Temperature up in the studios?
So it turns out she just missed him.
ITV’s Daybreak launches next Monday and the Fred and Ginger of our era – Christine and Adrian – admitted they simply couldn’t really manage without the other. (Just what, I bet, Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard say after every England game too).
Speaking to the Beehive at ITV’s launch event for the show, Christine made her feelings for the amiable Brummie quite clear: “I just missed him when he left. I missed what we had on screen; I missed the way he worked during the day. I missed the way we worked when we wrote scripts together, and all the little things no one else knows about”.
We’ll you have to guess that’s worth waking up at 3am for, although Adrian said he had faith they would work their magic first thing. “She’s got an ability so sleep anywhere,” he said, and pointed out that he has given her a lift on motorbike where “she has gone to sleep at 70 miles an hour”. But it had to be worth it because their on screen relationship, was, Adrian said “extremely rare”.
ITV’s gain, then is the BBC’s loss. Adrian made his feelings on the matter perfectly clear – he left of course after BBC wallahs insisted on bringing in Chris Evans on Fridays. Planned changes to The One Show meant that “something really precious to us both” which “we’d doing so well with had been basically taken away from us to a lesser or greater extent with the changes that there planned”.
Familiar look, eh
He said there was “no suitcase of money” offered to make him switch channels. ”It just wasn’t like that and I resent it being portrayed like that because it makes you look money motivated and greedy and neither of us are any of those things.
“We were both put under intolerable pressure. You’re in an impossible situation, you can’t tell the truth, you don’t know what the truth is, from day to day it’s changing.”
So, one by one they all went, although Christine, the last to leave, at least had the sense to have a sense of perspective today. “No one has died, this is not life or death. Yeah, it’s a big move, but its a personal thing as far as I’m concerned.”
“I’ve been at the BBC for 14 years, since I was 17, it was my life, it was all that I knew”. Yes, but as Bill Shankly might have said, it is televison, and it is more important than that.
As for Daybreak, it goes out live next week, and so it’s impossible to tell what it will look like, although the set (pictured) looks rather similar to, er, The One Show with a backdrop of St Paul’s from the South Bank studios. GMTV was once Europe’s biggest breakfast show (as it liked to say), until a load of phone in frauds whacked its audience; let’s hope that our Great British Romance is enough to make us forgive, forget and watch ITV.
Oh, and let’s hope they never, ever get together, as anybody who remembers Moonlighting will know.
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