The programme began, as original studio host Rita Ora introduced the special version of its a Messtery live from her home.
“Hi, I’m Rita Ora, and over the last 24 hours, you have been trying work out who our latest batch of celebrity guests are who are willing to get messy. Of course, they will all be doing it in isolation, so let’s reveal who our ladies are tonight”.
Six more windows appeared on the screen revealing Myleene Klass, Ariana Grande, Alex Jones, Beth Mead, Lucy Fallon and BBC Midlands Today weather reporter Rebecca Wood.
Each of the ladies waved as they appeared on screen. Rita continued.
“Now ladies, I can reveal that only four of you will be getting messy. But I should also say that there were of course seven clues, and yes, I was one of the answers, so may be getting messed up later myself.”
There was an awkward silence as each of the ladies awaited the results of the quiz. Rita continued.
“The first star staying clean tonight is”, Rita paused, “Beth”.
The Arsenal star who was sat there in her football kit applauded, before waving goodbye and logging off.
“The second safe star tonight is”, Rita paused again, “Myleene!”
Myleene clapped and cheered, and could be seen putting two cartons of custard away before signing off.
“Right, you know what that means ladies, let’s start with an episode of The One Show, it’s over to Alex Jones”.
The One Show theme tune played and the shot cut to Alex in the BBC One Show studio. She was wearing a black top which was cut off above the shoulder.
“Thanks Rita”, she said in her broad Welsh accent, “good evening and welcome to a very special edition of the one show. Tonight we’re looking at Welsh Rarebit and how it’s made”.
A short VT was played which spoke about the traditional Welsh delicacy. When the VT ended and the live feed returned to the studio, Alex was sat in a large Perspex tank.
Lenny Henry walked on set.
“Right now we’re gonna make our own Welsh Rarebit! Ready in there Alex?”
Alex brushed her longer than normal hair back and then put her thumbs up.
“Right”, said Lenny, “first we need the cheese”.
A clunk noise was heard and within a second a torrent of thick melted yellow cheese rained down on Alex’s head. She was immediately covered and it smelt awful too. Before she had time to react, Lenny added “and don’t forget the tomato!”
A second clunk was heard and this time a torrent of red liquid gushed down as Alex was coated in tomato purée.
“Wow, what a moment that was”, said Lenny, “now it’s back to Rita to continue It’s a Messtery”. The camera panned round and zoomed in on Alex giving some great after shots before the feed cut away and Rita took over from home again.
“Thanks Lenny and well done Alex. Next this evening we head to we’ll, Coronation Street? Are you there Lucy?”
“Hey Rita, thanks for having me on the show”.
“That’s ok hun. What are you going to do for us?”
“Well the suggestion was that some of my old cast mates would get me messy but we can’t do that in lockdown so I’m going to recreate some famous messy Corrie scenes for you”.
“Ok take it away”.
The Coronation Street theme played and a scene of a male character being squirted with ketchup was shown. The action then cut back to Lucy who was wearing a white top.
Suddenly from nowhere to streams of ketchup came squiring out covering Lucy’s face and long blonde hair. The actress giggled and tried to wipe some of the sauce away but more was squirted at her.
Next a clip was played of a female character being drenched in chocolate milk. Once the clip finished, an already ketchup soaked Lucy was seen with thick dark chocolate pouring all over her long blonde hair, she smiled and licked her lips as the chocolate continued to pour down. Eventually it stopped, but only for a second, as a a second, smaller quantity came pouring down.
Finally, a short montage showed a series of characters having drinks poured and thrown over them. Once the clip finished, the live stream of Lucy showed various pints, first thrown at her face from behind the camera, and then poured over her head. She was dripping, but managed to still laugh through the whole experience.
She blew a kiss to camera, and the screen went blank. A split second later the feed cut back to Rita, who had now taken her place in a bath of baked beans.
“Told you I might be getting messy!” she said. “A massive thank you to Lucy Fallon, for that excellent Coronation Street throwback, right, while I get comfy in here, it’s time to check on the latest weather, here’s Rebecca Wood with the forecast”.
Rebecca was stood in her garden and was wearing a blue top. Her long brown hair was straight and she smiled at the camera as he got ready to deliver a unique weather forecast.
“Good evening, and welcome to the outskirts of sunny Birmingham. Let’s take a look at the weather over the Bank Holiday weekend”.
There were no graphics with this weather and Becky remained in full screen view.
“It’s going to be a warm weekend with plenty of orange colours on our weather map”.
A torrent of quite runny, and clearly homemade orange gunge gushed down on Becky who squealed as it hit her. She brushed it aside and carried on.
“But, as we head towards the end of the weekend, we see a cold front, with lots more blue colours appearing”.
Some thicket blue gunge was poured onto her and coated her long brown hair and face. Once again she tried to brush it away but found it much trickier this time as the gunge was much thicker.
“Finally”, she said, regaining her composure, “we expect to see more rain in the forecast next week, some of this rain may be a little dirty, so there is the potential for some slime floods near you”.
An enormous quantity of perfectly produced green slime gushed down, covering Becky. Her face disappeared entirely beneath it for a second as it cascaded over her. She was welll and truly covered, this was the first time she had done anything like this, and it was clear she was finding it quite enjoyable.
She stood in front of the camera, dripping gunge. “From me, Rebecca Wood, in Birmingham, it’s good night, and back to Rita in her messy bath”.
The screen temporarily went blank before returning to Rita, in her bath, which was now seemingly filled with more beans that it had been before. Just as she was about open her mouth and present the next link, she was doused from above with a shower of beans, followed by another and another, ensuring she was absolutely covered in the famous substance.
She began to playfully smear it round her face and body, and more beans continued to rain down.
“Mmm”, she said, “I love beans! Right, time for something rather special now, performing live from her home in the USA, please welcome Ariana Grande!”
A final drop of beans splattered perfectly on top of Rita’s head as the screen once again went blank before cutting to Ariana Grande who was sat in a novelty oversized breakfast bowl.
The backing track kicked in and Ariana began to sing one of her biggest hits. Suddenly as she reached the chorus, spurts of porridge came from all angles – from both sides from the base of the bowl and from above. Much of it hit Ariana, who had decided not to bother with her trademark ponytail and wore her long hair loose.
By the end of the song, the bowl was full and the pretty singer was covered. Suddenly a harness came from nowhere which Ariana struggled to clip herself into. Eventually she gave a thumbs up and was lifted into the air before being turned upside down and dunked head first into the bowl. It was quite elaborate for what was clearly a home set up.
Eventually she was let out again before being spun back around and sat down in the porridge. To round things off a ton of classic Nickelodeon green slime came crashing down. Ariana laughed before blowing some kisses to the camera. The screen faded and a graphic briefly appeared.
Then finally, Rita Ora, still sat in her baked bean bath reappeared on screen to close the show but not before one last ton of beans rained down.
Rita thanked all the guests and the Zoom style screen appeared showing all of them, covered in mess and waving to the camera.