Alan Carr: 'I love having my friends on the show'

Alan Carr: 'I love having my friends on the show'
Alan Carr: 'I love having my friends on the show' (Image credit: Contract Number (Programme))

Chatty Man host Alan Carr tells TV Times magazine about his dream guest and what we can expect in the new series (C4, Sundays)... What can we expect from this series of Chatty Man? “Well, it’s the same as the old ones really. If you find something that works, you stick with it.” Are there any must-haves on set? “I love Yorkshire tea, it’s my favourite. The C4 tea isn’t that nice so, if I’m feeling in need of a boost, I’ll ask them to get me one of those Chai Tea Lattes – that’s my little diva moment!” Who are your favourite guests? “The ones who give that little bit of sparkle because they’re a real star, like Rihanna or Justin Timberlake. I also love it when my friends Gok Wan and David Walliams are on the show because it gives another dimension and we have a laugh.” Who would be your dream guest? “Lady Gaga. She’s been on every other show apart from mine, and I’m beginning to take it a little bit personally! I’m just dreading that she’s run out of outfits and will come in a shellsuit or something!” Apart from yourself, who’s the chattiest man you know? “Justin Lee Collins. You can’t get a word in edgeways! Once he gets started, he can’t stop.”

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 

An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.