Matt Whistler finds peas on earth with EastEnders star Carol Harrison
Most challenges give Matt time to ponder “sillyphosically” about the best way to attempt them, but some are very, very specific. Rick Wood asked Matt: “To do a comedy fall… holding a plastic box filled with water and a thousand peas… next to a wheelie bin… with an actress standing alongside it.”
Matt’s main worry was about wasting the peas: “I don’t like wasting food, so the thought of dropping 1,000 peas as I tumbled to the floor seemed very uneconomical. But then the thought of having 1,000 peas in my veggie pie was too pea-domineering. So, to save my carrots from being swamped, I started to load up the box.”
The next concern was whether the peas would last until the stunt. As Matt wheeled out his bin ready for the fall, he noticed a group of seagulls loitering around, looking menacing:“When I counted the peas out – to 950 – I looked up and could see a gull in close proximity, staring into my soul. Don’t trust those seagulls – they’re dangerous beasts!”
As former EastEnders star Carol Harrison arrived to fulfil the “actress” requirement of the task, Matt lifted the box, now heavy with water and peas, into position.
“With everything set in place, I walked towards my bin on the seafront, as a council litter-picker stopped in his tracks to watch, and Carol fixed her vision on my approach,” Matt recalls. “As I executed the fall, everything felt like a slow-motion accident.
“I hadn’t included tipping the water and peas over my head in the challenge, so it came as quite a shock when I began to become engaged in some lumpy, bumpy pea-intimacy.”
The reactions from Carol and the onlooking council cleaner were priceless: “As the litter guy looked down at me, I could see the millions of expletives flashing through his brain. I walked off in my disgusting state, and put my silver hat on to deflect the sun’s rays as more and more green slime trickled down my face. Those peas get everywhere.”
Not only had Matt completed the challenge, but he’d even appeased the angry-looking seagulls: “I looked over at the afore-mentioned bird of prey, and saw him giving his mates the all-clear to start swooping into pea-grabbing action.”
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Words: Richard Hook
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