He’s busy with The Last Leg, Spicks & Specks and comedy commitments, but would Adam Hills ever consider a return to Adam Hills Tonight?
The show (originally titled Adam Hills In Gordon Street Tonight) ran from 2011 – 2013 on ABC, with co-host Hannah Gadsby.
Yet while Australia is lacking a ‘Tonight’ show, Hills left the door open to possibilities.
“You never know,” he told TV Tonight.
“But I think Hannah Gadsby is now too big a star. I’ve joked about it with her. I always said, I regret that we never quite found the right way to show off her talents on our show.
“But I think if we brought it back, she might be the host and I might be her sidekick.”
For now Hills’ focus is on Spicks & Specks with upcoming guests including Dilruk Jayasinha, Geraldine Hickey, Rhys Nicholson, Peter Helliar, Ross Noble and Meshel Laurie.
The show is yet to get Barry Gibb, who wrote the show’s (borrowed) theme song but Hills did snatch an encounter with the Bee Gees legend in the UK.
“We were making The Last Leg in the London Studios right on South Bank and there were a whole bunch of other shows being made around that time. I remember walking past Barry Gibb in the hallway, doing a double take and turning back to look at him. He didn’t recognise me, but his manager did, and said, ‘Adam!’ and then called Barry back and said, ‘Barry, this is Adam Hills,’” he explains.
“Barry said, ‘Oh my god, I love The Last Leg!’ I think he was living in Florida at the time, but he still somehow found a way to watch The Last Leg.
“So then I said, ‘Well, this is might sound strange, but I used to host a TV show in Australia called Spicks & Specks.’ And he said, ‘Oh my God, I remember when they asked me for permission to use that title and I thought that’s a terrible name for a TV show!’”
Hills adds, “I heard they played a charity bushfire concert, at like the SCG or the MCG, and he started to play Spicks & Specks, and the crowd went wild and I think he might have been a little bit confused by it But I think he kind of appreciates that (the show has) given the song a bit of a renaissance.”
Spicks & Specks continues 7:30pm Sundays on ABC.