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26 Mar, 2014

Rixton interview

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Seacrest interviews Rixton during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions them about performing with Justin Bieber.

We were very surprised. We were actually singing Suit & Tie at the time [he jumped on stage] but we were just as surprised to see Justin Bieber. It was the most insane thing ever.

Hayley Williams interview

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Seacrest interviews Williams during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions her about Parahoy cruise where the band spent four days performing for their fans.

We played two shows and the other bands on the cruise played three shows each and all the people there a lot of them we grew up playing shows for when we were like 16, so it was like a family reunion.

25 Mar, 2014

Betty White interview

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Seacrest interviews White during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions her about her role in the TV show Hot In Cleveland. 

It gets all the adrenaline going when we have a live one coming up. It’s a little scary, [but] I love live because when I started in television I was on five hours a day, six days a week live.

24 Mar, 2014

Kevin Bacon interview

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Seacrest interviews Bacon during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions him about the 30th anniversary of Footloose performance.

I actually pitched them the idea because the anniversary of Footloose but I didn’t really know they were going to blow it up in the way they did it. [I was like] I’m in the middle of shooting The Following, I don’t know if I can get this together I worked the night before until about 2 o’ clock and I was standing in my kitchen at 2 a.m. looking at the moves they wanted me to do like, ‘How did I do this?

23 Mar, 2014

Seth MacFarlane interview

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Seacrest interviews MacFarlane during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions him about his series  Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.

It’s an update of the Carl Sagan series from 1980, which has been seen by 700 million people worldwide. I’ve always been sort of a science geek. I’ve always been very curious about things and the nature of the universe. It’s designed for people who have absolutely no prior interest in science.  It’s designed to be entertaining first and foremost [and] to be accessible and mind blowing to those who may not have had any prior interest in science at all.

21 Mar, 2014

A Great Big World interview

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Seacrest interviews A Great Big World during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and asks them what their follow up release to the single Say Something is going to be.

This is the question because we have no idea how to follow up that song. I would say I Really Want It or Land of Opportunity or we might have to write you a new song.

20 Mar, 2014

Tina Fey interview

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Seacrest interviews Fey during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions her about her role in the film Muppets Most Wanted.

My accent, I am mostly Russian in the movie. I would say I’m 97% of the time I’m Russian. Every know and then, I’m Italian. Hopefully the kids won’t notice!

Chelsea Handler interview

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Seacrest interviews Handler during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions her about why she dislikes Piers Morgan as an interviewer.

Well, he is a really bad interviewer. I mean, he doesn’t listen. He checks his Twitter handle the entire time you’re talking to him, so yeah, I was being serious I tell him that all the time. I mean, he texted me to come on the show and I was like, ‘Why? You’re such a bad interviewer.’ And then I said, ‘Sure I’ll do it.’ I mean he’s fine, whatever, I don’t dislike him. I just think he should probably do something else now.

19 Mar, 2014

Mali Music interview

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Seacrest interviews Mali Music during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions him about his work with Jennifer Lopez.

I believe it was sparked through the music, you know what I mean? With the Internet and YouTube theres always some underground artist that somebody listens to so I’m grateful to be that one for her. It gave me this opportunity, I’m glad.

Shailene Woodley interview

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Seacrest interviews Woodley during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions her about her role in the film Divergent. 

It’s complicated. There’s the idea it’s about a girl who switches factions and has to make a choice for herself and then deal with the consequences of her choices. But it also deals with warfare and it deals with one society taking over another society there are so many different themes and story-lines interwoven.

Tony Goldwyn interview

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Seacrest interviews Goldwyn during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions him about his role in the TV show Scandal. 

I go back and forth a lot [to the east coast] and this flight attendant grabbed me as I was coming out of the bathroom and pulled me into the kitchen and said, ‘We need to talk about you and Olivia.’ And it was in the part of the story where I was being very cold to Olivia. And she said, ‘You need to forgive her. She’s the only one you can trust. She loves you. You need to straighten this out now.’ And I was like, ‘Well, I’ll have a chat with [creator] Shonda [Rhimes] about that.’ And her fellow flight attendant said, ‘You know, it’s not real. It’s a TV show.

18 Mar, 2014

Behati Prinsloo interview

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Seacrest interviews Prinsloo during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions her about why she isn’t up to date on The Voice episodes.

I do watch The Voice but I haven’t been watching this season because the truth is, I don’t have a TV in New York. But I do watch it. I enjoy that show, I actually like it a lot.

Aloe Blacc interview

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Seacrest interviews Blacc during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions him about how he got his name.

As a hip-hop enthusiast starting really young, I wanted to choose a name that described my rhyme style and I’m a smooth rapper, so I chose Aloe to represent smooth, but it followed me into my singing career, which was sort of accidental.

17 Mar, 2014

Candace Cameron interview

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Seacrest interviews Cameron during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions her about why she joined Dancing With The Stars. 

Sports and fitness are super important in our family. My husband is a professional athlete and my husband won a very similar show to this in Canada two years ago, so I’d like a trophy sitting next to his.

 

14 Mar, 2014

Joan Rivers interview

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Seacrest interviews Rivers during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions her about her senior life crisis on her show Joan & Melissa Knows Best.

We better hurry because I’ve been a senior for so damn long! The girls are starting to call Melissa [answers the phone] and Melissa reads his emails. She’s a good mother.

13 Mar, 2014

Demi Lovato interview

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Seacrest interviews Lovato during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions her about her Neon Lights tour.

The last thing I would EVER want to do is cancel a show, with that being said I’m super sick tonight so it may not be my best show BUT I’m SO excited to perform for you guys but I may need you to sing most of the show for me!!! Hahaha

12 Mar, 2014

Lena Dunham interview

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Seacrest interviews Dunham during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions her about why she wants to quite acting after the series Girls is over.

I don’t know if I’m going to want to act anymore. I’m always relieved on the days I don’t have to. I’d rather give parts to other women than be the woman having the parts.

11 Mar, 2014

Aloe Blacc interview

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Seacrest interviews Blacc during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions him about the advise Dr. Dre gave him.

He said basically, that I could do better. I just needed to figure out a way to be as effective as a Marvin Gaye. Somebody who is able to be masculine and still represent music that crossed for women and men. I think I was able to do that with ‘The Man.

7 Mar, 2014

Kodaline interview

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Seacrest interviews Kodaline during On Line With Ryan Seacrest and questions them about their collaboration with Harry Styles.

We played a show in LA and Harry Styles just turned up and said he was a big fan and had been listening to our music like all the time and we expected him to have like body guards but he’s just a really cool down to earth guy.

Adam Lambert interview

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Seacrest interviews Lambert during On Air With Ryan Seacrest and questions him about his tour with Queen.

I was talking to the Queen guys about this today when I first met them and the first couple times we took the stage together, it was good, it felt good, but just last year at the iHeartRadio Festival it just felt more grounded and evolved and we talked about a lot of reasons, but I feel more grounded.