S9 EP32: Mark Bonnar (Video Edition)

Alan Carr's 'Life's a Beach'

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Places & Travel, Comedy, Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This week on Life’s a Beach, Alan Carr is joined by the brilliant Mark Bonnar (The Traitors, Dept Q, Line of Duty). Mark shares hilarious and heartfelt holiday stories — from seeking fortune in America at 18, to hippos, eating crocodile and getting engaged in Mexico. Alan and Mark also mention The Traitors, filming Napoleon with Joaquin Phoenix, Eurotrash, hidden gems in Edinburgh and there's even a classic Tom Jones tale. It’s the perfect mix of travel, laughs and celebrity chaos! ⏱️ Timestamps00:00 Intro00:20 The Traitors02:15 Alan’s downstairs loo03:20 Jet208:20 Seeking fortune in America age 1809:40 Hippos13:00 Holidaying with Sweet Maryjane18:30 Doing Napoleon with Joaquin Phoenix19:00 Hanging out with Mr Darcys21:15 Eurotrash23:20 Eating crocodile26:00 Dept Q, Grandpa Simpson and filming around Edinburgh28:00 Alan’s Edinburgh hidden gem28:45 Holiday drinks and getting engaged in Mexico32:00 Where Mark wants to be at 100 years old34:15 Traitors and the gloamin35:15 Starting our descent – the quick fire round38:00 Tom Jones story ✈️ Subscribe for more holiday stories every week on Life’s a Beach with Alan Carr! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We're there with Mary Jane.
0:07.0	This is crocodile, this is great.
0:10.0	Look who we've got on board.
0:12.0	It's Mark Bonner.
0:13.0	How you doing, Mark?
0:14.0	I'm all right.
0:15.0	Thank you, Alan.
0:16.0	How are you?
0:17.0	Now, it's a bit of an awkward situation
0:18.0	because you're on here to promote
0:20.0	the right ends. But we can't talk about it. No, we can't, can we? We were both on it. We were both on it. We were in glorious in Indonesia. Yes, and it was stunning. Beautiful. I had the way, though. It was so lovely. So lovely, so lovely. And we actually spent so much time with one and ever.
0:39.6	And I'm not going to say, but I think we're friends, aren't we?
0:43.7	I would like to think so.
0:44.8	Yeah.
0:45.2	I don't know if you think, though.
0:46.1	I do think of friends.
0:47.3	And we've made lots of friends at there, but obviously we can't say because we don't want to spoil it.
0:50.8	Yes.
0:51.0	But I mean, it's weird to trades, isn't it? Because the only time I've ever had people stop me in the city and tell me everything is probably RuPaul's drag race, you know? But yeah, yeah. But, yeah, so no spoilers here. So tell us your most overrated place you've been in the world on holiday. Oh, this is a bit crab. Oh. And we're not shaming countries and stuff.
1:13.3	But something gone wrong where the weather's been a bit shit.
1:16.6	Your hotel was crap.
1:18.8	We went to, not Crete.
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