0:00:01 > 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 have 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 > 0:00:40It's 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 > 0:00:56It just 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 > 0:01:53The village with some truly appalling violent crime statistics.
0:01:53 > 0:01:57And the hotel owner who could run a masterclass in sarcasm.
0:01:57 > 0:02:01You CAN see the sea. It's over there between the land and the sky.
0:02:01 > 0:02:07The one and only Rebecca Adlington is here with a pillow.
0:02:07 > 0:02:11LAUGHING: Yeah. I haven't stuffed my dress, don't worry.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15- So, do you get much time to watch TV?- Yeah. I love TV.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18- Yeah?- TV... Especially, like, when I was an athlete, it's how you
0:02:18 > 0:02:20switch off, it's how you relax, how you unwind.
0:02:20 > 0:02:22So, I'm such a TV girl.
0:02:22 > 0:02:24Today is a celebration.
0:02:24 > 0:02:26What we've done, we've picked some TV highlights,
0:02:26 > 0:02:29well, you've picked some TV highlights that probably made you
0:02:29 > 0:02:31into the person you are today.
0:02:31 > 0:02:34But first up, we're going to have a look at a very young Rebecca.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39In 1989, Rebecca Adlington entered the world.
0:02:39 > 0:02:43Or to be more exact, the town of Mansfield in Nottinghamshire.
0:02:43 > 0:02:46And just three years later, her parents enrolled her for
0:02:46 > 0:02:50swimming lessons, a decision that will ultimately lead Rebecca to win
0:02:50 > 0:02:55a staggering 17 international medals - including seven golds -
0:02:55 > 0:02:58making her one of our most successful athletes,
0:02:58 > 0:03:01something she says she could never have achieved without her mum,
0:03:01 > 0:03:04dad, and two older sisters.
0:03:04 > 0:03:07It must absolutely engulf your world, your life.
0:03:07 > 0:03:10It does your whole family. It was a case of Mum
0:03:10 > 0:03:12was getting up at 4.30 in the morning with me.
0:03:12 > 0:03:15She'd take me to the pool. I'd swim two hours before school.
0:03:15 > 0:03:17She'd then take me straight to school.
0:03:17 > 0:03:20I'd go straight from school back to the pool in the evening
0:03:20 > 0:03:22and wouldn't get home till about 8.00 at night.
0:03:22 > 0:03:24And it was a whole family effort,
0:03:24 > 0:03:26it was something that we just joined together
0:03:26 > 0:03:28and really worked as a team,
0:03:28 > 0:03:31just enabled me to live out my dream.
0:03:31 > 0:03:33It was incredible.
0:03:33 > 0:03:36Your mum sacrificed...your mum and dad's sacrifices, you know...
0:03:36 > 0:03:38- Yeah.- ..helped you to win, you know...
0:03:38 > 0:03:41- You can't do it without family support.- Yeah.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43You definitely, definitely can't.
0:03:43 > 0:03:45I'm so lucky to have such a brilliant family that helped me
0:03:45 > 0:03:47through everything.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50Even as I got a bit older and I kind of moved to Nottingham to swim,
0:03:50 > 0:03:53I kind of lived opposite my sister. Like in flats, like in Friends,
0:03:53 > 0:03:56where they live opposite. And we just absolutely loved it.
0:03:56 > 0:03:58But she just used to make me lasagne,
0:03:58 > 0:04:00so it was tea on the table when I got home.
0:04:00 > 0:04:03Yeah, we're a very close family and always looked out for each other.
0:04:09 > 0:04:13So, Rebecca, TV - your first, your earliest TV memories?
0:04:13 > 0:04:16I think cos I've got two older sisters,
0:04:16 > 0:04:19it was kind of like one of those things that I kind of dipped
0:04:19 > 0:04:23into the really early stuff like Postman Pat and things like that.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26But then I was kind of like forced to watch the older programmes.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29So I never really went through the whole, kind of,
0:04:29 > 0:04:33Peppa Pig that's nowadays and all the Teletubbies and that sort of stage.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35Me and my sisters used to love programmes kind of like
0:04:35 > 0:04:37Art Attack and things like that.
0:04:37 > 0:04:39But they were just dead arty and they're dead creative
0:04:39 > 0:04:41whereas I was just sat there going,
0:04:41 > 0:04:45"Really? I'm too young for this." I wanted something like Scooby-Doo on
0:04:45 > 0:04:47and things like that, I absolutely loved.
0:04:47 > 0:04:50So, this is it, Rebecca. Bit of Art Attack.
0:04:50 > 0:04:52Now, to make a funky frame,
0:04:52 > 0:04:55you need a large round tray or plate
0:04:55 > 0:04:56and just place part of it...
0:04:56 > 0:04:58Is this something you would have made?
0:04:58 > 0:05:00It's something I'd tried to have made.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02Now, to make it even more funky,
0:05:02 > 0:05:03you need to glam it up in
0:05:03 > 0:05:05a really garish, groovy way. So...
0:05:05 > 0:05:08While Art Attack was hardly big budget telly,
0:05:08 > 0:05:10the ideas were genius
0:05:10 > 0:05:15and the series proved that any child could be good at arts and crafts.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17Couple of wobbly lines down there like that.
0:05:17 > 0:05:19Well, almost any child.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22- I'm not creative or arty at all. - Really?
0:05:22 > 0:05:25I still draw stick people, even now.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28My sisters were dead good and theirs would look exactly like Neil's
0:05:28 > 0:05:32and mine would just be this pile of mush that was just rubbish.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35But they absolutely loved it, and I think being the baby of a family,
0:05:35 > 0:05:37- you just, you have to go with it. - You're young. Yeah.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39- You just get told what to do. - They're much older than you,
0:05:39 > 0:05:43- so they're bound to create something probably a little bit better.- Yeah.
0:05:43 > 0:05:45Paint it using real crazy colours.
0:05:45 > 0:05:49Use poster or acrylic paint but make sure you use nice bright colours.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51And, of course, for the sake of entertainment,
0:05:51 > 0:05:56even Art Attack was guilty of taking the occasional television short cut.
0:05:56 > 0:05:59They used to come out with "Here's one I made earlier."
0:05:59 > 0:06:01- Did they ever do that? - Oh, yeah, of course.
0:06:01 > 0:06:05- "This just dried earlier." Oh, OK then.- Yeah.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08And when you've painted the whole of your frame,
0:06:08 > 0:06:11you'll end up with something that looks like that.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13- Oh, see, here you go.- There you go.
0:06:13 > 0:06:15- BOTH:- One I made earlier.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18One that someone else made earlier maybe if you were more honest,
0:06:18 > 0:06:20- but let's not go there. - SHE LAUGHS
0:06:20 > 0:06:22On she goes.
0:06:22 > 0:06:25My pin-up, don't tell anyone.
0:06:25 > 0:06:29And there you have a fantastic funky frame.
0:06:29 > 0:06:32Would your frame turn out like that?
0:06:32 > 0:06:34LAUGHING: No! Mine just came out like a blob.
0:06:34 > 0:06:36- I loved it, though. - Yeah? You loved it?
0:06:36 > 0:06:39Good, I'm glad you loved it cos I've got some modelling clay.
0:06:39 > 0:06:41Just to make you feel at home.
0:06:42 > 0:06:44There we are. Got various different colours there.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47Colours of the rainbow for you there.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50I think what we'd like you to do is possibly...
0:06:50 > 0:06:55You make an animal. And I will make an animal.
0:06:55 > 0:06:57- Can we not just say that's a snake? - No, you can't.
0:06:57 > 0:06:58That's cheating. And if it was,
0:06:58 > 0:07:00it would have to be that, surely, green.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03- You know?- Oh, yeah, true. True. And just give it a few waves.
0:07:03 > 0:07:05- There you go.- Yeah.- A snake.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07Isn't that lovely, ladies and gentlemen?
0:07:07 > 0:07:11This is Rebecca's attempt at making something beautiful
0:07:11 > 0:07:13out of modelling clay.
0:07:13 > 0:07:17- A snake.- It looks like a snake. - A snake that, I don't know, yeah.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21No, it doesn't. Right, come on then, what are we going to make?
0:07:21 > 0:07:22I want to make a frog.
0:07:22 > 0:07:25- All right, you make a frog. - Just a frog's head.
0:07:25 > 0:07:27Da-da-da. We've got a bit of music there.
0:07:28 > 0:07:33- I'm actually quite enjoying this. - Very therapeutic.- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:07:33 > 0:07:35That's really good!
0:07:35 > 0:07:37Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39So we're going for a frog here.
0:07:39 > 0:07:42I was kind of just... SHE LAUGHS
0:07:42 > 0:07:46Rubbish! We've just... No, no, no. Actually, no, there is...
0:07:46 > 0:07:50- It looks like a cat. - I think we can live with that.
0:07:50 > 0:07:54Can't we? Here we go. There you go. This is our Art Attack moment.
0:07:54 > 0:07:58- I meant to do a frog. - Brian the snail. And this is...
0:07:58 > 0:08:01- It was meant to be a frog.- Cat-frog.
0:08:01 > 0:08:04But we're happy with the cat-frog from Rebecca.
0:08:10 > 0:08:12Your sisters, who are older than you,
0:08:12 > 0:08:15- did you go to bed at the same time as them?- No.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18- HE GASPS No.- Did it upset you?
0:08:18 > 0:08:19- Yeah.- Does it still upset you?
0:08:19 > 0:08:22I always had to go to bed first and it was just...
0:08:22 > 0:08:25So, they'd be watching the telly, be watching a programme.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27Yeah, yeah, all the time.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29It was always things like on a Saturday night and it was just
0:08:29 > 0:08:33kind of like, it was a case of I was allowed to watch some
0:08:33 > 0:08:36things like Gladiators or a few of them shows.
0:08:36 > 0:08:39But then as soon as it started getting a little bit older TV -
0:08:39 > 0:08:44Man O Man, Blind Date, all them sorts of shows - it was kind of like,
0:08:44 > 0:08:46"Rebecca, it's your bedtime now."
0:08:46 > 0:08:48And I'd be like, "No, Mum, just ten more minutes!"
0:08:48 > 0:08:51And just was dying to stay up and watch it.
0:08:52 > 0:08:55Back in the early '90s when Rebecca was being sent to
0:08:55 > 0:08:59bed, some of the most popular Saturday night shows included
0:08:59 > 0:09:03a reboot of The Generation Game, allowing Bruce Forsyth and
0:09:03 > 0:09:09his new sidekick, Rosemarie Ford, to give away even more cuddly toys.
0:09:09 > 0:09:12In Big Break, hosted by comedian Jim Davidson,
0:09:12 > 0:09:17we found out what happens when you combine snooker with a game show.
0:09:17 > 0:09:21And Noel's House Party gave us a superstar like no other -
0:09:21 > 0:09:24the one and only, Mr Blobby.
0:09:24 > 0:09:26But there was one show
0:09:26 > 0:09:31and one entertainer Rebecca was desperate to see, our Cilla.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33Well, I'm sorry you were sent to bed,
0:09:33 > 0:09:37- so we've got a little clip from Blind Date.- Oh!
0:09:37 > 0:09:41Thank you, thank you. Hello and welcome to Blind Date.
0:09:41 > 0:09:43Go on, Cilla!
0:09:43 > 0:09:46- MIMICS CILLA:- Yes! Yes, indeed.
0:09:46 > 0:09:47Look at the shoulder pads!
0:09:47 > 0:09:50But look at the legs, she's... Oh, good set of pins on her, Cilla.
0:09:50 > 0:09:52- Look at that.- Yeah, she does.
0:09:52 > 0:09:54We have Jason from London,
0:09:54 > 0:09:56Matt from Wiltshire,
0:09:56 > 0:09:59and Carmelo from Manchester.
0:10:00 > 0:10:03Like its host, Blind Date is legendary.
0:10:03 > 0:10:04It ran for 18 years
0:10:04 > 0:10:08and attracted audiences of up to 17 million.
0:10:08 > 0:10:10- Did you ever want to be on the show?- No. God, no.
0:10:10 > 0:10:13- Really?- No, I'd hate it. - Really, why?
0:10:13 > 0:10:15All the cheesy... I don't know, I think it's different
0:10:15 > 0:10:17if you were the one picking the guys or
0:10:17 > 0:10:20if you were one of the three girls, that'd be hard.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23I'd prefer to be the one that gets to pick the guys.
0:10:23 > 0:10:24- Hi, Emma.- Hello.
0:10:24 > 0:10:28Well, I could do an impression of an owl, you see, I'm very wise,
0:10:28 > 0:10:30I can stay up all night
0:10:30 > 0:10:33and you'd be a twit-to-woo not to pick me tonight.
0:10:33 > 0:10:35LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE
0:10:35 > 0:10:37So, would you play this at home?
0:10:37 > 0:10:40I was... We always used to guess which one they were going to pick.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42- Yeah.- Or go "Oh, no, I would have picked that one"
0:10:42 > 0:10:44or "I would have picked this person."
0:10:45 > 0:10:47You can see her knickers through that.
0:10:47 > 0:10:49- I know!- Not quite sure what she's wearing there.
0:10:49 > 0:10:52This is the reaction, this is the pay off.
0:10:52 > 0:10:55Stand by for the thrill of the evening cos you're going
0:10:55 > 0:10:59away on your blind date with Carmelo from Manchester.
0:10:59 > 0:11:01Come in, Carmelo.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03CHEERING
0:11:07 > 0:11:09So, Rebecca, if I was on Blind Date,
0:11:09 > 0:11:11what sort of questions would you ask me?
0:11:11 > 0:11:14- I'd have three, yeah?- Yeah. Anything.
0:11:14 > 0:11:18So, I'd ask you what your perfect weekend would be.
0:11:18 > 0:11:21My perfect weekend would be with you.
0:11:21 > 0:11:23- LAUGHING - Because...- Oh, cheese!
0:11:23 > 0:11:26Well, no, that's what they say though, isn't it, you know?
0:11:26 > 0:11:29With some sort of rude connotation, sort of, in there.
0:11:29 > 0:11:32I'd be an owl and I'd twit-to-woo, how, oh, dear.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35- Involve food and you've got me. - Oh, right. Yeah.
0:11:35 > 0:11:41My perfect would-be weekend would be with you, and pie and chips.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44- I like that. Northern girl. - OK. Next one.
0:11:44 > 0:11:50If you were an Olympic sport, what would you be and why?
0:11:50 > 0:11:57If I was an Olympic sport, I would be the shot put.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59LAUGHING: Why?
0:11:59 > 0:12:03Because I would put it there...
0:12:03 > 0:12:06THEY BOTH LAUGH
0:12:06 > 0:12:08I'm not going any further.
0:12:08 > 0:12:11Time out. Have you got another one?
0:12:11 > 0:12:14- I don't think I'd pick you for that.- No.
0:12:14 > 0:12:17THEY BOTH LAUGH
0:12:17 > 0:12:19And if I was sad, how would you cheer me up?
0:12:19 > 0:12:24I would cheer you up with my shot-putting, there you go.
0:12:24 > 0:12:26God. I don't think I'd choose you.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28No, I don't think you would.
0:12:28 > 0:12:30I think I'm far too old for you as well.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33- You would get...- You had me with the weekend.- Yeah, yeah.- But, no.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36While not everyone found love on Blind Date,
0:12:36 > 0:12:39a few of the contestants did go on to find fame.
0:12:39 > 0:12:44Amanda Holden, now better known for Britain's Got Talent.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46Comedian Ed Byrne.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48Actor and presenter Ortis Deley.
0:12:50 > 0:12:53And even former National Lottery presenter Jenni Falconer.
0:13:01 > 0:13:04Rebecca, tell us about your house, your living room.
0:13:04 > 0:13:05You know, the telly.
0:13:05 > 0:13:09The TV was one of those huge TVs. It was just absolutely massive.
0:13:09 > 0:13:12Not a flatscreen, plasma, whatever you call it, none of that.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15And it was just... Yeah, it was our family room.
0:13:15 > 0:13:18And, as a family, when you all came together, what would you watch?
0:13:18 > 0:13:21Things like Fawlty Towers were huge in our house.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25We all used to love that. Cos we like comedies and light-hearted stuff.
0:13:25 > 0:13:29Fawlty Towers, my mum and dad were massive John Cleese fans anyway.
0:13:29 > 0:13:32And it was just something that all three of us ended up loving.
0:13:32 > 0:13:34We ended up quoting, going round the house saying things,
0:13:34 > 0:13:37and just, yeah, it's something that we all just enjoyed together.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40So you're happy to see a little bit of Fawlty Towers?
0:13:40 > 0:13:42- Definitely. I love Fawlty Towers. - Here we go.
0:13:44 > 0:13:47You call that a bath? It's not big enough to drown a mouse.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49It's disgraceful.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51I wish you were a mouse...
0:13:52 > 0:13:55- This one's my favourite episode. - Really?
0:13:55 > 0:13:56My favourite.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Mrs Richards.
0:13:58 > 0:14:01Deaf, mad and blind.
0:14:01 > 0:14:04This is the view as far as I can remember, madam.
0:14:04 > 0:14:06Even though only 12 episodes were ever made,
0:14:06 > 0:14:09Fawlty Towers was voted Britain's greatest TV
0:14:09 > 0:14:11show of the 20th century.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14An accolade it earns with just about every line.
0:14:14 > 0:14:18May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel
0:14:18 > 0:14:19bedroom window?
0:14:19 > 0:14:21Sydney Opera House perhaps?
0:14:21 > 0:14:23The Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
0:14:23 > 0:14:27- Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically...- Don't be silly.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29I expect to be able to see the sea.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32"There it is. Between the land and the sky."
0:14:33 > 0:14:35See, you can quote it.
0:14:35 > 0:14:37I love it.
0:14:37 > 0:14:42You can see the sea. It's over there between the land and the sky.
0:14:42 > 0:14:43I'd need a telescope to see that.
0:14:43 > 0:14:46Well, may I suggest that you consider moving to a hotel
0:14:46 > 0:14:47closer to the sea.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49Or preferably in it.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52- He's just genius, isn't he?- Oh.
0:14:52 > 0:14:56So this was your favourite or the whole family would absolutely...?
0:14:56 > 0:14:58Whole family loved it. We've got it on DVD.
0:14:58 > 0:15:01- We still watch it now if it's on TV. Cos they still run it now.- Yeah.
0:15:01 > 0:15:06But it's something that is just... The comedy in it never gets old.
0:15:07 > 0:15:11The character of Basil Fawlty is based on a real hotel owner
0:15:11 > 0:15:13also from Torquay,
0:15:13 > 0:15:17who John Cleese described as a "wonderfully rude man"
0:15:17 > 0:15:20before turning him into television history.
0:15:20 > 0:15:22So if I put you to the test now,
0:15:22 > 0:15:27do you think you could possibly come up with a few catchphrases?
0:15:27 > 0:15:29I think I'd be all right, yeah.
0:15:29 > 0:15:32You sound very confident.
0:15:32 > 0:15:35I'm not good at names, but everything else I'm all right at.
0:15:35 > 0:15:39I'm going to grill you on your knowledge of Fawlty Towers.
0:15:39 > 0:15:42- OK.- Here goes. Complete this line from Basil.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45"I'm so sorry, he's from..."
0:15:45 > 0:15:47Barcelona.
0:15:47 > 0:15:49Could you do it as Basil Fawlty?
0:15:49 > 0:15:51"I'm so sorry, he's from..."
0:15:51 > 0:15:53MIMIC SPANISH ACCENT: Barcelona.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56That's all right. Barthelona.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59What were the names of the two little old ladies who were
0:15:59 > 0:16:01always staying in the hotel?
0:16:02 > 0:16:05It's a bit harder. Names are hard.
0:16:05 > 0:16:06Eh?
0:16:06 > 0:16:09- Gatsby?- Absolutely, Miss Gatsby. And Miss...?
0:16:10 > 0:16:12- Tibbs?- Yes.
0:16:12 > 0:16:15Ursula and Agatha I would have given you.
0:16:15 > 0:16:18I wouldn't have known that.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20This one is in the clip, so it's doubly easy.
0:16:20 > 0:16:21Complete the line
0:16:21 > 0:16:24"May I ask what you expected to see out of a Torquay hotel window?
0:16:24 > 0:16:28"Sydney Opera House perhaps? The..."
0:16:28 > 0:16:30Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
0:16:30 > 0:16:32- Of course. - We just saw that one.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34- I know. Dead easy. - I knew that one anyway.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37Name the regular chef who appeared... This is hard.
0:16:37 > 0:16:40Name the regular chef who appeared in the second series only.
0:16:40 > 0:16:42- I know this.- Go on.
0:16:42 > 0:16:44- Terry.- You are good.- I know this.
0:16:44 > 0:16:46I know the chef, yeah.
0:16:46 > 0:16:48I know the main characters.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51Which horse... You won't get this. You can't get it.
0:16:51 > 0:16:55Which horse did Basil Fawlty win £75 on? And he'd done a little...
0:16:55 > 0:16:57He sort of went like this.
0:16:57 > 0:16:59He'd done a funny little thing.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01Dragonfly. That one's easy.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03That was one of the main episodes.
0:17:03 > 0:17:05- That one was brilliant. - Rebecca Adlington,
0:17:05 > 0:17:08this could be your specialist subject on Mastermind.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11I think it probably would cos it's not got that many episodes.
0:17:11 > 0:17:13So you could full-on study it. Yeah.
0:17:14 > 0:17:19Today, this multi-award winning show is regarded as a TV classic.
0:17:19 > 0:17:23But it received terrible reviews after its first screening in 1975,
0:17:23 > 0:17:28with the Daily Mirror running the headline "Long John Short On Jokes".
0:17:28 > 0:17:31Though clearly Mr Cleese had the last laugh.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40I'm going to move on now to parents' choice.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43- OK.- I'm not going to say anything, but have a look at this.- OK.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47Hello and welcome to a new series of A Question Of Sport.
0:17:47 > 0:17:48Gosh, look at Sue!
0:17:48 > 0:17:52With our two captains, John Parrot and Ally McCoist.
0:17:52 > 0:17:54Gosh, Ally McCoist.
0:17:54 > 0:17:56John is hoping to avenge his defeat of last series,
0:17:56 > 0:18:00and has with him the Middlesex and England spinner Phil Tufnell.
0:18:00 > 0:18:01Look at Phil!
0:18:01 > 0:18:04- My God, look at Phil Tufnell. - He loves his shirts, doesn't he?
0:18:04 > 0:18:08- Yeah.- His crazy shirts. - Nice bit of lime green there.
0:18:08 > 0:18:09He wouldn't get run over.
0:18:11 > 0:18:13The golfer was Ernie Els.
0:18:13 > 0:18:15Having been on air for 44 series,
0:18:15 > 0:18:19A Question Of Sport is one of the worlds longest-running quiz shows
0:18:19 > 0:18:22and boasts more than 1,000 episodes.
0:18:22 > 0:18:24- Denise, Ally and Alison, are you ready?- Yep.
0:18:24 > 0:18:28- Cricket, the current Sunday League champions are?- Essex.- No.- Carry on.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31Which athlete set a new Commonwealth record at this year's
0:18:31 > 0:18:33Grand Prix final?
0:18:33 > 0:18:34- Ashley Hansen.- Yes. Who is this?
0:18:34 > 0:18:38This was my dad's choice. This was the thing that he had to have on.
0:18:38 > 0:18:41It was like his sport element, but we were able to watch it
0:18:41 > 0:18:43because it was the entertainment value.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46It wasn't like it was just a football match or something
0:18:46 > 0:18:47we were not interested in.
0:18:47 > 0:18:50The whole family loved it and it was just great that you
0:18:50 > 0:18:52could...just the picture around, guessing thing.
0:18:52 > 0:18:54I used to go mental if a swimmer was on.
0:18:54 > 0:18:57It would just make my life if a swimmer was on
0:18:57 > 0:18:59because swimming wasn't a huge sport growing up.
0:18:59 > 0:19:01It wasn't on TV all the time.
0:19:01 > 0:19:05So whenever Mark Foster or Sharron Davies was on there,
0:19:05 > 0:19:06we would be glued to it.
0:19:06 > 0:19:09We just had to watch it. Or there was a swimming question.
0:19:09 > 0:19:12We'd all try and beat each other to the answer cos that was
0:19:12 > 0:19:14the one thing that we all knew about.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16I think because I had watched it when they first asked me
0:19:16 > 0:19:19to do it after Beijing, I was like, "Yes!" I jumped at it straightaway.
0:19:19 > 0:19:21I was like, "I'm probably going to be rubbish."
0:19:21 > 0:19:24And I've been on it about five or six times.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27It wasn't until the last time that I actually won.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29- Oh, right. - I've lost every single time.
0:19:29 > 0:19:32I was like, I'm jinxed with this programme.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35Then finally I won the last one. I came home and I was like,
0:19:35 > 0:19:37"We won! We won!"
0:19:37 > 0:19:39I was so excited that I had actually won something.
0:19:39 > 0:19:42I was just like, "Sorry." Normally, I'm letting the team down.
0:19:42 > 0:19:45But I just love the show. It's such a laugh.
0:19:45 > 0:19:49- They share their names with food. - Apple. Banana. Orange.
0:19:49 > 0:19:50Cherry.
0:19:51 > 0:19:52Gee whiz!
0:19:54 > 0:19:57- Banana.- Pineapple.- Pear.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59Do you get nervous when you are on a show like that?
0:19:59 > 0:20:00- Yeah.- Really?
0:20:00 > 0:20:03I think it's worse with quiz shows because you are just
0:20:03 > 0:20:06so scared that you are going to get every single question wrong.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09- And look stupid.- Exactly. So it's worse.
0:20:09 > 0:20:11When you just go on shows and you are chatting about you
0:20:11 > 0:20:13and your life and swimming, it's fine.
0:20:13 > 0:20:17But there is a certain element of pressure when you go on a quiz
0:20:17 > 0:20:20show that you are just like, "What if I get everything wrong?"
0:20:20 > 0:20:22A couple of times, I have got my swimming question
0:20:22 > 0:20:25wrong on A Question Of Sport. And it's been like, "Oh, no!"
0:20:25 > 0:20:28I've never lived it down. But then the other times you are just
0:20:28 > 0:20:31so proud of yourself for getting it that you just feel like you
0:20:31 > 0:20:33have achieved that day because you've got it right.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36You feel like you are at school and you've got to get the top
0:20:36 > 0:20:38mark in the class by going on A Question Of Sport.
0:20:38 > 0:20:43Since its debut in 1970, the show has only had three presenters.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45Sports personality David Vine.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47The legendary David Coleman.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50And tennis champion Sue Barker.
0:20:50 > 0:20:54But, as for team captains, well, there have been 14 of them.
0:20:54 > 0:20:56And here's some of the longest serving.
0:20:56 > 0:21:00Starting with cricketer Ian Botham, who boasts a seven-year stint.
0:21:00 > 0:21:03A record fellow cricketer Phil Tufnell has now matched.
0:21:03 > 0:21:06Then there is Scottish footballer Ally McCoist
0:21:06 > 0:21:08and rugby union man Matt Dawson,
0:21:08 > 0:21:12Who both racked up 11 years.
0:21:12 > 0:21:16Though that's nothing compared to former rugby skipper Bill Beaumont,
0:21:16 > 0:21:20who holds the record with an impressive 14 years.
0:21:20 > 0:21:23When you are on this show, what is your most favourite round?
0:21:23 > 0:21:27I like the picture round. I love that one.
0:21:27 > 0:21:31Just cos I'm awful with names so I just kind of go,
0:21:31 > 0:21:33"That person from blah-blah..."
0:21:33 > 0:21:36Then Phil or Matt end up helping you out and get it.
0:21:36 > 0:21:40We've got our very own picture round here on The TV That Made Me.
0:21:40 > 0:21:41OK.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44Let's see if you can recognise from this selection of stars who
0:21:44 > 0:21:47- have appeared on the show. Here is the first one.- OK.
0:21:49 > 0:21:51Shall I give you his first name?
0:21:51 > 0:21:53Martin.
0:21:53 > 0:21:54O...
0:21:55 > 0:21:59- Offiah.- Offiah. Don't give me that face. It is correct.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02- That's only because he was on Strictly.- Yeah, that's correct.
0:22:02 > 0:22:03We were looking for the woman.
0:22:03 > 0:22:06No, I'm joking. It was. There he is, there is Martin.
0:22:06 > 0:22:10- The next one now. And this is a person...- I know this one!- Go on.
0:22:10 > 0:22:15- Sarah Storey.- Absolutely spot-on. I think that was quite easy, that one.
0:22:15 > 0:22:18And finally, your last one. This gentleman has done 11 episodes.
0:22:20 > 0:22:21Oh.
0:22:22 > 0:22:24- That's hard.- Shall I give you a clue?
0:22:24 > 0:22:26Is his name Brian? Brian?
0:22:26 > 0:22:30He's not Brian Conley, that's for sure. Look, look.
0:22:30 > 0:22:32It begins with a B though, doesn't it?
0:22:32 > 0:22:35- Does it?- What do you think I'm doing? Swimming?- Boxing.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38- Yeah, we know he is a boxer.- Yeah, but that his name begin with...?
0:22:38 > 0:22:41- Barry.- Barry.- Barry.- Ah!- Yeah, yeah.
0:22:41 > 0:22:44- Barry who?- He looks really young!
0:22:44 > 0:22:47Barry who? Don't cover this up. Barry who?
0:22:47 > 0:22:50- No idea.- It's Barry McGuigan.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52- Yes. I'm awful with names.- Are you?
0:22:52 > 0:22:55Yeah, sorry, Barry.
0:23:00 > 0:23:04Your next choice is something they don't normally show on BBC,
0:23:04 > 0:23:09it's a commercial break, and it's one of my all-time favourite ads.
0:23:09 > 0:23:11I just think it's genius.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20In 2007, this commercial premiered during the Big Brother
0:23:20 > 0:23:25finale and it proved to be a game changer in the world of advertising.
0:23:25 > 0:23:29For a start, viewers felt compelled to watch it.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32- Amazing.- It's such a good advert though, isn't it?
0:23:32 > 0:23:37# And I can feel it coming in the air tonight... #
0:23:37 > 0:23:40The novel idea of a gorilla playing the drums teamed with
0:23:40 > 0:23:44a perfect choice of music absolutely fascinated the public,
0:23:44 > 0:23:47making it one of the first ads to go viral.
0:23:47 > 0:23:52It attracted half a million YouTube hits within a week of its launch.
0:23:52 > 0:23:54# I can feel it coming in... #
0:23:54 > 0:23:58Do you think it's the music? It's just everything about it, isn't it?
0:23:58 > 0:23:59It's just everything, isn't it?
0:23:59 > 0:24:04It's just something that's totally not related at all to chocolate,
0:24:04 > 0:24:06for starters, it's just the music,
0:24:06 > 0:24:10it's the fact that they've used a gorilla, which is really random.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12- I know.- Just the whole thing.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15But normally, especially nowadays, I don't know about anyone else,
0:24:15 > 0:24:18I kind of skip adverts. I flick to a different channel or
0:24:18 > 0:24:21I fast-forward or whatever. Whereas this you would just sit
0:24:21 > 0:24:24and watch the whole way through, you just absolutely loved it.
0:24:24 > 0:24:25# ..all my life... #
0:24:25 > 0:24:29The incredibly realistic costume took three months to make
0:24:29 > 0:24:32and the convincing performance is courtesy of an actor who
0:24:32 > 0:24:34previously worked on Planet Of The Apes.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37His performance and the high production values made this
0:24:37 > 0:24:40campaign a huge success, boosting sales
0:24:40 > 0:24:44and improving public perception of the company itself.
0:24:44 > 0:24:45But what really makes this ad
0:24:45 > 0:24:50so effective is the almost unbearable build up.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53HE MIMICS DRUMMING
0:24:53 > 0:24:54# Oh, Lord
0:24:57 > 0:25:03# And I can feel it coming in the air tonight
0:25:03 > 0:25:05# Oh, Lord... #
0:25:05 > 0:25:09The energy. And I think when you're at home you just cannot help
0:25:09 > 0:25:12- but go... - HE MIMICS DRUMMING
0:25:12 > 0:25:14- I think as well... - Or is that just me?- No.
0:25:14 > 0:25:18That's...no, totally get that. The song was perfect and it was just,
0:25:18 > 0:25:20it's something that everyone spoke about
0:25:20 > 0:25:22and it was just like, "Have you seen that advert?"
0:25:22 > 0:25:25And it's more about, like, the just remembering an advert
0:25:25 > 0:25:27and that was what was so great about that
0:25:27 > 0:25:29is that you instantly think of Cadbury's chocolate.
0:25:29 > 0:25:32- Yeah.- And it's just something so random...- Yeah.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35..but absolutely brilliant and it was, yeah, it was so clever.
0:25:35 > 0:25:39- Oh, yeah.- So clever but it was just, yeah.- And simple.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41- In some way, it's just that... - It is.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44..that silence, that cos as a viewer we know that big drum
0:25:44 > 0:25:49break's coming in but the way he's just, just preparing himself for it.
0:25:49 > 0:25:53- Simple but effective.- Mmm. - Very, very effective.
0:25:58 > 0:26:02Rebecca, your next choice is TV fear.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05Now, this is something you used to hide behind the sofa,
0:26:05 > 0:26:07but we don't want to stress you out too much.
0:26:07 > 0:26:09We've got a pillow if you want to hide behind this.
0:26:09 > 0:26:12- OK. Thank you. - Do you know what I'm on about?
0:26:12 > 0:26:15- Do you know the show I'm talking about?- Midsomer Murders.
0:26:15 > 0:26:19- Yeah.- It used to terrify... - Why?- ..the life out of me.- Why?
0:26:19 > 0:26:21I just don't like anything like horror.
0:26:21 > 0:26:25I haven't really seen any horror films or like anything scary.
0:26:25 > 0:26:29So, you assume that Midsomer Murders is like a horror film?
0:26:29 > 0:26:33Well, it was like the anticipation, the tense, and it
0:26:33 > 0:26:36was only cos when I was really young I should have gone to bed,
0:26:36 > 0:26:38my parents were constantly telling me to go to bed.
0:26:38 > 0:26:43But the one episode that I watched was that the person died
0:26:43 > 0:26:46from somebody hiding in their bedroom.
0:26:46 > 0:26:50Well, that terrified the life out of me. I then was not able to go
0:26:50 > 0:26:53upstairs and I dragged my mum upstairs with me to check my bedroom
0:26:53 > 0:26:56was all clear and that there wasn't someone hiding in the wardrobe.
0:26:56 > 0:26:58Did you end up sleeping in that bedroom or did you go
0:26:58 > 0:26:59and sleep with your mum and dad?
0:26:59 > 0:27:01- Well, I shared a room with my sisters.- Oh, right.
0:27:01 > 0:27:05But because I had to go to bed first, it was always the case
0:27:05 > 0:27:08they had to then, for literally probably about a good year,
0:27:08 > 0:27:11walk me to bed and walk upstairs with me.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13And why did I watch that one of all things?
0:27:13 > 0:27:16- Well, you can hide behind your pillow.- OK. Thank you.
0:27:16 > 0:27:18I'm a bit worried about showing you this episode.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21But here we have a little moment. OK. Brace yourself.
0:27:21 > 0:27:22Midsomer Murders.
0:27:23 > 0:27:27OWL HOOTS
0:27:27 > 0:27:29REBECCA LAUGHS
0:27:29 > 0:27:30See, even that's a bit creepy.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32HE CACKLES
0:27:32 > 0:27:34SHE LAUGHS
0:27:37 > 0:27:41With a homicide rate that would make it the murder capital of the UK,
0:27:41 > 0:27:45this fictional county is a precarious place for its residents.
0:27:45 > 0:27:47Why is everywhere dark? You'd have streetlights.
0:27:47 > 0:27:49Well, to add to the suspense.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51Yeah, but it's just someone would have a light on.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54Turn a light on! Yeah. Get a bigger torch, get a spotlight.
0:27:54 > 0:27:56- Exactly.- Don't go... They're always on their own,
0:27:56 > 0:27:59they're always wandering into woods on their own.
0:27:59 > 0:28:00- Get a group of people.- Yeah.
0:28:00 > 0:28:03Why was that guy out in the woods anyway? What was he doing?
0:28:03 > 0:28:06I'm a bit suspicious of him. And finding him.
0:28:06 > 0:28:10SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC
0:28:18 > 0:28:20- You're getting anxious, aren't you? - I know.
0:28:22 > 0:28:24Oh! Oh!
0:28:25 > 0:28:28Seriously, my husband's going to have to walk me to bed
0:28:28 > 0:28:30every night for like a year now.
0:28:30 > 0:28:33- I still can't watch it.- Oh, really?
0:28:33 > 0:28:36- I still can't watch it.- Oh, come on, I've got to press pause.
0:28:36 > 0:28:38So, you're telling me, Rebecca Adlington,
0:28:38 > 0:28:42a lady in her mid-twenties, still cannot watch Midsomer Murders?
0:28:42 > 0:28:45No. Terrifies the life out of me.
0:28:45 > 0:28:47Anything like that I just stay away from.
0:28:47 > 0:28:50I mean, with Midsomer Murders, it's all set in the West Country.
0:28:50 > 0:28:52- I mean, do you...do you get anxious? - Don't go there.- No?
0:28:52 > 0:28:54Don't go there.
0:28:54 > 0:28:56LAUGHING: I do. But, yeah.
0:28:56 > 0:28:58Oh, let's put you on edge just a little bit more. Here we go.
0:29:01 > 0:29:04And while it's a dangerous place to buy a character cottage,
0:29:04 > 0:29:08if you do meet a grisly end, it will at least be interesting.
0:29:08 > 0:29:10One week it's a man tied to a tree,
0:29:10 > 0:29:14smothered in expensive truffle oil and left to be eaten
0:29:14 > 0:29:17alive by a wild boar, and the next...
0:29:17 > 0:29:20- What have we got here? - Dead for five or six hours.
0:29:20 > 0:29:22Cause of death - head separated from the body.
0:29:22 > 0:29:25Now, that's where we benefit from having an expert on the job.
0:29:25 > 0:29:27That's enough from you.
0:29:27 > 0:29:28Head separated from the body?
0:29:30 > 0:29:32- I don't want to go to bed dreaming about this.- No.
0:29:32 > 0:29:35But would it worry you, I mean, because, you know, this village,
0:29:35 > 0:29:37there were so many murders?
0:29:37 > 0:29:39Yeah. Move.
0:29:39 > 0:29:43I would not be living there, if that was...that was me.
0:29:43 > 0:29:46It always happens in these tiny villages and you're just like,
0:29:46 > 0:29:48"Really?" It is a bit unrealistic
0:29:48 > 0:29:51but, at the same time, still a bit scary.
0:29:51 > 0:29:54So, a realistic crime show it's not
0:29:54 > 0:29:58but what this much-loved series does do is put an enjoyable spin
0:29:58 > 0:30:01on the rules of the great British murder mystery.
0:30:02 > 0:30:05Seriously, I'm going to have nightmares for like a week now.
0:30:05 > 0:30:07It's going to make me go into labour.
0:30:07 > 0:30:11Can I take that cushion away from you to reveal that one? OK.
0:30:11 > 0:30:14At the risk of giving Rebecca another sleepless night,
0:30:14 > 0:30:18here is just a handful of the many famous faces who've
0:30:18 > 0:30:22appeared in Midsomer Murders over the last 18 years.
0:30:22 > 0:30:25Kicking off with Orlando Bloom, who came a cropper with
0:30:25 > 0:30:29the business end of the pitch fork in the story Judgment Day.
0:30:29 > 0:30:33Meanwhile, Lord Grantham - AKA Hugh Bonneville -
0:30:33 > 0:30:35managed to survive his stint in Bring Out Your Dead.
0:30:35 > 0:30:39But his bell-ringing friends weren't quite so lucky.
0:30:39 > 0:30:41And even Superman had to start somewhere,
0:30:41 > 0:30:44though in the Green Man, Henry Cavill finds out that he
0:30:44 > 0:30:47can't actually go faster than a speeding bullet.
0:30:53 > 0:30:55Rebecca, we're moving on to your guilty pleasure.
0:30:55 > 0:30:57You shouldn't like it,
0:30:57 > 0:31:00but somewhere deep in there, you just can't help yourself.
0:31:00 > 0:31:03- This, for you, is Ready Steady Cook. - Ahh.
0:31:04 > 0:31:07Whoa, we've got big flames over here. 45 seconds.
0:31:07 > 0:31:0945 seconds.
0:31:09 > 0:31:13For 16 years and more than 1,700 episodes,
0:31:13 > 0:31:16Ready Steady Cook challenged two celebrity chefs to whip up
0:31:16 > 0:31:20something fabulous out of five quid's worth of random ingredients.
0:31:20 > 0:31:2230 seconds.
0:31:23 > 0:31:25Are you a keen cook then?
0:31:25 > 0:31:27I love, I love food. I'm such a foodie.
0:31:27 > 0:31:31But, yeah, I think that cos I didn't cook much growing up,
0:31:31 > 0:31:35it was always like my sisters helping out my mum, so I kind of
0:31:35 > 0:31:39didn't really get into cooking until about 19, 20, where I tried
0:31:39 > 0:31:42everything. But I've actually been on Ready Steady Cook with my mum.
0:31:42 > 0:31:43Oh, right.
0:31:43 > 0:31:46And when we went on - and I am nowhere near as good
0:31:46 > 0:31:48as a chef as my mum, without a doubt -
0:31:48 > 0:31:50but I took my medals with me and
0:31:50 > 0:31:53I showed it round the audience and then they all voted for me, so I won.
0:31:53 > 0:31:56I was like, "Yes!" It was a brilliant result,
0:31:56 > 0:31:59and my mum was like, "What?!" My mum was outraged because she just,
0:31:59 > 0:32:03she is obviously the family cook, she's the one that makes
0:32:03 > 0:32:06everything and, to be fair, I love my mum's cooking.
0:32:06 > 0:32:07It's my favourite food.
0:32:07 > 0:32:10If I had to pick one meal I could have, I would have me mum's cooking.
0:32:10 > 0:32:11Ten.
0:32:11 > 0:32:14And while even this show couldn't interrupt Rebecca's
0:32:14 > 0:32:15winning streak,
0:32:15 > 0:32:20it's another demonstration of how her family are always there for her.
0:32:20 > 0:32:22- GONG CHIMES - Stop cooking!
0:32:22 > 0:32:24Your parents have to be your nutritionist,
0:32:24 > 0:32:27they have to be your physios, they literally have to be everything,
0:32:27 > 0:32:29and it was a case of my mum just...
0:32:29 > 0:32:32I kind of always enjoyed cooking and so did my sisters,
0:32:32 > 0:32:35it was always a case of I never really had time to cook.
0:32:35 > 0:32:38And even by the time I was 18, 19, living on my own,
0:32:38 > 0:32:40it would have to be quick.
0:32:40 > 0:32:43I was cooking things that you could eat within 20 minutes
0:32:43 > 0:32:44cos you were starving after training.
0:32:44 > 0:32:47So, it's just like posh chicken and chips really.
0:32:47 > 0:32:49And the best thing about Ready Steady Cook,
0:32:49 > 0:32:51not only were the contestants well-fed,
0:32:51 > 0:32:55they also stood to win a life-changing 100 quid.
0:32:55 > 0:32:57Oh, I'd like to take you home with... Sorry.
0:32:57 > 0:32:59LAUGHTER
0:32:59 > 0:33:01If my wife wasn't here, I'd like to take you home with me.
0:33:01 > 0:33:04- This is wonderful. It really is wonderful.- Yeah? Good.
0:33:04 > 0:33:06It's up to you to decide who's going to be the winner.
0:33:06 > 0:33:08Green peppers or red tomatoes? Please vote now.
0:33:08 > 0:33:11Any cookery show just makes you absolutely starving.
0:33:11 > 0:33:13You just watch it and you're like, "I need food now!"
0:33:13 > 0:33:16You weren't hungry before you watched it, then you go into the kitchen
0:33:16 > 0:33:19and make something dead plain and boring and you're like,
0:33:19 > 0:33:22"Oh, great(!) I get this for my tea now." Just watched something amazing,
0:33:22 > 0:33:26- but it never turns out the way they do. Well, mine doesn't anyway.- No.
0:33:31 > 0:33:34When did it suddenly dawn on you that you were
0:33:34 > 0:33:36good in the swimming pool, exceptionally good?
0:33:36 > 0:33:39Not till I was about 13, not till I was a little bit older.
0:33:39 > 0:33:42I'd kind of joined a club around eight and started competing
0:33:42 > 0:33:46around nine or ten, but it wasn't until I got into my teenage years
0:33:46 > 0:33:49that I took it seriously. It was just a hobby before and it,
0:33:49 > 0:33:53kind of, I still saw it as a hobby, it just became a more intense hobby
0:33:53 > 0:33:57that I did. And I just constantly wanted to be at the swimming pool.
0:33:57 > 0:34:00My mum tried me with other things, I just wanted to be at the pool
0:34:00 > 0:34:03all the time, just felt at home being in water.
0:34:04 > 0:34:08Rebecca's big break came at the age of 19
0:34:08 > 0:34:10at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing,
0:34:10 > 0:34:14where she won two gold medals, set a new world record
0:34:14 > 0:34:18and made her mum and dad the proudest parents on the planet.
0:34:18 > 0:34:19What does it feel like to win?
0:34:19 > 0:34:21I mean, when you do come up at the end
0:34:21 > 0:34:24and there is that acknowledgement and you know you've won.
0:34:24 > 0:34:30I mean, I always felt that you would often give a nod to your family.
0:34:30 > 0:34:33- It's so hard...- When they are there, when they are watching.- Yeah.
0:34:33 > 0:34:36It's so hard when you are in a massive arena because normally,
0:34:36 > 0:34:39in a local or, kind of, national competition, there is
0:34:39 > 0:34:43only your mum and dad in the stands. It's not a big sport like football.
0:34:43 > 0:34:45So you are only used to seeing them and you're constantly...
0:34:45 > 0:34:49Well, I used to look to my family. They were the support.
0:34:49 > 0:34:52They were my safety net. I never felt like they added pressure.
0:34:52 > 0:34:54It was just nice to hear them shout for me.
0:34:54 > 0:34:56But then when you go to the Olympics
0:34:56 > 0:34:59and there is 17,000 people in the stands...
0:34:59 > 0:35:01And millions of people watching on TV.
0:35:01 > 0:35:02Well, you just can't find them.
0:35:02 > 0:35:05And it was so special after Beijing
0:35:05 > 0:35:08because I don't know how the camera person did it.
0:35:08 > 0:35:10They found my mum and dad.
0:35:10 > 0:35:13I honestly to this day don't know how they found them.
0:35:13 > 0:35:14I couldn't even find them.
0:35:14 > 0:35:16I was in the water going, "Where are you?"
0:35:16 > 0:35:19Looking up at all these 17,000 people.
0:35:19 > 0:35:21Then the camera man found them and showed them on screen.
0:35:21 > 0:35:25In 2010, Rebecca went on to win a gold
0:35:25 > 0:35:28and a bronze at the European Championships.
0:35:28 > 0:35:31Then just a few months later came her next triumph -
0:35:31 > 0:35:35the Commonwealth Games in Delhi where she added another four medals,
0:35:35 > 0:35:37including two golds, to her collection.
0:35:39 > 0:35:41'Now she's Commonwealth champion of the women's
0:35:41 > 0:35:44'800 metres freestyle, Becky Adlington of England.'
0:35:44 > 0:35:47I always get asked, "What does it feel like to win a gold medal?"
0:35:47 > 0:35:50It's so hard to put into words cos it's so personal.
0:35:50 > 0:35:54It's like your life, like, you flash back to everything, to the
0:35:54 > 0:35:56times where you got out of the pool crying your eyes out
0:35:56 > 0:35:58cos you're in so much pain.
0:35:58 > 0:36:01Where you can't even, like, walk down the stairs without
0:36:01 > 0:36:03holding on to something cos your legs are burning.
0:36:03 > 0:36:06Like, you've literally pushed yourself to the limit every
0:36:06 > 0:36:10single day for about ten years, it's such a relief that it has been
0:36:10 > 0:36:13worth it as well that literally you feel every single emotion.
0:36:13 > 0:36:19From happiness to overwhelmed to literally every emotion possible.
0:36:19 > 0:36:22It is one of those incredible things that you'll never forget either.
0:36:22 > 0:36:24- Yeah.- I'll never ever forget that.
0:36:24 > 0:36:26It feels like it was yesterday,
0:36:26 > 0:36:28that I can remember it that clearly in my head.
0:36:28 > 0:36:32Two years on, she competed at the London 2012 Olympics
0:36:32 > 0:36:35as one of our most decorated athletes, going into the
0:36:35 > 0:36:40competition with a staggering 15 international medals to her name.
0:36:40 > 0:36:43This time, she came away with two bronzes,
0:36:43 > 0:36:45something she initially felt disappointed with.
0:36:45 > 0:36:48There is this tiny 1% of you that is like...
0:36:48 > 0:36:50SHE SIGHS
0:36:50 > 0:36:52Cos you didn't get that gold medal that obviously
0:36:52 > 0:36:54everyone wants to get.
0:36:54 > 0:36:57- But then, at the same time, you give it 100%.- Oh, yeah.
0:36:57 > 0:36:59- That's all you can ask for. - Yeah, exactly.
0:36:59 > 0:37:02That you just, kind of, have to accept that on the day
0:37:02 > 0:37:04it's not good enough, that your best isn't good enough.
0:37:04 > 0:37:07- No.- And it was just that... - You don't now, though?
0:37:07 > 0:37:08- No, no, no.- No. Good. Yeah.
0:37:08 > 0:37:10But it was, kind of, that initial thing
0:37:10 > 0:37:13and I just couldn't stop crying cos the first thing I said
0:37:13 > 0:37:17to my coach, I had been with the same coach since I was about 12, 13,
0:37:17 > 0:37:21it was Bill, and obviously he had taken me through Beijing.
0:37:21 > 0:37:24You have such a close connection with your coach and the first thing I said
0:37:24 > 0:37:28to him was, "I'm sorry." And I just felt like I'd let him down.
0:37:28 > 0:37:30And he just went, "Bec, don't ever say that to me again."
0:37:30 > 0:37:33He was like, "You've got nothing to be sorry for, I'm so proud of you."
0:37:33 > 0:37:35And I was just like, "OK."
0:37:35 > 0:37:39And it was just that moment where you just feel like you've let
0:37:39 > 0:37:41people down. Then I saw my family.
0:37:41 > 0:37:42They managed to bring my family down.
0:37:42 > 0:37:45Again, I was there in bursts of tears.
0:37:45 > 0:37:47Going, "I'm so, so sorry. I just didn't do it."
0:37:47 > 0:37:51And they were just like, "Behave!" They were like, "That was amazing."
0:37:51 > 0:37:54They were so proud and it, kind of, all disappeared
0:37:54 > 0:37:57once I realised I hadn't let anyone but myself down.
0:37:57 > 0:38:00And actually, that was the major turning point.
0:38:00 > 0:38:01You have not let yourself down.
0:38:01 > 0:38:04And, I mean, you're talking about that moment,
0:38:04 > 0:38:06- but you don't feel like that now? - No, definitely not.- No.
0:38:06 > 0:38:07I look back now and I'm...
0:38:07 > 0:38:10The one thing that a lot of people ask me about retirement is,
0:38:10 > 0:38:13"Oh, do you miss it? Do you miss being in a pool?"
0:38:13 > 0:38:16And I'm, "No, because I can honestly say I gave my career 100%."
0:38:16 > 0:38:17Yeah. Oh, without a doubt.
0:38:17 > 0:38:19There isn't a stone left unturned,
0:38:19 > 0:38:20there isn't that "What if?"
0:38:20 > 0:38:22- "Oh, what if I'd done that?"- Yeah.
0:38:22 > 0:38:25There's nothing because I can honestly say I gave everything 100%.
0:38:25 > 0:38:28So, how can I be disappointed with two bronze medals
0:38:28 > 0:38:31where I gave it my all, it just...that was it.
0:38:31 > 0:38:33- And two golds. - And two, yeah, exactly.
0:38:33 > 0:38:34- Don't forget them.- No, exactly.
0:38:34 > 0:38:38So, I gave everything the best shot I could.
0:38:38 > 0:38:41And now you're commentating on the next generation of swimmers.
0:38:41 > 0:38:44Yeah. It's nice to see the younger ones come through.
0:38:44 > 0:38:47- Do you get nervous for them? - So nervous.- Really?
0:38:47 > 0:38:50So nervous cos you just, you realise every little step
0:38:50 > 0:38:53they're going through, it's relatable, you can relate to them
0:38:53 > 0:38:57and how they're feeling and it's just such an amazing thing to be part of.
0:38:57 > 0:38:59I think we've got a moment here.
0:38:59 > 0:39:01We've had a few moments in this pool,
0:39:01 > 0:39:04but that is the first one that's made Rebecca Adlington cry.
0:39:04 > 0:39:06I'm so pleased for Adam.
0:39:06 > 0:39:11Invited to be an ambassador for the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games,
0:39:11 > 0:39:14Rebecca's move into the world of punditry got emotional
0:39:14 > 0:39:16when friend Adam Peaty won gold.
0:39:16 > 0:39:18I'm just so pleased for him.
0:39:18 > 0:39:21These are good tears, they're good tears. And it was...
0:39:21 > 0:39:23It's going to make me cry again.
0:39:23 > 0:39:26- You can't show this to a pregnant lady.- Oh, really?
0:39:26 > 0:39:28He comes from a club.
0:39:28 > 0:39:30Adam comes from a club, and I love that.
0:39:30 > 0:39:31City of Derby, they're absolutely...
0:39:31 > 0:39:34They will all be crying and bawling their eyes out.
0:39:34 > 0:39:36I know how much this means to the whole club.
0:39:36 > 0:39:38And actually a really good reminder that...
0:39:38 > 0:39:41Why did it get to you like that when it's not even you out there?
0:39:41 > 0:39:44I think you just realise everything that goes into it,
0:39:44 > 0:39:46you realise the dedication,
0:39:46 > 0:39:49the amount of hours that he's trained for this one moment.
0:39:49 > 0:39:52And it's like, nobody knows who you are,
0:39:52 > 0:39:56you've just been getting up at 5.00 in the morning every day.
0:39:56 > 0:39:59You've just been pushing yourself every single day.
0:39:59 > 0:40:03And then you get this one moment, a minute of opportunity
0:40:03 > 0:40:04to show what you've got.
0:40:04 > 0:40:07And a lot of these guys are very similar to myself.
0:40:07 > 0:40:10Adam there, he's just a local boy from Derby.
0:40:10 > 0:40:12He just trains in a normal pool.
0:40:12 > 0:40:17He's not got this amazing facility that's something special or anything.
0:40:17 > 0:40:20He just has heart and passion and dedication for something.
0:40:20 > 0:40:23You just relate to everything they're going through and it's such
0:40:23 > 0:40:27an honour to just pass on a little snippet of their life to people.
0:40:27 > 0:40:30And that's what I love about the punditry is that you can just
0:40:30 > 0:40:33give a little bit of an insight to what it is to be a swimmer.
0:40:33 > 0:40:36So, it's nice to just pass on that knowledge to other people
0:40:36 > 0:40:39- and just share what these guys have gone through.- Yeah.
0:40:39 > 0:40:42Especially for Adam Peaty, he's just gone from strength to strength,
0:40:42 > 0:40:45he's just broke the world record a couple of weeks ago
0:40:45 > 0:40:47and he's just one definitely to watch for Rio.
0:40:48 > 0:40:51Rebecca has successfully made the transition from sports
0:40:51 > 0:40:54to telly and she is in fine company.
0:40:54 > 0:40:57And here are a few other famous women who've succeeded
0:40:57 > 0:40:58in doing the same thing.
0:40:58 > 0:41:01Starting with Clare Balding, who before coming
0:41:01 > 0:41:05one of our favourite presenters was once an amateur jockey.
0:41:05 > 0:41:08Meanwhile swimmer, Sharron Davies, has been
0:41:08 > 0:41:11presenting television since the '90s, appearing
0:41:11 > 0:41:15on everything from Gladiators to Channel Four's Big Breakfast.
0:41:15 > 0:41:16Then there's Denise Lewis,
0:41:16 > 0:41:19who after winning a gold medal in the heptathlon,
0:41:19 > 0:41:24has gone on to even greater success as a pundit in athletics.
0:41:24 > 0:41:27And last but not least, tennis player, Sue Barker, who,
0:41:27 > 0:41:32after winning 11 WTA singles titles, moved into commentating and of
0:41:32 > 0:41:38course has now spent the last 18 years hosting A Question Of Sport.
0:41:44 > 0:41:46Rebecca Adlington, what are you watching now?
0:41:46 > 0:41:50Loads of different things. I love the new Sherlock.
0:41:50 > 0:41:51Absolutely love it.
0:41:51 > 0:41:53I'm addicted, and that's only got three episodes.
0:41:53 > 0:41:55I'm like, "No, make it longer!"
0:41:55 > 0:41:58And you have to wait ages in between the series as well.
0:41:58 > 0:42:02I love property shows, all that sort of stuff.
0:42:02 > 0:42:05Like, your Grand Designs, The Restoration Man,
0:42:05 > 0:42:07anything kind of property.
0:42:07 > 0:42:10Food shows, again, I love, kind of, my cookery shows
0:42:10 > 0:42:13and things in the day, so a real mixture.
0:42:13 > 0:42:15And then the comedy stuff.
0:42:15 > 0:42:18The same as well, like The Big Bang Theory,
0:42:18 > 0:42:20stuff that you get boxsets to.
0:42:20 > 0:42:22- Have you enjoyed today? - I've loved it.- Yeah.
0:42:22 > 0:42:25No, it's been really nice remembering stuff,
0:42:25 > 0:42:27maybe not the murder - Midsomer Murders.
0:42:27 > 0:42:30- Midsomer Murders. Ah, I can't... - That's going to terrify me.
0:42:30 > 0:42:33- You can't even say it. Maybe not the m-m-mur.- I know.
0:42:33 > 0:42:34Well, I want to thank you.
0:42:34 > 0:42:36So, hopefully we'll forget that one.
0:42:36 > 0:42:39But the rest of them, no, it's been really nice.
0:42:39 > 0:42:41So you won't play out with that theme tune.
0:42:41 > 0:42:43You get a choice now - you can choose any theme tune,
0:42:43 > 0:42:45any one you wish to play out on.
0:42:45 > 0:42:47It'll have to be my favourite, Fawlty Towers.
0:42:47 > 0:42:49- Fawlty Towers.- Absolutely love it.
0:42:49 > 0:42:51You've been one of my favourites. Thank you so much.
0:42:51 > 0:42:53- Aw, thank you.- Good luck with the baby.- Oh, thank you.
0:42:53 > 0:42:56Ladies and gentlemen, my thanks to the lovely Rebecca Adlington
0:42:56 > 0:42:59and my thanks to you for watching The TV That Made Me.
0:42:59 > 0:43:00We'll see you next time, bye-bye.
0:43:00 > 0:43:05MUSIC: Fawlty Towers Theme