Chris had reached his final show before marriage
This was Chris’s last Radio 1 programme before his wedding.
For Scott, that made it unexpectedly emotional.
He had been around for years of Chris’s dating stories, nights out and increasingly public relationship milestones.
Now the person who had once stayed in youth hostels after nights in London because he did not want to travel home was about to get married.
The morning had started with grooming.
Scott and Chris went to a barber near Radio 1 for hair and eyebrow work.
Chris had his eyebrows threaded.
Scott experienced the treatment too and ended up with flames briefly used around his ears as part of the traditional barbering process.
The intimate waxing plan was eventually abandoned.
Chris decided he would handle the remaining “Watford Junction” maintenance himself.
Scott was one tie short
The wedding fashion problems were not finished.
Scott had ordered matching ties for the ushers and fathers.
Then the retailer emailed in the middle of the night to say one item could not be supplied.
Scott had seven.
He needed eight.
Chris suggested that he could simply be the one person not wearing a tie.
Scott refused.
As head of fashion, he was not prepared to let the groom improvise his way out of a matching outfit days before the ceremony.
Listeners became Chris’s best women
Earlier in the week, Scott had invited listeners to write speeches as though they were Chris’s best man or best woman.
Heidi produced one of the strongest.
She had never met Chris, but years of listening gave her enough references to build an entire rhyming speech.
It covered his failed single life, Oceana, the oversized watch people mocked on Instagram, the red jazzy shirt, his toilet DJ set and even the show’s old jokes about him not knowing how to use a bath properly.
One line advised that, under no circumstances, should he wash his “twig and berries” in the sink.
Chris found it strange but touching that somebody he had never met knew enough material to roast him so specifically.
Zedd explained “Happy Now”
Zedd then joined the show.
Scott and Chris were genuinely excited to have him in the studio and immediately commented on the hug he gave them when he arrived.
They discussed his Los Angeles home and his new single “Happy Now”.
Zedd explained that Elley Duhé had originally recorded a demo vocal while he was deciding whether her voice suited the track.
For him, a technically brilliant singer was not automatically the right singer for every song.
The match between voice and record mattered.
The Zedd List tested British fame
Because Zedd was German-born and lived in Los Angeles, Scott invented a game to test how well he understood British celebrities.
It was called The Zedd List.
Scott played clips of people known in Britain and asked Zedd whether they sounded genuinely A-list or more like “Z-list” celebrities.
Matt Edmondson appeared.
Gemma Collins appeared discussing domestic problems and immediately fascinated Zedd.
He initially judged people almost entirely from the way they sounded without knowing their television context.
The game worked because British fame could be completely obvious to Scott and Chris while meaning almost nothing to somebody based in America.
Scott replayed Chris’s single-man years
Near the end, Scott assembled a montage of Chris before marriage.
There was the era when he discovered youth hostels were a convenient way to stay out later in London.
There was the attempt to recreate the “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’” scene from *Top Gun* on a real date.
There was the revelation that, for years, he had been sitting at the wrong end of the bath.
There were trips, dating experiments and endless on-air confessions.
Chris said listeners had heard his life develop in real time and that the support around the wedding genuinely meant something to him.
The next time he returned to the programme, he would no longer be a single man.
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