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Sue Perkins replaced as LGBT Awards host by Radio 1 star after sponsorship row

Former Great British Bake Off presenter Sue Perkins was due to host the LGBT Awards in London this evening but pulled out at the last minute after the event attracted backlash due to some of its corporate sponsors

Daily Mirror

It’s a Padam-ic! Kylie’s sex-positive hit is brilliantly upending the mainstream

Not only is she queering the female pop ideal as a rare middle-aged woman in the Radio 1 playlist, Kylie Minogue is also resonating at a time when frivolity is returning to culture

The Guardian - UK

What is the new Radio 1 schedule going to be? Adele Roberts to leave after eight years

With Adele Roberts leaving Radio 1 after eight years, what will the new schedule look like?

Evening Standard

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How to watch Glastonbury 2023 live: BBC TV and radio day-by-day schedule

Elton John, Arctic Monkeys, Rick Astley and Blondie are among those performing this year

Manchester Evening News

Adele Roberts has left BBC Radio 1 after eight years

She has already presented her last show

Nottingham Post

Adele Roberts is leaving BBC Radio 1 after eight years

She has already presented her last show

Wales Online

BBC Radio 1's Adele Roberts quits popular show after 8 years amid huge shake up

Adele joined the BBC in 2012 as a presenter on BBC Radio 1Xtra and then moved to Radio 1 in 2015 as an Early Breakfast show host.

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BBC DJ Adele Roberts leaves station after eight years

The radio presenter was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2021

Liverpool Echo

Adele Roberts leaving BBC Radio One ‘after an incredible eight years’

The DJ first joined the BBC in 2012 as a presenter on BBC Radio 1Xtra before joining Radio 1 in 2015 as the station’s Early Breakfast show host

Evening Standard

BBC The Wheel: Chris Moyles credits Hollywood girlfriend for six stone weight loss

The DJ and presenter has undergone a huge lifestyle change in recent years

Liverpool Echo

Pete Tong on 'special bond' he has with the city of Liverpool

The DJ will be performing in the city later this month

Liverpool Echo

Royal Blood respond after backlash to ‘arrogant’ comments at Radio 1’s Big Weekend

Rock duo frontman Mike Kerr stormed off stage after calling Radio 1 festival crowd ‘pathetic’

The Independent UK

‘An astounding rush of real-time creativity’: 40 years of the Smiths’ Peel Sessions

Not everyone finds it easy to listen to the Smiths now, but those early transmissions were utterly formative for this vital new band and their enraptured fans

The Guardian - UK

Royal Blood frontman storms off stage after swearing at BBC Radio 1 crowd

Rock duo branded ‘arrogant’ for their attitude after performing at the BBC’s annual music festival in Dundee

The Independent UK

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Evening Standard

Royal Blood criticised after belittling unenthusiastic crowd at Big Weekend

The two-piece outfit expressed their feelings on the Radio 1 stage over the weekend after their set left festival-goers unmoved

Daily Mirror

Royal Blood slammed for demanding 'pathetic' Big Weekend crowd clap before walking off

A rock band has been branded 'cringe' after they walked off the BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend stage holding two fingers up and branded the crowd 'pathetic'

The Guardian - UK

‘I didn’t think it was annoying enough’: how Spitting Image made The Chicken Song

‘It’s a piss-take of Agadoo by Black Lace, one of those mindless summer hits. Someone said “Hold a chicken in the air” and I went “Stick a deckchair up your nose”. We finished it in four minutes’

Chronicle Live

Denise Welch comes out of 'hiding' to see son Matty Healy perform with The 1975

Denise Welch came out of hiding to support son Matty and his 1975 bandmates at Radio 1's Big Weekend

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Irish Mirror

Ryan Tubridy turns 50: Facts you didn't know from famous family and guilty pleasure to secret hobby

Here are 50 facts about Ryan Tubridy and some things you may not know about him ahead of his big birthday

The Independent UK

BBC’s share of radio listening falls to lowest point since 2021, figures show

The figure has been above 50% only once since the reporting of radio listening figures resumed in the summer of 2021.

The Guardian - UK

Vernon Kay on Radio 2 review – not even a ‘warring’ Holly and Phil can hold the new man back

Taking up the hallowed slot filled by Ken Bruce for 31 years, Kay was incredibly nervous, very touching – and placated the haters despite two embarrassing slips

The Guardian - UK

Annie Mac looks back: ‘I was wild, feral and very comfortable in a tree’

The radio broadcaster and novelist on growing up in a large family in Dublin and swapping DJing for writing

Dublin Live

Late Late Show contender Brendan O’Connor suffers blow after listeners tune out of radio show

His RTE Radio 1 Saturday show figures dropped 11,000 to 327,000 while his Sunday show was down 10,000 to 319,000 according to latest Joint National Listenership Ratings

Daily Mirror

Rihanna faced toilet troubles during Radio 1 visit, say Scott Mills and Nick Grimshaw

Scott Mills and Nick Grimshaw have opened up about the BBC station’s glory days and say its HQ used to be in some fairly rundown digs which had a single toilet

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s just me... and eight million listeners’: Vernon Kay gets ready for radio’s top job

As he takes the mic of the biggest job in radio, the presenter talks about working-class pride, advice from Bruce Forsyth – and the one item that’s still on his achievement wish list…

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