Clare Hamilton gave Sara Cox a blow-by-blow account of her solo trip to Crete, revealing she'd struck up a romance with a 36-year-old Frenchman called Clément after spotting him alone at a hotel bar. Clare admitted that mid-flirtation she had to turn away and yank out her Invisalign braces, stashing them in her bag rather than explain what they were. The pair ended up kissing in the sea, with Clare joking she "felt like a virgin again" the next morning after two and a half years without any romantic attention. There was a brief wobble when Clare spotted Clément talking to another woman at the bar and stormed off, assuming the worst, before discovering it was an innocent tennis partner.
Sara shared her own starry encounter, describing how Nigella Lawson admired her coral jumpsuit while she was off-mic doing Radio 2 travel photos, then physically spun her round to check the label. "She goes, 'Is it Oliver Bonas?' and went, 'Yes, it is, it's you,'" Sara recalled, delighted that Nigella might now be shopping there herself.
The pair also looked back at Sara's infamous Christmas Strictly appearance, where she danced an achingly slow Elvis waltz with partner Robin, who was nursing a bad back. Sara laughed that Craig Revel Horwood told her the routine was "a bit boring, darling" on live television.
Talk turned to the new series of Strictly, with Sara defending new host Josh after criticism in the press, saying "he's a really lovely guy" and urging viewers to let him "bed in."
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