Category: TV Ent
Date: 28.10.2005
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Friday Night with Jonathan Ross - 10.35 pm on Friday 28 October on ±«Óãtv ONE (repeated Sunday on ±«Óãtv THREE).
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Jonathan Ross continues the current season of his multi-award winning chat show this Friday on ±«Óãtv ONE.
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Tonight Jonathan meets reality TV queen Jade Goody, who looks back at her experience on Big Brother.
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"You're literally just sitting around. It's mind-numbing, but my mind isn't that big to numb. I just tended to drink a lot. They pulled me in quite a few times.
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"I was never an alcoholic; it was just something to do. I would never say I regret anything about Big Brother - I learnt from that."
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Jade talks about why she's still popular: "I've not got up my own bum - I'm just me, I'm not high and mighty," and what she thinks of Big Brother now: "Mine was the best one, because everybody has something about them. Now they chuck a bunch of fruitcakes in."
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She discusses the drawbacks of reality TV (Celebrity Driving School): "I got pulled up by the police who said: 'We read you haven't passed your test'. I said: 'How irresponsible would that be, with two children in the back?'
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She also talks about her relationship with the press: "I'd never be rude to them; I take it in a quite light-hearted way - I like it."
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Jonathan also welcomes to the show actor Guy Pearce, who talks about his new movie, The Proposition, which premiered at the London Film Festival this week, opens in the UK in the New Year and was shot in harsh conditions in the Australian outback.
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"The heat was between 40 and 50 degrees centigrade. We were covered in flies. there's been a shortage of good films in Australia for flies to work on!
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"I remember (in his hit movie, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert) Terence Stamp not wanting to be there any more because of the flies, but the flies were in drag...
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"I think it (the film) was a bit of a shock to people. It was interesting having straight guys come up and saying 'Poofs, they're ok!'"
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There's erudite chat with actor, raconteur, author, director and actor Stephen Fry, who explains his love of language in his book, The Ode Less Travelled.
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"The English language is like London, a mongrel mouthful, both grand and squalid."
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He sounds off about the press: "Although I love this country, there's a side to it that's so defensive. in the Daily Mail or equivalent bourgeois tabloid. It's not just that they don't understand but they're outraged and angry that other people do like things. it's the worst side of Britain, the fear of the outside."
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There's also music from The Magic Numbers.
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