everybody! - Is this Aida's revenge?
0:45:22 > 0:45:25- It is, Graham, it is!- It isn't!
0:45:29 > 0:45:30Sorry, love!
0:45:34 > 0:45:37- Merciless! - Christmas just got even quieter!
0:45:38 > 0:45:41Well done, everyone. If you'd like to join us on the show...
0:45:41 > 0:45:44BOOING No, he flipped her! That's it!
0:45:44 > 0:45:47LOUDER BOOING If you want to join us on the show
0:45:47 > 0:45:50and have a go in the Red Chair...
0:45:50 > 0:45:52Look, I don't work for Relate!
0:45:52 > 0:45:54All right? If you want a go in the red chair,
0:45:54 > 0:45:56you can contact us via our website at this address.
0:45:56 > 0:45:59That is it for tonight. Please say a huge thank you to my guests
0:45:59 > 0:46:07Pink, Stephen Fry, Carey Mulligan, Robbie Williams...
0:46:07 > 0:46:10..and Sir Elton John!
0:46:13 > 0:46:15Join me next week with a packed sofa.
0:46:15 > 0:46:17We've got pop star Noel Gallagher,
0:46:17 > 0:46:20funny ladies Dawn French and Rebel Wilson,
0:46:20 > 0:46:22actors Jessica Chastain and Jack Black,
0:46:22 > 0:46:25comedian Kevin Hart and Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
0:46:25 > 0:46:27I'll see you then! Goodnight, everybody, bye-bye!