Scott reflects on taking his maths GCSE exam live on air with the team, while emotional listener Ellie Barry from Cirencester bids farewell to her surname on the eve of her wedding — complete with a parody of Elton John’s “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.”
Scott describes his experience sitting the higher tier GCSE maths exam alongside allied, Carry, Dave, Greg James, and Grimmy, standing outside in alphabetical order for photos. He admits he didn’t revise properly and found the paper incomprehensibly hard, scribbling only his name and candidate number before largely giving up. He jokes that the questions might as well have been in Arabic. Greg James apparently brought a plastic duck mascot to the exam.
Lloyd, the show’s 12-year-old “football expert,” returns to make predictions for the Euro 2008 quarter-final between Croatia and Turkey. After yesterday’s magic eight ball confidently predicted Portugal to win (only for Germany to win instead), listeners apparently lost money on his advice. Undeterred, Lloyd reveals his new “100% foolproof” prediction system: he’s switched to flipping a coin. Scott mercilessly mocks him for this development.
The emotional centrepiece is Ellie Barry from Cirencester, who calls in on the eve of her wedding to Andrew Pritchett. She performs a tearful parody of “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” mourning the imminent loss of her surname — “the greatest name in the world” — after 25 years of being a Barry. Her heartfelt rendition moves listeners, who call and text in with their own emotional reactions to her farewell.
The show also promotes HoffSpace, David Hasselhoff’s new social networking site, which has grown from 700 to 2,500 members following yesterday’s on-air mention. The Hoff himself posted a thank-you message (though Scott is mildly offended that Hasselhoff claims he might “meet this guy Danny Howard” despite having sat in the studio before). A segment plays voicemail messages left for the Hoff on the site.
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