Sherif had left and nobody knew why
Tuesday’s programme was dominated by Sherif leaving Love Island.
The official explanation was vague.
Scott and Chris therefore did what WhatsApp groups across Britain were doing.
They speculated.
Could a rule have been broken?
Had a phone somehow got into the villa?
Was there a swimming-pool incident?
The presenters repeatedly made clear they did not know the answer.
That did not stop increasingly ridiculous theories appearing from listeners.
Scott was amazed that even journalists appeared to be listening for clues because nobody outside the production seemed to know what had happened.
Mambo Twister turned out to be a listener
The show then discovered another unexpected member of its audience.
Mambo Twister had posted social-media video reacting to one of Radio 1’s recurring clips, including the show’s obsession with Miley Cyrus’s “The Climb”.
Scott and Chris loved the idea that famous people could be silently listening without them knowing.
Prince William had previously admitted listening.
Now another celebrity had appeared in the digital audience.
The pair encouraged any other famous listeners to send proof.
Rat nominations became increasingly personal
Verity’s unnamed rat still needed a name.
Listeners offered exes who had lied, cheated or repeatedly returned after relationships went wrong.
One caller described a man who behaved like a boomerang, disappearing and then returning whenever another relationship failed.
Another nominated a personal trainer who had been seeing several people.
Scott and Chris were beginning to assemble enough candidates for an actual final decision.
Funny Business returned
Tuesday still meant Funny Business.
The show rang more genuine companies with names which sounded ridiculous once Scott and Chris had to say them out loud.
The rule remained simple.
Make a normal enquiry.
Do not laugh.
The person answering the business phone generally managed professionalism far better than the Radio 1 presenters calling them.
Where had your tongue been?
A question from the revived *Blind Date* inspired the day’s other major topic:
“Where’s the most unusual place your tongue’s been?”
Listeners responded exactly as Scott and Chris feared.
One man described putting his tongue near a crab while fishing.
The crab clamped onto it.
His father then spent several minutes trying to remove the animal.
The caller defended the decision by saying there had been worse body parts he could have put near the crab.
Scott thought the story sounded like a cartoon.
The programme had asked a strange question.
The audience delivered a much stranger answer.
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