I’m A Celeb star Chris Moyles revealed things got “steamy” when he left his Radio One show after 15 years at the BBC.
Speaking to campmate Matt Hancock, Chris revealed how he felt like Radio 1 was a “conveyor belt” and knew he was going to “fall off the end at some point”.
Chris had been presenting the show since 2004 before he quit after eight years and was replaced by Nick Grimshaw. The BBC was reportedly under pressure to find a younger audience for Radio 1 and the average age of listeners for Chris was 33.
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Chris told Matt that he left the show “happy” but BBC bosses handled his exit “badly”.
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“I left happy, I was a bit cross after I left and I was cross… they handled it so badly, so badly. So I went in with my agent and the controller goes, ‘Look, this isn’t very easy, I think it’s time we wrapped the show up. We’re going to announce in the news at half 10 that Nick Grimshaw’s taking over’,” Chris explained.
He continued: “My agent went, ‘That’s out of order’ and it all got a bit steamy. I said to the boss, ‘You can’t do that.’ He goes, ‘Well if we don’t do that, it’ll get out.’ I said, ‘Well up until 60 seconds ago, I didn’t know about it. So, after 15 years, you can’t do that.”
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I have to announce that I’m coming off the breakfast show and we have to work out what’s happening. This is not a two minute conversation and that’s naughty.’
Chris went on to admit that producers gave him three months to say his goodbyes to the team he’d worked with for nearly a decade.
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“They announced [my exit] at 10.30 the next morning. I was just like, ‘Ok, alright.’ But, they gave us three months to say goodbye, which was great. So I said, ‘You know, thanks for everything, cheers,” he revealed.
Having left the BBC, Chris told Matt that he took a year off and “rented a house in LA for a month”.
He said: “I decided to take a year off at that point. And that was fun. I went and rented a house in LA for a month”.
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Chris also confessed that during his year off in LA he met his long-term girlfriend Tiffany Austin, who was living in the state at the time.
“I had a little life. And that’s where I met Tiff. She was living there,” he confirmed. The pair soon moved to London and Chris returned to radio by joining new station, Radio X, in 2015.
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