Alfie prepares for the wet seat
Alfie Deyes followed DNCE into the Innuendo Bingo studio. A devoted viewer explained that keeping up with Alfie’s daily vlogs, main channel and social media had become almost a full-time job, while Scott asked about the recent photograph in which he wore Zoella’s trousers to make a point about double standards.
Alfie arrived with spare clothes and was particularly concerned about saving his trousers. His new publication, The Scrapbook of My Life, was designed to be completed by readers rather than simply read, although the interview quickly gave way to the water. Familiar clips and Alfie’s distinctive laugh produced another exceptionally wet game before he left with socks that listeners suspected would take all day to dry.
How to interview will.i.am
Scott found an extraordinary sheet of instructions reportedly given to a journalist before meeting will.i.am at his Hollywood office, a building called “the Future”. The office included a Japanese toilet with controls for positioning, pressure, washing and drying, but the interview rules were even more elaborate.
Questions had to be short, direct and limited to a single sentence. Interviewers were told not to waste time explaining their background, editorialising before a question or asking for responses to old coverage. They were also warned that will.i.am often answered several questions at once, so repeating something he had already covered would expose a failure to listen.
The journalist later described will.i.am as charming and apparently surprised by the document, suggesting that his team had created the rules without his enthusiasm. Scott admitted that the guidance still addressed a genuine interviewing fear: a guest answering every prepared question in one long response.
Dedicoat and the Bangers
Alan Dedicoat returned to judge Real or No Real, while Scott and Chris continued Battle of the Bangers. The show was still defining what counted as a true banger, but both presenters were becoming increasingly protective of their choices and increasingly suspicious of whichever listener had the final vote.
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