Jonathan Ross welcomes Joanna Lumley to this week’s Friday Night With Jonathan Ross on BBC One.

The Queen of the Gurkhas Joanna Lumley talks about meeting the Prime Minister Gordon Brown: “… the Lumley self-pleading offensive… I begged him to take it into his own hands… the Government was being fed scare stories.”

She says she won’t stand for Parliament: “Glimpsing what they have to do, it’s such hard work, pretty punishing.”

And she cares more about the environment than politics: “We’re closer than we think to disaster in a terribly short time.”

Joanna also says she wouldn’t choose to be an actress now: “If I started life again I would want to be a forester.”

Killers frontman Brandon Flowers admits he’s not a Mormon in the strictest sense and talks about the pressure of success: “I get defensive, it comes from being self-conscious, I’m starting to get more confident in my skin.”

Catholic global phenomenon The Priests don’t think women should be admitted to the priesthood.

They say: “We embrace celibacy… people find that bizarre but it reminds us we believe… there’s a spiritual element to our work.”

Also that gay men can be priests “so long as you’re not practising as a homosexual.”

And the Roman Catholic church shouldn’t change: “There have to be some norms that are unchanging or there would be chaos.”