The one with Nick Grimshaw
The Chris Evans Show
Virgin Radio UK
4.5 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Virgin Radio's very own Nick Grimshaw turns the pages of his book, Soft Lad. PLUS, Chris is helping his friend to NOT bid on the Freddie Mercury auction and he tells us the Five Big Things that have a measurable impact on health, longevity and wellbeing.
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| 0:00.0 | Love the 80s? |
| 0:02.0 | Then you'll love Virgin Radio 80s plus. |
| 0:11.4 | Love Chris Evans. |
| 0:14.6 | Love the 80s. |
| 0:16.3 | Over on Virgin Radio. |
| 0:18.4 | 80s plus. |
| 0:19.6 | Welcome to the show. |
| 0:20.7 | Vassos is here. Aloha. And Vassos is here. Aloha show. Vassos is here. |
| 0:21.5 | Aloha. |
| 0:22.1 | And Vassos is here. Aloha. And Vassos is here. Aloha. Does it hurt you as much as it hurts me? And Rachel's here. Greetings. Very soon. Nick Grimshaw's going to be here. Tell us about Grimmie, please, Rachel. Grimmie is a joy. We all know that. Now he published a book last year, |
| 0:18.7 | not so much an autobiography, more a collection of stories. |
| 0:22.0 | And the paperback is coming out. It has got an extra chapter, which is very exciting. And I was listening to Nick chatting about his writing process when he was filling in for Graham at the weekends on Virgin. And he discovered much to his surprise that the publisher's deadlines are sort of a made-up thing and quite movable, even though they had scared him. But they were like, don't worry about it. Yeah, because they have one. They just don't tell you which one is the real one. So they have all these sort of, what are they called, false flags. Yeah. |
| 1:11.0 | What? |
| 1:12.1 | Did you not know that? |
| 1:13.4 | Hang on. |
| 1:14.3 | You've written three books. |
| 1:15.2 | Yes, but I've been on time every time. |
| 1:17.3 | So Nick was chatting, well, so Nick was chatting to Lou Saunders about her book on Graham's show. |
| 1:22.5 | And she was saying that Nick Muhammad, when he was writing a book, he was, I think, the only author who |
| 1:29.4 | met all of his deadlines. And the publishers were like, well, why have you finished it? And he said, |
| 1:33.3 | well, you said you needed it by this date. And they were like, we didn't mean it. We didn't mean. |
| 1:38.0 | I'd be daft. That was just the first attempt. |
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