Scott plays his new celebrity blog quiz “Who’s Blogging?”, listeners share their most awkward Flirt Divert messages, and people named Barry sing today’s hit songs in a return of Barryoke.
The show opens with reactions to the Flirt Divert number, playing back some of the week’s most cringeworthy voicemails left by callers — including one apologising for leaving early because his baby was sick, another hoping he didn’t disappoint someone “in the bedroom department,” and a rambling message from someone listing his interests while providing three different phone numbers. This leads into a broader discussion about how people behave strangely after breakups, with a particularly memorable story about a listener’s friend who was stealing her ex-boyfriend’s underwear from his washing line — a situation so mortifying that when he came round to ask her mum for them back, it became a permanent embarrassment she’d have to live down with future partners.
Scott then introduces “Who’s Blogging?”, a new quiz where Chappers tries to guess which celebrity wrote extracts from their actual online blogs. The first question features a passage on tigers that sounds poetic and thoughtful — the options are David Attenborough, Britney Spears, or Amanda Holden. It turns out to be Britney, which sparks discussion about her blog “Love B: Streams of Consciousness,” including her famous passage about how Madonna introduced her to Cabaret, followed immediately by another entry saying she no longer studies Cabaret. Other blog extracts are revealed to be from Lily Allen (calling George Bush what she thinks he is) and Pamela Anderson (explaining why she’s giving away her ugg boots). The quiz provides plenty of laughs about celebrity oversharing and the gap between what fans imagine celebrities think and what they actually post online.
Barryoke returns, with people named Barry singing contemporary hits, described by Scott as something market research shows young people definitely want to hear — whether they initially think so or not.
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