Graham Norton
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No, I mean, Baku was so extraordinary because it's just so far away.
It started at midnight that year so that it could start at 8pm in the UK.
You know, coffee.
Baku is really, yeah, I mean... A wash with drugs.
Yeah.
Cartels a go-go.
Always good to keep him with the cartels the minute you land.
No, because apparently they'd cleared housing.
Like people had lived where the stadium was built and they just got rid of it.
They said, you don't live there anymore because it's quite photogenic.
So we're putting the stadium up.
And then there's loads of money.
Obviously, it's Azerbaijan.
They've got oil.
Yeah.
So lots and lots of money.
So you drive down the kind of the big strip by the river and it's like by the sea and it's palm trees.
It looks fabulous.
And it's Gucci, Dolce & Gabbana, Prada, all the amazing shops.
If you go one street back, there are just chickens pecking at the ground.