Scott had been fed another fake Live Lounge spoiler
Before Celeste performed, Scott had been told her festive cover would be Mariah Carey’s *All I Want for Christmas Is You*.
He immediately spread the information.
It was wrong.
Celeste had never planned to sing Mariah.
Scott realised somebody had once again discovered how easy it was to plant fake insider information with him because he could not resist repeating it.
The real cover was Destiny’s Child’s 8 Days of Christmas.
Celeste had to listen to herself immediately
Celeste joined the show moments after the Live Lounge.
Scott and Chris asked her to do what many singers hated:
listen back and critique the performance while it was still completely fresh.
Celeste heard a slightly wobbly opening.
She thought the second line was stronger.
She liked the arrangement and joked that it had a Renaissance quality.
Scott and Chris heard a performance which sounded beautiful.
Celeste heard all the details she would have changed.
Asked to mark herself out of ten, she gave it:
7.25.
The presenters thought this was absurdly harsh.
The deep-voice cheating theory needed proper Radio 1 science
A study reported in the news claimed men with deeper voices were more likely to cheat.
Scott and Chris decided to test this in the least scientific way possible.
Find men with extremely deep voices.
Ask them whether they had cheated.
Caller Ben, 26, had a voice low enough to make the pair joke that people listening in cars could feel the bass vibrating through the seats.
He had been with girlfriend Chloe for four years and said he had not cheated during the relationship.
That appeared to destroy the theory.
Then Scott asked about relationships before Chloe.
A long pause followed.
Ben eventually admitted there had been cheating in the past.
The show declared the study proven.
Another caller’s voice went even lower
Rhys, 23, from Somerset arrived with an even deeper voice.
Again the show ran its imaginary voice-analysis machine and treated pitch as though it could reveal somebody’s romantic history.
The whole segment was built on obviously ridiculous “science”.
The lower the voice went, the more suspicious Scott and Chris pretended to become.
Don’t Look It Up reviewed the year through show moments
The quiz began looking back at 2020.
Rather than only asking general news questions, the rounds revisited some of the strange moments that had dominated the programme across lockdown.
The year had provided more than enough material:
virtual parties, viral television, transformed songs, bizarre listener problems and features that could never have existed in any ordinary twelve months.
The quiz felt like the first real sign that the show was beginning to close the book on 2020.
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