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Jonathan Ross welcomes Joanna Lumley to this week's Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on 91Èȱ¬ One.

The Queen of the Gurkhas Joanna Lumley talks about meeting the Prime Minister Gordon Brown: "... the Lumley self-pleading offensive... I begged him to take it into his own hands... the Government was being fed scare stories."

She says she won't stand for Parliament: "Glimpsing what they have to do, it's such hard work, pretty punishing."

And she cares more about the environment than politics: "We're closer than we think to disaster in a terribly short time."

Joanna also says she wouldn't choose to be an actress now: "If I started life again I would want to be a forester."

Killers frontman Brandon Flowers admits he's not a Mormon in the strictest sense and talks about the pressure of success: "I get defensive, it comes from being self-conscious, I'm starting to get more confident in my skin."

Catholic global phenomenon The Priests don't think women should be admitted to the priesthood.

They say: "We embrace celibacy... people find that bizarre but it reminds us we believe... there's a spiritual element to our work."

Also that gay men can be priests "so long as you're not practising as a homosexual."

And the Roman Catholic church shouldn't change: "There have to be some norms that are unchanging or there would be chaos."

A Hotsauce TV production for 91Èȱ¬ One.

Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, 10.35pm, 91Èȱ¬ One, Friday 29 May 2009

Notes to Editors

These quotes are taken verbatim from a studio recording and may not necessarily reflect the content of the final transmitted version of the programme.

JP