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Thursday, 18th of November.

I can't believe it's the 18th.

I seriously can't.

It's definitely colder this morning, definitely.

Arlene Phillips says I'm the biggest coward in the world because she's 78 doesn't look

in she's had work done in fact she's had loads of work. Strange enough I was watching something on

the television it was Jimmy Carr on the who wants to be a millionaire and the interview didn't

start very well with Clarkson. He was he was you know Clarkson who goes you've had a hair Clarkson goes, you've had a hair transplant and this. He said, well, you've had work done as well,

haven't you? And Clarkson went, yeah. He said, have you ever considered a hair transplant?

He went, no, I don't need one. And I got the feeling it was becoming a little bit edgy.

Even, yeah, I mean, Clarkson was giving as good as he got, but Jimmy obviously was going down a line. And as it turned out, Jimmy didn't do very well.

He gambled and got the question wrong and only went home with a thousand pounds for his charity.

Yeah, he was on 32. He should have stuck on the 32.

Because even I knew the answer. The one he fell down on, the fastest train was not the flying Scotsman it was the mallard the mallard was the train and I knew that and the moment he went flying

Scotsman I thought because he was going through it so fast you know he was going

a second answer final answer and and then when it came to that one he'd already

used up all his lifelines and um and he got the flying

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