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They were like, its, you know... nowadays, because as soon as you do an interview, its on youtube, its on everywhere, so it would be very, very hard to get kind of the access we did do. and ruby and i would work incredibly hard and explore every avenue. and then ruby as a host, which you sometimes see and sometimes dont, would then be basically almost performing a kind of one—woman show for roseanne or goldie, or stuff like that, and these guest with think, "oh, wow, ive gotta really up my gam...

So we would audition the camera men and women and they would come round to rubys house, and then we would walk around the house and they would have to film us. and if ruby said "oh, look at that picture up there", if they didnt swing the camera and look at the picture and then come back to see our reaction, they didnt make the squad. you wanted the camera to have a personality, notjust a piece of dead meat. yeah. and layla, iwonder, given that celebrities in that kind of format were much more pr...

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With a picture of me on the front. i know you did that, clive. that is too much of a coincidence. so she picked it up and went "oh, she is on the cover of hello!" she thought i was just a journalist. from that moment, she took my hand, she took me to parliament, she covered me in herjewellery. i mean, clive, that was clever. ruby, i was wondering about those like yourself in front of the camera. weve talked about changing trends and particular programmes being reinvented and coming back. how muc...

Clive, looking back to the interviews we were talking about, clearly some of that wasnt cheap — you were jetting off all over the world, often without much advance warning. and you werent always sure you would get the interview when you got there as well? we were lucky. it was... we had a pretty good budget, it was bbc one prime time. i run an independent company now, but we were making it in—house at the bbc. i sometimes think, would i have taken the risks that idid then? we flew to manila,...

Without much advance warning. and you werent always sure you would get the interview when you got there as well? we were lucky. it was... we had a pretty good budget, it was bbc one prime time. i run an independent company now, but we were making it in—house at the bbc. sometimes think, would i have taken the risks that idid then? we flew to manila, ten of us, and wed been offered half an hour with imelda. with imelda marcos, yeah. you didnt tell me that, clive. clive just gets me to the door ...

Yes, ruby would say, and she was right, some cameramenjust arent listening and cant do it. so we would audition the camera men and women and they would come round to rubys house, and then we would walk around the house and they would have to film us. and if ruby said "oh, look at that picture up there", if they didnt swing the camera and look at the picture and then come back to see our reaction, they didnt make the squad. you wanted the camera to have a personality, notjust a piece of dead meat...

And i think what you do, . with all shows, is you tend to look at it and think, | "how can we improve? "does it need _ something changing up? "do we change elements of it? "do we freshen up a format?" when its a game show... it might be different for ruby and clive with celebrity- interview, thats about really brilliant interview, isnt it? l but i dont think that - happened with the cube. so, actually, its not so much that the format is broken, . but actually, viewers do demand a freshness to th...

Its, you know... nowadays, because as soon as you do an interview, its on youtube, its on everywhere, so it would be very, very hard to get kind of the access we did do. and ruby and i would work incredibly hard and explore every avenue. and then ruby as a host, which you sometimes see and sometimes dont, would then be basically almost performing a kind of one—woman show for roseanne or goldie, or stuff like that, and these guest with think, "oh, wow, ive gotta really up my game because this i...