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00:00Hello, everybody.
00:01Hi.
00:02Hi.
00:03Lovely to see you all, friends, old and new.
00:05Yes.
00:06So, welcome back to Elton.
00:07And what is extraordinary is, after all these years,
00:10you've just had another number one album.
00:13Yeah.
00:20And it had been eight years since it came out,
00:22then he got to number one finally, so...
00:24What's that about?
00:25Is that just modern music all being weird, or...?
00:28Um, I don't know, it's just...
00:30I've been lucky enough to have it out eight years ago,
00:33and it's stayed in the charts ever since,
00:35so I'm really grateful at my age, you know,
00:37and my eighth number one or ninth number one album.
00:40I think this is your ninth. This is your ninth number one album.
00:42Yeah, yeah, well, it was very nice,
00:44and it just started the year in a nice way.
00:47And you brought another music icon with you, Brandi Carlile.
00:49Yeah.
00:50We've never had you before, Brandi, have we?
00:51I know, but I'm such a fan of the...
00:53I'm so nervous and so excited.
00:55I want to be mad!
00:56Oh, yeah.
00:57In a good way.
00:58Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:59He's an old tart, you won't have any problems.
01:01I didn't know that.
01:02I didn't know that.
01:03Yeah, she read The Bathroom Wall.
01:07And we should also say congratulations to first-time guest,
01:10Mikey Madison, Oscar-nominated!
01:12CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
01:14For Anora.
01:15Yeah, thank you.
01:16I mean, it must be such a strange feeling walking around going,
01:22oh, yeah, I must be nominated.
01:24Yeah, well, we were just talking about this backstage
01:26because it's your first time going to the Oscars, too.
01:29And so, yeah, it's kind of...
01:31It's surreal.
01:32She was like, are you freaking out?
01:33And I'm like, no, but maybe I should be.
01:35And are you...
01:37Are you one of those people?
01:38Are you going to have a little safety speech tucked in somewhere
01:41or are you going speechless?
01:43It sounds bad, but I haven't thought about it at all yet.
01:46I think I'm just...
01:47In denial.
01:48Maybe, yes.
01:49Or maybe it just feels so unreal.
01:51I should maybe do that because I think when I get nervous,
01:54I just sort of freeze up and I'm like...
01:57So I should maybe tuck a speech in there.
02:00We will watch with interest.
02:02LAUGHTER
02:03She clearly didn't write a speech, no.
02:05And, er, Olly Willoughby, never been on the show before.
02:08Never been on my first time.
02:10What the hell's that about?
02:11I know, I don't know.
02:12It's lovely to be here.
02:13Because you've been on telly for 25 years.
02:14I know.
02:15I started when I was five.
02:16LAUGHTER
02:19And is it nice, because you're dancing on ice,
02:21you've got your new Netflix show,
02:22it's good to be back in the saddle.
02:24Yeah, it is, actually.
02:25It's nice to be doing something new and exciting
02:28and working with Bear
02:29and being on a proper adventure, actually.
02:31Because normally everything you do is live.
02:33Yes.
02:34Is it nice to do something that's pre-recorded?
02:36Well, I love live telly.
02:38Like, live telly, I have to say, is my favourite,
02:40but you don't really know what's going to happen.
02:43And there are pitfalls and things do go wrong.
02:46I mean, I did this morning, I think it's like 14 years.
02:48And we had some amazing things that went perfectly right
02:52and then we had some things that went really horribly wrong.
02:55And I remember there was this show that we had,
02:58we had Meghan Trainor who was promoting our single
03:01All About The Bass, that big hit that she had.
03:03Oh, yeah.
03:04And on the same day, it was really tragically sad,
03:06Stephen Hawking passed away.
03:08So the team were brilliant, because they were really reactionary.
03:10It was live telly, so they pulled together this beautiful piece
03:13of footage and it was like really respectfully done.
03:16And then at the end of the show, we decided that we'd dedicate
03:20the show to him.
03:21So they have this lovely black and white picture of Stephen
03:24and the dates on there.
03:25So we, through to that, dedicate this song to him.
03:28And this is where live telly can be dangerous,
03:32because the sound guy pushed the wrong button
03:35and played Meghan Trainor's All About The Bass over the top
03:41on this picture of Stephen.
03:43And there was nothing we could do because it was the end of the show.
03:47But I kind of hoped he would have liked it.
03:50It's what he would have wanted.
03:51It's what he would have wanted.
03:52It's what he would have wanted.
03:53I mean, I did, I did, I was, I was very lucky enough
03:55to meet him one time and I think you were there.
03:58And we went to a party and we did shots.
04:01Yes, we did shots with Stephen Hawking.
04:03So he was quite wild.
04:06Yeah, he's a right goer.
04:08I'm telling you.
04:10So I feel like he would have quite liked that.
04:12Yeah.
04:13That was sort of, yeah.
04:14He'd have liked it.
04:15Send us a shot, Sky.
04:16Neither did I.
04:17That's all.
04:18How did you forget you did shots and Stephen Hawking?
04:20We did a few, by the point.
04:22That wasn't our first round.
04:24And, of course, Alan Carr, welcome back to you.
04:28Lovely to be here.
04:29I know, I see you on Drag Race.
04:30Yeah, I know.
04:31Nice to see you.
04:32Yeah, thanks for having me.
04:33Nice to see you here, yes.
04:34And, oddly, you've got a sort of personal connection with Elton John.
04:39Yes, yes.
04:40He stole my look.
04:41No.
04:42No.
04:43No.
04:44No.
04:45No.
04:46He...
04:47When you were at Watford, my dad, Graham Carr, up the Cobblers, sold you Richard...
04:52Playing for Northampton.
04:53Yes.
04:54He sold you Richard Hill.
04:55Yes.
04:56And I did a charity event and you were headlining and I did some stand-up and then you at the end said,
05:03come on, everyone, get up there and we were all dancing around at the Royal Albert Hall while you're singing.
05:08And I started my career.
05:09I didn't even know that Elton John knew I existed.
05:12So, he's sitting there going, Saturday, Saturday, how's your dad?
05:16And I was just...
05:17I was just...
05:18What?
05:19Only because his dad was cute.
05:20Oh, my God.
05:21Your life could have been so different, Alan.
05:22I know.
05:23I know.
05:24By two dads.
05:25Elton and Graham.
05:26Now, not Elton Graham, Elton and Brandy, you are going to be performing for us later.
05:49What are you performing?
05:51We're performing our new song, Who Believes in Angels.
05:54Yes.
05:55Yes.
05:56And as luck would have it, that is the name of your brand new album together,
06:04Who Believes in Angels.
06:06A single is out now and the album is out on the 4th of April.
06:11Congratulations, it all got announced yesterday and people are going nuts for the single
06:15and are so excited about this album, which must be thrilling.
06:18It is because I always wanted to record with her for a long time.
06:22I mean, ever since I've known her.
06:24She's been a...
06:25We've been friends ever since we met.
06:27Our family's gone holiday together.
06:29She's one of my best friends and we speak to each other every day.
06:32But the reason why I wanted to do the album with her is she's an incredible vocalist.
06:36Oh, my God.
06:37And she's an incredible musician.
06:40And I wanted her to inspire me and I wanted to inspire her.
06:44And so we went in the studio and in 20 days we came out with 14 songs,
06:4910 of which are on the album.
06:51We didn't have anything written before.
06:52It was like a rollercoaster ride.
06:54It was so great.
06:55But now we should say, Mikey mentioned the Oscars.
06:58Never Too Late, which is on the album, also Oscar-nominated.
07:02The title track...
07:04APPLAUSE
07:06The title track of the documentary.
07:08But now, Brandy, had you started working on the lyrics for that before the album?
07:13Yeah, it was the first thing I ever wrote for Elton.
07:16Elton's been my greatest hero since I was 11 years old.
07:19You can probably tell by the look on my face.
07:22But it's evolved into what we are now, which is friends and musical partners.
07:27And when I saw the documentary, I was just so moved by all that archival footage.
07:34It was like there was a time when there wasn't a spare inch on my bedroom wall
07:37that wasn't covered with Elton John posters.
07:38And to see that footage was unbelievable.
07:41And to witness Elton's latter-day serenity with David and the boys
07:46was too inspiring not to write a lyric about.
07:49Well, listen, we've got a clip of that song,
07:51and this clip also includes a lot of that archive footage you're talking about,
07:54which features in the documentary.
07:56Oh, cool.
07:57APPLAUSE
08:01So great to see all that footage again, isn't it?
08:04You need to do more and more, because you must have just so much of that
08:07in the archive, so much footage that maybe hasn't been seen.
08:11I hadn't seen a lot of it, to be honest with you.
08:13When I saw the documentary, I thought, where the hell did that come from?
08:15LAUGHTER
08:17And why was I wearing that?
08:18LAUGHTER
08:20But, yes, it was...
08:21It really...
08:22I don't really like looking at myself and going back in time,
08:25but the second time I watched it, I was really moved.
08:27Um...
08:29Yeah, it was...
08:30It was a journey from unhappiness and fame to epiphany
08:35and happiness and family and children, and, you know,
08:38it's the arc of my life, which went down a bit, a lot,
08:41and then came back and, yeah, it's...
08:44It's my life and it's, er...
08:46I was happy with it, yeah.
08:47Yeah.
08:48But some of the footage, no, I'd never seen.
08:49Oh, lazy.
08:50And in the little...
08:51There's a little promo clip, you know, like a behind-the-scenes...
08:54Oh, God, no.
08:55No, no, no.
08:56It's the bit where...
08:57It's the bit where you finish playing a song and you burst into tears.
09:00Well...
09:01Can you explain that moment?
09:02Well, Bernie Taupin gave me a lyric called
09:04When This Old World Is Done With Me,
09:06and I'm writing the verse quite quickly,
09:08and I think, this is a really lovely verse, period,
09:10and then I get to the chorus and I find that it's about my death,
09:14my demise, and as a 76-year-old man, which I was at that time,
09:19and having children and having a husband, mortality...
09:22You know, you think about how long have I got,
09:25how long I hope I got much longer than maybe I've got,
09:29and so by the time I got to the chorus and suddenly realised,
09:32and I started singing it, I lost it for 45 minutes.
09:35It was a very, very heavy moment for me.
09:39Yeah.
09:40And, you know, after 45 minutes of being consoled,
09:44I was OK, but I recorded it the next day.
09:47But it was, yes, when you're singing about being washed out to sea
09:51and the end of your life, it took me by surprise.
09:56Yeah.
09:57And I guess that's because you work in that way.
09:59You know what I mean?
10:00You didn't have time to think about it,
10:01suddenly you were in the middle of it, and there you go.
10:03Well, it's a really lovely song,
10:05and I did it all in one take the next day.
10:07I came in and did its vocal and piano at the same time.
10:10Unbelievable.
10:11And I put a brass band at the end of it
10:13because I've always loved brass bands, collier bands,
10:16because their music is rather sad, the sound of it.
10:20And I always loved the cup final when they played a vibe with me,
10:23and I always used to cry no matter how old I was
10:25because it was so beautiful.
10:27So, yeah, that's what happened.
10:29I wasn't expecting it at all,
10:31but what we did with the album,
10:33we had nine cameras filming everything.
10:35So you'll see the whole process,
10:37the songs being written, the songs being recorded,
10:39and a lot in between.
10:40Well, we didn't see the cameras.
10:41No.
10:42Which is key.
10:43We forgot about them.
10:44After the first day, they were just, like, tiny little things,
10:47and I think our behaviour reflects that we had forgotten
10:49about the cameras.
10:52And what was it like for you, Brandi, kind of handing Elton
10:55a lyric, What I Did Right?
10:57Well, that's the moment.
10:58That was the moment where I'd felt like, you know,
11:00I was either going to be, like, all my life's work was going
11:03to be affirmed or else, putting that lyric in front of him
11:07for the first time, physically setting it on his piano
11:09and then stepping back and saying,
11:11can you write to my lyric was unbelievable.
11:13But everything I know I learned from Bernie Taupin,
11:16and he did write to it, and we have this wonderful song now.
11:20Yeah.
11:21But the lyric, as we hear in it, it's not what you wrote originally.
11:24It was a bit swearier.
11:26Well, Elton, you can say that on here,
11:28Elton just says fuck off all the time.
11:31He's, like, in a succession.
11:34He's always like, oh, fuck off!
11:35And it's all the same.
11:36And so I just, I love to picture the thought of him, like,
11:39to, you know, staring in the mirror and going,
11:41fuck off, Heaven's Gate, you're an Iron Man, baby.
11:44And I thought, I wonder if I could write that and do a song
11:47and get Elton John to sing the words fuck off.
11:49And, uh...
11:50It was not a problem.
11:51He enjoyed it very much.
11:52And, obviously, Mikey's going to the Oscars, but, uh, Elton and Brandy,
12:03are you going to the Oscars?
12:05Well, we have to.
12:06We're nominated, but I don't think we're going to be able to sing,
12:08because I think it's a truncated Oscars this year,
12:10because of the fires and everything like that.
12:12Yeah.
12:13Um, to be honest with you, it's less work and, uh...
12:17LAUGHTER
12:18And we could just sit there and hopefully enjoy it,
12:20but it's a night...
12:21When you're waiting to be announced, it just...
12:23It's a nightmare.
12:24Yeah.
12:25I live to watch award shows with him and hear his commentary.
12:28I live for it.
12:29Oh, I would love to be a fly on the wall.
12:32It's incredible.
12:33Yeah, choose your outfit carefully.
12:35Yes.
12:38Talking of Oscars, let's talk about Mikey Madison
12:41and her extraordinary performance,
12:43really, performance of the year, in Onora.
12:45It's available to stream now.
12:47It's already won the Pam Dort can, nominated for six Oscars,
12:51your Oscar and BAFTA nominated.
12:54Mm-hm.
12:55So, if people don't know, uh, Onora.
12:57Who is Onora?
12:58What is going on in her life?
13:00Oh, OK, so I...
13:01It's that bit of the show.
13:03LAUGHTER
13:04I play a young woman from Brooklyn.
13:07She's also a sex worker who ends up, uh,
13:10marrying the son of a Russian oligarch.
13:13And, uh, eventually,
13:15the Russian oligarch's son family kind of tries to rip them apart.
13:19OK.
13:20Well, listen, we've got a clip.
13:21This is, uh, you in bed with your, uh, Russian client,
13:24uh, now turned lover.
13:26APPLAUSE
13:28A lot, a lot of actors hate watching the clips.
13:35You were really, like, into it.
13:37Well, I think it's just because I love the film so much.
13:39But also, I have to say, when I watch it, it's just,
13:42it's not me at all.
13:44And so I think it makes it easier for me to see myself,
13:47because usually, when I hear my voice or see videos,
13:51I'm, like, completely cringing.
13:52But I don't know.
13:53I just...
13:54This film is special to me.
13:55It really is special.
13:56And also, what...
13:57I really want to...
13:58So, that's a quiet moment.
13:59And...
14:00That's the quietest moment in the film, I think.
14:02LAUGHTER
14:03It kicks off.
14:04Yes.
14:05It becomes, like, a sort of madcap caper slash farce.
14:08It's very funny.
14:09Yeah.
14:10Like, how do you describe it to people?
14:12Um...
14:13I mean, the thing is, sometimes it feels like
14:16you're watching a romance film.
14:18Sometimes it feels like this dark drama.
14:20Other times, a slapstick comedy.
14:22And so I think it's a medley of all of those things.
14:25But I don't try to describe it to people.
14:28I usually say, if you want to go see it,
14:30just go in with an open mind.
14:32Yeah.
14:33It is such a great ride.
14:35It is really, really good fun.
14:37If people haven't seen it, you really should.
14:38It's fantastic.
14:39And, uh, now, you do play a sex worker
14:41and you took that very seriously.
14:43You kind of embraced that community.
14:45Of course.
14:46Yeah.
14:47I mean, that was the most important part of my preparation
14:50because I really wanted to accurately portray
14:54that community as much as possible.
14:56Um, and so I...
14:58I met with, uh, consultants that were brought into the film,
15:02women who have a similar lived experience to my character.
15:06I went to clubs.
15:07I...
15:08I shadowed dancers at clubs.
15:10I got dances.
15:12Um, I was trained by a really amazing dancer.
15:15So, yeah, I really...
15:16I tried to do my due diligence.
15:18And now, I'm sure Elton's a fan of internet shopping.
15:20Uh, you bought your own pole on the internet.
15:23Yeah, I love internet shopping, too.
15:25Um...
15:26Yeah, I did, because it's...
15:29I...the first time I went to a club,
15:31I was watching these women move and I was like,
15:33oh, my gosh, it's so effortless.
15:35I can...I can do that.
15:36I can go upside down on the pole.
15:38And I tried a class and it was the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.
15:42I was...I was like, oh, I'm screwed.
15:45And so I was like, I'm gonna have to dedicate hours a day to trying to cultivate this skill
15:50because I wanted...I wanted her to be a very impressive dancer.
15:54And I...I am not, like, sexy like that.
15:57And so...I...I needed to practice.
16:00So I bought a pole online and I was...I was on location shooting at the time.
16:05And so I was like, oh, called my dad because he does lots of handiwork stuff for me at my house.
16:09And I was like, hey, can you please install something in my house?
16:13Just go pick it up at this...this place.
16:16And he was like, oh, of course, of course, my love, I'll do that.
16:18Did it, he installed it.
16:20And he called me the next day and was like, hey, so everything's good.
16:24You know, the pole is installed in your living room.
16:28Just wondering, like, what is this for?
16:31This is for a role, right?
16:33Is this for a role?
16:34And I was like, yes, dad.
16:37Well, I don't know if this is your pole or another one, but you sent us footage of you training.
16:42Yeah.
16:43This is impressive.
16:44This is...
16:45Oh, that's me.
16:46That's my...that's downstairs.
16:47OK.
16:48Check this out.
16:50Oh, my God, you're really good.
16:52No, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
16:55Look at that.
16:57Oh, my God.
16:58That's awful.
16:59How long did it take you to get that good?
17:01Like, give her an Oscar.
17:03For that.
17:04For that alone.
17:05Amazing.
17:06How long did it take you to get that good?
17:09I think that was maybe, like, two or three months of training.
17:13But, I mean, I was ending up, like, I was, like, walking on the ceiling.
17:17And then Sean, my director, gave me a call a couple of weeks before we were going to be filming.
17:23And he was like, hey, so we've been location scouting and we found a club, but it's not a strip club.
17:30It's a lap dance club.
17:32Are you going to be OK with that?
17:34Because I know you've been doing all of this, all of this pole training.
17:37And I was like, oh, I've just done, like, five months of pole training.
17:41Is there...
17:42There's not...there's not going to be a pole in the club.
17:45He's like, no, it's not at all like that.
17:47And I was like, OK, that's fine.
17:49Did you not go, I've got a fucking pole.
17:51I'll bring it.
17:52And I hung up the phone and I was kind of, like, freaking out because I was like, I've just, like, destroyed my body learning to do this.
18:01And so I convinced him to let me have one scene in the film where I get to do some ten-second trick.
18:08And the culmination of five months is just in that ten seconds.
18:13And here's a lovely thing you did.
18:15So you held a special screening for...
18:17Were these sex workers that you'd worked with?
18:20This is a special co-op, isn't it?
18:22The stripper co-op.
18:23Oh, yeah, stripper co-op, which is amazing, based in Los Angeles.
18:26But we held a screening in LA, filled up an entire theatre full of women just to celebrate them, celebrate the sex work community.
18:36And we premiered the film.
18:38I don't know if anyone else on the couch has performed to an audience of sex workers,
18:42but they show their appreciation in a really special way.
18:46Did you know they were going to do this?
18:47No, I didn't.
18:48And it was the best thing that's ever happened to me.
18:50So this is a bunch of pole dancers and lap dancers watching the film and they've really enjoyed it.
19:09Those shoes have a special name, right?
19:11Yeah, so those shoes are called pleasers.
19:13They're special shoes that strippers wear to dance and they're specially made, easy to move in.
19:18And when you clack them together, they make this amazing sound and it's kind of a move that women do in the club.
19:25And so they were just giving us an applause with their pleasers.
19:28Isn't that great?
19:29No other applause will live up to that, truly.
19:32Maybe you could do Riverdance next.
19:34Lovely.
19:35They're going on the road.
19:40Talking of fan favourites, Elton, your epic farewell tour, which we're done for so long because of Covid and illness and all those sorts of things, one of the highlights had to be that extraordinary Glastonbury performance.
19:55That must have touched you in a way that the rest of that tour didn't.
19:58I was so moved.
19:59I've never been as happy, I don't think, ever in my life because I'd never been to Glastonbury and I was kind of resistant to playing it because I didn't think I'd go down very well.
20:09But I had the final start on the Sunday and we put the set list together and it worked and I had special guests and that worked.
20:16It was like looking out at ancient Rome with all the banners and the kindness and the love that came through.
20:21I got goosebumps now.
20:22It was probably one of the greatest days of my life, without question.
20:25I'll never ever forget that.
20:27And it also confirmed in my mind, I'm so glad I'm stopping because I can't, it can't get better than this.
20:32Oh, wow.
20:33Well, when you look at it, yeah.
20:35APPLAUSE
20:37When you looked out of the crowd, you might have seen one keen, blonde-haired viewer in the crowd, a Miss Holly Willoughby of this parish.
20:48She was there.
20:49I was having the time of my life.
20:51I mean, you were incredible.
20:54I mean, everybody knew you were going to be amazing, but honestly, it was like, it was magic.
20:59It was magic and we could see that you were really enjoying yourself and everybody was just singing and it was just like this.
21:06Everyone, the crowd were like moving as one.
21:08It was, I'd never seen anything like it.
21:10But she came to Lucca too.
21:11Yeah, I did.
21:12I came to Lucca in Italy.
21:13Yeah, you came to Lucca in Italy.
21:14Yeah, I'm quite a fan.
21:15No, I'm saying, there's a picture of Holly at Glastonbury.
21:18Yeah.
21:19And I remember the year you did Glastonbury, that was a good, that was a dryish year.
21:22It was a dry year.
21:23Yeah, thank God.
21:24Look at it.
21:25It looks absolutely god-awful.
21:26Yeah, but there's a lot of people walking around.
21:28Well, I mean, you were the highlight and then just after watching you, it was a bit of a, it really moved towards the loos.
21:36And Elton, you wouldn't have this problem.
21:38But after your set, the loos were, whew.
21:42But when you've got to go, you've got to go.
21:44And I went into this loo and I looked down and it was, you've been to Glastonbury, it was chaos.
21:48It was like, I was discussing...
21:49That's a good word, chaos.
21:51It was chaos.
21:52So that was polite.
21:53But no, you weren't sitting on that loo at that point, you were standing on that loo.
21:57And I looked down and I thought, oh my God, when I come out of here, whoever's going to come in next is going to know it's me.
22:04So I can't leave that.
22:06So I've always got a bag full of wet wipes.
22:08I cleaned that loo.
22:10So it was spotless.
22:13It was perfect.
22:15So, yeah, back down to earth with a bump after you.
22:18She's like an angel, Holly Willoughby.
22:21The toilet smelled of roses.
22:23It did.
22:24It did.
22:25I advise you next time to take an air wick with you.
22:27Yeah.
22:29Very good.
22:31OK, well now, we move on to the jungles of Costa Rica as Holly Willoughby teams up with Bear Grylls for Celebrity Bear Hunt.
22:41It's streaming on Netflix now and here's a taste.
22:45No way.
22:46Yeah.
22:47No way.
22:48No way.
22:49No way.
22:50Well, that's what I'm thinking.
22:51Look, so I've seen a couple of episodes.
22:53Did they just lie to the celebrities?
22:55I mean, how did they convince people to do this?
22:58That's exactly what I thought in the first place.
23:00I was like, the fact that we've got these 12 incredible celebrities that said yes in the first place.
23:05You know, they agreed to do it.
23:06They got out there and they just leaned in.
23:09And the only thing that I can say is that I think it's the magic of Bear Grylls.
23:13Like, he's really convincing and people seem to really want to do well for him.
23:19Like, he's quite inspirational.
23:21Like, I mean, he even got me doing stuff and I'm like the scaredest person ever.
23:26Like, I'm terrified of everything.
23:27We're very different people.
23:29But often in these shows, I think some of the fear stuff is kind of produced and blah, blah, blah.
23:32Yeah.
23:33Oh, no.
23:34But this is like, there are real crocodiles, real snakes.
23:37There was a jaguar in camp the day before the celebrities got there.
23:40Like, a proper scary big cat thing that can eat you.
23:43They couldn't go in the sea because there were sharks.
23:46So, you know, you'd just been walking past.
23:47There were sharks, like, there.
23:49There was crocodiles.
23:50See, this is Netflix money.
23:52They can just go, oh, well.
23:54They died.
23:58The safety team were brilliant.
24:00Like, they were always there on hand.
24:02But what's a safety team going to do if a crocodile is biting you?
24:05Well, I did think this because at one point I get involved and I have to jump off this big...
24:10I saw, yeah.
24:11...high thing.
24:12Like, Bear was like, you demonstrate.
24:13And, of course, I was like, yes, Bear, of course, Bear, whatever you say, Bear.
24:15So I jumped off this big thing, which I would never do in normal life.
24:18But I thought, do you know what, I'm just going to say yes to everything.
24:21And I could see down there, it was called, like, Croc Creek or something,
24:24which is not great.
24:26And the safety team was down there and he's going, go on, you'll be great.
24:29And I'm like, eyes on the crocodiles, stop looking up at me.
24:32Like, look around just in case it comes out.
24:34I've seen Peter Pan.
24:35You know what happened?
24:37You also said there's a picture.
24:39Is this your room, this picture of the...
24:41Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
24:43So their, like, house spider is a tarantula, right?
24:47That thing was in...
24:48Danielle, one of the girls that was on the team,
24:50she sent me this message and she was like,
24:52oh, God, I've just got back to my room, it's 11 o'clock at night,
24:55what do I do?
24:56And I was like, well, don't look at me, I don't know,
24:58I can't help you with that.
24:59I was like, just come and sleep in my bed.
25:01And she was like, yeah, but if I leave it, if I don't look at it,
25:03then I'm not going to know where it's going,
25:05and I'm going to have to move rooms and it's going to be a nightmare.
25:07So I was like, what do we do?
25:09Call Bear.
25:10I've got Bear's number now, haven't I?
25:12So at 11 o'clock at night,
25:14a real-life action band came into the room
25:17and he just scooped that spider up in his bare hands
25:20and he set it free into the world.
25:22And I was like, that guy, for anything he can't do, he's amazing.
25:27See, all the people on the couch, Brandy, I think,
25:29because you grew up in the wilderness,
25:31did you grow up with kind of critters and snakes and things?
25:33Yeah, yeah, still live there.
25:34OK. Yeah.
25:35And do you encounter critters and stuff?
25:37Well, I do, but I won't encounter a spider willingly.
25:40No.
25:41Oh.
25:42My wife handles that.
25:43OK.
25:44I'm less afraid of crocodiles than spiders.
25:46Yeah.
25:47I really am so impressed with you right now.
25:49No, I didn't do anything.
25:50Someone took that picture.
25:52Exactly.
25:53Alan, it seems unlikely, but you were in Costa Rica.
25:56Why is that unlikely?
25:57Well, because...
25:58Well, OK.
25:59OK.
26:00Because there's spiders.
26:02And obviously, Alan, you've been on an adventure holiday in Costa Rica.
26:07I know.
26:08No, I went to Costa Rica and I stayed in that hotel where there's no electricity
26:11and I thought, oh, wow, this'll be fun.
26:13I've never been so bored.
26:15And there's no lights and you're just hitting your head on doors
26:19and then...
26:20This is how bored I was.
26:21I went zip-wiring.
26:22I did that.
26:23But did you find if you don't put enough pressure on the wire,
26:27you just stop?
26:29And I stopped above the restaurant and I was just screaming.
26:33No, but...
26:34Ow!
26:35And the people trying to eat their meal looking up
26:38and then I'm just there and, like, the sloths were just looking at me like,
26:41you idiot.
26:42Yeah.
26:43I mean, it's a lovely place, but...
26:45It's a beautiful place.
26:46Yeah, but does it work?
26:47But it's not very elegant, because you're in a harness,
26:49so the harness kind of digs in and you've got a bum in the air.
26:52I've been in that restaurant and I've seen people get stuck.
26:55Yeah, and people are eating looking up at my camel toe.
26:59Ow, Alan.
27:00Ow, Alan.
27:01Have you been asked to do these sorts of shows?
27:02You should do it.
27:03Yes, I say, don't you?
27:04No, I know what they want.
27:05They want me.
27:06Ah!
27:07I will push gay rights back 25 years.
27:09They ask me and they know why they're asking me.
27:13I'm not stupid.
27:15I think you'd be amazing.
27:17They want a cut-priced Goldie Horn.
27:20Ah!
27:21I reckon you're made of tough stuff, actually.
27:23Oh, you are sweet.
27:24I really do.
27:25I do, I reckon.
27:26Well, Celebrity Bear Hunt, that continues on Netflix.
27:29Meanwhile, Alan Carr also has a reality show with a challenge.
27:32It's Amanda and Alan's Spanish Job.
27:36Did you think of changing the title at all?
27:38I know.
27:39It's so lazy.
27:40So lazy, isn't it?
27:41It used to be Italian Job.
27:42Job.
27:43You know, the Italian Job.
27:44Yeah.
27:45Famous film.
27:46Spanish Job, less so.
27:47Yeah.
27:48It continues on Fridays at 8.30 on BBC One and on iPlayer.
27:53So, if people have never seen one of these shows, what goes on?
27:57Yeah, we buy a house, a euro house, and then we do it up,
28:02and then we sell it for charity.
28:03So, we sort of immerse ourselves in the culture.
28:05We were there in Sicily, the first series, Tuscany the second,
28:08and now we're in Spain.
28:10And these are these cheap houses, they're in kind of...
28:12So cheap, so cheap.
28:13People are leaving them because these rural communities,
28:17no-one wants to work in the fields any more.
28:19They want to go to the big lights of the big city,
28:22and they film us all the time.
28:23I know you were saying about the cameras everywhere.
28:26Well, I mean, I don't know why.
28:28I'll say this.
28:29Well, OK.
28:30Go on.
28:31You know how small the cameras are?
28:33You forget about them.
28:34Yeah.
28:35And there's a bit, I think this next week,
28:37where me and Amanda go kayaking off the Spanish coast,
28:41and they put...
28:42I'm in the front of the kayak, she's in the back.
28:44There it is, there.
28:46And they put the...
28:47You're in the back.
28:48Oh, I...
28:49I get so mistaken for being Amanda sometimes.
28:54Not that Amanda's got fat.
29:00So, the camera's there, and then we're filming ages,
29:03because they film you for ages trying to get all the material,
29:06and then they finish filming, they go away,
29:08and then we do the lovely drone shot.
29:10Well, I'm like sober, and I keep forgetting.
29:12I went, I said, Amanda, Amanda, I need a wee.
29:14I need a wee.
29:15She says, I'll just do it in me shorts.
29:17Don't do it in your shorts.
29:18Do it over the side.
29:20So, I do me thing, and as I lean over,
29:23we tip up like this.
29:25We're both tone in.
29:26Mid wee.
29:28And so, the lifeguard comes over,
29:31because we are screaming and blowing the whistle.
29:33Whee, whee, whee!
29:34So, they take us back to the camera crew,
29:37which is, like, miles away, and we get over like that,
29:39and then it dawns on me, oh, my God,
29:42there is a GoPro there while I was doing a wee,
29:45which I'd forgotten about.
29:47So, as they pull me over the boat like this,
29:50they went, oh, Alan, Alan, the GoPros are broken.
29:53They're broken.
29:54They've all been water damaged.
29:55So, I was like, oh, what a relief.
29:57So, we had the wrap party last week,
30:01and then the woman came over to me and said,
30:03oh, Alan, I've been editing out your knob for the last two months.
30:08So, I was like, yes, they have got it.
30:11Yeah.
30:12And I'm going to start an OnlyFans.
30:15Well, we've got a clip now.
30:17We do have a clip, we do have a clip.
30:23It's not that, no, we don't.
30:25This is you and your fragrant companion, Amanda,
30:28seeing your new house in the flesh for the first time.
30:31At the end of the show, can people buy this house,
30:33or is it sold already?
30:34Yeah, no, no, yeah, and the money goes to charity.
30:37So, it's still available?
30:38Yeah, yeah, you can buy it.
30:39I mean, on the last one in Tuscany,
30:41someone bought it without even...
30:43They saw the show and loved it and they bought it.
30:45Wow.
30:46That's amazing.
30:47All the money goes to charity and that lovely.
30:49Very good.
30:50Good luck with that.
30:52Amanda and Alan Spenetoff continues on BBC One on Friday nights.
30:57Right, it is time to meet my next guest.
31:00This Hollywood legend has made so many iconic movies,
31:04from Taxi Driver and Raging Bull to Goodfellas and Meet the Parents.
31:08Now, he brings us the new political thriller series Zero Day.
31:12Please welcome the great Robert De Niro.
31:20Hello, sir.
31:21Sorry to keep you waiting.
31:23Have a seat, too.
31:25There you go.
31:26Oh!
31:28No!
31:33So nice to see you.
31:35Welcome back to the show.
31:37Are there people on the couch you know of or know?
31:40Well, I know Elton.
31:42I don't know anybody else.
31:44OK.
31:45Later.
31:46We'll introduce you later.
31:47Actually, wasn't there a thing that, Elton,
31:49didn't you invite Robert De Niro to a dinner or something?
31:52Do you remember this story?
31:53Yes.
31:56I'd been with David for three weeks
31:59and I wanted to throw a dinner for him at Woodside,
32:02where I live, and I knew he was a film fanatic,
32:05so I rang around and said,
32:07are there any actors and people in London
32:09that could possibly come down for dinner?
32:12Um...
32:14And Robert was one of them.
32:16Um, so he came down.
32:17I had John Barry, the wonderful film, music,
32:20and his wife,
32:22and George Michael,
32:24and David and me.
32:25And David was, like, absolutely terrified.
32:28Um...
32:29And John Barry's wife stood up and she said,
32:31you know, you're the loveliest couple.
32:33How long have you been together?
32:35And David said, three weeks.
32:36And she went...
32:38Oh.
32:39Good luck, she said.
32:41Good luck.
32:42So, um, yes, Robert was so lovely to come down.
32:44Do you remember that night, Robert?
32:45Yeah, I remember, yeah.
32:46I went to Elton's house.
32:47I mean, it's 30 years ago.
32:49Yeah.
32:50Close to that.
32:51Well, now you're here
32:52and you bring us a thrilling new TV series.
32:55It's called Zero Day.
32:56It's available on Netflix from the 20th of February.
33:00And you play George Mullen, a former president.
33:03Yeah.
33:04So, who is he?
33:05What is Zero Day?
33:06What's going on?
33:07What can you tell us?
33:08He hasn't been president for 12 years
33:10and the Zero Day is one minute
33:13that everything stops in America.
33:16And so the president, played by Angela Bassett,
33:21recruits me to be the person to head the commission
33:25because I had a good reputation as president.
33:28I only did one term.
33:30And I was a prosecutor before that.
33:34So, that's it.
33:36And so all the ins and outs of that thing.
33:39Yeah.
33:40And it's kind of terrifying because this Zero Day,
33:41this huge hack, it seems kind of like that could happen.
33:44Yeah.
33:45So, like, planes fall out of the sky, trains...
33:47Yeah, everything.
33:48Like, everything stops for a minute
33:50and then it comes back and nobody knows where it came from
33:53and can't figure it out.
33:55And so then they threaten to do it again.
33:58Yeah.
33:59I always think when I watch these things,
34:00don't give people ideas.
34:02Yeah.
34:03Don't help them.
34:05I know.
34:06We've got a clip.
34:07This is you as former President Mullen
34:09interrogating a key suspect.
34:11And this is your...
34:19I mean, you've done a television film before.
34:21This is your first television series.
34:22Yes.
34:23So, what is that like?
34:25Pacing a performance over six hours as opposed to sort of two?
34:29Well, it's like doing three features back to back.
34:32And I...
34:34And quick, presumably.
34:35Quick...
34:36Making them quickly.
34:37Yeah.
34:38I mean, there's a real pace to it.
34:40And there's a lot of dialogue, a lot of exposition,
34:43which is a little more difficult
34:45because it's...
34:46You're telling what the audience needs to know
34:49through the character
34:50and sometimes that can be tricky.
34:52And so I likened it to swimming the English Channel
34:58to England from France,
35:00looking behind me and not seeing France,
35:03looking ahead and not seeing England.
35:05And so I can't stay there with red water.
35:07I've got to keep swimming.
35:09Every day, you've got to just stay...
35:11Keep up with it.
35:12So it was a different experience,
35:13but good.
35:14You know, just a lot of work.
35:15OK.
35:16Would you do another television series?
35:17I don't know.
35:18OK.
35:19LAUGHTER
35:24Now, here's the thing, Robert De Niro.
35:26Mikey Madison here.
35:28First-time nominee for the Oscars.
35:31You have been nominated, is it eight...
35:33I think, eight times?
35:34Yeah, eight, I think.
35:36Nine, maybe.
35:37Yeah.
35:38Let's go with nine.
35:39And two wins.
35:40That's the important thing.
35:41Yeah, two wins.
35:42Wow.
35:43Yeah.
35:44So, looking back, are there things you wish you'd known
35:52about going to the Oscars or being involved in the Oscars
35:55that you could share with Mikey Madison?
35:57No.
35:58OK, fair enough.
35:59Do you need a pen, Mikey?
36:01You might...
36:02Actually, he said no.
36:04OK.
36:05Prepare a speech or no?
36:07Well, you know, if you prepare one, you prepare...
36:10You're probably definitely not going to win.
36:12And, you know, if it's spontaneous, that's a good thing.
36:16Yeah.
36:17But I would just say that the one thing is that if you're nominated,
36:20that's...
36:21You've already won.
36:22Aww.
36:23It's so true.
36:24APPLAUSE
36:26Always a pleasure to have you on the show, Mr De Niro.
36:29You can catch Robert in zero day.
36:32It's streaming on Netflix from February the 20th.
36:35Robert De Niro, everybody!
36:36CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
36:38Now...
36:41Thank you very much.
36:44It is time for our music performance.
36:46So, Elton Brandy, would you like to make your way to the piano area?
36:51There you go.
36:52OK.
36:54And while they get set, let me just remind you
36:58that Elton and Brandy's album, this is it,
37:02Who Believes in Angels, you can pre-order it now
37:05and it will be available from the 4th of April.
37:08But now, here performing the title track from the album,
37:12it is Elton John and Brandy Carlile!
37:15That is it for tonight.
37:16Please say thank you to all of my guests.
37:19Alan Carr!
37:21Holly Willoughby!
37:23Mikey!
37:24Mikey Madison!
37:26Robert De Niro!
37:29And one more time for Elton John and Brandy Carlile!
37:35Do join me next week with music guest Gracie Abrams
37:38and actor Sean Hayes,
37:40Goo Goo Mamata Raw,
37:42Stephen Graham,
37:43returning East Ender, Ross Kemp,
37:44and the last showgirl herself, Pamela Anderson.
37:47I'll see you then.
37:48Good night, everybody.
37:49Bye-bye!