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Whiley Update
Posted by Fraser Lewry on 16 July 2009 - 11:44am.
Radio One have announced that Jo Whiley's show is being moved to a weekend slot. Word readers will be delighted, I'm sure, to discover that her replacement is Fearne Cotton.
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Can I be the first to say
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
The only person who I can think of who would be worse is George Lamb.
I think it was in an old Word where Ms. Cotton was summed up thusly:
"OHMIGOD, I'm here BACKSTAGE talking to an INDIE band, WOW!"
*gouges out own eyeballs with teaspoon*
As it's radio
you'd be better off gouging out your ears.
On the plus side
That would get George Lamb off 6music.
then you've never heard
then you've never heard gregg james, the pus filled cretin that is taking over Edith bowmans show
So Word readers
listen to radio 1 then. Lummy. That's me out the club then.
Could have been worse, could have been Michael McIntyre.
Would have preferred
Dot Cotton. Or Billy Cotton. Or anything made of cotton.
(Haven't listened to R1 for 15 years, so opinion is irrelevant.)
Or Elizabeth Cotton?
At least could drive a Freight Train through the whole sorry remains (BBC4 excepted) of the BBC...
Akshully
Fearne Cotton is related to Billy / Bill Cotton. Fact.
No nepotism there then...
just pure, amaaaaaaaaaazing talent.
It's all your own fault
Radio 1 shady employer types obviously bought a copy of this month's Word.
Fearne Cotton should stay on TV where you can mute her and just watch. Much better.
Also, isn't she on Big Brother at the moment?
What one hand giveth...
etc.
Think Ken Bruce's audience might increase over the coming weeks.
Does Radio 1
actually have any proper DJs left, anymore? By that I mean people who actually began their careers on radio, as opposed to reality TV show presenters roped in by the station to try and increase the audience share?
yes Chris Moyles- natch!
yes Chris Moyles- natch!
Yes
Annie Nightingale
Huw Stevens
Bobby and Nihal
Chris Goldfinger
Chris Moyles
Gilles Peterson
Mary Anne Hobbs
Greg James
Pete Tong
I could go on..?
And we all know who's to blame...
Rob Fitzpatrick. The interview in this month's issue...
Fuck
Next up: Holly Willoughby gets the Breakfast Show
She's busy enough
She's the new co-host of This Morning.
Not likely now...
... she's taken over from Fern Britton on This Morning.
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Glad someone else is aware of this titbit of information. Don't feel quite so sad now.
Yes I know
But seeing as she's inexplicably another flavour of the year, then I'm sure she'd find the time.
What a nonsense appointment the This Morning gig is. Why does everyone on TV have to under 25 when few people under 25 are actually watching?
Easy on the eye.
Her husband is a TV producer, I believe. Having a spouse in the industry may help.
I'd imagine many male presenters have a GLW in the industry to 'help' them on occasions (Don't want to suggest female presenters are the only ones to benefit).
I have never heard of
Holly Willoughby.
Well you have now
Her husband is the brother of Tamzin Outhwaite
I've never heard of
Tamzin Outhwaite
Me
neither.
I knew that was coming
Do you all live in a bubble?
Maybe
we should all start reading The Sun.
Maybe I do...
What Radio 4 programmes has she been on recently? :-)
She is actually
quite a talented actress, to be fair.
The world is full
of quite talented actresses.
Yes, but
they don't all get damned by association.
Willoughby much better...
...on the God-awful Minstry of Mayhem on ITV about 3-4 years back when she would gratuitously turn up for one of those 'oh-so f-ing zany' games (which was essentially dwarf throwing) dressed as French maid. By far the best thing about that car crash of a show. After having a 'dad moment', would then do the right thing and switch over to the wonderully da-da Dick n Dom instead.
I often wondered why she didn't sing
given she was clearly equipped with splendid lungs
Dread-gie
Surely only a matter of time now before Cotton's mate in all things awful, that bloke Reggie, gets a prime-time show on Radio 1. He was all over the T In The Park coverage on the telly, featured on Glasto too, and despite seeing him for what seems like hours I don't think he's uttered a single word of note, beyond saying that whoever he is speaking to, or has just appeared `over there on the Main Stage' was `amazing'...
My kids have an old Disney Video
Remember them? It is introduced by a nicely dressed, frightfully posh, stage school teenager - guess who? Wonder where FC got her glottal stop from. Is there an Estuary English elocution school for the Beeb's yoof presenters?
thought moved upwards ^
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autobiographies
When a TV or radio star releases an autobiography, it often is the precursor to them leaving their current job/change in contract/"starting a new chapter."
I think most people are overlooking the fact
That Radio 1 is for ver kids.
And ver kids love Fearne.
Don't like her? Listen to something else.
I saw Fearne on TV last night
co-presenting the iTunes festival with Dave Berry - it was tragic.
After an embarrassing performance from La Roux (who clearly can't sing to save her life), our presenters enthused about how amazing it was. Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, they introduced their special guest... Matthew Horne.
I switched over; a (re-re-re-re-re-re-)repeat of Friends on e4 seemed infinitely preferable.
Especially if you can avoid...
... the dreadful theme tune.
Your job's a joke, you're broke, your love life's DOA...
Cue handclaps...
C'mon - what's not to, like, like?
And ver kids love Fearne
Really? I'd love to meet one who actually does.
me?
I would like to love her physically.
And I would select the soundtrack. Come on, "Clara" by Scott Walker!
Well, yes
but you'd need to put a sock in her gob, wouldn't ya?
Or you could create your own gag to go here. Every pun intended.
Nought pounds Nought pee
Is, I suspect, the amount that Jo “Chumbawumba : amazing” Whiley chipped into the whip-round for DLT and Simon Bates’ leaving presents. That’s how it goes.
Can I recommend the excellent book:
The Nations Favourite by Simon Garfield. It's the inside story of the Matthew Bannister revolution told by someone who was there.
"How Radio 1 got from Dave Lee Travis to Chris Moyles"
To listen to some:
in a handcart
Surely...
Radio 1 was a poptastic public sector broadcasting idea from the 1960s right through to the 1990s as the world changed around it (and it didn't) ... since then it's been consciously chasing 'da yoof' and presenters are on a conveyor belt ... mind you, if Word Man* fell out of its demographic more than a decade ago, changes to personnel are even less relevant now than they were then (to Word Man*)
* inc me