So let's, without further ado, let's get on and ask you, are there any people you've met or that you've gone, oh my God, and you've started feeling a bit fanny about it? What was my...

all-time number one these are just yeah the people i'm interested in personally they don't figure on any sort of celebrity list generally and um most of them are dead but uh uh in my uh tabloid days i suppose i got uh i ended up having dinner with elizabeth taylor which is you know pretty pretty damn cool uh so um she was coming over she came over to the uk to do a um film awards do BAFTA and they had a press conference a few days beforehand where you could ask various questions and mine went along the lines of You rose to fame with the film National Velvet.

By an amazing coincidence, it's the Grand National tomorrow.

Who's your money on, Liz? And she just went, you knucklehead, and laughed.

And then I went on the piss after that because it was like I knew that she called me a knucklehead.

So Elizabeth Taylor calls me a knucklehead.

That's a page lead in 90s tabloid Britain.

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