Cheryl had gone properly viral
A day after Superfan Steve met Cheryl, Scott and Chris were amazed by the response.
Listeners had pulled cars over because they were laughing.
The video had spread far beyond the normal Radio 1 audience.
Cheryl’s attempt to remain polite while “Steve” behaved increasingly strangely made the visual version even better than the audio.
Chris worried the success could also damage the feature.
Future celebrities might now recognise the name Steve immediately.
Scott treated that as a challenge.
The prank would simply need to evolve.
Raven volunteered for Where Do You Think They Were?
Raven, 23, agreed to hear the story of her conception from mum Kim.
Kim took the story back to October 1995 and the Tower Park area near Poole.
The couple had been out around a leisure complex which included Burger King.
The exact reconstruction became increasingly uncomfortable for Raven as her mum supplied ordinary details from a night which suddenly mattered far more in retrospect.
Scott and Chris latched onto Burger King as the landmark which would now be permanently associated with Raven’s family history.
Raven realised she would never be able to visit the area without thinking about it again.
The programme classified her, inevitably, as another unusually specific food-and-location baby.
The swimwear looked completely normal
The biggest new discovery was dissolvable swimming shorts.
Videos online showed prank swimwear which appeared ordinary until somebody entered a pool.
Then the material began to weaken and disappear.
Scott and Chris could immediately see the stag-do potential.
Chris was particularly enthusiastic about using the shorts on Scott without warning.
Scott told him very clearly not to.
That only made Chris more interested.
A stag had already fallen victim
One story involved a stag in a hotel pool wearing dissolvable shorts covered with pictures of an ex-partner.
Once the material failed, the joke became considerably more public than the person wearing them expected.
Listeners also alerted the programme to women’s versions.
Scott decided no swimwear offered to him by Chris could ever again be trusted.
The pair even wondered whether the technology could be used during Innuendo Bingo.
Scott recognised that deliberately targeting somebody’s shorts with water would create several obvious broadcasting problems.
Showbiz News needed crisp help
An anonymous caller, given a fake name and altered voice, also contacted the programme with an unusually specific mission.
A friend was obsessed with crisps and had a major event or wedding connection.
The caller wanted to reach Showbiz News or a celebrity contact to help create a surprise.
The conversation developed into the hashtag #CrispWedding and an appeal for listeners to help.
It was classic Scott Mills logic.
A normal favour became a national campaign because the show had a text number and three hours to fill.
June’s first week ended at maximum silliness
Four days had moved from Donald Trump and Jenga to a fake Cheryl superfan, a Burger King conception and swimwear designed to disintegrate.
Scott and Chris had begun the month with Love Island arriving.
By Thursday, the show already had several new stories it could keep returning to.
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