Once a leading light at the BBC with his much-loved 6 Music show, Shaun Keaveny is now presenting from a cramped studio to a much smaller audience. But he wouldn’t have it any other way…
time for today. thank you to all my guests ruby wax, broadcaster and writer, clive tulloh, executive producer of when ruby wax met, layla smith, head of objective media group, and mark sammon, executive producer of changing rooms. the media show, back at the same time next week, so thanks very much for watching and goodbye. hello there. many parts of the uk will have another cool and cloudy day on tuesday. monday the sunshine was restricted more to sheltered western areas of the uk. we had some sunshine in the southwest before the cloud increased and temperatures reached 20 degrees in plymouth. highest temperature was in castlederg in country tyrone, northern ireland. only 15 degrees in aberdeen and scarborough. and this was the cool and grey picture that we had
you to my guests. ruby wax, who needs little introduction actor, comedian, writer, mental health campaigner and clive tulloh, who worked with ruby as her producer for many years, including on some of those interviews that she did with the likes of donald trump and imelda marcos. i wonder what it s like for both of you to be reunited via zoom. well, usually, i touch clive a lot. there s a lot of interaction between our limbs. luckily, he s burnt. his face is like a beet, so i m very turned off. clive, she s not in the same room as you, so what was ruby like to work with? erm. laughter she was. talk, clive. she was. she was always exciting to work with, and it was always thrilling. it was thrilling to work with her, and it s been even more thrilling to reunite after 20 years. yeah. well, you re both very welcome. layla smith is head of objective media group, part of the tv giant all3media
again, not upset, got me a new life. but if i didn t have a new life, i d be quite bitter. laughs. clive, between you, you visited some massive stars of their day. how did you get access to some of these people? it was a combination of. it was also a very distinct time in history, if you want to know, because it was sort ofjust before social media, just before the internet you ll remember this, julian you know, when we have a guest, you used to call up the clippings library and you d get all the photocopies of every article. sadly, i do remember that. so, we used to do masses of research, and i think we would just. and also, a lot of the american stars, in those days, britain was sort of regarded as, it was like doing an advert injapan, they didn t really care. they were like, it s, you know. nowadays, because as soon as you do an interview, it s on youtube, it s
into the flat, and in that first half hour, imelda clocked the jewellery and we had three or four days. she sang feelings to us while we danced around in herapartment. it wasn t just the jewellery, clivey. but the original deal was for half an hour, and you ended up with four days? four days, and sitting on her lap and being fed chocolate cake and her showing us her stash of shoes in the attic. that was really a lot of foreplay. just gushing and loving her and never asking a question that would offend her. but never being a sycophant either. she likes big stars, we tried to create the image that i was. and clive put the hello magazine, i know you did, clive, in her garbage can with a picture of me on the front. i know you did that, clive. that is too much of a coincidence. soshe picked it up and went oh, she is on the cover of hello!