People were listening to the show in the bath
Before the serious matchmaking began, Scott and Chris discovered something surprisingly difficult for them to accept.
A listener called Danny from Cornwall was already settled in the bath at around 1.25pm, complete with a bath bomb, while listening to Radio 1.
The presenters were fascinated.
Their programme normally imagined people at work, driving home or in student accommodation.
Apparently some listeners were having full daytime baths.
Scott and Chris asked who else was doing the same.
Halloween outfits were still completely unplanned
The pair had also left their own Halloween fancy dress until the last possible moment.
Their idea was to become topical icons, good or bad.
Rather than choose costumes themselves, they called fancy-dress shops and forced one another to request increasingly difficult looks.
Scott or Chris would hold up a name.
The other had to ask the person on the phone how to recreate it.
Could you dress as somebody pulling out of a festival?
One suggestion involved Jesy Nelson pulling out of the Isle of Wight Festival.
The challenge was not merely dressing as Jesy.
How did a costume communicate the act of pulling out?
The shop worker tried to help.
Another suggestion was a deliberately “sexy” version of John Bercow, complete with parliamentary styling transformed into fancy dress.
Scott and Chris enjoyed how seriously shop staff attempted to solve requests which had clearly been designed to be impossible.
Trump and Greta became the obvious pairing
Eventually the programme arrived at Donald Trump and Greta Thunberg.
The contrast made sense for a two-person topical costume.
Trump could be achieved through familiar hair, suit and exaggerated styling.
Greta meant plaits or ponytails, climate-protest imagery and potentially recycled materials.
The presenters even discussed a boat reference.
The source never turns the idea into a confirmed final costume before moving on, so the recap keeps it at the planning stage rather than pretending the outfits were definitely worn.
Article 69 investigated the finalists
The bigger job was narrowing Emily’s three remaining men.
Scott and Chris no longer trusted the applicants’ own descriptions.
The production team had spent the night finding people who actually knew them.
Friends became character references.
The programme replayed each man’s original pitch and then asked somebody from his life for the unedited version.
Ollie once got locked in a school toilet
Ollie’s best friend, confusingly also called Ollie, supplied a school story.
The applicant went to the toilet during a Spanish lesson and somehow locked himself inside a cubicle.
Nobody could hear him.
He had a phone.
Instead of calling the school reception directly, he rang his dad, who was in an important meeting.
His dad then had to call the school.
The school sent a caretaker.
Scott thought the incident suggested a shortage of lateral thinking.
Ollie’s friend also described him as a bit of a womaniser.
The harmless karaoke flaw from Tuesday was beginning to look incomplete.
Jamie saved the puppy rather than the wife
Then came Simon, who had played rugby with Jamie for five or six years.
Simon confirmed the rugby claim was genuine and described Jamie as a good bloke.
He also offered one revealing story.
Simon’s wife was standing at the side of a rugby match with a new puppy.
Jamie, a dog trainer, was playing with the animal.
A rugby ball flew towards them.
Jamie moved the puppy out of danger.
The ball then hit Simon’s wife square in the head.
Scott summarised the character flaw.
Jamie might sometimes prefer dogs to people.
Simon suggested perhaps he simply had not found the right woman yet.
Jamie became the winner
After hearing the references, Scott and Chris made their decision.
Jamie would date Emily live on Halloween.
The attraction points were straightforward.
Rugby player.
Dog trainer.
Good beard.
Nice bum, according to Jamie himself.
Potentially over-protective of puppies.
Emily did not yet know exactly which finalist had been selected.
Thursday’s date would begin with conversation rather than pictures.
Then the pair could finally see one another halfway through.
Radio 1 had triggered Article 69.
It now needed the relationship to survive an actual date.
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