Andi Oliver has revealed she ‘loathes’ Radio DJ Chris Moyles after he requested listeners if they’d have intercourse along with her then 16-year-old daughter Miquita Oliver.
The TV chef has been within the limelight for a few years, and helped her daughter Miquita grow to be a presenter in her youth.
Whereas Andi has mentioned she was blissful to present her daughter a leg up within the leisure business, she has admitted it got here with loads of downsides.
She added that lewd feedback made about Miquita’s look have caught along with her, and led her to nonetheless ‘detest’ Chris Moyles, a DJ who hosted a debate asking listeners if they’d sleep along with her teenage daughter.
Talking to The iPaper, she spoke about her then-teenage daughter discovering fame co-hosting Channel 4’s Noughties music present Popworld.
‘I used to be actually pleased with her,’ she mentioned. ‘There weren’t many 15-year-olds that might step right into a nationwide setting like that and be interviewing a number of the most well-known pop stars on the earth with no script, and simply doing it brilliantly as properly, and being very humorous.’
‘It was very irritating – to be a schoolkid and immediately have paparazzi following you, and folks speaking about whether or not you’re too fats or too skinny.’
She then referenced the incident involving radio DJ Chris Moyles: ‘Miquita was 16 and he had a phone-in on his present of: “Would you sh*g her?” On Radio One. I wished to kill him. I nonetheless form of do.’
She then added: ‘There aren’t many individuals I detest who I’ve by no means met, however I’d do time for that man.’
She then speculated what would possibly occur if she confronted him about it right this moment: ‘He’d backpedal so much, however I don’t care. It’s like when folks say: ‘Oh, I didn’t actually imply to name you a n****r, I used to be drunk.’ Yeah, properly, I don’t grow to be a racist once I’m drunk. It simply means you let it out.
‘So I don’t care if it was the Noughties, when there was that terrible lad tradition the place it was acceptable to speak about girls like that.’
She added that there wasn’t assist in place to assist her daughter on the time. ‘I don’t assume she was correctly supported by any of the channels that she labored for. She was a child, but the responsibility of care wasn’t there.’
In 2023, Charlotte Church appeared in Kathy Burke’s Channel 4 documentary and spoke about Moyles providing to take her virginity.
‘There was this shift the place I grew to become truthful recreation,’ she mentioned.
In 2021 whereas showing on the Sink The Pink Pop Tart podcast, she mentioned: There was a countdown to me dropping my virginity.’
She claimed: ‘[There was] a countdown then Chris Moyles talked about it on Radio 1. It was all a bit gross actually.’
‘We’ve come a sure approach, however there’s an extended strategy to go when it comes to feminism and equality however there’s bigots in all places and hopefully we will heal all of them. Perhaps a few of them will simply need to die out.’
Metro has reached out to Chris Moyles and the BBC for remark.
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