0:00:02 > 0:00:04Telly, that magic box in the corner.
0:00:04 > 0:00:07It gives us access to a million different worlds,
0:00:07 > 0:00:10all from the comfort of our sofa.
0:00:10 > 0:00:12In this series, I'm going to journey through
0:00:12 > 0:00:16the fantastic world of TV with some of our favourite celebrities.
0:00:16 > 0:00:21They've chosen the precious TV moments that shed light...
0:00:21 > 0:00:22I loved this.
0:00:22 > 0:00:24- BOTH:- Crackerjack!
0:00:24 > 0:00:25..on the stories of their lives.
0:00:25 > 0:00:28Listen, this looks smashing.
0:00:28 > 0:00:29- BOTH:- # Right on time... #
0:00:29 > 0:00:30Some are funny...
0:00:30 > 0:00:32THEY LAUGH
0:00:32 > 0:00:34HIGH PITCHED: # ..became of the people... #
0:00:34 > 0:00:36- Some...- Just like that.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38..are surprising.
0:00:38 > 0:00:40I'll let you into a secret I've never told anyone before.
0:00:40 > 0:00:41Some are inspiring...
0:00:41 > 0:00:44I wanted to be a Miss something.
0:00:44 > 0:00:47The best TV transports you.
0:00:47 > 0:00:50- And many...- Did George Orwell get his predictions right?
0:00:50 > 0:00:51It's all so dramatic.
0:00:51 > 0:00:53- ..are deeply moving.- Oh!
0:00:53 > 0:00:54'The death of John F Kennedy...'
0:00:54 > 0:00:56This takes me back.
0:00:56 > 0:01:00- It makes me want to cry. - Oh, you can have a cry if you want.
0:01:00 > 0:01:03So come watch with us as we hand-pick the vintage telly
0:01:03 > 0:01:06that helped turn our much-loved stars
0:01:06 > 0:01:08into the people they are today.
0:01:09 > 0:01:11Welcome to The TV That Made Me.
0:01:20 > 0:01:24My guest today is an international sports champion
0:01:24 > 0:01:28who's had a swimming pool, a pub and a train named after her.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31She even managed to withstand the horrors of the
0:01:31 > 0:01:33I'm A Celebrity jungle.
0:01:33 > 0:01:37Yes, she's Britain's most decorated female Olympian,
0:01:37 > 0:01:40Rebecca Adlington, and the TV that made her includes
0:01:40 > 0:01:44the TV legend who brought us a lorra, lorra love.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47And Carmelo from Manchester.
0:01:47 > 0:01:51And the cooking show that offered us a little bit of afternoon delight.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53It's up to you now to decide who's going to be the winner.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56Green peppers or red tomatoes? Would you please vote now?
0:01:56 > 0:02:00It can only be the one and only Rebecca Adlington is here
0:02:00 > 0:02:01with a pillow.
0:02:01 > 0:02:05LAUGHING: Yeah. I haven't stuffed my dress, don't worry.
0:02:05 > 0:02:10- So, do you get much time to watch TV?- Yeah. I love TV.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13- Yeah?- TV... Especially, like, when I was an athlete, it's how you
0:02:13 > 0:02:15switch off, it's how you relax, how you unwind.
0:02:15 > 0:02:17So, I'm such a TV girl.
0:02:17 > 0:02:19Today is a celebration.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21What we've done, we've picked some TV highlights,
0:02:21 > 0:02:24well, you've picked some TV highlights that probably made you
0:02:24 > 0:02:25into the person you are today.
0:02:25 > 0:02:29But first up, we're going to have a look at a very young Rebecca.
0:02:30 > 0:02:34In 1989, Rebecca Adlington entered the world.
0:02:34 > 0:02:38Or to be more exact, the town of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40And just three years later, her parents enrolled her for
0:02:40 > 0:02:44swimming lessons, a decision that will ultimately lead Rebecca to win
0:02:44 > 0:02:50a staggering 17 international medals - including seven golds -
0:02:50 > 0:02:53making her one of our most successful athletes,
0:02:53 > 0:02:56something she says she could never have achieved without her mum,
0:02:56 > 0:02:59dad and two older sisters.
0:02:59 > 0:03:02It must absolutely engulf your world, your life.
0:03:02 > 0:03:04It does your whole family. It was a case of Mum
0:03:04 > 0:03:07was getting up at 4.30 in the morning with me.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10She'd take me to the pool. I'd swim two hours before school.
0:03:10 > 0:03:12She'd then take me straight to school.
0:03:12 > 0:03:15I'd go straight from school back to the pool in the evening
0:03:15 > 0:03:17and wouldn't get home till about 8.00 at night.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19And it was a whole family effort,
0:03:19 > 0:03:21it was something that we just joined together
0:03:21 > 0:03:23and really worked as a team,
0:03:23 > 0:03:26just enabled me to live out my dream.
0:03:31 > 0:03:36So, Rebecca, TV - your first, your earliest TV memories?
0:03:36 > 0:03:39I think, cos I've got two older sisters,
0:03:39 > 0:03:42it was kind of like one of those things that I kind of dipped
0:03:42 > 0:03:45into the really early stuff like Postman Pat and things like that.
0:03:45 > 0:03:49But then I was kind of like forced to watch the older programmes.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52So I never really went through the whole, kind of,
0:03:52 > 0:03:56Peppa Pig that's nowadays and all the Teletubbies and that sort of stage.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58Me and my sisters used to love programmes kind of like
0:03:58 > 0:04:00Art Attack and things like that.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02But they were just dead arty and they're dead creative
0:04:02 > 0:04:04whereas I was just sat there going,
0:04:04 > 0:04:07"Really? I'm too young for this." I wanted something like Scooby-Doo on
0:04:07 > 0:04:09and things like that, I absolutely loved.
0:04:09 > 0:04:13So, this is it, Rebecca. Bit of Art Attack.
0:04:13 > 0:04:15Now, to make a funky frame,
0:04:15 > 0:04:17you need a large round tray or plate
0:04:17 > 0:04:19and just place part of it...
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Is this something you would have made?
0:04:21 > 0:04:23It's something I'd tried to have made.
0:04:23 > 0:04:24Now, to make it even more funky,
0:04:24 > 0:04:26you need to glam it up in
0:04:26 > 0:04:28a really garish, groovy way. So...
0:04:28 > 0:04:31While Art Attack was hardly big budget telly,
0:04:31 > 0:04:33the ideas were genius
0:04:33 > 0:04:37and the series proved that any child could be good at arts and crafts.
0:04:37 > 0:04:40Couple of wobbly lines down there like that.
0:04:40 > 0:04:42Well, almost any child.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45- I'm not creative or arty at all. - Really?
0:04:45 > 0:04:47I still draw stick people, even now.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50My sisters were dead good and theirs would look exactly like Neil's
0:04:50 > 0:04:54and mine would just be this pile of mush that was just rubbish.
0:04:54 > 0:04:57But they absolutely loved it, and I think being the baby of a family,
0:04:57 > 0:05:00- you just, you have to go with it. - You're young. Yeah.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02- You just get told what to do. - They're much older than you,
0:05:02 > 0:05:05- so they're bound to create something probably a little bit better.- Yeah.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07Paint it using real crazy colours.
0:05:07 > 0:05:12Use poster or acrylic paint but make sure you use nice bright colours.
0:05:12 > 0:05:14And, of course, for the sake of entertainment,
0:05:14 > 0:05:19even Art Attack was guilty of taking the occasional television short cut.
0:05:19 > 0:05:21They used to come out with "Here's one I made earlier."
0:05:21 > 0:05:24- Did they ever do that? - Oh, yeah, of course.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27- "This just dried earlier." Oh, OK then.- Yeah.
0:05:27 > 0:05:30And when you've painted the whole of your frame,
0:05:30 > 0:05:34you'll end up with something that looks like that.
0:05:34 > 0:05:36- Oh, see, here you go.- There you go.
0:05:36 > 0:05:37- BOTH:- One I made earlier.
0:05:37 > 0:05:40One that someone else made earlier maybe if you were more honest,
0:05:40 > 0:05:43- but let's not go there. - SHE LAUGHS
0:05:43 > 0:05:45On she goes.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47My pin-up, don't tell anyone.
0:05:47 > 0:05:52And there you have a fantastic funky frame.
0:05:52 > 0:05:54Would your frame turn out like that?
0:05:54 > 0:05:57LAUGHING: No! Mine just came out like a blob.
0:05:57 > 0:05:58- I loved it, though.- Yeah?
0:06:03 > 0:06:05Your sisters, who are older than you,
0:06:05 > 0:06:07- did you go to bed at the same time as them?- No.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10- HE GASPS No.- Did it upset you?
0:06:10 > 0:06:12- Yeah.- Does it still upset you?
0:06:12 > 0:06:14I always had to go to bed first and it was just...
0:06:14 > 0:06:17So, they'd be watching the telly, be watching a programme.
0:06:17 > 0:06:19Yeah, yeah, all the time.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22It was always things like on a Saturday night and it was just
0:06:22 > 0:06:25kind of like, it was a case of I was allowed to watch some
0:06:25 > 0:06:28things like Gladiators or a few of them shows.
0:06:28 > 0:06:31But then as soon as it started getting a little bit older TV -
0:06:31 > 0:06:36Man O Man, Blind Date, all them sorts of shows - it was kind of like,
0:06:36 > 0:06:38"Rebecca, it's your bedtime now."
0:06:38 > 0:06:41And I'd be like, "No, Mum, just ten more minutes!"
0:06:41 > 0:06:43And just was dying to stay up and watch it.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47Back in the early '90s, when Rebecca was being sent to
0:06:47 > 0:06:51bed, some of the most popular Saturday night shows included
0:06:51 > 0:06:55a reboot of The Generation Game, allowing Bruce Forsyth and
0:06:55 > 0:07:01his new sidekick, Rosemarie Ford, to give away even more cuddly toys.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04In Big Break, hosted by comedian Jim Davidson,
0:07:04 > 0:07:09we found out what happens when you combine snooker with a game show.
0:07:09 > 0:07:13And Noel's House Party gave us a superstar like no other -
0:07:13 > 0:07:16the one and only Mr Blobby.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18But there was one show
0:07:18 > 0:07:23and one entertainer Rebecca was desperate to see, our Cilla.
0:07:23 > 0:07:25Well, I'm sorry you were sent to bed,
0:07:25 > 0:07:29- so we've got a little clip from Blind Date.- Oh!
0:07:29 > 0:07:33Thank you, thank you. Hello and welcome to Blind Date.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35Go on, Cilla!
0:07:35 > 0:07:38- MIMICS CILLA:- Yes! Yes, indeed.
0:07:38 > 0:07:39Look at the shoulder pads!
0:07:39 > 0:07:42But look at the legs, she's... Oh, good set of pins on her, Cilla.
0:07:42 > 0:07:44- Look at that.- Yeah, she does.
0:07:44 > 0:07:46We have Jason from London,
0:07:46 > 0:07:48Matt from Wiltshire
0:07:48 > 0:07:51and Carmelo from Manchester.
0:07:52 > 0:07:55Like its host, Blind Date is legendary.
0:07:55 > 0:07:57It ran for 18 years
0:07:57 > 0:08:00and attracted audiences of up to 17 million.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03- Did you ever want to be on the show?- No. God, no.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05- Really?- No, I'd hate it. - Really, why?
0:08:05 > 0:08:07All the cheesy... I don't know, I think it's different
0:08:07 > 0:08:10if you were the one picking the guys or
0:08:10 > 0:08:12if you were one of the three girls, that'd be hard.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15I'd prefer to be the one that gets to pick the guys.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17- Hi, Emma.- Hello.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20Well, I could do an impression of an owl, you see, I'm very wise,
0:08:20 > 0:08:22I can stay up all night
0:08:22 > 0:08:25and you'd be a twit-to-woo not to pick me tonight.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:08:27 > 0:08:29So, would you play this at home?
0:08:29 > 0:08:32I was... We always used to guess which one they were going to pick.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34- Yeah.- Or go "Oh, no, I would have picked that one"
0:08:34 > 0:08:36or "I would have picked this person."
0:08:37 > 0:08:39You can see her knickers through that.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42- I know!- Not quite sure what she's wearing there.
0:08:42 > 0:08:44This is the reaction, this is the pay off.
0:08:44 > 0:08:47Stand by for the thrill of the evening cos you're going
0:08:47 > 0:08:51away on your blind date with Carmelo from Manchester.
0:08:51 > 0:08:53Come in, Carmelo.
0:08:53 > 0:08:56CHEERING
0:08:59 > 0:09:01So, Rebecca, if I was on Blind Date,
0:09:01 > 0:09:03what sort of questions would you ask me?
0:09:03 > 0:09:06- I'd have three, yeah?- Yeah. Anything.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10So, I'd ask you what your perfect weekend would be.
0:09:10 > 0:09:13My perfect weekend would be with you.
0:09:13 > 0:09:16- LAUGHING - Because...- Oh, cheese!
0:09:16 > 0:09:18Well, no, that's what they say though, isn't it, you know?
0:09:18 > 0:09:21With some sort of rude connotation, sort of, in there.
0:09:21 > 0:09:24I'd be an owl and I'd twit-to-woo, how, oh, dear.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27- Involve food and you've got me. - Oh, right. Yeah.
0:09:27 > 0:09:33My perfect would-be weekend would be with you, and pie and chips.
0:09:33 > 0:09:36- I like that. Northern girl. - OK. Next one.
0:09:36 > 0:09:42If you were an Olympic sport, what would you be and why?
0:09:42 > 0:09:49If I was an Olympic sport, I would be the shot put.
0:09:49 > 0:09:51LAUGHING: Why?
0:09:51 > 0:09:55Because I would put it there...
0:09:55 > 0:09:58THEY BOTH LAUGH
0:09:58 > 0:10:00I'm not going any further.
0:10:00 > 0:10:04Time out. Have you got another one?
0:10:04 > 0:10:07- I don't think I'd pick you.- No.
0:10:07 > 0:10:09THEY BOTH LAUGH
0:10:09 > 0:10:12And if I was sad, how would you cheer me up?
0:10:12 > 0:10:16I would cheer you up with my shot-putting, there you go.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18God. I don't think I'd choose you.
0:10:18 > 0:10:20No, I don't think you would.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22I think I'm far too old for you as well.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25- You would get...- You had me with the weekend.- Yeah, yeah.- But, no.
0:10:30 > 0:10:34Your next choice is something they don't normally show on BBC,
0:10:34 > 0:10:39it's a commercial break, and it's one of my all-time favourite ads.
0:10:39 > 0:10:40I just think it's genius.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50In 2007, this commercial premiered during the Big Brother
0:10:50 > 0:10:55finale and it proved to be a game changer in the world of advertising.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59For a start, viewers felt compelled to watch it.
0:10:59 > 0:11:02- Amazing.- It's such a good advert, though, isn't it?
0:11:02 > 0:11:07# And I can feel it coming in the air tonight... #
0:11:07 > 0:11:10The novel idea of a gorilla playing the drums teamed with
0:11:10 > 0:11:14the perfect choice of music absolutely fascinated the public,
0:11:14 > 0:11:17making it one of the first ads to go viral.
0:11:17 > 0:11:22It attracted half a million YouTube hits within a week of its launch.
0:11:22 > 0:11:24# I can feel it coming in... #
0:11:24 > 0:11:27Do you think it's the music? It's just everything about it, isn't it?
0:11:27 > 0:11:29It's just everything, isn't it?
0:11:29 > 0:11:34It's just something that's totally not related at all to chocolate,
0:11:34 > 0:11:36for starters, it's just the music,
0:11:36 > 0:11:40it's the fact that they've used a gorilla, which is really random.
0:11:40 > 0:11:42- I know.- Just the whole thing.
0:11:42 > 0:11:45But normally, especially nowadays, I don't know about anyone else,
0:11:45 > 0:11:48I kind of skip adverts. I flick to a different channel or
0:11:48 > 0:11:51I fast-forward or whatever. Whereas this, you just sit
0:11:51 > 0:11:54and watch the whole way through, you just absolutely loved it.
0:11:54 > 0:11:55# ..all my life... #
0:11:55 > 0:11:59The incredibly realistic costume took three months to make
0:11:59 > 0:12:02and the convincing performance is courtesy of an actor who
0:12:02 > 0:12:04previously worked on Planet Of The Apes.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07His performance and the high production values made this
0:12:07 > 0:12:10campaign a huge success, boosting sales
0:12:10 > 0:12:13and improving public perception of the company itself.
0:12:13 > 0:12:15But what really makes this ad
0:12:15 > 0:12:20so effective is the almost unbearable build-up.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23HE MIMICS DRUMMING
0:12:23 > 0:12:24# Oh, Lord
0:12:27 > 0:12:33# And I can feel it coming in the air tonight
0:12:33 > 0:12:35# Oh, Lord... #
0:12:35 > 0:12:39The energy. And I think, when you're at home, you just cannot help
0:12:39 > 0:12:41- but go... - HE MIMICS DRUMMING
0:12:41 > 0:12:44- I think as well... - Or is that just me?- No.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47That's...no, totally get that. The song was perfect and it was just,
0:12:47 > 0:12:50it's something that everyone spoke about
0:12:50 > 0:12:52and it was just like, "Have you seen that advert?"
0:12:52 > 0:12:55And it's more about, like, the just remembering an advert
0:12:55 > 0:12:57and that was what was so great about that
0:12:57 > 0:12:59is that you instantly think of Cadbury's chocolate.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02- Yeah.- And it's just something so random...- Yeah.
0:13:02 > 0:13:05..but absolutely brilliant and it was, yeah, it was so clever.
0:13:05 > 0:13:09- Oh, yeah.- So clever but it was just, yeah.- And simple.
0:13:09 > 0:13:11- In some way, it's just that... - It is.
0:13:11 > 0:13:14..that silence, that cos as a viewer we know that big drum
0:13:14 > 0:13:19break's coming in but the way he's just, just preparing himself for it.
0:13:19 > 0:13:23- Simple but effective.- Mmm. - Very, very effective.
0:13:28 > 0:13:32Rebecca, your next choice is TV fear.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35Now, this is something you used to hide behind the sofa,
0:13:35 > 0:13:37but we don't want to stress you out too much.
0:13:37 > 0:13:39We've got a pillow if you want to hide behind this.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42- OK. Thank you. - Do you know what I'm on about?
0:13:42 > 0:13:44- Do you know the show I'm talking about?- Midsomer Murders.
0:13:44 > 0:13:49- Yeah.- It used to terrify... - Why?- ..the life out of me.- Why?
0:13:49 > 0:13:51I just don't like anything like horror.
0:13:51 > 0:13:55I haven't really seen any horror films or like anything scary.
0:13:55 > 0:13:59So, you assume that Midsomer Murders is like a horror film?
0:13:59 > 0:14:03Well, it was like the anticipation, the tense, and it
0:14:03 > 0:14:06was only cos when I was really young I should have gone to bed,
0:14:06 > 0:14:08my parents were constantly telling me to go to bed.
0:14:08 > 0:14:13But the one episode that I watched was that the person died
0:14:13 > 0:14:16from somebody hiding in their bedroom.
0:14:16 > 0:14:20Well, that terrified the life out of me. I then was not able to go
0:14:20 > 0:14:23upstairs and I dragged my mum upstairs with me to check my bedroom
0:14:23 > 0:14:26was all clear and that there wasn't someone hiding in the wardrobe.
0:14:26 > 0:14:28Did you end up sleeping in that bedroom or did you go
0:14:28 > 0:14:29and sleep with your mum and dad?
0:14:29 > 0:14:31- Well, I shared a room with my sisters.- Oh, right.
0:14:31 > 0:14:35But because I had to go to bed first, it was always the case
0:14:35 > 0:14:38they had to then, for literally probably about a good year,
0:14:38 > 0:14:41walk me to bed and walk upstairs with me.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43And why did I watch that one of all things?
0:14:43 > 0:14:46- Well, you can hide behind your pillow.- OK. Thank you.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48I'm a bit worried about showing you this episode.
0:14:48 > 0:14:50- But here we have a little moment. - OK.- Brace yourself.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52Midsomer Murders.
0:14:53 > 0:14:57OWL HOOTS
0:14:57 > 0:14:59REBECCA LAUGHS
0:14:59 > 0:15:00See, even that's a bit creepy.
0:15:00 > 0:15:02HE CACKLES
0:15:02 > 0:15:04SHE LAUGHS
0:15:07 > 0:15:11With a homicide rate that would make it the murder capital of the UK,
0:15:11 > 0:15:15this fictional county is a precarious place for its residents.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17Why is everywhere dark? You'd have streetlights.
0:15:17 > 0:15:18Well, to add to the suspense.
0:15:18 > 0:15:21Yeah, but it's just someone would have a light on.
0:15:21 > 0:15:24Turn a light on! Yeah. Get a bigger torch, get a spotlight.
0:15:24 > 0:15:26- Exactly.- Don't go... They're always on their own,
0:15:26 > 0:15:29they're always wandering into woods on their own.
0:15:29 > 0:15:30- Get a group of people.- Yeah.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33Why was that guy out in the woods anyway? What was he doing?
0:15:33 > 0:15:36I'm a bit suspicious of him. And finding him.
0:15:36 > 0:15:40SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
0:15:48 > 0:15:50- You're getting anxious, aren't you? - I know.
0:15:52 > 0:15:53Oh! Oh!
0:15:55 > 0:15:58Seriously, my husband's going to have to walk me to bed
0:15:58 > 0:16:00every night for like a year now.
0:16:00 > 0:16:03- I still can't watch it.- Oh, really?
0:16:03 > 0:16:06- I still can't watch it.- Oh, come on, I've got to press pause.
0:16:06 > 0:16:08So, you're telling me, Rebecca Adlington,
0:16:08 > 0:16:12a lady in her mid-20s, still cannot watch Midsomer Murders?
0:16:12 > 0:16:15No. Terrifies the life out of me.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17Anything like that I just stay away from.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20I mean, with Midsomer Murders, it's all set in the West Country.
0:16:20 > 0:16:22- I mean, do you...do you get anxious? - Don't go there.- No?
0:16:22 > 0:16:24Don't go there.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26LAUGHING: I do. But, yeah.
0:16:26 > 0:16:28Oh, let's put you on edge just a little bit more. Here we go.
0:16:31 > 0:16:34And while it's a dangerous place to buy a character cottage,
0:16:34 > 0:16:38if you do meet a grisly end, it will at least be interesting.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40One week, it's a man tied to a tree,
0:16:40 > 0:16:44smothered in expensive truffle oil and left to be eaten
0:16:44 > 0:16:47alive by a wild boar, and the next...
0:16:47 > 0:16:50- What have we got here? - Dead for five or six hours.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52Cause of death - head separated from the body.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55Now, that's where we benefit from having an expert on the job.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57That's enough from you.
0:16:57 > 0:16:58Head separated from the body?
0:17:00 > 0:17:02- I don't want to go to bed dreaming about this.- No.
0:17:02 > 0:17:05But would it worry you, I mean, because, you know, this village,
0:17:05 > 0:17:07there were so many murders?
0:17:07 > 0:17:09Yeah. Move.
0:17:09 > 0:17:13I would not be living there, if that was...that was me.
0:17:13 > 0:17:16It always happens in these tiny villages and you're just like,
0:17:16 > 0:17:18"Really?" It is a bit unrealistic
0:17:18 > 0:17:21but, at the same time, still a bit scary.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24So, a realistic crime show it's not
0:17:24 > 0:17:28but what this much-loved series does do is put an enjoyable spin
0:17:28 > 0:17:31on the rules of the great British murder mystery.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35Seriously, I'm going to have nightmares for like a week now.
0:17:35 > 0:17:37It's going to make me go into labour.
0:17:37 > 0:17:41Can I take that cushion away from you to reveal that one? OK.
0:17:46 > 0:17:49Rebecca, we're moving on to your guilty pleasure.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51You shouldn't like it,
0:17:51 > 0:17:54but somewhere deep in there, you just can't help yourself.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57- This, for you, is Ready Steady Cook. - Ahh.
0:17:58 > 0:18:01Whoa, we've got big flames over here. 45 seconds.
0:18:01 > 0:18:0345 seconds.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06For 16 years and more than 1,700 episodes,
0:18:06 > 0:18:09Ready Steady Cook challenged two celebrity chefs to whip up
0:18:09 > 0:18:14something fabulous out of five quid's worth of random ingredients.
0:18:14 > 0:18:1530 seconds.
0:18:17 > 0:18:18Are you a keen cook then?
0:18:18 > 0:18:21I love, I love food. I'm such a foodie.
0:18:21 > 0:18:25But, yeah, I think, cos I didn't cook much growing up,
0:18:25 > 0:18:29it was always like my sisters helping out my mum, so I kind of
0:18:29 > 0:18:32didn't really get into cooking until about 19, 20, where I tried
0:18:32 > 0:18:35everything. But I've actually been on Ready Steady Cook with my mum.
0:18:35 > 0:18:37Oh, right.
0:18:37 > 0:18:40And when we went on - and I am nowhere near as good
0:18:40 > 0:18:42as a chef as my mum, without a doubt -
0:18:42 > 0:18:43but I took my medals with me and
0:18:43 > 0:18:47I showed it round the audience and then they all voted for me, so I won.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49I was like, "Yes!" It was a brilliant result,
0:18:49 > 0:18:53and my mum was like, "What?!" My mum was outraged because she just,
0:18:53 > 0:18:56she is obviously the family cook, she's the one that makes
0:18:56 > 0:18:59everything and, to be fair, I love my mum's cooking.
0:18:59 > 0:19:00It's my favourite food.
0:19:00 > 0:19:03If I had to pick one meal I could have, I would have me mum's cooking.
0:19:03 > 0:19:05Ten.
0:19:05 > 0:19:07And while even this show couldn't interrupt Rebecca's
0:19:07 > 0:19:09winning streak,
0:19:09 > 0:19:14it's another demonstration of how her family are always there for her.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16- GONG CHIMES - Stop cooking!
0:19:16 > 0:19:18Your parents have to be your nutritionist,
0:19:18 > 0:19:21they have to be your physios, they literally have to be everything,
0:19:21 > 0:19:23and it was a case of my mum just...
0:19:23 > 0:19:26I kind of always enjoyed cooking and so did my sisters,
0:19:26 > 0:19:28it was always a case of I never really had time to cook.
0:19:28 > 0:19:32And even by the time I was 18, 19, living on my own,
0:19:32 > 0:19:33it would have to be quick.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36I was cooking things that you could eat within 20 minutes
0:19:36 > 0:19:38cos you were starving after training.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40So, it's just like posh chicken and chips really.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42And the best thing about Ready Steady Cook,
0:19:42 > 0:19:45not only were the contestants well-fed,
0:19:45 > 0:19:48they also stood to win a life-changing 100 quid.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51Oh, I'd like to take you home with... Sorry.
0:19:51 > 0:19:52LAUGHTER
0:19:52 > 0:19:55If my wife wasn't here, I'd like to take you home with me.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57- This is wonderful. It really is wonderful.- Yeah? Good.
0:19:57 > 0:20:00It's up to you now to decide who's going to be the winner.
0:20:00 > 0:20:02Green peppers or red tomatoes? Would you please vote now?
0:20:02 > 0:20:05Any cookery show just makes you absolutely starving.
0:20:05 > 0:20:07You just watch it and you're like, "I need food now!"
0:20:07 > 0:20:10You weren't hungry before you watched it, then you go into the kitchen
0:20:10 > 0:20:12and make something dead plain and boring and you're like,
0:20:12 > 0:20:16"Oh, great(!) I get this for my tea now." Just watched something amazing,
0:20:16 > 0:20:20- but it never turns out the way they do. Well, mine doesn't anyway.- No.
0:20:25 > 0:20:27When did it suddenly dawn on you that you were
0:20:27 > 0:20:29good in the swimming pool, exceptionally good?
0:20:29 > 0:20:32Not till I was about 13, not till I was a little bit older.
0:20:32 > 0:20:36I'd kind of joined a club around eight and started competing
0:20:36 > 0:20:40around nine or ten, but it wasn't until I got into my teenage years
0:20:40 > 0:20:43that I took it seriously. It was just a hobby before and it,
0:20:43 > 0:20:47kind of, I still saw it as a hobby, it just became a more intense hobby
0:20:47 > 0:20:50that I did. And I just constantly wanted to be at the swimming pool.
0:20:50 > 0:20:54My mum tried me with other things, I just wanted to be at the pool
0:20:54 > 0:20:57all the time, just felt at home being in water.
0:20:58 > 0:21:01Rebecca's big break came at the age of 19
0:21:01 > 0:21:04at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing,
0:21:04 > 0:21:07where she won two gold medals, set a new world record
0:21:07 > 0:21:12and made her mum and dad the proudest parents on the planet.
0:21:12 > 0:21:15In 2010, Rebecca went on to win a gold
0:21:15 > 0:21:18and a bronze at the European Championships.
0:21:18 > 0:21:21Then, just a few months later, came her next triumph -
0:21:21 > 0:21:25the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, where she added another four medals,
0:21:25 > 0:21:28including two golds, to her collection.
0:21:29 > 0:21:31'Now she's Commonwealth champion of the women's
0:21:31 > 0:21:35'800 metres freestyle, Becky Adlington of England.'
0:21:35 > 0:21:37I always get asked, "What does it feel like to win a gold medal?"
0:21:37 > 0:21:40It's so hard to put into words cos it's so personal.
0:21:40 > 0:21:44It's like your life, like, you flash back to everything, to the
0:21:44 > 0:21:47times where you got out of the pool crying your eyes out
0:21:47 > 0:21:48cos you're in so much pain,
0:21:48 > 0:21:51where you can't even, like, walk down the stairs without
0:21:51 > 0:21:54holding on to something cos your legs are burning.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56Like, you've literally pushed yourself to the limit every
0:21:56 > 0:22:00single day for about ten years, it's such a relief that it has been
0:22:00 > 0:22:03worth it as well that literally you feel every single emotion
0:22:03 > 0:22:09from happiness to overwhelmed to literally every emotion possible.
0:22:09 > 0:22:13It is one of those incredible things that you'll never forget either.
0:22:13 > 0:22:14- Yeah.- I'll never ever forget that.
0:22:14 > 0:22:16It feels like it was yesterday,
0:22:16 > 0:22:19that I can remember it that clearly in my head.
0:22:19 > 0:22:23Two years on, she competed at the London 2012 Olympics
0:22:23 > 0:22:26as one of our most decorated athletes, going into the
0:22:26 > 0:22:30competition with a staggering 15 international medals to her name.
0:22:30 > 0:22:33This time, she came away with two bronzes,
0:22:33 > 0:22:36something she initially felt disappointed with.
0:22:36 > 0:22:39There is this tiny 1% of you that is like...
0:22:39 > 0:22:41SHE SIGHS
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Cos you didn't get that gold medal that obviously
0:22:43 > 0:22:44everyone wants to get.
0:22:44 > 0:22:47- But then, at the same time, you give it 100%.- Oh, yeah.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49- That's all you can ask for. - Yeah, exactly.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52That you just, kind of, have to accept that on the day
0:22:52 > 0:22:55it's not good enough, that your best isn't good enough.
0:22:55 > 0:22:57- No.- And it was just that... - You don't now, though?
0:22:57 > 0:22:59- No, no, no.- No. Good. Yeah.
0:22:59 > 0:23:01But it was, kind of, that initial thing
0:23:01 > 0:23:03and I just couldn't stop crying cos the first thing I said
0:23:03 > 0:23:07to my coach, I had been with the same coach since I was about 12, 13,
0:23:07 > 0:23:11it was Bill, and obviously, he had taken me through Beijing.
0:23:11 > 0:23:15You have such a close connection with your coach and the first thing I said
0:23:15 > 0:23:18to him was, "I'm sorry." And I just felt like I'd let him down.
0:23:18 > 0:23:21And he just went, "Bec, don't ever say that to me again."
0:23:21 > 0:23:24He was like, "You've got nothing to be sorry for, I'm so proud of you."
0:23:24 > 0:23:25And it, kind of, all disappeared
0:23:25 > 0:23:28once I realised I hadn't let anyone but myself down.
0:23:28 > 0:23:31And actually, that was the major turning point.
0:23:31 > 0:23:33You have not let yourself down.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35And, I mean, you're talking about that moment,
0:23:35 > 0:23:37- but you don't feel like that now? - No, definitely not.- No.
0:23:37 > 0:23:39I look back now and I'm...
0:23:39 > 0:23:42The one thing that a lot of people ask me about retirement is,
0:23:42 > 0:23:44"Oh, do you miss it? Do you miss being in a pool?"
0:23:44 > 0:23:47And I'm, "No, because I can honestly say I gave my career 100%."
0:23:47 > 0:23:49Yeah. Oh, without a doubt.
0:23:49 > 0:23:50There isn't a stone left unturned,
0:23:50 > 0:23:52there isn't that "What if?"
0:23:52 > 0:23:53- "Oh, what if I'd done that?"- Yeah.
0:23:53 > 0:23:57There's nothing because I can honestly say I gave everything 100%.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00So, how can I be disappointed with two bronze medals
0:24:00 > 0:24:02where I gave it my all, it just...that was it.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04- And two golds. - And two, yeah, exactly.
0:24:04 > 0:24:06- Don't forget them.- No, exactly.
0:24:06 > 0:24:09So, I gave everything the best shot I could.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12And now you're commentating on the next generation of swimmers.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15Yeah. It's nice to see the younger ones come through.
0:24:15 > 0:24:18- Do you get nervous for them? - So nervous.- Really?
0:24:18 > 0:24:21So nervous cos you just, you realise every little step
0:24:21 > 0:24:24they're going through, it's relatable, you can relate to them
0:24:24 > 0:24:29and how they're feeling and it's just such an amazing thing to be part of.
0:24:29 > 0:24:30I think we've got a moment here.
0:24:30 > 0:24:32We've had a few moments in this pool,
0:24:32 > 0:24:35but that is the first one that's made Rebecca Adlington cry.
0:24:35 > 0:24:38I'm so pleased for Adam.
0:24:38 > 0:24:42Invited to be an ambassador for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games,
0:24:42 > 0:24:45Rebecca's move into the world of punditry got emotional
0:24:45 > 0:24:48when friend Adam Peaty won gold.
0:24:48 > 0:24:49I'm just so pleased for him.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52These are good tears, they're good tears. And it was...
0:24:52 > 0:24:54It's going to make me cry again.
0:24:54 > 0:24:57- You can't show this to a pregnant lady.- Oh, really?
0:24:57 > 0:24:59He comes from a club.
0:24:59 > 0:25:01Adam comes from a club, and I love that.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03City of Derby, they're absolutely...
0:25:03 > 0:25:05They will all be crying and bawling their eyes out.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07I know how much this means to the whole club.
0:25:07 > 0:25:09And actually, a really good reminder that...
0:25:09 > 0:25:12Why did it get to you like that when it's not even you out there?
0:25:12 > 0:25:15I think you just realise everything that goes into it,
0:25:15 > 0:25:17you realise the dedication,
0:25:17 > 0:25:20the amount of hours that he's trained for this one moment.
0:25:20 > 0:25:24You just relate to everything they're going through and it's such
0:25:24 > 0:25:27an honour to just pass on a little snippet of their life to people.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30And that's what I love about the punditry is that you can just
0:25:30 > 0:25:33give a little bit of an insight to what it is to be a swimmer.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36So, it's nice to just pass on that knowledge to other people
0:25:36 > 0:25:38- and just share what these guys have gone through.- Yeah.
0:25:38 > 0:25:42Especially for Adam Peaty, he's just gone from strength to strength,
0:25:42 > 0:25:44he's just broke the world record a couple of weeks ago
0:25:44 > 0:25:47and he's just one definitely to watch for Rio.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51Rebecca has successfully made the transition from sports
0:25:51 > 0:25:54to telly and she is in fine company.
0:25:54 > 0:25:57And here are a few other famous women who've succeeded
0:25:57 > 0:25:58in doing the same thing.
0:25:58 > 0:26:01Starting with Clare Balding, who before coming
0:26:01 > 0:26:05one of our favourite presenters was once an amateur jockey.
0:26:05 > 0:26:07Meanwhile swimmer Sharron Davies has been
0:26:07 > 0:26:10presenting television since the '90s, appearing
0:26:10 > 0:26:15on everything from Gladiators to Channel 4's Big Breakfast.
0:26:15 > 0:26:16Then there's Denise Lewis,
0:26:16 > 0:26:19who after winning a gold medal in the heptathlon,
0:26:19 > 0:26:24has gone on to even greater success as a pundit in athletics.
0:26:24 > 0:26:27And last but not least, tennis player Sue Barker, who,
0:26:27 > 0:26:32after winning 11 WTA singles titles, moved into commentating and of
0:26:32 > 0:26:37course has now spent the last 18 years hosting A Question Of Sport.
0:26:43 > 0:26:46Rebecca Adlington, what are you watching now?
0:26:46 > 0:26:50Loads of different things. I love the new Sherlock.
0:26:50 > 0:26:51Absolutely love it.
0:26:51 > 0:26:53I'm addicted, and that's only got three episodes.
0:26:53 > 0:26:55I'm like, "No, make it longer!"
0:26:55 > 0:26:58And you have to wait ages in between the series as well.
0:26:58 > 0:27:02I love property shows, all that sort of stuff.
0:27:02 > 0:27:05Like, your Grand Designs, The Restoration Man,
0:27:05 > 0:27:06anything kind of property.
0:27:06 > 0:27:10Food shows, again, I love, kind of, my cookery shows
0:27:10 > 0:27:13and things in the day, so a real mixture.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15And then the comedy stuff.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18The same as well, like The Big Bang Theory,
0:27:18 > 0:27:20stuff that you get boxsets to.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22- Have you enjoyed today? - I've loved it.- Yeah.
0:27:22 > 0:27:24No, it's been really nice remembering stuff,
0:27:24 > 0:27:27maybe not the murder - Midsomer Murders.
0:27:27 > 0:27:30- Midsomer Murders. Ah, I can't... - That's going to terrify me.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32- You can't even say it. Maybe not the m-m-mur.- I know.
0:27:32 > 0:27:34Well, I want to thank you.
0:27:34 > 0:27:36So, hopefully we'll forget that one.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39But the rest of them, no, it's been really nice.
0:27:39 > 0:27:41So you won't play out with that theme tune.
0:27:41 > 0:27:43You get a choice now - you can choose any theme tune,
0:27:43 > 0:27:45any one you wish to play out on.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47It'll have to be my favourite, Fawlty Towers.
0:27:47 > 0:27:48- Fawlty Towers.- Absolutely love it.
0:27:48 > 0:27:51You've been one of my favourites. Thank you so much.
0:27:51 > 0:27:53- Aw, thank you.- Good luck with the baby.- Oh, thank you.
0:27:53 > 0:27:56Ladies and gentlemen, my thanks to the lovely Rebecca Adlington
0:27:56 > 0:27:58and my thanks to you for watching The TV That Made Me.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00We'll see you next time, bye-bye.
0:28:00 > 0:28:04MUSIC: Fawlty Towers Theme