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25 July 2005: Star Phone, Flirt Divert and Rate Them Happy

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25 July 2005: Star Phone, Flirt Divert and Rate Them Happy

 

We kicked off today's show with the latest news headlines at 4pm. I don't know whether this was just a one-off, but I like the idea. Usually we have to wait till about 4.10 before we hear anything from Scott and Chappers.

Anyway, it's Monday and it's a brand new week. Welcome to the Unofficial Mills Reviews!

Afternoon Delights

Scott has a bit of a cold today. Paul had a 'cracking story' about Flirt Divert (ah, only on a Monday!) He was 21 on Saturday and went to Torquay with the lads. He spent Saturday night with two girls he met there. Before they left, he gave them the Flirt Divert number and she had it already saved, so she rang the number and found out it was Flirt Divert and was chasing this rather tipsy guy around Torquay harbor. He managed to catch the bus, but his mum wasn't happy about the mess of his clothing…

Rate Them Happy

Say hello to today's Rate My Swimwear person – Rowen from Tiverton in a rather skimpy number, holding her breath and almost going blue. And there were quite a lot of positive comments on the texts with a few girls sending in bitchy comments about her tan. Don’t forget to go and rate her happy.

The Muffin Man

Chappers had a story to tell us this afternoon about Paris Hilton. When he's done the sport during the day, he looks for interesting stuff online (may I suggest Unofficial Mills). But today he found Paris Hilton and partner Paris' gift list for the wedding. Chappers said he'd brought her a muffin tray so he can get a 'thank you' card from a famous person like her. After he brought this he found out this was a fake list, and someone's going to get a $14 muffin tray off of Chappers. He didn't seem too disappointed, but still. If you know whether Paris has a gift wedding list, get in touch with Chappers. He has a lot of time on his hands. My birthday is coming up soon Chappers and I have a huge list, although a muffin tray isn't one… One texter suggested that Chappers comes in later during the day, but he claims he's devoted to the job. This was followed by a lot of innuendo comments about muffins and Paris Hilton on the texts. But how did Chappers get to this website?

Chappers: "Well I didn't type in 'Paris Hilton muffins' I can tell you that"

One texter wants to know what Scott's view is of the celebrity world. If you're confused this is the description that you get on Digital TV and radio – that you can hear about Scott's 'slanted view of the celebrity world' although Chappers' Muffin discussion was pretty much just that. And yes it still mentions 'Celebrity Call'. It joins classic descriptions like 'JK and Joe' and 'Vernon and Dave' – Digital, eh? The way forward…

Record of the Week

This week's Record of The Week is 'Suddenly I see' by KT Tunstall. She owes all her fame to Scott. Quite rightly so. Moyles got fame again for Peter Andre, and Mills brought KT Tunstall to fame.

Flirt Divert

The Flirt Divert International number is still on. But we're back with Flirt Divert UK. Lots of messages still coming in and we started with a girl with no money and a random noise in the background – Scott suggests it's a 'goat' and Chappers says it's a baby. Wrong move for one guy on the answerphone, who’s very apologetic and whining. Please don't keep ringing, you're not going to get a reply and you're just going to cause yourself more embarrassment. Thank you.

On Flirt Divert International there's a girl who was bothered about someone doing their hair for too long claiming he 'bats for the otherside'. (Discussion kicked off about lads using eye gel and moisturiser) And then there was some guy who was having a top quality night at karaoke. Sounds a blast… And finally some guy wants a drink with some people he's met but clearly they don't as they've given him Flirt Divert. Ah well…

Good comment on the text. As soon as Anthony leaves the Big Brother house, you know who'll be on the Flirt Divert line. Craig. Scott was right about last night's Big Brother, it was really cringey.

If you're out and about the Flirt Divert number is 077 459 875 0. Please get it right. We don't want any wrong numbers!

First Play

Scott had Gwen Stefani's new track today, which sounds pretty damn good. So I think within 3 weeks we'll be sick to death of it because Radio 1 will blatantly over play this.

The Star Phone

And at about four minutes to five Scott rang the Star Phone. Since the Mariah Carey disaster things have been going well – Girls Aloud got it, Jenny Frost had it but now who has it? First attempt didn't go well.

Chappers: "Are we relying on the producer to ring it? It's like watching your dad trying to work the video recorder"

Anyway, eventually they got through, and it sounds like whoever has the Star Phone had the radio on. But anyway, it was a guy. A lot of people suggesting it was Doctor Who or Lemar. Doesn't seem like it's Tony Christie according to Scott. A lot of talk about this on the message board, suggestions included Richard Wilson ('I don't believe it' according to Scott), Jeremy Clarkson and Colin and Justin off of the DIY programmes. As I mentioned on the board, this game should have kept going as it'll be bigger than reverse-a-word! We’ll find out tomorrow the identity of the star.

Your Call

Your Call was open again for business. Tonight you can choose anything that isn't Scott Mills singing with Chappers from Friday afternoon. He didn't suggest anything so I came up with that… Tonight's tracks included James Blunt, The Libertines and Faithless. One lovely girl who wanted to make a dedication of Ghetto Gospel, and clearly thought this was some sort of local radio station. And one guy who thought Scott was someone called 'Stuart' and was rather confused. There was a boring story to that, but I dozed off a bit… And finally 'Angels' by Robbie – We'll all have a good 'ring' along according to the texter. Yup, damn that predictive text.

Tonight's Most Wanted was 'Crazy Chick' (again) by Charlotte Church. Right I'll say this once more: STOP TEXTING IN FOR IT!

Global Gathering Giveaway

Scott had tickets to Global Gathering in England and Ireland to giveaway (the chance to go to both!) According to Chappers there are more passengers on the private jet that will travel between both venues than on Easyjet. No doubt we'll hear more about that tomorrow too.

Also on today's show we heard from the 'Big Gay Out' ticket winner (the one that wasn't effing and jeffing) and talking about his exciting time there. Also, Scott's hanging out with Girls Aloud tonight (poor Chappers).

Jono's Final Comments

I loved today's show, especially the 'Your Call'ers for a change. Keep it up Scott and company! And if you enjoyed today's show like I did, get on the message board. Tomorrow though, make sure you wrap up the show Mr Mills!

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