Tonight we've got it all.
Comedy, kitchen drama, kings and queens and Kylie.
Say the words, Kylie Minogue.
Let's start!
Later, we'll have music and singer-songwriter Mae Muller!
She wrote a song.
But first, he's a hilarious stand-up who's now bringing his surreal comedy style to his new BBC sitcom, Juice.
Please welcome Mawaan Rizwan!
CHEERING There he is!
Hello, darling.
Welcome, welcome.
You sit down there.
Thank you for being here.
He's a BAFTA award-winning comedian and writer, now turned royal historian.
For his latest book, On Rulie, it's Mr David Mitchell!
Oh, there he is.
You can wave.
Have a seat, dude.
He's one of our most compelling actors, the star of This Is England, Gangs Of New York, Line Of Judy, Matilda, and the brilliant restaurant drama Boiling Point.
Please welcome Stephen Graham!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
And with 80 million records sold worldwide, this lady is a Grammy-winning pop icon.
Now releasing their 16th studio album, It's The Fabulous.
Welcome, Charlie.
With the applause, you couldn't even hear it there.
We were playing Padam Padam.
Which Adami?
Yeah, Song Of The Summer.
Song Of The Summer.
Did all of you, at some point, dance to Padam Padam this summer?
I'm looking at you, David Mitchell.
I don't dance, so I would have done.
He's lying.
It's his favourite anthem.
I saw you backstage.
You know, by the way, Padam is like the international gay mating call now.
It's just...
The gays here are all just like, huh?
New cats.
Yeah.
Do you know what you've created?
It will last forever.
Good times?
Yeah.
Absolutely.
Sounds like it.
Did you learn the dance?
No.
Did you learn the dance?
No, I watch music videos and then pretend I'm in them, but... Is there a specific dance?
Yeah, there's the whole... You know, there's the... Oh, he does know it, the... Yeah.
You do know it, don't you?
No, don't test me on it.
I can't do the padam dance at Kylie's.
Yes, you can.
This is like a bad dream.
Come on, come on, show me.
OK, let's have the music, let's have the music, let's have the music, here we go.
I wish I learned it now.
OK.
We're in the wrong part, let's go.
Five, six, seven, eight.
I mean, I feel it's early in the show for dancing.
I don't know what to do.
I'm sorry, I was just going to have to fake a heart attack.
David knows help is coming.
I mean, faking a heart attack is the dance routine, isn't it?
I thought it was a good way of checking your heart.
Yeah.
And, Stephen, I know you love Kylie, but someone in your family loves Kylie even more than you.
Yeah, yeah, my dad, yeah.
Not in like a dangerous way, where he'll break into your house.
It's good that you mentioned that.
No, my dad has a healthy obsession, shall we say, with you.
And my beautiful mother, God rest her soul, you were his only pass, just in case, if it ever happened.
And now she's gone.
All right.
I'll have a word.
All right, well, lots of love to you, Dan.
You're too kind, Kylie.
But now, it's not just that song, there are lots of new Kylie songs in the world, because the new album, Tension, is out now.
Here it is, ladies and gentlemen.
And it is terrific.
It's so earworm-y and dance-y.
Did you go in with that?
Was that the specific intention of this album?
Um, initially, no.
Just, like, a gentle start for the recording process, see what transpired.
Then we kind of were looking at a theme, maybe an 80s theme, which wasn't going anywhere.
And then the turning point was deciding there's no theme, just go in and have fun.
Like, have fun.
Do whatever you feel like.
And I think you can hear and sense that kind of liberation on the record.
So Tension is the album, but it's also the current single.
So we've got a little clip from the video.
Here it is.
Was anyone else here at Shepherd's Bush last night seeing Kylie it was great wasn't it so so good and what was amazing?
I thought was that you've had all these hits and you would kind of think oh, that's what drive people crazy Yeah, but the new stuff was getting the biggest traction.
Oh, I know
It's so invigorating.
I'm so thrilled that padam tension and I Did a brand new song For that and everyone knew it everyone knew it.
So yeah, it's super.
It's just such an exciting time I like it's kind of a pinch myself moment.
I
Yeah, because really, you know, you kind of think if you've been in the business that you should just be a legacy artist and just doing, you know, greatest hits and that'll be it.
But no, it's all about new stuff now, it's great.
Yeah, I'm loving it.
So thank you for coming last night.
Well, I didn't pay.
Did you pay?
Curse me for coming.
But interestingly, you've been in press around this album and you did an interview in Rolling Stone magazine where you were talking about, you know, you were really young and then success hit and the effect that fame had on you and how you look back on it and its effect on you.
Well, I'm asked a lot these days, what would I say to my younger self?
And I mean, my mind starts racing.
I can get quite emotional thinking, what would I?
I don't think she'd really listen.
I'm pretty feisty myself.
But yeah, I would have liked to let her know sometimes that you're not alone, what you're feeling is okay.
Yeah, it's not easy.
It's not all water off a duck's back.
And I think it's good these days that people can talk about, you know, especially in our industry where it's like, it's all gloss.
Well, there's a lot of it's gloss, but...
Yeah, I don't really talk about it too much, but it's nice to acknowledge that.
So did young Kylie, did she end up in kind of dark places and kind of not enjoying it?
Yeah, sometimes.
And I would turn to my family and just... I mean, I don't know how different it would be today with social media and, you know, it's really hard to shut yourself off from...
voices and critics and even your own thoughts.
And Mawaan, you're the baby on the couch, and great things are happening for you now.
And so, how are you coping?
How do you think you'll cope?
Like, have people stopped doing the streets and stuff?
Yeah, you know, man's on the telly box now, innit?
Yeah, there's a few more eyes, but I get really confused, cos I don't know if they've seen me on the telly or they're checking me out or they're just racist.
And the look for it, like, the look for all three is exactly the same.
I wrote a song called Are You Checking Me Out or Are You Just A Racist.
I feel like that should really... Your take on it should be like, are you checking me out or do you want an autograph?
You find it strangely relatable, Kylie.
Is that good?
Yeah.
What if we walk down the street together?
I don't think anyone will be looking at me.
I'm OK with that.
I'm not so sure about that.
What would your advice be because it is quite intense, you know You spend all this time like trying to do your art form and get paid for it and then you're on the telly and it's like a real Transition, you know, yeah, it's full-on.
I guess I've always tried to I don't know from the way I was raised like it's a job I get that it's a job.
It becomes a lifestyle Yeah, just Family friends people who keep it real friends.
I need to get some of those.
Yeah
It'd be easy to get them now you're famous.
Yeah.
As long as you keep giving them money.
Yeah, what are you doing after this?
Well, when it comes to fame, not many people get mentioned in Parliament.
So check this out.
This is MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle talking about Pride Week in the House of Commons.
Here he is.
Pride is a moment for us to remember where we have come from and to ensure that love conquers hate.
So happy Pride Month.
Let our hearts win over hate.
And finally, Mr Deputy Speaker, in the words of Kylie, padam padam.
They're running the country
The gesture, that was beautiful.
He had, um... It's a shame he couldn't get his printer to work.
Yes, I know!
But the phone will do.
Yeah.
It's fine.
It's fine, there's no-one there.
It's fine, this will never end up in telly.
Well done.
Very good.
Now, very quickly, Kylie, Vegas.
So you are doing a residency in Vegas?
I am.
Wow.
OK.
Yes.
And what is it?
Is it...?
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Is it like the show we saw last night?
Smaller even really yeah caps at a thousand.
It's a Club within the Venetian resort called Voltaire, and I describe it.
It's not I haven't finished building it yet Okay, very much happening as we speak
It's a cross between, like, a 1930s club with, you know, booths and tables and lamps.
You're going to walk in and feel this decadence and glamour, with different little performances happening.
And then there's the star turn.
Oh, yeah.
That's me opening.
So it's going to be a lot of fun, very intimate.
And when does it happen?
Because it's all sold out already, isn't it?
Yes.
November 3, we open.
If it's open in time.
Wow.
You know, like, Charlene's overalls are going to come out.
I'll be so involved.
Yeah, take that, Adele.
Look at me.
Look at me go.
It's on!
Good luck with that and good luck with the new album, Tension.
Kylie Minogue, everybody!
And now, there is some great telly this autumn, including a fabulous new drama series from Stephen Graham.
It's called Boiling Point.
It starts this Sunday on BBC One at 9 o'clock, and it follows on from the film of the same name.
It's set in a high-octane world of restaurant kitchen.
Let's have a little taste of what's in store.
I need you to remember what we do in here, what we've started.
Right, check on table 8, one scouse, two cod, one pork.
Check on!
I mean, don't forget, he's always the way for me.
Maybe if it wasn't for her, I'd still have my own restaurant.
It's Point North's name on the line.
Go out there and smash it, all right?
Yes, yes, yes.
You need to have a little bit more faith in yourself.
Hey, I'm proud of you.
I need you to keep the faith.
Would you like to be a chef or do you want to be a dishwasher?
Serving!
Whoa!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE This is so good.
I don't know how many of you saw the movie Boiling Bud, but this isn't a TV series of the movie.
No.
It's sort of a sequel.
It's a continuation.
This series picks up from where the film kind of left off, six months down the line.
OK, so what's become of your character, Andy?
Andy is now no longer working in a restaurant.
And we follow Carly, who was his sous-chef, played by the wonderful Vinette Robinson.
She's now settled, but on restaurant.
So we follow what happens within that restaurant and the trials and tribulations that all of those workers that we had from the film, a lot of the main cast have come across as well.
Plus, we've got some wonderful new young talent.
Yeah, yeah.
So we follow what happens in their restaurant.
And it feels so real.
I was telling you backstage, it feels so real.
But it's not a real restaurant.
No, no, it was a set.
But is it practical?
We're seeing bread rising, is that...?
To an extent, yeah.
We had massive specks of the face.
To an extent, you couldn't eat none of the food, as Hannah found out.
You know the way you have little bits knocking about?
This is your wife, Hannah?
Yes, the wonderful Hannah.
I don't know if that fruit's edible or not, you know what I mean?
Don't try it.
Exactly.
Don't try it.
That's been there since Wogan.
Sorry to ruin the illusion.
So, that has to look pretty in the bowl.
Obviously, you just banged the balls... I mean, banged the grapes.
You banged your grapes all over the table, didn't you?
Sorry, that got worse, didn't it?
Yeah.
The grapes aren't real, are they, lads?
No, no.
Yeah, sorry, yeah.
The grapes aren't real, and I found that out when she took a bite of one of the cakes, and she was like,
obviously bit it and it wasn't real, it was kind of, yeah, it was mushed together and painted and glossed over.
Because I worked in restaurants for years and, you know, the young people say triggering, I now know what it means.
I found this show so triggering.
Because it was just like, oh, no, oh, God!
Everything goes wrong.
Oh, it's so tense-making.
Did you work in restaurants?
Yeah, I did, just for a little bit, though, yeah.
Will you say little bit?
Yeah.
Not a week, I think it was.
I got sacked.
What was it down for?
I worked at, what was it, TGI Fridays?
Remember that?
Is it still going?
I don't know.
It is, I believe.
There's lots of other places out there that you can eat.
Yeah, other dreadful places.
Yeah, there's other great places to eat and stuff like that.
I was a busboy and I got the sack because I wouldn't clean up sick.
And it wasn't even on my section, though.
If it was on my section, I would have cleaned it up.
Of course.
But it wasn't my section.
Whose section was it?
Someone else's.
Why didn't they ask them to clean it up?
Exactly, that's what I thought.
It's ridiculous.
Why don't you get him to clean it?
It's not my section.
I'm guessing whoever owns TGI Friday isn't loving this story.
And then there was a big pile of sick in our restaurant.
I think it's fair to say that often at TGI Fridays, the customers do manage to keep it down.
That is impartiality, right there.
Yeah.
I wasn't sick, David Mitchell.
But presumably, cos in the movie, you are cooking.
There is cooking going on.
So, did you learn how to prepare the things you were making in the movie?
Yeah, we did.
Especially for the first one, we learned how to chop and how to prep.
Mostly, it was the art of plating up, do you know what I mean?
So it looks... It's the artistry of great chefs, I think.
That's when they wipe it, isn't it, with a bit of a tea towel?
Yeah, give it that little widy end.
A bit of the goo.
And they do the shoe, not the goo, the shoe.
It's a form of goo, isn't it?
Well, it's a zoo.
Zoo is a goo.
No, a zoo is not a goo.
A goo is not a zoo.
A zoo is a zoo.
I would say a zoo, within the set goo, is a subset zoo.
How can a zoo be a goo when a goo is not a zoo?
Well, cos you can have more than one word for the same thing.
But that doesn't make sense.
Well, I mean, I think... You wouldn't say to a chef, can I have that goo on my plate?
No, I wouldn't say that.
Because he'd slap you.
No, exactly.
They're famously violent.
Take it outside, mate.
I would say... Him, have that.
You're going to have that.
No, but in... What, me or him?
Both of you.
I haven't... Well, I would go with the jus.
Thank you very much.
See, Carly's told you and I'll be quiet, so...
In Britain there's a lot of talk of how there's been a food revolution and food so brilliant now in Britain at David Mitchell you disagree
Well, my feeling is that, at heart, in this... Sit back, listen to this, Stephen.
You'll like this.
In this country, we are, at heart, eaters of sandwiches at our keyboards.
We just... We're not... There are many... In Italy, in France, they really care about every meal they have.
Here, we do like, now and again, to have a massively posh meal, but most of the meals, we just think, fuck it.
I'm busy, I've got a meeting at two, I just have some crisps and a sort of incredibly soggy baguette that would make a French baker kill himself.
And that's, for most meals, what we do.
But we now do have... Oh, no, you can go occasionally to an astronomically expensive restaurant where you can't really talk because they need to describe the tiny dish in about 400 words and it takes much less time to eat it.
Wow.
That's a bit of a recreational activity now in this country.
I don't want to speak for you, Kylie.
I think you enjoy the long description of the tiny thing.
What did you say?
As mentioned by David just now.
OK.
Am I wrong?
Uh, yes.
Yes.
You do like... Yes.
Well, yeah, I like... I like the description.
I do, yeah.
Of the... It's part of the show.
Yeah.
You like to know how it was made, how it was sourced.
Yeah.
Where do you stand on posh food?
Pizza Express is as posh as I get.
Very nice.
Did you... You did a bad thing happening at Pizza Express, though, didn't you?
Oh, yeah, you know, like, OK, so... A very stressful thing happened, but I've never worked at a restaurant, but I'm, like, one of the worst customers, cos... OK, once, it was years ago, I was broke, this guy sat next to me, he left his whole pizza and left, so I obviously, free pizza, started eating it, right?
Yeah.
Halfway through eating it, he comes... No, my guy came back.
No, no, he never... He came back.
No, he never... He went out for a cigarette.
I just I was just like Like acting like what is this foreign object to my mouth like I was shocked And he was like you're eating my fucking penis
And then I was like, yeah, look, it's the waitress.
It's her first date.
The waitress comes over.
She's like, he didn't order with me.
So I was like, yeah, with your colleague.
The colleague comes over.
I've got all three of them looking down at me like the peasant that I am.
I'm still eating the pizza.
You're thinking, presumably, I've got to eat... Anything I'm going to be allowed to eat, I have to eat in the next 40 minutes.
I'd better eat it fast.
I've got indigestion.
This meal is ending quite soon.
But you know what, when you've gone into a lie that far, you just got leading.
I was like, can I get some chilli oil, please?
And, Stephen... APPLAUSE
Boiling Point, made by your production company, and I know that one of your aims with that company is to kind of open the industry up to people who possibly wouldn't have got in.
Yeah, yeah, that's the ethos.
There's three of us as a collective that produced it together, three different companies, and that is our ethos, do you know what I mean?
Especially, I mean, with the extent, I made a conscious decision not to be front and centre this time, because I wanted everybody else to have a moment in the sun, do you know what I mean?
managed to really do that.
I think we've got a beautiful cast, very authentic, it's very truthful, it's very real.
I don't feel we've got enough working class drama on the television at the moment.
We had a conversation earlier on, do you know what I mean?
And I completely believe that.
So we are in a fortunate position
Myself and the other executive producers to be able to create a platform for young people and give them an opportunity So we fought hard for that to happen and I you know, I really hope it's paid off.
Well, I mean the show is great Now
It's only September, but it's already book time!
Oh, we've got a biggie, ladies and gentlemen, yes.
This is David Mitchell's Unruly.
It's a history of England's kings and queens.
It's out now.
Is it like a passion project?
I mean, you knew a lot of this stuff already.
You studied history at university.
Yeah, I love history and I love kings and queens.
That's what, basically, it feels like you're not allowed to just read about the kings and queens.
You should take interest in more important things, like crop yields.
And I'm not interested in crop yields, I'm interested in the arseholes you speak of.
Wearing the gold hats and bossing people around.
And I just, I started in the lockdown, I started writing about them because they're fun people.
I mean, they're dreadful people.
It was awful what they did.
But now it's a long time ago, we can laugh about it.
Yeah.
At the time, it really wasn't funny.
And it is a very funny, funny book.
Which of the monarchs did you enjoy taking the piss out of the most?
Well, I find... I like how horrible Edward the Confessor is.
Edward the Confessor gets quite a good press these days.
I mean, I'm not saying he's always on the front page.
The Anglo-Saxon king, he told everyone, he told posterity how much he loved praying.
What a holy man he is.
I think he's a dreadful virtue signaller.
He's an awful man.
He caused chaos.
The Battle of Hastings was a result of his incompetence.
And in the book, you talk about how you think having a monarchy is sort of what defines England.
Well, I think so.
When you sort of look at Britain, I would say the bit that has the least cultural identity is England, because the cultural identity essentially goes the French... And the French, they're not part of Britain.
Sorry.
Had the book gone differently, they might have been.
The Scottish, the Welsh have very strong cultural identities.
England, it's sort of what's left.
And what the English identity focuses on is ancient institutions.
So monarchy and parliament.
That's what we focus on.
That's what defines us.
And that's just old stuff, really.
Yeah.
It's not... It doesn't do anything.
It's not contemporary.
And so I think a huge amount of...
our sense of identity as this part of the UK is about just sort of saying, oh, look how, when a monarch dies, we still do what we've always done, which is that they parade around in the gold hat, and then they go into a secret room, and a bit of, and this definitely is goo, not jus, gets put on them, and that means they're God's representative on Earth.
And we don't really think that it means that anymore, but we still do it, because as soon as you stop doing it,
Well, where are you?
You know, it's like if you've got a nice Bakelite light switch in your house and you get rid of it, it's gone.
I mean, the monarchy can sleep safe tonight.
Well, I don't mind.
I think the constitutional monarchy, I think it's great fun, but it's not the same as having, like, a huge tradition of art and culture.
A few things we always do.
Kylie, growing up in Australia, did you have to learn about English kings and queens?
Yes.
Oh, you did?
Don't test me on it.
Oh, my God.
Yeah, because you now... You could be, I'm correct, an Australian can be a Dane.
I'm not sure.
Well, you're something already, aren't you?
An oob or an ember?
I'm a... I'm an OBE.
Yeah, so you could be a dame.
Yeah, I guess so, yeah.
There should be dame Kylie Minogue.
I think you can be a dame, yeah.
I think Dame Edna was a dame, although it was so... It was so fictional.
But, you know, there's... Well, you should be a dame.
Yeah.
Maybe one day.
Charles, put your finger out.
Because, Stephen, you're a fresh OBE.
Yeah.
Who gave it to you princess Thank you very much no, it's not
That's Princess Margaret, and if you got one from Princess Margaret recently, that's a big girl.
Who's Princess Anne?
She's the sister of Charles.
But who played her in the real thing?
Oh, a really, really good actor.
Erin Doherty?
Erin Doherty, she's so good.
She's amazing, she's amazing.
I'm working with her right now.
I thought she's unbelievable.
She wasn't Princess Anne, was she?
She was, but a fierce one, yeah.
So she gave you the medal?
Yeah.
No, Erin didn't give me the medal.
I think of the monarchy, I think of the cast of The Crown.
Yeah, quite rightly.
You'll love this.
I'm actually going to read it because you actually do remind me of my history teacher at school.
He had a breakdown.
I swear, and he once threw a chair at me, so no shade on him.
Yeah, that's the vibe.
But now, very quickly, David, you've got so many things on at the moment.
Would I Lie To You Is Coming Back, The Outsiders is on Dave.
Yes, yes, that's coming.
Oh, thank you very much.
Nice to have one of the crew here.
That starts the 11th of October.
OK, and that's on Dave.
And how cool is this?
This year, 20 years since Peep Show began.
20 years.
That's amazing, isn't it?
Are you doing anything special?
Because there's so much love for that show.
There have been a few nice articles, which is good, but, no, we're not organising an event, really, but it's just... In fact, what's weird about it is that I remember growing up, adults who seemed very old would talk about things happening 20 years ago, and you sort of thought, what's that?
That's weird.
Well, 20 years ago, you should be dead.
And now I know what that feels like.
And then you can sort of say okay, I've got a vague sense of by which point I will be dead For me, I'm very proud of that show, but also it's reminded me of my own mortality Because peep show it was such a kind of unique show
We hadn't seen anything like it.
And I know, Mawaan, you've talked about how it could have inspired you to what sitcom could be.
Yeah, there was nothing like it at the time.
And it broke form in all my favourite shows, try and do something new and different and make TV exciting.
So, yeah, that was definitely in the same vein that, you know, Juice came about.
We wanted to make TV that we wanted to watch.
Yeah.
All right, well, let's talk about your new sitcom, Juice.
It continues on Mondays on BBC Three and the whole series available to binge now on iPlayer.
And I love it because it is a sitcom, but it's also quite surreal.
I mean, how do you describe it?
How did you kind of pitch it to people when you wanted to make it?
It depends who I was talking to.
If it was the commissioner at various channels, it was like, yeah, it's basically in between us.
LAUGHTER What do you like?
Yeah, it's that.
Give me the money.
But for us, it's a show about Jammer who's struggling with committing to a new scary relationship, which is amazing, but, you know, love is confronting and scary.
And then his mum tells him about a thing from her past that makes him re-evaluate his whole approach to romance.
And it's quite a surreal show, yeah, so when his emotions peak, the world around him literally starts warping and, you know, his coat might... Don't start laughing, cos that is funny.
That hair... Sorry, what's so funny about that?
Was that ever your real hair?
That's the sexiest face I've ever made.
I can't say, cos the makeup artist would kill me if I told you it's a wig.
You have hair like that.
Henry V.
It's all in the book.
So I was reading the book one day, and I was like, I can make a show out of this.
No, good wig.
It's a very good wig.
Well, I'm never getting laid again, and that's fine.
We'll talk about it some more, but let's have a clip.
This is the character Jamma, played by you, with his boyfriend, played by Russell Tovey.
MUSIC PLAYS
It's funny!
Good!
And, look, there are lots of jokes, and it's very silly, but the thing that surprised me, I would say, is that in the middle are these very real relationships, you know, with your boyfriend, but especially with your family.
Yeah, I wasn't trying to make an emotional show, you know, but somehow it got emotional.
I think a lot of people were like,
we know you're a comedian and it's always like gag gag gag but you know this show is you've clearly written something with heart so like lean into it and then you know actors like russell come on board and and my brother naban and my mom and they just made it really real and we yeah we went there and it was there was a scene with my mom oh my god i was like i was crying every take you know yeah mainly because she was getting paid more than me but
She was somehow... I couldn't believe I was doing a scene with my mum.
The first day we rocked up, me and my brother and my mum, we were looking at our trailers next to each other, and even just that was emotional.
We had tears in our eyes cos we were like, where we came from, making silly videos online, to where we are now, it was nuts, you know, that someone gave us the chance to do that as a family.
And talking about working with family, you, Kylie, you're based back in Australia now.
Mm-hm.
Cos it's that thing, I'm sure you missed your family, but now you get to see a lot of them.
I do, yes.
Which is lovely.
But, as you know, my mum used to come on tour with me all the time.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Until she got the sack.
She was like, you can't be with quick change like this anymore.
But, yeah, it's great being back with family.
And you've done some gigs with Danny.
Yes.
That's World Pride in Sydney, which was a surprise.
It's the unicorn moment.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
When people see us together, it's like, wait, wait.
But it does happen.
Yeah.
And it's always... It's such a beautiful moment for us.
And, Stephen, obviously, you work with your wife, Hannah.
Yes.
Hannah Walters in Boiling Point and lots of things.
I mean, she's so good in Boiling Point.
Isn't she magnificent?
She's just brilliant.
Yeah.
No, because, you know, look, and I'm not just saying it because she's my missus, but I've been exceptionally lucky.
I've worked with some wonderful actors and some brilliant people, do you know what I mean?
I was in a scene with... Look, I'm not just... There was a... I know you'll go and drop that name, but with Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, and it was amazing.
It blew my mind.
And there was something else, you know, I'm a kid from a council flat so for me to be in that situation was mind-blowing But like you said that moment when I was with Hannah in a particular scene and I just had this overwhelming feeling of gratitude It just came from nowhere.
Yeah, but we were both different characters within the scene and she was magnificent in Episode two it is a boiling point and it's one of the finest things I've ever been a part of do you know what I mean?
Is it good for your sex life?
No, but you know when you see your partner across the room, like, being good at something?
He's sexy.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, go on.
Yeah, yeah, we're doing all right.
Just me?
No, I'm sorry.
I wasn't going to ask.
How do you say competence?
Competence.
That's my thing.
Competence is the new sexy word.
Yeah.
Like, punctuality.
And the one in juice.
Because you did train as a clown.
Yeah, I trained as a clown.
My dad is very proud of me.
Why are you laughing?
More like the commedia dell'arte and stuff like that.
Yeah, you know, like the whole Lecoq school of... I can see that, yeah.
Oh, yeah?
Yeah.
Thanks, man.
It's amazing.
You're a juggler, though, aren't you?
Technically, what you doing?
A what?
No, you lost me there, sorry.
I don't know about this.
I don't know about... Yeah, you do.
That should be from your book.
That's not in my book.
I'll look it up on the index.
When they used to perform in front of royalty and the aristocrats to take the piss out of them.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah, we did that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we did that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I knew it was the name.
Yes, there's Jess, there's Jean-Claude.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I just did a summer course, it was very...
We didn't get to the jongler module.
But you do a thing, cos where did your walks... It came from parties.
Yeah, so Jammer in Juice does a lot of silly walks, but it came from... When I was... If I was ever at a boring party, I would get people to do their most stupid walk to liven it up, and then over the years, I've collected loads of walks.
I had a lot of spare time on my hands.
It goes in, and it's amazing.
If I played a beat for you, could you show us some walks?
God, I can't do it in a corset, guys.
Yeah, go on, I'll show you a little.
OK, OK, yay!
OK.
Oh, OK.
It goes like this.
I've got a new walk, got a new walk.
Got a new walk, and it goes like this.
Grain's got a new walk, got a new walk.
No, he doesn't, he doesn't.
Grain's got a new walk, got a new walk.
Got a new walk, and it goes like this.
Grain's got a new walk.
OK.
APPLAUSE No-one else is doing one.
Kylie.
Kylie's got a new walk, got a new walk.
I love that you were like... No, I was trying to think of the most random, like, not-me walk.
No, you looked so reluctant, and as soon as you started, you were like, finally!
I'm not going to say it through.
Kylie, I love you even more.
For once, if carb juice is our VPZ3 and iPlayer... We were so frightened we were going to have to do a walk.
I mean, so frightened.
We can put it back on.
No, Jesus Christ, no.
No, I've literally lost five years off the end of my life.
Juice!
Juice is on BBC Three, Adelaide Blair.
And don't forget David Mitchell's book on Ruli is out now.
Go on, David.
Very good.
Right, it's time for music.
First she wrote a song and now she's written a whole album.
This pop princess has risen for Eurovision to the top of the charts.
Here performing Me, Myself and I, it's Mae Muller!
Can't seem to find the one Cuz it's the same right got the wrong time.
I think I had Because I don't need to try think I finally realized that I'm
That's why I caught up.
Charlie, I told him I was sorry.
Then there was Michael.
He just wasn't my type, though.
There was Ethan.
He wanted something deeper.
I had to leave him.
I think I found a keeper.
It's me, myself, and I. Baby, it's simple.
I'm young and single.
Because for the first time, got nobody on my line.
Don't hit me up, because I'll decline.
Yeah, yeah.
Because I don't need to try.
Think I finally realized that I'm all good.
Don't need the guy, because I'm the love of my own life.
I don't need to try.
Think I finally realized I'm too busy to be a wife.
Yeah, that's why I called up Charlie.
I told him I was sorry.
He just wasn't my type, though.
There was Ethan.
He wanted something deeper.
I had to leave him.
I think I found a keeper.
It's me, myself, and I. I'm going up tonight.
Just me, myself, and I.
You're a good time you're so damn fine and Steven
David you're hot, but no and no one you're cute, but so So no, that's why I Charlie I told him I was sorry Then there was Michael.
He just wasn't my type He wanted something deep I think I found a keeper.
It's me myself
Just me, myself and I, without a man Busy to be a wife, so I'm going out tonight Yeah, just me, myself and I
Come on over, Mae!
Yeah!
There's a sofa, there's a drink.
Oh, she's walking the walk.
She's walking the walk.
Hello.
Welcome to the show.
Mae, Mawaan, David, Stephen and Kylie.
Lovely to see you.
Hello!
Oh, look at that.
Now, do you know...?
Do you know everyone on the couch, Mae?
Yeah.
I'm just here to fangirl.
That's my, like, whole MO tonight.
I'm just like... No, cos you were at the gig last night, the Kylie gig.
I was.
You were?
I was there.
Did you pay for it?
Tucked all the way at the back.
I would have paid double.
Oh, Mae!
There you go.
But I was tucked all the way at the back, but I got a good kind of... Good.
..good view, but I was like... David Mitchell, do you go to many gigs?
Not many, no.
No, no.
What was the last gig you went to?
I once went to a Shirley Bassey concert.
Oh!
And that was quite something.
She did what I thought was very... I recognised a lot of the songs, which is rare for me.
And I noticed her technique, which I enjoyed, was to sing the quiet bits loudly and then sing the loud bits even louder.
That's our Cheryl!
It was incredibly impressive.
Basically, I'm a musical philistine.
I'm just a... Well, we're helping you tonight.
Thank you very much.
You're effectively a nana in a man's body, aren't you?
Can I use that on a DVD?
Yeah.
DVD, a nana.
You remember DVDs as well.
We know.
We don't like the technology changing, do we?
No.
All right, but don't start another rant.
The sexual tension between you two has been palpable.
There'll be a real boiling point over here.
Listen, what an exciting day.
Today is the day.
May Muller's debut album is now out.
It's official.
It's in the world.
It's phenomenal, eh?
Almost ironically, it's called Sorry I'm Late.
And it's got all the songs on here in not just that single that we heard there, but also a hit song I wrote a song yeah, I know
No, no, no, because that was so catchy.
I haven't had a chance to talk to you about Eurovision since Eurovision, because sometimes, for the UK act... That's true.
No, sometimes the writing's on the wall, but the writing really wasn't on the wall for you, because it was the first Eurovision song to chart before Eurovision since Lulu, I think, and everyone loved it.
You know, all the fans were singing it, the reaction in the night.
So, and then the scores didn't go your way.
How big an awful kind of mind mess was that?
It was interesting because I was in this weird situation where I just done this amazing thing and like everyone you know I've seen so much love for the song and then it ended up like going top ten and I was like oh my god this is so amazing but then it was sort of
It was a lot of emotions, a lot of ups and downs.
Yeah.
But I'll just carry with me, like, all those, like, positive memories and that, like, cheer on the night.
I was like, oh, my God, they like me!
No, that cheer on the night, I've never heard anything like it.
It was insane.
Well, I remember when you messaged me, like, the day after, on Instagram, and I was like, Graham Norton's DMed me!
To win, who needs Eurovision?
Not me!
And I was... I remember you saying, like, just keep... Like, that's what you should keep with you, and I was like...
OK.
Also, babes, it wasn't you, it was Brexit.
Let's face it.
The song was a banger.
I agree.
Yeah, the song was a banger.
It was great.
And also, a huge success.
It just didn't win Eurovision, but it did everything else for you.
It was a huge hit.
Thank you.
Yeah.
And you've got the new single, you've got the album, and also, might as well mention, the reviews are in, and they're just amazing, Mae.
Everyone's loving this album, so congratulations.
Thank you very much.
Thank you for that fabulous performance, and good luck with the album, which is out now.
Mae Muller, everybody!
Time for the first visit of the series to the big red chair who awaits hello.
Hello.
Hi, what's your name?
Carolina?
Where are you from?
I'm from Chile.
Oh, Chile Are you here on holidays?
No, I moved here a year ago.
Okay, you enjoying it so far.
I love it
Do you not watch the news?
What's the living crisis?
Yes, please.
Makes you think, how bad's chewing?
OK, Carolina.
Carolina?
Yeah.
Carolina from Chile.
Begin your story, please.
OK, so this is the first time we spend our summer in the Hamptons, New York.
So... What post of living crisis?
So we were with the kids, with the husband, whatever, and very aware about the ticks.
Because in that area... Sorry, your what?
Ticks.
You thought she said pigs, didn't you?
No, pigs.
It's very dangerous because some of them carry Lyme disease.
This is interesting, yes.
No, no, so we were really, really afraid.
Of course.
So every day I was, like, looking at the kids and Diego, the dog,
And one day, my God, there's a tick in Diego, because the ticks get, like, inside of the skin.
So I grab the tweezer, and I try to pull it out, and I couldn't because the dog jumped.
So, of course, I ask my husband.
He grew up with dogs, and I show it to him, and we're like, oh, my God, he has many ticks.
So we run into the bed, desperate, like, urgent.
We get into the office,
Or the... I don't know what it is.
And then, I told him... If you don't... Look, I mean, we're desperate.
Diego doesn't have only one tic.
He has many tics.
And then he looked at us and he said, you mean the nipples?
That's quite a good story, but I'm saving it for the end.
Oh, we've got time for... If you'd like to have a go and let me congratulate yourself and tell you a story, you can contact us via our website at this very address.
Please, thank you to all of our guests tonight.
Mae Muller, everyone!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE Mawaan Rizwan!
David Mitchell!
Stephen Graham!
And Kylie Minogue!
Join me next week with singer-songwriter Christina and the Queens, funny man and Strictly champ Bill Bailey, Top Boys' Ashley Walters, actor Catherine Tate and the legend behind Elton John's greatest hits, lyricist Bernie Taupin.
I'll see you then.
Good night, everybody.
Bye-bye.
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