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Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Elton John's been ill: it's a sad, sad situation

Steve Allen - A Little Bit Extra

Global

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.5808 Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2017

⏱️ 17 minutes

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A little bit extra, every weekday morning, from LBC's longest-serving presenter.

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0:30.1

This is a download from LBC, Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

0:36.0

Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today. Tuesday, 25th of April, blooming freezing. Absolutely terrible. I walked out this, I know it's sounded a bit odd and this is at the risk of sounding repetitious. I did go out there this morning, I thought, because it's been a bit dry. We had a little bit of room, it's not enough to sort of water things. So I was out there watering with a hose. I came back in,

0:56.8

my fingers were white. It was so cold out there. And I thought, should I put the heating on for about 10 minutes? I thought it's not really worth it, is it? And in fact, it was only when I was in the car coming in that my fingers started thawing out a bit. It was terrible. It's bitterly cold,

0:54.5

but I did warn you, I did say that there be cold winds coming in that my fingers started thawing out a bit. It was terrible. It's bitterly cold,

1:11.5

but I did warn you. I did say that there be cold winds coming in from the Arctic and, blimey,

1:16.5

I tell you, they are in this morning. So if you're going out, put a vest on, make sure you're a little

1:21.2

bit, perhaps a scarf might be quite, quite useful. Elton John kicks off our celebrity fest this morning. He's been struck down. I think he's

1:31.6

back home now. He spent two days in intensive care and 12 days in hospital. They kept that one pretty

1:36.4

quiet, didn't they? How did they keep that one quiet? Normally everything that old Elk does,

1:40.7

or Reg, as I prefer to call him, is sort of well, well documented. I mean, it's a sad, sad situation, you know. But as long as he follows that, oh no, sorry, goodbye Yellowbrick Road. Anyway, and when are you going to come down? When are you going to go, you can go through every Elton John? Yes, it's going to be like, I'm just a skyline pigeon. I was just flying over the hospital and, um, actually, there was one of my favourite songs, Skyline Pigeon. Never quite got the coverage. I also like funeral for a friend, which luckily we're not talking about today, so that would be okay, wouldn't it? Did you see Stephanie Davis, the talentless Stephanie Davis taking, um, um, um, uh, Holly Willoughby and Phillips Schofield to task the other day on this morning.

2:21.8

And I thought to myself, I'm sorry, darling, who are you? You're a nobody. You're a nobody.

2:27.2

You're just some woman who got dropped from a TV program, goes on to the Big Brother house, gets yourself up the duff with some bloke who's tattooed and apparently a model. And then she takes them to task because you didn't have my back and that kind of thing. I'm sorry, who do you think you are? God, in heaven, nothing worse than nobody's. You're very lucky to be invited onto the programme in the first place. Susanna Reid, slipping into a lace frock, as she hot-footed to the Health Star Awards with Charlotte Hawkins and Kepp. What the God's name of the Health Star Award? Have you heard of them? Is it another award ceremony? It must be another award ceremony. There's something going on all the time. I think can we have the people under five foot seven inches tall award ceremony? And then sort of tall people. Because I've never even heard of it before. Never heard of it. And what it is,

3:07.6

it's a chance to say thank you to somebody who's gone open and above to help you a member of your family. I see, oh, right. Is that to do? So they're giving ordinary people, that'll be us, and famous faces, the chance they thank you to somebody, whether they're, well, they're bigger and better. I've never even heard of them.

3:04.6

Never even heard of them.

3:05.6

So they've got the Good Morning whether they're, I never, I've never even heard of them.

3:21.9

Never even heard of them. So they've got the Good Morning team were there, which is lovely. It's all very exciting. And then I think the last eight for nominations was the 13th of March. So they did this the other day. And then they all sort of get ponzied up and off they go to these things. They love it. They love an award ceremony. All these celebrities, they love it.

4:19.0

It was at the Rosewood Hotel. Anybody on that one? No, me neither. Oh, I know where that is. Isn't that the one that's up for sale? I might be wrong on that. This are, or perhaps it's been sold ages and ages ago. This is up, you know where this is? This is up by, um, um, oh God, what's it got to come by what it's called now. This is near where, um, it's near Grayson road. It's near Hoban. It's, uh, it's sort of, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,'d never know it was a hotel. And it's 390... Is that the price of a room per night? 390 quid. It looks quite nice actually. Some people from here stayed in it ages ago.

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