Scott wanted fame claims which were genuinely bad
The idea began inside Radio 1.
Scott was eating soup when he unexpectedly found himself near famous people around the building.
That was too good.
He wanted rubbish claims to fame.
Not meeting Beyoncé.
Not having dinner with an Oscar winner.
Something involving a celebrity from years ago, a relative of somebody once famous or an encounter so small it should barely count.
Listeners understood immediately.
Thousands of messages arrived.
Ellie Goulding’s toilet seat qualified
One listener remembered following Ellie Goulding into a toilet at a polo match and having to wipe the seat afterwards.
Another had nearly been run over while crossing the road by Alex Reid.
Somebody else had thrown a glow stick at Basshunter.
A driver had flashed their lights and allowed Warwick Davis to turn his Mercedes in front of them.
These were exactly the stories Scott wanted.
Technically celebrity encounters.
Almost completely useless as status.
Emile Heskey’s shoes became a career highlight
One caller had worked in a trainer shop when footballer Emile Heskey came in.
Several pairs of shoes were being checked.
The employee deliberately put a hand inside nine pairs because they wanted to be able to say their hand had occupied the same space as Heskey’s feet.
Scott asked the obvious question.
Why?
That was precisely what made it such a good rubbish claim to fame.
The caller also remembered serving Coronation Street actor Antony Cotton and accidentally giving him two shoes for the same foot.
The trainer shop had become unexpectedly rich territory.
Fresher of the Week became a family quiz
Macy’s mum Shelley joined to find out how much she really knew about her daughter’s first week.
Scott and Chris gave her three possible answers for each situation.
Only one was real.
The first question asked what Macy had worn to a themed student night.
A doctor wearing only a large white coat.
A leopard with cat ears.
Or:
Sexy Brexit.
Nobody, including Scott and Chris, could properly define what Sexy Brexit would look like.
Shelley chose the leopard.
Correct.
Macy had attended a zoo-themed party, improvised with a leopard-print skirt and found matching ears.
The toilet-seat answer was real too
The second question asked where Macy had fallen asleep on Monday.
One option involved a kebab.
Another involved an Uber accidentally set to take her all the way back to Cambridge.
Shelley chose:
with her head on a toilet seat.
Correct again.
Macy had apparently told a flatmate she was fine, then remained asleep there for around an hour and a half.
Scott admired the quality of the sleep much more than the location.
Shelley knew her daughter
The final question was which thing Macy had done that her mum might not approve of.
Missed her first lecture.
Been spoken to by police for urinating on the steps of Leeds Town Hall.
Or lost a bet and run naked around part of the library.
Shelley hoped for the first answer.
She was right.
Macy had missed the lecture.
By the end, her mum had scored perfectly.
Sexy Brexit had existed only inside a Radio 1 multiple-choice question.
The phrase still became the title of the entire episode.
Bamboleo suffered another technical problem
Wednesday’s Bamboleo returned but did not go as smoothly as Scott hoped.
A technical error weakened his contribution.
Chris thought Scott had slightly pulled out of the moment.
Scott blamed the equipment.
The feature’s long history of inexplicable problems continued.
Even a weekly instrumental gap could apparently become technically demanding.
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