morris reported that convicted child murderer sidney cooke had been sent into space to keep him away from children. prior to the launch, an eight-year-old boy had been placed on board the spaceship with cooke by mistake. during the programme, the studio was "invaded" by a fictional militant pro-paedophile activism organisation called "milit-pede", and the programme appeared to suffer a short technical disturbance. when it returned, presenter chris morris confronted a spokesman, gerard chote (played by simon pegg), who had been placed in a pillory, asking if he wanted sex with morris's six-year-old son (actually a child actor). hesitantly, the spokesman refused, apologetically explaining "i don't fancy him".