Jess Glynne’s restaurant rejection became a tourist attraction
Scott had recently walked past the London restaurant that had been in the news after Jess Glynne said she was refused entry because of what she was wearing.
It was somewhere he passed regularly, but the publicity had suddenly transformed it in his mind.
He found himself taking a photograph for Instagram as though he had arrived at a famous landmark.
Scott briefly considered trying to go in himself before looking down at his sportswear and definitely non-fashion trainers and deciding he probably would not pass the dress code either.
He and Chris compared it with visiting locations made famous by viral clips — places that are completely ordinary until the internet gives them a story.
The parents took on the Better Days Quiz together
The week’s family competition from the Highlands reached the parents, Jill and Gavin.
Their “better day” was 5 June 2017, remembered for Theresa May being asked about the naughtiest thing she had ever done.
Her answer — running through fields of wheat as a child and annoying farmers — had become one of the defining odd political soundbites of the period.
Scott acknowledged that it is actually a difficult question to answer on the spot, especially for a politician, but maintained that “fields of wheat” was still an extraordinary response.
Scott’s mum wanted to know whether she was cancelled
A phone conversation with Scott’s mum had become unexpectedly complicated.
She had heard people talking about “cancel culture” and wanted to know what being cancelled actually meant.
Scott tried to explain that it generally involved people withdrawing support after somebody had done or said something considered unacceptable.
That only produced a more worrying question from his mum:
Was she going to be cancelled?
Scott reassured her that, as far as he knew, there was no campaign underway.
Daisy May Cooper accepted the Lady Gaga challenge
The main event had begun as a deliberately silly idea.
Beyoncé had appeared on Megan Thee Stallion’s *Savage*, Nicki Minaj had joined Doja Cat, and remixes with surprise guests were everywhere.
So Scott and Chris asked: why shouldn’t Daisy May Cooper jump on *Rain on Me*?
More specifically, why shouldn’t she do it as Kerry’s mum from *This Country*?
Daisy agreed.
She joked that she had spent all night in the recording studio preparing for the performance.
The show played the Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande track and, at the appropriate moment, Daisy came in as Kerry’s mum with her own chaotic contribution.
Scott immediately declared that Radio 1 should quietly replace the normal version so other presenters would play it without realising.
The sea captain saga had become even stranger
Daisy also updated the show on one of her lockdown obsessions.
She had received a direct message from a man presenting himself as a sea captain or military officer serving in Syria. The broken-English message seemed suspicious, so Daisy began replying for entertainment.
The conversation developed into an elaborate online “relationship”, even though she was convinced the man ultimately wanted money.
She had told him she knew Boris Johnson and obtained a video from a Boris impersonator to support the story.
The impersonator apparently looked almost nothing like the Prime Minister and filmed the message on extremely poor-quality equipment, which only made Daisy enjoy the deception more.
Then she discovered the same supposed captain had been contacting other women, including celebrities.
Kate Thornton had helped investigate and Daisy believed they had worked out the real person behind the photographs and messages, apparently based in Nigeria rather than serving at sea or in Syria.
Scott and Chris were delighted that the story had evolved from an obvious scam message into an amateur detective operation.
Diana Vickers was considered as a sleep aid
Elsewhere, the show wondered whether Diana Vickers’ distinctive voice might be capable of sending somebody to sleep, another tiny idea expanded into a full Breakfast discussion.
By the end of the first week covering Greg, Scott and Chris had managed to turn dress codes, political wheat fields, online romance scams and a parody Ariana Grande duet into one programme — while Chris was still not even broadcasting from his own house.
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