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So, who will replace Chris Evans?

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MrsWembley · 03/09/2018 08:33

I bloody hope it's Sara Cox - I love her!

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crunchtime · 03/09/2018 10:47

Sarah Cox would be good.
I'll tell you who is unbearable. ..literally unlistenable ..
Alan Carr and mel sykes on a Saturday. Jesus wept...it's horrendous. ...cackling and screeching

explodingid · 03/09/2018 10:51

Anyway, time for a little bit of music so here's one of my favourites - the fabulous Matt Monro. Better than Frank Sinatra if you ask me, and of course he was British and a bus conductor. A bit like me you see - from a humble job to superstar. Bless him, ooh he had a voice and a half didn't he?

Genius Jitters! I want more give us more! Grin

Judashascomeintosomemoney · 03/09/2018 10:52

jitters
Grin

SwedishEdith · 03/09/2018 10:52

See you say that you need energy in the mornings, but as someone who hates waking up my perfect breakfast show is Shaun Keaveny on 6Music. I'm gutted that he's being replaced by Lauren Laverne in January.

Me too. I won't listen - her show is the one where I tune out of 6Music. Can't stand Chris Evans so anyone else will be an improvement.

PavlovaFaith · 03/09/2018 10:57

Vanessa Feltz or Fearne Cotton for me!

SwedishEdith · 03/09/2018 10:58

google tells me there is a twitter/tweet aobut Shaun Keevney replacing Chris Evans, but wiki tels me he is staring in Radcliffe and Maconie's afternoon slot in JAn 2019

He is but he's not happy about it so... Well, R&M aren't anyway.

InflagranteDelicto · 03/09/2018 11:02

Sara Cox. Or Zoe Ball. So pleased Chris is going, I stopped listening a few years ago. It's all about him him him and I'm just not interested.

Neshoma · 03/09/2018 11:08

Excellent Jitters

MrsWembley · 03/09/2018 11:13

JittersGrinGrinGrin

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starfishmummy · 03/09/2018 11:17

If its going to be one of the people who regularly stand in for him then Sarah Cox is the best, but she needs to stop over running the news!!

Can't stand Vanessa Feltz! My radio alarm comes on for the last 5 minutes of her show and that's 5 minutes too long!!

CloudCaptain · 03/09/2018 11:20

Mel and Sue would be ace. Or some new blood. I don't like any of the oldies. They ought replace most of their slots to be honest.

ButterflyOfFreedom · 03/09/2018 11:24

I reckon it'll be a female - I'm saying Zoe Ball.
Definitely prefer her to Sara Cox, Vanessa Feltz & Liza Tarbuck.
Jo Whiley seems ok and I think it would be good to split her & Simon Mayo up.

I'm quite pleased Chris Evans is leaving, the show did become all about him.

foxychox · 03/09/2018 11:29

Yes please to Sara Cox, but she must keep the half wower!!

MorrisZapp · 03/09/2018 11:43

Brilliant work jitters!

I've never forgiven Chris Evans for patronising the fuck out of the Radio 1 politics reporter on budget day ca 1995. She interviewed the Chancellor of the Exchequer only to be totally belittled by that sexist trash afterwards.

It was of course 'affectionate' - 'Ooh listen to you Debbie, you're just too nice to be scary, you're so cute, you sounded very stern but I wasn't fooled' etc etc.

She giggled with him but probably dearly wanted to call him an unbearable cunt on national radio.

So how about it Chris? Got a daughter yet? Do you think if she is nice and cute, nobody should take her seriously in her choice of adult job?

haggisaggis · 03/09/2018 11:46

I hope it's Sara Cox. Used to like Chris Evans in the morning but now spend more time with my finger on the "off" button.

TroysMammy · 03/09/2018 11:50

I'll be finding another radio station to wake up to. I can't abide Sara Cox, Jo Wiley, Zoe Ball and Claudia Winkleman. They all get on my tits.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 03/09/2018 11:53

Jitters - brilliant Grin

And I used to love Matt Monroe

BartholinsSister · 03/09/2018 11:53

Russell Brand anyone?

flumpybear · 03/09/2018 11:56

Gutted he's going as I love a laugh in the morning

Love Sarah cox but don't like her on the radio the songs are rvvvish! However perhaps Sarah cox and Zoe ball together?!

Although Simon Mayo would be my first choice he's fab!

Peridot1 · 03/09/2018 12:03

I’m surprised too that he is basically just going for more money. I thought it would be to give him more time with his family.

Anyway out of everyone who has been suggested my vote would be for Sarah Cox. I have to switch Zoe Ball off on Saturdays- she doesn’t ever seem to pause for breath. Dermot mumbles too much and I don’t think it would work with his X factor job. Graham Norton wouldn’t do it I don’t think. Liza Tarbuk? No thank you! She’s irritating. Simon Mayo would be good but then who would do Drivetime - not sure it would work with Jo on her own. It doesn’t work now! No to Craig Charles.

TroysMammy · 03/09/2018 12:08

All DJ's get on my tits and it's just as well that my driving commute is only 10 minutes.

LoniceraJaponica · 03/09/2018 12:53

Wasn't he sacked from Virgin a few years ago?

The Sarah Cox haters - why?

footballmum · 03/09/2018 13:04

Can I throw Trevor Nelson into the mix? Maybe not the most animated presenter but he could just play R&B and club classics and I’d be in heaven!

I’ve enjoyed Chris Evans but have to say the last 6 months he has become very “preachy”. Some mornings it’s like “the world and life according to Chris Evans” Definitely think his time is up and I’m not tempted to switch to Virgin to follow him.

EsmesBees · 03/09/2018 13:15

I used to listen to Chris Evans on Virgin radio breakfast show back in the 90s. Wasn't he sacked for going on air drunk?

I can't stand Sara Cox. I'd like to see Zoe Ball do it. But I'm a dedicated Today listener who turns over to Ken at 9.30 so shouldn't really get a vote

Jitters22 · 03/09/2018 13:17

It’s me again dears, just to let you know about a couple of ideas I’ve come up with for my new breakfast show

First of all I’m bringing back ‘How Clean is Your House’ but I’ve changed it a bit obviously, my loves, because this is radio and the show that made me famous was on the telly. So we’re not going to be able to ‘see’ how mucky you are, but I’ll find out dears, mark my words on that. Through a series of probing cleaning related questions, and no-one can probe or clean more than yours truly.

If you don’t want the British public to know what a sloven you are then don’t ring in to my ‘How Clean is Your House’ feature. It’s as simple as that darlings so don’t say you haven’t been warned. If you do ring in however you will get a Radio 2 Kim’s Breakfast Pinny with matching Rubber Gloves, and a Kim Looky Likey Lavatory Brush with blond bristles tied in a bun to match my hair – which as you know is one of my trademarks.

Oh and it’s going to just be me – no Aggie – because to tell you the truth my loves she didn’t half get on my wick. I’m not one to ‘dish the dirt’ …. well I am in a way being a career cleaner and all that, but I mean ‘dirt’ in a different way here if you see what I mean.

Me and Aggie never really got on, but that’s all drain cleaner down the plughole now, because I’ve gone on to superstardom while Aggie, poor love hasn’t quite achieved the same giddy heights of fame as me. Anyway we’ll leave it there because, as you and Coleen Nolan know only too well – I’m not a one to bear grudges.

Another new feature is going to be called ‘Start the Day with Kim but don’t Start with Kim’. To be honest loves, the title needs a bit of work, but you get the gist. It’s going to be a guest interviewing segment where we invite celebs on to ‘Start the Day with Kim’ but at the same time letting them know not to ‘Start with Kim’ because if they do they will get it back with both barrels.

To tell you the God's honest truth my darlings, I’m not too keen on having guests on my show but the Radio 2 people insist on it, and as they are paying me all that lovely money, there’s not a lot I can do about it. I have given them a list of no-nos though – no-one who has the surname Nolan; no-one who has appeared in Birds of a Feather; no-one from CBB (apart from the lovely Rylan); no Philip Schofield and no-one who I consider chicken-livered, two-faced or trash – which is most of the people I come across. So who they are going to find to come on, I’m not quite sure?

So that’s it for now and before I go here’s another of my favourite tunes for the playlist. It’s the lovely George Formby with ‘When I’m Cleaning Windows’.

It always makes me smile this one, because I’m thrilled to say that now I’m a superstar radio presenter I will never have to clean another ruddy window again! There’s always an upside to everything isn’t there my loves?

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