Chris Moyles, DJ

Chris Moyles

Profession: DJ
Place/Date of Birth: Leeds, 22 February 1974

Live With Chris Moyles will return for a new series in its 7pm slot next year, despite attracting a mixed critical reaction. The programme is also BBC Radio 1 DJ Moyles’s first attempt at a peak time TV show.

Most irritating person on radio? - 23/10/02
Its official - Chris Moyles is the most irritating person on radio.

He has been voted this unhappy title by a survey by mobile phone service Shazam because he waffles on air and commits the cardinal sin that all listeners hate - and this is that he doesn’t name the tracks that he plays!

This leaves listeners to guess the tunes they want or do that really embarrassing thing of going into record shops and trying to hum the song you want to disdainful shop assistants. Hmm - maybe just me then. Its not just Chris that comes under fire - Radio One colleague Sara Cox and Radio 2 DJ’s Terry Wogan and Jonathan Ross also are named and shamed as is Capital’s own Chris Tarrant - hang on are there any DJ’s left? You can’t name them all you know!

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Biography

Born in Leeds on February 22 1974 Chris Moyles is Radio One’s Long time Breakfast Show Presenter. However, Chris didn’t always beam his show in to quite so many homes - he bagan his career with stints on Radio Aire, The Pulse of West Yorkshire, Chiltern Radio, Horizon Radio, Signal 1 and Radio Luxembourg (under the name Chris Holmes) before bagging a slot on Capital FM and then finally being nabbed by the Beeb in 1998.

Within months of his employment he was awarded Sony’s DJ of the Year award and by the end of the year he had bagged the prestigious drivetime slot which saw him become one of the country’s favourite DJs. After five years he was finally given the most sought after Radio One job - the presenter of the Breakfast Show, swapping places with Sara Cox. Moyles, along with sidekicks such as Comedy Dave and Aled Haydn-Jones, managed to quickly push the audience up to over 6.5million.

Moyles has been regularly lambasted for his lack of political correctness and has come under fire for racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia after comments made on air. He also hit the headlines over pay controversies - crossing the picket line during BBC strikes to present his show and pick up a £630,000 paycheque.
Updated October 2006
January 2008