Chris was hunting a World Cup winner
Chris joined the Breakfast Show from Rome while working on a BBC iPlayer project connected with the 2006 World Cup.
The project involved completing an old sticker album by finding the footballers still missing from it.
One of those players was Simone Perrotta, part of Italy’s World Cup-winning squad.
Chris was working from a small, hot studio in Rome and knew that Perrotta was somewhere within reach.
At one point he looked towards the Vatican and called out for the Pope, receiving unsurprisingly little assistance.
Then word came through that the team had located Perrotta.
Chris left the radio programme early to go and find him.
For Scott, it was another example of Chris’s life turning into something that sounded like an overcomplicated children’s challenge: travel across Europe to complete a 12-year-old football sticker album.
Scott reviewed the royal romance movie
Scott had now watched *Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance*.
He thought the actress playing Meghan looked reasonably convincing and the Harry resemblance was acceptable.
The casting of William and Kate caused more discussion.
The film also contained scenes so private that there was no way the writers could know whether anything similar had happened, including arguments, romantic conversations and airport drama.
That was part of the entertainment.
Listeners sent their own reactions, effectively turning the film into a Royal Wedding version of *Gogglebox*.
Scott remained fascinated by the way a television drama could take a handful of known facts and construct the emotional life around them days before the real couple married.
Playground Insults returned with Deadpool 2
Ryan Reynolds and Josh Brolin then took on Playground Insults.
The rules were deliberately simple.
The two actors sat opposite each other and took turns delivering the sort of insult a child might use in a playground, with the aim of making the other person laugh or losing composure.
There was no requirement for sophisticated comedy.
In fact, the pettier and more ridiculous the insult, the better the feature worked.
Reynolds and Brolin committed to it, repeatedly trying to top one another while keeping straight faces.
Scott and Chris had used the format with major guests before and knew that famous actors often became surprisingly competitive once the task was reduced to saying horrible things directly to each other.
The *Deadpool 2* pairing was particularly suited to it.
By the end, the Breakfast Show had moved from a fictional royal romance to a genuine Hollywood promotional interview conducted like an argument in a school playground.
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