This program me contains some strong language.
Tonight, we'll be talking about the new Magic Mike film
and asking, "ls there no end to our fascination with guys dancing
"and getting their kit off?"
Oh, actually, there is.
Let's start the show!
Hello!
Hello.
Hello, hello, hello!
Good evening.
You are all so welcome to the show.
Oh, we've got some great guests tonight.
They really are all outstanding in their field -
a bit like Prince Harry when he lost his virginity.
In his boots!
Big news this week - wasn't it great to see Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelensky visiting Britain?
How good was that?
CHEERING.
There he is with Rishi Sunak, his new best friend.
I tell you, those two are tighter than Madonna's face at the Grammys.
They were both shown round a tank.
Oh, such fun!
The soldiers asked Sunak if he'd like to fire it,
to which he replied, yes, but could he wait three weeks
and set up an inquiry first?
It's not funny but it is quite clever.
The two leaders then shared a flight on an RAF plane.
Now, Zelensky looks good in all the combat gear, but Sunak?
We're all thinking the same thing, right?
What a massive helmet!
Let's get some guests on!
CH EERING AND APPLAUSE.
Later, we'll have a visit from one of the hottest music acts around.
The fabulous Lizzo will be here.
And we'll have music from singer-songwriter Tom Grennan.
But first, he's a champion ballroom and Latin dancer and everyone's
favourite Strictly pro - it's Johannes Radebe!
Oh!
At last!
Oh, hi.
Lovely to see you.
How are you?
Hello, hello.
She's the Oscar-winning star of The Hours, The Big Lebowski
and Boogie Nights - it's always a pleasure
to welcome Julianne Moore!
Hello!
Hi!
Julianne Moore.
That's Julianne Moore.
She's sold over 100 millions albums worldwide,
making her the best-selling female artist in country music history.
Now back with her brand-new album, please welcome Shania Twain!
Wowzer!
Whoo!
Gorgeous!
Hello.
Have a seat, please, Shania Twain.
And she's an actor, producer, director and one
of our favourite guests.
Now starring in the world of Magic Mike, it's
Salma Hayek Pinault!
Oh, wow!
Have a seat, you.
Oh!
Lovely to see you all.
Welcome back, welcome back.
First time.
Welcome, Shania Twain.
Hello.
And I did see the dress backstage.
I don't know how I didn't notice your shoes.
I don't know how either.
They're really high.
Are they comfortable in any way?
They are comfortable but still scary.
Yes, like an accident waiting to happen.
Just in case...
Your legs are an accident waiting to happen.
Now, Shania Twain, you live in Switzerland.
I do.
WOW!
It's my home, so, you know, it's where I raised my son.
It's just part of my life and I love it.
So, living in Switzerland, and you have been awarded one
of the highest hon ours that country can bestow.
It is true.
Because a train has been named after you.
I have a Shania Train.
WOW!
Oh, wow!
There's some celebrity jealousy going on on the sofa in our.
Do they give you a percentage of what they make?
No, no.
I like you went and he autographed it.
I did.
Yeah, that's my signature.
In gold sharpie.
Now my husband is going to be, you see?
When are you going to get a train named after you?
Why can't I get a Shania Plane?
Ooh, nice!
Well, you've got a Salma Kayak.
Yeah!
Thinking, thinking.
Yeah!
And, Julianne Moore, you are here in Britain
filming a historical drama.
Yeah.
Are you looking at?
I was really, you know, when you first get to a place,
you sort of feel lonely and sad and stuff and so you reach
for your favourite things and mine are Flake 99...
We all love a Flake 99.
Fairy Liquid detergent.
When I open it up and I do my laundry, it smells like Britain
to me and it feels really good.
Andt Wait rose, because there's an amazing Wait rose
near where I live with big, big escalators which brings you up
to this giant supermarket and guess what you can buy in there?
Food.
Fairy Liquid.
Oh.
Fairy Liquid and...
I was thinking, this is quite an easy game, isn't it?
That's true, yeah.
And Flake 99.
Which you can't get those ice cream cones.
You can get them in the summertime but in the wintertime
it's all shut down.
Because, Johannes, when did you get here?
2018.
And I know your mum and your sister were here.
Were they able to see the show last time?
They missed it because of visa issues.
You know, you can't get into this country.
They check everything.
But, when they did finally get their visas,
they were able to see the UK.
They were able to see London and I took mum
to Buckingham Palace with me.
Which is so amazing!
I know, because she's obsessed with the monarchy.
And 'magma...
There you are.
So you are making a speech.
Yes, I was.
Duke of Edinburgh Awards.
I was speaking to youngsters in this country and just telling them
that they can be and do anything that they want to do.
What an amazing...
So your mum and your sister are in the crowd there?
My mum was sitting in that garden with the Queen's blanket.
AWw!
I know!
She's come back and she's like, I bet it was the last one, too.
Oh, mum!
Yeah, it was...
She doesn't stop telling everyone about it.
Because, Salma, didn't you bring your mum to Buckingham Palace?
Well, she wanted to go and we were in a group of people.
What do you want to see in London?
Ancl she says, the one thing I don't want to miss is Fuckingham Palace.
Posh people.
All right, there's lots to talk about tonight, so let's start.
We start with Salma Hayek Pinault's latest movie,
Magic Mike's Last Dance: The Final Tease.
I think we know what Channing Tatum is doing in this film.
Who are you in this film?
What is your role?
My name is Maxandra.
I love the name.
Ancl so I'm going through a divorce because my husband cheated on me
and a friend of mine tells me I should get a dance from this guy,
that it's going to get my mind off of things,
and he really inspires me.
Ancl I take a very posh theatre that I'm getting
in the divorce that has, like, a classical play and I bring
this guy from Miami to try to change it up and give the audience a whole
other type of experience.
Yes!
And you do.
What's interesting about it is, because there is an element of love
interest, but really your character kind of drives all the action.
Well, depending what kind of action you are talking about.
Because you should have seen the 12 Apostles.
I shouldn't say that.
The 12 guys that are in the thing...
Yes.
Which was like going to the office with 12 strippers,
which are really great, amazing dancers playing strippers,
and they were every clay without their clothes on, well,
most of their clothes off.
And, you know, they were driving the action a lot of the time.
Yes.
When they were doing the dances to the audience.
We've got a clip.
OK, pay attention, everyone.
This is Salma getting a private dance from Magic Mike
himself, Channing Tatum.
We can't show a lot of this.
SLOW )AM STARTS.
CHEERING.
And, ladies and gentlemen, that was just the beginning.
That is just the beginning.
What really made me love it, I don't think I've ever seen
a couch enjoy a clip more.
Your mum has got your collection.
The moves!
I wish I was you.
Wow, indeed.
WOW!
The lap dance that I got, that was.
So, that's the beginning where you just sat in the chair,
so it's easy, you are just sat in a chair, but then it takes off.
Oh, yeah.
I mean, you are quite physical and acrobatic in it.
I had to be, and I was terrified and I had some choreographers,
and you have to make it look easy but sometimes you need strength
in your body that I don't have, because I don't work out,
and you have to be very precise, and one time we were rehearsing
and I had to put my legs in a specific position and hard
and I was upside down and, you know, I forgot it was coming because,
when you are upside down, you get very confused.
And I didn't do that and so I was going down, head down.
He tried to grab me but he grabbed my sweat pants and then I couldn't
remember if I had underwear or not.
Ancl they were coming off.
Ancl so I was holding on to my sweat pants.
He's like, put your hands on the floor.
I'm like uh-uh.
Ancl finally some people came to my rescue and took me,
but I was this close from the ground.
Half my pants were down and I was holding on.
Shania, I don't know if Magic Mike inspired you,
but you used some dancers in your Vegas show, didn't you?
Oh, yes, I'm very inspired by the whole dance, the male dancers.
Way back before this period, it was Man I Feel Like A Woman,
dancers in the video so, when this magic Mike started
happening, I'm like, oh, my God!
I've got to bring this back into my life, you know.
So I brought it back into Las Vegas and I have all male dancers there.
WOW!
Really lovely, yes.
Oh, yeah.
Are white glove sexy?
I'm thinking no.
There's a whiff of Mickey Mouse about this.
Who is looking at the gloves?
There's an element of service.
Oh!
Oh, I get that.
I serve you, I'll be at your service.
That's my impression.
Now I've got it, yeah.
And Salma, we must mention it's awards season and your work
in Puss In Boots 2, you're up for, is it a kids choice awards?
Yes, best female voice performance.
OK.
The children have spoken.
Watch me win.
I've never won anything in my life.
But the movie is up for an Oscar as well.
Oh, the movie is amazing.
The movie is great.
Yeah.
Are you going to the Oscars?
I don't know yet.
It's far away.
There's things happening everywhere.
I have children everywhere.
We are almost close to knowing.
Julianne, you are an old hand, you've been nominated,
was it, five times?
Won once.
Would you go for fun or would you just go
if you are nominated?
I think, if you have a reason to go, if you are presenting,
if you are nominated, you go and it's amazing,
or if you are the date of someone who is nominated but,
if you are not involved in that capacity, it's more fun to stay home
and watch it on television, I think.
You can't lose either way.
It's fun either way.
I like to watch it on TV.
OK.
We were normally in it at the same time.
That's right.
Oh...
Yeah, the same...
We are in the circuit the whole time together.
Oh, OK.
I really wanted her to win.
Oh!
I'm sorry.
But she was going in so many times and I am such a big fan.
Oh, look at you, come on!
Ancl I am julianne's, what to say for the fans ofjulianne Moore?
The fan name!
Yeah, but then she won after that.
So it's all good.
Listen, good luck and don't forget you can see Salma
in Magic Mike's Last Dance.
It is in cinemas now.
It's sexy.
Take your girlfriends!
Meanwhile, ladies and gentlemen, Shania Twain has a new album.
I have it.
Oh, yeah.
Queen of Me is out now, and it's currently, I think,
leading the race for number one this week, isn't it?
I mean, I'm on a horse, I might as well, you know, be in a race!
LAUGHTER
I love the name.
Thank you.
Queen of Me. Queen of Me.
You've got to drive your own bus! Yeah.
Right?
Or a train.
LAUGHTER
Stay on brand.
I cannot believe...
Yes. Yeah, stay on brand.
Train.
I tell you what, before we talk about it, let's have a taste
of the current single.
I love this song.
It's Giddy Up!.
# I left my heart at a waterin' hole
# Somewhere in small-town Ohio
# Headed out west to Arizona
# Cos the East-Coast weather's too cold, cold, cold
# Easy come, easy go
# I got a fast car with the '90s on
# Not a soul on the road, but the road is home
# Smiles for miles
# All up on my face (My face)
# Wear it, share it
# Cos we ain't got time to waste (Get to it)
# Up in your giddy up, giddy, QiddY UP
# up in your giddy up
# Drunk in the city, got titty in the cup
# up in your giddy up
# When it gets tough, gotta get a little love
# Put some up in your giddy, giddy up...#
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
I mean...
That's amazing!
So much dancing on the sofa there, I know.
Do you know that dance already now?
Oh, well, I picked it up on five, six, seven, eight!
Yeah!
It's incredible that you've got visuals out already.
Oh.
Well, I mean, you know, it was actually very quick.
Because I wasn't even meant to be in it anyway, so it was like, oh,
that bit's clone a lot quicker if I'm not gonna be there!
But in the end, I ended up being there, just
with my little cameo acting.
You know, throwing a rag at a mechanic.
I mean, you know!
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Little grease on the face.
And it's your sixth studio album, but it's the first one you've
done since this really, it sounds like big
surgery on your throat.
A very invasive one, yeah.
I've got this scar, which I'm fine with.
I'm very happy to have a scar, instead of no voice.
Like, you can hear my little raspy, sexy, airy voice now.
It sounds good.
It's a different voice.
I hear the voice, but I don't see the scarring and I'm close.
OK.
No, it's very small.
But it's fine.
It was an open-throat surgery, and I had to be awake for it.
Ooh! That was not fun.
But you've got to, you know, you've got to...
You've got to do what you've got to do.
...sing and speak while they work out what they're doing.
You were singing?
You have to phonate.
I bet you didn't have to sing, they just wanted to hear you sing!
They just wanted a free concert.
"We've got that Shania Twain in today!"
But anyway, yeah, that was...
The story behind it is such a strange run.
So your voice had been disappearing and you didn't know why.
I didn't know why for seven years.
But I had had Lyme disease.
I knew that.
But I didn't know that it was associated to that, the voice.
Oh!
So, you know, in the end, if it's your voice,
you go to a voice doctor, you go to ear, nose, throat.
I never thought of going to a neurologist.
Yeah.
It was nerve damage to the vocal chords.
So not related at all to the vocal chords, if that makes any sense?
Yeah.
And then going into the studio, then, was it scary,
or did you think, "Oh, she's back in the room"?
It was a discovery.
I can get really loud.
I won't do it now, because I'd distort every microphone I can right
now because I'm so happy to have a voice, so...
No, it was great.
I was relearning my voice, kind of like relearning any
new body part in your...
in the anatomy.
I've got, like, two crutches in there.
Ancl they were able to... You're making my throat dry!
LAUGHTER
But you know what?
I'm just so grateful, honestly, like, I went for a long time
thinking I would never sing again and that I would never be able to
cheer at a sports game really loud.
Yes.
And also, didn't it rob...
It robbed your pleasure in swearing?
Because you had to... Oh, yes!
Now I can swear very loud!
LAUGHTER
Shania, I mentioned in the intro there that statistic,
the bestselling female country artist of all time, but this,
I think, is even more impressive.
Your album, Come On Over, that is still the bestselling studio
album by a solo female artist of all time.
Wow! I mean, that's just...
APPLAUSE
Yeah.
And, I should say, according to Billboard magazine,
and they would know, the most popular karaoke
song of all time is?
# Man!
# I Feel Like a Woman!
See?
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
I mean...
It's a huge compliment.
I was surprised when I heard that.
I thought, of all the songs.
But...|'ll take it.
I think it's fabulous.
It makes people happy, and that's what I make music for, so...
Ancl everybody likes feeling like a woman.
Mm-hmm.
There you go.
Have you sung that in karaoke,Julianne?
No, but I used to run to that album.
I would put it on and run on my treadmill,
and that was my running album.
Isn't that crazy?
I love that.
I love that album, yeah.
Oh, thank you.
And, Johannes Radebe, Shania Twain was quite important
to your early career.
Yes, you were, darling.
I'm not still?
Used to, used to...
Oh, you were!
You were the one!
You forever will be. You were the one!
No.
I used to work on a cruise ship for seven years and the first thing
when they do this welcome on board thing, we had to call the passengers
up to dine and just engage them and let them know what's
happening on board.
And the first songs that would come on, of course, would be...
# Man!
# I Feel Like a Woman!
LAUGHTER
Ancl let me tell you when I say everybody would get up on that
dance floor and dance.
I mean, it was just the best times.
# Da-da, da-da-da...#
LAUGHTER
The best times.
And, Shania, talking of karaoke, is it true that when you started
out, your record label wouldn't pay for you to tour, so you had to tour,
were you kind of...?
They...
I didn't have a budget for anything in the beginning.
So, you know, even in the early The Woman in Me videos and all that,
I was just buying my own wardrobe out of, you know, taking
it out of my closet, going to Target, whatever.
Doing my own hair and make-up, whatever could save money
for the budget of the videos.
Including no bra.
I don't need a bra!
I don't need it, they're expensive.
No.
I decided not to wear a bra.
They are expensive.
No, but they...
They didn't, um...
So they sent me with just my backing music and I just sang,
kind of like karaoke, to my backing tracks,
all over America.
But look at you now!
Look at me now!
Sorry, I know that you're the interviewer,
but I find her so interesting.
Can I ask you...?
LAUGHTER
Go ahead.
The first one...
You can edit me afterwards.
Were they treated the same, the men, the country-music men?
Or did they get a little bit of a better budget?
Like we had a deal with in Hollywood.
Oh, the better budget, the deal?
Yeah, the music studios, for the videos.
They already don't need a bra.
LAUGHTER
Or was it the same, they were treating female and male
artists the same at the time?
To be really honest, women are more expensive,
because we do have more wardrobe, we do have more hair and make-up,
we have a different... Yes.
We are more, um, expensive on the budgets, it's true.
Yeah, but we're worth it.
We're worth it.
We are worth it.
But I was happy to do it myself.
Yeah, like you said, look at me now. Yeah.
Presumably, people can hear all the new music,
but all the hits, on the World Tour?
Here we go.
These are the British dates.
So basically, this year, in September.
Yeah.
And I noticed the horse on the album cover, the horse
on the poster there.
You have brought horses on tour with you, haven't you?
Oh, yeah, I have.
I love that!
It's my gym, you know, I love to ride.
It's a good work-out, yeah.
If you really ride, it's a great work-out.
Yeah, so they trailered along and they just were sort of,
in the next city, we'd get out and ride.
I love that!
That's amazing!
Yeah, it was...
It was worth it.
They are fabulous animals.
Yeah.
No wonder they didn't want to pay for you!
LAUGHTER
APPLAUSE
"How much?!"
Oh, I want to see you with the horses.
I'm going to come to see you.
So that's Shania's World Tour.
And of course, the new album is called Queen of Me,
and that is out now.
OK.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Loving this, Julianne Moore has a great new film for us.
It's called Sharper.
It's going to be streaming on Apple TV Plus from next Friday,
the 17th of February.
This is such a great kind of twisty, turny...
It's not old-fashioned, but it has kind of a thing about it.
Yeah.
I mean, I guess you can't tell us much about the plot.
Tell us as much as you can.
It's mysterious.
It's about a group of people in Manhattan and how they sort
of use one another to get what they want.
It's sort of set in a world where there's a lot of wealth
and people are kind of driven by the acquisition of
wealth and will kind of do anything to get it.
It's got an amazing cast.
John Lithgow.
Sebastian Stan.
Justice Smith and a new actress named Briana Middleton,
who's just wonderful and is going to be a big star.
And it was so much fun to shoot, and it's really, really surprising.
Yeah. It is.
And at the centre of it is kind of a mother and a son
and a father and a son.
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
Yep. Yep, that's right.
OK, that's all you're telling us, OK!
Yeah...
LAUGHTER
Well, listen, we've got a clip.
This is you as Madeline, introducing your son,
Sebastian Stan, to your new boyfriend, played
by john Lithgow.
That's right.
# The moon and under the sun...
Max, you made it!
Richard, I want you to meet my son, Max.
Hi, Ma.
You look great.
I've heard so much about you.
Ah, I wish I could say the same.
Well, maybe if you returned a text or actually picked up the phone
and called your mother every once in a while!
I'm very busy, Mom, I'm sorry.
Your mother tells me you were at St Bart's.
Yeah, I was.
Yeah, I had some fun times there myself.
Back in the '70s.
Ha!
You're old.
Max, that's, um... Urn...
Come with me, I want to talk more.
What? Yeah.
...I'm so sorry.
Come on, come on.
Let's go.
Hi.
You look great.
Hey, what is the matter with you?
You are so rude!
APPLAUSE
Ooh!
But what's really going on?!
What's really going on?!
Wait, did somebody die? Oh, I don't know, Salma!
LAUGHTER
I can't say.
But is it scary?
Uh, it's fun.
It's very surprising.
Oh, it is fun?
It just seems so intense. No, no.
It's like a roller-coaster ride. It's like a roller-coaster.
And the reason...
You know, it came to me, actually, it was a script that was sent to me
by someone who works at 360 Management, Erin Brown,
who represented these writers, and she said, "I think you're really
going to love these guys and this script, I want you to read it."
And it was a script that had been on the blacklist.
It was something that people had read a lot and really liked it,
but it hadn't been produced.
What is...
I only heard about the blacklist, explain to people what it is.
It's a list, a kind of an informal list of scripts that have been
around, a lot of people have read that people really, really love,
but they haven't been produced yet.
So there is kind of knowledge about these scripts that are out there.
But they're usually really high-quality, really
interesting scripts.
And this one was wonderful.
And I didn't, I never knew what was coming when I read it.
I really didn't.
It stays one step ahead of you the entire time.
And this is your baby. You produced it.
Yes, exactly. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I always think when actors become producers, were you involved
in the casting process?
Oh, yeah. Absolutely, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because that must be such a weird thing to
have the tables turned like that.
It's very weird and it's really delicate, because I know
what it means, you know?
We've all, we've been there.
Sol really err on the side of giving everybody a chance
and looking at everything and really thinking about it.
And you also put things together very carefully.
It's not always the actor, it's maybe the combination, you know?
So, yeah, you never, you always want to bring kind
of all your positivity towards that process.
It's a challenging process.
So, julianne's film, Sharper, that starts
on Apple TV Plus next week, while Johannes Radebe
is returning to the stage in his second UK solo dance tour.
Freedom Unleashed, ladies and gentlemen!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Now... Aw.
This, it kicks off on the 31st of March in Bridlington!
Where else?
It goes right through to May.
And this is by public demand.
I mean, the last tour sold out. It did.
And thanks to you.
Really?
I only bought a few tickets.
LAUGHTER
It was just sitting on your couch and sitting on your show, I mean,
I walked out here and a few weeks later, I knew that my show was sold.
So you know what?
You deserve flowers.
I didn't bring them today, but they're coming to you.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, yeah.
And tell me this.
So is this the same exact show, or is it kind of up scaled?
It's up scaled, it's elevated a little bit.
It's bigger and better.
With horses?
No, darling, no horses.
Are there naked man?
Yes, yes, there are.
Definitely, there will be.
We don't also have a budget.
Ancl I have to say, Graham, it has been incredible.
And, yeah, people want to see it again.
Ancl it's got, like I said, more sequins, more feathers,
if there's such a thing, and more confetti.
WOW!
Well, I tell you what, we've got a clip.
This is a clip of what to expect.
I think this is from the last tour.
Here we go.
# I give you...
# Freedom!
# Yeah, yes, it's right
# Freedom!
# Start right now
# Freedom!
# Get your freedom tonight!
# Freedom!
# I give you...
# Freedom!
# Yeah, yes, it's right
# Freedom!
# Start right now
# Freedom!
# Get your freedom tonight
# Freedom!#
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
That looks amazing!
Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
I mean, imagine that in Bridlington!
LAUGHTER
I'm just thinking, Julianne, you're the only person who didn't
dance in their clip tonight.
I know!
And here's the great news, so you're hoping to take
this show back home, back to South Africa.
I've been banging on about it, yes.
I finally have the opportunity to take this.
I just confirmed it.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
It's happening?
It's going to South Africa, yeah.
APPLAUSE
And the big question, Strictly this year, are you back on?
You know what?
You know you always wait for that call, Graham.
But according to me, I'm there.
OK, so if they call, you say yes?
Definitely.
Oh, good.
I mean, yeah.
I'm not going back to Africa any time soon.
LAUGHTER
APPLAUSE
Very good.
Johannes?
Can I ask him?
No, please, Salma.
It's a chat show.
Go!
Ancl it is true that you specialise on Latin rhythms?
Yes, yes, yes.
I specialise in everything.
Is there going to be some good salsa in this show?
Come on!
Oh, yes!
Can you salsa dance?
Of course.
Well, I can salsa dance, and you know it's impossible to find
a partner in the places that I go.
I've pulled waiters, do you know how to dance salsa,
because it's not fun to dance it alone.
I've got to get back in shape.
You have inspired me.
I'm going to start salsaing every clay.
Darling, come through, come through.
Yeah!
Can I call you to go and dance salsa?
I can't find many people in London to dance salsa work.
Can I just say, the booker for Strictly Come Dancing
is now wetting themselves.
Apparently, Salma Hayek wants to do it.
With Johannes.
Yeah!
I so hope that happens.
In the meantime, you can see Johannes and company
in Freedom Unleashed, coming to a town near you soon.
Thank you.
Right, time to meet our next guest fresh from receiving her fourth
Grammy awards, this pop sensation is now hoping to get her hands
on a Brit award tomorrow night.
It's about damn time.
Please welcome Lizzo!
CH EERING DROWNS SPEECH.
Salma, Lizzo.
Shania, Lizzo.
Hello.
Do you know any of these people already, Lizzo?
Er...
No.
I know they are all super famous though.
I have met you before.
We did.
Ancl you forgot already.
No, Gucci fashion show.
Yes.
Oh, well done!
And we...
We met in Montreal a couple of years ago.
We had a lot of fun.
Yeah!
Was a horse involved?
I don't know what you're talking about.
We must say thank you, because you've just come
from your Brit rehearsals to be here.
I did.
How's it going?
Yeah, it's going great.
I'm so excited.
Last time I was here was the Brit Awards 2020.
So are you putting on a show?
Yeah, it's the Lizzo sampler platter.
You're getting yams, mac and cheese, biscuits, American biscuits.
Sorry, GUYS-
Those language differences, you like the UK.
You are kind of learning to speak our language.
A little bit.
LONDON ACCENT: What you ea yin'?
APPLAUSE.
Let's craic.
You want to do crack?
No, I don't think that's...
No, no.
Come on, crack.
You know you crack.
We can have some crack.
But I'm not going to offer you crack.
We're going to have some crack, Graham.
Look, we're having crack.
I think maybe if you put good in front of it it's better.
That's a good craic.
Good crack, yeah.
Yeah, baby steps.
Listen, we must say congratulations on the Grammy.
Well done.
CHEERING.
Not forgetting we've got such a sweet picture...
This is the moment you got announced as the winner of record of the year.
That's Shania.
That's me in red.
That's Harry Styles.
WOW!
This seems like CSI Grammys, but is that a hip flask?
Yeah.
I had two flasks for me and one for Adele.
It was late.
Why did you have to bring a hip flask?
Because there is not, like, a bar.
I know.
I'm like, come on, we need more alcohol.
It's the Grammys.
All stressed.
It looked so good though.
It was so beautiful, shiny, bedazzled.
It was my special occasion dress.
I have lots of flasks.
You just never know.
When they walked around with, like, some wine, the wine
was a sip and I was like, can I have this for my friend?
I had to load my cup.
It's like, come on!
We are musicians!
I don't think you will have this problem with the Brit Awards.
It's a party in the Brits.
Oh, yeah!
I have to say, I loved your acceptance speech,
and it was so eloquent, so how do you, did you kind
of think, I might win one of these so I'm going to have
this
in my mind.
Absolutely not.
Did you see who I was going against?
Did you see the nominees?
But you are Lizzo.
That's Beyonce.
Adele, Harry, Cold play, Kendrick Lamar, ABBA,
Brandi Carlile, Taylor Swift!
I'm screaming.
Oh, my God!
I'm sorry. 9W5-
Let me use my European voice.
And we had been so drunk, like, Adele and I, we didn't even really
know what the categories were at that point.
We were like, what, wait, which one?
Ancl we would just turn around and, like, just smile.
Ancl then, when they called my name, I was like, oh, shit!
Can I cuss on your show?
You can say that.
Shit?
Yeah.
Crack.
No crack.
Not shit crack.
Well, you could have shit in your crack, but that's...
That's a different thing.
APPLAUSE DROWNS SPEECH.
That's international.
We are global now.
Talking of albums, Lizzo's album, Special...
Yeah!
Oh, yeah!
It is special.
Isn't it true, I read somewhere that, what is it,
it's three years since your last album and in that time you wrote,
what was it, 200 songs?
Oh, yeah.
But everyone who doesn't, no of fence, make music...
No of fence taken.
But you know what it's like.
You write so many songs and they just never
see the light of clay.
Sometimes it's sad, sometimes it's easy it's like,
did I really write that...
Put that away.
I thought it was so great last night.
I'm like, this is amazing.
The next day, you are like...
This is the best song I've ever written!
Ancl then, like, the next clay, you're like, ooh, girl...
I wrote a lot of songs for it, but, you know, I had to find
the creme de la creme.
Well, the creme de la creme the latest single
is the title track, Special, and we've got a little clip.
# I'm used to feeling hollow
# So I thought that I'd let you know
# In case nobody told you again
# You're special
# In case nobody made you believe
# You're special
# I will always help you to say
# You're special
APPLAUSE.
That outfit is epic.
Thank you.
Yeah!
I just want to say, Special featuring Scissor,
the remix just dropped right now.
Right now!
You are witnessing history.
So you play a superhero that but there's kind of a serious
intent behind that song.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, it was about the juxtaposition of, you know,
black womanhood in America and the super suit that black
women have to put on, like we've got to be strong,
we've got to hold everyone down but we can't be vulnerable,
you know, and we can be very disrespected in American culture.
So it was about me putting on that super suit,
always saving the clay but, when I'm human, you dehumanise me.
You make fun of me, you throat spit balls at me,
one of the guys is like, these kids are like, here's a tip,
because she's a waitress.
Here's a tip, eat a salad.
You know what I mean?
When I put that suit on, everyone loves me, you know,
and I think that, you know, all of my shows, every
night on stage, I'm like, thank you for supporting me,
thank you for coming to my shows, you are supporting a black woman.
That's a big deal to me but, when you are in the real world,
keep that same energy.
You see someone who looks like me, treat them with respect, you know.
Treat them with love.
It's very exciting.
People love you, Lizzo.
And you've got dates all over the UK next month.
I'm here.
I'm not leaving.
Yeah!
No, I'm here.
You are here!
Yeah, I've got a little room in the back.
You can't get rid of me, Graham.
Well, come and see us again.
OK.
Congratulations on everything and good luck tomorrow
night at the Brits.
Lizzo, everybody.
Right, it's time for our musical performance tonight.
He is a multiple Brit nominated, platinum selling artist who has had
an amazing 12 months.
Singing his current single here, it is Tom Grennan, everybody.
# I'll, I'll be here for you
# If they're gonna take you from me
# They better bring a whole army
# You know I'll fight back the sea
# No, there's no wave that can stop me
# When the sky turns black, I'll be the light you need
# I'll go to Hell and back, I'll be your remedy
# And God, I have no doubt, I'll do it endlessly
# With every breath I breathe
# You know that I'll be, you know that I'll be
# Here, here for you
# You know that I'll b?, you know that I'll be
# Here, h?re for you
# You know that I'll be, you know that I'll be
# I'll, I'll be here for you
# I'll
# I'll always be near to you
# You know that I'll be, you know that I'll be here
# I could drown out the smoke
# When every wildfire's blazing, yeah
# Turn this broken hope into something amazing
# When the sky turns black, I'll be the light you need
# I'll go to hell and back, I'll be your remedy
# And God, I have no doubt, I'll do it endlessly
# With every breath I breathe
# You know that I'll be, you know that I'll be
# Here, here for you
# You know that I'll be, you know that I'll be
# Here, here for you
# You know that I'll be, you know that I'll be
# I'll, I'll be here for you
# I'll be here for you (You know that I'll be)
# I'll always be near to you
# You know that I'll be, you know that I'll be
# And if you're in trouble, I'm running
# Trust me I'm coming, yeah, I'll be
# You know that I'll be, you know that I'll be
# All that is loving and trust me
# Nothing can stop me cos I'll be
# You know that I'll be, you know that I'll be
# Here, here for you
# You know that I'll be, you know that I'll be
# I'll, I'll be here for you (Ah-oh)
# I'll (You know that I'll be)
# I'll always be near to you (Ah-oh)
# You know that I'll be, you know that I'll be here #.
Well done, Tom.
Tom Gren nan, everybody!
Thank you so much.
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stars, and that is not normal, do you know what I mean?
Well, you sound like you know what you're
doing, you sound amazing.
Do I?
Yeah, yeah.
That sounded gorgeous.
It's a great song.
Thank you so much.
I really liked it, yeah, I really did.
On TikTok, that's going mad!
LAUGHTER.
Clip it up, clip it up!
And talking about, you know, going into different spaces, you are
heading off on your biggest tour this March, this month.
Arena tour.
I know.
Tom Grennan if I GFGHGS.
Tickets are available now.
And you've done this thing where you've
made tickets as cheap as you possibly can.
Yeah, I felt like it was important to put ticket prices
as low as possible.
We all know that we're in a cost-of-living crisis
and I want everybody
to come and have a good time, and
not have to worry about really expensive tickets.
So I've heard the guest list is going to be a good one
as well, so...
And of course, tomorrow night, not just Lizzo up
for Brit Awards, you too?
I am up for one, yeah.
Are you going to say hello?
Huh?
Are you going to say hello at the Brits?
Am I going to say hello at the Brits?
When we're at the Brits tomorrow...
Yeah, tomorrow.
...we're going to act like we're best mates.
He is saying, remember me!
Oh!
LAUGHTER.
Yeah, of course.
I'll see you there.
Yeah, of course!
LAUGHTER
Well, listen, thank you so much for that amazing voice.
It really was gorgeous.
Thank you very much.
I love the album, by the way.
Thank you.
It's good, isn't it?
I'm a massive fan of all of you, so congrats.
Have you listened to my album?
Yeah, I have.
LAUGHTER
You're everywhere. We're not friends no more.
That didn't last long!
I know!
Tom Gren nan, everybody!
Thank you so much.
That is nearly it.
Before we go, just time for a very quick visit
to the big chair.
Hello.
Hi, what's your name?
Tracy.
Tracy, lovely.
What do you do, Tracy?
Doctor.
Do you know what?
I knew you did something caring and important.
Where do you doctor, Tracy?
In Leicestershire.
Home of the ill.
Off you go with your story, Tracey.
So as our children were growing up, I
really wanted to make sure all health matters, we were really
honest and factual, so our son who was eight at the time,
his 22 now, we started the first of many sex
education talks.
So I was very careful to be correct about my
terminology and talk to him about the man puts the penis in the
woman's vagina.
I thought I had clone really well, I patted myself on the
back.
First of many had gone really well.
So later at supper, I realised I had completely failed.
He was really quiet and thoughtful.
Ancl eventually, we managed to ask him
what was on his mind.
Ancl very quietly, he asked, "does the man get
the penis back?"
LAUGHTER
Oh!
You can walk, Tracey.
It all depends!
Yes!
He's still asking that question!
OK, that really is all we got time for.
If you'd like to have a go in that red chair yourself and
tell your story, you can contact us via our website at this very
address.
Please say a huge thank you to all of my guests tonight.
Tom Gren nan, everybody!
Johannes Radebe!
Julianne Moore!
Shania Twain!
Salma Hayek!
And Lizzo!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
join me next week, with a packed sofa of stars.
Pink.
Paul Rudd.
Michael Douglas.
Eugene Levy.
Michael B Jordan.
Hugh Jackman.
And Damejudi Dench.
I'll see you then, goodnight goodbye!
Gold like that,