Scott had finally caught Covid
After avoiding it through the earlier stages of the pandemic, Scott finally tested positive for Covid and had to present from an upstairs room at home.
He said he felt largely fine apart from a slight sniffle, but the positive line itself had shocked him.
Chris was in the Radio 1 studio pressing the buttons, a reversal Scott found uncomfortable because he normally liked being in control of every part of the show.
Listeners immediately enjoyed the domestic possibilities of the arrangement, wondering whether Scott’s dog Teddy, his fiancé or some imaginary household staff might interrupt the programme.
Scott had banished everyone else from the room and tried to make the improvised setup feel as close to a normal show as possible.
Ella Toone joined the celebrations
The day after England won the Women’s Euro 2022 final, the show managed to grab Ella Toone during the celebrations around Trafalgar Square.
She had scored England’s opening goal at Wembley and was still in the middle of the national party when Scott and Chris called.
Ella described the victory as the thing the players had dreamed about since they were little girls.
Scott and Chris then played her a version of the goal with *Titanic*-style music added underneath it, because the show could not let an already dramatic moment remain completely untouched.
Chris Evans and Ana de Armas played the most awkward game possible
The programme also returned to a pre-recorded interview with Chris Evans and Ana de Armas, who were promoting *The Gray Man*.
Rather than conduct a straight film interview, Scott and Chris made them play Your Video or Adult Video.
They read comments taken either from videos connected with the actors or from adult videos and had to work out where each line came from.
A comment saying somebody could “pull off anything” belonged to *The Gray Man* trailer, while another about watching in a grandmother-in-law’s guest room came from the considerably less respectable side of the internet.
Evans and de Armas quickly understood the game, even as Scott had to explain why Radio 1 had been reading the comments underneath adult videos in the first place.
The Who Game carried on as normal
Monday still finished with The Who Game, giving the strange remote programme one familiar piece of structure.
The contrast summed up the afternoon well.
Scott had finally caught the illness which had shaped radio broadcasting for more than two years, England had just won a major football tournament, and Radio 1 was still finding time to ask Hollywood actors whether a suspicious internet comment came from one of their own videos or somewhere much less safe for work.
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