HIGNFY Guest interview: The Reverend Richard Coles
David Thair | 16:00 UK time, Friday, 29 May 2009
Tonight’s Have I Got News For You is hosted by David Mitchell (soon to be seen in a new series of That Mitchell and Webb Look) who, as well as the regular team captains, will be joined by panellists Andrew Maxwell and The Reverend Richard Coles. He’s been on the show before, but that was some time ago…
HIGNFY: You last appeared as a HIGNFY guest in 1994 – how do you feel returning now 15 years later?
Richard Coles: Bitter and vengeful.
HIGNFY: What stories do you think will be covered this week and how have you been preparing?
Richard Coles: I’m afraid I only see the paper after my neighbour Mr Welsh has finished with it, so I may be a little behind; but this ‘credit crunch’ looks like it might turn into something.
HIGNFY: Are you looking forward to reforming The Communards with Ian?
Richard Coles: Cometh the hour…
HIGNFY: It’s the stuff of legend, you met Jimmy Somerville by chance at a Kings Cross Café – tell me more.
Richard Coles: I’m afraid we told so many lies about how we’d met I can’t remember now where and when we actually did meet. It was more likely to have been the café in King Cross than the brothel in Amsterdam, which I once saw in a magazine.
HIGNFY: Don’t Leave Me This Way was the UK’s biggest selling single of 1986 – how did that feel?
Richard Coles: Very bracing.
HIGNFY: Do you know what the Second highest selling single of 1986 was? It was Nick Berry Every Loser Wins.
Richard Coles: What a great year.
HIGNFY: How far from your life as a Rev are the pictures painted by comedies such as The Vicar of Dibley?
Richard Coles: You mean The Vicar of Dibley isn’t a documentary?
