I’d Do Anything: Graham Norton Is Back for More
“I’D Do Anything”, the BBC’s new search for a star show, has a title that echoes the words of many casting couch auditions.
It is hosted by Graham Norton, who one imagines would do anything to be on the telly.
Norton came to the Beeb via Channel 4, where his eponymous chatshow featured steamy websites, sex toys and an adolescent probing of his guests to say something “naughty”.
“I’d do Anything…Ooer Missus, You Dirty Girl” is the title of this his latest title.
Each mention of the phrase “I’d Do Anything” should be given a visual full stop by the cameras panning to Norton who purses his lips, clutches his hands to his cheeks and forms his mouth into a perfect ‘O’.
As for the show, as well as Norton it also features Andrew Lloyd Webber searching for an Oliver and a Nancy for his new improved Oliver! musical.
Says he: “I’ve done three with the BBC now and I’ve got to look after the day job.”
Says Norton: “The big battle is about who is going to steal the show. My money is on the Olivers. When they walk on, all across the country thousands of ovaries will be popping.
“People who thought they’d given up on having kids will say: ‘Shall we try again? We might have one of them!'”
I’d Do Anything. Norton would do anything… Oh, missus!
The judges of this TV IVF are Lord Lloyd-Webber, blonde Denise Van Outen, the ubiquitous John Barrowman, theatre impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh and, to add credibility, Dame Edna Everage.
And it might not have been on with the show. There was a last minute hitch.
BBC bosses had to make changes to the set because it gave judge Andrew Lloyd Webber vertigo. Such is the way of stars.
Lloyd Webber was due to sit on a throne on top of a raised platform for the show. But he said sitting at a height left him feeling dizzy and unwell.
Says a source: “Andrew told execs that he wanted the layout changed because it was triggering his condition. He said his head was spinning when he stood up which was obviously unpleasant.”
Lloyd Webber is an interesting looking man, and it is not overstated to say that his head spinning around in the manner of Linda Blair in the Exorcist would be “unpleasant”.
But, then, he’d do anything, for you dears, anything, oh, yes, missus, anything…
Posted: 17th, March 2008 | In: Celebrities, TV & Radio Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
