Christmas in April

The Would I Lie to You? Christmas special I was in the audience for went out on the 20th December (and is still on iPlayer here), but I've been waiting for the outtakes show to go out before I do my follow-up post detailing various things that didn't make the edit. So here you go.

• The original running order in round 1 was: Ardal, Jim, Angela, Rose. Then in the last round it was David, Jim, Rose, Ardal (I think, Jim and Rose might have been the other way round).
• I am fairly certain David asking Ardal if he had the walnut in his pocket came much later, towards the end of the story, because another member of my party whispered to me "if it's true, are they going to get him to show the walnut?" after the story had been going on for some time and I remember thinking it was odd they hadn't brought up the notion that Ardal had the walnut in his pocket right now already. (I seem to recall the walnut being produced with slightly more fanfare in the uncut version. Also, Lee put it in his mouth, after mentioning it was unlikely to be in great condition after Ardal's three years on Death in Paradise...)
• Paraphrased line from David, trying to picture Ardal's morning routine: "phone, keys, wallet, walnut?"
• Jim was very certain that the walnut story was a lie, and before his turn he asked "After that humiliation?"
• Someone asked if Judi Dench was still capable of sewing, and Rose mentioned she regularly plays Dungeons & Dragons.
• During Angela's first story there was a discussion of who else might have been at a BBC Christmas party in the 1970s that was very obviously not going to make the edit even while it was happening.
• Rose's story was originally in the Quickfire Lies round, hence her "oh, wow" at the start. It also went into much more detail, because I remember her going into blending her main course and pudding separately, and a discussion of how much jelly you'd need to put into the latter so it broke down more easily.
• This is something I could've mentioned in the first post, but during the recording break between the first and second rounds, the screen in the cinema briefly cut away from the show, and when it cut back in there was the oddly surreal sight of David and Jim having an animated conversation we couldn't hear because their microphones weren't on whilst Rose had gone briefly AWOL.
• The thing that Lee said that made David cry with laughter I mentioned in the earlier post was that during the This Is My round, he asked what Hugh was in prison for and Lee said he was in for murder, causing David to become hysterical over the decidedly un-Christmassy turn things had taken.
• At the end of that round, Lee and Rob tried to coax Ardal into agreeing to play Santa at the school Christmas fair next year. He didn't seem keen.
• David was asked for examples of other nerdy things he did as a child, and recounted the "dressing as an 18th century nobleman" story (which Rose found hysterical), "which I think I said on this show back in around 2006". He was also asked why he thought he was getting roller skates, and cited the music video for "Wired for Sound" which had made roller skating a huge craze (which was indeed released in 1981, which is either lucky or, more likely, indicative of how much time and research goes into writing the lies).
• Jim was asked for the origins of the name "Blake Diamond", and I think he said it was a combination of William Blake and Diamonds Are Forever, although I'm not certain on either component; I remember thinking it was a neat bit of ad-libbing, though. After the reveal he admitted "Len Theatre" was a genuine stage name he'd used for a time (David had a riff on what would have happened if Len Theatre started getting television work).
• During the retakes they did an alternate version of Angela and Rose's "Did you deck him?" conversation that ended up going unused in favour of the original: "Did you deck [sounding like another word in a Kiwi accent] him?" "No, and I didn't deck him either."
• Due to the unusually large number of stories in the episode itself, there were only two left on the cutting room floor: Ardal's worm story from the Unseen Bits, and Rose's original story from the first round, which was a truth about taping her ears back as a child because she desperately wanted to look more like an elf. The thing I remember most about this, apart from the extensive discussion of The Lord of the Rings filming in New Zealand, was a bizarre moment when Angela mentioned that when they were talking backstage before the show, Rose mentioned that she regularly sleeps in a coffin, which didn't really get any context or follow-up provided.
• The worm story was quite a thing to see live (and, yes, was the extremely surreal one I mentioned in the first post): the uncut version had an extra bit with Ardal discussing the room he uses for it, which was his son's room but he uses it now he's left for university, and he covers himself with dirt to enhance the experience. There was also an amazing moment where David's team looked like they were going to vote it true, but sadly they then changed their minds...