Vernon Kay had a rare on-air slip-up to own up to on his Radio 2 mid-morning show, admitting he'd wrongly credited Gary Barlow with writing Take That's brand new single, Higher, which got its first play on the programme. Handing over to Jeremy Vine, Vernon said: "An official apology on my behalf to Howard, I said that Gary wrote the latest Take That track… it was Howard that wrote it." Jeremy, mid-handover, joked that apologies are usually his department, not Vernon's.
Listen: The Take That apology
The best chat of the morning came from Giovanna Fletcher in Tracks Of My Years, as she and Vernon relived their 2020 series of I'm A Celebrity together. Giovanna revealed the castle group once became convinced they could smell pizza because the camera crew's catering truck couldn't reach them in bad weather, joking "you can't do that to an Italian." She also spoke movingly about her charity treks for breast cancer support, explaining every trek now ends with a Fatboy Slim track played in memory of Copperfield founder Chris Helenga, who died last year.
Listen: The pizza smell in the I'm A Celeb castle
Vernon's Vault dug up a wonderfully odd 1967 archive clip about "The Big Dig," a razor-blade sponsored treasure hunt on a Sussex beach where diggers unearthed a Maserati, ten Mini Coopers and a silver mink coat buried in the sand. In Ten To The Top, Andrew from Birmingham narrowly beat Terry from Nottingham, 16 points to 10, taking home the smart speaker.
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