Hey, this is Sam Palladio here, uh, literally stuck at Young Hollywood.

No, literally, he's stuck. Yeah. Stay tuned, you'll see. I'm here with Sam Palladio, star of Nashville. How are you, first of all?

I'm very well, thank you. Apart from the gum that I've just sat in. That's making me.

Yeah. This is what we do to our guests. stick to the, um, sofa. Sam sat down and realized he couldn't get up, basically. At Young Hollywood. Yep. Yep. So somebody left gum.

Somebody, somebody sabotaged me. And it might be one of you guys. I'm not sure.

This is really, so you can't leave. Maybe a, a female fan did that so that you will stay. Do you want to hear the sound effect though?

Yes.

There we go. Roll it. I thought it was going to come up sooner, but

This is a really good ploy, though. We can just line up celebrities and just not allow them to leave.

So I have some, um, some of your Twitter photos. Okay. On the screen behind us. Oh, maybe you can't move 'cause of the gum. Oh, yeah. So, this is you tweeted this. It was something about like, this is the Englishman versus the, the Nashville guy.

Yeah. Yeah. This is my foot, and this is my great friend Sigador's foot. And, uh, this was at the Ryman Auditorium just before we went and and performed. So, he's a great friend and, um, fantastic drummer and he played drums for us that night.

Do you sort of feel like this now, though, in your heart? Are you sort of split between two worlds?

Yeah, I mean, I feel I feel that a little bit. I mean, I've been so welcomed here and have made so many friends and, um, just been given these opportunities that are incredible. So, little symbolic joining of feet.

Okay, what's next? That's the one that we have. Joining of the feet. That's always good. Yeah. Yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah, the Loveless Motel. That sounds sad, or it sounds seedy, or it sounds maybe like every hotel in the world. What was, what was the scenario?

Well, the Loveless Motel and the Loveless Cafe is, um, is this amazing cat like cafe in in Nashville, just out out of Nashville. It does the best kind of like fried chicken and all these great Southern delicacies, biscuits.

So, when you have no love in your life, you go there and you eat, go to the.

Yeah, you go and eat yourself. Yeah. Eat yourself into a food coma and and it kind of drowns out whatever love you've lost.

Okay. I think we have one more. Now, what is this? I think this was right. I don't drink alcohol. Before. Is that a pickle in the drink? What is that? So, this was, wasn't this like right before you left for Nashville?

This is my one of my favorite drinks. It's a Brandy and Ginger Ale. And so, this was just at Heathrow Airport, um, just a little celebration before I got on the plane for the first time to to fly to Nashville.

Do they have it in America?

You know what? I don't think I have. Um, it's quite a, it's quite a British classic kind of old British drink, so.

Right. I wanted to, um, to ask you because, you know, people always ask, you know, singers, musicians, what's on their iPod? 'Cause on my iPod, I have this song. It's this really embarrassing song called, Why Didn't You Text Me Back? Do you really? Does that sound familiar?

It does. Yeah.

Do tell the story. Um, Do you have that song on your iPod for for some reason by any chance?

Yeah. That was the first song I ever wrote.

Yes. When you were how old?

Um, probably 14. Yeah.

How how did it go again? I can't remember.

Goes, why didn't you text me back? You are too slack. Never going to take you back if you don't text me back. Yeah. And it carries on.

And did she text you back?

No.

I bet she's sorry now.

Yeah. Yeah. Wherever you are.

Maybe she put the gum on the couch.

Probably. She probably did. She probably did.

So, tell us, because I know when you, you booked the show, you sent tapes to Hollywood from your bedroom in England. And you booked this massive ABC show.

I did. It's, it's sounds insane.

What was the what was the setting in the bedroom like? What was it? Was it like the bed was in the background? Like, how did you sort of set it up?

I didn't I couldn't afford a a decent digital camera, so it was even on my, you know, my webcam on my laptop. So, and I like, you know, I'm quite a control freak. When I get asked to to put things on tape myself, I kind of like that because it it means I can I can do a lot of work and I can.

You can do a million takes.

Well, you can do a million takes, but you always find out that actually you go back through them and it's pretty much the first two takes that are the ones 'cause they're when you're not thinking about it, you're not over analyzing yourself and I work better at night as well. My dad's my dad's a painter and he's so he's up all night kind of painting. I think I must have taken that gene from him. So, I think I did it about 4:00 in the morning. And just thought, you know, well, why not? This this is a fantastic project. It's kind of ticks all my boxes, um.

And And now it's a huge hit. So, let's talk first of all about the finale. The kiss.

Yeah. Finally. I mean, this is this has been building for for for eight episodes. For all of us. But for for for everybody and I think, um, this moment finally kind of happens, but it's, um, it doesn't really go according to plan. And he makes a few, um, bad choices actually, which build up to this to this moment in the Bluebird.

How can a kiss go so wrong?

You see, he's just come from the same afternoon, breaking it off with Haley. Being thrown a few a few episodes before where he's seen Clare, uh, sees Scarlett dancing and and singing. Passion is in, you know, enlightened again. And so, he's in this this crazy head space and and.

Isn't that the best time to kiss somebody, though?

Well, you'd think so, but it it's he doesn't use his better judgment. So, it's it's rushed and it's it's kind of sprung on Scarlett.

Is it strange, though, because, you know, obviously you get to know each other over the season and then all of a sudden it's at the end. They're like, okay, now you have to make out. You got to do it. Is that strange?

It was, you know, it was coming. I could see it coming, so.

You knew it. You were ready for it. We were both prepped. How proud is your mom? 'Cause I heard she texts you a lot.

She does text me a lot.

She texts you back.

She texts my mom texts me back, which which is all I need.

That's all you need in life. Well, thank you for coming in.

Thank you.

You can't leave. Yeah. Well, try again. Oh, look at this, look at this. He had a I had a cushion. I had a cushion stuck to me. Everything sticks to Sam. Do I get this? Is this my like parting gift? Yeah. And there's the culprit. Yeah. I'm so classy. Thanks, Sam.