The golden buzzer rule
The show continued enforcing its rule that every listener could name only one “best thing of 2016”. A viral American eyewitness describing a neighbourhood fire became the latest contender after her account moved rapidly from a telephone call to grabbing her shoes and escaping because nobody had time for a fire.
Listener Alex then attempted to spend his choice while preserving the right to build a top three later. Scott rejected this interpretation: pressing the imaginary golden buzzer meant using the claim once and living with it until December.
Tom the seat filler
Tom returned with confirmation that he would work as a seat filler at the National Television Awards the following week. His task was to occupy a celebrity’s chair whenever its owner visited the toilet, collected an award or left the auditorium, preventing conspicuous empty spaces from appearing on television.
Scott remembered mistakenly eating part of Gemma Collins’s fishcake at the Brit Awards when a performer temporarily left his dinner behind. He and Chris began considering challenges for Tom to complete if he found himself visible behind a winner, while warning him not to draw enough attention to be removed.
Tom promised to treat the role seriously, stay calm and report back after the ceremony. The prospect of briefly inheriting a famous person’s place fascinated Chris, particularly the handlers and rapid seat changes operating beyond the cameras.
Bamboleo survives
Scott questioned whether Bamboleo Wednesday still deserved its weekly place. The response was emphatic: listeners called it their only exercise, threatened to abandon the show if it disappeared and argued that removing it would be comparable to cancelling the Queen’s Christmas message. The dance remained.
Barbara Windsor joined Real or No Real, where one of the claims asked whether Sam Smith had genuinely headlined a festival called Proofest. The name sounded just plausible enough to make the round difficult.
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