Tag: Flirt Divert
Newsreader Fiona Bruce becomes an unlikely guest on Flirt Divert, the show's weekly feature where celebrities read out cheeky text messages sent to the show's number — though she proves rather more restrained than the team might have hoped. [...]
Listeners send in cringe-worthy love songs recorded by their exes trying to win them back — and Scott and the team dissect them with brutal honesty, including a Birmingham rapper's dramatic bid to reunite with his ex-girlfriend Laura. [...]
Scott attends the Handlebar Club in London, rents fake moustaches for the evening, and Shayne Ward (X Factor winner) accidentally records a helium-voiced novelty single that becomes the show's latest comedy feature. [...]
Flirt Divert makes its return to the show, with Scott and the team revisiting some of the best moments from Kinky Bernard and Randy Mandy's appearances on the feature. [...]
Scott and the team unveil a brand new Flirt Divert phone number to replace the old one, complete with instructions on how to use it — and a hilarious voicemail example featuring someone repeatedly demanding their shoes back. [...]
Scott celebrates Innuendo Bingo's surprise migration to Radio 2 (where Steve Wright unknowingly participates), then plays the extraordinary voicemail from a listener named Troy, who recorded a 14-minute romantic anniversary message for his girlfriend—only to be dumped three days later, after she forwarded the tape to everyone she knows. [...]
Scott puts a university to the test to see if they can sing any Christmas carol on request — including The Pogues' famously tricky festive hit. [...]
Lloyd is devastated to discover he's been cast as a non-speaking king holding a mirror in his school nativity play, while Chopper heads off to film Celebrity Weakest Link with Dave against the Chuckle Brothers—and calls in with updates from the green room. [...]
Stuart recounts taking his American friend from Houston to an Apple Day festival on a tandem bike, where she mistook it for a concert by singer Fiona Apple; later, Radio 1's poshest listeners Hattie and Tatsi call in to discuss the alarming discovery of a fork being used to fish hair out of the bath. [...]
Scott is confronted on air about kissing Michelle from The Apprentice at a karaoke night, leading to the introduction of a new listener feature called Flirt Divert—a wind-up phone number disguised as a way to avoid unwanted flirts. [...]