Grimmy did not believe Scott would turn up
Scott’s reputation for agreeing to plans and then cancelling them had reached the Breakfast Show.
He and Nick Grimshaw had arranged to attend a spin class together on Sunday morning, but Grimmy had already been discussing on air whether Scott would actually appear.
Scott objected to being treated as Radio 1’s biggest flake before he had even missed the class. He admitted he had a habit of enthusiastically saying yes when somebody first suggested doing something and then feeling very differently when the day arrived, but insisted this plan was real.
The proposed spin class also created a second problem: Scott was already worrying about the changing rooms afterwards. He described himself as extremely private and had no intention of casually wandering around naked in front of Grimmy.
Scott, Chris and Maya designed nights out for each other
Maya joined Scott and Chris and they returned to an idea they had been developing: each of them should organise the kind of night out they thought one of the others would enjoy.
Maya’s version involved the sort of London venue where circus-style performances happened around the crowd before the night became more of a party. Scott immediately knew what his own choice would be: the London Eurovision Party.
Chris’s taste was represented by crazy golf, which the others initially mocked before admitting that a new indoor venue could actually be fun.
The idea was supposed to force all three of them into somebody else’s preferred night rather than defaulting to the same places. Given the conversation that had just taken place about Scott cancelling plans, Maya understandably wanted evidence that he would actually attend.
Maya admitted to an extreme clothes-return technique
A discussion about getting fired led Maya back to one of the things she had done when she was younger and had very little money.
She admitted buying an outfit, wearing it for a night out and then returning it the following day.
Maya had developed an entire system to keep the clothes looking untouched. She left the tags attached, avoided perfume and tried to stop any sweat reaching the fabric, even using cotton pads or wipes around her armpits.
From her point of view it had been an extended fitting-room experience. From the retailer’s point of view, Scott and Chris pointed out, somebody else could then unknowingly buy the clothes as new.
Getting fired produced more listener confessions
The show had been hearing from people about jobs they had lost for unusual reasons.
Maya remembered her first café job in Bristol when she was around 15 or 16. She called in sick and then went to St Andrews Park, only for her boss to see her there. The attempt to avoid work therefore became significantly less convincing.
Another listener remembered working in a supermarket at 16 where staff were allowed to reduce hot chickens near the end of the day. He and colleagues started marking chickens down to around 10p so they could buy them for lunch.
A promotion on the till then exposed what they were doing and managers came into the staff room. The resulting investigation centred on three chickens they had reduced for themselves, turning what had seemed like a cheap lunch trick into a formal disciplinary matter.
Friday Bangers became unexpectedly romantic
With Maya in the studio, Bangers became a three-way choice.
Scott went for Jordin Sparks and Chris Brown’s “No Air”, Chris chose Ne-Yo’s “Sexy Love”, while Maya deliberately moved away from the romantic theme with a much less sentimental option.
The contrast left the voting unusually split, although the main discovery was simply that Scott and Chris had somehow independently arrived with two extremely late-night choices for the same Friday-afternoon game.
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