A Craig David Candle and Late Night Sausage
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BBC Radio 1 Radio 1's All Day Breakfast with Greg James Hello and welcome to Wednesday's Radio 1 All Day Breakfast podcast. Today, not just with me.

But with another man with two first names, it's Craig David. Wow. Great to have you, my man. This is such a booking. This is such a big booking. It's a pleasure to be here. You were in the building. We heard rumours you were in the building and we couldn't believe it. We were giddy with excitement because this week, I don't know if you realise, what do you know about this week? We've been talking about you quite a bit on the radio. Are you aware of anything? Nice smells, positioning of certain...

I don't know. Maybe it's like a candle of some sort. Oh, okay. He knows it's not a candle. It lands in certain position. Which room is it in? What does it represent? What does it mean? So you are aware of the candle. And I mean, of course, you can now confirm that you did actually give me that amazing candle. Yeah, yeah.

How's the candle going, by the way? Are you enjoying it, right? Pride of place. Nice. Pride of place. Important places. That candle in particular is one of my favourites, too. But it's a big candle. It is a big candle. It's a big boy candle. He's not messing around. Yeah, yeah. Not a tiny man candle. He's not just saying, oh, here's a little candle. Here's a couple of tea lights. No, no, no. I said it's like a bucket. And you want it to last, right? And it has lasted. I think you maybe got that five years ago. Yeah, it was a while back. Four years ago. Along with a big...

Bar of dairy milk. That didn't last the final. That went very quickly. It was the pandemic. And also some equipment for audio equipment, which you very kindly gave to me. Pleasure with that. Which was great and it worked. You needed, because we were all looking for something that would bring down the noise of being at home, right? There you go. That was the most important part. Dial down. A little limiter. So it was a very wholesome...

Chat, it was very... My intentions of that chat were honourable. And then, in the minds of the listeners, it then turned out that they thought that was my sex candle. Right. I got you. Not to be confused with sex scandal, but a sex candle. Right. Yeah. Is that actually a thing? Well... On the real, like, is it like... Do people have a... I've got a candle and it sits in this room and this is how it goes down. I never really...

Well, my next question to you was, did you get me that candle with the intention of it becoming my sex candle? I mean, to be honest, I got it as like, here's one of my favourite candles. I think you'll enjoy this in your home. I would have said it was, my intention would have been, here's a lovely candle, place it where you are, enjoy it. Enjoy the aroma of this candle. I really do enjoy it. The minds of...

A few people might have taken it there. Yeah, so, but actually what led to that was that I would, the ritual that me and Bella have in house is, I go, should we light the Craig David? We call it the Craig David. So I say, should we light the Craig David? And we go, Craig David is lit. Okay. But there's not like a fur rug in front of it and it's like, hold on. Do you know what I mean? Because then I get why it might have led to...

Do you know what I mean? It's not like the, you know what I mean. I've lit the Craig David. You know. Come on. Well, that's the real thing. I don't know. The thing is like, light the beacons, you know, call the coast guard, batten down the hatches. Yeah, yeah. The Craig David is lit. We've got the Craig David candle lit. Ready to go. See, that's what has happened in people's minds. I get it. I get it. So I put the video up yesterday and here it is. It's in a very sort of sterile, unsexy location. Everything was in the same positions, right? You didn't move anything around.

Do you know what I mean? It was still by the TV that you had it always. Okay. But it's a lovely candle. Well, it's been a pleasure to resolve or find out the mystery. Also, what a gift. That is four or five years ago and it's only just paying off now. This is... Yeah, but I think you answered your own question, which was... Well, the question I'm about to ask you, which was... So you don't have candles for different moods, potentially a sex candle? No.

No, not so much like a sex candle. I've never really heard of... But the ambience is important, isn't it? Ambience is important. Ambience is everything. I think you need incense, you can have candles, the right music. Do you know what I mean? Your own music? No, no, no, no. Ever happened accidentally? If you put yourself on shuffle, you might find yourself... That would be a very bad move. So maybe don't put that music on. Or maybe just don't put it on a shuffle. Or maybe just don't play any music.

Just keep it old school. You know, like put a CD in it, you know it can't just go to some random tune of yours, right? But no, I would say like keep it... I think if you like candles and that becomes your thing, of course. Set the tone, set the ambience, the aroma. I think there might... The thing is, and I'm going to admit this to you, because we've known each other for many years. We have, it feels like a safe space. I do think that I, on occasion, have been known to...

light candles before have you yeah and have has that candle been a it's never been the Craig has it never but okay I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to I'm going to sneak it into the bedroom right I'm going to sneak it upstairs yeah next time and see what goes down please let us know the feedback did it

Because you know what, I think it has become a thing now, right? So now it's become a thing. And Bella's aware of this as well. And she's aware of the whole... You should use it to your advantage. No, genuinely, it's like, you know what, you don't even say like, wherever that goes. So bring it on tour, bring it on, you're on the road, just place it down and say less. Right, so actually, that's good. So what I can do is I could... It's like a totem. Just put it on the floor in the bedroom.

Yeah. And just get better to walk into the bedroom and it's lit. I think they even light it now. They don't even need to light it now. Don't even get worried about if you have to bring mattress or nothing. Don't complicate. Just put, set it down and be like, here it is. Put Craig David's bucket down. Do you know what I mean? If you want to light it, you want to light it, you want to light it. If we're outside, you might do it with wind. Wind.

Actually, that casing around it is windproof, basically. Ceramic. Oh my God, it's gorgeous. Good stuff. I don't give you the sublimity things, right? What can I use it for afterwards? You could put plants inside it. Yeah, yeah. So after you, once that plays, just put a nice little snake plant in it, in the corner of the room.

I don't know. And then the snake plant becomes the next thing. You look at the snake plant, that becomes the next totem and then we know we're right. Go fetch the snake plant. That's code for something else. Have you watered the snake plant? Oh boy. Craig, thanks for coming in. It's a pleasure, my man. It's been a joy to speak to you about it. And I feel sort of relieved. I feel like it's quite cathartic, this experience. We've got to always talk about it, right?

And I'm here for you, my man. So much love. I can't wait for Bella to hear this bit. Greg, we'll see you soon. What's going on? What are you doing here today? We're passing through. We've got new songs. We've got a new album coming out. Tell us about your new album. Album called Commitment.

Got the R&B stuff on there. On the front cover, it's just me and a candle. And that's about it. We've got a tour coming up. We've got the whole stage full of candles all throughout February. It's going to be a moment. It's going to be lit. It's going to be lit.

oh, leave it. Leave it there. It can't go any further. That's very exciting. Thanks so much for coming. It was such a pleasure. You know that. Enjoy the rest of your day. Thank you. I think it will be less smutty the next chat that you do. We'll keep it a bit. We really enjoyed it. It's never a bad thing. Love.

Amazing. Thank you, Craig. Pleasure, my guy. That's a great start to the podcast. I've got you. Thanks so much. Lovely to meet you. See you in a bit. He smells amazing. Doesn't he? He smells so good. So now we've got to do the podcast. He's got a real... Hasn't he? ...merve. Yeah. Also, what a lovely man. Settled all of us. Aura. Yeah. Aura. Yeah. Good candle aura. Good candle aura, but there's like a...

You know when Craig Davies walked into the room. Oh yeah, the energy shifts. Energy, aura, riz. I've just realised, we were saying this, he smells so great, he's got a great aura, he's just still outside walking past us. I think he heard us saying about how nice he smells. I'd say it to his face. He puts the riz in charisma. That's where the word riz comes from. I know, but that's a joke. LAUGHTER

Okay, so the podcast has to continue now. How the hell are we going to follow that? Well, we've got all the best bits from the show, I think. The pepper army stuff is... Yeah, it leads nicely into a disgusting chat about sausage. Now we're going to do Is It Just Us? And I love Is It Just Us? In the past, we have had some absolutely... Like, I was about to swear there. That was weird. We've had some mad... I was about to say bat...

We've had some mad listeners on talking about some brilliant things that they do which are unique to them. And then we put it to the test and we find out if anyone else has got a match. What is your thing, Chrissy? What do you want to try and test out on Is It Just Us today?

So my weird thing is my choice of bedtime snack. It's a pepperami, if you know what they are. What do you mean if I know what they are? Of course I know what they are. Oh, I'm so sorry. I mean, I went to school in the, I went to primary school in the 90s. That was literally all you could eat. Pepperami was like, that was the only food available to a child in the late 90s, early noughties. Yes, of course I know what a bloody pepperami is. Oh gosh, I'm sorry. Do you have one every day?

Yeah, yeah, every day, every night, you know, I love them. They're just a great snack, great bedtime snack. So are you fully, are you fully ready for bed and then you just, so when you're ready to sleep, you go, ah, there's something missing and you go into the drawer, I imagine they're in your drawer. Yeah, it just ends the day on a perfect note. Full size one? Yeah, full size one. Not a lunchbox size?

No, God, no. No, it's child's play. But actually, it is child's play because it is very primary school, isn't it, a pepperami? You have a little one in your lunchbox. But is this where it started for you? Where did the obsession begin? Well, it started in primary school. My mum, she bought them for me and she just kept buying them. And here we are. And here we are, 5,000 pepperamis later. Yeah. You're still going. So lots of things going on here. Is it post brushing your teeth?

Is it what, sorry? Is it after you've brushed your teeth? Oh, if I told you that, I'd have to tell you. What? Okay, I don't want to know the answer. I don't want to die over a pepperami. It's not worth it. But hang on, so are you eating under the covers? Yeah, tucked in. I wouldn't say a head under the covers, but yeah, I'm tucked in, right? Like a den, a little sausage den. No, no, just ready for bed. Right. You do it every day, even if you're on holiday, you take them away with you?

Oh, no. Oh, okay. We found a glitch here in your loyalty to them. Unfortunately not. It's an interesting snack. It's just very... I just feel like it might not sit well. Do you know what I mean? I would just worry that they just don't sit well in the belly when you're asleep. They're just quite abrasive. I've been eating them from such a young age. Maybe I'm just immune to them now. I think you have built up an immunity to them. Yeah. Do you still enjoy them?

Absolutely. Well, that's good. Do things you enjoy. Yeah, I used to eat them really slow to savour them.

Why are you trying to make it sound saucy? Do you know what? One of the things, this is an intrusive thought that I'm just going to say out loud. One of the things that I really dislike about pepperamis is the sheath that they come in. I really don't. It's too condom-y. I don't like it. Well, some people like to suck that afterwards, you know, extra flavour. Yeah.

Okay, I think we need to stop the show. The show is done. That is the worst. Stop. I'm stopping the song. I just saw it in front of me. Chrissy, in front of me, I just saw non-verbal communication between producer Amy and producer Vinuri. They both indicated to each other that they both do that. Are you sucking the sheath? Yeah. Vinuri, you're sucking the sheath.

After you've had a pepperoni. It's the best part, I would say. The flavour's in the sheath. The flavour's in the sheath. And that, I'm afraid, that is the death of my tenure on the Radio Breakfast Show. I actually don't want to continue. You can send through if you're a match, but I genuinely don't know if I'm going to be here the other side of the weekend. And I mean the song, not the days. I've been trying to call you sleeping till I feel your

That was The Weekend with Blinding Lights on Radio 1. It's producer Amy and... Producer Vinuri. Greg has left the studio. We don't know if he's ever coming back to the Radio 1 Breakfast Show. This could be the end of it. The end thanks to the pepper army chief. Let's have a trail and then a bit of Lizzo. No way. I've had to come back. Although I will say, you two sound fantastic. Really good.

And I'm producer Vannuri. Really good. All right, M&S. This isn't just any producer. This is an M&S producer. And me, producer Vannuri. And Amy, very slick. Thank you. The only reason I came back is I'm fearing for my job. Hi, Chrissie. Hello, Greg. I just had to go and get a bit of fresh air. It was too much for me.

Oh, it's not that bad. It's a bit bad. It is a bit. The sucking of the sheath is too much. But let's just recap. For anyone who's just switched on, for those of you who are unlucky enough to have just switched Radio 1 on, can you tell them what we're asking today on Is It Just Us? Um...

What we're asking? Yeah, what do you do? Tell us your thing. Just recap. Oh, okay. So my bedtime snack is a pepperami and apparently that's quite controversial. Well, it's not... The controversial bit is... I'd say it's surprising that you have a pepperami every single night before bed, but the...

The method of getting more salt from the wrapper is just... Well, I wasn't planning on saying that, but you got it out of me, Greg. There you go. That's because I'm a fearsome journalist. OK, here we go then with some...

People who might do the same thing. Here we go. Let's put it to the test. Do we have anyone who's got an exact match? Does anyone else eat a pepperami before bed? I'm sorry. Pepperami in a drawer? Why is the meat in a drawer? We're very confused. Well, I made that bit up, I think. Where do you keep the pepperamis? In my head, they're in your bedside table. Where are they, Chrissie?

Oh, sorry. I just get them from the fridge and bring them up. They're not in my bedroom stored. Okay, good. Next to the Gaviscon. Dave, the van driver. Not quite a match, but I'll have a pepperoni for breakfast. Oh, okay. Well, here's one a day. It's not quite as weird as having it before bed. Greg, I won't lie. I think you're the weird one for not sucking the sheath. It's the best bit of a pepperoni. Unbelievable. Unbelievable.

Never thought about it. Imogen, good morning. Good morning, Greg. Can you please try and get this train back on the tracks? What can you give us? Unfortunately, I also have the same thing. I completely agree with Chrissie. Peperami is a great bedtime snack. In fact, when me and my best friend went to Berlin, probably in 2016, we were staying in a hostel and I used to go down to the vending machine and get a bedtime biffy, which is a German version of peperami. LAUGHTER

Again, a bedtime biffy sounds like something else that would take the show off air.

I'm just going to go have a little bedtime biffy. Greg, you can't say that. No, it's a sausage. No, you can't say that, Greg, honestly. Right, so you're having a little... It's called a biffy. Yeah, a biffy. B-I-F-I. But do you do it every day? Not every day. I mean, every day on that trip to Berlin, I did. But what stays in Berlin stays in Berlin. Yes, exactly. Leave the biffies in Berlin, I suggest. Imogen, thank you. Sam, do we have a match from you?

Not an exact match, but my jacket, I have a sausage pocket. For God's sake.

You never know when you need a sausage on the go. Right. So are you always cooking sausages just so that they're there ready for you to take out? It's like salami, mini saucisson. They don't need refrigeration. They're just there ready. Okay. So you're taking little sausages out for a walk because in case you get peckish. Yeah. Who doesn't get peckish on a walk? No, that's true. That's a very good point. Silly me.

Yeah, okay. So would you take a full-size pepperoni or just a little lunchbox size? No, I like the little... You know, you get the packed mini ones. Oh, yeah. Yeah, little mini ones. Do you go green or red? Are you hot or normal? Oh, green. I didn't ask that question to Chrissy. Are these hot pepperonis or are they green? Which one, the red or the green? Uh...

But I do treat myself to a red sometimes. Do you? Have you had a particularly good day or a bad day? Yeah. All right. Sam, thank you for yours. Let's have a voice note. Yes, I'm partial to a pepperoni of night time, especially with a glass of milk. Oh, delicious. But it's not a direct match. It's not every night I have it. It's just on occasion where I fancy it.

I don't know what to do with these listeners anymore. Have a glass of milk with a pepper on. What on earth is Stan up to? I mean, live your life, Stan. Do what makes you happy. On occasion, Greg, I will have a pepper on me and a glass of milk. Said literally no one ever apart from Stan. Sarah, please can we end this feature? What are you saying?

Hello, good morning. Yes, we have a match. My daughter has one every night. Every single night? Yes. Okay, how old's your daughter?

Seven. You've got to start, I'm young, haven't you, Chrissy? Yeah, yeah. You've got to start, I'm young. So seven. So she's seven years old and she has a pepper army every single night. Yeah, she gets it before her bedtime story. She goes and gets a wee snack. So as you're reading the bedtime story, she's just munching away on a pepper army. Yeah. Presumably she's at school now. She is at school, yeah. What's her name? Niamh.

Neve, okay. We've got a match, Chrissie. It's not just you. It's seven-year-old Neve. Does it before her bedtime story. Okay. I don't know if I've had a nice time, but we've had a time. And Chrissie, thanks so much for bearing your soul today on The Breakfast Show. I appreciate it. And enjoy your pepper army later.

Thank you, I will. We'll all be thinking about you as we nod off to sleep, thinking that somewhere... Whereabouts are you calling from, Chrissie? Shrewsbury. From Shrewsbury. Somewhere in Shrewsbury. Chrissie's under the covers. Thinking of Pepper Harvey. And then sucking the sheath. And saying goodnight to everyone. Alright, Sarah, thank you. Chrissie, thank you. Please, please let's stop this now and do a song and then a 10-minute takeover. What a disgusting show. Talking filth with

Great David and then talking about sausages with sheaths.

Is there something wholesome we can do next? The Callum bit was quite wholesome. Yeah, that's good. It's Burns Night soon, so to celebrate, we've forced Callum to do something fun. Callum Leslie. Hello, good morning. He said good afternoon. That's not right. We have been up a long time, haven't we? So in a way, it is our afternoon. It's kind of lunchtime now, isn't it really? It does feel like lunchtime. It's the point where I start thinking about I could have a curry or macaroni cheese or something.

You know Frank's round the corner? Yeah, yeah. It's all day lasagna. Yeah, I mean, that's dangerous at 9.30. And he's always got soup on. Yeah. You can have a soup and a lasagna any time of day. I love it. What a place. I know other places are available, but there's only one place for me. Anyway, speaking of food, actually not at all really. Well, sort of. It's going to sound weird what I'm about to say, but I'm not saying eat hippos. But a few months ago, a lot of us fell in love with a cute pygmy hippo at Edinburgh Zoo. Yes. I love it.

I say most of us because Susanna, who is our resident Scott other than you, was not a fan. No, she wasn't, was she? She said some horrible things that she'll never be able to take back about Hippo. About Hippo? About Pygmy the Hippo. The Pygmy Hippo called Haggis.

Now, it's Burns Night on Saturday. It is. Which is something that Scottish people celebrate. Yes. You love Burns Night? Yeah, a little celebration of Robert Burns, Sergeant Haggis. Or as I like to call him, Rabby Burns. Yeah, I was going to do that and then that felt a bit too much, but yeah. Oh, sorry. That's fine, you go for it. So it's Burns Night on Saturday. To honour this, Edinburgh Zoo have remade a Rabby Burns ode to Haggis for our beloved hippo. Oh, very good. Really good, do you want to hear it? Yes.

O Edinburgh, so proud and broad, the hills and streets that make me draw, with fondness in my heart say true, for thee and all thy wonders too.

but now there's joy that fills the air a wee bairn born a creature rare a wee hippo say small and sweet with stubby legs and muddy feet they're really good stuff that is good can they nail the next bit haggis is the name you can a jolly soul a tiny gem born beneath the scottish sky with eyes that gleam and mac your sigh oh that's nice isn't it in the water she does glide

A tiny splash with every stride. And in the mud she seemed to roll with joy that fills her little soul. O Haggis, we in full a cheer. A treasure for the zoo, say dear. Thy gentle ways, thy playful glee. Brings a smile to all who come and see. That's very cute, isn't it? Can they make the landing? It's adorable, but... For in thy smile so full and bright, we see the world's purest light. And Edinburgh, O zoo, say grand. Haggis shall walk.

for joy at hand. Oh, that is nice. It's a bit odd because an address to a haggis is usually what you say to it before you eat it.

Don't go all Susanna on this. But it is very lovely and obviously nobody should harm the pygmy hippo. Yeah, please don't. Please do not eat the pygmy hippo on Burns Night. Of course not. That's not... They'd be wrong apart from anything else, wouldn't they? That's not the idea of the... That's not why they did a Rabbie Burns version for maggots. No, no, no, no. But hey, if you're going to call the hippo maggots, then you're going to have to expect someone to eat it.

Please don't do that. Don't do that. Please don't do that. I don't want that to be a Daily Mail headline. No. Please. Greg James encourages listeners to eat your hippo. I mean, funny. Not funny. The whole thing's not funny, but the... Play a song. Play a song, Greg. Well, I am going to play a song, but it's not a song you're going to like because I've got a Scottish challenge for you. Okay. We need some fun for Burns Night.

Now, Scottish people call it Burns Night. I've always called it Mr. Burns Night. Mr. Burns, the greatest character from The Simpsons. If I got you some good Scottish dramatic music, maybe this sort of thing.

I would like you to agree to do a full dramatic reading of Mr Burns' See My Vest. OK. To celebrate Mr Burns' night. Right. OK. Do you know the full thing? I would need some lyrics or words. I can remind you a bit. See.

Vest, see my vest, made from real gorilla chest. Feel this sweater, there's no better than authentic Irish setter. See this hat, it was my cat, my evening wear, vampire bat. These white slippers are albino, African endangered rhino, grizzly bear.

See my vest.

So, yeah, if I whack some bagpipes on and we get you to, you know, learn it, will you do a proper good Scottish dramatic reading of See My Vest for Mr Burns Night? Yeah, before the end of the week, yeah? Yeah. What do you want to do? Do you want to do it Friday? We'll do it Friday. Yeah, but on the eve, on Mr Burns Eve. And we play Mr Burns on the show anyway on a Friday, so it all makes sense. Thank you. Thanks for being up for it. Absolutely. Also today, we had a really good quiz with Michelle. Michelle's here. Hi, Michelle. Hello. Have you got a telescope?

No, I don't actually, no. Ever thought about getting one? No, actually. I hadn't until yesterday, but now it's changed my life. Maybe I will. So Michelle, welcome to The Breakfast Show. We're going to do yesterday's quiz, but you're a sort of ringer this week on the quiz because you don't work with these people, do you? But you are friends with the captain. I am, yes. I believe I'm the emergency stand-in for Carrie. So very excited to be here. But you're a regular listener though, so you're more than qualified to be here.

Oh, it's so different though. I get so angry with people when I listen because it seems so easy, but this is totally different. Well, the shoe is on the other foot, as they say. It is. You will see how difficult it is to quiz live. But do you know what? You've only got a little hillock to climb. 11 points is not a great score. So you actually could steam ahead today. Oh, maybe. 90 seconds on the clock. Do we have some dingers?

Yes, we do. Here we go. Yesterday's quiz is on. 11 points to score to beat. Michelle, your questions are as follows. Question one. Justin Bieber posted pictures of his wife and son on Instagram, but what's his wife's name? Hailey Bieber. Yes. Which darts world champion turned 18 yesterday? Luke Littler. Correct. Jade revealed that she was once ghosted by which One Directioner after just one date?

Harry Styles? It was. Ryan Gosling is apparently in talks to join the next Star Wars movie. But where is Star Wars set? Space? Yes, I checked that with my telescope. An aquarium in Japan tried to cheer up a lonely sunfish by taping pictures of human faces to its tank. Make a noise like a sunfish who is pleased to see me. That's an amazing noise. Two points for that. Bowen Yang was announced as one of the hosts for the Oscars. But what movie musical was he recently in with Ariana Grande?

Oh, Wicked. Yes, listener Tim won the chance to go to the set of Match of the Day in yesterday's Jan Slam. What sport is Match of the Day about? Football. Yes, it was National Squirrel Appreciation Day. What do squirrels gather? Nuts or Pokemon cards? Nuts. Yes, although Rosé was in an advert for Skims, but which Bruno did she collaborate with on the track APT?

Oh, Mars. Bring It On Mars, yes. Space-themed as well. Emma Bunsen celebrated her birthday, but what 90s girl band was she the baby of? The Spice Girls. Yes. What magazine was Addison Rae on the cover of? Rolling Stone or We Love Horses? Rolling Stone. Yeah. It was announced that Jennie's upcoming album will feature Dua Lipa and Childish Gambino, but what massive K-pop girl band was Jennie part of?

Oh, my goodness. Oh, I don't know. It's black pink and it was National Cheesy Socks Day yesterday. But where on your body would you put a cheesy sock? Your feet. Yes. And that is the end of your quiz. I've got a sneaking suspicion that you might have got slightly more than 11 there. Yeah, you did.

You got 13. Oh, my God. Michelle, you're in the lead. Amazing. Sorry, Henry. Sorry, Carrie. Oh, don't worry about them. They're dead. So you're going to be in the final, but who will you be in the final against? Do you actually know these people or are you just sort of... I don't know. No, I don't know. I only obviously know Carrie, but I don't know anyone else. Oh, right. Well, I don't worry about it. So you're the interloper and you might just win the week. We'll see. So, Michelle, thanks for being on today. Have a good day doing your job. What do you do?

I'm a lawyer. Are you? All right. Cool under pressure. That's how you did that today. Thanks, Michelle. We'll catch up with you maybe later in the week for the final. Thanks, Greg. Thank you. More quiz tomorrow at 7.15. And as well as a quiz, we had all the latest things. Radio One Breakfast. All the latest things. We start with some good stuff from Louis Theroux. On his podcast, he's interviewed Jade and he was prying. He was trying to get all the tea on Harry Styles. I didn't know he was going to be the Harry Styles, did I?

I think we went on like one date when again we were like 16 or something. Did you? Yeah, and I, you know, this is, you just got put in the band and it, yeah, it was really funny because we kept in touch. You and Harry? Yeah, and then the minute they went on live shows...

He didn't message me back and I thought, that's it now, he's gone. He's made it. Some good gossip from the X Factor days, this. And then I made it the next year and then I saw him in the room after and he was like, I'm really sorry that I ignored you. He ghosted you. Yes. Good throwback. Oh, what could have been? Yesterday, a new episode of Hot Ones came out on YouTube, you know, the show where celebrities get interviewed while eating extremely spicy chicken wings.

This was a Hot Ones versus. It was SZA, Kiki Palmer and Issa Rae all eating the wings and asking each other questions. And what I really liked about this is it's... Maybe I don't like it. I'll explain. Have a listen to this. What should I ask? Okay. Is Drake a good kisser? It's just very playground. It's very teenage. Is Drake a good kisser? Juicy question.

So Kiki and Issa didn't let it go when SZA didn't answer as directly as they wanted her to. I mean, it's a simple good or not good. Yeah, it's really easy. And the fact that you don't want to say one is very telling. They're trying to double team me into guilt because you know I'm affected by it. Now, the thing I don't like about it is it's such a horrifying thought that if you're listening to this now and you got with someone last night or this week,

Somewhere right now, your name will be being bandied around in a WhatsApp group and your technique and your skill levels will be being assessed by horrible thought, isn't it? So there'll be a group chat discussing how good a kisser you are. Scary. And finally, some really good news. On a lighter note, self-esteem. One of my favourite artists ever.

was on the new music show with Jack Saunders last night. She has a brand new song called Focus Is Power. That was Jack's hottest record last night. They talked all about her new music, her upcoming album, which is going to be called A Complicated Woman. Great title. And also she discussed some of her creative ambitions. I really want to do a music video with Rowan Atkinson because I want Mr Bean... I was going to say As Bean, right? ...to...

sort of do a lap dance like baby girl style for me Jack Bing is all serious to say that's Bean right you want Roman as Bean you want Bean but why not

Not just Bean, though. I also have a sort of Kermit the Frog thing. And I've come up against no's quite a lot on that. You know this about me. Yeah, well, yeah, I know, but some people don't. He's my muse, one of my muses. Yeah, Rebecca, aka Self Esteem. She's just really hot for Kermit. My high school crush was Kermit the Frog. But... And then latterly, in my actual life, the greatest loves of my life have had little bodies and long arms and legs, so...

I'm not saying anything, but I think I manifested. Manifested real-life kermits. Anyway, it was a great chat with Jack. You can listen back to that on the new music show from last night on BBC Sounds. And finally, let's slam. Hi, Ellie. Hi. And we've got Sophie. Hi, Sophie. Hello. Welcome, both of you, to The Breakfast Show. Ellie, what are you doing today, apart from speaking to me on the radio?

I'm currently waiting to go to college. But before you go to college, you might win tickets to Strictly. How much do you love Strictly Come Dancing? Too much. So how long have you been watching it for? Are you 17, 18, 17? I'm 17. 17, okay. How long have you been watching it for? Since 2018. Okay, right. So is it a family thing? Do you watch it with your family every Saturday? Yeah, I watch it with my family. Yeah. Have you got a favourite professional dancer?

Diane Buswell. Yeah, big Diane fan. I get that. She's fantastic. Was that 2018 the year that she was dancing with Joe? Yeah. Right, so that's how you got into the show because her and Joe and then Jenny got together and yeah, great. That's a nice way in. Sophie? Yeah. What about you?

Yeah, it's an absolute family tradition in our house every single year. And where are you calling from, Sophie? I'm calling from Bicester. From Bicester? From Bicester, the home of the Bicester Village. Of course, of course. The very, very famous Bicester Village. Producer Amy went there last weekend. And are those the jeans? Those are the jeans. Oh my God, she's wearing Bicester jeans.

Wow. It's big. It's global now, isn't it, Bista? It's so famous, that place. I mean, I work here and I come here every day. I've probably been twice. Oh, really? Okay. It's for out-of-towners, isn't it? Yeah. It's for tourists. Anyway, okay. Elliot, where are you calling from, by the way?

Darby. From Darby. All right, look, enough of this small talk. Enough of this. You don't want to keep wanging on with me. Ellie is 17 from Darby and is waiting to go to college. But before that, would love to win tickets to the Strictly Come Dancing launch show, which will happen in the autumn. You'll get to go there with a mate. Oh, I guess you'll take your mum? Yeah. Okay. Has she already stated that you must take her if you win?

Yeah. Okay. And Sophie is calling from Bicester, home of the Bicester village. And you,

Are you waiting to go to work? You don't work at the place, do you? What do you do? No, I'm a teacher and visitor. Oh, you're okay. I'm sat in my classroom waiting. Oh, God. So you've got things to do as well. All right, well, I'll just get on with it then. So who would you take with you, Sophie? My mum. Okay, great. Does she know that you're on the radio playing for this? No. Okay. As we've said a few times this month, it might be best not to tell the person that you're on the radio with potential tickets until you've actually got them. Okay.

So here we go. Here's how it's going to work. We've got a load of questions about Strictly Come Dancing. If you get it right, you win the prize. If you get the question wrong, then the prize goes to the other person. So only answer when you're absolutely sure. The questions will get easier as we go. And you can just stay quiet if you want to. But if you're not confident and you don't say anything, the other person might sneak in.

You have five seconds to answer each question. If I don't hear anything from either of you, I'll move on to the next one. But if you do choose to answer, I need you to shout your name and then your answer straight away. No hesitations, please. I don't want to have to disqualify anybody. That would be awful. Only say your name when you think you know. But if you've got an inkling, are you going to give it a go? That's why this is difficult. Ellie, are you clear on that?

Yeah. Sophie, all good? Got it, got it. You can interrupt me if you want to, but I will stop asking the question if you do. Fortune favours the brave. On Jan Slam, here we go. Questions are all about Strictly Come Dancing. In week nine of Strictly, they traditionally dance at Blackpool Tower Ballroom. How many separate blocks of mahogany oak walls

And walnut was the original ballroom sprung dance floor made out of? What a stupid question. No idea. If you'd have got that, I would have awarded you my house. Do you want to get... Ellie, have a guess. How many bits of mahogany oak and walnut was the ballroom dance floor made out of, do you think? About a thousand. Sophie? A hundred. Who knows?

The correct answer, of course, and you'll kick yourselves when I tell you, is 30,602. Now you know. Now you know. That's a little something to impress the lads in the pub on Friday. Hey, lads, you know, don't suppose you know how many bits of wood the dance floor's made out of on Strictly, do you? Question two. Natasha Kaplinsky performed the very first routine on Strictly, but who was her professional dance partner?

Ellie, you've gone for it and you said Aliash. Yeah. So Natasha Kaplinsky was on the very first series of Strictly back in, I think, 2004, I think. She won that series. Who was her professional dance partner? You said Aliash. I took a guess. You went for it and Ellie, it's the wrong answer. It's Brendan Cole. I'm so sorry, Ellie, but you went for it and well done for going for it.

I'm so sorry that you don't get the prize today, Ellie. It's all right. I feel sad. Maybe we should just play on. No, we won't play on. Ellie, thanks for being on. Have a good day at college. Thank you. There's more Jan Slam prizes. Please don't be put off from entering the competition again, OK? OK, thank you. All right, have a good day. But, Sophie...

Look at that. You did nothing. You guessed that there were 500 blocks and then you'd won by doing nothing else. Congratulations. Thank you very much. Very exciting. It's really good. It's a great prize. And so you can call your mum now and tell her that you're going to go to Strictly. I absolutely will. She gave me the moon. That's good, isn't it? So you've got Brendan Cole to thank for that. So he was the answer to that question. And that was on question two and Ellie really went for it. But there you go. That's how that's...

That's why it's tricky. Sophie, have a great day. Thanks for being on The Breakfast Show. Bye. Thank you, thank you. And enjoy it and keep dancing and most importantly, keep listening to the show. Keep listening. Oh, it's sad that. I always feel sad for someone who's about to go into college, who's like on the phone. It's like the start of their exciting life. 17 years old, gets to go to a TV show with her mum.

You know, that's life. Ellie had that great thing as well where she was very like, she meant business. Like if you asked a question, you know, she'd be like, do you watch it with your mum? And she was just like, yeah, let's get into it. She wasn't here for the small talk. Come on, DJ, get on with it. Yeah, that's good. Without talking to my niece. Do we want to talk about the planets? On your telescope? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Start the show. Start the show, is it? Yeah. All right, we'll end the podcast with the start of the show because we can.

Did anyone see the planets last night? Did you? Oh no, I forgot. Did you have a look at Mars? I didn't look at Mars. Did you have a look at Jupiter? No, no I didn't. Did you have a look at Neptune? No. Did you have a look at Venus? No. Did you have a look at Saturn? I didn't, but I know what's coming. Did you have a good look at Uranus? I did not. Aww. Aww.

That's a shame, isn't it? Can I tell you something pathetic? Absolutely. You know, lovely Sean Moondez, our space expert, was on yesterday. Yes, yes. Talking about the moon, talking about the planets, talking about what telescope I could buy, because as I am a large child... You would like a telescope. I thought, I can't believe I've never owned a telescope. Ooh!

Because telescopes are expensive. That's not the sort of thing my mum and dad could, you know, just on a whim get. But I'm childless. Aha, this is the benefit. And I thought, you know what? I could buy myself a telescope these days. So?

So I did it last night. Oh, you got one? I bought a telescope. Wow. And then when it confirmed it, it's going to arrive on the 3rd of February. Which, by that point, the planets will not be visible. Don't worry, I'm sure it'll be like another, I don't know, 2,000 years before it happens again. It's fine. I don't think space is going anywhere. That's true. I think there's still going to be a lot of stuff to look at.

I just worry that because I know what I'm like that I'll lose interest and forget about it. But that's why we need the listeners to keep me on the straight and narrow and to remind me of all the fun things I could be staring at through that. Okay? Okay. So there you go. That's the end of the podcast. I will be back with you tomorrow morning with Linda from The Traitors. That's going to be all on this podcast tomorrow. Plus, we're going to give away tickets to see...

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