Family Fortunes and Ron’s mystery parcel
Scott had recorded Celebrity Family Fortunes the previous night and was pleased with how his dad Pete had handled it. Even the team looking after hair and make-up had apparently been complimentary. Once filming was over, Scott and Vernon Kay had ended up doing karaoke at the wrap party.
Back at Radio 1, a different family obligation had reached its deadline. Scott finally handed Chris a wrapped birthday present for Ron Stark. Chris still did not know what was inside. The agreement was that he would give it to his dad that evening as his own present and report back.
Sheridan Smith and Jaime Winstone
Sheridan Smith and Jaime Winstone came in to talk about Powder Room, the comedy set largely around a women’s toilet. They described a young female creative team and the way the film used the loos as the place where its characters’ private conversations and insecurities emerged.
Chris also had some explaining to do. Sheridan reminded him that he had once talked about appearing as a fairy in one of her stage productions but had never followed through. Chris insisted he had been waiting for a call; Sheridan’s response left him wondering whether he had missed more than just a theatre booking.
A discussion of Fifty Shades of Grey casting soon wandered into deliberately unlikely suggestions, including Jaime’s dad Ray Winstone and Paul Hollywood.
Questions from a cubicle
Given a film called Powder Room, the obvious studio interview was not enough. Sheridan and Jaime hid in cubicles in the Radio 1 ladies’ toilets while Scott supplied questions for unsuspecting women who came in.
The prompts covered men who cry at Christmas adverts, celebrity preferences and whether size matters. The guests had to deliver the questions without revealing the machinery behind the stunt. At one point an unexpected noise from another cubicle added exactly the sort of toilet realism no producer could have scripted.
For a film built around what women say away from the main room, it was an appropriately literal piece of promotion.
Blaming people who are not there
Chris challenged Scott over a familiar habit: blaming absent people when something awkward happened. Scott preferred to postpone confrontations, while Chris imagined the corrective — lock Scott in a room with everybody he had ever blamed and make him explain himself one by one.
The idea fed Scott’s general horror of surprise parties and situations where everybody is waiting for a reaction. Unfortunately for him, the Susanna Reid storyline was about to demonstrate exactly what happened when all the relevant people were finally brought together.
Too many Tinder conversations
The show’s confident male Tinder user was also discovering that abundance created its own problems. He had around 39 expressions of interest and roughly ten conversations he considered serious enough to track. One date had happened and he intended to see the woman again, while keeping the other possibilities open.
His systematic swiping and willingness to juggle conversations did not endear him to every caller. Scott added the appropriate mock-sad violins as listeners questioned whether his approach was making dating unnecessarily clinical.
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