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Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware

Bill Nighy

Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware

Alice Williams

Music, Food, Arts, Kids & Family

4.812.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

We have star of stage and screen, acting legend and national treasure Bill Nighy joining us on the podcast this week! Fresh from creating his brand new podcast ‘ill advised by Bill Nighy’ - where he is an agony uncle - we sat down with Bill for lunch. Mum even made his favourite dish - pasta puttanesca. We found out that Bill was a Mod in his youth, how he feels about the success of Love Actually, the time he scammed tourists on the streets of Paris, why he prefers to eat meals alone and how he must add as much spice as possible to every meal he eats! What a total delight to have a meal with Bill, we could have chatted for hours and hours. Bill’s fabulous podcast ‘ill advised by Bill Nighy' is available to listen to everywhere now.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Tablemanors. I'm here at Lenny's. How are you, mum? Very well. Did you have a nice weekend? Lovely. You were there, darling. Yes, thank you. You did a very nice egg salad. Oh, I've still got a bit in the fridge. I had a really busy weekend. I went to Gladiators Live. Fabulous. And then I went to see my friend, Dev Hines, performer Ali Pally. How was that? And a previous guest on the podcast, lovely Naomi Scott supported him. And it was really brilliant. She sung amazingly. Is she now a pop star? Yeah. A whole new world. She can just do whatever she wants basically. It was great and Dev was absolutely

0:38.6

fantastic. But something happened at the gig, what happened? Which was quite a revelation.

0:43.3

It wasn't going shots like the time you went to see that. No, it was a blood orange gig. Mom,

0:48.1

it was very head noddy, pitchforky, very respectful. A girl came up to me and said,

0:57.8

excuse me, do you do that podcast? And I said,

1:07.9

yes, I do. And she said, are you Lenny where? So I now look in my 40s. And I now look like I'm in my 70s.

1:27.8

Or the fact that I was at a music gig. And I'm that girl Lenny off the podcast. I don't know whether I should bother bringing out the next record. Maybe not, darling. Hysterical and producer Alice was with me and the way everyone, all my friends around me, cackle. Of course they did, darling. So yeah. You're big in the Gen Z muse world, Lenny.

1:29.6

Okay, darling, that's great.

1:46.6

Do you want me to be on your video instead of you? Yeah, maybe. Maybe that's what we need to do. It's just too confusing, though. Do that. What's that thing with Tom Hanks, where he becomes younger again? Big. Because we look a bit alike, maybe you should play me older and I'll play you younger.

1:46.6

Maybe you should play me older and I'll play you younger.

1:47.9

Maybe you should just calm down.

1:48.4

Okay.

1:52.1

Anyway, today you are in charge of the food.

1:52.5

Yeah.

1:57.3

We have the excellent Bill Nye coming on. Can't wait.

1:58.4

He has a new podcast called Illadvised by Bill Nye.

2:02.9

And it's basically him being in agony uncle to try and help people through life with all their queries and questions.

2:09.8

It can be, you know, what would you bring as a present for a host for a dinner party?

2:16.6

Did you know the greatest guitar piece was Bradley Cooper? Well, now I do. I'm doing. I also really appreciated his air guitar. Me too. On a podcast. That was excellent. That was excellent. Thank you. And he played it twice. Yes, he did. So, yeah, have Bill Nye coming on and we're really excited about having him.

2:36.6

I am.

2:37.7

Quite precise about food.

2:39.2

Well, no, I think we're lucky because producer Alice also produces Bill's podcast.

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