CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Hello!
Hey, hello.
Oh, thank you very much.
Hello, everybody.
Hi.
Good evening.
You are so welcome to the show.
Now, sorry I'm a bit late tonight, but what a great Traitors final!
Hmm? Hmm?
LAUGHTER
Yes, he, she, they - such worthy winners!
We have got some great guests for you tonight.
I'll tell you, I couldn't be more overexcited
if I was Victoria Beckham, about to twerk on my son
in front of the new in-laws.
But who is on my sofa tonight?
Well, singing for us later, this Brit Award-winning rapper
has given us some huge anthems like Pass Out
and Written In The Stars.
Now he's back with a new track, Energy.
It is Mr Tinie Tempah!
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There he is!
Hello.
So good to see you.
Welcome back to the show.
Thank you so much.
Have a seat there
Yeah!
As Steve Harrington, this musician and actor was the breakout
star of the global hit Stranger Things.
While a singer, Djo, he recently topped the UK charts
with his hit song End of Beginning.
His latest album is The Crux.
It is a first time welcome to Joe Keery.
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Here he is.
Hey.
Hello.
Hi.
Nice to see you.
There he is.
And this Golden Globe and Emmy winning star of The Crown kicked ass
in The Girl in the Spider's web and moved us in the haunting drama
All Of Us Strangers.
Her latest, H is for Hawk, is a tale of lost love and falconry.
It is our good friend, Claire Foy.
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Hey!
Hello.
Hi, there.
Hi, guys.
Hi.
We first met this Geordie duo as PJ and Duncan on Byker Grove, from
which they conquered children's TV and became the biggest TV stars
of our time with such shows as Britain's Got Talent,
Saturday Night Takeaway and the unstoppable I'm a Celeb.
Now they're launching a brand new podcast,
Hanging Out With Ant and Dec.
Let's do that!
It's Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly.
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Hello, hello.
Hello, everybody.
Hi, guys.
Hi.
Sit down, sit down.
Hey!
Welcome, everybody.
We apologise for the late start, but Traitors final,
what are you going to do?
A first time welcome to Joe Keery.
Thank you very much.
Thank you for having me.
And what an amazing time to be meeting you.
Stranger Things, the final is out there, and you have the number one
song all over the world.
Crazy!
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Amazing.
Crazy.
And has it kind of sunk in that you won't be
going back to Stranger Things?
You know, yeah, it did on the final day that it came out.
It came out New Year's, so New Year's Day, I definitely woke
up and felt like, "Wow, OK, that's the end of an era".
I don't know you were on a show like that,
I don't know if you feel like, I don't know when you finish
something like that, it's so finite and done.
And I was definitely left with, you know, bittersweetness.
Well, it's ten years?
Ten years.
So 2016 was when Stranger Things launched on Netflix.
Yeah.
The same year that Netflix launched The Crown, with one Claire Foy
playing the Queen.
Good year.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Yeah.
And, yes, I know.
Yeah.
I mean, they were having quite the year that year.
Yeah, they covered all bases.
They did.
With their programming.
They did.
"Who haven't we reached?" Yeah.
Here's the thing, Claire, I believe there's also
a frisson of excitement?
Oh, gosh.
That you are sat next to Mr Ant and Mr Dec.
Hi!
Hi.
You've made it awkward, Graham!
Is this, am I supposed to say something now?
Um...
Let me just let me just check the format.
Yes.
This is becoming really tense.
OK, right, so, OK, here's the thing,
when I was at school - and this is not going to sound...
Anyway, when I was at school,
there was a talent competition that we did every year at school.
And one year the cool girls at school were doing Let's
Get Ready to Rhumble.
Oh!
And somehow I ended up being included, because I think
someone dropped out.
And, it's one of my proudest moments.
And the finale of the whole thing was -
this is a bit weird and creepy, so don't react while I'm saying
this, because otherwise it'll sound really strange.
We pulled our trousers down!
Oh, my God!
The whole point was we had like, you know, like boxer
shorts underneath.
And we spelt out Rhumble on our bums and I was the B.
That's amazing.
There you go.
Very good.
Different times, different times, different times.
We should've have done that.
We would have been far more successful than
we were as pop stars if we'd pulled our trousers down.
Did you spell "rumble" correctly?
We didn't do the H I think.
You dropped the H?
Maybe we did, I don't know.
I mean, I was the B, I couldn't see what was
happening up the line.
You've been on the show so many times I've never noticed that
it's spelt with an H, your rumble.
Yeah.
I still don't know why we did that.
Do you not know why?
To make it different maybe?
I think it was supposed to be, it was supposed to be
that the rumble was a dance move, not a fight.
So the rumble was like a rumba.
Is that what it was?
Have I just made that up?
Maybe.
I think it's something to do with the wrestling
had trademarked.
The boxing!
Was it the boxing?
Let's get ready to rumble!
I think he trade, the guy who does.
Isn't that wrestling?
No, that's boxing.
Oh, is it?
Yeah.
The guy that does the intros, I think he trademarked that.
So we just put in an H and we got away with it!
Yeah.
But even even getting Let's Get Ready To RHumble
for the first time by the writers of that song,
I remember reading the lyrics thinking, "This is just waffle!"
Like, "What are these lyrics?"
"Sit back, rap attack, don't take no flat rhyme and time
"to the rhythm of the track.
I still remember it, but I'm not saying it makes sense.
I still remember it.
But yeah, it was, we were like this,
Nobody talks like this, we don't talk like this.
We're from Newcastle.
But yeah, it kind of worked and people, people liked it.
Yeah.
And this is exciting, not just music,
Tinie Tempah guest Dragon on Dragons' Den.
Yeah, very random, yeah.
Now did you did you invest much, or did you sit there with your big
pile of money and go, "I'm keeping that!"
You know what, when I first got on set, I saw all the money
and I was like, "I should just take this".
But no, beyond that, honestly, it was one of the most amazing
experiences, because apart from this show, obviously and Traitors, it's
one of my favourite shows to watch.
And, you know, I've been investing on an angel level, and...
Oh, yeah.
Sorry, sorry, sorry.
And I'm A Celebrity, yeah, yeah.
Thank you.
And Stranger Things is very good as well.
Yeah.
And the crowd.
And the Crown.
Oh, no, what have I done?
But yeah, for me, as someone who's kind of only entered that space
on a kind of angel level and relatively passively,
even though I know the producers of Dragon's Den will not like me
to say that, especially before it's aired.
It was a great learning curve for me, because some
of those guys are serious.
You know, Peter Jones, you know, Stephen is now
emerging in that world, Deborah Meaden, Touker Suleyman,
these guys are legendary Dragons.
So to kind of just be sitting on the couch or, sorry,
on my own chair alongside - it wasn't as comfortable as this!
You know, hearing all of the due diligence
questions they'd be asking, picking apart the businesses.
For me, it was such a great experience.
And yeah, there is an investment or two, yeah.
Oh, fantastic, well, looking forward to that.
Yeah.
But first up, TV's Ant and Dec are joining the world
of podcasts - cutting edge!
Hanging Out With Ant and Dec is what is called.
Episodes will be biweekly on Thursdays,
with a bonus episode landing every Monday.
And I suppose, you know the world of podcasts,
it's a crowded world.
But you weirdly, this is the podcast,
but you went into podcasting very early doors when
no-one was doing it.
Yeah, years ago.
It was probably about 15 years ago, and it had just started
out as very, very new.
And we had this idea to do,
we used to hang out a lot, when we were a bit younger,
and we used to go to the pub a lot, so we thought we should do
a podcast in the pub, let's just do down the pub
with Ant and Dec.
So we brought a couple of mates, a bit of recording equipment,
went down the pub and had a night in the pub and recorded it.
What could possibly go wrong?
It started out really fun and really good and then we listened back
to the tapes and by the end of the night we're just
like a couple of pub bores.
Oh, my God.
And we thought, God, we cannot put this out.
Like, repeating the same stories, slurring our words -
it wasn't a good listen.
So we shelved it.
We've still got those tapes somewhere locked away.
They'll never see the light of day.
We stepped back from it for a bit.
And then here we are 15 years later,
we've both got very small children who take up a lot of our time.
We don't hang out now as much as we used to,
because we've got...
Aw!
Ant's moved home.
So we are now geographically further away from each other
than we've ever been.
Aw!
So we don't, we don't hang out as much as we used to.
So we thought if we put a podcast in the diary,
that will force us to hang out and we have to get out
of the house.
It's great.
And you're paid?
Yeah.
Well, they tell us we're going to get paid for it,
we haven't seen it.
Not yet.
But it's genuinely really good fun - like you do
one and you just turn up and you just have a laugh with your mate.
Like it's two best mates catching up and we overshoot everything
and we just catch up genuinely.
And then what we think we can leave in, we leave in.
And in terms of Hanging Out With Ant and Dec, what sort of thing -
is anything on the table?
Are you talking about all sorts of things?
Yeah, pretty much.
All sorts of things, we catch up about the family,
about what we've been up to in that week, that we haven't seen each
other, but even just mundane stuff like the week that we met
up to do the podcast, I had been summoned to a storage
unit near my house by my wife, because we had to have a clear out.
So I went in the storage unit and cleared out a load
of rubbish, like you do.
And while we were there, I found my old memorabilia boxes
in which I found a diary from 1994.
Wow!
Which was I started doing it when we started on the road
as PJ and Duncan, before we released a song.
Actually, we've got that!
It's so cringe worthy.
Have you got a clip?
This is a clip.
Yes, yes, this is grim, this is a viz pod.
It's a viz pod clip from Hanging Out With Anthony Dec
about that diary.
Here we go.
I found a diary that I kept from 1994.
Do you want me to read it?
It's definitely something in there about me, isn't it?
Day one, arrived in Portsmouth around 4pm.
The crowd were great.
And Why Me Went down well.
Bad Boys Inc were there too.
And two guys called General Something
were there.
Top blokes - respect, guys!
Did you write respect guys?
You did not write respect, guys.
Top blokes - respect, guys!
Oh, my God!
I'd like to point out now that Dec does not speak for the pair of us
when he writes this.
This is Dec's diary entry alone.
It's now 1am the next day, and I suppose I'd better sleep
before our road manager arrives and gets us both out of bed again.
Oh, my...
Oh, well, get us both out of bed again.
Oh, well, life on the road, eh?
Rock and roll!
Oh, my God, that's so good.
So how many weeks of this have we got?
I think we've got about three weeks' worth, but you've got to tune
in next week when we go to BBC Radio Coventry.
It's amazing.
Oh, my God, my toes are curling backwards in my shoes.
But what's funny is that I was going to talk to you about,
you know, being older, turning 50 things, but you sound
like you were 65 then.
Life on the road, eh?
Honestly, I look back and I was like, I can't read this,
this cannot go public.
No, you can't.
And then I was like, oh, go on then, we'll do it.
And that idea of getting older and having your own kids now,
does it make you more nostalgic about times like that?
Do you find yourself looking backwards more?
Oh, God yeah.
Especially when you think back to doing Saturday mornings
when we used to do SMTV live and we would do a show
on a Saturday morning live, SMUK and you could do sketches,
have fun, do comedy. SMUK and you could do sketches,
And if it didn't work, there was no social media -
nobody kind of said that was a rubbish sketch.
So you just didn't do it again?
It was a real freedom.
And I kind of think we wanted to bring that same kind
of energy to the podcast.
Are you slightly worried, because, weirdly, because you guys have been
in our lives for so long, we don't know that much about you.
There's Newcastle is involved.
You seem cheerful.
One of you has got a big forehead!
But are you worried that doing this you're going to give too much away?
I'm worried that we might give enough away that people go,
"Oh, actually, I don't really like them very much!"
"I thought they were good fun, but they're not!
"They're mean!"
But no, it's quite interesting because we obviously we know
each other inside out.
So to sit there and just kind of banter on, like we would down
the pub and we make each other laugh a lot.
Thankfully we make each other laugh.
So we just have a good time and hopefully people
will enjoy that.
And have your wives warned you about things
that are off limits,
and don't talk about that and well yeah.
Yes.
Yeah.
Yes.
They are more nervous about the podcast than we are.
My wife said to me about two weeks ago
before we started, so she was wandering
around the house,
"So are you are you worried about this podcast at all?"
"Oh well, no, not really, I'm quite looking forward to it".
"Oh, I am!"
"What is it, dear? What is it you're worried about?"
"Well, she said you're not going to say too much, are you?
Are you not going to paint me out to be too much?"
It sounds like somebody's got something to hide.
And, you know, you're reading out that tirade,
you think about the two of you as PJ and Duncan
and things and starting out, you know, show business,
there are many challenges in show business.
And you did some tough gigs.
We've got a clip.
Oh, no.
Oh, no!
The dreaded words, we've got a clip!
You can look away, the rest of us will enjoy this.
It's the two of you and you're on This Morning
with Richard and Judy.
But like, back when it was in Liverpool, it was Liverpool Docks.
I hope it's a Christmas episode.
I really hope this episode.
And the two of you, as young as you are,
true professionals giving it your all.
Oh, there we go.
Feast your eyes... ..on PJ and Duncan on This Morning.
#..my love...
Oh, God - no, no, no!
Beautiful use of candelabra in a minute.
# ...a token of love...
There it is - the candelabra.
# I give you my love...
Stop! Stop it!
Find the camera, find the camera - you found it!
OK, it's over, it's over, it's over.
Oh, my God! Oh, my God!
That's really patronising.
Here's the weird thing...
In that clip, it's a collector's item because you were Dec and Ant.
Oh, yeah.
We were there the wrong way round. Wrong way round.
Is that very, very rare? That is quite rare.
We were having this conversation with somebody earlier today.
I don't know when we started doing that.
I think it was kind of subconscious, doing the Ant and Dec
thing left to right.
But yeah, we must have had...
Our road manager must have got us out of bed
together that way because...
Life on the road, huh?
Respect, guys. He never says that.
Musicians down the end, does that give you chills?
Have either of you had that experience?
The kind of daytime pop experience with no audience and a carpet?
Well, I mean... That performance gave me chills.
Horrendous. Horrendous.
Don't agree.
You guys are legends, yeah. I'm not defending it.
But, no, I think all my memories of those opportunities
have been good ones, like Top of the Pops.
You know, I've been invited to do the Top
of the Pops Christmas Special a couple of times, but I guess
because I grew up watching it, you know, from, like,
a little council flat somewhere in south London,
it was always just a dream to get invited to do one of these things.
So when it finally happened, I guess it was never like a negative,
horrible experience.
I was just like, "I can't believe they've invited me
to do it", you know?
And Joe, have you done the kind of daytime talk shows?
I have like the opposite experience. I feel like, yeah, I've done one.
And it was at the beginning of our tour that we did,
and it was the first thing that we did.
So we hadn't played any other shows in this run and we're like, "Oh,
yeah, we'll just show up, we'll play the show.
And it was for Jimmy Fallon.
Amazing. Oh, my God.
And it was very nerve-wracking.
Yeah, I mean, you kind of like can picture the whole thing,
but then once you're actually up there, you're sort of like, oh wow.
OK, here we go, let's do this.
So it's fun. Yeah.
But it's also, you know, it's kind of crazy.
Tinie, you're performing for us later, but I won't encourage you.
But on Fallon, do they let you do it again if you want to?
One and done. One and done.
From what I remember on Jimmy Fallon, was it really cold
in the room as well?
Freezing. Freezing cold, bro!
Ridiculous.
Like, this is Barbados compared to that - it's ridiculous.
Enjoy, enjoy!
And Claire, you've done a bit of music in your films.
You have.
I'm just cycling back through what I might have said.
Oh, no, as in song? Yeah!
Well, once. And then they replaced me.
What? What do you mean?
Because I can't sing to save my life.
And they actually said in the script, "Oh,
she sings so beautifully."
And so the director very kindly phoned me up and went, "Claire,
I'm afraid we have to replace you, because it does say
she sings so beautifully."
# Da-da-da-da...!
There was no need to tell you.
You could have just gone to the opening and kind of went,
"Oh, I sound better than I thought."
No, I appreciate that kind of honesty.
OK.
We all knew it at the time.
I could see from the grimaces on people's faces as I was singing
that it wasn't going very well.
And you guys, weird thing is, that wasn't even your worst gig.
Oh, Jesus! Tell us about...
No, no, no!
No, there's no more clips, there's no more clips.
Tell us about PJ and Duncan at Truckfest.
Oh, God. Oh, God!
So this is what it sounds like. It's a festival of trucks.
Wow.
It's full of trucks and truckers and people who love trucks.
And there's a stage in one part of the Truckfest where they have
bands come and perform.
And we went to Truckfest to promote Eternal Love.
So we got there. I mean, that yells truckers!
We went on first.
And we sang Let's Get Ready to Rumble, which didn't go
down particularly well.
They didn't hate it.
One guy turned his back - that's us there, he just turned his back.
"I dislike it so much, I'm not even going to look at you and look
at the field opposite."
And then we did Let's Get Ready to Rumble.
And then towards the end of the song, the stage manager
at the side was going, "Lads, lads, you've got to come off,
you've got to come off!"
And we're like, "We've got one more song."
"No, you can't, come off!"
So we went off to the side, like, "What's wrong?"
He went, "We've got to turn the PA off."
We're like, "Why?"
He said, "Because, the farmer who we've rented the field off has
said we can only have the field if we'll turn off the PA
system when he needs to bring his cows past."
So we just had to stand there as these cows went, "Moooooo!"
It took about five minutes.
The cows made it, and we went back on the middle of the stage.
And there was a collective groan from the...
"And this song's called Eternal Love."
Oh, my God! Terrific.
We should say, obviously the podcast is now, but telly work continues.
I'm a Celeb All Stars from South Africa is back soon.
Limitless Win, on right now. On right now.
And, I mean, this is a show where you can win
an infinite amount of money.
There is no jackpot.
As long as you can stay in the show, as long as you can stay
in the game with enough lives, you can carry on climbing
the limitless money ladder.
Incredible. What's the most anyone's...?
Really? Really.
Yeah, really.
What's the most anyone's won? A million.
And we gave away 750,000 last week. Last week.
Wow! Yeah.
But all the questions are things that you can
have a right good go at, a good guess at.
We had a question, was it last series?
And it was for quite a bit of money.
And the question was - and we had to really
stifle our laughs when this question came up...
The next question is, in total, how many toes does a camel have?
Genuinely.
Now you can't be over - if you're one over, it's game over.
Tinie? I'm going to go for eight.
Yeah, I think it's eight.
Eight. It's eight.
It is eight? Yeah.
You would have won money!
Limitless Win continues on Saturdays.
And, of course, Hanging Out With Ant And Dec is available right now.
Very good. Sounds really good.
Thank you, it's fun.
We move on to our film offering tonight.
Claire Foy brings us H is for Hawk.
It opened in cinemas today, and here is a taste of the trailer.
I need something different.
I want a goshawk.
Goshawks? The maddest of raptors.
When I call her, then you let her go.
Good girl!
I'm going to call you Mabel.
DOOR KNOCKS. Helen?
Human beings can't live this way.
Are you feeling that you're a failure?
Well, that's just a matter of fact.
Don't be so hard on yourself.
It's just working out your place in the world.
I always thought Dad taught me to be detached.
But being with Mabel, it's an honest encounter with life.
And now I see how engaged with life Dad was.
Life's real - serious and beautiful.
Remember? Smile.
Oh! It's a beautiful film.
And it's based on this much-loved memoir by Helen MacDonald.
So tell me what you can about the story.
Yeah.
So, Helen, when you meet her at the beginning
of the story, is an academic.
And then their father, played by Brendan Gleeson,
who's the best man alive, dies very suddenly.
And one of the connections that they had was falconry,
like an interest in nature as well, was really significant.
And Helen was already a falconer and had always
vowed never, ever, ever, ever, ever to get a goshawk,
and then decides to get goshawk after their father's death as sort
of a way of not running away from it, but trying to distract
and sort of overwhelm the grief with a bird of prey.
And it's done so beautifully in this film.
But we've got to talk about a goshawk called Mabel in the film.
How many goshawks were there? So five goshawks.
But they all had like different jobs and different parts
of Mabel's personality, because we wouldn't have been
able to shoot the film with just one bird because it
would have been impossible.
But I love this.
So Dede Gardner, who produced this film -
she also produced Women Talking - she was determined
to make this film.
Tell us how convinced she was that she was going to make it.
Yeah, well, in order to shoot the film, we had to have Mabel to be
exactly the right age for when Helen got her originally.
So Dede, who lives in Hollywood, bought two goshawk eggs a year
before we started shooting, and they were just sort
of in Bristol, waiting to hatch.
Dede didn't rear the birds, but then the birds were sort
of reared specifically for this film.
Wow. Wow!
I mean, good that it got made, otherwise....
Two birds? What am I going to do with these?!
And there's these scenes... Because did Helen do this?
Walk around with the hawk on her arm in the streets of Cambridge?
Yeah.
I mean, it's a thing that people, that falconers do.
It's like getting your bird used to the environment they're in.
And Helen used to walk around Cambridge.
Yeah, none of it's kind of made dramatic by me doing it,
but me actually walking around Cambridge with a bird was, um...
Weird.
And also, are they heavy?
Because they look like a big creature on your arm.
Well, you see, their bones are hollow so they can fly.
AUDIENCE: Ooh!
Good noise, everyone! "Ooh!"
"We've learned something this evening!"
For all you hawk-fact fans!
So, you know, it's a weird position to have your arm in.
And it's not like they're light, but they're not like,
you know, I didn't have loads of muscles or anything.
Well, I'll tell you who'll be loving this chat is Tinie Tempah,
because apparently you've handled a cockatoo?
Yes!
LAUGHTER.
I really jumped at that and said yes.
I had a pair of cockatoos.
See, see? OK.
They died, but I was going to ask you, Claire, do you miss them?
The Mabels? Yeah.
Two in particular. Mabel 1 and...
We had two Mabels called Mabel 1 and Mabel 2 -
wasn't very original.
And Jess. Yeah, I really miss them.
But aren't they non-affectionate? I think Helen says that in the film.
They're a non-affectionate species. But you connect.
It's like any animal.
You connect with them and you have a relationship with them.
And that means that there's a love there.
And are your cockatoos - they're not in the world anymore?
No, they're long gone. Long gone.
Weirdly, Johnny and Louisa - don't ask...
Yeah, I know.
Did you name them? I won't ask.
I think I may have, yeah. At least they had their own names.
I know - much better than that.
Actually, not the only other bird-lover on the couch tonight.
Because Ant and Dec, if people go down to Battersea Children's Zoo,
what might they find there?
There are a couple of emus. Yes?
Called Ant and Dec. Yes!
Here are Ant and Dec. There they are!
APPLAUSE.
Makes sense, right? Makes sense.
Have you met them?
No, I've walked past them many times and I've seen the little sign.
But we knew when they were, I think, being hatched,
that they were going to name them Ant and Dec.
Aww - that's so sweet. My daughter's met them.
She's been on a couple of school trips down there,
and she's been there and seen them.
And they're like, "Oh, look, these are called Ant and Dec."
And she's like, "Why?"
That's my dad!
You say that.
We contacted the zoo to get that picture,
that lovely picture of Ant and Dec, and they gave us some extra
information, and they said, like Ant and Dec, Ant and Dec emus
are best friends.
Oh, that's nice!
Now, unlike Ant and Dec, they're also boyfriend and girlfriend.
Well, we have known each other for a long time.
And Dec has laid many eggs over her life.
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE.
You're the girl.
That's what he's saying - you're the girl.
Apparently they love a shower and a dust bath
to keep their feathers in tip-top condition, and their favourite foods
are red cabbage and broccoli.
Now, here's a thing...
That is the sort of showbiz honour that is reserved for people who've
been in the business a long time.
Joe Keery, you've already had that showbiz honour, have you not?
I have had the showbiz...? Not to my...
I think you have.
Your character, Steve Harrington in Stranger Things...
Yes.
Is there not a Pacific Marine Mammal Centre sea lion
called Steve Harrington?
This is news to me - I did not know this.
Wow! Oh, yeah.
Did we get a picture in the end? Oh, there you go.
Oh! That's you, that's you!
Yeah. Sadly...
Where is this little guy? It's in Laguna Beach.
Oh, perfect, I gotta go.
The Pacific Marine Mammal Centre. Sadly, I don't have any more info.
I don't know about favourite foods or anything, or...
No eggs. ..if you've laid an egg.
Listen, Claire Foy, we must also mention you have such a starry
children's film coming up.
This is The Magic Faraway Tree.
Yeah. I know.
People are so looking forward to this film.
It's weird - that book holds such a place in people's hearts.
It does, yeah.
I mean, it was never part of my childhood,
so I think it would have freaked me out too much if I'd started doing
it, but because I didn't, I just loved every second of it.
It was so sweet to make, and unlike most things that I do.
So that was nice.
And you and Andrew Garfield, are you the mum and dad?
Mum and dad, yeah.
I'm not so nosy, what was he like to work with?
Oh, amazing.
Yeah?
Yeah, absolutely amazing.
Tell him the truth!
No, I didn't get a lot to do with him, because...
I mean, he's not my best friend.
No, but because I'm not magical, you see?
OK.
You know, I'm mum.
Yeah!
The tree is magic.
It's out on the 27th of March - that bit is real.
It sure is.
And a reminder, you can see Claire Foy in H is For Hawk
in cinemas right now.
Excellent.
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We turn we turn to Joe Keery.
Joe Keery, an actor, but of course, you're
here tonight as a musician.
Now, Djo is the name of...
..I'm saying that right, aren't I?
Correct, yeah, correct.
It's a little, you know...
Yeah, it's spelled D-J-O.
Yeah.
That's right.
Why?
I'll tell you when I, I was always doing music
just as, like a hobby,
I had played in bands and stuff, and when I was shooting the second
season of Stranger Things, I had a little studio at my Airbnb
and was writing and recording music.
And then when it came time to upload this music
on this distribution site, I didn't really think
about what to call it.
And last minute I said, Djo, it's kind of my name,
it's like, you know, Djokovic or Django or something.
And then and now I'm stuck with it.
Now look, yeah.
Because actually we're about to talk about the new
album, but you are number one all over the world with this track
In The Beginning, when did you record that track?
That was, that was in 2021, I guess, it was recorded and released
on an album in 2022.
And then through the, you know, the way that music
and stuff is consumed, it just somehow has been spit
back out and shared.
And, yeah, it's crazy.
And is it having this huge moment right now,
is it because of the Stranger Things ending,
because the End of Beginning?
Certainly I think a lot of people have found, I mean,
it had like a nice little run like about a year ago.
And then I think with the show ending and it's just kind
of like a confluence of all these different things.
So people have been using it in different ways.
And it's really, to be honest with you, it is so beyond me.
I'm kind of like confused about the whole thing
still, sort of shocked that like a song that you write
in your bedroom can be played by a bunch of people.
And it was huge on social media, though, wasn't it,
like on TikTok and stuff it was massive?
Yeah, I think it was like originally like underscored a bunch of stuff
from the Bear because that takes.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, right.
I don't know, man, I have no idea.
It's like so confusing to me.
But when are you aware that song that we recorded a
few years ago is now huge, or is it so gradual?
Like hearing it in a car, I guess I heard it in like a taxi.
That was kind of cool.
Yeah.
Or like my grandmother asking me about it, like.
"Oh, you know, I heard your song."
We've got a bit of you performing the track.
This is from Chicago, Lollapalooza last year.
# You take the man out of the city, not the city
# You take the man out of the...
# And when I'm back in Chicago, I feel it
# Another version of me, I was in it
# Oh, I wave goodbye to the end of beginning...#
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Wow!
Such a great location.
It's a beautiful.
Yeah.
So I went to school in Chicago and spent
a lot of time there, played in bands there.
And so to kind of come back and play, that's
like Grant Park, right downtown, It's a massive part of Chicago.
like Grant Park, right downtown, it's a massive part of Chicago.
And yeah, a bunch of again, how does this happen?
I don't know.
All of a sudden I'm here.
Have you played there, Tinie?
Yeah, I've done a lot of times in Chicago.
We were just talking about it.
They also do one in Chile, and Joe's going to do it in March.
March.
Yeah.
Oh, wow, cool.
Book your tickets!
Yeah, it's fun.
Well, his third album, The Crux, is out.
Here it is, a nice physical copy.
Is that you hanging out of the window?
That's me.
There you go.
Is that on a kind of a studio lot?
Yeah, that's on the Paramount lot.
And it's kind of like a dual perspective.
It's like the same, you know, you can see on the front,
I'm actually hanging out the window.
It's kind of the same, the same moment.
I'm an idiot.
There you are.
And we really did that.
I got strung up and chucked out the window.
Well worth it, because..
Worth it.
There you go, there you go.
And this is the third album and you were recording this or writing
it when you were doing that last season of Stranger Things?
I guess both.
It was kind of like I would, you know how being on set works,
it's like there's so much downtime in a big ensemble thing.
So there's like, you know, I would have, you know,
work really intensely for a chunk and then have some time off.
So if I was stuck in the city that we were filming in,
I would just write or get ready for the next session that we'd do.
And then if I had any time, I would go to New York and record.
So it's nice to be able to just keep busy.
A part of being an actor is you're, you know, waiting patiently
for someone to give you the job.
So to be able to kind of be proactive and do this project that
I'm really interested in, it was nice to have that to bounce.
And you involved, family were involved in it?
Yes I did, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
In we thought that it would be nice to try to do
some, like, gang vocals.
This was the first album that we did like in a proper studio.
So it was fun to, you know, utilise the studio.
And we thought, oh, what would make it sound
bigger to have some, you know, like gang vocals.
And so the only people who I knew in New York who would do it on such
short notice were my sisters who lived there.
So it was me, and it was Kate and Emma and my friend Adam,
who we recorded together in Austin, the engineer.
And, so, yeah, they're all over it, which is pretty cool.
And it has kind of an element of almost like scrapbook
of your life, because there's things like the song Charlie's Garden
is about being in Atlanta filming Stranger Things.
With Charlie there.
He's my guy.
I think he's sitting on my lap, I guess he's sitting on my lap.
Charlie Heaton.
That's Charlie Heaton, he's fantastic.
And what's so special about his garden?
Wouldn't you like to know?
I would, hence I'm asking.
He's got, like, a beautiful...
He bought this place in Atlanta and he bought it from this guy,
and the guy was a master gardener.
There was, like, hydroponics and like just stone
furniture and, like, a little gazebo thing
and he put a ping pong table, so, you know, it's sort
of like in the style of ELO or like McCartney and
just highlighting just the whimsy of kind of...
..it's a bizarre situation,
you're shooting this TV show and you're in Atlanta,
and it kind of is sort of a play on that.
His dog is featured in the song.
Aw!
And what strikes me about Stranger Things
is you must have been, what, 22, 23 when you
started doing it?
Yeah.
But you were working with these kids who were like 12,
13, who are now grown adults.
23.
Yeah.
My age.
That must be an odd experience?
It's a very odd experience.
It reminds me of when you guys were talking about, like, you know,
going to school and being on set and going to shoot.
It's like, that's what these guys did.
You know, they had to juggle this you know, it's very difficult.
And I don't know about your experience, but, you know,
trials and tribulations and I'm very happy to see that they've they're
all very well adjusted.
Yeah.
You're a kid as well, but yeah, you go to work every day
and you're expected to turn up and know your lines and be
on time and behave on set.
So it's a bit of a kind of a baptism of fire in a way that
you're in the business.
You're still a kid and you want to have fun, but you've got
to come in and be professional.
And then you go to school.
I mean, you go to school, you go to, like, high school.
Yeah.
You're off for like the winter and you're like, OK,
I'm going to go three months of public high school and like,
aren't you just getting bullied?
What's going on?
Are people, like, obsessed with you or are people like,
you know, it's either one or the other?
Little bit of bullying.
They're just jealous.
Jealous.
And here you are!
You know, Stranger Things is over now.
You've got this number one song all over the world.
You've got the album.
So I thought you'd be leaning into music, but you've got
a new film coming out?
I do, yeah, it again, sometimes the business is funny
where you film something like, we filmed this 1 in 2023,
where you film something like, we filmed this one in 2023,
and it's cool that it's finally coming out.
It's a it's like a fun, horror comedy kind of a romp,
sort of like a, like a...
Yeah, it's a really great film and I had a lot of fun doing it.
Georgina Campbell, Liam Neeson, yeah.
Yeah, and it's called Cold Storage, it's out on the 20th of February.
That's when that comes out.
Joe, listen, good luck with the film.
Thank you.
Lovely to meet you.
And congratulations on all your success.
Joe Keery.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Now, Mr Tinie Tempah, we turned to you,
we will talk some more about everything
going on in your world.
But right now it is time for music.
So if you'd like to approach your massive stage, there you go.
Oh, cool!
There goes Mr Tinie Tempah.
Lovely!
Here performing his new single Energy
featuring Alex Mills, it is Tinie Tempah.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
The Graham Norton Show.
Alex Mills.
Jeremiah Asiamah.
Ladies and gentlemen, let me see you on your feet right now.
Let's go.
# Baby got me levitating.
# Giving me energy yeah.
# I just can't escape it.
# Take me to ecstasy.
# Baby got me levitating.
# Giving me Energy yeah.
# I just can't explain it.
# Take me to ecstasy now.
# Hella endurance.
# We ain't got no decorum.
# In your city like Gorgon.
# We ain't leaving till morning.
# Rush of endorphins.
# Please don't step on my Jordans.
# Got girls from London to Auckland.
# Girl with the contour doing contortion eh.
# Bend ur knees, baby, arch that back.
# Big...
# Don't want no...that's flat.
# Tap tap on my card that's Racks.
# Kill Tracks got the fastest laps.
# Can't take me nowhere that's facts.
# Step out of the shard that's Paps.
# Matrix yo the red pill Slaps.
# That Feel like heart attack.
# Baby got me levitating.
# Giving me energy yeah.
# I just can't escape it.
# Take me to ecstasy.
# Baby got me levitating.
# Giving me energy yeah.
# I just can't explain it.
# Take me to ecstasy now.
# And away we go.
# Inside there pretty good ratio (right now).
# Going crazy yo.
# Hot in here.
# I need H2O (right now).
# Yes maybe no.
# Two of these tings tryna take me home (right now).
# I'm feeling wavy so.
# Take me to ecstasy now.
# Energy.
# Gimme more bass, more melody.
# Only live once so c'est la vie.
# Getting high off life no.
# Energy.
# Been around hate and jealousy.
# Kicking out Kate and Melanie.
# They only like fame and celebrity what.
# Two step, two step, four step.
# Sweat we be getting that floor wet (right now).
# No bad vibes in my orbit.
# All of my VVS flawless Main room hotter than.
# August Bad B's keep going toilet.
# Pulling up in a couple of Porsches.
# Snap snap u gotta record this.
# Baby.
# Got me levitating.
# Giving me energy yeah.
# I just can't escape it.
# Take me to ecstasy.
# Baby.
# Got me levitating.
# Giving me energy yeah.
# I just can't explain it.
# Take me to ecstasy now.
# And away we go.
# Inside there pretty good ratio (right now).
# Going crazy yo.
# Hot in here.
# I need H2O (right now).
# Yes, maybe no.
# Two of these tings tryna take me home (right now).
# I'm feeling wavy so.
# Take me to ecstasy now #.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
How great was that?
Fantastic!
Tinie Tempah, vocals Alex Mills, Jeremiah Atheroma of the decks.
Well done.
That was phenomenal.
Thank you, thank you.
Absolutely brilliant.
Have a seat.
How great was that?
Great.
Oh, brilliant I loved that.
Thank you mate.
That staging is brilliant.
We were in da club.
You turned it into a nightclub, which is great.
Yeah.
Just brilliant.
So the track is called Energy.
It's out now.
It's the single that's going to do, I mean, that's just phenomenal.
Fingers crossed.
I mean, I'm going for number one song in the world,
but you've got that.
At the moment - he's had it, he's enjoyed it.
Yeah.
And the candelabra in shot.
Oh, yeah.
And a Christmas tree.
Yeah, so true.
I mean, we didn't, yeah, it lacked certain.
It lacked certain things.
Yeah.
But listen, back with a bang.
Cos it's been a while since you've had your own music out?
It has, yeah.
It feels really good to be back.
And also, sorry, just to add, like as an artist who has spent
a lot of his time in the club, a lot of my time in the club,
rather, I caught wind that since the pandemic we've been losing
a lot of our nightlife.
So currently we're losing about three nightclubs a month in the UK.
Yeah, and they're saying by 2029 they'll be virtually any clubs,
like hardly any clubs left.
So and that's not just like nightclubs.
That's music venues.
Yeah, music venues, yeah, pubs, all sorts,
like it's all going.
So I know culture changes and society evolves and all that,
and I'm not saying we should go back to how it was,
but I guess as an artist where that's a large
part of our economy, I couldn't help but worry
about the future generation of artists.
And that's where I got my 10,000 hours.
That's where I did the very difficult gigs,
like The Candelabra one.
We had worse gigs than, I believe me.
Or the one with the cows.
Did you get me where there'd be like, 10 or 20 people at a time.
I really earned my stripes, built the confidence.
And then also when I think about how much division there is, you know,
in the country at the moment, how much nationalism,
not saying anything specifically wrong with that.
But the club for me is more than a place
where you go and have a boogie.
It's a place where all cultures can come together.
You know, white, black, Asian, gay, straight
and just kind of enjoy music, which is...
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
Yeah, yeah, yeah, which is the soundtrack
for life, you know?
I think you were talking in an interview, and I think
you were saying that one of the things that's happening
with the nightclub scene is that young people now are healthier.
Yeah.
Which is a weird knock-on effect. Which is a good thing.
Yeah, and there's the emergence of the running clubs
and stuff like that, which is fun.
You know, I definitely...
You could run to that. Yeah.
You could run to that, exactly.
So I think that was exactly the thought process.
I wanted to create a project that evoked the feeling of being out,
you know, enjoying a time at a club, but you could enjoy it while you
were at the gym or swimming.
Well, I don't know how you would actually.
But yeah, something of the like, you know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But it's funny, it never crossed my mind that
that was a knock-on effect of, you know, kids drinking
less and smoking less, that they're not clubbing
in the same way. 100%.
But like I said, music is the soundtrack to life,
and you don't have to necessarily.
You know, going out and drinking should not
necessarily be synonymous.
You know, you can go out and have a good time
without having a drink - or can you?
I can't, but!
I'm assured it can be done. I'm keeping those clubs open.
We used to play a lot of clubs when we were first starting out
as a music act and we'd play them/
I would have thought PJ and Duncan were too famous
to play little clubs.
Oh, no. We still did.
It's part of the circuit. It was a lot of under-18 clubs.
Yeah, yeah. Under-18 discos.
Yeah, they were hardcore, though.
Like, you've got all these, these young girls in there,
and we turn up to do the song.
And like you say, a lot of artists go around and do all these clubs,
but we would turn up and the girls would all stand at the front
and all scream and cheer, but also they were at the clubs
with their boyfriends, who would stand at the back and go...
"Dicks!"
And it's very hard to mime a track when you're getting ice cubes
from the boyfriends' drinks thrown at your heads.
And ashtrays.
I'm sure it gave you thick skin, right?
It kind of conditioned you. And look at where you guys are now.
How many years? 10, 20, 30?
So I'm trying to be like you guys. I'm more worried that....
So if you've ever thrown an ashtray at our heads - thank you.
Joe Keery is missing out on these ashtray years, because you've
just gone straight in.
Oh, I had some empty rooms, that's for sure.
I played in bands. I had some nice...
Just the girlfriends' shows, where they're nice enough
to come, and it's crickets.
Oh, YOUR girlfriend. Oh, I see.
Girlfriends of the band. Oh, yeah.
I thought you meant all the girlfriends showed up.
That'd have been awkward.
Yeah. They all met.
Well, listen, thank you for that amazing performance.
Good luck with that track.
Tinie Tempah, everybody!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.
OK, that's nearly it.
Before we go, just time for a quick visit to the big red chair.
Who's there? Hello!
Hello.
Hi, what's your name? Oscar.
Oscar, lovely. And where are you from, Oscar?
I'm from Australia.
Lovely - and do you live here now, are you on holidays?
Yeah, no, I live over here. I've lived here for three years.
OK - just one over the visa.
LAUGHTER.
And what do you do, Oscar? I'm an accountant.
Oh, OK - we need them. We need them.
Yeah. Off you go with your story, Oscar.
Yeah, so the story is, about ten years ago in Australia,
I was with a big group of mates.
We had tickets to a music festival, and we didn't want to get our drinks
confiscated when we were driving in, so we decided to drive down one
month before the festival, took shovels down there,
buried all our drinks at the...
Oh, my God! I know.
Wait, go back, go back! Claire needs a catch-up.
Can I just clarify?
A month before the day of the festival, you drove
down with your friends and buried alcohol?
That's exactly what happened. OK - please continue.
Can I just say, people in Australia have a lot of time on their hands.
We were uni students, so we had a little time.
OK, only time. OK, so you've buried the booze.
We've buried the drinks.
A week before the music festival, bushfires went through the area
because they were buried in the forest, so it was
very flammable area.
I wonder what started it?
And essentially, they changed the location of the festival.
So we effectively had about 300 beers just
buried in a random forest.
We took the shovels back down, dug them up, got them
into the new location, no dramas.
So it was a foolproof plan.
We just hadn't factored in the impact of a natural disaster.
Is that the end of the story? That is the end of the story.
It is quite a good story but I'm gonna flip you anyway.
There you go.
I did like it, though. I did enjoy it.
OK, that really is all we've got time for.
If you'd like to have a go on the red chair yourself,
you can contact us via our website at this very address.
Please say a huge thank you to all of our guests.
Tinie Tempah! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.
Joe Keery! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.
Claire Foy! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.
And Ant and Dec! CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.
Join me next week with music guest Jessie Ware, comedian John Bishop,
Send Help star Rachel McAdams, the mighty Chris Hemsworth
and Oscar-winner Halle Berry.
I'll see you then. Goodnight, everybody - bye-bye.