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On another note…hey, CJ, look (carefully) at the shirt one of the judges on American Idol (Lionel Richie) wore last week (they were in Hawaii, so….Hawaiian shirts and tropical flowers…(look carefully….)

On The One Show tonight, one of the guests Steve Backshall (well known naturalist) was explaining how clown fish make noises, he mentioned that some fish "talk" through their bottoms. Yeah... I know a few humans who do that too!

Yes it is. Knowing Mika, this is probably more likely! 😅

I noticed that too! Is the one show live? Maybe he thought it was being pre-recorded for the day after and he had to pretend it was already saturday?! Or he's just as confused about his own schedule as we are, that's entirely possible I think.

Just caught up with The One Show now, nearly had a heart attack when they talked about filming the final for The Piano and Mika said "yes, tomorrow", NO, IT'S DEFINITELY SUNDAY!!! My anxious brain had to triple check the venue website and my tickets just to be sure. Mika please don't do that to me! (He either got the date wrong by accident or he might have meant rehearsals, either way I'm stressed enough without having the date being wrong!). Anyway... lovely interview and so good to actually see him there in the studio. I love that he couldn't stop smiling! Something he said really touched me too, "You make music to say things you can't say with words.", I don't make music but I do play songs as a way to express myself, as I find that difficult to do with words. One of my favourite quotes is "When words fail, music speaks." ❤

Claudia's fringe is really making me nervous, she has it in her eyes all the time and my eyes hurt just from watching. 😅 But besides that, I love her hair, it's so shiny and somehow fluffy even though it's completely straight. Mika looking super interested when they're talking about coral condoms I wish they had asked him if he could run the marathon. With all the running he's been doing the last few years I assume he could. yup, I think that's the one.

Yes, that all fits.

Last tickets for The Piano available here (only last row in the circle). https://factoryinternational.org/whats-on/the-piano/29291/

I am totally up for it

Mika and Claudia Wincleman on BBC The One Show https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yc2y 19/04/2024 Thanks a million for the VIDEO files @Nessaja and @jajinka5 Both of you are STAR !! mikainstagram stories X

So Mika has a cottage outside of Hastings! Is that where he is when he plays "30 Secondes" on the piano? Or when he's at the seaside with his dogs?

Here is an interview with Claudia Winkleman, she talking a lot ! The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/apr/19/claudia-winkleman-on-swearing-success-and-secrets Fri 19 Apr 2024 13.00 BST Claudia Winkleman on swearing, success and secrets: ‘I had to sign a contract promising not to sing’ With three hit shows – Strictly, The Traitors and the returning The Piano – Claudia Winkleman is TV’s hottest presenter. She talks about being tone deaf, being a style icon … and why she’s allergic to praise Claudia Winkleman is convinced she gave the ick to Mika and Lang Lang, her co-stars on Channel 4 hit The Piano. “They’re so alarmed by my eating habits,” she says. “My mic’s always on and all they can hear is me munching beef-flavoured Hula Hoops.” To illustrate the point, she launches into an uncanny impression of loud crisp-crunching noises echoing down a lapel mic. Winkleman recently wrapped filming a new run of the ivory-tinkling talent search, which has meant living off train station food. “I look up each one’s eateries in advance,” she admits. “I adore a Greggs and I’ve fallen in love with Upper Crust. They do a cheddar baguette that’s almost erotic. Obviously, I always have a Burger King. A Murder King, I call it. You know you’re in a different class of station if there’s a Leon. In Liverpool, they’ve got Krispy Kreme. I crashed and burned by 9.48am because I made the mistake of scoffing a tray of Original Glazed for breakfast. I was like: ‘Guys, I need a nap.’ The producer went: ‘Can somebody get Claud a coffee? And no more sugar!’ OK, boss, fair enough.” Originally pitched as “a show about talent but not a talent show”, The Piano tapped into the street piano phenomenon by inviting undiscovered amateurs to publicly perform at mainline stations around the UK. The result was a life-affirming smash. Now it’s back – and nobody is more surprised than its host. “I presumed it was a one-series deal because Mika and Lang Lang were hiding – nobody knew they were secretly being watched by these two maestros,” says Winkleman. “But we realised the magic wasn’t the big reveals, it was the stories. Reaction to the first series totally took us by surprise. My mum [journalist Eve Pollard] would phone me crying after each episode. She says it makes her feel better and fuller. It made friends of mine vow to learn an instrument, even if it’s the triangle. The big change this time is that the concert finale is going to be ticketed, with all the proceeds going towards buying pianos for train stations and hospital receptions. It’s the loveliest thing.” The Piano is proof of the instrument’s healing powers. “People get through tough times by playing piano,” says Winkleman. “At Manchester Piccadilly, we met an 80-year-old man with dementia who played a beautiful original composition for his wife. Their love story is tremendously moving. A brilliant guy at Victoria Station told me: ‘I can’t say how I feel – but I can play it.’ An amazing woman had just retired after decades working in the NHS and spent her pension on a grand piano because it’s what she needed in her life. It didn’t even fit in her house. Her husband had to knock down walls.” Is she ever tempted to join in? “Absolutely not. I’m so unmusical, I once sang to Mika and Lang Lang and they made me sign a piece of paper promising I’d never do it again.” The debut run was won by blind, neurodivergent teenager Lucy Illingworth, who stole the nation’s hearts with her virtuoso ability. The scene when she stunned Leeds station by playing Chopin was Bafta-nominated. Is there a comparable discovery in the new series? “Lucy was one in a gazillion,” says Winkleman. “You could never recreate that but there are more moments that took our breath away. One unbelievable boy in Liverpool brought Lime Street to a standstill. A crowd of 700 gathered. People missed their trains. There are certain times when somebody plays and the whole atmosphere on the concourse changes.” She pauses and adds delightedly: “I’ve never used the word concourse in conversation before! Love that.” As presenter of three of the best-loved shows on primetime – The Piano joining The Traitors and Strictly Come Dancing in her enviable portfolio – is Winkleman on a hot streak? “Let’s not even discuss that because I’m very superstitious,” she says. “Now you’ve said it, I’m going to have to knock on wood, pull my ear and pinch my stomach. Any success has nothing to do with me.” Come on, it’s got something to do with you. “No, genuinely absolutely nothing. I don’t say that in a faux self-deprecating way. The shows are amazing. The people who work on them are geniuses. I mean, I turn up on time. Otherwise I’m incredibly lucky.” Does she consciously play a different role on each? “Hopefully I’m still me on all of them. On The Piano, my only job is to chat and make the pianists feel comfortable enough to showcase their talent. On Strictly, I’m a cheerleader for the dancers, handing round sweets and saying: ‘The scores are in.’ And on The Traitors, I scare myself. I’m cold and aloof, but a lot of that is because I’m terrified of blowing secrets. I can’t chat too much to the players or I’ll tell them everything.” The Traitors became a bona fide national obsession in January. What were her highlights? “So many! I loved Paul’s bow. He did it beautifully. That Round Table where the Faithful found him out was electric. They celebrated so wildly, chairs were thrown. Me and the crew came out physically shaking. And the final was so tense I couldn’t watch. I had to keep looking down.” How about the gloriously camp funeral for Diane, poisoned by a chalice of sparkling rosé? “All I asked for was a veil. I was like: ‘Guys, I need to go to John Lewis.’ And when Ross [secretly her son] laid a rose on Diane – extraordinary.” I mention the flourish with which Winkleman closed the coffin lid. “I don’t know what comes over me. Up in the beautiful Scottish Highlands, not going home at night, nothing breaks the seal. I’m trapped in the snow globe of Traitors World. My kids, who are the love of my life, phone me and I’m like: ‘Can’t talk now, I’m going into the conclave.’ It reaches the stage where I seriously ask for an owl. I get lost in it.” A talking point came when she called out the Traitors for repeatedly recruiting men. “Maybe I shouldn’t have done but I just had to say it. I was like: ‘Come on, boys, what you need here is a really smart woman,’ but they were threatened by them.” The castle-based franchise has entered the cultural conversation to the extent that the last two Comic Relief telethons have featured Traitors spoofs, with Suranne Jones and Dawn French playing Winkleman. “Both were utterly brilliant,” she cackles. “I wish I looked like Suranne, and Dawn was my teenage hero. I still can’t believe she wore my fringe and opened it like a curtain.”

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I tried to cut the video where Mika and Claudia were.... lv_0_20240419204546.mp4

The Piano trailer from

I was able to record it Here is the part where they talk about The Piano The One Show BBC - 20240419.mp4

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-13314503/Claudia-Winkleman-Lang-Lang-Mika-Pianos-success-took-surprise-amateur-musicians-stories-make-heartwarming.html That's the one I used. Doesn't work for me.

Try this one. I can watch it with my VPN https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/live/bbcone

PRESS Actu Fr https://actu.fr/bretagne/brest_29019/photos-un-mika-tout-feu-tout-flamme-pour-finir-sa-tournee-a-la-brest-arena_60970420.html Par Rédaction Côté Brest Publié le 19 Avr 24 à 12:16 PHOTOS Un Mika tout feu tout flamme pour finir sa tournée à la Brest Arena Mika a conclu son Apocalypse Calypso tour mardi 16 avril à la Brest Arena. Un show intense de deux heures avec un artiste survolté. Et des fans au diapason. Photos ©Gaël Coupeau pour Côté Brest Grippé, Mika avait été contraint de reporter son concert jeudi 7 mars 2024 à la Brest Arena. Au grand désespoir de ses fans, qui se languissaient de le retrouver à l’occasion de son Apocalypse Calypso tour, consacré à son dernier album Que ta tête fleurisse toujours sorti fin 2023. Il l’avait promis, ce n’était qu’un rendez-vous manqué. Reprogrammé par Alias production et Diogène productions mardi 16 avril. Ovation totale Et ce mardi soir, Mika, auteur-compositeur-interprète et musicien, par ailleurs de retour dans le jury de The Voice : La plus belle voix, dont la 13e saison est diffusée le samedi soir depuis le 10 février, a comblé son public à la Brest Arena, lors de ce show, et quel show !, dernier de la tournée.

Sadly it won't let me watch, also not with a VPN. So I hope someone's recording.

If anyone needs a ticket, my Golden Circle one is available.

I'm going too and have got golden circle tickets, so fingers crossed we get a decent ish view I hope you both enjoy it

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