Lydia Bright phones her mum with the speech jammer
Lydia Bright became the latest person to hear her own voice fed back with the tiny delay of the speech jammer. She knew what was coming after hearing Chris use it, but the effect remained almost impossible to counter once the headphones went on.
The show made her call her mum Debbie, who was away in Italy and was not expecting to hear from her. Lydia tried to hold a normal conversation while her speech slowed and wandered. Debbie noticed almost immediately and demanded to know why her daughter was talking strangely.
Lydia blamed a couple of glasses of wine the previous night, which made matters worse. Debbie concluded she must still be drunk and repeatedly told her so. Meanwhile the call kept expanding into enthusiastic descriptions of the Italian heat, restaurants and family holiday, leaving Lydia barely able to interrupt.
When Radio 1 finally revealed itself, Debbie was relieved and furious in equal measure. Scott thought her rapid-fire Italian travel commentary was almost as entertaining as the speech jammer itself.
The most awkward challenge yet
Challenge five involved individual catch-ups with Radio 1 boss Rhys. Each presenter wore a concealed earpiece while the other dictated increasingly uncomfortable things to say. The boss did not know the real purpose of the meeting.
Scott made Chris ask how to get to the top, whether somebody needed “greasing”, and finally forced him to tell Rhys several times that he loved him. Chris fled after one minute 53 seconds.
Then Chris controlled Scott. He made him complain about money, discuss the boss’s beard and trousers, ask whether he was a favourite presenter and finally call him “sexy” on the way out. Scott somehow survived three minutes six seconds, almost twice as long as Chris.
Scott won the point, ending the first Breakfast week 3-2 ahead.
Sharknado’s audience is revealed
Scott had spent two days insisting Sharknado was a genuine television event, so the programme asked for the UK audience. The answer was about 200,000 viewers.
Chris initially treated the number as underwhelming. Scott preferred the more flattering statistic: it was roughly four times the channel’s usual audience for the slot. That was enough for a celebratory sound effect and a claim that Radio 1’s relentless promotion had worked.
Chris’s sister’s wedding finally arrives
The rehearsal had clarified some of Chris’s usher duties. He would guide guests, help with the seating and at one point act as what he called a “human lectern” by holding the reading for somebody else.
He had still complicated the rehearsal by entering the church shouting an Usher lyric nobody else recognised. With the real wedding now imminent, Scott hoped Chris had got the urge to improvise out of his system.
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