Bamboleo Wednesday
Every Wednesday on Scott Mills and Chris Stark's Radio 1 show, the Gipsy Kings classic Bamboleo became the soundtrack to a few minutes of gloriously pointless chat between the pair. These articles collect the nonsense, the running jokes and the moments it got out of hand.
Olly Murs admitted he could not cook Christmas dinner but insisted that close relatives still received properly chosen presents. [...]
Guy Mowbray agreed to record authentic football commentary after Scott's Innuendo Bingo alternatives proved rather too descriptive. [...]
Calls made on behalf of Harry Styles and Rita Ora helped Scott manufacture his own increasingly implausible Big Weekend rumours. [...]
Sam Faiers and a roomful of Radio 1 Academy visitors turned Innuendo Bingo into a spectacular group soaking. [...]
Alexis Killacam retold the Royal Wedding and the Great Plague as breathless updates from the voice of “#Selfie”. [...]
Emma Stone adopted Gemma Collins’s “You ain’t ever gonna get this candy” after she and Andrew Garfield reviewed British reality television. [...]
Guy combined “hey girl”, sambuca, an invitation home and promised pancakes into a chat-up line that somehow worked on his second attempt. [...]
Big Mo called before her Canterbury debut with no records, no planned opening song and complete faith that she only needed to press a button. [...]
Gary found a €500 note, accidentally told two strangers exactly what it was and watched them run away with it. [...]
The Vamps’ own drummer completed an online personality quiz and was informed that the member he most resembled was Bradley Simpson. [...]