Zante had barely changed
Scott and Chris returned after their week off with more holiday observations.
Zante and the Laganas strip remained one of the programme’s recurring summer locations.
Familiar clubs, resort brands and characters still seemed to be there.
Listeners also warned about the wasps gathering around sweet drinks and cider.
The show jokingly treated the insects like another group of badly behaved British holidaymakers.
They were attracted to alcohol, aggressive around tables and apparently impossible to persuade to leave.
Secret Snog arrived
Love Island had made televised kissing almost unavoidable.
Scott and Chris responded with a new game:
Secret Snog.
They had audio of a celebrity kissing something.
Listeners had to identify who was making the noise and what they were kissing.
The recording was deliberately horrible.
Wet.
Close-miked.
Almost impossible to interpret.
Guesses included Rihanna kissing a dog, Joel Corry kissing a pineapple and Freya Ridings kissing a horse.
None were right.
The eventual answer, revealed elsewhere in the month’s source continuity, was Billie Eilish kissing a Pringles tin.
The lack of an obvious crunch had confused almost everybody.
Ask Me Anything hired a professional bridesmaid
The day’s extraordinary person was Tiffany Wright, who worked as a professional bridesmaid.
Scott and Chris initially assumed this meant wedding planning under another name.
Tiffany explained the difference.
Her job centred on the bride rather than managing the entire event.
She could help with the dress, calm panic, organise or manage the other bridesmaids and make sure the bride had somebody focused entirely on her.
Sometimes Tiffany became part of the bridal party itself.
She could actually wear the dress
One bride from Australia was marrying an English man but could not have all her close friends travel to Britain.
Tiffany stepped in.
She could wear a bridesmaid dress, walk behind the bride and appear in the photographs.
The arrangement sounded strange only until she explained the practical role.
A bride might need somebody dependable who was not emotionally involved in family arguments or drinking heavily at the reception.
Tiffany had attended around 17 weddings in one year before realising the experience could become a business.
Hen dos were work too
A professional bridesmaid could also attend or organise hen celebrations.
That required a different kind of discipline.
Everybody else might be drinking and treating the event as a party.
Tiffany still had a job to do.
She could become friendly with clients and remained in touch with some afterwards.
Scott liked that a role usually defined by friendship could, in the right circumstances, be supplied professionally.
Mia solved a red-wine disaster with more red wine
Another viral story involved Ella, who had got red wine on a white dress at a racing event.
Friend Mia realised the isolated stain looked terrible.
So she made it intentional.
Mia poured roughly four more glasses of red wine over the dress, turning the white outfit into something closer to an all-over wine-dyed design.
Photographs of the improvised solution went viral.
Scott thought it was excellent crisis management.
Most people attacked a red-wine stain with water and cleaning products.
Mia looked at the remaining bottle and committed to the problem.
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