The Charlotte Church Show - New series gossip

Tuesday, 8 July 2008

Charlotte Church has revealed all about the third series of her hit chat show.

Most first-time mums are doing well if they manage to make it out of the house occasionally in an outfit that's not covered in drool and sick. But, not for the first time, Charlotte Church is proving that she's not the same as most.

The third series of her raucously entertaining show is kicking off on Thursday and Charlotte has decided to give us all the juicy details....

You've done something with the Welsh Guards for this series, haven't you?

"Yeah. That was hard work! I had to infiltrate one of their final rehearsals for Trooping the Colour, and not get noticed. It was the scariest thing I've ever done in my whole life.

"These boys have a few months training so their marching and movements are pretty much spot on, and to be fair, they are slick, they move as one. And then there was me. I had about two hours to try and learn the basic moves, of which there are a lot - shoulder arms and slope arms and quick march and loads of others.

"I was absolutely shitting myself by the time I got onto the square. I had a big bearskin on, and the full army gear and massive boots that weight half a tonne each.

"And they have steel things on the bottom, like tap shoes - a little bit feminine, but there you go. It's basically like being on a pair of ice skates. I was knackered by the end. I was a move behind every time."

Charlotte Church (Channel 4 image)

Did you get away with it?

"Well, there were 540 guys on parade, but only one or two people knew I was there. We were fooling a lot of people. One of the more senior guys, who had no idea who I was, called me out of the ranks and made me quick march around, shouting "Stop being so sloppy, boy. Pull your socks up." And I was so tired.

"It was really fun, though. I'd never do it again, but I'm glad I did it. And they gave me a plaque of the regimental flag - a colour, I think they call it - afterwards, which is now on my mantelpiece."

Do you ever get rumbled in the hidden camera stuff?

"Not really, because I can talk myself out of any situation. But sometimes people can get a bit pissed off, and you have to talk them
round, with lots of shoulder-touching.

"We did one thing the other day, with a driving instructor, where I was telling him what to do via an earpiece, and he was behaving really weirdly, and the girl in the lesson was freaked out by how weird he was being.

"She wasn't cross, but was a little freaked out. She was a vegetarian, ands halfway through the lesson he reached into the back and produced a full roast dinner which he started eating."

Do you ever draw the line at certain things because it's too mean?

"Yeah, definitely. You've got to be careful about not offending people. And sometimes I just thing something might be going a little too far. I can have a little bit of a sick sense of humour, but normally my morality kicks in and usually wins the day."

You're also doing a hidden camera stunt where you're providing the voice in a lift, aren't you?

"Yeah, I did that a couple of days ago. That was really good fun. There's so much you can do. Some of the older people in it are really cute. It's really funny as well, because there was a mirror in there.

"It's amazing how many people check themselves out, or squeeze
a spot, or examine their moustaches or look at their arse. So it was funny before I'd even said anything, just what people do when they're on their own in a lift."

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Charlotte Church (Channel 4 image)