Scott returns from Eurovision with Nick Frost
Scott returned after his Eurovision week in Baku, pleased with the experience but slightly defensive about his role reading out the UK jury’s points. Chris had watched the broadcast and was convinced Scott had missed a once-in-a-lifetime chance to make the announcement memorable. Scott argued that a line about London hosting the Olympics was enough, although he admitted that he had also slipped in a very local “Go on, pigs” reference that much of Europe was unlikely to understand.
The pair replayed the contrast between Scott’s restrained official wording and Chris’s imagined alternative. Chris wanted a full report from “the UK calling”, including Hull City, chicken parmesan and a much less diplomatic assessment of the contest. Scott maintained that he had been watched by an enormous global audience and could not simply improvise football chants while revealing the points.
Nick Frost joined them to discuss Snow White and the Huntsman. Scott was enthusiastic about the film’s darker version of the story and about Frost working alongside Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron and Chris Hemsworth. Frost was characteristically relaxed about the scale of the production, while Scott became distracted by the idea of Hemsworth placing sushi on his own stomach between takes.
Show and Tell then unearthed a string of baffling text exchanges between children. Scott and Chris tried to work out what phrases such as “Who is Gladys at Group Dad’s and twelve Williams?” could possibly mean, while the adults involved admitted they were no closer to translating them. The feature gave the programme a good excuse to marvel at the incomprehensible shorthand of children’s phones.
Later, Scott read the large quantity of feedback about Eurovision, including people who had enjoyed the tension of the vote despite the UK’s poor result. The day made his return feel like a debrief from a very strange international work trip, with Baku, points, cryptic texts and Nick Frost all fitting into the same afternoon.
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