Ross King MBE, TV Host, Actor, Best Selling Author, 4-Time Emmy Award News Journalist

Gary interviews Ross King MBE, TV Host, Actor, Best Selling Author, 4-Time Emmy Award News Journalist on this episode of Ready Set Live

Episode Transcript

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Hello on Gary Quinn and welcome toanother episode of Ready Set Live. My
guest today is Ross King, MB, a four time News Emmy and multi
award winning performer and is one ofBritain's most vibrant and versatile talents. In
twenty eighteen, Ross was honored withan MBE from Her Majesty the Queen for

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his services to broadcasting, the artsand charity. Ross is also a familiar
face in the UK and in Europe, appearing daily on ITV's top rated morning
shows Good Morning Britain and Lorraine astheir US cors. He has covered major
events like the Oscars, Tony's,Emmy's, Golden Globes and Grammys, as

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well as significant major news stories.Don't go away, I'll be back with
Ross King. Welcome, Ross,Thank you. I feel after that introduction
we should say good night. That'sall we've got time for. But thank
you. It is so great tofinally see you and to meet you again
after all these yeyes you too.You know your work is quite extraordinary.

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I think your body of work speaksfor itself and I know growing up in
Scotland you had three major, let'ssay, epiphanies at age five, at
age fifteen and age seventeen. There'sa man who's done his homework. That's
most impressive. I mean, youwere five years old. What how did
you tell your mom I'm going tobe an entertainer or what she said.

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No, it's it's an interesting backgroundbecause my mom and dad both were very
musical. Mom played the piano,so I would come home, you know,
from school or even as a kidgrowing up, the piano was always
being played. Dad was very musical. He was in the Salvation Army and
he conducted the band and the choirand played the euphonium and a whole host
of instruments. So I was surroundedby music. And also I didn't really

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think so much at the time.I was surrounded by people really performing,
because you think of the you know, the Salvation Army. But then my
dad would would host events and wouldcrack jokes. And then I had uncles
who were also early DJs and dancehalldays as well, so Uncle Bill and
Uncle Norman and Uncle Walter. SoI never thought we were in show business,

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you know, but we kind ofwhere we were showbiz adjacent. How
about that? Okay? So Iwas surrounded by that, So it was
sort of fairly natural step, Ithink, and basically, you know,
I think being exposed at such ayoung age, all of a sudden you
get the wanting I've got a Imean, you didn't come over to the
US then you were you started working? What age did you come to the

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US? Oh my goodness me,I came here in two thy so twenty
four years ago, which basically meansI'm a dinosaur. I think I think
you were already working in London.Yeah, I was. I was so
lucky Gary that I got into.The basic journey for me was again as
you were saying, when I wasa kid at school and got into performing
and acting and singing. And thenwhen I was sixteen, I joined the

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local radio station, which was ahuge station called Radio Clyde that went all
over the western central Scotland. AndI was so lucky that I came in.
It was kind of like wham time. And you know, all the
other DJs were getting older and heavier, and then came this you know kid
that smiled a lot, had kindof long blondish here and it was like,
you know, wake me up beforeyou go go, and they were
like put them on the road showsand things like that. So I was

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so so lucky. Yeah, Icould hear your voice like you'd be a
great DJ, great quality. Thankyou. So basically, you know,
what was the Was there an inspirationthat drove you or what was your you
know, I think everybody has acertain epiphanies that happened that they say,

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this is the role I want todo in life. Or was there was
there some somebody you you you lookedup to as a as a mentor that
you said I want to be justlike him, or yeah, there were
there were quite a few moments inmy life Gary like that. I think
the first one was going back towhen you say when I was five and
I was doing a school play andit was Dick Quittington, and I remember
going on this stage and tripping andfalling, and as I fell, I

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did like a little sort of youknow forward row and got back up and
I got laughs and applause, andI think there was that pathetic thing as
a child, going wow, there'sapplause, there's laughter. This could be
for me. But then as Igot older and I was I was playing
football, a lot of soccer,and that looked like what I was going
to do. I was I wasgoing to be good enough to be an

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okay professional footballer, but not avery good But my dad and Mum were
very encouraging and when I said,look, I don't think I wanted to
do the football side. I wantto go into show business, they said,
look, we just don't know Cocothe clown. We can't help,
but we will support you, whichis what they did. They said,
whatever you want to do, andin the weird and wonderful way that you

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know that life works. When Iwas at school, my math teacher,
a guy called Roddy Hood, hadsaid to me, would you like to
do some of the school discos?And I was like, okay, this
sounds fun to me. Then hesaid, missus lawson another math teacher,
her son Alan, is a soundengineer at the BBC. But he got
into it all through hospital radio.And so in Glasgow they had the hospital

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Radio station which broadcast to all thesehospitals and you went in there and you
learned, you learned a bit ofyour trade. So that's why I did.
I went in when I was fifteen, still at school, and then
again local radio joined at sixteen anddid everything. I was the studio factotum,
I just learned how to rig soccergrounds, put the cables over.
You know, as I look aroundyour beautiful studio today, I go,

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oh, there's a male xlr.I could slip that, so you know,
you never lose that side of things. And it was such a brilliant
grounding. But also the advice thatI got from my mum, and I
remember thinking I was much older whenI realized what she meant. She would
always say, and it's the thingI've heard it said in your show as
well. Just do your best.That's all you can do. And I

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think I was probably about twenty onebefore I realized, Yeah, if you
do your best, that's all youcan do. You know, whether it
be auditioning for something or performing,if you've done your research, if you've
done the work, even from afootballing point of view, Was I training,
was I eating properly? Was Ithinking? You know about it all?
So if you do your best,you cannot do any better. And

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if that doesn't match up to whatsomeone wants, you can. And you
know what's so interesting. I thinkwhen anybody chooses a profession, especially the
entertainment world, you know, peoplealways say it's so hard or this or
that, but I think the intentionof you being in the works. It's
refreshing to see when an artist orperformer is so into the work that their

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work jumps off the page. AndI believe everybody has that magic and we
all had inspired to be this lightor this essence of joy, and a
lot of people don't seem to,you know, they get discouraged quickly,
and you can't. You must nevergive up, because that's the key for
any any work that one does.What was your let's say, being in

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the UK before you came to America, who was the person that you met
or your first interview there that yousaid, wow, that was quite an
amazing or smashing into smashing interviews?Oh yeah, I mean, well,
two things, I would say.The one the interview that I remember going,

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oh, my goodness, week wasa man who used to say,
my name is Bond, James Bond, Roger Moore, and so it was
Roger and he was incredible and hewas so lovely with me, and I
was such a young guy at thetime, and I was doing the interview
for radio and at the end ofit, I always remember I said,
I said, excuse me, misterMoore, I said, would you do

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a jingle for me? And hewent a jingle and I said, you
know, like an ident. Hewent, what would you like? And
I said, well if you couldsay something like, you know, my
name is Bond, James Bond,and he is King Ross King, and
he went, of course you cansee people looking going, oh my goodness
me the kids asked this, andhe did this whole lovely thing, which
is my name is King, notsmoke King, no relation to Ross King,

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but I'm Bond, James Bond,and he is King Ross King.
And I just remember looking at himgoing, not only were you the most
gracious You've taken this time to lookat this young guy and indulge them,
but give me something which I playedon the rade for years and years and
years, and you know that thatwas it. And I think meeting someone

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of his magnitude who, apart frombeing I always thought Roger was a great
actor, but being a nice man, being self deprecating, and he was
James Bond, and he loved beingJames Bond. So I took a lot
from that interview, and when Ilook back on it, and even though
it gets me quite emotional when Ithink about that time. It was such
a wonderful moment, and I thinka real eye opener as to how someone

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like that can be so gracious evenat the very very top. I love
when the most gracious interviews or thepeople who are so lovely and you just
are so wowed by their kindness,you know. And then you see a
few divas and of course you know, but it's interesting, you know,
I think, and you probably knowthem. I have a longtime friend David

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Courtney, who used to be withLeo Sayer. Yes, yes, yeah,
yeah, yeah yeah. But youknow, I think that each person
has an essence, and I thinka job of a host or interviewer is
to find that best key who wasyour most difficult oh wow? Because you

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know there are those, there arethose the interesting level. We were just
talking about this the other day.The one that that everyone thought was going
to be difficult was Barbara Streisand becauseagain, so a star was born.
I was at school when that kima. I went to see it. I
loved ever Green, I fell inlove with her, Esther Hoffman, Howard
and all the rest of it.And when I went to interviewer, I

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was I was concerned because I'd hadstories. You know, she can be
a little difficult, and all therespect, she was wonderful, she was
gracious. She invited me back twoweeks later to interviewer again. When I
went back to interviewer again, theysaid the usual, you know, no
pictures, no autographs, nothing likethat. Fine, we were doing the
interview. It was overrunning, butshe was chatting. Her publicist tried to

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step Upain and she was like,hey, come on, I'm chatting with
Ross. I'm chatting with Ross andI'd never ever seen that ever happen.
And then at the end of it, she said to me, because at
one point I'd brought a French fortyfive of her when she was eighteen nineteen,
and I said, you know,what would Barbara now say to that
girl? And she was like,well, I wouldn't say anything because it

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worked out all right. And thenat the end of it, she said,
hey, rossall, should we doa photograph? And I was like
yeah, and I'm looking round becauseagain you think, you know, it's
Barbara and she's all the lighting,and I was like looking for a photographer
and she went, have you gota phone? I'll forgot to say get
your phone out, and I waslike okay, and then and then she
said, you want me to signthat for you? I was like yeah,
so you know, that was thatmoment, but not evading the question

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of the most difficult I think themost difficult one, but it did end
up okay. Was Russell Crowe andChristian Bale together and I got in and
I don't know whether they were havinga bad day or they just decided as
we you know, Gary, withthese junkets, sometimes people just get bored
and they're fed up and it's thesame questions. And they're in an airless

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hotel room. And I went inand I'd seen a couple of people come
out looking not too happy and sayingvery very not gracious things about what had
been going on, and so Iimmediately sat down with them and I said,
so, you guys, were youup against each other for similar roles
or when did you first meet?And for some reason he said, oh,

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I think it was Russ went yeah, we were in the boy Scouts
together. And I was thinking,but Christian is originally from Wale. It
was like, so where did youmeet then? You know, was it
like the World Jamboree? Or something, and then you could see them doing
this, and then I said,well, of course you both know the
well known Boy Scouts song, youknow, Gang Gang. Really, so
they were kind of looking at me, and then they realized that I wasn't

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going to be phased and I wasjust going to keep going and if you
want to do silly voices and blahblah blah. And then eventually at the
end of the interview, I said, well, it's been an interesting one.
I know you've had an interesting day. And Russell turned to Christian said
there's only one way to finish this, and I went with a song.
They went, yeah, ging Gang, So everyone sang at the end.
So that was a challenge. Iwould say, you know, do you

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have a ritual that you keeps you, you know, your feet on the
ground every day, you know,like some people meditate, some people do
yoga. Is there a schedule forruss King that I do? I meditate.
I tried to meditate, like firstthing in the morning. And sometimes
you know that lovely way when you'rewhen you're just coming out of your sleep,

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and sometimes if I set the alarma little bit early so I know
that I can just lie there andjust meditate yoga. I love doing yoga
as well because I think you getto a certain age you need to stretch.
It's a big thing. I alsoI give thanks to the universe every
day, and I say out loudmy gratitude to my mom and dad.
And you know, I'm not ahugely really person, but I thank you

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to God and thank you to theuniverse. So I do that, and
I'd say it out loud because Ididn't realize before that with the gratitude,
you need to say it, youneed to say it out loud. So
and sometimes I'll just be sitting inthe car Gary, It's quite funny.
I'll just be going, thank youMom and Dad, thank you God,
thank you Universe. So I dothat. And then also I think that
just that thing will be mindful.And also when I came to LA,

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I went back to acting class forabout three years, and one thing I
learned there was to be present.And it was tricks that they gave me
for going in for auditions. AndI've never been a good auditioner at all,
never been a good rehearser and allthe rest, so but what they
taught me was to be present inthe room. And so that's what I

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do know, So wherever it likeeven coming in to see you guys today,
I'm very present, so that it'sa weird thing. And I've taught
it to friends as well, justlike simple tricks of how you do it
and get yourself in the moment,because I think life passes as by so
fast, absolutely, you know.And I just finished a new book called

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Sacred Happiness, and it's really aboutbeing in the moment, that this is
all the moment we have, becausetomorrow we don't know. And I think
so many people take life for grantedand they have unhappiness because they're always searching
outside themselves instead of coming within andsaying, you know what, I love,
I love Russ King, this moment, My life is fantastic. Why

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would you what would you think themajor situation not only for celebrities or individuals
who aren't happy. Why are theyso unhappy these days? So a really
good question. I think because they'renot appreciative of everything that goes right.
And this may sound really really silly, but I will often if I'm sitting

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in the chair watching the TV andI think, oh, I'll go into
a cup of tea. It goesthrough my head that I'm lucky that i
can a get up and walk andgo to the kitchen, and I've got
water, and I've got electricity,and I've got a kettle, and I've
got money to buy tea bags.And I know that maybe saying I'm not

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trying to diminish anything, but I'mvery mindful of things like that, and
take it onboard and think again,how lucky I am. And you know,
you know, we have instances andeven in the past couple of weeks,
and I'm sure you knew Sam Rubinat KTLA, and you know Sam
was it was a great power.We worked together for six years. And
you think on the Thursday, he'sin doing what we're doing, being on

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screen, enjoying himself. Friday morningnot feeling great. By late Friday morning
he'd gone. And you realize thatthing of we are only here for the
briefest of moments, so enjoy it, enjoy every minute, and even the
bad stuff. You go, there'sprobably a reason why this is happening.

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Absolutely, absolutely, you know,I think gratitude is the biggest thing,
and we cannot take our you know, any in any moment for granted,
but you know, that's why yourday is full. And I know you're
also an author. Tell me aboutthe books. Oh yeah, Well,
I write with a really lovely ladycalled Cherry Lowe, and she's just sold

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gajillions of books. She's really andat the moment she's absolutely on fire with
her writing. She came to mea few years ago and said, one
of the publishers has come and said, would I ghostwrite your biography? And
I said, well, it's aleaflet, it's a pamphlet. We can
just hand that out to the familyat Christmas. I said, I have

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no I love biographies, houses fullof them. I have no desire whatsoever
to spill my not that the secrets, but and I don't. I have
also had a very I had avery lucky life, came from a lovely
working class background in Glasgow and hereI am in Holly would but I said,
I have no desire at all.I said, but I said,
I write with some people in termsof scripts and what have you. I

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said, but I've never written abook, but I do have some ideas.
And she said, okay, wellI haven't written with anyone. We
need to sit down and think ofdifferent stories. And I said, well,
we could put some of the storiesfrom my life in it, amp
them up, bring them down,whatever, and the long and short woice
that I said, well, I'vegot this idea about these three young Scots,
and but an hour later it waslike, I think we've got the

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basis for the book. And thenwe just continued to write. And we've
written three already and there's two moreto come. So it's amazing. It's
amazing. So tell me, Iknow a lot of people in America don't
know what an MB is. Yes, that is actually when Her Majesty the
Queen gives you. It's not aknighthood, but it's just like a it's

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the beginning, like it's like aknighthood. Light. So does that work?
Are you? Do they vote foryou? Or someone says from Buckingham
Palace, Russell King, Yeah,I don't. It's kind of secretive in
some respects because you don't know thateither somebody has put you forward, maybe

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one of the charities that I'd workedfor, or if somebody else has put
your name forward, and then itgoes forward and then it's it's looked upon
by this group of different people andthen they look and I mean I was
so surprised, I mean so thrilledto get it for broadcasting the arts,
because I thankfully I've done quite alot of theater work as well, and
for charity as well. And theinteresting thing for me, Gary was that

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when I was a kid, itwas a big big thing in Britain that
New Year time and the Queen's Birthday. It was the Queen's Birthday's honors list,
the New Year's on his list.And because my mom and dad did
so much for charity over the years, whenever we come out, I go,
Dad, why are you not gettingsomething? And he said to me,
he said, son, people likeus don't get things like that.

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And that always stuck in my head. So it was never ever a tiny
thought that I would be gonged bythe Queen, and so when it happened,
I just thought, it's from mymom and dad. It's for that.
That's that's brilliant when you do thebecause you were just in London when
I met you. Yeah, howoften do they bring you over for good

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morning Britain or Lorraine? Well,I go, I traveled over maybe four
times a year, at least four. And then you go and do the
because I saw you on TV thatmorn, I see you in the airport
after. But you know, whatdoes that feel like when you go back
there? Is it a bit becauseyou know sometimes it's like going home.
It is, It is very muchlike going home. And home is here

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also, absolutely, and I thinkthat's a great thing. You know,
you know what it's like, Garry. You know, you adapt because of
our business and what you do,what I do. We just adapt,
so you know you can make anyplace home and but there will always be
for me Scotland. Glasgow will alwaysbe home home. And you know,
I was lucky when we met atthe airport. I'd had the most bizarre

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incidents where I've been in Glasgow tointerview Take That. Take that huge pop
group in Britain and Europe play stadiums, and they were playing three nights in
Glasgow at the Glasgow Hydro, whichholds something like fifteen twenty thousand people.
Gary Barlow who's the lead singer,so he's one of my best friends.
So I'm sitting in a hotel acrossfrom the Hydro with my my friends.

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There's about ten of us and we'rewaiting to go to the concert and it's
about quarter to seven. The show'smeant to start at seven thirty. There's
a support act. Olli Murrisse,who's a big star in Britain, had
many number ones. Bottom line isit was the on the Simon Cowell.
That's right, Yes, well done, Yes he wasn't night, that's right.
So Allie couldn't make it. Garycalled me and said you're going to

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you have to go on. Iwas like, what you went? You've
got to go and we don't havesupport act. You need to go on.
So I then said, okay,it's now like ten to seven,
five to seven, I need togo on. At seven point thirty,
I said, look, there's alsoa young guy playing here in the restaurant.
He's a nice player, nice singer. Why don't I bring him over?
So Gary said, well, ifyou can go on first, because

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obvious you've got to tell the crowdOlimers is not going to be appearing,
and then you can do a littlebit bring him on, then come back
on, do a couple of songswith him at the end. So I
did it. But it was thatgreat thing. It was my hometown.
It was Glasgow, so people go, how on earth can you go from
having a meal in a restaurant,then getting a call and then being in
front of fifteen twenty thousand people inhalf an hour. But it's your hometown,

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So to walk out again in myhometown and then to say to my
home crowd, guys, I'm goingto bring another young boy from Glasgow.
I know you're disappointed Ollie's not makingit, but here's this young guy and
it's changed his life and it was. You know, how how lucky are
we to be in a situation whereyou can turn around to someone and genuinely
say, I'm going to ask yousomething, to tell you something that will

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change your life. And it is. And he's got a new single light
now and a lovely guy, DanielRinny, and such a lovely, lovely
young guy. So again, we'reso lucky. That that whole thing of
giving back and giving back and notexpecting anything in return, I think is
the big thing. And I thinkthat's the thing is you're giving from the
heart, and when you give back, the universe gives back to exactly And

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you know, so many people.I can't give away my contacts or I
can't give there's enough for everyone.I agree, and I think these people
that think that way they're limited thinking. You know, absolutely, if you
could go back in time to speakto someone and they're they're not here,

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no longer living, what would whowould it be and what would you ask
them? A great question? Whata great question. Can be performers,
they can be scholars, they canbe authors, they can be Wow,
it doesn't matter at all. That'ssuch a great question. I've never ever
had that question before, never everactually really thought about it until now,

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you know, I think it wouldbe interesting that there was a Scott's performer
called Harry Lauder who wrote amazing songskeep right on to the End of the
Road, sang you know, manyfamous songs. I belonged to Glasgow and
back in his day he was earningsomething like, oh, twenty five thousand
pounds then a week. I meanthat he can you only begin to imagine

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what it must have been like.And this is back in like the twenties
and thirties, and so to achievethe level that he did then, I
think it would be fascinating to sitand have a chat with him and again
just some of it. I alsofeel so lucky that I got to interview
a lot of people that when Iwas a kid, Charlie. I met

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Charlie Chaplin when I was five.I mean, that's ridiculous. I'd like
to have sat with Charlie Chaplin actually, because he was the old man in
a big black coat in the Homburghat, and I'd like to have met
the young Charlie into you know,when you see how much he did for
artists as well. I think itwould be those people as well that I'd
like to talk to about their careerbecause what they went through as a child

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and coming through and what they hadto put up with, especially back in
the day. So yeah, again, I think it's because I love biography,
so I probably should have chosen someonemuch more sort of you know,
history making worthy. And you know, when I first came to Hollywood,
I was young, and I wasthrown into the entertainment world and I had
the opportunity to meet Charles Bronson andJill Ireland. And at that point I

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didn't really know who they were.I twenty one, but they were so
kind to me. Yeah, andthey signed everything. We didn't have cell
phones back then, but you know, I remember sitting with them in the
makeup room and chatting with them fora good too hour and it was just
you know, those moments you cannotforget. Absolutely that I had another dinner

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with James Coburn. Oh wow.That it was very interesting because he knew
he was ill, and I knewintuitively that he was going to pass.
And he was asking me all thesequestions because I'm very intuitive in my some
of my books in the beginning hadinformation. So I sat there and I
knew he was curious what the otherside is about. But I'll never forget

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that dinner. And you know,I think, I think that's the magic
of Hollywood that those times those peopleare gone, yeah, and they'll be
there will be no one like them, you know, I get. I
think like you know, I thinkDonald Duconna came on a chat show I
had at the BBC and we wetap danced together. I mean I don't

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really tap dance, but I mean, you know, he gave me a
tap lesson. And then back inthe day, I came out into you
to Esther Williams and I hung outwith Esther. She gave me a quote
for my second book. And whatwas so brilliant with Esther is she would
sit with me and said, Gary, do you remember when we went to
Perinos? And yeah, tell meabout it. I would spend hours with

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her listening to this. It wasjust brilliant. And she obviously was losing,
you know, because I was anex swimmer for swimming, so we
had that in common. But shewould sit hours telling me these stories.
How she she said, Oh,I was a sales girl at the at
the whatever the store it was NeimanMarcus or whatever the store was. And

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she said, I didn't want audition, and this agent used to come in
and want me to go see misterDemill and I was like, no,
no, no, or mayor gogolden. Yeah, And so it was
really interesting to just you know,we cherished those moments. I mean,
I think for you there's a bookthere. Yeah, I think there was

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a book of yeah, the timespent with and again. And also it's
interesting when you're saying people being sogracious, you know. I was so
lucky to play Frank Inferter in theRocky Horror Show. And then I did
a play read out here for EricIdol from Monty Python and Tim Curry was
there, who, of course wasFrankenfurter in the movies and at the end
of the play read you know,we're now kind of a little bit chummy.

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And I was like, Tim,do you mind if if if you
sign? He was like, darling, of course, and you know,
and but I brought it like everyyou know, there was the poster,
there was the album there, youknow, and you know, and the
graciousness of him saying, you know, like, don't dream it be it
or too ross fellow Frank, butwho did it better? And things,

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you know, just I think it'sit's when people just take that little bit
of time, you know. AndI'm not going to mention who is.
Was a big superstar and a friendof mine, who's who's older guy,
so who's not like a kid,went up to this major superstar and said,
would you mind if I have aphotograph and they said yes, And

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he was about to really lay avery important story, very brief, and
the star said, no stories,just the photograph. No stories, just
a photograph. And I thought,I understand, you're that big a superstar
and you must get pested all thetime. But I thought the story he
was going to relate to you wasvery important and actually would have been very

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beneficial to him as well, butit was like, no, that negating
and I always think again, wejust want to be positive, you know,
get up, enjoy the you know, the d M is there to
be carpaid, you know. Allright, last question, when you leave
this experience in this lifetime, howdo you want to be remembered. Oh,

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he was a good guy. Hewas a good guy that if I
get left with that he was oneof the good ones, then I'll be
happy. Good. I am sothrilled for you to be here today.
Thank you so much, Ross forhaving this time with me. Thank you,
I appreciate it all the great successwith all the things you're doing and
the new things you'll be doing.Well, let's hope so. And thank

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you and thank you all for joiningme in this special episode of Ready Set
Live. Until next time, bewell,