Morning everybody, welcome along to your free podcast for today. Thursday, the 4th of August, a day that goes down because LBC records its best ever set of figures. And the spike in the morning, the 4 a.m. spike even bigger than it was before. So we're obviously doing something right. But I'm totally convinced, actually, that ever since we've had lots of publicity about LBC and we've had awards and things like that, all of a sudden people start tuning in and that's you. That's where you come into it. And then when they do the figures, they go, oh, look, more people are listening to Steve Allen at 4 in the morning than the word before. It's a huge increase. Seriously, a huge increase. Thank you very much indeed for that. I'm very grateful. I'm sure it will secure me another contract,

which will please just about everybody, I think, including me and the bank manager, who always

get slightly disturbed at this time of year when we start worrying about, you know, whether or not

you've got good audience figures, because you stand and fall on audience figures, as you know,

when you download the programme later on, you'll be discovering, I talk a lot about it at the beginning and how it works. Because if you don't get great

audience figures, there's no point of them keeping you. And I've always been quite honest about

that with everybody. I've always said, really, you know, if you have to get rid of somebody

because their audience figures are bad, no matter how much you like them, you have to kind of put that to one side.

Right, what are we got? What have we got in the celebrity front this morning, ladies and gentlemen?

Rita Aura, after Louis Walsh slammed her for turning the X Factor into a fashion show, off she goes out there wearing, sorry, wearing something in New York.

I don't know what you would call this. But, Thomas, obviously, nobody knows who she is, but she's out with a photographer. Because otherwise, she'll be following her all the time,

going, she's going to do anything interesting apart from walk up and down on the pavement. And the answer is, probably not, actually. Missing someone, shirtless Cristiano Ronaldo,

enjoying a boy's night out at the pool in Miami. He got fit. He got cozy, actually, with a fitness model called

Cassandra Davis. I was sneaking feeling she could be another one of these Victoria's Secret people,

because they seem to be just a bit. They seem to sort of, it's like a badge of honour. What do you do,

dear, underwear model? Oh great, Victoria's Secret again. It's just underwear, isn't it? That's all it is. They're not known for their intelligent conversation. Rita Orra also here, doing something, this time not on the bike,

flashing her triangle, brawlet and pasties in a see-through t-shirt.

Lord, a bad, honestly. Photographer, very close on that one.

Lewis Hamilton, trading cars for boats, kicking back in the Caribbean after wild party with Bayesian beauties.

I don't know, I'm not really that interested in Lewis Hamilton.

I saw an interview with him once. He was a bit dull.

You know, I was expecting a little bit more personality, but we didn't actually get much of that, I'm afraid.

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