The Thunderbird joke followed Scott to the Brits
Scott’s *Thunderbirds* comparison had escaped the show and become a full internet joke. Friends were sending him Photoshops, and even the people helping him prepare for the Brit Awards were joining in.
Scott needed a bow tie for the evening and was told the person delivering it would be arriving in “Thunderbird 2”. He began to accept that the comparison was not going away before the ceremony.
Caroline Flack became the out-out correspondent
The Breakfast Show had recruited Caroline Flack as its informal party correspondent for Brit Awards night, which Scott considered inspired casting. Caroline had a reputation for fully committing to a night out and was expected to report on the parties before attempting to make it into the Breakfast Show the next morning.
Caroline said she intended to move between several record-label parties because different friends would end up in different places. Scott and Caroline remembered previous nights out together in Birmingham and Newcastle and discussed the practical problem of keeping her going long enough to complete the next-morning appearance.
Her preparation had started well before the ceremony, with spray tan, hair and the rest of the glam process. Scott offered to act as support during the evening by supplying water and food when required.
Daisy’s mum kept setting boyfriend deadlines
The Fake Boyfriend Service had one more customer. Daisy, 22, said her mum Nesta had been setting increasingly specific deadlines for her to find a boyfriend: first by Christmas, then Valentine’s Day, and now Daisy’s birthday was approaching.
Daisy described her ideal man as a mixture of Prince Harry and a polished, posh style. Chris prepared to become “Richard”, while Scott decided the previous calls had failed because they lacked production value. This time he would play supporting characters to make Chris’s invented life sound more convincing.
Richard was admired everywhere he went
Chris called Nesta pretending to be Daisy’s new love interest and said he wanted present advice. While they spoke, he appeared to enter a shoe shop.
Scott suddenly became a shop assistant, loudly admiring Richard’s Chelsea boots and then telling him he was probably the best-looking man he had ever seen. Chris modestly explained that he already had the perfect woman in his life and happened to be speaking to her mother.
Moments later Richard stepped outside and encountered another Scott character, a man asking for 50p for a cup of tea. Richard responded by apparently handing over all the money he had, producing another unsolicited testimonial about what an extraordinarily generous gentleman he was.
For once, the performance did not collapse immediately. Nesta remained remarkably accepting, and Daisy thought it was probably the best attempt the service had managed. Scott was especially pleased with his impromptu “pardon my rudeness, guv’nor” character voice.
Chris had been using the dry cleaners as storage
The Brit Awards created a separate problem for Chris. Months earlier he had left a suit at a dry cleaners near Radio 1 and, rather than collect it, had mentally treated the shop as free long-term wardrobe storage until the next formal event.
Scott warned that businesses do not necessarily keep abandoned clothes indefinitely and that the suit might have been disposed of. Chris maintained that leaving it there had actually been an efficient piece of advance planning.
He went back without a ticket and with only the useful description “a blue suit”. Against the odds, the dry cleaners still had it. Chris treated the recovery as vindication of his entire storage system.
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