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Final one before Christmas.

Because there won't be one over Christmas.

So there won't be one for Christmas Day and for Boxing Day.

But as it's the 24th of December you get one. Dorn French

reveals she couldn't hug her frontline worker husband Mark during lockdown and embraced

with co-star Rob Bryden. That was her first in weeks. We do like Dorn French actually, we like

Rob Bryden. He lives down the road from me. Literally down the road from me I said yeah everybody

seems to live down the road from me. I don't

know why. Ed Sheeran teases a duet with Taylor Swift on his new single, The Joker and the Queen.

I watched again, uh, this morning the Ed Shearren Christmas hit with Sir Elton John and the lad baby.

It's very good, you know. It's very, it's very catchy. I mean, Elton, as I said the other day,

he just joins in and he sort of, you know, then at the end of it, he goes, I haven't had a sausage

roll for years. You would have thought he would have done. Lord Sugar claims that youngsters do not

have a hunger for hard work and prefer to sit on beanbags and flick elastic bands at each other. Yeah, I mean, I would have to agree with him on that one.

Not necessarily in this business, because you don't have any choice but to work hard because

otherwise, you know, somebody else will come along, take your job. But Lord Sugar says they all want

cushy jobs, you know, but there's no such thing as, I don't know what a cushy job is nowadays,

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