Tag: Live Lounge
The Wolf of Worthing appears
During Breakfast cover, Scott and Chris discover Justin from First Dates, who introduces himself as the “Wolf of Worthing”. His talk of sports cars, superyachts and occasionally wishing for a normal life makes the self-appointed title impossible to ignore.
They later call James Arthur in bed before his Live Lounge. His early-morning voice sounds far removed from the one required at midday, but he promises it will recover in time for “Say You Won't Let Go” and the pla [...]
A very wet creative lecture
Scott speaks at a radio festival inside the British Library about creativity, then demonstrates the principle by making Chris and Matt Fincham play Innuendo Bingo. Critics, executives and senior BBC figures initially appear uncertain, but gradually warm to the spectacle.
Only three clips are required, including a BBC West Midlands bird discussion that sounds considerably less innocent in the reading room. Chris immediately imagines a Bingo world tour through the O2, R [...]
The red emergency telephone
Scott and Chris cover Friday Breakfast, prompting several people to check that Scott has remembered to wake up. His solution is a red landline marked “emergency”, whose number is known only to a few colleagues and managers.
The phone should succeed when Scott's silent mobile, forgotten alarms or misplaced handset fail. He is already worried that distributing the number will attract PPI calls, but accepts it as a necessary defence against another missed Breakfast appea [...]
Chris needs a toilet, not Grand Designs
Scott worries that Chris looks pale after weeks living in a house with neither kitchen nor bathroom. The barbecue remains his main cooking appliance, while his attempt to rent portable toilets has proved unexpectedly expensive.
Chris contacts Kevin McCloud for help, but Scott says the project is several levels below Grand Designs and requires Nick Knowles instead. They distract themselves with a celebration of Beaconsfield services, where a caller has deli [...]
An accidental eyebrow slit
Scott notices that one of Chris's eyebrows looks different. Chris admits that he found a trimmer in a kitchen drawer, attempted to control the growth and accidentally removed a vertical section.
He initially fears that he looks like Dappy, but social media reveals that eyebrow slits have returned as a 2016 trend. Chris decides that the mistake proves he remains fashionable and begins encouraging everybody else to copy him.
Ross Noble soaks the studio
Ross Noble arrives [...]
Mollie King gets her solo soaking
Mollie King returns for her first solo appearance on Innuendo Bingo. Before the water begins, she explains how she selected actor Tim for the romantic scenes in her video and then had to warn him that the role involved kissing her.
The director's instruction produces a much more forceful kiss than Mollie expected, repeated across numerous takes. She is apprehensive about the wet game, eventually avoiding Chris's gaze when the later clips become too difficult, bu [...]
Max appears on a left buttock
A photograph spreads online of a hairy bottom carrying Max Branning's face, the words “Max Branning” and his phrase “I can't help myself”. Scott reaches Jake Wood, who learned about it when the tattooed man's sister sent him the image.
Jake has never met the owner and was not asked for permission. He describes a mixture of pride and mild disgust, jokes that the surrounding hair improves his own hairline and accepts that the left buttock was probably the correct loca [...]
The Tinder PA remains unfilled
James has not yet hired the personal assistant who would conduct his Tinder small talk and deliver only the successful matches to him. Granting somebody access to his previous conversations feels too intrusive, while building a fresh profile would create more work than simply sending the messages himself.
His conventional dating is not going more smoothly. A man visits James for dinner, requests a tour of the house and then asks to spend 15 minutes alone in the bed [...]
Scott discovers Undressed
An evening intended for quality television collapses when Scott discovers the dating show Undressed. Strangers remove one another's clothes, spend half an hour together on a bed and follow instructions displayed on a screen before separately deciding whether to continue the date.
Scott finds the format painfully awkward but impossible to stop watching. Listeners admit that they have fallen into the same trap, adding it to a crowded television landscape already containin [...]
Another excellent thing from Harriet
With Chris away, previous contributor Harriet offers Scott another “show and tell”. She first appeared with an online video of cartoon dinosaurs shouting “yes”; this time she has found the same treatment applied to Pokémon.
Every creature has been dubbed with a different emphatic “yes”, with occasional “no” responses adding unnecessary confusion. Scott listens through the surprisingly long collection, immediately adopts several of the noises and warns that th [...]