Camila Cabello was recruited to Team Sam
Scott’s unofficial Eurovision marketing campaign reached an international level when Camila Cabello joined the show.
He first showed her a photograph of Sam Ryder without explaining who he was.
Camila thought he looked like some combination of a songwriter, surfer and Swedish singer, with a little bit of Jesus thrown in.
She knew Eurovision mainly through the Will Ferrell film, so Scott and Chris explained how seriously the contest was taken across Europe and how badly the UK had performed in recent years.
Scott then played her “Spaceman”.
Before hearing it, Camila made clear she did not want to give fake praise. If she disliked the song, she wanted to be able to say so.
That made Scott even more nervous.
After listening, she said the song was really good, praised Sam’s voice and told them she thought the UK had “a real shot”.
Scott immediately treated the verdict as a major international endorsement.
Camila’s enormous social following included plenty of people in countries which could vote, so as far as he was concerned she was now part of the campaign.
Bumblelow Wednesday raided the archive
The Wednesday request section returned to some of the programme’s older nonsense.
Listeners asked for Chris’s attempt at the “Spaceman” high note, an old Innuendo Bingo clip and the Young Farmers version of “Waiting for Love”.
There was also a return for the Australian newsreader who had tried to continue reading the news while suffering from hiccups.
Scott immediately began wondering whether somebody on BBC Newsbeat could somehow be persuaded into the same problem.
Farmer Maggot caused a Lord of the Rings argument
The quiz introduced a round called Craft Beer or Lord of the Rings Character.
Scott and Chris admitted neither of them had much interest in the films.
That confession horrified producer Amy and plenty of listeners.
Names included Brandybuck, Magic Rock and finally Farmer Maggot.
Farmer Maggot sounded so ridiculous that it could easily have been a novelty beer.
Instead, he was genuinely a hobbit from Tolkien’s world.
Scott’s lack of fantasy knowledge then widened into a general complaint that he struggled with stories involving goblins, wizards and mythical creatures because he preferred things which might actually happen.
Listeners who loved Lord of the Rings and Star Wars were appalled.
Scott remained unmoved.
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