A stag weekend with an accidental Tony Blackburn
Scott was on his own in the studio after a weekend away for his former flatmate and best friend’s stag do in Warwickshire. While the rest of the group went quad biking and clay-pigeon shooting, Scott chose a quieter programme involving television and staying indoors.
His social-media contribution created more trouble. Scott posted a side-on photograph of a family friend and joked that he was on a stag weekend with Tony Blackburn. The man’s daughter saw it, and Scott had to deal with the resulting awkward conversation the following morning.
He had also been responsible for booking the stripper. The person who arrived as “Tallulah” did not, in Scott’s estimation, bear much resemblance to the photograph used when the booking was made. By Monday he was joking about whether the matter came under Trading Standards.
The curse is broken
More importantly, both of Scott’s reality-show choices had survived. Rough Copy were the first act called safe on X Factor, while Susanna Reid and Kevin Clifton made it through Strictly Come Dancing.
After weeks of joking that his support was fatal, Scott finally had contrary evidence. Rough Copy were due to come in for Innuendo Bingo the following day, while Susanna remained far too busy to make the same journey. The Mills curse, at least for one weekend, had been beaten twice.
Trying to make Radio 1 listeners cry
The John Lewis Christmas advert, with the bear, the hare and Lily Allen singing “Somewhere Only We Know”, led Scott into a discussion of things guaranteed to make people cry. Matt Edmondson had previously experimented on the Radio 1 office, so Scott widened the test to listeners.
The triggers ranged from Beyoncé’s “Listen” to E.T. and Susan Boyle’s first Britain’s Got Talent audition. Scott played them down the line to volunteers and discovered that some people really could be made to cry almost on command. It was less a scientific experiment than a catalogue of emotional weak spots, but it worked.
Mrs X and Real or No Real
Mrs X’s Tinder dates remained a source of concern and fascination, with her recent encounter with a man who had been drinking since mid-afternoon still under discussion. Despite the bar-stool fall, the refusal of food and the generally chaotic evening, she had not entirely ruled him out.
Greg James then joined Real or No Real. Jim Carrey having tap shoes was real; a Ronaldinho technology claim was not; the claim that a coffee cup can be seen in every Fight Club scene was real; and a story involving Niall and a tuna at a zoo was not. Scott finished with 30 points to Greg’s 20, ending a solo Monday on a much more orderly result than his stag weekend.
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