Chris came back as a dad
Chris returned to the show after the birth of his son and immediately had to deal with Scott calling him “Daddy”.
He thanked listeners for the messages and gifts that had arrived while he was away and said how strange it felt that only a couple of weeks off Radio 1 could seem so long.
Scott had sent a present too.
Unfortunately, the gift had arrived without Chris initially realising who it was from.
Scott’s new house had gained a deeply inappropriate doormat
Chris had also bought Scott a housewarming present.
Scott had recently moved, so Chris went looking for the most unsuitable doormat he could find for a respectable new neighbourhood.
He settled on one built around a Roddy Ricch lyric.
Scott loved it, although the mat had not yet been promoted to the formal front entrance and was living at the back of the house.
Chris decided personalised doormats were an underrated present because almost anything could apparently be printed on one.
The Prince William interview could finally be discussed
Chris had been sitting on a major secret since before lockdown.
For his football podcast with Peter Crouch, he had recorded an interview with Prince William at Kensington Palace in March.
The original plan was for around 40 or 45 minutes.
Instead the conversation kept going.
At one point somebody reminded the prince that another appointment was waiting and William simply suggested delaying it.
Chris and the team stayed longer, drank beers and talked about football and mental health.
When coronavirus transformed everyday life soon afterwards, they decided it was not the right moment to release the programme. It eventually appeared around the FA Cup final alongside Prince William’s Heads Up mental-health campaign.
The story travelled internationally, something Chris always enjoyed when a slightly surreal moment from his work suddenly turned up in overseas news bulletins.
Chris had one major problem inside the palace
There was, however, one detail that had been occupying Chris during the interview.
After several beers he urgently needed the toilet.
At first he tried to ignore it because he was sitting opposite the future king.
Eventually the discomfort became impossible to hide.
Chris checked whether the conversation was continuing, announced that he needed two minutes and went searching around Kensington Palace for a loo.
When he found one, somebody was already inside.
He then stood waiting, increasingly convinced that upstairs Prince William must think he had simply disappeared for an absurdly long toilet break.
Eventually the door opened, Chris completed what he described as a palace “pit stop” and rushed back.
Another beer was already waiting for him.
Don’t Look It Up smelled of celebrity perfume
The daily quiz opened with celebrity fragrances.
One Direction had released scents including *Our Moment*, while Britney Spears had put her name to far more perfumes than either Scott or Chris guessed.
David Beckham emerged as the footballer with the biggest fragrance range.
A later round revisited *X Factor* contestants, including the Filipino group 4th Power and some performances which even two Radio 1 presenters struggled to drag out of their memories.
Becky Hill supplied the holiday mix
Becky Hill then took over the guest mix.
She had considered going to Ibiza but changed plans as restrictions shifted, opting instead for a British break.
Her choices leaned heavily into the dance music she had grown up with.
She picked records including *Make a Move on Me* and talked about the mid-2000s period when club records such as Shapeshifters’ *Lola’s Theme* had made her want to be old enough to go out properly.
Becky described herself as an encyclopedia of that era of dance music.
She and Scott could happily have spent the entire slot naming old club records.
TikTok was rather less comfortable territory
The conversation moved to the TikTok dances being created for current records.
Becky found them intimidating.
She did not think of herself as naturally good at either elaborate choreography or the sort of quick visual comedy that performed well on the platform.
She had watched people create increasingly complicated routines to her music, including one video involving a phone attached to a drill so the camera spun around.
It was inventive, but not necessarily the future she had pictured while making the song.
Becky finished the mix looking forward to proper clubs, Ibiza and a year in which the dancefloor could once again involve people actually dancing.
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