Probably Timberland but Pharell comes a close second. They both don’t like talking, especially if you’re a guy! Apparently they open up more to females but when I interviewed Timberland he just mumbled the whole way through and gave one word answers and it wasn’t until we got near the end of the interview that he started to chirped up a little bit more and speak in coherent English! But I still think he’s cool and a really good producer nevertheless!
Who would you love to interview given the chance?
Oprah Winfrey, I think she is an absolute legend, because she’s done so much and she’s massive and one of the biggest people on TV. She’s very successful and would have a really good story to tell.
Do you ever get star-struck?
Yeah, it’s weird because some people that you expect you might feel strange about interviewing because you really really like them, you often don’t get too star-struck.
Kanye was a particularly difficult interview for me because I had been at MTV for about two months and it was the first interview I had done away from the office, it was in a hotel room with an independent film crew rather than my regular news team, so to begin with I didn’t have that comfort around me, but to make it worse, he left us waiting for about two and a half hours!
I got there on time, if not a bit early and his people said to me, “Just wait here, he won’t be long.” so I was sat in a chair with a crew of people I didn’t know, two months into being at MTV, panicking that I was going to forget my questions and everything. It was really nerve-racking and by the time he got there it was a bit of a washout, but still fun!
What do you do in your free time?
I go out to a lot of parties and I get to go to a lot of gigs and concerts, I am really lucky that I get to do so much cool stuff. I also go to a lot of charity stuff and I do quite a lot with kids at the Brit School. I’m actually going back to do the yearly radio show which is called Brit FM and every year they get a restricted radio licence and broadcast throughout out surrounding areas. I haven’t been back for a few years but this time I’m going to go back and help out for a few days.
We ask everyone we interview to come up with a question for the next person we interview....and Angela Griffin wants to know; “If you were to subscribe to a magazine, what would it be?”
Probably something like GQ.
And what would you like to ask my next interviewee?
Have you ever licked the top of a square battery and how old were you?
Female First - Ruth Harrison