Scott, Chappers, and Laura compete to keep a Sun newspaper journalist on the phone longest while pitching increasingly outlandish celebrity scoops, and the mystery of the “Scariest Movie of All Time” deepens with hints that it might involve Scott in the nude.
The show kicks off with a new game where Scott, Chappers, and Laura take turns calling the Sun’s Bizarre column with fake showbiz exclusives to see who can keep the journalist talking longest. Chappers goes first with a story about You Me at Six robbing a petrol station where he works, lasting just 23 seconds before the Sun’s staff smells the hoax. Scott follows with not one but two Britney Spears-related scoops, complete with audio clips and impression work—his first call lasts 43 seconds, his second only 26. Laura struggles with the format, managing just 13 seconds on a Kylie Minogue pitch, then 15 seconds on an alien abduction story. Chappers gets another turn and fares better with a story about marrying someone who looks like Victoria Beckham, hitting one minute 28 seconds before Gordon Smart at the Sun apparently recognises his voice and catches on.
The conversation then shifts to the ongoing mystery of the “Scariest Movie of All Time” that the team watched together some weeks earlier. Scott insists it’s not him naked (though he admits this has been a concern), and it’s definitely not a classic horror film like The Exorcist. When the topic turns to old versus new horror films, Scott plays a clip from a vintage black-and-white horror movie—seemingly from Night of the Living Dead—featuring the famous line “They’re coming to get you, Barbara,” to test whether listeners find it genuinely frightening by modern standards.
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