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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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JK leaves Joel for where the Heart is

JK & Lucy
JK & Lucy: new double act

It's as difficult to imagine as Ant without Dec. Well, almost. JK – half of one-time Radio 1 and Virgin Radio duo JK and Joel – is co-hosting the new Heart breakfast show on the south coast of England – but without Joel. Real name Jason King, JK will present the show with Lucy Horobin and said (with Lucy): "It's a really exciting opportunity for us – and to work on the south coast is the icing on the cake!" No word on whether JK will get up to the same high jinks he enjoyed with Joel, which memorably included imbibing rather too much alcohol at a Radio 1 party and getting a "big bollocking" from the then controller, Andy Parfitt. "Coming from commercial radio, if it was a DJ dinner or party then you would go out and get hideously drunk and rip the piss out of whoever is there," remembered Joel in a 2008 MediaGuardian interview. "The next time we had a glass of wine and drank water the rest of the night, and got out as soon as we could to go to the pub with Moyles." We're sure the partying with Heart owner Global Radio boss Ashley Tabor is a more sober affair.

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