Dublin had delivered
Chris came back from his stag do with an unusually positive verdict.
He had never been to Dublin before and thought the city was brilliant.
The weekend had been a constant party, but one where people around them seemed relaxed and friendly rather than hostile towards a large stag group.
Scott had been officially responsible for fashion and had taken that role seriously enough to create several separate outfits for Chris.
One caused immediate confusion.
A company had sent Scott a red-and-white striped all-in-one costume called “1920s man”.
It was supposed to be worn with a straw hat and moustache.
Chris did not have the full look.
People in Dublin therefore kept assuming he was dressed as Where’s Wally.
Scott insisted that was not the concept.
The moustache also kept coming loose, making the already unclear fancy dress even less convincing.
The party bikes became competitive
The group had also used one of Dublin’s pedal-powered party bikes.
Scott became DJ, choosing deliberately Irish music including Boyzone, Westlife and The Corrs.
The stag group found themselves near another party bike full of men.
A minor competition developed over which bike was going faster and whose music was better.
Scott’s playlist did not always help.
At one point he tried Jedward’s Eurovision track “Lipstick”, believing everybody would know it.
They did not.
The reaction was poor enough for him to accept he had lost the crowd.
There were also moments when his phone signal disappeared and the music stopped completely, leaving the professional Radio 1 DJ frantically trying to restart the soundtrack while the rival bike carried on.
Chris’s celebrity challenge failed immediately
One of Chris’s stag tasks involved approaching somebody and saying that he had noticed them looking at him, introducing himself as Chris Stark from Radio 1 and offering a photograph.
He spotted members of another stag group glancing across and decided they were perfect.
He delivered the line.
They said no.
What he expected to be one of the easiest challenges on the list became one of the most embarrassing.
The groups eventually took a photograph together anyway.
Stag Do Real or No Real
The weekend supplied material for a special version of Real or No Real with Clara Amfo.
Scott and Chris went back through stories from Dublin and tested which ones had genuinely happened.
The game allowed them to reveal the stranger parts of the weekend without simply reading through a chronological stag itinerary.
The overriding impression was that Chris had survived, Scott had overpacked, and several pieces of fancy dress had been much funnier to Scott than to the person required to wear them.
Their Love Island romance had gone national
Scott and Chris also checked whether the fake couple photographs they had taken before the weekend had appeared on *Love Island*.
They had.
The images were being used around the programme’s transitions alongside real couples.
Chris was genuinely getting married, but television viewers could now also see him posed romantically with Scott.
It was a particularly odd piece of continuity to discover immediately after returning from his stag do.
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