Christmas confessions kept getting stronger
The programme opened by revisiting Wednesday’s anonymous admissions.
One caller had dreamed repeatedly about a boss.
Craig had announced that he believed he had picked the wrong identical twin as a girlfriend.
Then Lauren added another twin story.
Her ex-boyfriend had cheated on her.
Later, she slept with his identical twin brother.
Scott asked the inevitable question about whether the twins were identical in every way.
Lauren suggested there were differences.
The confessions had moved very far beyond ordinary Christmas oversharing.
Whoovent reached day twelve
The Whoovent Calendar opened another retro door.
Listeners debated whether the chosen item was genuinely “Who?” enough.
That argument had become part of the feature.
A reference could not be too current.
It also could not be so obscure that nobody remembered it.
Scott enjoyed the impossible middle ground.
The Rock and Kevin Hart got crackers
The main event was the recording Scott and Chris had teased for a week.
Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart were promoting *Jumanji: The Next Level*.
Radio 1 had already done Playground Insults with them.
This time, Scott and Chris wanted something completely different.
Introduce two Hollywood stars to a deliberately exaggerated traditional British Christmas.
That began with Christmas crackers.
The crackers were rigged
Ordinary cracker jokes were not enough.
The production team had inserted prompts designed to generate moments which might spread online.
One fact claimed it took around seven seconds for a nipple to become hard after being flicked.
Scott and Chris hoped Dwayne and Kevin might test this on camera.
They did not.
The presenters admitted the strategy openly.
They were trying to create viral clips.
Hollywood’s most experienced promotional double act was not always willing to cooperate exactly as planned.
Santa arrived
Scott then appeared as Santa.
He had been hiding nearby rehearsing his lines while Dwayne and Kevin continued the interview.
At one point the stars effectively told Santa to get out of shot because Scott was physically in the way.
Eventually he returned for the next section.
The pair were asked whether they had been naughty or nice and to identify the nicest thing they had done during the year.
Dwayne talked about a day where he had hugged an enormous number of people.
Kevin’s answer naturally became part of the competitive back-and-forth between them.
The British tradition got stranger
The feature kept adding layers.
Crackers.
Santa.
Festive questions.
Scott and Chris performing at roughly GCSE-drama level beside two of the world’s highest-paid actors.
The imbalance was exactly the joke.
The programme was not trying to conduct a serious film interview.
It wanted Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart trapped inside the Scott Mills version of Christmas.
The stars still played along
What made the recording work was that both actors committed enough to the nonsense.
They read cards.
They reacted to the cracker contents.
They dealt with Scott appearing as Santa.
They continued arguing with one another in the way audiences expected from their promotional partnership.
Scott and Chris had wanted something more memorable than asking about the film.
They got it.
The second week of December ended with Mr Rock, Mr Hart and Radio 1’s least convincing Santa.
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