Denise Van Outen is to return to the wireless for the first time since her ill-fated stint co-hosting the Capital Radio breakfast show with Johnny Vaughan. You remember, the one which she described as "quite a difficult situation" and a "bit uncomfortable" being with a presenter who was "used to doing the show on his own". Van Outen will be relieved to know that her Smooth Radio show on Sunday afternoon – it's a bank holiday special – will be a solo effort. Listeners might appreciate it too. "I hope it will be just the start of an on-going relationship between Smooth and Denise, and we can tempt her to do even more shows for us," said John Simons, group programme director of Smooth's parent company GMG Radio (part of Guardian Media Group, which also publishes MediaGuardian.co.uk). Forget about a big breakfast, let's hope she has a light lunch.
