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Serena Williams talks Wimbledon with Jonathan Ross
It doesn't get more eclectic than the line-up for tonight's edition of Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on 91Èȱ¬ One
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On the eve of Wimbledon 2007, two times champion Serena Williams talks about how she fought back from a lack of form to her current ranking of seven in the world: "I had injury, surgery, I never really had time to recover, it all came crashing down and I let it go for a while ... getting to be number one is easy, the hard part is staying there."
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About her fitness regime: "Venus and I are really concerned about staying fit and healthy because a lot of people aren't in America. We're over the top, we never want to become unfit, my job is to stay in shape."
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And about her favourite players in the men's game: "Nadal, he's so cute ... Federer has charisma, it's the way he walks, he swaggers."
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And she welcomes Wimbledon's decision to match men's and women's prize money for the first time this year: "It's been a long time, 30 years later than the US Open. We've come a long way [and] we deserve it. I work just as hard as Roger Federer."
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Tonight's guests also include comedy icon Russell Brand, on the eve of a new nationwide stand-up tour, who talks about his new movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall for which he had to learn to surf: "It's the same producer as Anchorman and Talladega Nights ... I got a gay crush on my surfing tutor Mike, I wanted to be like a mermaid and impress him!"
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And there's chat and performance from rock wildman and his enduring iconic band, Iggy & The Stooges.
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Iggy talks about his legendary reputation for excess: "I would go off and pick a girl up ... Ecstasy was the worst, it freaks me out now that it's so popular with young people ... I got very ill and at some point I had to go right off in another direction, I got myself all domesticated, learnt to do the Hoovering, then I was able to go back in to the band.
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"[Now it's] red Bordeaux, espresso coffee, cigars – and I love gardening, I need calming down all the time."
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And there's a rare UK performance of I Wanna Be Your Dog live in the studio.
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A HotsauceTV/Open Mike production for 91Èȱ¬ One.
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Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, Friday 22 June 2007, 10.35 pm, 91Èȱ¬ One
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