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Classic television interviews: Rotten on Grundy
Never Mind the Sex Pistols, I'm Gonna Appear in a Bollocks TV Show When I Grow Up!

Before he became the mainstream star of I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! John Lydon (a.k.a Johnny Rotten) was in a little-known beat combo called the Sex Pistols, who first came to eveyone's attention after a foul-mouthed outburst on prime time TV (nothing's changed there then!)  We now replay the Bill Grundy interview especially for all you TVCO viewers!

Grundy: I've been told that you've been given an enormous sum of money from a record company recently?

Steve Jones: We've spent it on whores!

Grundy: I'm sorry?

Rotten: We're not, they were really good!

Grundy: What do you say to people who say that opposes your anti-materialistic way on life?

Rotten: That's just their tough titty.

Grundy: Their what, sir?

Rotten: Nothing, just a fucking rude word, Grunders!

Grundy: What was the fucking rude word?

Rotten: Titty.

Grundy: Was is really, you really frightened me saying that.

Rotten: Well that's just your tough titty, ain't it mate?

Grundy: You said it again, you fucking anus!

Rotten: I didnt' say fucking anus though, did I?

Grundy: Yes you did, just then!

Rotten: I was only repeating what you said, shitface!

Grundy: There you go again, you naughty punk rocker!

Rotten: Oh fuck off, think of the headlines tomorrow! Think of the publicity! We can do each other both favours!

Grundy: Yes, youre fucking right!

Rotten: You do us a favour, we do you one! After all we've got a fucking single to plug!

Grundy: Yes you fucking have! Anyway, I'm not going to be doing this crap for long you know. Early evening fucking television. I've got an idea for a show, it's called reality TV, and the one I'm thinking of is one where you send ten celebrities to live in the Australian jungle for two weeks, and the public vote them out one by one. I'm thinking of calling it: I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! How about you Johnny, can I put you down to be one of the celebrities in it?

Rotten: I ain't doing no fucking show like that, I'm not a celebrity - I'm a punk rocker, anyway, you'd never catch me doing a sell out thing like that, not even when I'm in my late 40s and I'm a has-been and need the publicity.

Grundy: Oh ... Still it's a great idea isn't it?

Rotten: It's a fucking stupid idea, I would never do TV to promote myself as an artist, that's total sell out, its' a cop out, now about this single weve got coming out ...

(Pistols' guitarist Steve Jones gets his tits out on TV, long before Jordan even existed!)