Vilka kändisar ligger inför döden?

VG: He's an odd little chappie but he does quite well on the TV, Richard Dean Anderson and what did you do to your - you broke some bits or - or something. You hurt your knee?

(tact is NOT this woman's middle name!!)

RDA: (clearly astonished at what she's just said.) I broke my 'bits'?

VG: You broke your - hurt your back. You broke something.

RDA: You want the laundry list?

VG: No, but you hurt yourself.

RDA: (very matter of fact) Oh, rec - most recently I had my third knee surgery. I don't know when it was, in March or so, so yeah, I'm better now.

VG: When did - how did you do that?

RDA: Ummm, oddly and ironically I'd been - it was last winter I was - I had had one of the most aggressive years of skiing - seasons of skiing I'd been to Banff, I'd been Heli-skiing, I'd been racing, big crashes, the whole nine yards, a really nice season. (VG and the audience gives a little titter of amusement) Not ONE injury, Not - nuthin. Ah, except ego. And that mended nicely. I was carrying my daughter into her ballet class -

VG: Carrying her?

RDA: Well, it was off a parking lot so I carried her across - we were, you know, got into this hallway and caught my foot on a nail that was sticking out - it snapped my foot back - let me get real graphic, all right (VG is already looking a bit squeamish)

VG: Yeah.

RDA: (really rapid delivery, working it while VG is grimacing and not looking at him) Snapped my foot back, dislocated my knee, my knee, my foot is pointing backwards so I swing it and pop it back in, it POPS back back in (he's looking right at the camera now) What time does this air?

(Laugh from audience.)

VG: It's okay, it's good.

RDA: Two days later I had surgery to piece it back together and it shredded the (medial meniscus? - that's what it sounds like) so it's um, the third one so I'm you know, I'm just getting bored with the process now.

VG: Yeah, well, you're practically the bionic guy now.

RDA: (again, very matter of fact) Yeah, back surgery, two broken arms, to three knees, feet -

VG: Do you hurt all the time?

RDA: Well, that's kind of personal, but -

VG: Well, do you hurt all the time?

RDA: (dissmissive, like it's no big deal, a little cross, almost) Yes, yes, yes.

(I can't believe she asked him this question.)

VG: So, you're in pain all the time. Do you take anything?

RDA: (very quickly) Yeah, No, not any more.

VG: You don't, eh?

RDA: No. Well, an anti-inflamatory if I NEED - really - my neck -

VG: If you're going crazy.

RDA: My neck locked up a couple of weeks ago in ah...at work. And I was literally - and there's an episode, if you can all find it, where I'm turning like this (and he demonstrates turning his entire upper body as one unit to look around rather than just turning his head), when the bad guys are coming. Again, saving the universe with a stiff neck. But
that's -

(this gets a big laugh)