Hi, Phil! Confidence is a preference for the habitual voyeur for what is known as?
Hang on. Let me eat this biscuit (1). Otherwise I'll gabble.
And a morning soup can be avoided if you take a route straight through what is known as?
[Finishes biscuit]. Parklife?
Parklife! Damon has collaborated with everyone from Lou Reed to two-thirds of the Clash on the new Gorillaz LP. Are you upset he's ignoring his East End roots, ie you (2)?
No. We have our relationship. Let's not monkey about! It was great everybody getting back together (3). It was like Old Friend United. Your cup of tea is here.
Thanks! You played Jimmy in Quadrophenia (4), Richards in Scum (4), Kevin Wicks in EastEnders (4) and, of course, Fetcher the rat in Chicken Run (4). Any plans for Chicken Run 2: This Time It's Poultry?
I'd love to do Chicken Run 2. It's great being a rat! Me and Tim Spall (5) enjoyed it. You read lines in a radio booth, which is odd. When you see it, it's fantastic. I don't miss EastEnders. I did a two-stretch. That was enough. My favourite role was playing a bulimic restaurant critic in Holding On (6). I based it on Tony Parsons (7). AA Gill (8) thought it was him but it wasn't. So up him!
Your specialist subject on Celebrity Mastermind was Chelsea FC in the 1970s. You should've chosen The Life And Times Of Phil Daniels. You'd've cleaned up!
Yeah. The guy (9) wouldn't know what to fucking ask, would he? He got it all wrong anyway. He said I was in a film called Quadraphonic and we had to cut filming while someone clued him in. It was nerve-wracking, but once I was on a roll, I was away. I was flabbergasted to get 16 or 17 out of 18.
We're interviewing Paul Daniels soon for some reason and we were this close [———] to bringing the wrong questions. Would you have shown us your Magic Circle?
I once had a letter which said, "Dear Phil Daniels, my husband Bunny and I are great admirers and we think you are the best magician on the telly!" Another time I was playing a charity football match and a woman came running up and went, "You're not Paul Daniels, they said Paul Daniels was coming!" You should ask him if he's ever been mixed up with me!
Will do! So, Strictly Come Dancing. Never again?
I'm only doing my own thing with dancing now. I'm only doing dad dancing. I thought it'd be fun. It was fun. You get paid the same whether you're knocked out the first week or the last (10). Be rubbish, get kicked out, and watch the rest at home!
You've written a book. Are you in it?
Yes. It's a book about me.
You look a bit like Robert De Niro on the front.
Ah, that's very nice of you to say so. I'm looking more like Harold Pinter today. Ha!
Thanks, Phil! Have you had a word with the dustmen for rudely awakening you on a Wednesday morning, or have you decided they're just trying to do their jobs?
They find it hilarious. When I lived in Camden they collected the rubbish very well. They did an excellent job, may I say so. It's the most famous song about dustmen there is. Except for Lonnie Donegan, My Old Man's A Dustman! Everybody …
Phil Daniels: Class Actor is out on Thursday
1 A chocolate Hobnob
2 Albarn, born Whitechapel (1968). Daniels, Islington (1958)
3 Blur's 2009 comeback gigs
4 (1979), (1979), (2006-2008), (2000)
5 Nick the Rat
6 TV series (1997)
7 Mirror columnist
8 Restaurant critic
9 John Humphreys
10 Knocked out first in 2008