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Castaway
1 appearance
Comedian and actor, best known as the star of 'Little Britain' and for swimming the English Channel.
On the island
Eight records
which is just her and a flamenco guitar and she's singing about being brokenhearted … and halfway through the song she just kind of lets rip and she's not even really singing any more, she's kind of screaming. And you really get a sense of the pain of the performer.
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I WantFavourite
It's another sad one. … I mean I had the great pleasure of meeting Morrissey recently and … we ended up going for dinner at Jonathan Ross's house.
it's just a really, really beautiful song about longing for someone. Someone's watching this sexy guy walk past and uh he never ever manages to speak to him.
this is an album I remember listening to with Katie and I remember lying in bed with her, listening to it, and thinking, Wow, she's opened up a whole new incredible world for me
This album I sort of listened to every night for about nine months when the last girl I was in love with when we split up that's a game on from about six or seven years ago now. And um I would just listen to this album all the time and cry.
this is from his Blood on the Tracks album, which is another album about lost love. … I think this album's so great because he's full of anger. He's full of hate rage. But he's also full of longing and a sense of loss
This is a kind of pretty much straightforwardly romantic song. Although you do get the sense that in a way, Culpo to saying you have a terrible power over me And what I really love about Sinead O'Connor's version is that she brought out the pain a bit.
There's actually a lyric in this song about that. You know, I go to all the parties, but um I sit in a darkened corner'cause I still miss someone.
In conversation
Presenter asks
5:26You've said of your childhood that although you had a happy childhood you weren't a happy child?
I was just depressed as a child. … I think I was just unhappy a lot of the time and just found it hard to kind of make friends with people and form relationships with people
Presenter asks
7:01What were you thinking and feeling when you were on stage [at school]?
Well, this was the time when I felt powerful. So any opportunity in school, be it an assembly or school play or there'd be something at Scouts where you'd be doing your entertainment badge or whatever, it'd be like I would seize it. This was my thing. I lived for those opportunities.
Presenter asks
15:29Why do you think the media is preoccupied with the sexuality of David Walliams?
Because I think that in the show, you know, we play lots of camp and sometimes gay characters. And then they see that I've got kind of I go out with Damorous girlfriends and stuff, and they kind of can't quite compute the two things. … Nathalie and Bruglier, she's a friend, so we just go out and we have fun and but because it's not an interesting story, oh, he's friends with a girl, they have to sort of make out that, you know, something else is going on.
The keepsakes
The book
Philip Larkin
I always travel with that book and I always feel you can dip into it any time you like, reread poems. So many brilliant, brilliant phrases in Larkin and also I just love his world view as well.
The luxury
Because I don't like being on my own, so if I really start hating it, I can shoot myself.
Presenter asks
16:30Does that mean that there's never been love while you've been famous?
That is correct to say, yes. I haven't been in love for about not a love that was requited for about seven years.
Presenter asks
25:13Are there times when this overbearing fame has horribly gotten in the way and you've thought, 'I want to turn off the tap of fame'?
When my dad was dying, um, in the last couple of days of his life, he was in a hospice. … when I came out of the room, you know, to get a cup of tea, people said, Oh, can I have your autograph? And I did sign them for people because it was with my mum and I didn't want it to be awkward, but I did think, God, you know, I'm in a hospice. … there's times like that and you think, Well, I'm just I'm just a son there, grieving for my dad. I'm not I don't want to be the famous person then
Presenter asks
27:51You will be alone on the island. Will this solitude be welcome?
I can't stand being on my own. I hate it, I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts I start to unravel myself. And I started to think really dark thoughts, self destructive thoughts
“I am incredibly driven. My mum and dad were very, very hard workers and … they both had a really strong work ethic and I've just had that all my life.”
“I think me and Matt waited quite a long time for our moment to come. A lot of our contemporaries sort of overtook us, and I think we were a bit scared it was never going to happen. And then when it did happen for us, we really, really focussed”
“I think there's something strange about needing a load of strangers to laugh at you, needing that love and attention from people that you've never met, craving that. Wanting to make people off the time, you're wanting to make them happy.”
“You know, when we were on that tour, we would play, as you say, to like, you know, sometimes ten thousand people at an arena and some nights it would be amazing and we'd get a novation and everything like that. And an hour later I'd be in my hotel room drinking some peppermint tea, feeling pretty lost.”