Andi Dorfman, Josh Murray interview
Seacrest interviews Dorfman and Murray during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions them on how many children they would like to have in the future. Murray:
At least four.
Dorfman:
After the first one, I think I’ll give a good answer. I don’t know yet. I would like a lot, but I don’t know how the first one goes.
Ariana Grande interview
Seacrest interviews Grande during a On Air With Ryan Seacrest and asks her questions about Nicki Minaj’s VMA wardrobe malfunction.
I don’t care. That was amazing. She’s such a pro for coming on, holding her [stuff] together like that and just, like, living and rapping and keeping it together. That was amazing. I thought she did incredibly well, especially given the circumstance.
She also reveals her next album’s title, My Everything.
I felt like A), it was one of my favorite songs on the album, and B), it was just all-encompassing. I felt like it really sort of embodied the work. And yeah, it just felt right, really.
Pierce Brosnan interview
Seacrest interviews Brosnan during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and asks him questions about his role in the film The November Man.
It took five years to bring it to the screen. I optioned this series of books by Bill Granger. It worked out really well. I suppose I should have picked up the gun sooner after the days of Bond. It’s kind of a hard-nosed, gritty character.
Howie Mandel interview
Seacrest interviews Mandel during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions him about his role as one of the four hosts of America’s Got Talent.
The beauty of this is if you don’t like something, you know, if you don’t like music I don’t know who doesn’t like music but if you don’t like songs or pop music, you wait 90 seconds and there’s a guy, you know, juggling monkeys. There’s something for everybody and in this world of A.D.D., we are the perfect show for absolutely everybody and the whole family.
Gary Hood interview
Seacrest interviews VMA stage manager Gary Hood during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions him about Nicki Minaj’s wardrobe malfunction.
Well, I wasn’t immediately next to her, but we rehearsed that [song], obviously, in the dress. And actually the same thing happened in the dress. She didn’t quite make it. I mean, each of the performers had about two minutes There just wasn’t enough time for her [to get changed]. She came up [stage] clutching the top of her costume. So who knew? Anything could happen with her.
Ed Sheeran interview
Seacrest interview Sheeran during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions him about why he dissed Miley Cyrus at the VMAs.
Well, I don’t know why people were expecting that [high-five]. I’ve never met her. There was a high-five between me and Scooter [Braun] because I know him, and that was the only high-five. I don’t know what people we’re expecting. I think she’s a fantastic artist. I think she’s got a great voice, writes great songs.
DJ Mustard interview
Seacret interviews DJ Mustard during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions him about why his signature phase ‘Mustard On That Beat’ was not on the track he produced for Rihanna.
She didn’t say she didn’t want it. I just didn’t use it. I didn’t want them to take it off, and I’d be like, ‘Uh, why’d you take it off?
When asked what it was like working in the same studio that Michael Jackson worked in:
When you first walk in the studio, you feel the presence of Michael. They have a thing, a glass wall with his glove and his hat, pictures. The room I work in is the room he used to work in. Upstairs from the room they call it the ‘Monkey Room’ because that’s where his monkey used to chill at while he was recording. And when you go in the recording booth, you can see, if you look up, you can see the glass the monkey looked through and watched him record his music. It’s a cool vibe and energy. It’s like history!
Charli XCX interview
Seacrest interviews Charli XCX during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions her on why she almost put ghost sounds on her album Sucker.
I was in Sweden in the countryside doing some recording for my record. There was this weird vibe in this house. It was actually this huge hotel we were staying in, kind of like The Shining. We had done some research and found out that there was a woman who had drowned herself in the lake outside the house when her husband had died in the 1900s. In this documentary, it said that she still lived in the house as a ghost. So we set up a microphone and left it recording all night and at about 5 or 6 a.m., we picked up this noise that was like, ‘Oooohhhhh.’ We pitched it up three octaves and it was a woman’s voice talking it was cool!
Becky G interview
Seacrest interviews Becky G during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions her about how work on her debut album is coming.
We’re in finish-the-album time right now. We have all the songs and lyrics and what-not. Now it’s just getting the final vocals and making sure everything is perfect. We’re looking around October [to release], when I’m on tour with Katy [Perry].
Rixton interview
Wright interviews Rixton during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions them about their So You Think You Can Dance performance.
We’re actually doing ‘Me and My Broken Heart,’ which we’re really, really excited about. We don’t really keep secrets. We don’t really keep secrets from each other. We just kind of wear our hearts on our sleeves. We’re lucky guys who just kind of do our own thing.
Fifth Harmony interview
Seacrest interviews Fifth Harmony during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions them about their VMA nomination.
I feel like anybody in the category is definitely deserving and worthy of the award obviously, we want to win. Our Harmonizers go hardcore for us and I don’t put anything past them, so they could possibly make it happen.
Jason Derulo interview
Seacrest interviews Derulo during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions him about what it was like to have dinner at the white house with Michelle and Barack Obama.
One of the funny things was, when they [the Obamas] got into office, there was no wifi. So she [Michelle Obama] was like, we had to put wifi in the whole building. But the people were like, ‘So, where do you want the wifi exactly?’ and she was like, ‘Everywhere!
Seth Meyers interview
Seacrest interviews Meyers during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions him on hosting the Emmy Awards show.
It’s coming to together well. We’re starting to lock in our ideas and write our jokes and we’re really looking forward to it. For someone like me who can’t sing or dance, the open is pretty much where we feel as though I can make the biggest impact, so that’s the biggest part for us: To have a strong monologue and just write a ton of jokes.
Joe Manganiello interview
Seacrest interviews Manganiello during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions him about how he started actually dating his celebrity crush Sofia Vergara. In an earlier interview with People magazine Manganiello revealed Sofia Vergara as his celebrity crush.
When the magazine came out by that time we were seeing each other and when I got the magazine and opened it up and read it, I forgot I said that. She was laughing at me. She thought that I was crazy for having said that out loud or said it in the magazine, but you know, I guess it worked.
Bebe Rexha interview
Seacrest interviews Rexha during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions her about the inspiration for her single I Can’t Stop Drinking About You.
I went to a bar one night with my friends and we went drinking and he [my ex] had called me to backpedal and I told him to leave me alone and that I was drinking about him. That’s how the song was inspired.
Rita Ora interview
Seacrest interviews Ora during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions her about the meaning behind her song I Will Never Let You Down.
It’s basically a love song you can dance to. I wrote this with a really special person, and it was the first time I ever kind of opened my doors up for somebody I knew personally. So, this song was written out of love and I [liked it], it was convenient for the time it was written. But you know, people move on and move forward, but the song still has the same message.
Chris Harrison interview
Seacrest interviews Harrison during On Air With Ryan Seacrest. During the interview Seacrest questions Harrison on how a crew member had a secret affair with one of the contestants of Bachelor In Paradise and broke both his legs jumping from a balcony trying avoid detection.
It’s only fitting that his last name was Putz. It fits so well. As you saw last night, it was great when we interviewed him in the hospital bed, both his legs are in a cast, and we said, Can we get your first and last name? We thought, How can we make this so grandiose and crazy as to encapsulate the bizarre behavior that just took place? It was hysterical.
Derek Hough interview
Seacrest interviews Hough during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions him about his book Taking the Lead: Lessons From a Life in Motion.
I was kind of reflecting on my life and certain experiences, and you know when I’m teaching and coaching my partners on Dancing With the Stars, I sort of use those stories and anecdotes to help them sort of overcome certain fears explains Derek. For me, it was sort of a natural thing to do. They’re lessons to be learned and also to be re-learned. I just wanted to share that.
Daniel Radcliffe interview
Seacrest interviews Radcliffe during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions him about his role in the movie What If.
I’ve had friendships, which have evolved into relationships. This movie is not so much like, ‘Can a man and woman be friends?’ as, ‘Is it right is it sane or healthy to ever live in total denial of your own feelings for somebody?’ [In What If] I meet this girl, fall in love with her, she has a boyfriend, but she makes me so happy that I’m just like, ‘Okay, well I’ll just hang around with her because she makes me happy than anyone else does’.
Tara Reid interview
Seacrest interviews Reid during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions her on role in Sharknado 2.
It’s crazy. We never even thought 1 would come to 2. Originally, it was called Dark Skies, so I thought, ‘It doesn’t sound that bad.’ Then all of a sudden, a week into the movie, they say it’s going to be called Sharknado, I thought to myself, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me. They were like, ‘Just trust us, it’s going to work.’ And in the end, it worked. They knew. It wouldn’t have worked if it was Dark Skies.