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Hi, just ready to start the show and I kind of have noticed it's a real smell

of fresh paint. The producer's wearing a tie.

Welcome to a very special edition of The Graham Norton Show.

You are so welcome to the show. We've got a great lineup for you tonight, plus

a very special surprise.

I can't say any more, but suffice to say, you may regret wearing that.

Now, singing for you tonight, look over there, it's Georgia Smith.

Yeah, she'll be performing her current single, Dancing.

But who's dancing on my sofa first tonight?

This young Aussie wildlife conservationist has been getting up

close and personal with crocodiles since he was just a kid, carrying on the

incredible legacy of his father, Steve Irwin. Creepy!

Say hello to Robert Irwin!

Oh, he's dressed for the occasion.

You look fantastic.

Have a seat.

Robert Irwin it is. Yeah.

She dazzled on the West End and Broadway.

as the Lady of the Lake in Spamalot, put Cersei into shame in Game of Thrones,

and gained stardom and a primetime Emmy as Rebecca Welton in the hit comedy Ted

Lasso. It's the first time. Welcome to Hannah Waddingham.

Never been here before.

Never been here before.

Hello. Good to see you. Yeah. Good to see you. Good to see you. Good to see

you. And this is...

Oscar-winning song stage and screen, ruled as the Elf Queen in Lord of the

Rings, reigned over her orchestra as Uber Conductor Tar, and has bossed it

twice as her own Queen Elizabeth I.

It is a warm welcome back to the great Kate Blanchett!

How you doing?

Welcome all.

City down, city down.

So, welcome back to Kate. A first-time welcome to Hannah and Robert. Hello.

Hi. Thank you, Gerard.

Exciting. I know, it is weird. In my head, I felt like you'd been here

before. I feel like you and I have known each other since time began.

A long time.

And we Eurovisioned. Oh, yeah. And before that, kind of knocking around.

Knocking around.

Yeah. The dive bars of the West End.

I am.

Welcome to you, Robert. Lovely to see you. Thank you so much. It's great to be

here, mate.

Very nice to see you. I have to say, there are lots of things that remind me

that I'm getting older.

One of them is that your late father, Steve Irwin...

was on this show before you were born. Yes, that is true. And you guys wrangled

a crocodile together.

Well, it was a toy crocodile, but we did it. We did it. You were boots all in

there. I was just on the phone with my mum, literally right before I came out

here. Oh, wow. And she just has the most special memories. And my dad thought the

world of you, man. Oh, well, we had a great time with you.

And we're so pleased you're here. Fantastic. Mate, good on you. You were

in there, boots and all. Oh, yeah.

Holy moly. They weren't my clothes. Look at that. I was going to say...

And as an Australian, I'm guessing, do you know Robert? Have you met Robert

before? We've been in the same city. We have, we have. We've been in very close

proximity. Which basically means we're related. So, no. No, you have not met.

OK. Mate, all Aussies know each other, though. And we either know each other,

we're either mates or made of a mate, you know. So, um, mate. Yeah, but I...

You have a strange experience, not quite with Robert's father. No, no, no, I did

have a... Well, I was thinking of you recently. Right, OK.

I was just on stage.

Have you met my dad?

No, I didn't meet him, but I did have an interface nightly with a life-size

cardboard cut-out of your father at the National Theatre.

Wow! Because I've just finished doing a production of Electra Persona, like a

smash-up of Bergman's persona with Sophocles' Electra.

It was a complicated, interesting, challenging show.

And I would go every night at the 15-minute call to get a chocolate bar to

the canteen. And I'd pass. For some reason, they put a life-size cutout of

your father in the fire escape.

No! It wasn't one of Graham, but then they did put another one of Kylie.

Wow, that is... All these Australians just kept accruing, so I don't know.

It's an omen.

That is really sweet. It was meant to be. Well, it's very nice to meet you.

Thank you. I guess it was just a homesick Australian working at The

National. Maybe.

That play, Electric Personas, you were in the papers because you kind of called

someone out.

What? Didn't you?

You're gay, I said. Yeah, yeah.

You there. You don't know it yet, but... Oh, no, no, no, someone was filming the

show. Oh, we love that.

And so there was a moment in the show where, you know, when we flip roles,

where whoever's playing the electric sits down in the front and looks at the

audience and I went, oh, my God, the person's filming the show.

And so it's that thing of, I don't mind, you know, if people film a call, but I

just have to say something at the end, please don't. Yeah. I said it really

sweetly. Yeah, no, absolutely.

Does that, like, take you out of the moment?

No, I don't mind. I actually, I probably shouldn't say this too loudly, but I

don't mind if people's phones go off. I massively mind.

Do you?

Yes! Put your damn phone away. Who hasn't gone somewhere, and we all make

mistakes, but you can't make a mistake filming the whole show. Yeah, you can't

do that accidentally.

of change.

Come on. See, for me, usually when I'm in front of an audience, I'm feeding a

crocodile. So, like, when that goes off, you've got to... So, if your phone went

off, you'd be dead. Oh, yeah. So, you've got to, like, zone it all out, because

that croc's looking at you. And if you're like, oh, who was that? Then,

like, there goes your...

Like it's not convenient. That might be the coolest sentence ever.

You feel a bit better about it now, Hannah, don't you?

It's not so bad.

Listen, before we go on, I've just got to mention Ted Lasso.

Just finished.

Yes!

And... Do you think it had stopped?

Do you think it had gone away?

I thought it had so, so stopped, and then when it was revived, I got slightly

told off by the powers that be because I said, it's like exhuming your beloved

dead dog.

And I was like, but I did say beloved, so, you know, back off. But we did think

it was completely done, hoping that it would be back, and very much hoping it

would be back with a women's team. And it was!

Yes! And our girls have absolutely risen to the challenge.

They've just been incredible. because it's hard coming into something that's

so established and being garnered with all the lovelies.

And I'm really proud of how they've taken up the mantle and just run with

it. They're just brilliant.

But it's one of those shows that people don't just like it, they love it. Oh,

yeah. Fully obsessed.

I don't think even Jason Sudeikis thought that it was going to have the

response it did. But I think everyone was ready to have something that was

beautiful and positive and funny, rather than... I'm not a fan of a comedy roast,

personally. And I think it was, you know, I think it does it its service to

say that COVID...

was a thing that, you know, made it ignite, I actually think it would have

anyway, because I think people were ready for warmth and the beauty of

supporting each other and it being funny along the way. It's big in the Irwin

household. Is it? Oh, yeah. No, we love it, mate. We love it. But, yeah, you

make positivity cool, you know? There we go. And that, to me, is like, yes. There

we go. It's awesome.

I didn't realise it was big in Australia. I was out shooting The Fall

Guy out there and I thought, oh, I'm going to have a lovely anonymous time.

No, no, photographers coming out of the bushes.

Oh, wow. Yes. They just do that all the time. Yeah, I was surprised how big it

is in Oz. Oh, yeah, man.

And, Robert, you're now kind of famous all over the world for all your work

with wildlife. You're mostly based in Australia and you work at the Australia

Zoo. I do. And I think people in this country think, oh, well, the zoo, we

know what that is, but it's not that.

No, no, not at all. I mean, it's like a resort for wildlife.

I mean, it's a place where my mum and dad kind of created this incredible

movement for conservation. It's a state-of-the-art... How big is it? Tell

us about it. It's a 700-acre sanctuary, right? And it's animals like... You see,

that's DJ, my beautiful big rhino.

And he's like a big old puppy dog. You scratch him on the tummy and he rolls

over. He's so cute.

Hopefully rolls the other way.

He doesn't know where his horn ends, though. You've got to really dodge him.

But, you know, the animals are living as they would in the wild. A lot of them

rescued, a lot of them endangered species.

And then in terms of visitors, you are the man in charge of the crocosium.

Mate, yeah, I'm in there feeding the crocodiles. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh,

yep, this is me and Scrapper.

What the hell?

You say it like it's the most normal thing in the world. Well, see, for me,

crocodiles are my passion, because they're this animal that people think

they're big and scary and running around eating everyone. They are!

Maybe her children!

Some of them don't. Scrapper's never eaten anyone. Scrapper!

He has not eaten anyone.

He's tried hard, but he hasn't.

He's beautiful.

And so, you know, these crocs, unfortunately,

the deal is in Australia, when a croc gets too close to people or livestock,

they end up getting shot.

So my dad would spend literally years of his life, his entire 20s, out there

rescuing crocs, bringing them back to Australia Zoo.

and feeding them and demonstrating the beauty of these animals to ultimately

try and conserve them. And now it's my job to do that and kind of follow in his

footsteps. How many close calls have you had in the crocosium? Because it is, I

mean, you're not pretending, it is dangerous.

No, it is. And for me, what's important is that this animal, a top predator from

the wild, is living as it would in the wild. I mean, it's easy to chuck a piece

of food to a crocodile every now and again, but to be in there...

Boots and all, allowing that animal to hunt, to stalk, to strike, so incredibly

good for them. Because at the end of the day, the most important thing is that

our animals are living a great life. You wrangle the crop with that, you know

what it's like. Is that the most important thing?

The most important thing is, you then close the gates. Don't die.

Bye, see you tomorrow.

Well, now, one of the other things that, you know, links all three of you is

you're all involved in the Earthshot Prize, which is the big environmental

prize founded by His Royal Highness Prince William. Yeah. So I could ask you

about that, but we just thought, why not ask the man himself?

So, ladies and gentlemen, compose yourselves. This is not a drill.

Please give a warm first-time welcome to His Royal Highness Prince William.

There you go.

Oh, wow.

You're very welcome. Loved you to see you.

Yeah. Are you... Are you as surprised to be here as we are to see you?

I was going to be seeing the WI tonight, so... And for the purposes of chat

show land, how do I refer to you? Whatever suits.

OK. I'm going... William? Yeah, that's good.

The prince is silent. OK, William.

And I guess because of Earthshot, you all know each other. Yeah.

We hang out a lot. Old friends, old friends.

We've got a group chat, yeah.

And you are so famous, but recently you were at an event and someone didn't know

who you were?

Yes, that happens quite regularly, actually.

No, it does not. It does happen quite a lot, it does.

But I went to a place in Somerset and was looking around some of the local

communities there.

And one lovely gentleman looked up at me from his seat and said, um, when are you

going to sing?

I'd had many requests over many years for all ranging parts of society.

And I said, I'm sorry, what do you mean? He goes, when are you going to sing your

performance? And the lady behind tapped his arm and went, no, no, he's not that

prince.

It is very nice of you to be here because you could be having a night at

home and I know being here you're missing celebrity traitors.

Now I've reminded all of them.

You are a proper fan of it, aren't you? Yeah, I love it. Yeah, the family love

it. Yeah. Where did you bump into Ross Kemp?

So, Ross was down... I saw him recently down in the South West and we were doing

things for the National Emergencies Trust, which he's an ambassador for.

And I had seen the episode, as we all had, the night before, so I couldn't

help but sort of, in the most appropriate way, touch Ross in very nice

and see what reaction I got from him.

It turns out he is actually very jumpy.

Oh, there you are.

OK, who do you think is going to win?

Oh, no, don't do that!

I can't spoil it, exactly. No, no, no, he doesn't know.

When you say that, you say that. Oh, do you know? Lance Ross.

Oh, no. I absolutely don't want to know. Did Ross tell you? Ross broke his

contract in many areas, so... No, no!

No, I'm joking, I'm joking. Spoiler alert, he didn't tell me. I did try, I

did try, but he didn't tell me. But why would he know? Because he wouldn't have

been there. Unless he was!

Why would you create... It's dissension in the ranks. I don't want to know this

bit. All right, all right, all right.

So you are here to tell us about Earthshot, but before we talk about it,

here's a little introduction to the Earthshot Prize.

The Earthshot Prize is the most prestigious global environmental prize

there's ever been.

India is one of the world's most important forces for climate and nature.

Namaste. What succeeds here at scale...

has the power to inspire progress everywhere.

We can protect our beautiful planet for all life that calls it home.

We can create a better world.

This is obviously an enormous undertaking.

So I guess let's start with where the idea came from. Is it your idea? Did

someone come to you with it? How did it happen?

For many, many years, I was going around listening to stories of environmental

issues. And one thing that struck me, and I'm sure these guys will be able to

pipe in here, but there was a lot of negativity and there's a lot of doom and

gloom and doomsaying about it. And it got me down, as I know it does everyone

else. And I was thinking to myself, we can do something here that's a bit more

powerful, a bit more optimistic.

And the idea of an awards ceremony came about and we thought, come on, we can

talk about urgency and optimism together.

because we do need urgency. That's something we can't ignore.

But the optimism piece is a really big selling point. It's not pessimism. It's

all about getting excited.

And when we started looking, we started scratching away around the world and

trying to work out what's out there.

It turns out there's some amazing people out there doing incredible things to

protect the world.

And it's to do with waste, it's to do with climate, it's to do with oceans,

it's to do with land restoration. I mean, there's varying degrees of

scalability out there. But what we discovered was we could really highlight

and take these people to the next level, make them a household name.

and try, if we can, to scale their solutions to have more impact around the

world. As, like, a Gen Z-er, for me, whenever I would go anywhere... All

right.

We are not... We're young.

OK.

He had to get that in.

Is that it? Yeah.

Yeah, that's all I know. That's the end of the sentence.

And an environmentalist, I feel like every discussion I have wherever I'm at

in the world, it's always other young people saying, I have an interest, I

have a passion for conservation, I have a passion for environmentalism, but it's

all too big and it's all too much and the walls are kind of closing in on me.

It's overwhelming. What can I do as one person? So I feel like to see, as you

say, you know...

not shying away from the big issues, but rather looking at it through the lens of

solutions. It gives young people this community, and I think that's what we

were lacking, was this sense of community.

And... I applaud, now that we're over the halfway point, the amount of

tangible, real effect that the Earthshot Prize has made worldwide is astonishing,

truly. And I think it shows optimism works.

Just showing why he's an ambassador for the Earthshot Prize.

You mentioned... You mentioned over halfway.

This is a ten-year initiative. Yeah.

And this year, 15 finalists...

Five winners, and it is a prize worth winning. Tell us what the five winners

are going to get.

So the winners will get a million pounds each, and that million pounds goes to

scaling their solution.

She does the recycling.

And the idea being that a lot of these people have started with literally

nothing. And they have to grow their team, they have to grow their marketing

and all that sort of things, as well as the technical aspects of growing a

company. But the vast majority of their shop price finance are commercially

viable solutions.

It's not philanthropy.

So many of these solutions will go on to make people a lot of money, but in the

process of doing that, they're also protecting our world and caring for

things that we all care about.

There's the... Sorry, Kate. There's the winners, and then the reason I wanted to

get involved with it is because there are the winners on the night, but then

those people who haven't won are still entirely nurtured, which I think is

quite a unique...

And let me tell you, the prince has the most ridiculous dating agency on the

planet, because he puts together all these people.

You might have to caveat that a little bit.

I feel rumours might start.

Let's start a rumour. He owns Tinder.

But he puts together, you know, the most tiny little organisation with, like, a

great big behemoth of an investor and just kind of nurtures... It's like the

greatest Rolodex ever of just nurturing all these people for change. And being

in the awards room...

I've never seen such positivity.

Those people that win, the others who haven't, they are absolutely up because

at least one of them is winning in that moment.

And then the Earthshot takes those who haven't won and nurtures them just as

much. Well, this year, it's on the 17th of November in Mumbai.

And obviously, we don't want to jinx it for anyone, but give it a taste of some

of the kind of past winners, the success stories from the past six years. Yeah,

so one of my favourites is Nopla.

which stands for Not Plastic, and it's actually started in the UK by a Spanish

and French guy at university who got fed up with picking up plastic off beaches

and around the world. So they came up with a...

plastic alternative, which was seaweed.

So we can now grow seaweed and turn it into plastic, which means the London

Marathon, I think it was two years ago now, was entirely plastic-free because

of these guys. OK. And the only challenge they have now is how you build

an enormous water bottle, effectively, because the bigger the water bottle, the

harder to hold the structure together.

But that's their next advancement, and they're doing amazingly well. I mean, in

one... deal they made with Compass Group, who provide a lot of catering to

all our stadiums and events in the UK.

They saved 75 million single-use plastic items.

So it's making huge... And then that's incredible. Yeah.

Incredible.

And I guess...

It's awesome, but it's commercially viable. It's not just for good... People

are making money out of it. Exactly that. So, it has to be commercially

viable. And not every single solution in the Earthshot is commercially viable,

but the vast majority are. Talk to us about this antelope, because it's not

all kind of businesses.

There's an antelope, it's in Kazakhstan?

Yeah, exactly.

So, Altan Dala, there it is. Look at his little face, he's so cute.

I'm sure Robert can tell us about the origins of the antelope. That's his

friend, Derek.

Just in the corner, you'll see Robert's crocodile.

Oh, gosh.

No, no, no, it's not that kind of stuff. But this antelope was critically

endangered, and they're now back to huge numbers, and all because the government

of Kazakhstan appreciated and realised how important this species was to the

name of the country and to conservation, and they threw their full weight behind

it. Wow. And, Kate, you're a judge.

Have you been a judge since the beginning?

Yeah, since it was founded, so the first year was 2021.

So, yeah. She took one phone call from me and she's regretted it ever since.

It's been amazing, actually, because, I mean, I'm sure, like everybody, you do

feel despondent. And after these calls and after seeing all the submissions, as

you say, like, it's not just the winners, it's the nominees. And what I

find really exciting is that, yes, it's corporations, it's governments, but it's

also...

One of the ones I find really interesting is a Danish offshore wind

company called Osted, who's a finalist this year.

And they, 20 years ago, used to be a fossil fuel company, and they have

totally transitioned to being the world's leading offshore wind producer,

which supplies, I think, 7% of the British electricity, which doesn't sound

like much, but that's 6 million homes.

That's huge. And they're going to get to 10% by next year.

And it shows other industries, like old system industries, that you can make the

change. And the fact that the city of Milan has won with a waste... And the

country of Bhutan has, you know, also as a finalist. So I think it's not just

those. It's showing other governments, other systems and corporations that it

can be done. Yeah. We're desperately trying not to give away winners for this

year. Yes. LAUGHTER

Do they know this? Do they not know this?

And are any of you going to be there in Mumbai this year?

I'll be there, mate, 100%. Oh, very good. Wild horses couldn't keep me away.

Now's the time to commit, guys.

Yes. It's going to be awesome.

It's going to be awesome. A reminder, the Earthshop Prize, it takes place in

Mumbai on the 17th of November, and it's being streamed globally on Prime Video

in 40 languages across 240 countries and territories.

So you can't miss it, really. I mean, you've done a good job there. You really

have. Now, William, we were talking to Hannah earlier about Ted Lasso, and I

know you're a fan of Ted Lasso, aren't you? I am, yes. I haven't watched every

series, but I've watched the first two. What do you mean you haven't?

Charming. One memo.

Because you are a big football fan, aren't you? I love football, yeah. Now,

Aston Villa is your team.

Absolutely. So, why Aston Villa?

It's a long story.

Some childhood friends of mine got me into Aston Villa, clearly thinking

they'd get some free tickets in later life.

I think it's probably worked.

I love that you look like you've been possessed when they score.

It's brilliant.

Any Aston Villa fans watching, apparently you secretly post in the fan

forums. I am on some of the fan forums, yeah.

What?! No way!

What's your... What's the username?

That's awesome.

That is amazing.

Do you give it away by saying, one didn't think that was very good?

I have to mind my language a bit. I know who that is.

But we should say you're also a proper film fan.

Yeah. Is that something that you kind of thought, right, I'm going to get

involved in this as I get older?

Weirdly, so for me, switch-off time is film.

and music as well. I love my film music.

And I like getting immersed in kind of really deep-thinking kind of films.

I like the action films as well, but I like something that kind of is a bit

different. And Christopher Nolan is... I'm a big fan of all his films. I think

they're absolutely fantastic.

Particularly the Dark Knight series, when he retook Batman and made it into

something quite psychologically dark and mysterious.

I absolutely love that. And Inception and Interstellar are these films. He

just takes a concept that you think... is completely out there, and he makes it

incredibly entertaining and really deep.

And I've loved, you know, escaping into his world that he creates.

Did you see The Odyssey?

I have seen The Odyssey. Oh, it's so cool, isn't it? Yeah,

I love that.

It was in colour and everything. Yeah.

Great. Loved it.

Alison, we know you really love cinema because we've got a picture of you

working in one.

There you are.

Standing the till.

And now, I'm really struck, there are so many photographs like this of you kind

of, you know...

operating machinery or behind a till. Selling cassettes.

Extremely proficient.

Pouring pints or everything.

Like, does it kind of do your head in, or do you just kind of...? You might as

well have gone, just take a picture of me standing here, I don't need to pull a

pint. Yes, I'm aware I'm on national TV, so I've got to be careful what I say.

But, no, I mean, I love it.

It's a real privilege to operate the popcorn machine wherever I go.

Can you say no or will people go, oh, he's very grumpy, that Prince William?

It has a reaction, yes. Yes. It's easy to say yes, Graham. Well, someone who

does not say no to photo opportunities is Robert Irwin. He loves photo

opportunities. He does.

Now... These are wild...

These are wildlife pictures... What's happening? ..of Robert Irwin.

You know the pictures we're going to show. Oh, no, no.

No, no, no, no.

It's a great look.

Well, this is Robert with some snakes.

CHEERING It's all coming out now!

Can I just say, is that your back garden? Yeah, yeah, that's...

I can't believe I'm looking at this with Prince William.

There's more.

There's another one. Oh, now.

That was a bit too much, that one.

OK,

there's a reason. Can I give context, please?

Yes, yes, yes. OK, so... We'll believe you.

The washing machine was broken.

Australia's hot, you can't wear too much.

You've got a lot of pictures of Kate like this as well, yeah, yeah.

It was an underwear commercial, obviously, but I wanted to kind of

create a conservation element to it, you know?

bringing the message to an audience that might not ordinarily be interested in

wildlife. I'm taking my snake for a walk. But seriously, what matters to me

is the snake in that image, you know? It's the fact that wildlife was

showcased, you know?

Yeah. One more.

At least we saw the snakes.

It's quite hard to spot what you're modelling there.

It's a spider, I believe. It's a huntsman spider there on my shoulder.

Oh, OK. Yeah, yeah. A venomous, too, yeah. OK. Now, what's your story, Kate?

Oh, no, I had a tarantula crawl on me. I did a western.

Oh, wow. And the director got down on the ground and said, look, I will have

the tarantula crawl on me. And so when the director says anything, I have to

say yes. But apparently, you know more than I do, but they freeze.

And so in the scene where the tarantula was crawling on me, it didn't move.

because it got stage fright.

And so I had to spend like an hour and 20 minutes with the tarantula not

moving, because it looked fake, with the props guy blowing on it with a straw

from behind the camera. So it didn't move, and they cut it from the film.

Can you milk spiders?

Yeah, yeah, so good question.

They told me they'd milked her, but when she was on, her name is Tara, and when

she was on me, I said, has it been milked? And they said, oh, no, you can't

milk them. How did you know?

It's different to, like, milking a cow.

Oh, no, really?

But it's like, you have an expert.

It's not like, I'll milk a tarantula.

But, yeah, they milk snakes.

They will milk snake venom to create anti-venom. Yeah, but spiders, you can't

really milk. They lie to me. But where do you milk from?

It's harder to milk, yeah, it's very challenging. You're never going to do

it, Hannah, it's fine.

I'm just... No, it's not like teats, it's like the fangs. It's actually the

venom from the fangs. But, apparently, Daddy long years. I like Hannah too.

How do I milk them?

I want it to be like that. It's definitely not like that.

I'm still thinking about your python.

Dating agency, I told you!

Talking of photo ops,

you took your kids to see Taylor Swift at Wembley, as we all know, gorgeous

lady, and she had a picture with you and your family backstage.

Ah! Now, are you aware of the significance of this picture? So, I

wasn't until recently.

I hadn't appreciated the significance and actually I was trying to move him

out of the photo.

Travis kept coming back in and I couldn't work out why he kept coming

back in.

I was trying to move him out so it was just me and Taylor and the children.

So this was when they went photo official?

Apparently, yeah.

Oh,

that was the first time. I know.

And seeing you with the kids there, it seems like you're trying to give them as

close to normal a...

you know, as up-grubbing as possible, apart from hanging out with Taylor

Swift.

You've got to give them something, yeah.

But obviously, you know, you've been born into your job. As a child, did you

fantasise about...

doing other things? Did you kind of think, when I grow up, I might not be

king, I'll do this?

Yes, there was relevance to that, Graham, yeah.

I'm rapidly trying to think about what I can say on television.

You don't want to go wrangle crocodiles.

I met you earlier.

Yeah, it would have been good.

I did want to be a policeman when I was younger.

I thought I could make a good policeman. You're tall.

I'm tall, exactly.

LAUGHTER He's a bit more tall than that.

He's got the uniform and the hat.

I wasn't on the catwalk. OK.

And, yeah, being a policeman I thought was quite cool. And then I went through

a phase where I wanted to be a DJ, which didn't go very well.

And I came up with a name.

LAUGHTER I scored DJ Zara with an X. It wasn't good.

DJ Zara? With an X, yeah. That's rubbish. Where's the X?

The X was at the front. Zara, X. Oh, I see. Oh, that's it. And was that one in

a move? Yeah, no, I didn't do the move.

It happened when he became very uncool.

Did you DJ at school parties?

No, I didn't. I never got that good.

Kate,

when did you realise acting was you? Were you one of those little children

who kind of thought, I want to do that? I just didn't think it was something you

did for a living.

I thought you did it for fun, so I thought I'd... I don't know. I studied

fine arts and economics, so I thought I'd go into gallery curation. I was

always interested in restoration, but I never thought I'd be an actor. I still

don't think I'm going to be an actor. But I'm really interested. You did these

weird, kind of verbatim performances.

Did you do them in front of your parents?

No, I used to... Back in the day, I used to hide cassette recorders all over the

house. Cassette recorders? Yes.

And so I would I would turn them on when people weren't listening and I'd record

people sort of arguing fighting doing all that sort of stuff and then I

waitress like most Actresses and I used to pretend I was writing down orders,

but I'd be writing down conversations Things that people say then you could

have been a spy I could have been a sport.

Yeah, that's very good. So, yeah. Because, Hannah, your mother, she was an

opera singer.

Yes. Was she? Yes, she was a principal at Covent Garden. I only lost her two

years ago. Apologies if I get a little bit emotional. Oh, darling, I'm sorry. I

need to talk about her because she was absolutely my idol.

I love that her name was Melody. Melody from The Isle of Man. Yes, both her

parents were opera singers as well.

So if I hadn't been able to sing, that would have been a bit rubbish.

But, yeah, she was a principal at Covent Garden before I was born and then she

took off 11 years to raise my brother and myself and then she went back into

the chorus of the English National Opera.

so that she'd be able to do both. Yeah. And every time she came to see me in

anything, she had that kind of, you know, they don't quite...

Talk normally, obviously.

And she would just say, does that not hurt? The way I would shout. And I'd

just think, no, no, no, Mother, it doesn't hurt. It's just different from

opera. But I have such a love of opera. And I've recently started listening to

classical music again because I found it very hard.

And I must say that The Prince was so kind and wrote to me when I lost my mum

and it meant the world to me, really.

Oh, that's very nice. Thank you.

Robert, tell me this. You are similar, kind of born into your job and your

life. Did you always know you were going to go that way? Oh, yeah. I think, like,

when you grow up in a zoo and, I mean, having the dad that I had... Look at

little chubby Robert.

Oh, look at you!

My dad and my family just instilled...

so many lessons, I mean, more than just the animal side of it. It's like what

you say, it's this core family dynamic, you know? I was always taught kindness

is wisdom, empathy is the greatest human trait. It's these core beliefs to treat

every living being the way you would wish to be treated. That passion that

was just built in factory settings for me, it just made me go, wow, I have the

ability to...

Hopefully keep that passion going, you know and and particularly my dad's

legacy I look at this this one person who created such a movement such an

incredible pioneering force and Doesn't matter what you do when you've got your

family around you when you have that legacy you have that drive to keep their

mission alive it is It's what fuels me every single year And Steve got so many

of the next generation into conservation.

I remember watching some of his films growing up and it was amazing.

I mean, the things he did was just, you know, amazing.

He got so up close and personal with them and, again, his energy and his

enthusiasm for it got me really excited. And, you know, we've grown up with David

Attenborough here, but Steve was a big part of everyone's childhood.

Yeah, it's really cool. Thank you.

Now, Robert, I believe you have given Prince William something very special.

Oh, I did, yes.

So, about a month ago, I was on our annual crocodile research expedition.

So, we have a... For about 20 years, something my dad started, we researched

crocodiles in the wild.

catch, tag and release using all of the methods that he came up with. And it is

the longest telemetry study of any individual animals on Earth. Wow. And it

is uncovering the secrets of this animal in the wild to figure out how to

conserve them, basically.

But every single crocodile that we catch, we name. It was a tradition that

my dad started 20-plus years ago, and it is very special. We caught 299 crocs,

and on our last expedition, on one of the last days, we caught this

beautiful... He was a beautiful, big 12-foot boy. Emphasise that. Beautiful.

Absolutely, mate. He was a unit. 12 foot long, he was death rolling, he had teeth

like this.

He comes out swinging, like, he was just amazing.

You feel it? So it only felt right. He got an acoustic tracker, satellite

tracker, released back into the wild. It's like crocodile porn.

Prince William the Crocodile You

know Graham yes,

you've got a croc named after you too. No, I don't yeah

It's called Graham. True story.

My dad rescued a croc from the wild named Graham.

And he built a big pond for him. He went, this is a Graham.

And yeah, popped him in there.

But I tell you what, he's the only crocodile ever to actually bite my dad.

He bit him right on the head and dragged him back into the water.

He's a beautiful big boy. There he is. There's Graham. Oh, Graham.

I feel Graham's not a great name for that crocodile.

I feel Graham should be, like, a little terrier.

Oh! Prince William's 12 feet long. Graham is a whole lot bigger. Yeah!

He's 40 foot.

Hello!

Hello!

Hello! What about a lady crocodile, for your sake?

OK, all right, well, next time I see you. No pressure. How do you tell the

difference between a male and female crocodile? Oh, don't start him off.

We're not going into that discussion.

I'll tell you after.

Actually, one crocodile to another, are you hanging around for red chairs?

Yes, definitely.

OK.

Good. We look forward to that.

It is time for music. This Brit Award winner and Grammy nominee has one of the

most distinctive voices in British music. Her third studio album is called

What Are The Odds? And here performing the track Dancing, it is Georgia Smith!

Do you want to go dancing?

Do you want to hold hands?

Do you want to take chances?

Do you want a romance?

I know that you want this.

Know that it feels like it was.

Do you want to get nasty?

Do you want to live life?

Do you want to take chances?

Think I know what you like.

We used to be lovers, but it's been a while.

So take me for one, let's dance again.

Music feels like that.

Makes us move like that.

Dance like it's us.

It goes like that.

Spins me around like that.

Take me down like that.

Dance like it's us.

I don't care what they say. Something about you I

couldn't replace.

Said it was over.

is

Welcome to your first time on the show Well, I know that now. Yeah, that was

funny. I shot my shot and now I'm here We did an event together and Afterwards

I was being interviewed and they went as anyone here been on the show and I went

bad, Georgia never

And now it's happened. It's wish fulfilment. I like it. It's all very

good. Do you know anyone on the couch?

I've met you before. Yes, we have. A few weeks ago. That was amazing. You did an

incredible speech, super inspiring.

And then, I don't know you, but obviously... I do great rendition of

Peppa Reign.

We're going to have it later when the camera's rolling.

Oh, it's a warm-up act.

Thank you so much for that beautiful performance. It was flawless.

Thank you so much. And that is from the album What Are The Odds, which is out

now. People can get it. Yeah.

So, what are the odds?

What are the odds? What are the odds?

It's very dancey. Yeah, it is.

I wanted to... Do you know what? I've always tapped into, like, dance music. I

like Garage, UK Funky House, and I thought, why not do a whole album that

is in that style?

And also, it's great you've got all these dance numbers because you're going

on tour.

I'm going to South America next week. Oh, handy.

Yeah, I'm going to Brazil.

Anyone? We can dance.

Can you dance as well? No, not really.

OK. I just do that.

I just do that, yeah.

I'm really excited. Wow.

But I like this.

Celebrating ten years since you first started as an artist with a very big

gig. Yeah. I'm at the O2.

Oh, yeah.

That is amazing.

Is it your first time headlining at 302? Yeah, first time ever. I'm really

excited. That's immense.

That is brilliant. Congratulations.

But, my God, so deserved. Your tone is just beautiful. Thank you. Really

beautiful. Appreciate it. Yeah. I love to sing and write songs, so I'm very

happy that I get to do this.

Well, we're so happy you're here, and thank you very much indeed.

Good luck with the album and the tour, and thank you for that performance.

Georgia Smith, everybody!

That's nearly it, but before we go, just time for a visit to the big red chair.

OK, now, we've moved the lever so that if the future king decides any time

a story should be stopped, it's up to you.

Who's up first?

Hello.

What's your name? My name's Alison and I'm from a village in South Oxfordshire

called East Hendred. Oh, thanks for telling us that.

Oh, right. And what do you do for a living?

I'm a home worker and a part-time freelance bid writer.

A speech writer?

Bid writer.

Oh, bid writer. Anyone?

I thought you said bin writer. Off you go with the story.

Right, so when my now 17-year-old son Xavier was four and had started school,

he was preparing for his first nativity play.

And he came home and he said to me, Mummy, I know something that nobody else

does. I know that there are, in fact, two Jesuses. There's the one that we

learn about at school and who's in the crib in the nativity play.

That's the really good Jesus.

Then there's the one that you're always talking to at home when you're cross.

When you're saying, Jesus, Jesus! Do it, do it, do it. That's the really bad

Jesus. LAUGHTER

Yeah, that was fair, wasn't it?

You're being too nice. I think there's a threshold.

I'm not quite at the threshold yet.

What a great thing to have on your tombstone.

The future king knocked me back in the chair.

Fabulous. OK, who's up next?

Hello?

Hi, what's your name?

Tasha. Tasha. Hello, Tasha. Where are you from?

Ely, near Cambridgeshire. Oh, lovely. Very nice part of the world. And what do

you do, Tasha?

I'm a carer for the elderly.

OK. See, now, now, when people do lovely jobs, you feel bad, and yet we still

flip them.

How did you go with your story?

So, a few years back, I got the privilege of going to New York, courtesy

of my husband's boss.

Very exciting.

Went to meet him.

And I woke up later that evening with jet lag and everything else on... Yay!

Come on!

Come on!

And she works with the elderly!

I can't believe you did that.

We were all getting a bit of jet lag. Terrible, terrible.

Shall we try one more?

Yeah, let's have one more, one more. Here we go, here we go.

Hello. Hello, I'm Tara. Hi, what's your name? I'm Tara from Australia.

Tara from Australia.

All right, are you just here visiting or?

I live here now.

Oh wow, what do you do?

I'm a molecular biologist.

Where are you from in Australia?

Sydney. Yeah, nice. Molecular biologist. Come on. I know.

I hear you.

Off you go with your story. Right, well, this happened my first year of

university. I was in a first-years camp where I wanted to meet new people, make

some friends, and the first night there was a game of truth or dare. So, of

course, I join in and the bottle lands on me, so I was there to do the worm.

And I've never done the worm before, but I thought, I don't know anyone here,

whatever, I'm not going to be framed as a wimp, so I'll go ahead and do it. Got

in the middle, started... it started feeling really good about it. I was

like, I can do the worm.

Got into it, went bang, head up, look in my hand, my full front tooth is in my

hand. Came out, and now I've got a fake tooth. Rock and roll. Let me just say,

that story went much better than I thought it would. Rock and roll.

You can walk, young lady. Yeah.

Come on, come on! There you go.

OK, that really is all we've got time for. Please thank you to all of my

guests. Georgia Smith!

Jess, Sugar Babes, British actor Naomi Ackie, succession star Kieran Culkin,

eight-time Oscar nominee Glenn Close, and Hollywood legend Michael Douglas.

I'll see you then. Good night, everybody. Bye-bye!

Join Emma, Josh and Jojo as the couples try to dodge the dreaded dance-off. It's

strictly, of course, tomorrow night at 6.30.

And elimination awaits one unlucky queen next.

Shantae, you stay right there for Drag Race UK.