her to make a point. She told him later in the interview that she was extremely angry at his behaviour. Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, in her late nineties, reciting Juliet's death scene from Romeo and Juliet, a role she had first performed over eighty years ago. Simon Hayward. The BBC stopped an interview in 1989 with Simon Hayward, a former Captain with the Life Guards, just hours before he was due to appear on the Wogan show. Hayward insisted that he was innocent of drug smuggling offences. The decision was taken by the then Controller of BBC 1, Jonathan Powell, after protests from several MPs. However, the BBC was accused of censorship and a Conservative MP, John Gorst, described the decision to ban Hayward from Wogan as "outrageous". Rock Hudson appeared on the show in 1984 in one of his last public interviews, as he died of AIDS-related complications the following year. David Icke appeared on the show in a turquoise tracksuit claiming to be "a son of the Godhead". When the studio audience began to laugh hysterically, Wogan responded: "They're not laughing with you; they're laughing at you." However, in the 2000s when Wogan interviewed Icke again on television, he said he regretted his stance on the interview and offered Icke an apology. Madonna appeared in a special show, Wogan Meets Madonna in 1991, in which Wogan interviewed her in Cannes. She had requested that the interview was filmed in black and white but was refused. Victoria Principal gave a feisty interview in 1984 and was herself crying with laughter at Wogan's mocking of her series, Dallas. The two became friends and Principal made further appearances on the show via satellite. Vivienne Westwood appearing on the show in 1988 when it was being guest-hosted by Sue Lawley, and displaying her latest medically inspired collection. When the audience began to laugh at the outlandish designs, an offended Westwood told Lawley that if they didn't stop laughing, she would tell the models to stop coming out. This interview would later be parodied in the fictional Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge. Russell Harty was one of the other guests present in one of his final TV appearances. References External links 1982 British television series debuts 1992 British television series endings 1980s British television talk shows 1990s British television talk shows BBC television talk shows English-language television shows