I'm off to have breakfast with the T4 presenters I tell my friend. "OHHHMMMIIIIGGOOOODDD" she screams down the phone, she's that excited. And to be honest I was too. Yep we've grown up fancying Steve, envying Miquita and now we regularly lust after Rick too. No one else can help us recover from our almighty hangovers like they do.
And when I catch up with them, it's like we're on set, they get on sooo well. There's talk of another Shipwrecked (hooray) and Miquita is laughing about a card she's just received that gives her free Nando's for life. Soon it was time for me to grill them for a change...
So you're here to tell us about T4's Stars of 2009?
Steve: Yes it's very exciting. And it's not just a big music event- there's going to be a Rimmel London catwalk, fashion scouts looking for new models, a celeb DJing tent and the T4 studio is being shipped there, so people can go on set, practise a link and see if they could be a T4 presenter!
Sounds fab, who'd join your team if you could choose anyone?
Miquita: Calvin Harris. We could have a laugh with him
S: Yes he's bright and funny. Oh and Kimberley from Girls Aloud. She has a great manner about her and she's a really nice girl. It could be the "Calvin and Kimberley show".
M: Don't put us out of a job Steve!
Any embarrassing moments on set?
S: Hugh Grant called me Michael for an entire interview once, which was quite weird
M: When I was on Pop World with Simon he'd be asking things that I didn't think were appropriate so I'd pinch him to say enough now but he'd rarely listen. Ooh and I really needed the toilet once when I was interviewing Justin Timberlake. I had 7 more questions, but just went "Ok, great" and left quickly.
You ran out on Justin?!
M: Yes, I thought what's worse- being rude or actually wetting myself. I decided wetting myself.
Where's the strangest place you've been recognised?
Rick: I was in Hawaii and heard "Oi T4"; I was like "Oh hello". The people who always recognise you though are tramps.
S: It makes it impossible to go "I haven't got any change". They're like "Oh come on Steve from Channel 4".... I was spotted at karaoke once. I was ironically singing Britney Spears' Toxic, waiting to surprise my mates who'd gone to the toilet. But then four people went past and said "Are you Steve Jones?" I said "No" thinking ‘I'm on my own singing Britney so, no I'm not'. That was embarrassing.
Best bit of advice?
R: When you have a jar of pasta sauce and you can't get out that little bit left in the bottom then you can just boil up a bit of hot water, put it in, shake it up and pour it out. I read that on the back of a free supermarket magazine.
M: How did you not know that?! You can do that with everything- shower gel, everything.
S: You just changed my life...
Funniest thing you've seen written about yourself?
M: When I was going out with someone very posh (he was a lord) a paper wrote that it was disgusting that he was going out with me because I was a peasant basically and slept in a bunk bed. It wasn't funny, just the most untrue thing I've ever heard.
R: Apparently I have the hots for Russell Brand...
S: I don't normally read the press but I heard last Sunday from a friend that apparently I shagged George Clooney in Cannes. That's the craziest thing I've ever heard.
So officially not true then?
S: We just got off with each other, we didn't shag (laughs).
So T4's Stars of 2009 is going to be one amazing gig, what's the best gig you've been to?
M: Smashing Pumpkins when I was 12.
S: The Mighty Boosh- live. Better than any musical gig I've ever been to, it was incredible.
R: I saw The Prodigy when I was 17. I was desperate to see them and they didn't disappoint.
Alexandra Burke, JLS, Sugababes, Calvin Harris and La Roux are all confirmed acts for T4's Stars of 2009 which takes place on Sunday 29th November at Earls Court, London. For more info and tickets go to www.channel4.com/t4
