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Brydon &

Anton Du Beke

Brydon &

Rob Brydon | Wondery

Comedy

4.6597 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Anton Du Beke joins Rob Brydon this week to talk about his one man singing, dancing and chat show ‘An Evening with Anton Du Beke.’ 

Anton discusses growing up in Sevenoakes, changing his name and Strictly Come Dancing. The pair share funny stories about what it was like to work with show business legend Bruce Forsyth!


Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, friend. You know, if I'm told I look like certain people once, I'm told I look like certain people

0:13.1

thousands of times. Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Elvis, and, oh yes, I remember the other one,

0:20.0

sometimes Anton Dubeck. And he is my guest today.

0:24.8

It's a wonderful, wonderful chat. I'm very fond of Anton. And do you know what? I think he's rather

0:31.5

fond of me. We talk about, of course, strictly, we talk about growing up and being interested in dance. He loved

0:40.4

sport as well. He's a very sporty, very competitive man. We also talk about someone that was an

0:47.2

influence on both of us, Bruce Forsyth. Anton knew him far better than I did and has some lovely stories to share. Now, one little

0:57.4

thing to mention before you listen to this, we talk in this about Anton changing his name and he says

1:04.3

to me, he gets a bit sort of, he gets a bit evasive. And he says, well, I've never talked about this, Rob. And I felt a little awkward.

1:14.0

Well, a few weeks after we recorded our interview, which I think was back in June, he went on

1:20.0

Kate Garroway's life stories and talked about this at length. So please, when we come to that

1:26.5

bit of the interview, don't get tense.

1:29.2

It's all fine. Briden and tap-it-tap-tap-tap, Anton Dubeck.

1:41.8

Let's, let's say it now, elephants in rooms, all the time I get told you look like Anton Dubeck.

1:51.1

Never.

1:52.1

Well, you're, I've always said that you're a devilishly handsome fella.

1:55.8

Yeah.

1:56.4

I've, look, here's some coffee for the devilishly handsome man.

1:59.2

There is.

1:59.6

Thank you ever so much.

2:00.7

What lovely man.

2:02.5

Is that all right there?

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