A private photograph goes public
Chris had sent Scott a photograph from his first solo spray tan and explicitly asked him not to post it. Scott waited until the programme was about to begin and put it online anyway, arguing that the picture was too good to keep private.
It showed Chris in the disposable clothing supplied for the treatment, caught between embarrassment and the poses he had been instructed to perform. He had not checked with his girlfriend before accepting the tan and suspected the beautician might have been making him adopt unnecessary positions for her own amusement.
Radio 1 retweeted the photograph and listeners supplied comments throughout the show. Chris treated the incident as a betrayal, while Scott presented the growing reaction as proof that sharing it had been a public service.
Hayley’s final exam
Hayley returned after the show had tried to arrange a spectacular exit from her last exam. Inspired by Ruairi McSorley’s horse, Scott and Chris had considered everything from doves to a bouncy castle, but time and money had removed the most ambitious options.
Her final paper would finish at 3.15pm on Tuesday. Rather than forcing Hayley into an expensive stunt, the programme planned a mass celebration for her and everybody else finishing at the same time.
Scott wanted strangers across the country to cheer for somebody they did not know. Hayley was relieved that the plan no longer required a horse, although she still had to complete the exam before receiving her fanfare.
Greg and the spray-tan facts
Greg James admitted in Real or No Real that he occasionally used fake tan. One claim said the disposable pants worn during a spray tan were made from recycled Christmas-cracker hats, giving Chris an unwelcome new way to remember his treatment.
Another concerned James McVey from The Vamps enlisting property presenter Phil Spencer to help him buy a home. Scott accepted that a member of The Vamps could afford the assistance, while Chris was more interested in why celebrities appeared able to recruit other celebrities for ordinary tasks.
Greg finished with 20 points. The score mattered less to Chris than the photograph, which remained online despite his warning that personal messages to Scott could no longer be trusted.
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