Ellie Taylor was in for Emma Willis this Saturday, and the afternoon's best story came from travel presenter Sally Traffic. Asked for her own weird celebrity encounter, Sally recalled spotting Tom Jones on Tottenham Court Road years ago while eating a bag of chips. "I said, do you fancy a chip? And he just knocked them out of my hand," she told Ellie, adding she's "still available if he needs somebody."
Ellie's "weird celebrity interactions" feature brought in a string of texts: Debs from Coleshill revealed a former Magpie presenter once bought silk boxer shorts from her and swore her to secrecy about his size, Tracy from Liverpool recalled selling Pierce Brosnan a bandage so he wouldn't have to sign autographs, and Leanne told Ellie how a disco ball fell on her head on a girls' holiday in Gran Canaria, leaving her with mild concussion and a lifelong aversion to the Strictly trophy. There was also a Liam Gallagher sighting in Mauritius, where he told his son to "stop" ignoring him and then grumbled "flipping kids" to a nearby stranger.
Strictly Speaking brought backstage gossip from It Takes Two, with Ellie revealing Mollie King's new mantra for the cast: "We're here, we're breathing, we're smiling, and we have a six pack." Josh Widdicombe also told Ellie he found flying on wires scarier than facing Shirley Ballas, joking the dancers only got one rehearsal compared to his four.
There was also an unexpected cameo from Paddy McGuinness, who popped up in a Radio 2 Book Week extract to talk, somewhat surprisingly, about stoic philosophy.
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