Welcome to another episode of the rest of the politics of me, Alistair Campbell.

And with me, Rory Stewart, we're in an amazing place, we're in the Pladeum.

And I've just walked past a poster which we built that in this very building, not that

many decades ago, was one max Miller.

The cheeky chapie.

The cheeky chapie, you're a comedic hero.

Yeah, that's because you've not been to see Grace, my daughter, perform yet.

But so we are in the Pladeum and it's, I felt a bit weird walking down our

Gal Street from Oxford Circus to seeing these big, what do they call them,

sort of electronic visions of us up above the Pladeum.

And if I feel, by becoming here, I'm like becoming a second max Miller,

and that really excites my vanity, which of the big stars of the Pladeum

that you've seen up there are more exciting to you.

We see, I have a very, a bit of a love-hate relationship with being

all over the place like that.

I like the platform that fame gives you, but I don't particularly like.

I felt when I walked in, I was desperately looking for a side entrance,

as I didn't have to be seen walking through it.

Maybe that's just, you know, conserved is just a bit more vain.

It's definitely my vanity, but I was, I was, I was trying to get out of you more.

Is it Nat King Cole or Tom Jones or which of the performers here do you admire?

Well, I don't know who's been here, whether it's Diana Ross being here,

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