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#385780
I was on msn and came acroos this interesting http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2009/05/08/chris-moyles-tells-phillip-schofield-he-should-leave-this-morning-instead-of-fern-britton-115875-21341908/. I didn't see This Morning but im guessing this is another thing Chris has said that has been taken out of context?
Heres the story:

Chris Moyles humiliated This Morning host Phillip Schofield on TV yesterday by telling him he should leave the show rather than Fern Britton.

The Radio 1 DJ tore into the presenter and said he would no longer be tuning in once Fern goes.

Embarrassing Schofield further, he declared the show would be rubbish without her.

Moyles, 35, then said he would quite fancy being a This Morning host. The presenters thought he was talking about doing the show with Schofield. But Moyles chipped in: "Sorry, I was talking about you staying Fern."

Looking shocked and surprised, Schofield said: "What and I go? Oh, OK. I'll just go now then." The subject then changed before the interview caused more awkwardness for Schofield.

He asked Moyles: "Will you be happy to come back again?" The DJ replied: "When Fern goes no, I only come because I love Fern." Schofield hit back: "Well that's OK because you won't be invited." Moyles appeared on the ITV daytime show after new figures yesterday showed he now has 7.7million listeners and is just 80,000 behind his Radio 2 rival Terry Wogan.


The breakfast show host started off the sofa chat by saying: "I know you don't want me to talk about it Fern, but it's not going to be the same without you when you go, it's going to be rubbish." Fern giggled and joked: "It will be much better." But that did not stop the DJ from continuing to praise her and take swipes at Schofield.
Talking about his interest in hosting the ITV programme, he said: "I quite fancy this gig cos I could finish my radio show and then taxibike it to here. I could do it." The interview ended with Fern inviting Moyles round to her house to watch This Morning once she quits the show in July.

Moyles accepted the invitation and then, referring to Schofield and the next segment of the show, added: "Go on grey-head, do the link." A show source said Schofield had seemed flustered after the segment..

They added: "He didn't know where to look and Moyles clearly liked Fern more than him.

"Phillip isn't used to guests mocking him and sees himself as head of the show so his confidence took a bit of a beating." Moyles has previously revealed to the Mirror he is due to sign a new contract for his Radio 1 show.

And he told This Morning viewers: "The listening figures have gone up, which is funny because I thought I was getting sacked two weeks ago. The bottom line is I am going to re-sign again in the next few weeks." And he joked: "I might sign up for 19 years , just to prove a point that I'm staying."




What you think about this?
#385782
I think Chris is was just joking with Schofield, to be honest. He has spoke to Schofield several times on the Radio show & they get on well.

Chris was probably just trying to wind him up & see if he would get a reaction. I imagine the press are, yet again, trying to make something out of nothing.
#385783
I actually watched it and it was just joking around...

"A show source said Schofield had seemed flustered after the segment."

Who is this source? Also It is one persons opinion that he seemed flustered! GAAAAAAAAAAARH

Actually Chris must kind of be enjoying this. Nearly anything he does and he is spread across the news.
#385798
Moyles and Schofield know each ther pretty well, and get on. Moyles was joking, Schofield got it. Papers are ridiculous, people stop buying them and reading their crap output in the internet please.
#385807
Normally I'd just say 'this is another reason I hate the media' and move on, but the fact that the newspapers can tell lies and get away with it really worries me.

Does it not worry anyone else that the main reason Margaret Thatcher was voted into Downing Street so many times was that The Sun did such a good job of making the Labour candidate, Neil Kinnock look like a weakling not worth voting for?

Freedom of the press, yes.
Freedom to sell papers filled with damaging lies, no.

What we need is some celebrity to have the balls to sue a newspaper, and a judge with the balls to dish out a massive damages settlement, big enough to seriously dent the newspaper in question, making them think twice about printing lies again.


Failing that, someone could just firebomb the Daily Mirror offices. footloose? :D
#385814
Or killing two berks with one stone.
#385824
It really gets my back up that they write (as previously stated) complete non-stories about Chris all the time and there just never seems to be anything positive about him.
I think he's a nice bloke and quite obviously has lots of very close and genuine mates who regard him really highly. I really hope he's around for a long time on radio 1, I think there just seems to be a lot of bitterness directed at him due to the derision he got before the breakfast show about the Five show etc.....and now he's so successful and very good at what he is doing, not just in ratings but in longevity - they can't stand it.
#385896
English Bob wrote:What we need is some celebrity to have the balls to sue a newspaper, and a judge with the balls to dish out a massive damages settlement, big enough to seriously dent the newspaper in question, making them think twice about printing lies again.

No. What we need is an independent regulatory body to replace the current PCC, which can quite accurately be described as 'toothless'. It is made up of newspaper editors, who are quite obviously not prepared to rap their own knuckles, it's a complete farce. I'm aware of the difficulties of setting up a different system, but something has to be done. I'm all for a free press, but a line has to be drawn when they are clearly damaging innocent people's reputations to make a profit.

foot-loose wrote:Can we kill Piers while we're at it?

And Paul Dacre. And Peter Hill.
#386018
Piers Morgan (Murdoch's 'boy') is looked after by the same talent management as Schofield. Vernon Kay and Fearne Cotton are also in the the same stable and would no doubt benefit a notch-up if there was a big gap created by Moyles' exit. The company is jointly owned by old-skool Peter Powell who probably sneers through rose-tinted specs at what his beloved Radio 1 has become. Just so many dots to join up eh?.