Six million views and a CNN interview
Chris’s interview with Mila Kunis had passed six million views and continued appearing across international television. He had been interviewed by CNN, while Access Hollywood counted three separate occasions on which he had apparently asked Mila out and called that a gutsy move because she was dating Ashton Kutcher.
The American studio placed Chris in front of shelves filled with royal books, creating precisely the image of Britain which Scott thought viewers expected. Chris regretted not positioning the proposed 24 Years at the Tap End book behind him. Radio 1’s viral hit had transformed him into an accidental British correspondent discussing pub culture, Watford and romance with American presenters.
E! News said Mila had sat down with “Chris Stark of the Scott Mills Show” and described the meeting as a wild one-to-one. Access Hollywood host Billy Bush compared him with a young Hugh Grant and predicted that he was about to explode into a film career. Greg James later revealed that Bush was a cousin of former US president George W Bush, although Chris had conducted the interview without knowing the presenter’s name.
CNN searches for the method
A panel on CNN’s Starting Point analysed why the video worked. Its contributors argued that Chris’s openness forced Mila to respond authentically, breaking the pattern of formulaic junket interviews and bringing out her real personality.
Scott and Chris found the analysis absurdly grand. Chris had considered the interview a masterclass in incompetence and telephoned Scott afterwards to apologise, yet serious commentators were now treating the abrupt changes of subject as a deliberate technique. The attention remained enjoyable but impossible for either of them to explain.
Kimberly Wyatt prepares for a long night
Kimberly Wyatt arrived before joining Graham Norton’s live Comic Relief chat show on BBC Three. Norton was attempting a world record by asking as many questions as possible during a six-hour broadcast, while Kimberly expected to appear alongside fellow Got to Dance judges Ashley Banjo and Aston Merrygold. She had been asked to perform her standing split but knew little else about the plans.
Kimberly explained krumping to Chris as an aggressive-looking but celebratory and spiritual form of street dance. She praised Aston’s ability to connect with self-taught young performers and described the latest Got to Dance series as unusually strong across styles including tap, contemporary and street dance.
Kimberly Wyatt plays Innuendo Bingo
Unlike several recent guests, Kimberly deliberately chose an outfit which would allow her to play without a protective coat or blanket. Scott warned that she needed to aim directly at Chris and avoid holding back merely because it was her first game.
The opening clips invited somebody to bite into a pasty and placed rhubarb in a sugar bag. A wildlife programme hoped for its first glimpse of a wild beaver, while cricket commentary involved fiddling with a helmet and adjusting a box. Kimberly quickly moved from caution to firing water directly across the studio.
Further clips discussed studying a beaver up close, Cliff Richard wanting to wake up inside somebody and a shopping presenter admiring the ring she was wearing. A food programme could taste the pea coming through, Robson Green admitted catching crabs and the World Service featured somebody whose ring was kissed. Kimberly was completely soaked by the end and felt vulnerable about walking back to her office before changing for the evening’s television.
Scott immediately wanted her to return, although he joked that regular Innuendo Bingo guest Gemma Cairney might feel displaced first by Mila Kunis and then by Kimberly Wyatt.
Dear Scott
Listeners supplied more words which irritated them, including “hubster”, “boyf”, “cardi”, “bevy” and “largie”. Scott particularly disliked “boyf”, while the growing habit of calling a self-portrait a “selfie” also came under suspicion. Chris admitted using “fella”, and they remembered Reggie Yates greeting Scott that way while Vernon Kay preferred “big man”.
Greg James added abbreviated London place names including “Clappy J” for Clapham Junction and “She Bu” for Shepherd’s Bush. Both were judged considerably worse than the original examples.
Another listener described Biscuit Bill, who walked along the number eight bus offering passengers biscuits from a barrel. The generosity fitted the programme’s rule that public-transport food should be shared, although neither Scott nor Chris was certain that they would eat an unpackaged biscuit from a stranger.
Real or No Real with Greg James
Ferrets really had been used to carry wires through narrow spaces while aircraft were being built, including cases where the animals fell asleep on the job. A supposed official number for telephoning Canada initially sounded plausible, but calling it reached a line associated with The New York Times, leading the team to withdraw the points.
Bring Me the Horizon had not written “It Never Ends” after becoming trapped in the route through IKEA. Pixar writers, however, really did develop the central ideas for A Bug’s Life, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and WALL-E during one lunch meeting. Scott thought the basic pitches sounded almost too easy, while Greg argued that the simplest ideas were often the hardest to create. Both finished with ten points.
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