Warne promises celebs “nice questions”

Shane Warne says he has clocked up interviews with Sting, Dannii Minogue, Chris Martin and James Packer for his new show, is hoping to get Mick Jagger, Daniel Radcliffe, Kylie, Jeremy Clarkson and Simon Cowell.

Russell Crowe, Elizabeth Hurley and Hugh Grant are also said to be likely contenders. Tiger Woods was an unknown, at least he was at the time Warne gave an interview to Mark Robinson of the Courier Mail.

Here are some select questions about his new Nine show:

MR: The TV show. Whose idea?
SW: It was my idea. I went to David Gyngell (at Channel 9) and my management team, James Erskine at SEL, and had the idea that anybody who’s been successful in their life, there’s a common trait about simplicity and common sense. I think I’m on a similar wave length. So we developed it and it’s 50-50 with Channel 9 and Shane Warne Inc, I suppose.

MR: Will you delve and be hard-hitting?
SW: I won’t be hard-hitting. We’ve all seen these people give interviews about their movies and life, but what I’ll try to do is see a different side of them.

Obviously they will be more relaxed with me because they know I won’t stitch them up. I won’t ask about what happened in the past. I’m interested in how they spend their time, what interests them, what drives them. Nice questions.

I hate how people harp on all the other stuff. Let’s move on. Everyone’s heard it and knows it, so let’s move on. I talk about the glass being half full. I guarantee you it is fun. We talk to Sting about tantric sex, Sting talks about his voice being so high because he got hit in the Jatz crackers with a cricket ball at an early stage.

MR: And the name?
SW: At this stage it will be called Warnie.

It premieres 9pm Wednesday Nov. 24th on Nine.

Source: Courier Mail