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Tom Fletcher reveals SECRETS behind Paddington The Musical
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May 21, 2025
Tom Fletcher joins Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden on Heart Breakfast to officially announce Paddington The Musical. Tom reveals how the iconic British bear is being brought to life on stage, and what audiences can expect from the production. #PaddingtonTheMusical #TomFletcher #McFly Subscribe for regular entertainment! http://bit.ly/1qyfc2T Watch videos in full + exclusives here: https://thisisheart.co/heartglobalplayer Honest Celebrity Interviews: https://thisisheart.co/honestinterviews Music Artists: https://thisisheart.co/3YVm8wN Film and TV Stars: https://thisisheart.co/filmandtv _ We're the UK's biggest commercial radio brand creating memorable moments with the most recognised names in entertainment!
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All I can say is when you see Paddington step out onto the stage, it makes me cry every time I see it
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I know, I feel tearful you just even saying that. Honestly, when you come out of watching this show, somehow the world just feels like a better place
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And I feel like that's the magic of Paddington. This is probably one of my all-time favourite TV themes of any show
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What a beautiful TV show. Made, of course, by Michael Bond, the original Paddington
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And much loved. Now, of course, a big film star these days. The little bear with the marmalade sandwiches
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And the good news is, it's coming to the West End. I can't believe this
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It's going to be a huge show with music and lyrics by the insanely talented Tom Fletcher
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What an introduction. Thank you. That's a lovely introduction. Join us now. Dear Aunt Lucy
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All change at Paddington I'm in London Off air then, Tom, we were saying it is a no-brainer
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Paddington the musical, I'm just like, we're all there, surely? Well, I felt that. When I first got the phone call
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and I heard the words Paddington the musical, it just, it seems to just make sense
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So I've just spent the last five years trying not to mess that up. Oh, my gosh
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It already feels like it's going to be amazing. Five years in the making. Yeah, well, I've been working on it for five years
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I've been not allowed to talk about it, saying anything about it. And now I can finally talk about this wonderful bear
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that I've been able to look after. So this is amazing. So do you get given..
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Because obviously in a... And forgive me, this is not my area of expertise. You know more about it than me, Amanda
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You have a book, and a book is the story. So when people talk about the book of a musical That is the story of the show That the script essentially And then there the book which is the script which is written by Jessica Swale
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And I've written all of the music and lyrics. And are you allowed to tell us anything about the story
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Is it a story that we already know, perhaps? It's based on the books
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I think in the same way that the films kind of take the heart and the essence of everything that Paddington fans love
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about these characters in the books, but tell a new story. this is very similar to that
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If you love the books or if you love the films, you will feel very at home
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with this show, but it's seeing Paddington in a way that you've not seen him before
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So you won't see the beginning of his story? You will see it
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In a flashback. In a flashback. You're digging, I can see that. I'm so nervous
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I'm going to give away some spoilers. We're like a small child playing Paddington and then he evolves, maybe
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There'll be a small and a medium and a large Paddington, maybe, to show time passing. Yeah, this sounds very familiar
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Oh, I know. So I wonder how they've come up with that idea. Are there any bears in the production
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Well, there is, of course, one very important bear. All I can say is when you see Paddington step out onto the stage
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it makes me cry every time I see it. I know, I feel tearful you just even saying that
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Honestly, there's just something so magical about seeing him step out onto the stage
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And, you know, obviously I'm slightly biased, having been part of this, but there's something so special about when you come out of watching this show
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somehow the world just feels like a better place and I feel like that's the magic of Paddington
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you know he is this really special character that Paddington never really changes
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he's always constant, he's always the same but he makes the world around him better
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and he inspires people to be better and I think the musical just seems to have that effect on you
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when you leave it you feel like a better person and I don't know why, it's just really, it's so special
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Just a question of snacks now in the interval Will you be serving like marmalade sandwiches marmalade crisps marmalade Maltesers Me personally I don know Or the show itself the production I hope so I hear lots of rumours but I don know Marmalade ice cream I would love to try some Marmalade ice cream
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Yes. I don't know if that's a thing. I don't know if we can make that a thing. It could be a thing
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Jamie, you know all about what you can make ice cream. I can make Marmalade ice cream, no problem at all
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That could be anything. And when is this amazing show opening? We open... Previews are the 1st of November
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Right. And which, unfortunately, I'm actually playing with the band that night
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so I can't make the first preview. I'm gutted, yeah. Maybe I'll have to pull a sickie
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and just apologise to the band. I feel like, yeah. If I'm not there at that show, you might find me at the Savoy
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eating marmalade ice cream. Now, obviously, you've got three kids. You say it's been in development for five years
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So as they've sort of grown up, obviously they were kind of a perfect age
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Were they quite useful to be able to bounce ideas off? Absolutely
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I mean, so Buzz, my oldest. Buzz is actually, he's in Starlight Express at the moment. so he's
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I mean he loves musical theatre and I always What do you mean he's in it
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He's in Starlight Express he plays Control in Starlight Express so if you see Starlight he's
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On skates? Actually he's the only character that isn't on skates Not on skates Wow
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But he's great so he actually sang on all of my family have actually sang on the Paddington demos
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when I need the family you know and I need someone to sing for Mrs. Brown
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I ask my wife to do it my sister sang on it That's amazing Yes your sister's incredible as well
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It's quite handy being able to call in those favours from the family What a gene pool
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We thought that we would put you to the test to find out how many other children's characters
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you are familiar with. So what we're going to do, we're going to put 60 seconds on the clock
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We're going to shout out some questions that all relate to iconic children's characters
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both in film and TV. They're great. And we'll see how well you do. Oh, wow. Okay, I'm quite nervous
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All right. It's fine. Your 60 seconds starts now. Which film features a green one-eyed monster
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and his purple furry friend? it my favourite movie big Pixar for children well it not actually my second favourite wait hang on a minute No this is a timer There a time you can hear His name is Mike Grogowski Oh Wazowski
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Yes, Mike Grogowski. What name did Woody from Toy Story have written on the bottom of his foot
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Andy. Yes. Shrek famously said, what are you doing in my... Swamp
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Yes. Peppa Pig jumped in what? Muddy bottles. What animals? Bluey. Dog
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Yes. Name a Teletubby. Any Teletubby. Tinky Winky. Yes. Blossom. Bubbles and Buttercup are known as the..
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Bubbles and Buttercup. Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup. Powderpuff. Powderpuff girls. What fruit does SpongeBob live in
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Pineapple. The bear wears a red hat and loves marmalade. That is a bear
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Who carries a purple backpack and has a monkey called Boots? Oh, oh, during the Explorer. Yes
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Which bear wears no pants? And loves honey. Oh, Winnie the Booth
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The other bear. The other one. The other bear. The one we don't mention. The other one
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I'm not one. You're right. He never wears pants. Never was. No. Very brave
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Elmo is naked, but always wears pajamas to bed. Right. It's got that the wrong one
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My husband says that about me as well. Yes. I spend most of the day naked, and he's like, why are you putting your PJs on to go to bed
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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. I mean, I thought I was out on the first question there
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Well, a very slow start. I'm pleased to be able to have one more question. We're going to run out of questions
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Oh, that's good. So, you scored 11, which is... Thank you very much
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Thank you. Out of 12. Very good. good Tom thank you so much
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for coming in good luck with the tour we haven't even mentioned the fact that of course you guys are back on the road
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just quickly we are yeah we're touring Busted versus McFly we're going to go and embarrass those Busted boys
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at the end of the year perfect and what are we in
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rehearsals yet or probably not quite no no we'll Busted need to rehearse we don't really need to
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do that it's started already Tom Fletcher thank you very much
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