Odd Wogan: The Best Of

It was a show that went out three nights a week, live...

Mr Wogan, you're on.

..with a live audience

and everyone who is anyone dropping in -

the great and the good, the bad and the ugly.

They called it Wogan. I never knew why.

So, if you're sitting comfortably,

I'll show you something I made earlier.

God knows what they'll make of us in 25 years' time.

Welcome.

Now, on today's show, we've got a stack of guests

who really stick out from the crowd.

In some cases, because of how old they were, like myself,

and in others, because of how odd they were.

So, here's who's coming up -

Take That, Nicolas Cage,

George Best, Boris Becker

and Macaulay Culkin.

Despite all the big names we got on over the years,

today's first interview with David Icke is perhaps

the one people still ask me the most about.

Prior to this, David was known as a clean-cut BBC sports presenter,

a former goalkeeper.

And the turquoise shell suit and comparisons to Jesus

came as a bit of a surprise.

I told David, years later, that, perhaps, I'd been

a bit too sharp with him.

But however it played out, it's become one of the things people,

for some reason, remember.

Did I see you say that turquoise... What is turquoise going to do?

Well, there is an energy that comes from a being called the God Head,

which I mean, we talk about God,

the God Head is not a guy with a beard sitting on a cloud,

it is a massive spirit.

The basis of all creation.

Coming out from this God Head, round all creation,

through all the stars and planets,

is the life force known as the light.

I mean, the Bible refers to the light.

And within this light are various other energies

which have certain gifts.

These energies have a frequency that is the same as all the colours.

Turquoise is the same frequency as an energy called love and wisdom.

Therefore, when you wear that colour, you attract it.

When you wear black, you attract a colour that is the opposite

to love and all the things we wish to bring to the Earth.

-This is...

-It attracts another kind of energy which is very...

But this is very hard on priests and nuns, isn't it?

LAUGHTER Well...

APPLAUSE

Maybe that's a sign that all the truth

is not in the hands of the traditional church

that has been with us over all these thousands of years.

Let me get this story right,

-the press claim that you claim to be the son of God.

-Mmm-hmm.

Is that true?

Yes, you see the thing is...

LAUGHTER It's quite funny, really.

2,000 years ago, had a guy called Jesus sat here

and said these same things, you would still be laughing.

It's really funny that we've not really moved on that much.

When we think, it is not a vacuum.

When we think, we create an energy field.

This is how telepathy works.

An energy field leaves one being and other beings can tune into it

and read that thought.

When you think thoughts of love and wisdom and of tolerance

and all the things we wish to bring to the Earth,

you create a certain, kind of, thought energy,

the very same energy that the God Head sends around creation.

When you think the other thoughts of hatred, of anger, of aggression,

you create a different kind of energy, known as negativity,

which is very, very destructive.

This being called Lucifer lives off this energy.

So, the more that is produced on this planet,

the more powerful that being becomes.

Therefore, he stimulates

and has stimulated this planet over 12,000 years,

since he's been in control,

to produce as much of this energy, as possible.

So, evil has been in control of the planet for 12,000 years?

It has been the dominating force.

Evil's not the right word. It is imbalance.

But it has been increasingly in control. As I repeat,

survey the world, ladies and gentlemen, is the force of love

in control of this world, guiding this planet at this time?

Of course not.

The negativity, the thoughts that I'm talking about that

are very destructive are pouring out of this planet.

Let me interrupt you.

Was it a great shock for you to discover this at 38?

LAUGHTER

I think the word is gobsmacked.

But, again, you know the best way of removing negativity

is to laugh and be joyous,

so I'm delighted that there's so much laughter in the audience tonight.

Just let me say this.

They're laughing at you. They're not laughing with you.

Fine.

APPLAUSE

I didn't mean that to be hurtful. I don't want you to misinterpret it,

they're not laughing in sympathy with you.

Let me say two things to that.

First, if anyone believes, after 12,000 years of this truth being lost

that coming out with it, initially, is going to get any kind of reaction

other than that one or condemnation,

I would be a crackpot if I thought that was the case.

The other thing is, there is this great illusion, you know,

that Jesus was born and stood up and said, "I know who I am."

It was revealed to him in stages.

He was very, very close to beginning the mission which is

described in the Bible, but not described brilliantly accurately,

before he knew who he was.

And when he came out, Terry, and said,

"I am the son of God, I am an aspect of the soul of the God Head,

"incarnate because of things

"that need to be done on this planet urgently",

people laughed, people ridiculed.

In the end, you know, they crucified him.

There are a couple of questions. First of all, why you?

And secondly, if I may say so, you have confused the message

by an awful lot of predictions.

You told us that there are going to be earthquakes

and some are going to happen quite soon.

Yeah.

Two things to that.

First of all, why me? Why anybody?

People would have said to Jesus and many other people like Jesus,

that have not been written into history...

That was the most famous effort to wrest control of this

planet from these forces,

but there have been many before that.

They would have said, "Why you? You're a carpenter's son."

So, why anyone?

But you're saying you were part of Jesus' soul before. You were also

part of many other people's lives on the way through history.

As we all have been. We've all been on this Earth

and incarnated into different physical bodies many times.

But the other point you bring up about the predictions,

If I am given information from beings who have proved to be

perfectly accurate, day after day, in things they've told us

are going to happen and they happen.

-They told you Saddam Hussein was dead and he's not.

-Yes, he is.

I watched his birthday party on the television yesterday.

All I can say to you is all that glitters is not gold.

Hang about and watch and wait.

David has long since gone on to a hugely-successful lecturing career,

warning people that the rulers are really snakes.

Well, let's have some music now from someone whose popularity is

unchanged with the passage of time.

With Hello Again, welcome again, Neil Diamond.

APPLAUSE

# Hello again

# Hello

# I just called to say

# Hello

# I couldn't sleep

# At all tonight

# I know it's late

# I just couldn't wait

# Hello, my friend

# Hello

# I just called to let you know

# I think about you

# Every night

# When I'm here alone

# And you're there at home

# Hello

# Maybe it's been crazy Maybe I'm to blame

# Won't you put your heart above your head

# We've been through it all

# You loved me just the same

# And when you're not there

# I just need to hear

# Hello

# My friend, hello

# It's good to need you so

# It's good to love you

# Like I do

# And to feel this way

# When I hear you say

# Hello

# Hello, my friends, hello

# Just called to let you know

# I think about you

# Every night

# When I'm here alone

# And you're there at home

# Hello. #

APPLAUSE

Let's say hello to Macaulay Culkin,

the young fella who in the 1990s was Hollywood's smallest big star

since Shirley Temple.

Here he is talking about Home Alone,

the smash-hit movie that made him a boy wonder.

-You look great.

-Thank you.

You're a hot property at the moment, aren't you?

Yeah.

-I read in the papers, £1 million for your next movie.

-Wow!

LAUGHTER

He's taking it well, isn't he?

You're taking it well. What would you do with all that money?

Buy myself a licence.

-A licence to what?

-To drive.

-Oh, to drive.

And say I'm a midget and I'm 21.

And I'd buy myself a Porsche, you know.

-What, now?

-Yeah.

And keep it in the garage until you're ready

and not let anybody else drive it?

-Yes.

-Certainly not. Good thinking.

But it's a lot of money.

Do you get to see any of the money that you've been making?

No, actually, all I have to do is sign the cheque and...

-Don't tell me, your mother takes it.

-No, my mom takes it to the bank.

Oh, does she? That's what she tells you.

-Yeah, you hope.

-Yeah.

-Good for you.

-Obviously, you're not a person that fame has changed.

-No.

-You're a simple God-fearing young man, I hear.

-Yes.

That's you. Now, tell me about the movie.

In Home Alone, which has been an enormous success in the States,

-hasn't it?

-Yeah.

-Did that surprise you?

-Well, kind of.

I didn't think it would do that good, but it's a good film.

-It's really funny.

-So, what happens is, this young man...

How old are you?

I'm ten right now, but I'm supposed to be eight in the movie.

But when you made the movie, you were probably nine.

We'll take some time to establish this.

-I mean, you get the whole house to yourself.

-Yeah.

What happens when the young man gets the whole house to himself?

He bounces on the bed with his shoes on and eats popcorn

and gets this huge bowl of ice cream, puts in ice cream,

whipped cream, sprinkles, cherries, marshmallows.

He takes advantage of it.

He takes advantage of it early, you see.

How about the two guys that play the burglars

that you did all the damage to?

Um, well they were nice, you know.

Did you do all your own stunts

because there's a lot of acrobatics, isn't there?

Yeah, well, my stunt man,

my stunt midget, did...

LAUGHTER

Timing.

-My stunt midget.

-Poor little chap.

He would climb up all the shelves and fall and everything.

I would only do the close-ups and I would run sliding on my knees,

that was me.

That's great, isn't it?

You'd be the envy...

-Do you go to school?

-Mmm-hmm.

-Have a lot of your school pals seen this movie?

-Yeah.

They must be really envious of you, are they?

No, they treat me the same and everything.

They play up to you a little bit, cos you've got all that money now.

No, they don't.

-Do you get much spending money?

-I don't get an allowance, at all.

That's really mean, isn't it?

-AUDIENCE:

-Aaah!

Sometimes, if I ask for, like, some money.

She says, "What's it for?" and let's say I want to get to get a shirt.

She'll say, "What's it for?"

And I'll say school work and I get the money and go shopping.

-But you go to a regular school.

-Yeah.

I hear you've got a way of making money, as well.

You make a little bit of money on the side, as well, don't you?

Yeah, I play liar's poker with the Teamsters.

-He plays liar's poker with the Teamsters.

-I'm also a Teamster. I...

Oh, do you know what you have to do to pass the Teamster test?

Hold a cup of coffee and two doughnuts in one hand

and drive with the other.

And do you know what God said to the Teamsters before he died?

"Don't do anything until I get back."

LAUGHTER

Teamster joke.

APPLAUSE

They taught me this.

What about all the publicity, all the screaming fans

-and the stretch limos? Do you like all that stuff?

-It's OK, you know.

-Yeah. Suppose it was all taken away, could you handle that?

-Yeah.

I'll bet you could, too, and I wish you great success

in your career, which I'm sure is going to be star-spangled.

-Thank you for joining us.

-OK.

-Macaulay.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Good man... That was good fun.

Now, I want you to prepare yourselves for one of the most

dramatic entrances we ever witnessed on Wogan,

followed by one of the strangest interviews.

Nicolas Cage is the man. A fine actor - an Oscar winner -

but he seemed a bit out of sorts on the day.

Maybe he was always like this.

Unlike some, however, he had plenty to say, not all of it making sense.

Welcome Nicolas Cage.

APPLAUSE

Wah! Yeah!

How are you doing, Terry?

-Understatement's the watch word tonight.

-My mic, darn it.

All that physical activity just took my mic off.

-You did a bit of that in Wild At Heart when you're dancing.

-Sure did.

-All those karate kicks.

-Heck, I'll just hold it.

Sorry about that, I just had to get it off my chest.

-I was a bit wound up back there.

-Were you? Worked up?

-Just a little worked up.

-Do you get carried away?

-Well...

I don't know if I get carried away, I just, sort of, have a good time

and you invited me on your show, so I'm going to have a blast!

A blast, eh?

Do you find that kind of thing loosens you up,

just to do hand springs like that, cos I do that quite often.

Do you?

LAUGHTER

-Before we start, I don't do it, then.

-You know who you remind me of?

-Arnold Schwarzenegger?

-No, The Avengers.

-The Avengers.

-Remember Mr Steed?

-Diana Rigg.

-Diana Rigg and Mr Steed.

-Give it up for the Avenger! All right!

-Thank you.

APPLAUSE

-That's me. Now, tell me. Let's talk about you now, Nicolas.

-Sure.

-Cos time's a-wasting.

-Yeah, I got you.

Wild At Heart, first of all, it's your new movie.

I have to say I saw it in black and white,

because my video machine is not working properly and I thought

it was arty and done in black and white, but it's in full colour.

-Yeah, it is.

-It's an extraordinary movie.

-Yeah, well, thank you.

-I'm not big on sycophancy, but you're great in it.

Thanks. You know what, this leather is really hot.

You're sorry now you did a handspring.

I've got to tell you something, I hate to do this to you, Terry,

but Mandy gave you a T-shirt.

You're going to give me your snakeskin jacket, aren't you?

No, I've got to give you my Wild At Heart T-shirt.

CHEERING

I'll just put this jacket back on.

It's a big night for me, I can tell you.

Tell me how you started in the acting.

Is that what you always wanted to do?

Well, when I was six years old, I used to watch the TV

and I used to wonder how those little guys got into the TV,

how they were talking like you, you know.

I tried to figure out ways of getting inside that TV set.

That was the first time I really wanted to be an actor, I think.

You have been quoted as saying that, if you hadn't been an actor,

you'd be dead now.

Well, you know.

Maybe I was a little bit far-fetched.

I guess I had this need to do crazy things.

Maybe if I hadn't become an actor,

I used to like the idea of robbing banks.

So, at least I don't have to rob a bank. I can just do it in a movie.

It's safer that way.

-But if you wanted to, the guys and I would go out and help you.

-Really?

-We'll rob a couple of banks.

-You want to rob a bank with me?

They're all closed. We'll have to wait till Tuesday.

It's a bank holiday, so Tuesday. We'll make a date.

So you've come over here to get away from all the excitement

-or are you going to work here?

-No, I came over here to go on your show.

Oh. You see. People still care.

So, what age were you?

-You're now 26 and you've been acting since...?

-Since I was 16, ten years.

You didn't go to acting school, though.

Would you say you're a natural like that?

Well, there was this story, I used to get beat up on the bus a lot.

I went to a correctional school for juvenile delinquents

and I wasn't a big guy, I was ten years old.

I got kicked out of school because I was the class clown,

coming up with pranks and whatnot.

Fried grasshoppers in people's egg salad sandwiches.

I used to get beat up on the bus every day.

Then, I was Nicky Coppola, that was my name.

So, one day I went to school and I dressed up,

put my cowboy boots on, put my black leather jacket on,

put my sunglasses on and said I was Roy Richards.

If you mess around with my cousin, Nicky Coppola,

I'm going to kick your ass.

So, after that, they never screwed around with me,

so that was really my first acting experience.

Coppola couldn't have helped you as a name, could it?

Well, when I first started out, I was 16 and there was a guy named

Eric Stoltz, a young actor working on a movie with me called Fast Times.

I'm sorry, man, that workout over there, I'm really hot.

Well, it's warm in here tonight.

A lot of the audience have taken their vests off, as well.

What happened to the London fog? Where's the rain?

There is no London smog. The Clean Air Act 1933.

He used to make fun of me cos I was Coppola's nephew,

you know, Godfather lines and Apocalypse Now lines.

After I said I really don't need it,

so I changed my name to Cage.

-And it's worked out very well for you.

-Thank you.

Your versatility is quite extraordinary,

if I can be serious about how you act.

You were terrific in Moonstruck,

which was the last thing I saw you in.

And then in Wild At Heart, um...

How do you get into two different roles like that?

You seem a physical kind of person.

-Do you get into things physically?

-Yeah, I do.

Not as much as I used to, because I do have a life to live.

And when you start living the part of a crazy, psychopathic killer,

it can get you into trouble when you go home to your girlfriend. So...

Didn't Richard Gere tell you off, when you were making Cotton Club?

Yeah. He said, "If you do that, you'll have about

three more movies left in you."

-But... So I quit.

-So you've quietened down, have you?

-I'm much quieter.

-You are, you seem a quiet guy.

-I'm very quiet. I'm quiet. LAUGHTER

Yes! Yes, of course you are, Nicholas!

Well, maybe if you're comparing him to pitch-perfect Mariah Carey.

In America, she was the first female artist to have her first

five singles go to number one.

Here she is singing one of them - Emotions.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

# Oooh, oh, oh, oh

# Hey

# Yeah!

# Oooh, hey, hey, yeah, hey

# Oooh-oooh-oooh oh

# You've got me feeling emotions

# Deeper than I've ever dreamed of

# You've got me feeling emotions

# Higher than the heavens above

# I feel good, I feel nice

# I've never felt so satisfied

# I'm in love, I'm alive

# Intoxicated

# Flying high

# It feels like a dream

# When you touch me tenderly

# I don't know if it's real

# But I like the way I feel

# Inside!

# You've got me feeling emotions

# Deeper than I've ever dreamed of Whoa-oh-oh

# You've got me feeling emotions

# Higher than the heavens above

# Now, In the morning when I rise

-# You are the first thing

-On my mind

# And in the middle of the night

# I feel your heartbeat next to mine

# And it feels like a dream

# When you love me tenderly

# I don't know if you're for real

# Oh, but I like the way I feel

# Inside my heart

# You've got me feeling emotions

# Deeper than I've ever dreamed

# Whoa-oh

# You've got me feeling emotions

# Higher than the heavens above Whoa-oh-oh

# You've got me feeling emotions

# Oh, deeper than I've ever dreamed of

# Whoa, baby you've got me feeling emotions

# Higher than the heavens above

# Oh, yes

# Now you know the way

# To make me lose control

# When you're looking into my eyes

# You make me feel so-oo-oo

# High!

# Higher than the sky

# Whoa, oh-oh, baby

# Oh, baby

# Hee-eey

-# All right

-All right

# Oo-oo-ooh, oh-ooh-ooh-ooh yeah

-# Ooh

-Oooh-oooh

# He-ee-ee-ee-ee-eey

# Ooooh-ooh-oooh-oooh

# You've got me feeling emotions

# Deeper than I've ever dreamed of

# You've got me feeling emotions

# Higher than the heavens above

# Oooh, yeah

# I said you've got me feeling emotions

-# Deeper than I've ever dreamed of

-Yes, you do

# Yeah, yeah, yeah

# You've got me feeling emotions

# Hey, hey, yeah

-# Higher

-You've got me feeling

-# Emotions

-So good

-# Deeper than I've ever dreamed of

-You've got me feeling

-# So fine, baby

-Oh-oh, you've

# Got me feeling emotions

# Higher than the heavens above

# Higher... #

APPLAUSE # Ye-eea-ah! #

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE CONTINUES

After the pleasure of listening to that performance,

we've some slightly sad viewing.

It was always incredibly difficult to witness the disintegration

of footballing legend, the great George Best.

But this encounter, perhaps not surprisingly,

is another one of those ones that Wogan viewers always remember.

APPLAUSE AND WHISTLING, HOUSE BAND PLAYS

MUSIC ENDS, APPLAUSE DIES DOWN

Now, it's good to see you again.

Thank you for joining us.

Now, would you rather be at Old Trafford tonight,

with the return into Europe?

Does that make you... wish to be there again?

Yes.

A full and complete and frank answer there.

LAUGHTER

The last time you were only here,

you'd just come out of the old calaboose.

-Prison, you mean?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

Did that experience, do you feel, do you any good?

Not... It's not nice to be in prison.

-No.

-LAUGHTER

What are you laughing at? What are you laughing? LAUGHTER

These people don't know what they're laughing at half the time.

Yes. But you don't feel it did you any...?

Did it have a sobering effect on you?

It did me good because I got £35,000 out of it. SOME AUDIENCE MEMBERS LAUGH

You got £35,000 out of it?

Yeah. They paid me.

For being in prison.

-Who did?

-LAUGHTER

The... Daily Record or some...

Yeah.

-Yeah, but money's never been important to you?

-Nah.

There's one thing in my life that's not important, is money.

What is important in life?

Friends.

-Football?

-Football, yeah, still. Yeah.

-The ladies?

-Ladies are still important, yeah.

SCATTERED LAUGHTER

-They keep laughing.

-I know.

What about the booze. Is that important to you?

The booze is still important, yeah, yeah. LAUGHTER

Get off it! LAUGHTER

Gazza did that the other day.

You have been very outspoken about football throughout your time.

What do you think of Gazza?

I think he is a very talented player.

But he is not in the same class as me.

-AUDIENCE:

-Oooh!

-Who said that?

-I thought you did!

I mean, what would your advice to him be?

Behave yourself.

Because he's actually...

I hate the press.

They gave you a hard time and, obviously, they're,

if you like, more intensive now than when you were, when you were a lad.

But mind you, they might say that you asked for it.

I don't care what they say.

They are treating this guy...

with disrespect.

And it's not right.

What they are doing to him is wrong.

-He's, what, 25?

-23.

Is he 23? I'm always wrong.

WOGAN LAUGHS

What about, what about football now, when you look at it?

I know that you are going to probably

commentate on the game itself tonight, later on.

What about football? What is your opinion when you look at it?

There was a great upsurge of interest when England did

so well in the World Cup this time.

What do you feel about football, here, what you feel about England?

As a football team?

Actually, they did nothing. Unfortunately. I wish they did.

-Because... They are not right.

-You don't think so?

-No.

What you think of the new manager, what about Graham Taylor,

-will he make a difference?

-Not even slightly, no.

-Why?

Where do you think they're going wrong?

Cos they don't have the players... that are doing it.

I mean, how are they going to get the players together?

-Do you think it is the training methods that are wrong?

-Yeah.

But not everybody has, at the risk of being sycophantic,

not everybody has your talent.

-Some people have to be...

-That is correct, yeah.

AUDIENCE GASPS, LAUGHTER

Correct! THEY LAUGH

Yeah.

It's just a shame because...

I still love the game, I love it.

I watch it and they have got no idea what they're doing.

And they keep bringing these managers

and have got no idea what they're talking about.

And what they're...

-I mean, they talk a load of...

-Please!

-This is...?

-It's all... Yeah.

-Is this live?

It is, very. Well, almost.

-LAUGHTER

-Yeah, yeah.

Well, having established that the show was live,

George proceeded to send me and the producers into multiple panics,

with all sorts of colourful language,

to which we will not subject you at this hour.

Now, there was no such trouble with tennis wonder kid Boris Becker,

who, in 1985, aged just 17, became the first unseeded,

and youngest winner, of the Wimbledon men's final.

-How has life changed for you since you won Wimbledon?

-Um...

Have you noticed anything because you're playing tennis

most of the time?

Well, I hope not that I've changed. The people have changed to me.

-You haven't changed?

-Er...

-Maybe a little bit. But it's...

-What little bit has changed?

LAUGHTER

Um...

I'm a little bit older now!

LAUGHTER

-You're going to be 18 any minute, aren't you?

-In 12 days now.

-18.

You're an old man, Boris! You're over the hill!

Then, I'm officially a man.

LAUGHTER

-You can drive a car.

-Yeah.

It's amazing...

How are you coping with the pressures, with the press

conferences, with the photographers, with people who are now...?

You had a private life before Wimbledon.

You've had no private life since then, have you?

Yeah, at the beginning, it was a little bit difficult for me

to understand that now, when I'm going on the street, that all people

are coming to me, want to talk to me,

I have to give press conferences, and when I'm talking,

there are like 50 or 60 journalists from all over the world

and listen to every word I'm saying.

But now, I think I've got used to it

and sometimes, I even enjoy it, a little bit.

-Really?

-LAUGHTER

-What about this kind of thing? Do you enjoy this?

-Er... Yeah. So far.

LAUGHTER

Has your English had to improve? Are you taking more English lessons?

-Cos your English is very good. Was it always that good?

-Thank you.

No, I haven't learned so much in school,

but I am travelling now for, let's say, one-and-a-half years on the tour

and, when there's a press conference,

I have to talk English, I cannot talk German, so it's getting better, yeah.

Yeah. And of course, you learn a different kind of language

-when you play people like McEnroe, don't you?

-LAUGHTER

All sorts of unusual English words!

Yes. Every word is new for me there.

LAUGHTER

When you play a bad shot, and you feel like letting off steam,

do you curse in German or English?

-Well, I started to yell in...Romanian.

-Romanian.

LAUGHTER

Cos now, German journalists are coming to tournaments

and English, of course, so I have to yell in Romanian.

Yes, of course.

Yeah. John McEnroe said last week,

and I know you don't pay any attention to him,

but he said that if you continue to throw yourself around the court

the way you do, you'll be an old man before you're 21.

-You'll do some damage to yourself.

-Yes.

-KNOCKS ON TABLE So far, nothing happen to me.

-I hope you don't think that was wood.

LAUGHTER

You just knocked on plastic, then!

LAUGHTER

But... I'm not diving on hard court, or not very often.

-You're not that foolish.

-No. But I like to dive on grass, for example.

Good feeling to land on the old grass and bounce up again.

-You could have been a footballer.

-Er...

Yes, I used to play soccer a little bit, but when I was younger.

-Yeah.

-LAUGHTER

From what they say, you could... There's a man taking photographs.

LAUGHTER

You could have been a top footballer.

What made you decide on tennis?

Well, my whole family play tennis.

My father was the hometown president of my tennis club and so,

I got involved in tennis more than football.

What about your social life?

Have you any time for a social life with the tournaments

-and going around playing here and there?

-Er...

Well, not very much, you know?

I'm playing a lot of tennis, but sometimes I'm reading...

I started to read now, because my coach said it's good for me...

Reading?

-Yeah.

-Does your coach allow you to go out with girls?

-Er...

Well... LAUGHTER

Er... I... Yes, I do like girls, but my coach...

LAUGHTER

..doesn't like it so much.

How does it feel to be a tax exile in Monte Carlo at 17?

-Well, I moved there already one year ago.

-You were a tax exile at 16!

LAUGHTER

And I didn't win any money, then. One year ago.

And, for example, it's my only place where I can be just for myself.

I can walk on the street and I'm watching the people,

they are walking, they are not watching me, I'm watching them.

And so, I like it very much.

It's nice weather and many possibilities there.

-For freedom and being yourself.

-Yeah.

-Good.

Well, we hope that your continued success

won't restrict your freedom any more and thank you for joining us.

-Thank you.

-Good to see you.

-APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

We'll end today with more fresh-faced young men.

Way back in 1991, we welcomed a group of unknowns who,

I'll be honest, didn't stand out that much from other pop groups.

And the song wasn't perhaps one of their best.

But still, this is a chunk of TV gold.

It's Take That, all five of them,

with Promises, their first Top 40 hit.

In fact, it reached the giddy heights of number 38.

SCREAMING AND APPLAUSE

Here we go!

# Standing back, I can't believe

# How you've led me on

# And judging by the things you say

# There's got to be something wrong

# What you telling me that

# For when you don't mean it?

# What you telling me that

# For I don't believe it?

# Your promises never been anything you made them seem

# So, what you gonna promise me this time?

# You're telling lies so plain to see

# You're trying to make a fool of me

# So, what you gonna promise me this time?

# I never know

# Seems like I've been playing your game

# And now you think you've won

# But when you count up what you've gained

# You're the lonely one

# What you telling me that

# For when you don't mean it?

# What you telling me that

# For I don't believe it?

# Your promises never been anything you made them seem

# So, what you gonna promise me this time?

# You're telling lies so plain to see

# You're trying to make a fool of me

# So, what you gonna promise me this time?

# Your promises never been anything you made them seem

# So, what you gonna promise me this time?

# You're telling lies so plain to see

# You're trying to make a fool of me

# So, what you gonna promise me this time?

# I wanna know

Let's go!

OK, boys!

# Promises, promises

# What you telling me that

# For when you don't mean it?

# What you telling me that

# For I don't believe it?

# Your promises never been anything you made them seem

# So, what you gonna promise me this time?

# You're telling lies so plain to see

# You're trying to make a fool of me

# So, what you gonna promise me this time?

# Your promises. #

Thank you!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Who could have predicted that they'd rise to such dizzy heights?

Well, that's it today. We've got more next time, so do join me again.