Step Into Christmas with Smithy and Nessa!
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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. BBC Radio 1 Radio 1's All Day Breakfast with Greg James. Hello and welcome to the final Radio 1 All Day Breakfast podcast of 2024. Today it's all about Gavin and Stacey, all about Smithy and Nessa, aka James Corden and Ruth Jones. So we had to start the show in honour of them. This is Newsbeat, the time is seven o'clock. Uh, Greg? Greg?

Hi Nick. Hello. Er, your... Greg, your breakfast show's starting, you need to come out to the studio. Oh. Where are you? Oh, sorry. Oh, I was just... Sorry, are you... asking me to... step in? What? Are you asking me... to step in? What? What are you talking about? STEP INTO CHRISTMAS STEP INTO CHRISTMAS DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA

Step into Christmas, step into Christmas, something, something, something forever and ever. Merry Christmas everybody! Merry Christmas!

So there you go, we've stepped into Christmas and now we're going to step into the interview. Enjoy! This is the best Christmas treat imaginable. Final show of the year, Ruth Jones, James Corden, welcome. Good morning. Hello. Ridiculous. This is the perfect way to finish a year of breakfast shows.

Everyone is so excited for the final Gavin and Stacey. I can barely believe that that's a sentence. That's it, right? Definitely it. Absolutely. When you see it, you'll know. You'll realise why. Okay. The most ludicrous cliffhanger of all time. 2019 was the last special. That actually was a long time ago. We've had a pandemic since then. Yeah. And so we left it.

with Nessa and Smithy. Nessa was on one knee, proposing to Smithy. Credits. See you in five years. What are you doing to us? James, explain yourself, please. I mean, we didn't know then that we'd ever do anymore, is the truth. So there was a very real feeling when we did that one that that would be the end of the show. And then at various points over the last...

Five years we've spoken and we speak a lot. I mean, we decided to speak about work. Yeah, but to speak about that, it was last summer. And I think I was looking back through my texts to James and I found one that I'd said...

Because he said, look, can we talk about the possibility of maybe doing some more Gavin and Stacey? But what date was it? Hang on. Let's have a look. Let's get in. Hang on. You sent it to me the other night. It was so funny watching it. It was so funny. Here. So this was January 25th, 2023. Yeah. And James had said... When is good. Yeah, when is good to talk about this idea. So he said, let me know when you want to hear my idea. And I'd gone, sure. Yeah.

Next week? I'm not really sure how I can help, though. Like I said in December, I'm unavailable until the autumn. Was this you saying this to James? Yeah. The way I feel now, and have done for some time, I don't actually want to do any more Gavin and Stacey. Oh. Sorry. And then things changed. How did I change my mind? I think what it was, so much time had gone by, and then I started to feel when people said to me, but why?

what happened after that cliffhanger? Right. I started to go, do you know what? I'm going to let you imagine what happened. Yeah. No, but we need to know. I go, no, but you don't need to know. You can imagine what happened. And then I was quite at peace with that. I was quite happy to just leave it there. But then I guess we did talk. Well, I remember saying, look, I completely understand if we're not going to do any more, but I think we should probably just...

just talk about the reasons for why we wouldn't do any more. And then we spoke last summer and we'd basically both sort of had the same idea, was what we realised. We arranged to meet and the night before I'd kind of written down what I thought it could be. And James had had exactly the same idea. It was so spooky. And then we met up, didn't we? And I went, look, I'll show you what I wrote. This is what I thought it was.

And it was exactly the same. Great. And it was exactly the same time and that was it. Yeah, we were very lucky. This is perfect. So Ruth and James are actually Nessa and Smithy anyway. It's like, are we going to write the thing? Are we going to get married? It's kind of the same thing. And I'm so pleased that you realised that us peasants need to be told things. Don't leave our imagination. We'll make it rubbish. The art is yours to enjoy. No. No.

Tell us what art to enjoy, please. We need closure. We've had a pandemic. We're all sad. We need to know the truth. And you will find out. Thank you. At nine o'clock. We need to be told. We do need some closure on this. I actually can't wait. I've got Ruth Jones here. And James Corden. And we're talking Gavin and Stacey.

Guys, it's mad that this show follows you around like it does. I mean, all the things that you've both done, the whole cast collectively. But there's some, it's a cultural, it's like culturally significant, Kevin and Stacey. Has that sunk in? 18 million people watched the last one. People still, they quote it all the time. Whether you're in an Indian restaurant, you're quoting the Smithy stuff.

You're stepping into Christmas. You do know what's occurring. Like, it's... And the other day, Charlie Hedges, actually, we were getting her to do a... She needed to come up with a clue of where she was hiding. She was hiding in Inverness, so she used Nessa. And she said this as her clue, but didn't quite get it right. Eh, what's occurring? You know, there's variations of it. But do you understand? I mean, that's mad, isn't it? Eh!

What's a curling? Dreadful. What's a curling? But what's, can you do, oh, what's a curling? Oh, what's a curling? Oh, what's a curling? There you go. Has it sunk in that this is a proper thing that is going to outlive you both? I mean, the whole experience really is only a feeling of sheer...

That's true. We just feel so incredibly lucky to have put a show out that it would just grow and become this thing. And I don't know, I wonder if it's not really necessarily about the show that we created, but it's more about a lesson in patience, which is something that...

is in short supply now. But, you know, it finished on TV 15 years ago. We waited 10 years for the next special and then we waited five more years to find out what happened. And perhaps in an age of

everything being fast and now waiting for something is actually something that we perhaps treasure and realise is important very well said and I think also I think people relate to it and I think people just feel like they are they are friends and they are family and they see elements from their own lives in these people and also it is a show about love and it's about the love between yes the sort of the boy girl love story and

but it's also love between families and it's love between friends. I mean, the friendship between Gavin and Smithy is just gorgeous. But it's essentially about love and these people in the show love each other. And that's why it's so lovely to watch. And you're just with these people and you've been with them and you've grown up with them. You've seen them growing up as well. That's what's so nice about the other bit of the time thing is that actually you've had such a passage of time. You've got the kids that are now teenagers and that's kind of sweet. What I would say, James, I'll pick you up on the fact that

I think you've gone too far the other way. It's taken five years for the next special. There's somewhere between TikTok and this. Sure. It's sort of where we maybe need to get to. I see your point. You can make a very valid case for that. I think you're right, yeah. We're going to play a song on The Breakfast Show. We need to get your phones ready. We're going to do sit down, stand up. Are you ready for a stupid game? I'm very nervous about this. I know you love stupid games, James. I do. So we... Yeah, sit down, stand up. Sit down, stand up.

is a game where we dive into your phone and we have to call some people and before they pick up, we work out whether they're sitting down or standing up. It's very simple. I love it. I stole it from a listener. I love it. They have the best content. Here's my other thing, and it is nearly Christmas and it was my birthday a few days ago. Can you do it in character for a bit? Just a bit. Just a bit. Even if it's a hello. Even if it's a little bit. Sure. Can James become Smithy? Can Ruth become Nessa? Just for a bit. We can have a go. Gregola. Gregola.

That's it. That's all we wanted. Ruth Jones and James Corden are my special guests today. We're talking all about Gavin and Stacey. And we might get a bit of Nessa. We might get a bit of Smithy. We've already had a Greg-lar. I like that. So we were talking during that song about how Ness has never been Ness-lar. Yeah, no, Smithy's never called Nessa. Nessa-lar. Yeah, you've only done Pamela, Bryn-lar. Never done a Pete-lar. No, or a Dawn-lar.

Okay, so the game is called Sit Down, Stand Up. Let's get on with it. It's got a theme tune, obviously. Sit down, stand up. Sit down, stand up. Sit down, stand up. Sit down, stand up. Are you sitting or standing? So, this is the game. We've got Ness's phone.

We've got Smithy's phone. We're going to call some of the cast of Gavin and Stacey, but will they be sitting down or standing up when you answer? So, what do we reckon? Who are we going to go for first? Well, I'm going to try Matt Horne. Okay. Who obviously plays Gavin, but...

You have to remember, he's in a play right now. He's in The Tempest. It's a Gourney Weaver, completely sold out. And he is utterly brilliant in it. So he might not answer because it's early, but... I reckon definitely he will be standing up. Because he's a very energetic person. You're right, you're right, you're right. He's rarely sat down. Right, so Ruth thinks standing. James? I think standing. I think he's standing up.

Let's call Matt Horne, a.k.a. Gavlar. Shall I try him one more time? Try him again. Do you want to see the last photo I sent Matt? Look at this. Can you see this on you? Oh, he's calling back. Okay, answer, answer. He's calling back. Hang on. Gavlar! Hello. Hello. Hello. You need to ask him the question. Matt, you are live on Radio 1 Breakfast. Are you sitting down or standing up?

We knew it! Got it. Got it. We knew it. Matt, welcome to The Brev Show. It's Greg. How are you? Hi, Greg. I'm really good. Pleasure to be here. How's The Tempest going? Going really well, thank you. So, wonderful show. So, it's very exciting. Well, good luck for it. What are the similarities between James and Sigourney Weaver? They're similar height. What an answer.

Bye, thank you. Love you, buddy. I'll call you later. Love you, bye.

What an answer. He was always going to be standing. Yeah. OK, so... Ruth, let's check your phone. Oh, it says, are you connecting a pair of headphones? Say other device. Other device. OK. Play something, blast something down the phone. What were you last listening to? Oh, good question. Oh, don't. No, because that would be embarrassing. Come on, no, no, no. James, make sure she's not cheating. Go to Spotify. I don't have Spotify. That is Spotify. Where? That, that, that's Spotify. Is it? LAUGHTER

Hang on. You've got a full account. Oh, have I? You've been paying every month. I said this to you the other day. Although, hang on. No, this looks like it's someone else's phone because you've been listening to Easy Christmas. Well, I don't even know who Taylor Swift is, so I haven't been listening to her. It's interesting that you said you don't know about Taylor Swift. Listen, the one thing James will tell you about me... She didn't know she had Spotify. Yeah, yeah, fair, fair, yeah.

Who's the Swifty fan out of? I guess it's Stacey would be the big Swifty, maybe. Pam might be a big Swifty. I think Bryn. Bryn would be. Bryn would be. I got my tickets to the Principality. I just, I love, she's free. She is, Ness. She's free. And sometimes if I'm in a bind, I think to myself, yeah, shake it off. I didn't know that spot on. And I'll tell you for why. The Eros Tour, it's a masterpiece, Gwen.

Three and a half hours. Well, you compare that to the stereophonics. LAUGHTER

They were on 90 minutes, Gwen. She's up there three and a half hours. All the eras, all the tours. I went all four nights, I did, Mick. I think that is spot on. Of course it is. So I think for Uncle Bryn, let's play Tame Swift. Let's play Shake It Off. And then, Ruth, I'd love you to call someone next on Sit Down Stand Up. Let's get back to Sit Down Stand Up. And Ruth, let's call one person from your phone. Who should we call? Shall I do Bonnie Tyler? Yeah.

You've got your cool Bonnie Tyler I'm talking about. Really? Have you ever called Bonnie Tyler though? Yeah. When? Loads of times. Can you press stop on your music please? Sorry. Sorry.

It's coming out the radio, dear. Hang on. How many times have you called Bonnie Tyler? I have done... She's been in a show that I did. She's a big Gavin and Stacey fan. Call Bonnie Tyler. Definitely call Bonnie Tyler. And then she's sitting down and standing up. She does swear, but I think Bonnie will be sitting down. Sitting down? All right. But I'll say standing up. It doesn't matter. I'll say standing up. Let's see if Bonnie Tyler's standing up. Look, this is going to be really embarrassing, isn't it? She'll probably be in Portugal. Can't be. Oh, Bonnie, what's occurring? Hi.

You know, you little sod, you told me it wasn't going to happen, and it is. I know, but listen, Bon, I've got to tell you something. You're live on Radio 1. This is The Breakfast Show, and I've been told to ask you, are you sitting down or standing up? I'm standing up. Oh!

Bonnie, it's Ruth. Hiya. Sorry. We had to ring somebody to see if they were standing up or sitting down. It's a funny little thing. They're doing a radio act. Accurate. Oh, my God. I tell you what, right? You told me it wasn't happening, you little son. I'm so excited. I can't wait.

Oh, I'm here with James Corden. Hi, Bonnie. Yeah. All right. Fantastic. Oh, the whole country's waiting, darling, to see it. Oh, bless you. Well, I hope you enjoy it. Oh, yes, for sure. Oh, thank you, Bonnie. Congratulations. Thank you. Have a lovely Christmas. Bye-bye, you too. Merry Christmas, all. Merry Christmas, Bonnie Tyler. Bye.

Oh my God. I can't believe until this moment I didn't even know that you knew Bonnie Tide. Well, this is the thing, isn't it? I don't really know many people, many obvious people, but then there is some under the radar that I know. Bonnie Tide is the under the radar. She is the bloody radar. She is the radar.

I have no further questions. We're done here. I'm happy if you're happy. This could not have gone any better. Thank you both for being so fun. And thanks for Gavin and Stacey. I mean, that is, as I said, it is part of British culture. It is. And we cannot wait for Christmas night.

But also we'll be sad because that will be the end. Yeah, it will be sad. But, you know, life goes on. It does. They'll carry on. They will carry on living down in Barry Island. But don't ask us to imagine what they're doing because we don't know. We're not. Don't say that again because we're not qualified. Ruth and James, thanks so much for coming on. Cheers, mate. So nice to see you.

Oh, and by the way, if you haven't had enough of you two, then listen to Radio 2 Breakfast on Monday because you're back on. You're hosting, aren't you? Well, the whole cast. The whole cast. Oh, my God. The entire cast will be literally a few feet from here hosting the entire breakfast show. Everybody, everybody's coming. And it'll actually be the last time we're all together as a cast before it goes out and then...

And then that's it? That's it. So it's going to be a really special day, I think. Make sure you're listening to Radio 2 on Monday morning. And James and Ruth, thanks so much. Cheers, mate. Just unbelievable. Bonnie Tyler, really. Just doesn't really get any better than that. I've got nothing. In the words of Ian Beale, I've got nothing left. That is it for this year. We're leaving it all out on the field.

However, I mean, there is actually something else to talk about. We've got, I didn't even write anything down today. That's how free and easy we're feeling today, guys. What were you saying? Yesterday's quiz of the year. Yeah, I was just about to get to that. Thank you. Sorry. Yeah, pub, pub, pub, pub, pub, pub, pub. Yesterday's quiz of the year. And for some reason, they decided to make it so complicated for me. Let's do quizzy.

Charlie, good morning. Morning, Greg. Hannah, good morning.

Welcome back. This is huge. A huge moment. End of the year. We've got the two highest scorers on the quiz ever. And you're going to go head to head in a chase style finale. And for legal reasons, it's nothing like ITV1's The Chase. So, Charlie, can you remind everyone when you were on and what your team was and all the rest of it? I was on probably a few weeks ago with my Doggy Daycare team workmates.

Yes, the doggy daycare, ladies and gents. Who have you got with you today? Who's the mascot? I've got Mr. Bear. He's actually pawing me right now. Oh, Mr. Bear. He knows he's on. So Mr. Bear's ready to go. Charlie, you got 20 points earlier this year. What a performance. How has your life changed since that?

Fame, glamour and all the rest. Yeah. And a load of dogs. And Hannah, what about your team? Remind everyone when that was and what you did. So I think that was only about four weeks ago. So probably similar timescale to Charlie. And we are, we're four teachers from just outside Edinburgh. Yeah.

And yeah, in the final you kind of ganged up on me. So I feel like I've got a lot to prove today. - Okay, well you've made it through to the final with that fighting attitude. And I'm pleased that you sound like you're up for it today. 'Cause it is gonna be, it's gonna be pretty tense. It's gonna be pretty difficult because it's the quiz of the year. So, like the chase, we've got two sets of questions about this year. I'm gonna flip a coin to see who gets which set of questions.

Charlie, would you like to call? I've got a coin in my hand. It is a standard issue one pound coin. It's got the Queen's face on it. Out of respect. And would you like to have heads or tails? I will go with tails. Okay, here we go. It's a tail. So would you like set A or set B? Set A, please. She's going for set A. Okay.

Let me just find my set A questions. So here we go with yesterday's quiz, the final. We're going to give you 60 seconds to answer as many questions as possible from set A. Then obviously Hannah will get to do set B in just a bit. So are you ready for your questions?

I'm ready. I'm kind of regretting today now, but we'll go for it. Charlie, what song would you like if you win today? I've got Believe by Cher if I win. And Hannah, what song will you play? I've got an Orson, No Tomorrow. All right, here we go then. We have 60 seconds on the clock. A load of questions about things that happened this year. It is the final of yesterday's quiz. Do we have some dingers? Yes, we do. Okay, then let's begin.

Question number one. In January, Luke Littler faced Luke Humphries in the PDC World Championship Darts Final, but who won? Luke Littler. No, Luke Humphries won. Who took over as the host of Radio 1's new music show in March? Jack Saunders. Correct. Whose Ears tour arrived in the UK over the summer? Taylor Swift. Correct. An unofficial experience for what movie went viral in February for being very rubbish?

Willy Wonka. Correct. Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo spent what felt like the entire year promoting which film? Wicked. Who was number one for seven consecutive weeks with the song Espresso? Sabrina Carpenter. What was the name of the pygmy hippo that Susanna from the team insulted in October? No, it was Haggis. New analysis of NASA probing Uranus was released, but did it reveal Uranus as lopsided magnetic field or a lopsided crater?

Lopsided Crater? No, it's Magnetic Field, I'm afraid. In May 2024, which team won the Women's Super League? Chelsea or Arsenal? Arsenal. It was Chelsea. In July, I climbed up the O2 with which Birds of a Feather singer? Billie Eilish. In March, I watched the Brits while babysitting a listener's child. But which escapism singer won six awards? Correct. Whoa. It's frantic. Charlie, how do you feel like you did?

Not great. There's a few wrong answers there. We told you it was going to be tough. Yeah. You got seven points. Yikes. Yikes. Well, we'll see, won't we? You don't know how the pitch is going to fare until both teams have batted. That's a little cricket joke for me and producer Tom. Okay, set B. Should we go straight for it, Hannah? Pretty nervous after that, but yeah, no time like the present. Let's do it. Here we go. This is the decider. You need to get more than seven to win and get your song on the show.

Set of questions B. This is so stupidly complicated. I've got a headache. Question number one. Did you fart? You're just farting. Sorry, I just started laughing. Oh, I thought it was a nerve... Everyone's getting a bit nervous. I'm so sorry. Did you fart? I fart. I didn't fart. I didn't fart. I'm so sorry. God's sake. Okay.

Bring back the tension. Tension, tension, tension. Set of questions B. No more burping. Here we go. We've lost it. We've lost the tension. Okay. And breathe. Question number one. In January, we were all shocked by the finale of The Traitors season two. Who is the well-fringed host of that show? Claudia Winkler. Yes. In February, I surprised a class of school kids with which Houdini singer?

Julie Puth. An Olympic pole vaulter went viral this summer because of his impressive pole. But where were the Olympics held?

Paris. Paul Meskel played the lead role in which epic Roman-based film this year? Gladiator 2. What was the name of the duck whose memorial I hosted in September at the University of York? Yes, rest in peace. Which Geordie singer returned in November with his song People Watching? Sam Finder. Which lovable, posh, blonde-haired scamp became the new presenter of Radio 1's Going Home show? Jimmy Lange. Vic, Katie and... Yeah, yes. In May 2024, which football team won the Men's Premier League for the fourth consecutive year? Erm...

Tottenham. Man City. Which Wrecking Ball singer won her first Grammy for the song Flowers? Yes, in November it became illegal to eat a beaver in Minnesota. But what country is Minnesota in? The USA. Oh, God. I preferred the burping. In September, I was surprised on a dog walk by Jedward. Please do an impression of my dog meeting Jedward. Hi, Jedward. Oh, lovely. Lovely dog voice.

All right, that's the end of that. It's Charlie versus Hannah today, and we are going to reveal the winner of yesterday's quiz right now. Both of you came into the final with 20 points, the highest ever score on this quiz. Charlie went first and got seven. Hannah then followed it up with 10 points. Hannah takes the win. Well done, Hannah. Thank you. You deserve it.

Charlie, thanks for being on this year and Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. Can I shout out all the dogs I'm picking up today? Go for it. Give us a dog roll call. Shout out Archie, Bertie, Bonnie, Harvey, Watson, Izzy, Lola, Mabel, Mabel. Hey! Have a great Christmas, Charlie. Thanks for being on this year. You've been really, really fun. Bye. Thank you. And Hannah, it's all about you. Congratulations. This is so exciting. Thank you. That's good.

It's topped off the year nicely, isn't it, that? Well, do you know what's great is yesterday, Secret Santa in work, and I got gifted the 1% Club book. Because clearly people think I'm now some kind of quizzing...

I don't know. Well, legend. Oracle. You are. There was a lot of pressure on today, but I guess I'm now a worthy custodian of that bit. Of course you are. You can walk around holding that with pride. And we'll play your winning track. And I wish you a very merry Christmas. Thanks so much for being a part of The Breakfast Show this year. Thanks, Greg. Have a good Christmas. And you too. Have a good break. Winning track from Hannah on yesterday's quiz. The final is awesome. No tomorrow on The Breakfast Show. Let's go to and behave like a trip and simply cause we're sorry.

Time now for all the latest things. Right now, let's get you up to date with everything and let's talk about Billie Eilish and her brother Phineas who have done a very sweet thing. Each week on a game called Celebrity Substitute, a new special guest takes over a classroom as a surprise substitute teacher. And in a recent episode, Billie and Phineas were doing that. Meet your celebrity substitutes for the day, Billie Eilish and Phineas. In my dream.

What's up, guys? Hi, guys. American kids, they're just sort of better at this sort of thing, aren't they, than British kids? We did this with Dua Lipa and the kids were amazing, but basically one of them just burst into tears and they went silent. But this kid's like, am I dreaming right now? Oh, my God. Are you zoomed in on me? Should I do that again? Am I dreaming right now? Meet your celebrity subsuits for the day, Billie Eilish and Phineas. Am I dreaming? What's up, guys? Hi.

Basically, those kids have got agents and stuff. They're like, oh, was that good performance for you? Shall we go again? OK, from the top. OK, Billy, you get out of the room and I'll cry again. Anyway, they were quite a tough crowd at one point. Phineas gave them a couple of chords to work with, but they didn't like any of them. So this is an A. That's an A. Wow! A really landed. I'm going to play a chord pattern that starts with that A. Yeah!

Do you like this? Yeah. They won them over in the end. So what's the song going to be about? A polar bear? Yeah! Is the polar bear happy? The girl polar bear cheat on the polar bear. The polar bear. He got cheated on? Yeah. This sounds like a breakfast show, some ideas meeting. I'm just a polar bear. I'm just a polar bear. But nobody cares. But nobody cares.

It's a hit. Staying with the music lesson now, Matt Edmondson and Jeremiah Asiyama went head to head yesterday in The Beat Off.

It's where they both get given a song they have to remix and the listener then votes who wins. Listener Hope asked them to remix Ariana Grande's Santa Tell Me and the results were excellent. First up, Jerry. Santa tell me if he really cares Cause I can't give it all away If he won't be here next year I'm not Santa

Very good from Jerry. And what about Matt Edmondson's turn? Father Christmas made an appearance. I mean, that's clever. That's good. But it is rapping again, I'm afraid. So Matt, it is Jerry for the win, I'm afraid.

And finally, let's look forward to New Year's Eve. And if you want to make it a memorable one, I've seen a post that could help you. An account called BroHawk has said, if you start TV Off by Kendrick Lamar exactly at 11.57 and 55 seconds on New Year's Eve, Kendrick will yell mustard as soon as you enter 2025. What's up?

So that will happen, OK? At 11.57 and 55 seconds on New Year's Eve, Kendrick will shout... OK? So good luck with that. Radio One Breakfast. And with that, you're up to date with all the latest things. Sorry I got distracted during the last couple of minutes because I just looked at the camera. I've just got distracted during the actual show because I looked at the Newsbeat camera. Why are you on your head, Callum? I'm upside down. I don't know what's happened. What's happened? I don't know.

The wheels are falling off this place. I just looked up at the corner and I was like, why am I upside down? Most distracting thing ever. How have they done that? I'm trying to do a radio show here. You're basically standing on your head. How do you even do that? What button does that? I think it's time we all had a little break.

And now let's cross to Callum Leslie for his definitive chart rundown. We need to talk about Callum Leslie's song of the year. This is the big bit. Forget about the Christmas chart. Forget about Wham and Mariah and Tom Grennan from 4 O'Clock Today, although I am reminding you about that at 4 O'Clock Today. Listen to the chart. We're all waiting for your song of the year. So let's do the countdown. Three. Hey, Christmas.

Announce it then. Oh, Lady Gaga and disease. DL, if you want to get some chart show cover, then you need to do it. I'd love to hear you do the chart show, actually. You did it. You did the official chart. Should be more on it, really. So this was number three.

Yeah, Stormzy and Backbones. Good, right? This was controversial in the office, wasn't it? Yeah, well, the number one's even more controversial, let me tell you. Well, it's time to reveal Callum Leslie's official number one of 2024. Yeah, it is Charlie XCX and Sympathy is a Knife with Ariana Grande. I ruined it.

Well, that went well. You're not getting that gig. Nah, yeah. You talked over the ramp. Just as well I know the news. Let's do it again. You've got ten seconds, go. Okay. It is Charlie XCX and Sympathy's a Knife with Ariana Grande. Four seconds left. It's my official number one. The UK's official number one. Let's play it. Good choice. Very good choice. Thank you.

As is tradition at Christmas, we always play Stormzy's A Night Before Christmas, and here it is. So many people this week and the last couple of weeks have been asking for Stormzy reading The Night Before Christmas. It has turned into a Christmas tradition. We love this man. He was on amazing form. This was 2019, I think. It's a good legacy on this.

Well, we have to do it, and of course we were going to save it for the final show of the year. So here we go with Stormzy reading The Night Before Christmas. So as the night before Christmas went all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be dead.

Now out on the lawn there arose such a clatter I sprang from my bed to see what was the matter When what to my wondering eyes did appear Was a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer

With a little old river so lovely and quick, I knew in a moment he must be Saint Nick. More rapid than eagles his haulers day came, and he whistled and shouted and called them by name. Now Dash and now Dance and now Prancer and Vixen. Oh Comet on Cupid on Donna and Blitzen. Is that their names? Yeah, that's the reindeer. Donna? Yeah, Donna. Donna? Yeah. Donna the reindeer? Yeah.

Get out of here. That is rubbish. Donna, you never thought Santa's reindeers were called Donna. It's a kebab. All right, let's go. So...

As I drew in my head and was turning around, down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound. He was dressed all in fur from his front to his back, a bundle of toys he had bought in a sack. His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow and the beard on his chin was as white as the snow.

He had a broad face and a little round belly that shook when he laughed like a bowl full of jelly. He spoke not a word but went straight to his work and filled all the stockings then turned with a jerk. You like that? And laying his finger inside of his nose and giving a nod up the chimney, he rose. He sprang to his sleigh, to his team, gave a whistle and away they all flew like the down of a thistle. But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, "'Happy Christmas to all and to all a good night.'"

And that is almost it for The Breakfast Show today, but also this year. But before that, let's recap some of the very best stupidest moments. It's been a busy old year, a ridiculous year, very, very stupid things. Thank you for listening to them all.

Here's just a few of the bits from 2024 on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show. Hello, this is my first time. You're going to have a weird start to the day. Barking out, barking out, barking out, barking out, barking out, barking out. Oh, God. Billy, let's climb the O2. Jonathan Bailey, welcome. Good morning, Greg. Please welcome to Class 6, Dua Lipa.

Ryan Reynolds, Hugh Jackman, welcome to the Radio 1 Breakfast Show. Good morning. Good morning. Greg, I love buttons. I'm like a five-year-old. You get me up in a cockpit, we're crashing. Welcome to Feeding Steve. I'm Steve. And I'm Greg. And I'll be feeding Steve. The listeners have got their unpopular opinions ready to go. Shall we do it? I'm super excited. Let's do it. My unpopular opinion is that Toy Story is a bad film. Oh, okay.

Whoa, okay. That's so savage. Oh, you're not telling me you smashed 5,000 eggs, are you? Oh, double it. I'll tell you what, if I come down there and you smash 10,000 bloody eggs, Owen, you're... Something bad is about to happen. You've been disrespecting Radio 1 management in front of the listeners. You know what? Maybe I liked it. Cecil, welcome to Radio 1's new music show. Can I just say an absolute pleasure to be here? Truly are blessed, considering you died in the 19th century. Oh, yes, but music is everlasting, as you know.

This has just come through. The new Co-op Live Arena in Manchester has apologised after postponing its opening for the third time. The announcement was made last night as people were queuing outside to see the American rapper A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie. CHEERING You've all gone mad. Are you ready for Thursday? I only work Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, so today is my... Whee! Whee!

You're listening to the Radio 1 Breakfast Show. This is the Longboy Memorial Live. Final words before we bring this love story to a close. If there is someone in your life that is not texting you back, there is an Olympian that would. Wow. That's it. There's so many things I've forgotten about in there.

Jess in Shrewsbury said, you made this year madder than the last. Will it happen again? We'll try. We'll try our very best. Steve is in Kidderminster. Morning to you. Thanks for your message. Danny in Southampton says,

You've got the best job in the world, haven't you, Greg? I actually do firmly believe that. I feel very lucky to be in front of all of you every single day. So let's go again next year and have a very, very Merry Christmas. I don't want to get all Oscar speech about it, but thanks to the amazing Big Breakfast Show team. You're all fantastic. It's a huge team effort. We could not do all of this stuff without each person playing their part. And this is the year where...

Producer Chris left this year as well. There's been so many amazing people coming and going on this show. So thanks to everyone who works on all of it. And also, of course, to you for all your stupid stuff. This is a place we want you to enjoy hanging out in. And like Chapel says, we want you to feel like you belong here. And I hope you do feel like that. You can be yourselves. You can wear those high heels if you want to, my sweetie.

So what have we got then? Ten minutes left before anthems. Lowly Young coming up. Shall we have... What shall we have here? I just feel... I feel like we should just do this. I just feel it. My gut is saying the darkness.

And there you go. I've got nothing else to say. No Friday grievances today, guys. It's Christmas. We're all loved up. We're feeling sort of pubby. I feel like we brought last night's pub into the studio. I think Tom left. That's technically a grievance. And now we're going to head back towards a different pub, I think, with the rest of the breakfast shows to toast what has been a year of...

isn't it? A year is full of good and bad things, but we've tried to keep you smiling throughout. So thanks for downloading this every single day. Make sure you come back for more or just go back and listen to the old stuff if you miss us in the morning. And I'll return on the 6th of January, which feels like bloody ages away, but that's good. And oh, I'll be back with a full moustache. Merry Christmas.

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