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Alice Cooper and Gareth Gates talk snakes, stammering and Spice Girls with Graham Norton
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Legendary rock star Alice Cooper and Pop Idol hero Gareth Gates talk snakes, stammering and Spice Girls when they join Graham Norton for this week's edition of The Graham Norton Show on 91Èȱ¬ Two.
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Gareth, who has famously overcome a debilitating stammer, reveals that it got in the way of a royal encounter when he was introduced to the Queen:
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"In 1997, I had the opportunity to sing for the Queen. Then I met her in 2003, I started to say I'd m-m-m-m-met her before, but by the time I got the words out, she'd moved on to the next person. It was very rude. I was very disappointed.
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"[Now], the stammer hasn't totally gone, I've been battling with it a lot lately, it's something I need to work on. The moment I become too fluent, that's when things start going wrong."
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Alice Cooper talks about the perils of live performance accompanied by his trademark snake: "In LA once, a snake I was working with defecated all over me. The roadies came on to clear it up, and it made them throw up, the Sex Pistols thought we did it every night...
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"We've had problems with the snake in hotels. She loved to swim so we put her in a bath-tub but when we opened the door, she'd gone. They hadn't put the lid on the toilet. She went through all the plumbing, we spent a day tearing the place apart, [it wasn't until] two years later that she came back up through the toilet! She'd been living in the plumbing."
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He also reveals that he's a Spice Girls fan: "I took my daughter to see the Spice Girls at the height of their popularity. I'd never experienced a decibel level like that in my life. They were pretty entertaining – like open air theatre minus the Shakespeare!"
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There's more chat with comedian and presenter Sandi Toksvig, and music from Gareth Gates performing his current single Angel On My Shoulder live in the studio.
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The Graham Norton Show is a So Television production for 91Èȱ¬ Two.
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The Graham Norton Show, Thursday 21 June 2007, 10pm, 91Èȱ¬ Two (repeated Sunday)
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