Post by Teddy Bear on Sept 26, 2010 11:32:33 GMT
Never listened to the man, never likely to. For some reason the BBC he's worth paying over £600,000 a year for which seems to have inflated his massive ego as well as his bank balance. With this kind of mentality influencing those who do listen to the man, can you really believe the BBC are serving the society in a positive way?
BBC fears for Moyles the Misery after pay rant and love split
By Sara Nathan and Paul Revoir
Last updated at 3:36 PM on 24th September 2010
Chris Moyles yesterday refused to apologise for using his Radio 1 show to berate his BBC bosses.
The loud-mouthed breakfast show star was unrepentant after subjecting listeners to a 30-minute tirade complaining that BBC chiefs had failed to pay him for the past two months.
Instead, £630,000-a-year Moyles - who received the backdated pay hours after his rant - defended his behavour, saying: ' Everything I said yesterday, I stand by.'
Last night a Radio 1 insider revealed there were no plans to reprimand the presenter - despite 61 complaints from listeners - and instead admitted BBC bosses were privately more worried about his state of mind.
Friends expressed similar fears about the DJ, who posted a picture of himself looking dishevelled and heavily sweating on Twitter with the message: 'I warned everybody that I was ill...'
Moyles, 36, is said to be 'struggling' following the split with his girlfriend of eight years, Sophie Waite, and has already made plans to help her financially as she prepares to leave their £1.8million home in North London.
He is now sleeping on his older brother Kieron's couch while Miss Waite, a 33-year-old BBC producer, stays at the home they shared.
The star dumped Miss Waite earlier this month after telling her he was not ready for marriage or children.
And last night, a friend told the Mail: 'Chris is really on the edge, he's struggling, and all his friends are worried about him.
'All his friends are taking it in turns to take him out every night to dinner to make sure that he does not slump into even more of a depression.
'Sophie is just devastated and trying to come to terms with things. But Chris does love her still, he does care about her and he will look after her.'
The Radio 1 insider added: 'We are worried about whether Chris is OK.'
Moyles yesterday confessed that even he realised that he was not in the right frame of mind after being deluged by texts from concerned friends following his rant.
He told how he had met worried Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt, saying: 'I start to think, maybe I'm not all right. So I'm on the phone to my boss and he's "Are you all right?", "I'm fine, are you all right?", "Do you want to have a chat about it?".
'So we went and had a drink and talk about it for, I don't know, ten minutes. He's cool with it. If anything he was worried.'
Moyles said Parfitt had then sent him a text saying the payments had been 'sorted', and replied: 'I sent him a text saying thank you.'
The DJ said he was 'bemused' by the coverage of his rant which he said was nothing out of the ordinary on his show.
He said: 'One annoyed listener said: 'Chris Moyles was very stupid to air his grievances on national radio. No matter how furious he was that was unprofessional.'
He had accused BBC bosses of a 'huge lack of respect' on Wednesday saying the corporation could not be 'bothered' to pay him.
During the height of his on-air rage, he also complained that other BBC radio stars like Sir Terry Wogan and Chris Evans would not have been treated the way he had.
A BBC spokesman said: 'We have spoken to Chris and the situation has been resolved. This is not a disciplinary matter.'
Moyles' career has been littered with controversy and has seen him embroiled in conflict with fellow DJs as well as the regulating authorities.
As far back as 1994, while working at The Pulse of West Yorkshire, he made comments about the station's previous programme controller for which he was dismissed.
In January 2009, broadcasting watchdog Ofcom censured the DJ after he angered listeners by mocking singer Will Young.
By Sara Nathan and Paul Revoir
Last updated at 3:36 PM on 24th September 2010
Chris Moyles yesterday refused to apologise for using his Radio 1 show to berate his BBC bosses.
The loud-mouthed breakfast show star was unrepentant after subjecting listeners to a 30-minute tirade complaining that BBC chiefs had failed to pay him for the past two months.
Instead, £630,000-a-year Moyles - who received the backdated pay hours after his rant - defended his behavour, saying: ' Everything I said yesterday, I stand by.'
Last night a Radio 1 insider revealed there were no plans to reprimand the presenter - despite 61 complaints from listeners - and instead admitted BBC bosses were privately more worried about his state of mind.
Friends expressed similar fears about the DJ, who posted a picture of himself looking dishevelled and heavily sweating on Twitter with the message: 'I warned everybody that I was ill...'
Moyles, 36, is said to be 'struggling' following the split with his girlfriend of eight years, Sophie Waite, and has already made plans to help her financially as she prepares to leave their £1.8million home in North London.
He is now sleeping on his older brother Kieron's couch while Miss Waite, a 33-year-old BBC producer, stays at the home they shared.
The star dumped Miss Waite earlier this month after telling her he was not ready for marriage or children.
And last night, a friend told the Mail: 'Chris is really on the edge, he's struggling, and all his friends are worried about him.
'All his friends are taking it in turns to take him out every night to dinner to make sure that he does not slump into even more of a depression.
'Sophie is just devastated and trying to come to terms with things. But Chris does love her still, he does care about her and he will look after her.'
The Radio 1 insider added: 'We are worried about whether Chris is OK.'
Moyles yesterday confessed that even he realised that he was not in the right frame of mind after being deluged by texts from concerned friends following his rant.
He told how he had met worried Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt, saying: 'I start to think, maybe I'm not all right. So I'm on the phone to my boss and he's "Are you all right?", "I'm fine, are you all right?", "Do you want to have a chat about it?".
'So we went and had a drink and talk about it for, I don't know, ten minutes. He's cool with it. If anything he was worried.'
Moyles said Parfitt had then sent him a text saying the payments had been 'sorted', and replied: 'I sent him a text saying thank you.'
The DJ said he was 'bemused' by the coverage of his rant which he said was nothing out of the ordinary on his show.
He said: 'One annoyed listener said: 'Chris Moyles was very stupid to air his grievances on national radio. No matter how furious he was that was unprofessional.'
He had accused BBC bosses of a 'huge lack of respect' on Wednesday saying the corporation could not be 'bothered' to pay him.
During the height of his on-air rage, he also complained that other BBC radio stars like Sir Terry Wogan and Chris Evans would not have been treated the way he had.
A BBC spokesman said: 'We have spoken to Chris and the situation has been resolved. This is not a disciplinary matter.'
Moyles' career has been littered with controversy and has seen him embroiled in conflict with fellow DJs as well as the regulating authorities.
As far back as 1994, while working at The Pulse of West Yorkshire, he made comments about the station's previous programme controller for which he was dismissed.
In January 2009, broadcasting watchdog Ofcom censured the DJ after he angered listeners by mocking singer Will Young.