Love Island
Every Love Island mention from across the site, spanning the Radio 1 afternoon show years through to Radio 2, covering listeners' stories, contestant chats and the show's cultural chatter alongside the usual studio antics.
In the second Friday Extra Show, Chris and Jordan North investigated whether words including “testicles” were acceptable on Radio 1, while listeners asked how presenters ate lunch during a live afternoon show. [...]
Will spent months chatting to shop worker Paulina about his groceries, performed an overlong magic trick to impress her, got her number and went on an awkward date before unexpectedly finding her working in another local shop. [...]
Chris created a fifth weekly podcast without Scott, called Greg before his first Breakfast Show, admitted he and Scott had never had a proper falling-out and surprised former co-host Beccy after a listener asked what she was doing now. [...]
Scott wanted phones to identify strangers’ perfume, became obsessed with Australian Bachelor Nick “Honey Badger” Cummins and then asked Swedish pop legend Robyn whether her studio looked like IKEA. [...]
Radio 1 disguised Joe Sugg as “Feta” before revealing him as the fourth celebrity joining Strictly Come Dancing 2018, while Scott celebrated Left Handers Day a day late. [...]
James revealed that a celebrity client had received a mobile phone which tracked the route of their fan mail and photographs of their home, while Ellie brutally reviewed three listeners’ dating profiles. [...]
Hayley had avoided the Love Island final, so every wrong quiz answer earned her an invented spoiler, including Laura secretly being an actress and Jack dumping Dani before the winners were announced. [...]
Late-night listener Liz asked Scott to help her marry into the Radio 1 family after realising Chris Stark, Greg James and several other presenters were already taken. [...]
Scott and Chris read the extremely emotional social-media messages surrounding Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin’s engagement and asked listeners which couples posted far too much. [...]
While Chris was off sick, listener Rob revealed that he had answered Chris’s desperate taxi tweet after a wedding, driven him back for free and received only a photograph in return. [...]