Danny Mylo and Rosie Madison ended up fronting the start of Greg James’s show after his alarm failed to go off, reassuring worried listeners there was “proof of life” and he was simply running late. The pair even attempted Greg’s usual Yesterday’s Quiz feature for the first time, helped through it by a listener called Eve, with Rosie admitting her reading of the questions was “notoriously bad”. Greg eventually turned up 38 minutes behind schedule, apologising on air and explaining he still did his full morning routine rather than rush in: “I took my sweet time.”
Keen to make amends, Greg spent part of the show doing odd bits of admin for listeners as a kind of penance. He talked Lisa through choosing radiators for her kitchen extension (initially suggesting “big, girthy” Victorian column radiators before Rosie corrected him on air), agreed to book a pub quiz table for Claire’s team under the name “Greg James booked this table,” and wrote a cheeky out-of-office message for Dave, who was heading to Turkey, warning colleagues not to mention his hair or teeth.
The Is It Just Us? feature saw vet Amy ask whether her wife Kat’s habit of putting her whole fist inside an empty mug of tea was unusual, prompting several listeners, including Libby and Sophie, to admit they do the same thing to warm their hands, while others confessed to pressing warm mugs against their faces or holding them between their legs.
Greg also flagged Fontaine’s D.C.’s new collaboration with Rosalía, “Where It’s Gone,” getting its first play on Jack Saunders’s show at 6pm, and discussed Richard E Grant’s chaotic turn on Celebrity Traitors, including his Victoria Derbyshire interview explaining why he blurted out he was a traitor.
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