David Tennant went above and beyond for tonight’s Comic Relief programme, according to Richard Curtis.
The Doctor Who veteran will host the Red Nose Day charity telethon alongside Paddy McGuinness, Zoe Ball, Joel Dommett, and AJ Odudu, and he’s working hard to nail the tone.
Richard Curtis, co-founder of Comic Relief, detailed the effort he’s put in behind the scenes on Friday’s edition of Lorraine, which aired hours before the broadcast on BBC One.
He said: ”I had David Tennant in here yesterday re-writing all his links. He said, “This isn’t passionate enough, I wanna really convince people that their money’s gonna change lives.” ‘
Richard is looking forward to the evening, which will have Love Island and The Traitors comedy, a Ghosts special with Kylie Minogue, and Sir Tony Robinson reprising his role as Baldrick telling a bedtime story.
‘Obviously I’m biased, but I do think this is one the best shows we’ve ever had,’ he said.
He highlighted his opinion that people are decent, especially when they have the opportunity to ‘do the right thing’.
He added: ‘Just the feeling that you’re being a full blooded citizen. My feeling of life is that if you open a door to people being able to do the right thing, millions of people charge through it. I’m a real optimist and today’s just a mechanism.’
While conditions are terrible for many people around the country right now, Richard suggests that people become’more compassionate’ and desire to help others when they themselves are hurting.
‘It is incredible. There’s this strange thing, you get this instinct that as people’s lives get tougher, they become more empathetic towards other people’s suffering,’ he pondered.
‘If you can feel it in your bones that times are hard, you don’t want other people to homeless, you don’t want a woman living in terror in her home, you want to get victims of domestic violence out.’
Lorraine airs weekdays at 9am on ITV1. Red Nose Day 2023 airs on BBC One on Friday (March 17) at 7pm.
Source My Celebrity Life.