Danny Howard’s appearance on Celebrity Scissorhands for Children in Need goes badly wrong when a colonic irrigation machine malfunctions during live filming, leaving him shaken enough to need a cup of tea and a half-hour sit-down to recover.
Danny Howard joins Scott live from the Celebrity Scissorhands salon to recount a genuinely mortifying day. He’d undergone a colonic treatment earlier in the show when a fault in the equipment caused a leak mid-procedure, with the malfunction spraying water across the floor. Though Danny managed to avoid the worst of the splash-back, the incident left him visibly distressed — he needed to sit quietly with hot tea for about thirty minutes to compose himself. He describes feeling faint and queasy, clearly caught between sympathy for the person operating the faulty equipment and shock that something like this could go wrong on live television.
The chat moves to the ongoing Celebrity Scissorhands feature itself, where various team members and guests have been taking turns cutting a section of someone’s hair — Scott mentions that Jono has been getting his hair trimmed in stages by different people including Elaine, Sarah K, and others, with each contributor doing “a bit and going again.” As if his colonic ordeal isn’t enough, Danny still has to face a wet shave with a cutthroat razor later in the show — and it’s to be performed on none other than Mark Thompson, the Director-General of the BBC himself. The prospect of wielding a proper old-fashioned blade near the BBC’s boss clearly adds another layer of anxiety to Danny’s already eventful day.
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