Anne makes a phone call

Instead of sending any text messages, Anne tries calling Tom Cashman on the phone, and he answer her call very quietly for his nearby hiding place.

Anne initially tries just asking Tom where he is, but he doesn’t tell her. She also tries to get him to yell out her name, so she can home in on his location aurally. Although initially reluctant, Tom eventually relents after she bribes him with a head massage, calling out her name and giving her a clue to the direction of his hiding spot.

She then gets him to yell her name a second time, by offering him a second head massage, and narrows in further on his location. She tries to get Tom to do this a third time, but he isn’t interested in a third head massage.

Anne eventually realises that he is under the boat, but continues to chat with him on the phone while lying on the grass next to it, rather than uncovering him. The pair appear to have a long talk about various moments from their lives before she eventually releases him.

As she leaves the scene of the task, she admits that she isn’t going to give Tom either of the head massages she’d promised him.

In the studio, Josh and Lloyd argue that if they were only permitted to move while waiting for a response to a text message, and one is never sent, then Anne shouldn’t have been allowed to move from her starting point on the dock. Anne responds by threatening Lloyd with divorce (even though they’re not married), and Wil comments that it’s good when “the moment of divorce is recorded” (thus coining the episode title).

Going back through the wording of the task brief, Tom Gleeson confirms that his interpretation is that the contestants needed to have sent a text in the first place, in order to be allowed to move while waiting for a response.

Tom Cashman also shows some additional footage from the start of Anne’s attempt, in which she clearly started moving around even while admitting that she was confused about whether she was allowed to move or not.

Anne appeals for some help from the audience, and finds a lady who argues that since she’d never sent a text, she didn’t have to wait for one to come back. While Anne attempts to jump on this argument, Tom Gleeson is having none of it, so Anne is disqualified from the task and earns no points.

(Written by Will G and proofread by Karl Craven)

(Illustrations collected and adjusted by: David Fuller)