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Steve Allen's Little Bit Extra.

Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today.

Well, we've still got the ice.

I couldn't open the boot of the car this morning.

It's sealed in.

You know, obviously where it sort of rained a little bit and it fell into the gap.

And so it's because my boots automatic, you know, like they are.

And I couldn't open the car doors yesterday. It was so cold and everything had frozen in the locks.

Managed to get one door open and completely forgot to check about the heated steering wheel,

because I'm going to need it to be sunny for a couple of days to make sure that all the ice, you know, is good.

Anyway, trust you well and sad news, Charlotte Cornwell has passed on.

She was in a great programme called Rock Follies, which I loved actually. She's passed away after

a cancer battle. That's a month after her half-brother, John La Carrier's death. She was opposite

Ruler Lensker and Julie Covington. Julie Covington,

who went on to have the hip with, Don't Cry for Me, Argentina, taken from Evita. But Rock Follies

was a fictional female pop group's attempts to find fame. It was really good, actually.

I mean, maybe you won't remember if you're not a certain age. But if you're a certain age, you'll remember the rock follies.

They were very good indeed.

Gary Barlow ballooned to 17 stone.

Oh, did you know, he was always a tubsy boy.

Always tubsy boy, except in his very early day. But if you sort of look at him when he was sort of, you know, back in 2005, he was tubsy.

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