Reflecting on yesterday's events at Radio 1, it's new controller Ben Cooper who comes out as the tough guy. Try these phrases from his blog post about Chris Moyles leaving the breakfast slot.
He has done the show for over eight and a half years - he couldn't do it for ever - and I would rather he went out at the top of his game.
I have said all along that when the moment came for the show to end, it would be a conversation between myself and Chris. It was.
Interesting too, that the conversation (who started it ?) ended with no particular conclusion on where Chris Moyles might spend the remainder of his contract with Radio 1, which runs to New Year 2014. This is what Ben told The Guardian.
I've got an idea of a new role for him on the station. Maybe we'll surprise people again in a short time...it's time for Chris to reinvent himself and to open up a new chapter.
And then there's this amusing post from Nick Wallis, whose wife works alongside Nick Grimshaw at Yalding House, Radio 1's production offices. It makes it clear that the new breakfast host only knew about his promotion on Tuesday of this week.
This morning Grimmy told Mrs Wallis the story of how he was offered the Radio 1 breakfast show. It was yesterday, and Big Boss Ben had called him in for a 9.30am meeting. Grimmy thought he was in trouble, and to compound it, he was running late. He rushed in to Ben's office all of a flutter, sat down, apologised, and the first sentence he managed was: "Sorry. I'm not a morning person..."
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