The morning after
Scott returned from the Brit Awards without his phone or bank card. He remembered writing an IOU for a taxi driver at about 5am, promising to pay the fare later because he had no other means of completing the journey.
The note eventually reached the programme and revealed that Scott had misspelt his own surname while making the promise. The driver still had his phone, creating a useful route to recovering both the device and settling the debt.
Scott remembered appearing between Ant and Dec during a television link, using Fearne Cotton’s phone and accumulating a large number of messages that he could not inspect until the afternoon. Once the phone returned, he had to experience the usual morning-after review several hours later than everybody else.
Chris applies for Saturday Kitchen
James Martin’s departure from Saturday Kitchen convinced Chris that he should become the new presenter. Scott supplied the number of executive producer Amanda Ross and allowed him to make a direct pitch.
Chris declared that he had watched the programme throughout his life and could bring his enthusiasm for food to the vacancy. Amanda knew who he was and heard him out, which he treated as meaningful progress rather than a polite conversation. He also offered Scott future guest appearances if the campaign succeeded.
A gorilla in space
Greg James joined Real or No Real for a deliberately loose post-Brits edition. The most extraordinary fact concerned British astronaut Tim Peake being chased through the International Space Station by a gorilla.
It was real, although no animal had been launched into orbit. Commander Scott Kelly wore a gorilla suit and pursued Peake in zero gravity to mark the approach of Kelly’s return to Earth. The footage prompted questions about what else astronauts packed for long missions, especially after Peake had appeared in a tuxedo T-shirt for the Brit Awards.
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