Bradley Wiggins is never boring and this TV interview with Graham Norton was no different. He's been criticised but it looked and sounded tongue in cheek. Above, on the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix 2014 - "You can never have kids again," was his verdict on the impact of the race on one's nether regions (Photo: Sirotti)
If there’s one thing you can say about Bradley Wiggins it’s that he’s almost always very good value when interviewed.
Unlike many of his colleagues in the pro peloton, the 2012 Tour de France winner is not the sort to measure every word with his image in mind.
And his interview on the Graham Norton New Year's Eve show was no different.
Wiggins covered a range of topics in characteristically blunt fashion and while we found him pretty funny, some of the reaction has been negative.
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In fairness to him, the sections of the interview that have been criticised were conducted very much tongue in cheek.
On riding the cobbles of Paris-Roubaix, for example: “It’s pretty painful. You can never have kids again,” he said in reference to the impact of the stones on, well, one’s stones.
He said his wife Cath insisted on lifting his heavy bags in and out of the car when dropping him off or collecting him at an airport for fear he might do his back in.
“She clean and jerks 200 kilos, she’s a good girl,” he said, before adding his wife was “a bit of a panel beater”.
Wiggins on Graham Norton's sofa with actor Eddie Redmayne; the Tour de France winner was in quirky form.
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The camera panned back to Cath Wiggins in the audience who was laughing, though perhaps a little nervously.
Norton, never afraid to ask the embarrassing questions, quizzed Wiggins on how cyclists go to the loo during long races.
“You just get it out; you do, you do,” he said.
“You’ve to have a wee in seven hours, ain’t you? So you stop and pull your kecks down when there’s no one around.
“If it’s raining and it’s freezing cold, you do it in your shorts cos it warms your legs up. Cycling is quite popular now in the UK.”
Norton added: “Now it sounds like people are only cycling in order to piss themselves.”
To which Wiggins jokingly replied: “My nan did it for years. She’s still doing it. My nan will love that.”
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