Four against one
The Vamps returned to Innuendo Bingo for the first time in nearly two years. Brad Simpson, James McVey, Connor Ball and Tristan Evans were also preparing to co-host parts of Sunday’s Teen Awards with Nick Grimshaw and Mollie King.
With four guests and only one Chris, the group adopted a “two up, two down” rotation. Each pair took a turn in the studio while the others watched, allowing water to arrive from several directions and giving Chris almost no recovery time. Clips from The Big Allotment Challenge, Come Dine with Me and Nigella Lawson helped make it one of the wettest games the show had staged.
Justin teaches the beat
Justin Bieber had stopped an acoustic television performance of What Do You Mean? because the audience could not clap in time. Having recently walked off a Norwegian stage when fans prevented him cleaning spilled liquid, he now paused the song, demonstrated the correct beat and made the crowd try again.
Scott understood the frustration. Incorrect clapping could pull a performer away from the rhythm, although Justin’s willingness to halt the entire appearance made the lesson much more severe than most artists would attempt.
Red Cup Day reaches the independent cafés
A large coffee chain had changed to its festive red cups, prompting enormous online excitement. Scott and Chris wondered whether ordinary cafés shared the enthusiasm and called several smaller businesses to announce “Red Cup Day” with celebratory sound effects.
The first café had little idea what Chris meant and ended the call while his underpowered firework noise played. Further attempts received similarly restrained reactions. Chris increased his excitement each time, but the staff remained more interested in selling breakfasts than joining a corporate seasonal tradition.
Charlie Sloth played Real or No Real. The heart emoji had overtaken the face with tears of joy as the world’s most-used emoji, although Britain was not responsible for its popularity. A dating survey had not named an all-you-can-eat buffet as the country’s favourite first-date venue; the leading choice was a familiar chicken restaurant instead. Scott immediately proposed a campaign to make the aubergine Britain’s dominant emoji by the following year.
—
COMMENTS