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The Kumars at No 42 returns to 大象传媒 ONE, Friday 14 July at 9.30pm
The Kumars are back for a brand new series of The Kumars at No 42, the unique cross between a sitcom and a chat show in which celebrity guests are interviewed by a fictional Indian family in their respectable suburban home.
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The show returns to 大象传媒 ONE on Friday 14 July.
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The first two guests in the new series are the versatile and much-loved actress
Felicity Kendal and fiery chef and reality TV star Gordon
Ramsay.
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Talking about her love of the country in which she
was raised, Felicity tells the Kumars: "I was once in India with a banana and
some nuts and we foolishly started feeding some monkeys - there
were about 3,000 of the things and they all looked incredibly fierce.
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"Suddenly one of the big ones jumped on me and wrestled me to the
ground scratching my head.
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"My friend who was with me just kept shouting 'Look them in the eye! Look them in the eye!' which was pretty tricky considering there were so many thousands of them!"
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She gives her verdict on why The Good Life was so popular: "I think the British have something about wellies which is why [the series] did so well - it's something about the rubber I think."
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And she
comments on her famous Rear-Of-The-Year award.
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Meanwhile Gordon Ramsay chats about the allure of keeping pigs: "I now have two rare Berkshire pigs living in my garden because who doesn't love a bacon sandwich?
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"One's got a lovely voluptuous bottom and the
other one's got a small concave chest with minute teats, so I decided
to keep it simple and went for the names Trinny and Susannah."
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And
why it always seems to be Mums who take a fancy to him: "I
do get female attention; it's quite embarrassing really - although
of course very flattering - but it always seems to be pretty
young girls who all say 'My Mum's so in love with you!'"
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Other guests in the series are:
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Friday 21 July - Jamie Cullum and Cybill Shepherd;
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Friday 28 July - Louis Walsh and Trisha
Goddard;
听 Friday 4 August - Suzi Quatro and Darcey Bussell;
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Friday 11 August - Max Beesley and
Richard Wilson;
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Friday 18 August - Chris Tarrant and Alan Alda.
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Sanjeev Bhaskar stars as Sanjeev, the charmingly na茂ve chat-show
host and Meera Syal is his raucous and cheeky grandmother who
is growing old disgracefully.
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Indira Joshi is Mum, who
wants what every Asian mother wants - a
wedding; and Vincent Ebrahim is Dad who is keen to get down
to business - literally.
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The Kumars At No 42 is a Hat Trick Production for 大象传媒 ONE.
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The series is written by Richard
Pinto, Sanjeev Bhaskar,
Simon Blackwell and Sharat
Sardana.
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The director is Nick Wood, the
producer is Alex Jackson-Long, the Executive
Producer is Anil
Gupta.
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The series was commissioned by Lucy Lumsden, Controller,
Comedy Commissioning, 大象传媒.
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