Scott and Chris appear on The One Show
After Thursday’s programme, Scott and Chris realised The One Show was being broadcast downstairs. Entirely sober, they stood outside its studio window while Alan Carr was being interviewed and searched for the camera with the red light.
They assumed their position had not been visible, but the recording proved otherwise. A still showed both men peering into the background in high definition, and viewers found them just after the 20-minute mark. Chris had wanted to go further and lower his trousers, an idea prevented by Scott, professional survival and two nearby security guards. The successful photobomb attracted enough attention that they knew the studio would be watching for a repeat.
“Hello, team” unsettles Fernando
Chris’s friend Fernando returned with another relationship complaint. He and his girlfriend had been travelling home when an exceptionally posh acquaintance sat down, greeted them with “Hello, team” and directed most of the conversation towards her.
Fernando sat in a hoodie while the visitor discussed travel, politics, champagne and his father’s friendship with the prime minister of Saint Lucia. Every detail made Fernando feel that he had been outclassed. The final insult came when the man offered to help his girlfriend join the Royal Enclosure at Ascot but drew the line at doing the same for Fernando, apparently fearing that he might cause a scene and have everybody removed.
Dating above yourself
Fernando admitted that he worried he was not posh enough for his girlfriend and felt inadequate both at home and away. Listeners recognised the problem. One man dated somebody whose family owned three horses and felt like the stable boy at equestrian events; another had been required to valet a wealthy girlfriend’s family cars.
Rhea recalled meeting a boyfriend’s parents in a mansion with pillars and being given tea in bone china while every dropped consonant appeared to be examined. From the opposite direction, Becca had tried to sound more urban with her boyfriend’s effortlessly cool family and compared herself to Ellie Goulding in a room full of Lethal Bizzle. Scott understood the panic from his own attempts at unfamiliar handshakes with 1Xtra guests. Fernando’s problem was not his girlfriend’s behaviour but the feeling that everybody around her could see him punching above his weight.
Zane Lowe needs a quiet “U OK hun?”
Scott reviewed the previous night’s Versus. Zane had unexpectedly met Eurovision records and a Backstreet Boys song at Scott’s level, then attempted an awkward remix of Imagine Dragons with Afroman.
His enthusiastic response to “Everybody (Backstreet’s Back)” crossed the line Chris had explained the previous day. Zane ordered everybody to put their hands up and dance in a way that made “U OK hun?” the only appropriate reply. Scott had won the contest, but the enduring result was hearing Radio 1’s most intense specialist presenter experience his own tired-and-emotional pop moment.
Gary Lucy starts the weekend
Gary Lucy joined Friday’s Real or No Real before previewing his Dance Anthems programme. A forthcoming goat simulator really did allow players to headbutt people and use a jetpack. A New York court transcript had not recorded an employee repeating “I hate my job”, and the round ended with Gary on 20 points and Scott on 10.
Gary promised music from London Grammar and Knife Party plus a conversation with John Martin. His handover closed Scott and Chris’s afternoon run before their two-week move to Breakfast began at 06:30 on Monday.
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