Hi, I'm Jennifer Garner.
Hi, this is Amy Poehler, and it's my great pleasure to welcome you...
To the Graham Norton show.
APPLAUSE.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.
Hello, good evening.
You're all so welcome to the show.
Yeah, keep going, Nick.
Good boy.
Hello to our virtual studio audience at home.
Hello, everybody.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.
Very good.
And happy Mother's Day weekend to all the mothers in the audience.
There they are.
CHEERING.
Whatever sort of mother you are, helicopter mum...
A tiger mum...
Or Merlot mum...
Sunday is for you.
OK, who have we got on the show tonight?
With me here in the studio, it's top comic Rob Beckett,
ladies and gentlemen.
Hello.
Star of Call the Midwife, Leonie Elliott.
Actor, musician, Jonas brother, Nick Jonas is here.
And joining us from LA we'll have comedy genius Amy Poehler.
And Hollywood star Jennifer Garner.
Plus right here in the studio we'll have music from Tom Odell.
It's all happening, all happening.
Welcome all, lovely to see you here.
Nick Jonas, actual American star in the studio.
Actual American...
But you live here now.
Kind of, yeah.
My wife and I had to relocate because she's shooting here.
We've been here since October.
I've been back and forth a bit to the US but it's been lovely.
Yeah, what a great time to get to know us.
LAUGHTER.
What a great time!
Has it been lovely?
The global pandemic made it interesting, to say the least,
but it's been nice.
Happy to be here with you.
Things look a little different than they did last
year when we were here.
Yes.
You know, you were our last stop before we went home,
and then all of the world shut down.
This was it. So it's your fault.
LAUGHTER.
You and your lovely wife, Priyanka, you are very public as a couple.
Has the nickname, the couple name, that Priyanka came up
with, has it taken off?
Well, I don't know if we are allowed to say it on TV...
You can.
What's the name? The couple name.
Well, it's...
I liked something with Nick, Yanka, that's what they call
a ship name, right?
But she really preferred "Prick".
LAUGHTER.
And I don't think that's going to work.
Not if you're living in London.
You can't just be Prick.
That's what I'm saying.
I think it would make you feel better if people shouted it at you.
You'd go, "Oh, couple name. Prick."
Imagine someone on the red carpet, "Prick!"
You can't be an Oscar nominee.
"Prick!"
"Who won?"
"That prick."
Fitting.
Leonie Elliott, star of Call the Midwife,
how big is that show?
The Christmas Day special was the biggest show on Christmas TV.
Yeah. Yeah, amazing.
Amazing.
And were going in our tenth series now so, tenth anniversary.
And is this your third series you're going into?
So, this is my fourth season.
Fourth season, wow.
And of course, filming this, you have the challenge of lockdown,
but you also have the special challenge of dealing with our very
good friend Miriam Margolyes, who is in the show.
I'm sure you're used to her now but it must have been quite
a shock when you met her.
Yeah! Miriam is...
I say this with love.
Are you allowed to say that about a person?
No, I say this with love.
Miriam will be delighted I said that.
She's a very interesting person.
If you have a story she will always trump it.
She trumps!
LAUGHTER.
She will trump your story.
No, she's amazing.
She's an amazing actress and a great storyteller.
She gave you some dietary advice apparently.
Yeah, I mean, to a certain extent Miriam advocates
for eating a raw onion.
Like an apple? Every morning, yeah.
And she would always say, you must eat a raw onion.
And I was like, hmm...
I think I'll pass.
But, yeah, sometimes I'd hear her from her trailer saying,
could I please have my raw onion.
Is that like a Covid, social distancing thing?
Make sure people stay two metres away?
Brilliant.
Yeah, good idea, but I don't think so.
I think this is just her.
Luckily she doesn't have that many kissing scenes in Call the Midwife.
It would be a very different show, wouldn't it?
It really would.
A real mood killer, isn't it, at a birth.
Rob Beckett, this week we saw you on Celebrity Bake Off,
Stand Up To Cancer.
Now, you did quite well.
I did all right, actually.
You surprised yourself.
Yeah, I did.
But all the credit must go to my wife who sort of bullied me
to go on the show and did the recipe and forced me to practice it.
That's why it was OK.
Prior to this, is it true, you'd never baked anything?
I've never baked anything, and the only thing I have baked
was the thing that went well, and then the other stuff,
the ganache, which I still don't know what it is, but all I know
is I didn't make it.
Yeah, that was the only one we practised.
But there was a shortbread...
Well, I'm not allowed to say what they were,
but they were sort of knobbly chocolate hazelnut balls.
That an ambassador would like...
Ferrero Rocher. Ferrero Rocher shortbread.
That's them, look.
Wait a minute, are those the ones you made?!
I did that!
They're gold flakes?
It's gold leaf, Nick Jonas.
Wow.
I did it, and Paul Hollywood went, "I'm not a big fan of gold leaf,"
when I was preparing it.
"It's a bit twee."
I was like, are you aware of the show you present?!
You bake in a tent, mate.
If you're going to be twee, this is the place.
I'm not dishing it out on Question Time.
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE.
Right, let's start tonight with Nick Jonas.
Your new solo album, Spaceman, is out today.
It's out today.
CHEERING.
People are watching this, having dance parties
with family members and pets.
I mean, it is a very exciting release party,
with all my favourite people.
For me, seeing as I've just met you, to be invited to the launch party...
It's fantastic.
I mean, we are not your favourite people?
You are now.
We are now.
Poor fella, he moves to London with his wife,
and now he's here with us on the launch of his album
after eight months of lockdown.
You've had a howler, let's face it.
But we're here together for you, Nick.
Listen, there's a drink, so everything is going to work.
There is a drink, exactly.
I sort of feel bad we didn't get some indoor fireworks or something.
It sounds dangerous.
Yes, the album is out today.
The story of this album is that, like everyone else I was locked up
at home thinking about, what am I going to do with my life
for the next two weeks, four weeks, and then all of a sudden
it was almost a year.
I just sat down and started writing music over Zoom with this producer
that I worked with on the last Jonas Brothers album.
And we kind of locked in on something.
And started writing about my experience,
my personal experience during this time, which then, I think in a way
became a universal concept just about what it's like to be
disconnected from the world, too, at this point, my wife was shooting
this movie in Germany.
I was away from her for about a two month period.
Naturally, really missing her and feeling alone in general,
but when you take that piece away, it's even more tough.
So I started writing some songs, I kind of talked about that.
And it was a really helpful thing for me just to work through it.
And then an album came out of it and I was like, oh,
I guess I should put this out now.
And so here we are.
You didn't just make music, you've managed to make a video,
ladies and gentlemen.
A video as well.
Here's a clip of the title track, Spaceman.
# Hard times make you love the view.
# Right now think I'm getting through.
# Only way that I can.
# But I feel like a spaceman.
# And I'm talking to you.
# But it never feels like it comes through.
# Out on my own, I'm a spaceman.
# Yeah, yeah, I'm a spaceman.
# From the dark side of the moon.
# I know that it's sad but it's true.
# I'm tryna get home, I'm a spaceman.
# Yeah, yeah, I'm a spaceman.
# Out on my own.
# Don't wanna be alone.
# Don't wanna be.
# Don't wanna be out on my own.
# Don't wanna be alone.
# Don't wanna be.
# Don't wanna be out on my own.
# Spaceman...#.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.
Proper Princess Leia...
Totally.
I hadn't actually thought about that, but you're absolutely right.
You did say before we started to clap for ourselves.
Yes!
That deserved a clap.
That's got to be the sexiest spaceman that's ever lived.
I know Tim Peake's fit, but that...
I'm flattered, that's very kind.
What's it like when you do solo work?
Do your brothers immediately give you feedback or do
they let you get on?
It's just so great not to be around them.
Oh, stop it.
Yeah, they give me feedback.
They're probably one of if not THE first people that
I go to for feedback.
Because, you know, they are trusted advisers.
As friends and also bandmates.
And I'm just so happy I don't have to split the money three ways.
Yeah.
Ker-ching.
I know you guys talk a lot, but wasn't there a thing
where you changed your number?
Oh, yeah. It caused problems.
Yeah, I guess I'd changed my number a couple of years back
and it was attached to my old iCloud account.
So somebody got my number and became really furious was that
I would imagine if a bunch of people kept hitting them saying,
"Hey, Nick, what's up?"
"Who is this?"
You know, "I'm looking for Nick Jonas," that the person
would start to get frustrated.
And they did, so much to the point that they were going to call
the cops and there was a whole situation.
I think we've got the picture.
Oh, do you?
This is when your album came out and people were sending
you lots of congratulations.
And you've got, "Stop texting this number."
LAUGHTER.
It still comes up as you.
The funny part is, this guy, Zach, he is one
of the producers of the album.
So he was probably shocked when I wrote this.
"I guess I won't be working with him again."
I feel bad for whoever that was.
I think maybe now because I've spoken about this one other time,
they must know that it actually was my old number.
I'd start going, I would respond to it.
I'd go, "Yeah, I can come to that event.
No worries.
Not a problem."
"I'll clear some space in my diary."
"Just send the money there, that'll be fine."
Listen, Nick, good luck with the album.
Thank you.
Spaceman, which is out now.
Right now!
Our first virtual guest tonight is the star of Parks and Recreation,
Mean Girls and Inside Out.
Please say hello to the hilarious Amy Poehler.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.
Hi, Amy. How are you?
Hi, Graham.
It's so nice to see you, even though it's virtual.
We know, it's virtual.
Now, we've got Leonie here, and Rob.
But you know Nick, I think.
Do you know Nick Jonas?
Hello.
Well, you know, Nick, I accosted you once at an awards
show to tell you the fact you and I have the same birthday.
That's right. I actually...
Forgot about that until you said it.
Yeah.
You remember when I grabbed you?
I remember when you grabbed me and I was equally as excited
but I think I was shocked because I'm obviously
such a huge fan.
Well, I'm sorry I keep texting you.
You haven't returned...
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE.
You are here tonight with your film director hat on.
Moxie is out now, streaming on Netflix.
It's a really fun film, a family film, but it's
also an important film.
Thank you for saying that.
It's based on YA novel, and it's about a young woman
who starts a 'zine in her high school and kind of inspires this
small revolution that's taken up by the other students at school.
And, you know, that genre, that YA genre, is a really great
place to have really big discussions about big things and big feelings.
I was really drawn to the fact that it's about young women trying
to find their voice, come together, make change happen.
So we were aware of that when we were shooting
that we were dealing with some sensitive and, you know,
complicated material.
The book was written by a teacher.
She knew a lot of the really horrible stuff that goes
on in high schools.
Yeah, I think in some ways a lot of things have changed,
and in other ways nothing has changed at all.
We still feel all the feelings of trying to figure out
who we are and what we care about.
And Jennifer Mathieu, the author, is an English teacher,
so she really had a very specific point of view.
It took everyone back, everyone that was working
on the project remembers, and remembered what it was like
to be in high school.
All right, we've got a clip from Moxie.
This is you checking in on your daughter played by Hadley Robinson.
Hi.
Jesus Christ!
Who were you kissing in the driveway?
Seth Acosta.
Seth Acosta...
Oh, was he the little kid that peed his pants on that field trip
to the Naval Museum?
Mom, I don't know.
Don't be weird, OK.
Well, Vivian, if you're going to be kissing him more,
I have to meet him.
Don't keep secrets from me.
Although I know you will be safe and smart and use your head.
I'm actually already pregnant.
You've no idea what I'm capable of.
That's a very funny joke.
Right?
APPLAUSE.
Does this bring back memories for you?
Were you that kind of rebellious teenage girl?
No, I was...
I wish I could say that I was cool and rebellious, but I was not.
I kind of floated between groups.
My mom was a teacher at my high school.
Oh, God.
So I couldn't go that far.
Because, Nick, do you have any memories of high school,
because you went from Broadway to the Jonas Brothers?
Was there any school in there?
There was school. I had to be educated!
He reads beautifully.
But, no.
I don't have a lot of memories from school.
I stopped going to a regular school in third grade,
so my schooling, my high school, was kind of like the Disney Channel.
Oh, OK.
Because Leonie, you are the same.
You were in the West End performing, so did you...?
Well, I did.
I did jobs and then I went back to school, so it's
probably different to you.
But, yeah, I've got a lot of funny stories.
I don't know if I can tell them.
I went to an all girls school and, yeah, some of my friends would play
a lot of pranks on teachers.
I mean, like, get sanitary towels, stick them all over
the wall and then put Ribena on them.
LAUGHTER.
Always funny. Always funny.
And then, yeah, a teacher would walk in and just got...
Yeah, I suppose we found it hilarious,
but very immature.
But quite harrowing for the teacher.
It was, yeah.
As a kid it's a bit of a laugh, but imagine,
that's your place of work.
Walking in on that.
It's like something from Saw.
If she is watching this it will bring back horrible memories.
Amy, of course, no one is going to school now.
We are home-schooling.
But you have chosen one subject and you've gone big
on it with your kids.
You know, I'm so concerned that my children won't learn
anything this year that I was like, I have to make sure
they learn something.
So I've been teaching them the sign language alphabet.
Helping them learn sign language.
That's been a really fun thing to just practice and learn.
And, you know, I just want them to take 1's thing away from this
And, you know, I just want them to take one thing away from this
year that they didn't have before.
Have they learnt the whole alphabet yet?
They have, they've learnt the whole alphabet.
Well, there you go.
APPLAUSE.
Top home-schooling.
I did it.
What I think is adorable with your kids is they aren't bored of you,
because they are watching old episodes of Parks
and Recreation.
Well, you know, I think they are really bored of me.
They enjoy the men on that show.
They really like the male characters on that show.
But it was really cool to go back and watch it with them,
and I think a lot of people watched Parks and a lot of
comedy during this.
They went back to kind of their comfort shows
that they could depend on.
I heard from a lot of people that Parks was one of them,
which was so awesome.
Then I heard you say that actually when you are watching it suddenly
a lot of the plots mirror things that are happening.
Yes.
There's a bunch of episodes, the town has to be shut down
because there is a flu going around.
There is one episode where we have to kind of do this fake training
of what would happen if the entire country got bird flu.
And of course, my character just loses her mind and makes
terrible decisions.
But when I was watching it I was like, wow, this
is hitting close to home.
This is a little too real.
And of course, the show was so successful, real
politicians wanted to be on it.
You got to work with now President Biden.
Yes, we got to go to the White House and film with him.
It was really, really fun and exciting because we only had
a few minutes because he had other things more important to do.
It's like Madame Tussauds.
Look at my face!
In that picture you look so happy.
It's like a waxwork.
The thing about me, Graham, I'm such a poker face.
You never know how I'm feeling.
You never know.
It's like I'm staring right into the camera.
Yeah...
LAUGHTER.
It was so nerve-racking because we only had a short amount
of time, so we had to really get it.
They were very nice because I improvised quite a bit
in that scene and he went with it.
But he didn't go as far as you were going to go?
Well, I think I did a moment where my character, Leslie,
leaned in to try and kiss him, and his reaction is very genuine,
which is like, what are you doing?
But, I didn't get arrested.
I appreciated that at the time.
That's good.
Amy, it's lovely, lovely to talk to you.
Thank you, you too.
Moxie is streaming now on Netflix.
Thank you so much, Amy Poehler.
We will see you again.
Thank you, everybody.
Lovely to see you.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.
She's gone.
Right, we turn to Leonie Elliott, and Leonie brings us the triumphant
return of Call the Midwife.
This is the tenth series coming to BBC One soon.
I'm guessing on Sunday nights, right?
Yes.
So, where in history have we got up to?
Because it's one of those shows that started...
But each season goes up.
Yeah, so we move forward a year each season, so we're going to 1966,
the year England wins the World Cup.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, spoiler alert!
I'm only at the quarterfinals of that one.
England does win the World Cup.
Woohoo.
Presumably that's in it?
Yes, it is, yeah.
Sweet.
Am I right in thinking you're the first West Indian midwife in it?
Yeah.
And is that because that mirrors what was happening then,
that's when nurses, West Indian, were going into the NHS?
Yeah, that happened probably in the late 50s, early 60s.
You know, that Windrush generation of people that came over,
helped out the NHS, they became nurses, worked for
Transport for London.
Listen, we've got a clip.
This is you as Lucille talking to your friend Cyril
played by Zephryn Taitte.
Whst'd that you got there?
Mrs Wallace made me some chicken, rice and peas.
Did she have any news on finding a new home for the church?
She been all the way to Whitechapel in a special hat.
Lord, was it a special hat.
The sort of hat that say, I used to be a bank manager's
secretary in Kingston?
Oh, yes.
But the minute she arrived, the landlords realised what kind
of church she came from and it turned out the building
was already rented.
Was it in Isaiah that the Lord promised everybody would sit
under their own vine and fig tree?
It was Zechariah and Micah and the first book of Kings.
So it's definitely going to happen, then.
APPLAUSE.
Must have just started the shift because those
overalls are very clean!
Beautiful, ironed.
Pristine.
Looks too heavy to deliver a baby in, doesn't it?
Take all that off.
Auditioning for the show, though, you did one kind of normal audition
and then the second audition, in at the deep end.
Yeah, the second audition, they gave me some additional scenes
to learn and they said, they would like me to do a birth
scene and they would like me to improvise, particularly
with the birth scene.
I was like, OK.
So I went in and there was the director there,
the casting director, and I had to improvise the birth
scene with quite stern faces.
I think I just became more of a cheerleader than a midwife
because at this point I'm still auditioning and I was like,
that's it, come on, you can do it.
That's it, that's it.
And I quickly just sort of went over to the clamping
and cutting of the cord.
Oh, you've got a beautiful...
You've got a beautiful baby girl!
You got the part. Yeah.
Some births are easy.
They can't all be big dramatic ones.
Exactly, exactly.
That was the audition.
Then you get to the set and they are not pretend babies any
more, they are real babies, which must be so hard.
It is. They only work 15 minutes at a time.
Imagine being a baby.
That's my 15 minutes up.
Come on, the union says 15 minutes and then I get a break.
Yeah, they are very, very strict.
But they often pee on you, vomit on you...
I mean, it just...
I mean, to do that within 15 minutes is almost impressive.
Can I ask you, is it a lot of twin babies that work as one child?
We do have twins a lot, but, yeah, it's just one baby.
But it's from a local hospital.
I did one show with a baby and they had twins.
I was thinking to myself, man, if you were the parents of twins,
this is a business.
Yeah.
You can have working children.
It's double bubble, isn't it?
Because then you can have a half an hour period you can cover
with those two children.
Exactly, that's why twins are good on the show.
You said they are borrowed from a hospital.
I mean, their parents know?
The parents know, yeah.
It's not like a lending library.
Yeah, as soon as the baby pees on you, the parent
is right there watching.
She's sleeping, just take it for half an hour.
Presumably then you have to be nice to the baby.
I'm sure you would be nice to the babies anyway,
but are the parents on set?
They are. OK.
Watching like a hawk, yeah.
Have you ever said the wrong thing about a child
in the earshot of a parent?
No. No, I wouldn't.
You've just thought it.
This one? You must have better...
Did you see that one, the 2:15 one?
The 2:15 one looked like ET.
Horrible little thing.
Half two, half two has got lovely eyes.
As Leonie says, on the Call the Midwife set, you would never
call one of the children ugly.
You'd never call them that.
No, you'd think it, wouldn't you?
But, if you look at the history of painting, babies used
to be much, much uglier.
Here's a baby in art.
Now, she appears to have given birth to Jeremy Clarkson.
LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE.
Leonie, you'll know, I don't know how tightly you're
supposed to wrap babies up.
Could this be too tight?
LAUGHTER.
Just a bit.
Looks like a prawn.
"I can't feel my legs."
I fancy a bit of tempura now.
Of course, the problem with a lot of babies,
they're just too fat.
You know, too many carbs.
Whereas this baby...
Check out those abs!
How weird is that.
It's so weird.
You think that's weird...
I've never been body shamed by a naked child before.
A baby.
Of course, the excitement of being a new mum, you know?
Is it a boy?
Is it a girl?
Congratulations, it's a middle aged accountant!
LAUGHTER.
APPLAUSE.
Look at that!
And finally, if anyone is watching this thinking I'm not sure I'll have
a child now, shall we look at a beautiful picture
of a toddler, Nick Jonas.
Oh!
Mwah.
Here you are.
I mean.
How old are you there?
That's basically the same jacket I'm wearing tonight.
LAUGHTER.
Yeah, I've really grown into it.
Four more years and it'll fit.
LAUGHTER.
APPLAUSE.
OK, our next virtual guest tonight.
She's the Golden Globe winning star of Alias,
13 Going On 30 and Dallas Buyers' Club.
Please welcome, Jennifer Garner, everybody!
APPLAUSE.
Hello.
Hi, Graham.
Hello, everyone.
High, guys.
Hi, guys.
Lovely to see you.
Look at Jennifer Garner, yay!
Presumably you are in Hollywood, California?
I'm in Santa Monica, even more chic.
Fabulous.
You haven't been on the show before but I feel like
I know Jennifer Garner.
Because you are such a beacon of joy and positivity all the
time online.
Oh, my gosh, so silly.
Are you talking about Instagram?
Yeah, all the little films and photos
and things you post, they are always upbeat.
It's like, I don't know, like you are always drinking
happy juice all the time.
They might as well be, what's the point?
You might as well have fun with it.
I am with you, absolutely, yeah.
I like the way you've got no kind of filter.
Tell everyone about your trip to the dentist.
Oh, my gosh, my trip to the dentist?
Well, I'm a little bit of a baby when it comes
to the dentist, and I knew I was going to have some work done.
So I asked for laughing gas, which I don't normally have.
It stayed in my system, I may or may not have taken
something else to help and I had listened to Hamilton in ear phones
the whole procedure.
So this is what happens after.
Yes, so this is Jennifer Garner in the car
afterwards, still with the laughing gas
trying to tell someone on the home what happened listening to Hamilton.
Here she is.
They did this sad part of Hamilton and I started
crying, I couldn't stop.
And they said, are you OK?
And I said, it's so beautiful.
LAUGHTER.
It's so beautiful.
It was so beautiful...
I told them about it, they have to see it.
LAUGHTER.
APPLAUSE.
I love you, Jennifer Garner, I love you.
It is really beautiful, I mean you have to say Hamilton is really
gorgeous, even if your mouth is all numb and you are high as a kite.
Excellent musical.
That's how good that musical is, it still works, it
still works.
Now, you are here tonight to tell us about a great
positive family fun film.
Yes Day is out today on Netflix.
In this country, or maybe because I'm not a
parent, I wasn't aware of what a yes day is,
but yes days are real things that happen?
Yes, yes days are based on the book written by Amy
Krause Rosenthal.
She wrote a book called Yes Day, I read it to my
kids when my middle daughter was three.
She begged for a yes day based on this book.
We used it kind of an instruction manual.
I started giving them to my kids then and
we've done them...
..now that daughter is 12, we've done them for nine years.
At some point I posted and after yes day picture,
which you can imagine you look like you have been out all
night partying, when really you just like, kind of dived
into kids' stuff the 24 hours.
Yes, that post led to this movie.
Oh, really?
So this is you at the end of a yes day.
Here you are.
LAUGHTER.
Yes day, so basically there are some rules?
Oh, of course.
It's not just any old thing?
It's not just anarchy.
No, no, you can't ask for a puppy and you can't ask to get your
ears pierced or for a tattoo or something.
It's more simple than you might think.
It's really like, can we have an ice cream for breakfast?
Can we go on a picnic?
You know, can I put my head out of the sunroof
sitting in the parking lot?
You know, can we sleep in a tent in the backyard?
Which is how ours always finish, which is why I looked like
that picture the next day.
Rob, as the only parent here, does this
sound like a good idea to you?
It sounds like most days for me.
I let my kids do whatever they want.
I'd be worried one of mine would be like, let's steal,
or something like that.
That's the worry, isn't it?
OK, Jennifer, we're going to watch a clip.
This is you and your husband, by Edgar Ramirez, being challenged
by your kids to say yes.
Car wash is like being reborn.
This is exactly what I needed, kids, thank you,
thank you.
Yes.
Yeah, this one's easy.
Hey, guys?
One more thing...
Windows down.
W-w-what?
What?
Yeah, you have to it's yes day.
What do we do?
I don't know, it's your car.
Come on, mum, you can say it.
One word, two letters, N-O.
Windows down!
No, no, no.
SCREAMING.
APPLAUSE.
Was that as awful to film as it looked?
It was so cold, Graham Norton, I can't even tell you.
Listen, we are not recommending, nor is Netflix, that you should listen
to your kids if they want to go through the car wash.
This is ruining the car territory, but it
was really fun to shoot.
Nick Jonas, I think a lot of kids when they
think about yes day, they would imagine that a young pop
star, every day is yes day, is that what it was like?
No, certainly not.
Discipline, discipline, discipline.
It was discipline, it was very busy.
Actually, I didn't have a childhood, is the reality.
Headlines, Nick Jonas, childhood robbed.
Hey, Nick, I'll take you through the car wash.
That's so kind, need that.
I've missed out on so much.
You are a yes woman because you faced some proper
fears in the making of this film.
They made you go on a roller-coaster?
Here is the ridiculous thing, they is me, I
developed and produced this film, so you would
think that I wouldn't have put terrifying things out there,
like singing on stage, which is something I hate,
or riding on roller-coasters, something that I low.
Look at this.
I was crying, those are tears.
That sweet girl next to me, the beautiful actress,
Jennifer Ortega, she had to sit next to me and she said that her fingers
were almost wrenched off, I was holding her,
squeezing her hand so hard.
Most of the take was not usable because I was screaming,
Gemma!
The character's name was Katie...
LAUGHTER.
I was cursing, I was praying.
It was a big day for me, I had to have my
big girl panties on.
This yes day sounds horrible, traumatic.
Throughout your career you have been saying yes.
Tell us about one of your first jobs, Fantasy Island.
Oh, my gosh.
Oh, gosh, that's looking way back.
Fantasy Island...
OK, so in the Return To Fantasy Island starring Malcolm McDowell, I
played a dolphin as a guest star.
We shot it on some island in Hawaii...
We are just letting that go!
Yes, I was a dolphin.
And, let's see, they needed me swimming underwater...
I'd imagine.
..and the biggest underwater take was...
I know, because I'm a fish.
So the biggest underwater tank was the
shark tank at an aquarium and they just basically put me
in this tank and they said, OK, so go to the
bottom, hold onto a weight and start swimming through this tunnel.
Luckily, I'm scuba certified.
I went to the bottom, held onto a weight,
had a respirator in, was breathing, watching
till the sharks were where I wanted.
And then I would say, OK, I'm going, and then I would go
through this tunnel.
My first take I was going through and a hammerhead shark
was coming through the other way and I was just thinking,
they smell fear, they smell fear, they smell fear.
I just went over this guy with this big,
old flipping hammerhead.
And then I had to go to the top of the tank and
tread water like Jaws.
I'm just thinking, da-da, da-da.
But luckily they must have just fed him,
he didn't, you know, he only likes British
girls, I don't know?
LAUGHTER.
APPLAUSE.
Very good.
Jennifer Garner, it's been like a Zoom from the surface of
the sun, you've cheered us all.
I hope you can come and see us in the
flesh very soon.
I hope so.
Yes Day is available now on Netflix.
Jennifer Garner, everybody!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.
Thank you so much.
Thank you, guys.
Nice to meet you guys.
Bye.
Ah.
I've got to see her as a dolphin now in that film.
I've got to find that immediately, it'll be amazing.
That wasn't the story, I was playing a dolphin...
That was just a by the by.
Ladies and gentlemen, Rob Beckett has a podcast.
It's called Lockdown Parenting Hell with Josh Widdecombe.
And it's available from all good podcast purveyors, you know,
that kind of thing.
Yeah, where you get your podcasts from.
But this is hugely successful, was it 2 million
downloads a month or something?
Yeah, yeah it sort of surprised us, really.
I think lockdown has really hit people hard.
Basically, it started when me and Josh...
He's got a three-year-old daughter and
another baby on the way and I've got a five-year-old and a three-year-old
and we were basically just complaining about how difficult it
was and I was having a tougher time because I had two and he quite
enjoyed my pain.
So we were chatting about it in the podcast, so we have
a catch up episode where we talk about our week and parenting.
And then we have guests on, so we've had
Philippa Perry, Paddy McGuinness, Michael Sheen, all talking about
being parents and staff.
People really like it, even people without
kids seem to like it because if you've got kids it makes
you feel better that you are not doing it
wrong or badly.
And if you haven't got kids, you are justifying the
decision not to have them from the horror stories.
But because these kids are so young, is it just a
horror story because in fact you are at home?
Because they were at home anyway weren't they?
Well, yeah I don't think I helped the situation
by being there.
The problem is, I'm trying my best but it's hard isn't it?
Being a parent is really hard.
I think people, you know, they like to
feel like they are not alone because it is hard,
isn't it and people struggle with being parents in lockdown.
I think it makes them feel a bit better, plus when we interview
the famous people they can be quite judgmental.
You can go, I don't think I really like the way they did it.
Of course, people home-schooling, they find things in
textbooks that they think they should share with you?
For instance, this person reading a book with my
son, I was surprised to see Rob Beckett.
LAUGHTER.
APPLAUSE.
That is actually to scale, that.
I'm using a stiff broom and Cillit Bang
at the moment for my teeth.
It's a lockdown parenting hell, but I don't
need to point this out to you, but schools are back now,
does that mean the end of this podcast?
Yes, lockdown is still on until the 21st
of June.
However, we were asked to change the name last August.
From the recent government developments I
think, let's just keep it going just in case.
I can't say we are all confident lockdown is going to
finish are we?
Oh, god.
Hopefully it will, but...
It sounds like you want this podcast to continue?
The super spreader.
I think we should all stay at home.
If theatres are allowed to reopen I might stop it,
but if they are shot, I'm cracking on.
I've got to eat.
I love my kids and I try my best, but it is
impossible.
I try my best.
I just lose my mind, it's so hard.
The other day they were just screaming
so I had to turn the radio up as loud as it went.
It worked, couldn't hear them.
Lockdown Parenting Hell is available now.
Right, before we listen to tonight's music performance...
Well, we'll just get straight to the point, Rob, will
you sit in the Big Red Chair?
Yes, I'm excited about this.
OK, you can go in a sec, sit for the performance.
So a different red chair?
Yeah, not that one.
OK.
Nick is going, but we are all in red chairs?
All right, I not?
All right, it's time for music.
This home-grown star is back with a new album.
Here performing his latest single, Monster, it is Tom Odell.
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.
# I woke up in the night
# I found an empty cage
# How you got out I don't know
# I guess you clawed your way
# You wait there in the shadows
# You make me feel afraid
# I would've run before
# But nah, nah, not today
# Breathe
# I close my eyes and count to three
# You're only there if I believe
# And you're just a monster
# Just a monster and I'm not scared
# You're just a monster
# Just a monster
# You're just a monster and I'm not scared
# Come on and cut me then
# If you really must
# Don't you realise that you and I we bleed the same blood
# You've got so much power
# And it makes you feel tough
# But can't you see that all you need is just to be loved
# Breathe
# Close my eyes and count to three
# You're only there if I believe
# And you're just a monster
# Just a monster and I'm not scared
# You're just a monster
# Just a monster
# You're just a monster and I'm not scared
# You're only in my mind
# Yeah, you're only in my mind
# You're only in my mind
# Tomorrow I'll be fine
# Cos you're only in my mind
# You're only in my mind
# Tomorrow I'll be fine
# And you're just a monster
# Just a monster
# You're just a monster and I'm not scared
# You're just a monster
# Just a monster
# You're just a monster and I'm not scared
# I'm not scared
# And I'm not scared.#
# You're just a monster and I'm not scared
# And I'm not scared.#
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.
Whoo!
Wowzer!
Tom Odell, everybody!
Come on over, Tom.
There he goes, got a clean chair for you and a cool beer
waiting to reward you.
Beautiful, thank you so much.
Have a seat, do, Tom Odell.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much for that performance, that single
is off the album Monster, same name and you can
preorder it from today?
That's correct, yeah.
And then you'll get it in your hot little hand on June the 25th.
June the 25th, yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
Of course, this is another lockdown album.
Yours was in a shared.
Yours was in a shed.
Yeah, yeah pretty small.
Just at the end of my garden, yeah.
Where did you do yours?
I did mine in LA.
In a big shed, a really big shed.
Yeah, does yours have a toilet?
It has one or two.
Right.
Yours sounds better.
Hey, we should also say a big congratulations to Tom Odell,
because she said yes!
You are engaged?
Yes, yes.
Congratulations.
Lockdown engagement, so did you manage to make it romantic?
Well...
Don't tell us too much, I don't want to see pictures or anything.
Call this romantic.
It was, it was properly in lockdown so it was that little tiny
lockdown we did in November.
Oh, yes, I remember that.
Our first date we went up Parliament Hill and so we went
on a walk in Hampstead and I was trying...
It's quite difficult to point someone towards somewhere
when you don't have a reason to go there, it turned out.
Maybe we can go to Parliament Hill?
She's like, no, no let's just go home.
Couldn't find a reason.
We ended up getting up there and there was this bench
we sat on when we met, when we went on our first date
and it was like a special bench for both of us.
We sat up there for like an hour when we first met and it
was really beautiful.
So I sat down on the bench, asked her and then afterwards
I realised it wasn't the bench.
LAUGHTER.
Wrong bench.
But, yeah, anyway, she is the love of my life, I love her to pieces,
I'm the luckiest man in the world.
So I feel very lucky, yeah.
Congratulations, Tom.
Have a lovely wedding and married life together and good luck
with the single and the album.
Tom Odell, everybody!
CHEERING AND APPLAUSE.
Right, that's nearly it, but before we go, just time
for a visit to the Big Red Chair.
Now, Mr Rob Beckett, there you are.
I feel vulnerable.
Hang on, you'll be fine.
Actually, your glasses, are your glasses quite
tight to your head?
Well, as tight as a pair of glasses are.
How tight should they be?
Should I take them off, just in case?
I would, maybe take them off just in case.
I'll move them over there I'll not hand to someone.
OK, let's see who's telling a story for you.
Hello.
Hi, what's your name?
Nicola.
Nicola, and where are you, Nicola?
I'm in Sleaford in Lincolnshire.
Lincolnshire, home of the Internet.
OK, what do you do there?
I'm a primary school teacher.
Oh, soz.
Yeah.
You win some, you lose some.
OK, off you go with your story to keep Rob in the chair.
OK, I was in Mombasa and I had violent diarrhoea...
APPLAUSE.
Is that the end of the story, because that's already
a very good story.
You've peaked too early, you can't come back
from violent diarrhoea, that's the end, surely?
I can, I needed the toilet and the only toilets that
I could find in the area were a hole in the ground.
It was a tiled hole with a flush.
Lovely.
So I hovered over the hole, my entire body exploded into the hole.
I flushed and everything that had just exploded from my body
came up from the hole...
Oh!
APPLAUSE.
That's disgusting.
She's in charge of children.
LAUGHTER.
Rob, are you OK?
Yeah, I really like going backwards on the chair, it was really fun.
Oh, good, let's have another one.
It's really fun.
Let's have another one, here we go.
Hello.
Hi, there.
What's your name?
Boring!
Send me back, no, I'm joking.
LAUGHTER.
Sorry, what was your name?
Claire.
Claire, lovely, Claire.
And where are you, apart from the Antarctic?
I am in New Zealand and I'm at university at the moment.
Wow!
What are you studying?
I'm doing my English masters.
Oh, OK.
Hence all the books.
LAUGHTER.
That is the plainest room I've ever seen.
I've got a question, Graham.
Graham, I've got a question.
They are Covid free in New Zealand, what are you doing on Zoom?
Go out!
Go outside and touch someone.
LAUGHTER.
A friend, you know.
I'm sure everyone is very jealous of you in New Zealand,
off you go with the story to keep Rob Beckett in that chair.
When I was 14, my friends and I went to this Winter Festival.
And while we were there we saw a boy from the neighbouring school,
and this was quite a big deal because we were from
an all girls school.
So we go over to talk to him and the next thing I know,
my two friends had disappeared and I'm talking to him on my own.
I'm quite nervous because he's a bit older than me,
I make a few jokes and it seems to be going quite well.
We talked for a few minutes and then when he has to leave he slips
a piece of paper into my hand.
I'm thinking, what's this, like in a romantic comedy,
it's exciting, I've got a phone number.
So being the romantic person I am I put it in my pocket
because I didn't want to read it quite at that moment,
I wanted to savour it.
I met my friends and enjoyed the rest of the festival.
Later on when we went back to the car I thought,
now is the time, open it.
Took it out of my pocket, friends and I both looked
in and he'd given me a Jehovah's Witness pamphlet.
That's quite good, actually.
I was expecting it to be chewing gum.
You can walk, you can walk.
Keep walking.
Just head outside.
Hello, sky, hello trees.
What a beautiful room, let's just enjoy that for a minute.
LAUGHTER.
Well done everybody from the Big Red Chair.
APPLAUSE.
OK, that really is all we've got time for.
If you'd like to have a go in the red chair yourself
and tell your story, you can contact us via our
website at this address.
Say a huge thank you to all my guess, Tom Odell...
APPLAUSE.
Leone Elliott.
APPLAUSE.
Rob Beckett.
APPLAUSE.
Jennifer Garner.
APPLAUSE.
Nick Jonas.
APPLAUSE.
And Amy Poehler.
APPLAUSE.
Next week is Comic Relief, but do join me the Friday after that
with a bumper line-up of Liam Neeson and Micheal Richardson,
Laura Mvula, Rob Brydon, Cush Jumbo, Tahar Rahim,
and Deborah Meaden.
I'll see you then!
Goodnight, everybody, bye-bye!