The Radio 1 breakfast show was an embarrassing moment that lasted for nine months.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2025 source ↗
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The Radio 1 breakfast show was an embarrassing moment that lasted for nine months.
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On one of my first jobs, Cold Mountain, I got a wasp in my ear in front of Jude Law. He couldn’t see the wasp so just saw me freak out.
I started stammering badly the first time I was on live radio, on Woman’s Hour on Radio 4. When I think about it now it brings me out in a cold sweat.
The idiocy of going to Skye from New Zealand in April 2020. All of a sudden, I’m turning on the news and hearing myself as an item. I have never been more mortified.
I did an interview years ago and, after it finished, I made some passing comment about sex getting better as you get older – and they used that as the headline. The day the paper came out, I was in a restaurant with the family when a woman on the table next to me leaned over and said, in a sultry voice, “I read your article this morning.”
As someone who made people laugh, introduced them to good music and wasn’t too much of a pain in the arse.
Working in a bottle factory, which lasted one day, and the Radio 1 breakfast show.
Heights, something happening to my children and Manchester United getting good again (I’m a Man City fan).
This was said about me in a Radio 1 focus group: “I don’t pay my licence fee to hear scummy northerners.”
A nice long rest.
Nothing. I survived a cancer scare at 60, so I am just overjoyed to be here.
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