Nothing beats a Jet2 vacation meme meetup!

The singer and voice artist, featured in a finances airline advert that turned a meme in 2024, lastly met face-to-face on a U.Ok. radio present. The hosts couldn’t be chill about it, screaming in pleasure as the 2 of them hugged.

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The singer, Jess Glynne, has acknowledged the meme a number of occasions on-line and at live shows, however had by no means been in the identical room with actress Zoe Lister till Monday.

Jess Glynne and Zoe Lister of the Jet2 vacation meme meet

The two artists lastly bought collectively over a yr after the Jet2 vacation meme went viral. On July 21, 2025, the British radio present Capital Breakfast invited each of them on to speak in regards to the advert.

Hosts Jordan North, Chris Stark, and Siân Welby may barely include themselves.

@capitalofficial Repeat after me: ‘nothing beats…’ 📣 #jessglynne #nothingbeatsajet2holiday #zoelister #holdmyhand #jet2holidays #rudimental #viral ♬ authentic sound – Capital

“It’s happening! It’s happening!” North screeched.

“You know what’s coming, right?” Stark requested the friends. “We’ve got to chat about it. Of course, talking about ‘Hold My Hand.’”

“It’s in the advert. And then, for reasons no one really understands, this summer, it just exploded on TikTok.”

Glynne acknowledged how a lot of a lift the meme has been to the recognition of her tune. Then each she and Lister did their very own renditions of the long-lasting voiceover.

“Nothing beats a Jet2 holiday!” they stated over the Eurodance hit.

Jet2 commented on the Capital TikTok video of the meetup, which gained over 6.5 million views in a day.

“Name a more iconic duo… we’ll wait,” it stated.

“Us Brits are so unserious,” remarked @x.x.x.x.xxxx.x.

If you missed the largest British meme of 2024, it got here from a easy advert by finances airline Jet2. They shared a model with Jess Glynne’s tune to their YouTube channel on January 4 of that yr. On August 1, a repost of the advert onto TikTok by @aviation_on_tiktok2 went viral.

@aviation_on_tiktok2 #jet2 #advert #advert #aviation #planetok #planes #aviation #humorous #pattern #vacation #viral #fyp #foryou #uk @jet2 @aviationvids5 ♬ Jet2 Advert – ✈️A7-BBH | MAN 🇬🇧

In the months that adopted, TikTok customers began to applicable the audio from the advert for footage of more and more chaotic and generally harmful conduct, typically depicting what would in actual fact be an unbeatably horrible vacation. Others went to Glynne’s live shows simply to movie themselves spouting the road from the advert as “Hold My Hand” spun up.

The TikTok hashtag #jet2holidays presently options over 208,000 posts.

As the meme went viral, Glynne began making nods to it in her personal movies. On June 26, 2025, she introduced upcoming new music by referencing the advert.

“I think we need to push Jet2 to the side for a minute?” she wrote.

On July 12, TikToker @hollielawless1 posted footage of Glynne at a live performance attempting to threaten followers away from referencing the meme whereas she carried out the tune.

“If I see anyone doing that video…” she begins.

Of course, folks within the crowd interrupt her by doing precisely that, shouting, “nothing beats a Jet2 holiday!”

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