Too Hot to Handle sounded made for the programme
Netflix’s Too Hot to Handle was returning.
Scott and Chris discussed the premise for anybody who had somehow missed it.
A group of attractive single people believe they are heading into a villa-style dating show.
Then the real rule is revealed.
They must avoid sexual contact and other physical intimacy if they want to preserve the prize fund.
Every breach costs money.
Scott could immediately see why the format worked.
It combined exactly the kind of reality-TV behaviour people expected with a rule deliberately designed to make that behaviour expensive.
The team decided they needed to catch up before *Love Island* properly took over the summer.
Granny Tinder was missing
Wednesday normally meant one thing.
Lynette.
The team called.
No answer.
Called again.
Still nothing.
For most of the previous year, everybody had been home so often that regular contributors were unusually easy to find.
Now life was opening up.
Lynette had plans.
The production team discovered she was attending a residents’ tea party at the complex where she lived.
Scott and Chris were almost offended.
After months of being available whenever Radio 1 called, Granny Tinder had finally become too busy for them.
They also respected it completely.
The woman was socialising again.
Tinder could wait until Thursday.
Some lockdown couples had accidentally accelerated years of dating
The show returned to people who had only recently started seeing somebody when the first lockdown arrived.
Faced with the prospect of months apart, some couples made a dramatic decision.
Move in together immediately.
One caller had begun seeing a partner around January, moved in through lockdown and eventually ended up pregnant and moving house.
The arrangement had worked.
The biggest domestic annoyance was comparatively ordinary:
drawers being left open.
After such an accelerated beginning, that sounded like a success.
For other couples, it absolutely did not work
Not every story was romantic.
Another caller was asked whether moving in together during lockdown had worked.
The answer was immediate:
“Absolutely not.”
Scott and Chris liked the contrast.
The same crisis had pushed some relationships years ahead and exposed others within weeks.
There was no universal lockdown-love outcome.
Bamboleo arrived even without Granny Tinder
Wednesday still required Bamboleo.
The show also asked listeners to remember the specific bars, clubs and Wetherspoons they could not wait to revisit.
The discussion reinforced why Lynette’s absence was actually a good sign.
People finally had places to go again.
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