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Johnny and Denise

Nov 9 2000

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Big Breakfast - Johnny and Denise

Johnny and Denise joined us after the Big breakfast, for an early morning chat talking about their futures in the show.

Johnny Vaughan : Hello!

ChatEd : Hi Johnny!
trevor parkin : hi johnny

Denise Van Outen : Morning!

angelcustard : This is tooooooo exciting !
ChatEd : welcome, we ready then?

Johnny Vaughan : We're ready to go!

Simone Dent : Johnny, when are you leaving the show and Denise, how long are you back for?

Denise Van Outen : We're both leaving together!
Johnny Vaughan : After the first two weeks in January.

20 Years : when???

Johnny Vaughan : My contract was to finish at the end of the year...

LEe : Any idea's who will be replacing you both?

Johnny Vaughan : ...but because I took an extra two weeks off in paternity leave, I said I'd do an extra couple of weeks and I wanted to end on a live note and not a pre-recorded Christmas show.

Denise Van Outen : I'm leaving on the same day as Johnny because I like to go out with a bang.
Denise Van Outen grins

chatty : how is being a dad affecting your work are u up all night?
Blue Eyes : Are you coping well with the late night...early mornings..?

Johnny Vaughan : Tabitha sleeps 7 till 7, she's a model baby, so it's been ok. I get to spend all day with her when she is up - I get home at about 11am which is her playtime, it's the perfect job for young fathers. I emphasise the young.

Denise Van Outen : What do you mean young, you're not that young! I'd like to point out that I don't have any children. But I have got lots of animals!
Denise Van Outen chuckles

Johnny Vaughan : She's got a massive Alsatian.

Phil Gage : Do you both ever think you will work together again in the future
kevin newey : johnny, tell them to give you a pay rise and STAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Denise Van Outen : We will work together
Johnny Vaughan : Definitely. Can I just say that I ABSOLUTELY LOVE doing the Big Breakfast, it's Britain's only live daily entertainment show. But the hours, I just have to get my life back, my wife can't stand it.
Denise Van Outen : Yeah, that's why I left the first time, cos of the hours...

Tarina : I missed todays programme. Did the detective correctly guess who murdered Susannah?

Denise Van Outen : No!
Johnny Vaughan : WATCH THE SHOW!
Denise Van Outen : If you can't watch it, tape it!

AdamTTLG : Johnny, would you ever consider riding on one of those jet-powered bikes yourself?

Johnny Vaughan : No. I value my BALLOONs.

ChatEd chuckles
timz : DENISE: DO YOU HAVE YOUR OWN WEBSITE? IF NO, DO YOU WANT ONE?

Denise Van Outen : Yes! It's something that is being set up as we speak, it's up and running in the new year!

benf : what are you doing for the last show - anything outrageous?

Johnny Vaughan : Don't know yet. I never know what's happening on the BB until I get in the car in the morning.
Denise Van Outen : I never know until it's finished!
Johnny Vaughan : The day before we hear about the guests at a meeting, that takes two minutes, then we go home, then the next day we get the script. We have no say in anything, we get up and do the show we're given, and that's the way we like it.
Denise Van Outen : And Johnny always chooses my clothes in the morning!

MAD LITTLE FAIRY : submits: denise... are you going to do another series of 'something for the weekend'?

Denise Van Outen : No. I've done two, I'm bored of it now and it's time to move on and do something different.

Big Al : Thanks to the BB, i am growing my own pair of beauties, and am considering a combover/mullet combo
Chris Smith : Why doesn't the Big Breakfast start a 6am, 2 hours isn't enough.

Denise Van Outen : Cos we'd have to get up even earlier!!!
Johnny Vaughan : Are there any viewers who can acknowledge that I was the FIRST PERSON on British TV to mention the word mullet? I imported that word!

Hank Handsome : you could televise the show from the car on the way in...

Denise Van Outen : I wouldn't want the nation to see me without makeup. I look like Curly Watts. As Johnny once pointed out.
Johnny Vaughan : Fact.

nosebag : do either of you use the internet and if so what's ur favourite sites?

Denise Van Outen : I like mingers.com !
Denise Van Outen grins
Johnny Vaughan : I go on the internet a bit, but I actually use it now for just boring things like booking flights and supermarket shopping. I can never find the site I want anymore. You search for something simple and it finds you like, 22 million sites. It's all commercial, nothing's for free any more, it's all about money. Just like an infinitely boring magazine.
Denise Van Outen : I'm booking my nan a holiday on the internet this afternoon!

Joeyboy : R U gonna do a one off and bring back the fat American Cheeseburger eating Tourist...they were class..
earlyriser : will you bring back jeff and stacy lardburger/cheeseburger before you leave ,they were the best

Denise Van Outen : They will return!
Johnny Vaughan : Hopefully. But we have no say.
Denise Van Outen : Bombard the website! Request your favourite competitions. And address it to Ed: The Leader.
Johnny Vaughan : Could I also say to those people who are down on Ed on the site that he really is One Of The Good Guys

Ash : Would you both like to open my new business in Burton on Trent, that is in the midlands if you didn't know?

Johnny Vaughan : Er... No.
Denise Van Outen chuckles

will : What about you both doing a late night show together?

Johnny Vaughan : On the Fantasy Channel?
Denise Van Outen laughs

YOU BEAUTIEEEEEE : which are your favourite competitions?

Johnny Vaughan : Lardburgers
Denise Van Outen : Gaggin' For It
Johnny Vaughan : Caught With My Pants Down. I like. What was that hairdressing one. Thatch of the day!
Denise Van Outen : Pardon my French
Johnny Vaughan : They're all outstanding in their own individual way.

sketchy : what is your favourite pun of all time johnny?

Johnny Vaughan : Don't mention the whore!

kerry : denise which stage school did you go to and is it hard to get in to ???

Denise Van Outen : I went to Sylvia Young Theatre School, for slags :) Quite hard to get into... but if your parents are loaded it's alright. I got a scholarship, I was very lucky.

Drb : when you both finish working on the bb do you have any input as to who replaces you?

Denise Van Outen : No.
Johnny Vaughan : No. But the show's bigger than all of us. It goes on.

ross white : johnny just to say the other day you looked cool in that pink sheepskin, was that denise's?

Denise Van Outen : It was yellow sheepskin! And yes, it was mine.

gazbailey : what was it like to interview the gallagher brothers and are the same as the press make out?

Johnny Vaughan : It's weird. I first interviewed the Gallaghers when they'd just started, and when you do that you're always on that level. They're still the same lads from Manc that I met from the start. What you can never underestimate though is that Liam definitely has got some rock 'n'roll gene, some star quality, and Noel is just an excellent chap.

Claire Vaughan : Denise - do you actually drink Nescafe?

Denise Van Outen : Yes! Every morning. I like to get something hot inside me.
Denise Van Outen grins
Johnny Vaughan : And I always have a Strongbow in my coffee.

ChatEd : Okay time for three more everyone...
robthedrummer : Have you ever worked in radio? Would you ever consider it, and if so who's radio show would you like?!

Denise Van Outen thinks.
Johnny Vaughan : Hrm. Thing is, I grew up with TV
Denise Van Outen : Never say never though.
Johnny Vaughan : yeah but it's the medium for my generation
Denise Van Outen : ...and I like to get dressed up in the morning and so I'd be wasted on radio!
Johnny Vaughan : Yeah, I like to be able to say 'Look at this!'
Johnny Vaughan points to Denise's breasts
Johnny Vaughan : ...and you can't do that on radio. No facial expression, no visual humour...

denises_next_lover : Who would you most like to have on the show that you haven't managed to get yet?

Denise Van Outen : I'd like to interview Kylie Minogue. I've never met her and I'm a huge fan, I play her CD every morning.
Johnny Vaughan : The Queen Mum, in the shed, with a power tool, doing a power tool demo!

ChatEd : Okay, last one everyone, Johnny and Denise have to go now..
richard wilson : so who's gonna win the american elections?

Denise Van Outen : Geoff and Stacy Lardburger.
Johnny Vaughan : The People.

ChatEd : Okay. Thanks for coming guys... off you go to get yourselves a coffee now :)

Denise Van Outen : Thank you for your time...! Watch the show tomorrow between 7 and 9..
Johnny Vaughan : And also thanks for being such staunch viewers. For such a little show, everyone seems to want to come and knock us down and it's nice to know that our viewers have the same enthusiasm.

Claire Vaughan : Life starts at seven everyone!
Jon Ball : cya
GayBoy : naaah it's class Johnny
JoSara : we love the show

Johnny Vaughan : So it's nice to know, and it's one of the things that keeps us going.

spotter : love ya both!
bigdave : byee
Melly : Bye bye chaps - keep it real....
spotter : byee!!!
Naps : love ya denise
mac : keep me laughing

Denise Van Outen : Big love from Van and Vaughany!

Jon Ball : the show wiil b rubbish without u 2

Denise Van Outen : No, it won't

Claire Vaughan : LOVE THE SHOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Johnny Vaughan : It'll still be the Big Breakfast!

raider : dont argue young lady

Denise Van Outen : The show must go on
Johnny Vaughan : There's a great team working on it, and it'll be fantastic next year, don't worry.

bigdave : bring back johnney and denise

Denise Van Outen chuckles

raider : group hug?

Denise Van Outen : Bye all!
Johnny Vaughan : We will have another chat before we leave. Group hug.

nigel : bye

Johnny Vaughan : Group cyber hug!
Denise Van Outen : Cyber kisses!

Steve- : group hug!
Darren2 : see ya

Johnny Vaughan : Strongbow cyber!

vestanpance : hugs and kisses
ukilledkenny_1 : hug!

Johnny Vaughan waves

Cat : *HUG*

Johnny Vaughan leaves the room

Thor : keep loafing

Denise Van Outen winks
Denise Van Outen leaves the room

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