This program me contains some strong language.
BOOING.
Don't worry.
They're not booing me.
On the show tonight we've got The Boss himself, Bruce Springsteen.
Oh, I've been corrected.
They are booing me.
Well, let's start the show!
Oh!
Hello, hello, hello, hello.
Good evening, everyone.
You're all so welcome to the show.
We've got some great guests tonight and I'll be
treating them like royalty, though I promise
not to throw eggs at them.
I know. Poor King Charles.
Egged on his walkabout in York.
Still, that should fill a couple of episodes
of The Crown, shouldn't it?
Talking of having unpleasant things thrown at you,
Matt Hancock finally arrived in the I'm a Celebrity jungle.
Yes, the former Covid Health Secretary was paired with
ex Strictly contestant Seann Walsh.
There they are. They get on so well, don't they?
Wonder what they're bonding about.
"Oh, yeah, I snogged someone and ruined my career too!"
Hancock told his camp mates that he just wants the chance
to show the British public what he's really like.
Hmm.
Full of shit, shameless, and leaving a very bad smell.
I think we get it, Matt.
Yeah.
Let's get some guests on!
Later we'll have music from pop goddess Florence and the Machine.
APPLAUSE.
I know!
But first, he's a BAFTA winning comedian and presenter.
It's Mo Gilligan.
Oh, hello.
Welcome to the show.
She's made us laugh in Motherland and kept us in suspense
on the Line of Duty.
It's a first-time welcome for Anna Maxwell Martin!
Hello.
Have a seat, Anna Maxwell Martin.
After a breakthrough performance in the global TV
hit The Queen's Gambit, this actor is taking
Hollywood by storm.
Now serving up her new thriller The Menu, it's Anya Taylor-joy!
Oh, she's up.
Hello!
Have a seat, do.
And he's a rock and roll legend with 150 million records sold
and an Oscar, a Tony and 20 Grammys to his name.
Please welcome The Boss himself. It's Mr Bruce Springsteen!
MUSIC: Born to Run.
Sit down, sit down.
Welcome, all.
Lovely to see you all.
Gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous.
Now, Bruce, who do you know on the sofa?
I've just met them.
OK, so you've never met any of them before?
No. OK, you'll love them.
You'll love them.
But you have seen Queen's Gambit, haven't you?
Yeah. It's wonderful.
Really?
Yeah. I did.
Thank you very much.
I am not chuffed at all.
Thank you.
Now, I'd forgotten this.
I'm now looking at that.
Are you OK, Anna Maxwell Martin?
I did flag this, Graham.
And I'd forgotten. You did say and I'd forgotten.
I don't believe you've forgotten.
No, but now...
So you have a phobia of something on the set.
It's not Graham!
And it's not Bruce Springsteen and it's not sofas.
What have you got a phobia of?
This is OK, because actually I can see now it's made of plastic,
but I do have a phobia of fruit bowls.
For real? Not the bowl, not the bowl.
The fruit?
Is it that they're all touching each other?
Arrgh! I'm sorry.
When did that start?
I just don't know.
I've got a few phobias. They just crop up.
OK, so is it... Is it the fruit or the bowl?
No, it's not the bowl.
It's the fruit.
Do you eat fruit?
So what do you do for your five a clay?
Are you concerned, Mo? I am, it's like someone's parents.
I don't think we're going to upset you, Anya, but you have a phobia.
Yes.
But I think yours is a legitimate fear.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, I am really scared of revolving doors.
Yeah, I get that.
I'm terrified of being cut in half or being stuck in one.
Ancl to be fair, my first ever scene on Peaky Blinders,
I was supposed to...
It was a oner and I was supposed to run in through revolving doors,
grab someone, take them through the revolving doors.
First take, I get stuck in there.
So legitimate, I think so.
Yes, and also, you have to match your speed to the speed of the door.
Oh, God, and if you're at the airport, everyone
with their luggage, I'm just like, I'm going to die.
I have a fear of my...
sort of revolving doors, but say if I was in flip-flops,
my little toe being caught in the groove of the revolving door.
Oh! Why did you make this worse?
I hadn't thought about that. Do you know what I mean?
Because when I go on the Tube, you know, like on the Tube,
you got the escalators.
But sometimes I like putting my shoes on the side
and they get cleaned.
They got these little brushes. You don't do that?
They get cleaned. I don't.
I don't get my five a clay and I don't clean my shoes.
On the side, they get clean but I'm always scared that one
clay it will get stuck.
Bruce, do you have any fears, phobias?
Save us, Bruce, save us.
All right.
On stage in Texas, and it's a cool night.
So I'm standing there, and I notice a bug about this big.
A locust.
It's just come on and sat on my microphone and is staring at me.
Ancl then I notice there's another one.
And then another one.
Until the stage is filled with...
Oh!
Thousands of locusts...
Oh, my gosh.
Everywhere, everywhere.
That's like the Bible.
They were drawn...
They were drawn by the lights and the warmth.
Ancl so I'm trying to...
I'm singing a song called My Hometown.
It's a serious song. Yeah.
I got the locust on my microphone.
He goes to the top of my head.
Oh, my God!
Ancl slowly crawls down my head...
No, "0, n0, no.
...into my shirt.
Into the middle of my back.
Oh!
Ancl I'm still singing.
I can feel him back there.
I finish the song.
Walking offstage, my drummer says, "That was incredible.
I saw the locust go straight down your back and you didn't even move!"
I mean, commitment.
APPLAUSE.
Not a fear of bugs, but you have a thing about flies, Mo.
I don't like flies. I hate flies.
OK.
Basically, I was doing this one show once and it was going really well.
Especially like when you do comedy, you know, like, you've got them
in the palm of your hand.
It's going really well and something goes, "Fly!"
So I was like, "Huh, huh?"
Ancl I was like, "Where's the fly?"
Ancl they're like, "No, fly." Ancl I'm like, "Where?"
I can't see the fly because I don't like being in the room
where there's a fly.
Sometimes I talk to the flies, Graham.
If there's a fly in the house, "Get out of the house!
Why did you come in here?"
Everyone kept saying, "Fly, fly." Ancl I'm like, "But there's no fly."
Ancl then I look down. It was open on my trousers.
I was so embarrassed.
APPLAUSE.
Very good.
Listen, this is exciting.
Bruce Springsteen brings us his 21st studio album,
Only the Strong Survive.
It is out today!
Yes, it is.
CHEERING.
That is so cool.
So this is a big deal because this is your second volume of covers.
Yeah, I don't do it too much, but...
No, you really don't. So why now?
Why these songs? How did you go about picking them?
All of that.
Basically this was still during the Covid lockup.
So I'd written a record that I recorded with the E Street Band,
and I felt I was kind of clone writing for a while.
But you're at home, you're sitting at home,
you have nothing to do.
So, well, maybe I'll sing somebody else's songs, you know?
Ancl I had all these songs that I loved from when I was a kid,
and I was brought up on soul music.
Ancl my mentors were James Brown and Sam Moore from Sam and Dave,
and of course, Jerry Butler and the great singing
of David Ruff in and Levi Stubbs and all of these people
who are my masters, you know.
Then I started to record a song by an artist named Frank Wilson,
who was very popular in the Northern Soul scene,
you know, but it was a song called Do I Love You, that is completely
unknown in the United States.
Is it really?
Yeah, no-one had ever heard it in the United States.
Ancl I know it's been popular here. Yeah.
So cut that, that felt great and I said, well,
I'll make a record of soul music, you know, and draw on
some of the influences I've had since I was a kid playing
in the bars and stuff like that.
So that's how that record came about.
Well, I'll tell you what, we've got a clip of you performing
Frank Wilson's Do I Love You (Indeed I Do.
Frank Wilson's Do I Love You (Indeed I Do).
Here it is.
# The very thing that I want most is just to have and hold you close
# Do I love you?
# From morning until late at night
# You fill my heart with pure delight
# Do I love you?
# Whenever I lay me down to sleep I pray the Lord your soul to keep
# Ancl bring it on home safe to me, darling
# Do I love you?
# Tell me now, darling
# Do I love you?
#Do I?
# Do I love you?
# Indeed I do...
APPLAUSE.
Wow.
Yeah!
You look like you were really having a blast doing this.
Yeah.
But I read somewhere you did an interview and you were talking
about going into this record, you weren't confident that your
singing was up to these songs.
Well, I'm a bar singer, you know, I have a really good voice
for five sets a night.
You know, I can go on for hours and hours, as I usually do.
You know, I've got a great voice for that.
It's strong, it doesn't go.
But I always lack a little finesse.
I lack a little of the precision and some of the tone
of my greatest heroes, you know.
So on this record, I tried to really...
I really focused on just singing.
And my producer ream] put together the tracks.
Ancl I had a good time.
It was fun to do and I took my singing up a notch or two, I think.
And then there was a thing where you had to stop singing.
Did you have spinal surgery or something?
Yeah, I did.
I had, I guess it's C4 and C5 in my neck and so it was going down my arm
and for about five years my arms and my hands slowly got number
and number and number untill noticed when I was playing
the guitar it would fatigue very quickly.
So after about five years I said, I got to do something about it.
Now the problem is what they do is they cut your throat.
Right here.
That is a problem.
Right here I have a scar and they go in and they tie your vocal cords
off to one side.
So if you're a singer... Sorry!
Bleugh!
If you're a singer that makes you anxious and they tell you,
you can't sing a note for three months.
So you had the operation clone and they put
the titanium in there and...
Woke up and it worked. It was quite successful.
But I didn't sing a note for three months.
Ancl then one morning I went and I said, OK.
Went into my garage, had an acoustic guitar,
and I started to sing a song, Darkness on the Edge of Town.
Ancl I said, "Well, seems to be OK."
A couple of weeks later, I was in South Africa
being crowd-surfed across the room.
APPLAUSE.
Yeah, I know.
Did your voice seem stronger after the rest or...?
It's...
I've been lucky in that as I've got older, my voice has gotten better
and a lot of people have trouble with their voices as they get older.
But for some reason I've been lucky and it's gotten better
as I've gotten older.
Because there's lots of singers on the couch.
Anya Taylor-joy, Last Night in Soho, you did your own singing
in that, didn't you? I did.
So did you have lots of lessons and prep and...?
No! OK.
Yeah, it was more just like, the scene was coming up
and I was getting nervous and rather than prepare when I get nervous,
I just don't do anything about it because I try and pretend
it's not going to happen.
Ancl then it was happening.
So yeah, I gave it a good go, but I do really love to sing.
It's really fun.
Because Anna Maxwell Martin, Cabaret on stage,
you were Sally Bowles, right?
I can't sing!
No, I really can't. That's not me.
That is you. That is definitely you.
No, I was absolutely shit.
The coachloads came in and they were disappointed.
They left and then no-one came.
We once played that show to six people, Graham.
That's how good I was.
I think that takes tremendous courage.
I did have an album. They did an album of it.
A cast album?
Yes, which my mother bought.
So I'm not the same as Bruce but...
Not quite the same but you did it.
You did it.
And Mo, is it true that you were kind of performing music
before you ever turned to comedy?
Oh, yeah, like, my dad's very musical, so, like, in the show I do,
I've got a show and basically we do this thing called Nursery Grimes.
So we get a nursery rhyme and we get a song.
So like, it's like classic nursery rhymes but we do
a different rendition of it, but obviously
my dad's a Rastafarian, so he'd do his Rastafarian take on it.
So instead of like, The Wheels on the Bus, he'd do...
# De wheels on de bus go round and around...
But it's like, when I do like comedy shows now,
I have it on my Netflix special so people are like, "Go on,
do the rhyme" because I have it in the special and I'm like,
"No, I can't just do it."
I'll be in Tesco and I'm like, the bags are 30p already,
it's already stressing me out.
They're like, "Do the rhyme!"
I'm like, "No, I don't want to do it."
Ancl before you know it, I'm like...
# Old MacDonald, him sit on de farm...
And Bruce, you've been singing professionally...
Next year, you'll have been singing professionally for 50 years.
Wow.
Five decades.
Actually...
Was it more?
Actually, I'm actually...
Actually I've been singing for 60.
I've been playing with my band, in a year, for 50 years.
50 years.
That's the 50, OK.
That's tricky.
Imagine this.
The same people that you went to high school with,
all of the same people, for the rest of your life.
The rest of your life, you work with them every clay.
Ancl no-one can be replaced or changed.
Well, great news for the people of the UK and Ireland,
because Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band,
back together, you're doing your first live shows
here for is it six, seven years?
Something like that?
Yeah, since way before the pandemic.
Wow.
And so you're not...
CH EERING AND APPLAUSE.
BOOING.
It still freaks me out.
Yeah.
Every performer's favourite sound.
And because this isn't attached to a new album,
is this like a greatest hits tour?
No, it's just a tour tour.
OK.
But you will play some hits, right?
We'll play some.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
And tell me, when did the thing...
Your crowds do this now, they all hand...
They have signs over the songs they want to hear.
When did this start?
I don't know.
Ten, 15 years ago?
People started to...
It was my fault because I started to play requests.
So people started to bring signs about what they wanted to hear,
and to keep the band from getting too comfortable, I would pull these
signs out of the audience, show them to the band,
and we would play them, you know?
But it's not always your songs.
No, it can be anything.
The poor band is like, "My God!"
Bruce, do The Wheels On The Bus, mate.
Do The Wheels On The Bus.
I will tell you, I have clone The Wheels On The Bus many times.
I have three kids and I have sung Wheels On The Bus.
Not with that accent, but many times.
And tell me about...
Wasn't there a man who wanted to hear Drift Away?
Do you know the man I'm talking about?
He had a sign.
I do.
Tell me what the sign said.
It said, "I will give my left testicle to hear Drift Away."
To whom?
That is the question.
I certainly didn't want to be responsible for it.
So we played it.
Now, talking of fans, Bruce, I mean, you play the songs for the fans,
but you do seem to go above and beyond.
This was, I think, early, back in the '80s, I think.
Do you know the story where you were...
I think you were at a cinema.
Was it in Denver?
St Louis.
So you're in the cinema in St Louis.
Take it away.
Unless there's a different story.
This is a different story.
You're thinking, "He can't want me to tell this story!"
I was at a cinema by myself on an off night from the tour
in St Louis watching Woody Allen's Stardust Memories,
during which Woody Allen is not necessarily so kind to his fans,
in the film.
So I had met a kid in the lobby, he was there with his
girlfriend and said, "Do you want to sit with us?"
So I said, "OK."
Really?
I'm just...
That's a hard no.
You want to say, "No, no, I don't."
But you did it.
You went and sat with them.
So I went and I sat and we watched the movie.
Ancl he says, "Is that how you feel about your fans?"
So I said, "Well, not so much."
All right?
He says, "I'm going to go home now.
"Will you come home and meet my parents?"
You didn't!
I said, "OK."
Oh, I love them.
Ancl so I went somewhere in St Louis with this kid.
Ancl we walked in the door and it's about 11 :00 at night.
Ancl he says, "Mum, Mum, I have Bruce Springsteen with me."
And she goes, “who?
No!
Ancl he runs in his bedroom and comes out with the album
and shows her the album cover.
He says, "Bruce Springsteen!"
Ancl of course, then she goes, "Oh, my God, let me make him some eggs."
Ancl so around midnight, I was sitting in a little house
in St Louis having some eggs with this kid in his mum.
Ancl and I saw them for decades after that every time we came to town.
Oh, what a lovely story.
Bruce's new album is Only The Strong Survive,
and it's out today.
All right.
Now, Anya Taylor-joy brings us a dark new thriller.
It's called The Menu.
It's out in cinemas next Friday, the 18th of November.
So, tell us all about it.
Who are you?
What goes on?
How much can you tell us?
Very little, if you want to have a good time.
So, technically, the story is about a couple that is going
to a very exclusive restaurant on an island.
This island is run by a, let's say, passionate chef.
Yeah.
Ancl it takes place over one night and chaos ensues.
Ancl I will not say any more.
But it is one of those restaurants you read about that are in,
like, Norway or Denmark or Spain or something.
You've got a plate of soil.
It basically takes like five people and it costs your
house to eat there.
And Ralph Fiennes is brilliant.
And he plays the the kind of godlike chef.
And you are a big Ralph Fiennes fan, aren't you?
Well, I learned English reading Harry Potter.
So it was, you know, like kind of a bit of a big deal.
But my subconscious does this thing where, like,
it bars me from information that I can't handle if
I have to do a job.
So every clay I just go in and I'd be like, "Hi, Ralph."
Ancl like, we got along really well.
Ancl then the second it was over, I was just like, "Oh my God!"
I called my mum and I'm not going to spoil it, but I was like,
"The last person that, like, faced off with Voldemort
was Harry, and now it's me and I'm ready for it."
Ancl it was, it was...
Yeah.
I'm blushing.
We've got a clip.
This is you with your date, played by Nicholas Hoult.
And it's kind of you realising that maybe the menu's not to your taste.
Mm-hmm.
Excuse me, sir, hi.
Hey!
Margot, Margot.
Did you just fucking snap at me?
I've been trying to get a reservation here.
I don't really care.
You do send shit back to this kitchen, you child.
You thank them for letting you in the door.
What did you just call me?
I called you a child.
You're fucking acting like one.
Tyler, you need to apologise to me right now.
You cannot speak to me that way.
Actually, I can, because - ding-dong - I'm the one who's paying.
So maybe shut up and eat.
Oh, my God.
This is incredible.
You have to try this.
No, thanks.
Don't let me interrupt.
Miss Mills?
How can I assist you?
Just looking for the ladies' room.
Right this way.
Thank you.
What's behind that silver door?
Something very special.
Ooh.
I'm wondering how...
And in real life, have you been to one of these incredibly
precious restaurants?
I have once and it was a good experience.
But I have to say that I'm a takeaway girl,
like my palate is just not that refined.
Ancl also, if you go to one of these places, like,
no of fence to anyone that enjoys them, if you go to one of these
places and you leave hungry...
Oh, I'm angry!
You leave pissed off your nut, and you just think,
"I just want a pie!"
They keep giving you another glass of wine.
"Here's the foam with the wine."
I want some fish and chips!
It is not that easy when you're in the restaurant thinking,
"What will be open on the way home?"
Give me something hot!
This happened to me after a show one night.
I just played three hours.
I'm sweating, I'm starving.
My manager says "We're going to the best restaurant in Paris."
Really?
"Yes, I can't wait."
We go.
It's 12.
First course comes out - about this big.
Second course comes out - this big.
Third course comes out - this big.
So I said, "Is that it?"
"That's it."
So the chef comes out.
"Could I have another one of those last courses?"
"NO-"
"OK-"
We leave the restaurant.
And my...
I had an assistant who was a white-haired, huge Navy SEAL.
Ancl as I walk out, he's standing by the car with a McDonald's bag.
Happy Bruce!
Anya, I mean, Queen's Gambit, we mentioned there.
This is nuts.
62 million households, not people, households, watched that show.
So I'm guessing you've bumped into some of them.
Yes.
But also, I mean, all of this happened during lockdown.
So the craziest thing was, I was just kind of in my house
and then the internet was telling me that things were happening,
but I don't believe it.
So I'm like, "Oh, OK, fine."
Ancl then I landed in New York and I was like,
"Nope, this is different!
Must run."
But I think the thing that I love the most
is the disparity between ages, because you have really little kids
that love it and then you have like 87-year-old people that
are like, "Beth!"
Ancl I love that.
That's my favourite.
Yeah, I bet it is.
Do they want to tell you their interesting chess stories?
Or do they just say you were very good in it?
No, sometimes they want to play me at chess.
But the thing is, it's like...
A, I don't carry one with me.
Sorry to disappoint.
But B, the thing about jumping from project to project
is that you gain skills for that particular project.
So I'm like, "Yeah, chess was, like, two years ago -
now I'm good at cars and stuff like that."
"So, I'm sorry."
Do people challenge you with other games?
Other games?
Yeah.
Rock, paper, scissors, right now.
One, two, three!
Ha!
Good result, good result.
Oh, nice.
Almost.
Anna Maxwell Martin - was it after Line Of Duty
that you felt like...
Did you notice people noticing you more after Line Of Duty?
Yeah, maybe, because lots of people watch it, don't they?
Probably cos I was so horrible.
People come up and say...
They're always very honest, you know, in the supermarket,
they'll say, "I didn't like you in that."
OK, cool.
Yeah, they'd shout...
Yeah, I get shouted at and things about being a bitch
and things like that.
Ancl this is the question.
So when you play a character that's that awful, because I have it too,
do you say thank you?
Yeah, totally.
It's like, "You're a bitch."
I'm like, "Thanks - I'm a good actor."
Don't know why I just say, "Thank you, thank you, that's very nice.
You're slagging me off, thank you."
And I must just quickly mention, you've finished filming Mad Max:
Furiosa, is that what it's called?
Yes.
In Australia, and you put this clip online.
So basically, so here's what you went to watch.
So I believe I'm right.
Anya, you were in that car, right?
Yes.
OK.
Anya's challenge is to drive down here, do a handbrake turn,
and end up with the back of the car in between these two poles.
It's called a juice...
It's called a juicy lift 180.
Wow.
OK, let's see.
Let's see how Anya gets on.
Here we go, here we go, here we go.
Thank you.
Excellent.
Oh, no...
Oh, here we go.
Here we go.
Has she done it yet?
Yes, she did!
That's impressive, isn't it?
But what's really crazy and slightly upsetting about that is that
that's my first time in a car.
Really?
I don't have a licence.
I can't parallel park.
I can't go on the highway.
I still don't have one.
But I can do that.
That's all you need to do.
At some point, that will come in handy, I'm assuming.
Yeah, for a very tight parking spot in a supermarket.
How hard it is to do a three point turn when you drive.
Sometimes, I've been traveling...
IMITATES CAR DOING THREE-POINT TURN.
Well, like, the way that they trained me how
to drive now, is if I'm, like, in a high intensity
chase at all times.
I'm kind of nervous to get my licence now.
Concerned about society.
I think your instructor will be quite nervous as well.
It is fun, though.
"Would you like to pull into this space here, joy?"
Because actually, Anna, you're now in a new drama, Spy Among Friends.
And it's an historical drama based on real events.
So are you that actor?
Did you do lots and lots of reading around this subject?
Do I do a lot of reading around the subject?
Yeah.
Urn, not a lot.
Not a lot.
What I do is I just read my bits.
I like that.
Highlight, highlight, no - stop.
I don't need to know what's going on in the rest of it.
I'm not there.
I like your style.
Well, let's see what you do know about A Spy Among Friends.
It launches the brand-new ITVX platform from the 8th of December.
And as I said, it is...
There I am.
Oh, yes.
You're very good at it.
I've changed since the cabaret days.
So as I say, based on real events, what do you know about it?
What can you tell us about it?
Oh, I'd love to tell you loads, but I'm not sure I know very much
myself, because as I say, I didn't actually read the script.
But it's about Kim Philby.
And he obviously, as we know, ran off to Russia.
And there's some involvement with his best friend, Nicholas Elliot.
And then he was sort of under suspicion.
So I'm sort of investigating him.
We need to work out what happened with Elliot.
It's really, really good. It's brilliant.
And the boys... That wasn't me on there.
That was two other actors.
No, that's Guy Pearce and Damian Lewis.
I mean, it's posh.
It's like a thriller.
It's not spy-y, spy-y, it's a thriller, but it's about...
So, my relationship with Damian's character and Damian's relationship
with Guy's character.
We've got a clip.
This is you and you're kind of beginning your debrief
with Nicholas Elliot, who's the other - not Philby,
played by Damian Lewis.
Here we go.
Mr Elliot, I'd like to begin by saying how sorry I am.
I realise how painful this must be for you and everyone else
here at the Intelligence Service who counted Mr Philby as a friend
and trusted colleague for such an awfully long time.
Is that Northumberland I hear?
You and Mr Philby were friends for, what, 25 years?
23.
Could you please explain to me how he was able to escape from Beirut?
Smart money's on a boat.
No, thank you.
Newcastle.
The accent.
Mr Elliott, I completely understand why you might need a moment
or two to break the ice.
Believe me, I do.
Would you mind if we now consider it broken?
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Whoo!
Very good.
And Damian Lewis was trying to guess your accent there.
Aren't we all, Graham?
Aren't we all?
He was roaming around the North East.
Oh, OK.
Where is she from?
Durham. Durham, yeah.
Did you base it on anything?
Well, I thought... I initially thought of Ant and Dec.
But then I found out a few weeks in that they're from from Newcastle.
So, that... Yeah.
I don't know.
It's very good. He doesn't know.
He can't spot it.
I've got to ask.
Motherland - is there more Motherland on the way?
I can't say! You can't say.
That sounds like a yes.
And Diane Morgan was on the show and she was talking about
how the people who work on that show either engage
with the children or don't.
Which side are...?
Oh, no, n0, n0, I10, "0, no, no, no, no, n0.
I don't even like them to touch me.
I mean, I...
I've left my children at home to be child-free.
I don't want to go and then engage with more children.
Do your own daughters watch it?
They don't. They don't like it.
They don't like me embarrassing myself so much.
Oh, OK.
You know, it's a very cringeworthy...
Isn't she? It's cringey.
And they don't...
They just think I'm making a complete tit of myself.
And Bruce, for you, you know, having kids,
were they aware that a global superstar was in the kitchen?
Well, my kids were really little,
and people would come up to me and they said,
"Why are these people coming up to you, Dad?"
I said, "Well, where I work,
I'm like Barney for adults."
Ancl that kind of, "Ohh!"
"Barney for adults."
Barney.
Was Barney very popular here?
The purple dinosaur?
With a certain demographic,
Yeah, very much so.
So, they understood that.
But they have no interest, virtually no...
Or very little interest in my music or interest in that part of my life.
They're interested...
I always say, your kids don't need a hero, they need a father.
And so, you know, that's what they...
But, but, very exciting -
there's a new baby in the Springsteen household.
Yes, I am a 73-year-old grandfather.
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First time!
Yes, the first one.
Yeah.
My handsome, handsome son, Sam, ancl his lovely partner, Alex,
have a wonderful baby girl.
Ancl there's a baby in the house.
I'll be singing Wheels On The Bus again.
Dusting it off.
That's right. So we're quite happy.
Oh, it's such a lovely thing.
And tell me this, Mo - you are the baby of your family.
I'm the youngest, yeah.
So do they still treat you like that?
Well, the thing is, I'm the youngest and I'm the only boy as well.
So, like, when I go to my mum's, my mum just like pulls out
all the stops.
She's like, "You hungry? Do you want some food?"
Like, "Do you want a pillow and stuff?"
Ancl I'm like, "Oh no!" A pillow!
Yeah, my mum offers me a pillow.
Why do you need a pillow?
It's a pillow, like.
A pillow is so, like...
I'm not there a lot, you know what I mean?
Like, so I get there and she really pulls out
all the stops.
But then my sisters hate it, because they're
just like, "We've been here for five hours, we haven't even
been offered a drink!"
Ancl I'm like, "Yeah, but you ain't got a TV show, so..."
But then your mum, you talk about your mother
a lot on stage.
Does she enjoy it?
My mum absolutely loves it.
My mum absolutely loves my success.
Ancl like...
Because I always say I get my comedy from my mum's side
of my family.
So my mum's really funny. She's really bubbly.
But my mum does this thing where she hints for things like,
so I'll be like, "Oh, Mum, you know, I have this show happening."
"Oh, that's great, fantastic. Oh, really tired.
"I'd love a Caribbean cruise one clay."
She just notes these little things.
I'll be like, "Oh, Mum, guess what?
"I'm going to be going here and doing this."
"Oh, that's great.
"I'll just go back to that old kitchen, yeah."
So we have a cool tradeoff so that whenever I have some success,
I obviously I massively share it with family,
my mum, my sisters.
I love your mum stuff.
It's so funny. So, so funny.
But sometimes it's awkward because, like, it's I can talk
about my mum, but like sometimes, "Hey, your mum's got fat ankles."
I'm like, "Oh, hold on!"
No!
That's my comedy.
You can't tell me my mum has fat ankles.
Well, I'm sure Mo's mother will love his new show.
It's called That's My jam.
It's coming to BBC One and iPlayer next month.
So this is a big entertainment show and it's connected to jimmy Fall on,
the late night chat show in America.
Yeah.
So, what...? Oh, there you are.
Me and jimmy.
So, yeah, he's a lovely guy.
I was really fortunate to go out a year ago and do the pilot
and meet him.
So he does the US version and he's passed the baton on to me
to do the UK one, which will be on BBC One.
Explain, explain the game.
Yeah, so it's basically like a music quiz
show, but then it's got performances with two
teams of celebrities.
So you get to see celebrities do things you've never seen before,
especially like musicians as well.
So you have this game called Musical Medley, so you'll get
a famous track and then you'll have to do a different
genre of it.
It's sensational.
There's parts where I sit there, I'm like, "Hey, this is so good,
are you lot filming this?"
Really good stuff.
We've got a clip.
And this is Alesha Dixon.
Oh, this is Alesha Dixon.
This is Alesha Dixon.
And it's the musical genre challenge.
Yeah, yeah.
Here we go.
Come on, wheel!
Give me something good! Give me something good!
Yes!
Oh, my gosh, I'm so excited for this.
How are we going to do this?
What kind of twist have you got?
So I'm thinking Disney Princess.
Yeah!
Oh, yeah.
It's exactly how I look.
# Fire in the park
# Let's go!
# Man try say he's better than me
# Tell my man, shut up
# Mention my name in one of your tweets
# Oi, rude boy, shut up
# Better than me?
# Shut up!
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It's such a fun show.
Ancl the cool thing is, people at home get to play along as well.
Yeah.
But yeah, it was an hon our, man.
Look, I'm a young man from south London, so it's a go
all the way to LA and do a show, still, like, I can't believe
this is a possibility.
Oh, huge congratulations to you, Mo.
It's called That's My jam, comes to BBC One
and iPlayer next month.
OK, time for music.
This triple Mercury nominated band is back with the number one album
Dance Fever.
Here, performing the current single Dream Girl Evil,
it is Florence and the Machine.
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# Well, did you miss me
# Walk on water
# just to kiss me
# Oh, come and get me
# Drag me out, destroy me
# I've been expecting you, I'm ready
# Deliver me that bad news baby
# Am I your dream girl?
# You think of me in bed
# But you could never hold me
# You like me better in your head
# Make me evil
# Then I'm an angel instead
# At least you'll sanctify me when I'm dead
# Dream Girl Evil, Dream Girl Evil
# Did I disappoint you?
# Did mummy make you sad?
# Do I just remind you
# Of every girl that made you mad?
# Make me perfect, make me your fantasy
# You know I deserve it
# Well, take it out on me
# Am I your dream girl?
# You think of me in bed
# But you could never hold me
# You like me better in your head
# Make me evil
# Then I'm an angel instead
# At least you'll sanctify me when I'm dead
# Dream Girl Evil, Dream Girl Evil
# Watch me shimmer
# A projection of your mother
# But don't come crying
# I am nobody's moral centre
# It cannot hold, it cannot hold
# It cannot hold
# Dream Girl
# Evil
# Dream Girl
# Evil
# Dream Girl
# Evil
# Dream Girl
# Evil.
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WOW!
Florence and the Machine, everybody.
Beautiful.
How gorgeous was that?
And the band.
Come on over, Florence, do.
Shimmer, you waltz.
Gorgeous.
Hello.
Have a seat there.
Shove up slightly.
We've got Mo, Anna, Anya, Bruce.
Hello, hello.
Oh, thank you so much for that.
How gorgeous.
Those vocals - wow!
That is the album Dance Fever, number one, number one album,
Dance Fever.
There you go.
And you started touring this album in America, is that right?
Yes.
OK.
And why that? just so you'd be home for Christmas?
It's funny thing with...
You don't do the booking schedule yourself.
Sorry, sorry, I'm a fool.
Yeah, like...
If there's a why of, like, there's someone else that will know.
But you are touring in this country. Yes.
It kicks off soon, right? Yes, very soon.
Do you know? Vaguely.
It's in a week.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. She'll be there, I promise.
In a week and I'll be there.
Yes, somebody will get her there. It's going to happen.
But here's the thing, because I look at you,
because I haven't been to one of your live gigs, I've seen
you perform on the show and it seems unlikely that you crowd-surf,
but you like it.
I really...
Yeah, I love it.
There you are.
I mean, there's so much crowd interaction.
I mean, really getting as close to people as possible
is what I really like to do.
So it's sometimes quite hard when I'm doing this to stay
on the stage and not go down and like, start
interacting with people.
But I'm like, OK, no, it's TV, just behave.
But you have to choose...
Are there some outfits where you kind of think, this is not
a stage crowd-surfing outfit?
Oh, I10, I10, no, no.
You can crowd-surf in Gucci. It's fine.
OK.
You might come back with less of it, but...
"I'm sure I was wearing a cape!"
But Bruce, you, do you still crowd surf?
I'm retiring that.
We've got a picture.
That looks recent.
Hey!
Look how happy you are.
It's true.
I'm retiring, but I've had a lot of fun doing it.
The only question I have for both of you is how do
you control where you go?
Because I've done that at festivals before and you're with your friends
and all of a sudden you're gone.
And you never find them again.
You can't... You just get...
I've been crowd-surfed out of a show before,
and I got so overexcited, I crowd-surfed on the third song
in and then that was it, I was out.
I really wish you could do this with comedy.
That'd be so fun.
"My mum's got fat ankles! Ahh!"
That's so fun in music, man.
It's about trust.
It's about trust and the audience trusting you and you're trusting
them and so you're like, OK.
Ancl it changes the temper of the rest of the evening in a lovely way.
You're doing Hyde Park.
Imagine crowd-surfing at Hyde Park. That would take hours.
If there was bad traffic, you could cross the park
in two seconds and you're out.
Crowd-surf back to your hotel. Exactly.
Listen, good luck with the tour, Florence,
and good luck with the album.
But thank you for that gorgeous performance.
Florence and the Machine, everyone.
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That, as they say, is nearly it.
But we've got just time to visit the big red chair.
Hello. Hello, Graham.
Hello, what's your name?
Roger. Roger.
All right, Roger.
And what do you do, Roger?
I'm a doctor.
Oh, he's a doctor!
Like an actual doctor?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, there's a lot of...
You know.
Are you in general practice?
Or do you have a speciality?
I work in a hospital.
OK, like a doctor?
He knows what he's doing.
"Yeah, it's a hospital, I work here."
And where do you do it?
In London. In London?
Keeping it nice and vague.
But on Monday, someone will see this face and go,
"For fuck's sake, that's my doctor!"
"I'm relying on him."
Off you go with your story.
So I took a 24 hour round trip to New York
because I wanted to see Springsteen on Broadway.
Knew you'd be in one of these stories!
Yes.
And everything was going fine.
I got to the theatre door and I checked my ticket in
and the ticket didn't work.
What happened, there was a mix-up and the friend
who I'd got the ticket from
was back in London at home, asleep with his phone switched off.
So quite a challenging situation to be in, as you can imagine.
Yes.
Very, very luckily, a good friend,
Laurie from New jersey, was there with me and she swapped
her ticket with me.
So I got in to see the show and she had to wrangle
with the box office.
Eventually they let her in, 30 seconds before the show started.
Ohh!
That was brutal!
I mean, interesting for him...
That was just a TripAdvisor review.
I was so invested.
He got in, he got in.
No, I was worried that he'd float all the way and he had to go.
He got in.
He's a doctor.
He can heal himself.
OK, that really is all we've got time for.
If you would like to have a go in that red chair yourself,
you can contact us via our website at this very address.
Please, say a huge thank you to all of my guests tonight -
Florence and the Machine! you to all of my guests tonight -
Mo Gilligan! you to all of my guests tonight -
Anna Maxwell Martin! you to all of my guests tonight -
Anya Taylor-joy! you to all of my guests tonight -
And Mr Bruce Springsteen! you to all of my guests tonight -
Oh, yeah! you to all of my guests tonight -
Next week it's Children in Need, but do join me
the Friday after that,
with pop star Charlie Puth, BBC newsman Clive Myrie,
Oscar winner Emma Thompson, Knives Out star Daniel Craig,
and a taste of panto with comedian john Bishop
and the great Sir Ian McKellen.
I'll see you then. Goodnight, everybody, bye-bye!