Julia finally gets her comeuppance 18 years after her best friend Jess sent her a cruel April Fool’s letter claiming she’d won a chance to meet Bros — with help from Lorraine Kelly and a fake GMTV game show.
Julia, a lifelong Bros superfan, reveals the story of her most devastating childhood moment: at age 10, she received a letter from Jimmy Savile’s Jim’ll Fix It saying she was going to meet Bros. She was ecstatic until her best friend Jess admitted it was an elaborate April Fool’s prank. For 18 years, Julia has harboured a grudge, and today Scott and Lorraine help her exact revenge.
The setup is brilliantly simple: Julia tells Jess she’s entered a GMTV competition for a hen weekend in Barcelona, and needs Jess’s help answering quiz questions on air. When Jess gets a call from “GMTV Stoke-on-Trent,” she suspects nothing. A fake game show segment, complete with cheesy prize descriptions and a host, begins. The quiz is intentionally rigged so that Jess gets the answers wrong — mishearing capitals of Spain (Barcelona instead of Madrid), muddling soap opera trivia. Julia and her friend Courtney (playing along as another contestant) deliberately win the fake hen weekend.
The punchline arrives when Lorraine reveals the final question: does Jess remember sending Julia that Bros letter 18 years ago? As the truth dawns, Jess realizes she’s been completely fooled. Julia’s revenge is complete, and Jess admits she feels cheated — though the tables have now thoroughly turned. Julia leaves visibly satisfied, having finally evened the score after nearly two decades.
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