Don’t Look It Up
A no-Googling quiz round from Scott Mills's Radio 1 afternoon show, sitting alongside the usual daily mix of listener stories and returning features from the archive during those years.
Gemma Collins became a domestic goddess in quarantine and supplied diva anthems from Essex, while Radio 1 found a zookeeper isolating with penguins, red pandas and donkeys and revisited whether Chris’s wife would have swiped right. [...]
Scott ranked former boyfriends with anonymous pros and cons, replayed Jennifer Aniston deliberately destroying Chris in an interview and watched Little Mix’s Jade Thirlwall turn disinfectant spray into a kitchen CO2 cannon. [...]
With Chris broadcasting from home and the show now starting earlier, Maisie Peters became one of the first Bored and Famous guests, Ask Me Anything found a swear-word expert and Tap End revisited Chris’s disastrous school assembly. [...]
Dua Lipa brought Break My Heart to the show as Future Nostalgia moved forward, told Scott and Chris what isolation looked like for her and gave Radio 1 a burst of uncomplicated pop excitement. [...]
Rylan’s brilliantly fooled Superfan Steve encounter came back from the archive, another handwritten letter reached the show and the team began confronting the fact nobody could get a normal haircut. [...]
Dickie’s unmistakable laugh came back for another round of listener jokes, Gemma Collins’s Superfan Steve encounter returned from the archive and Scott tried to recruit Chris into a 10am home booty blast. [...]
Scott and Chris launched a no-Googling quiz for a nation spending more time at home, an English National Opera singer performed for his street and Ask Me Anything met record-breaking window cleaner Terry Turbo. [...]