Ollie Locke returns
Ollie Locke came back after serving as a Chelsea correspondent during the relationship transfer deadline. He arrived exceptionally groomed, prompting a detailed discussion of the time required, the products involved and whether leaving Made in Chelsea meant being officially expelled from the area.
Ollie still encountered former cast members around Chelsea and had recently spotted Boris Johnson. He said he would consider returning to the programme for a Comic Relief crossover with The Only Way Is Essex, despite the supposed border between the two reality-television worlds.
The more immediate risk came from his tan. Scott predicted that the water would not simply form clear puddles once Ollie and Chris started playing.
Four shades of Locke
Ollie’s Innuendo Bingo clips included discussion of a Trafalgar Square plinth, concern about a neighbour’s cat triggering security cameras and an advert asking why anybody would complete only half the job with their mouth.
Scott also used his Eurovision interview with Electro Velvet and the dependable Radio 2 archive. Ollie and Chris sprayed one another with enough force to change the colour of the water gathering on the floor.
Ollie’s carefully prepared appearance survived surprisingly well, particularly his hair, but the fake tan ran into large orange-brown puddles. Online viewers compared the resulting shades with a paint chart. Ollie accepted the destruction cheerfully and left Scott with one of the week’s most visually effective videos.
A whole relationship through Skype
Chris described a friend he called Julio, insisting repeatedly that the story was not about himself. Julio met a woman while travelling, returned to Britain and continued the relationship while she lived in Canada.
The pair recreated ordinary evenings through Skype. They started films at the same moment, ordered similar takeaways, watched one another eat and sometimes left the connection open until one of them fell asleep.
Listeners recognised the routine. Families had eaten Christmas dinner together across countries, couples watched programmes simultaneously and one ten-year-old moved the laptop when her distant father began telling her off. The arrangements could feel normal until somebody remembered that an unattended camera was still showing a sleeping person in another country.
Scott wanted to test the idea with a famous guest, but Chris warned that the experiment could easily become intrusive. For Julio, however, the laptop had become a shared room rather than simply a way to make a call.
Tuesday’s Real or No Real
Alan Dedicoat joined the game as MNEK’s hair, celebrity grooming and other Tuesday facts were assessed. Chris had returned to his usual role, although the wet studio and the continuing mystery of Julio’s identity remained more memorable than the score.
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