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Chris Evans says Chris Moyles should quit the Beeb

By | Published on Friday 15 October 2010

Chris Moyles should leave Radio 1 as soon as is possible. I don’t think Chris Evans is alone in thinking the Moylster, as no one calls him, is now far too old and tired to be fronting Radio 1’s peak time breakfast show, despite the continued good ratings, but he’s the most high profile person to go on Radio 5Live to say so.

An increasing number of people are now saying that Moyles, while still a popular DJ, is no longer the right fit for youth station Radio 1. His recent self-absorbed rant about payment delays from the Beeb hasn’t helped either. And this week there were albeit denied rumours he is in talks with Global Radio about moving to Captial FM sometime next year, they more actively chasing the demographic Moyles’ Radio 1 is believed to be getting.

Speaking to Richard Bacon, Chris Evans, himself a former Radio 1 breakfast show host and now presenter of the same slot on Radio 2, said: “It’s time for him [Moyles] to leave. Chris has got to go somewhere else – he’s lost perspective”.

Referring to the aforementioned recent on air anti-BBC rant, Evans continued: Why do you think you have the right to hijack a BBC microphone to make that kind of complaint? I think he’ll go to commercial radio, he’ll get a massive pay packet, and I think he’ll do very well”.

Evans, who himself left Radio 1 on a high, albeit in somewhat controversial circumstances after falling out with and dissing station boss Matthew Bannister, advised “you’ve got to leave [Radio 1] while there’s still some heat around”, concluding Moyles was now “way out of the demographic” of Radio 1’s target audience.



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