right|thumb|200px|Bruce Woodcock at [[E3 Media and Business Summit|E-3 2005]]Bruce Sterling Woodcock (born 1970) is an American computer and video games industry analyst, best known for his work on subscription tracking of massively multiplayer online games via his website MMOGCHART.COM.

Biography

Woodcock was born in the small farming community of Sullivan, Missouri on June 20, 1970, the youngest of three children to Myron and Mary Woodcock. He graduated from Sullivan Senior High School in 1988, and then went on to Purdue University, studying physics, philosophy, and computer science. In 1989, he became involved in internet gaming on early MUDs, and in 1990, was briefly running two of the largest TinyMUDs of the time, ''TinyMUD Classic'' and ''Islandia''. His original online handle was Sir Bruce Sterling, which was later shortened to Sir Bruce when he began posting on message boards.

Leaving college early, he moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1991, where he began a career in information technology. In 1993, he moved to San Jose, California, where he subsequently worked as a system administrator at early ISP Netcom (USA), and then Network Appliance, eventually leaving in 1997 with $250,000 in stock options. He started to maintain a presence on the Yahoo! financial message boards as he closely tracked the performance of Network Appliance, helped the company's fortunes, and built his own portfolio to $3 million.

With the advent of the MMOGs, Chron X and Ultima Online in 1997, Woodcock became a player and beta-tester for this genre of game. He invested in and joined the Board of Directors for Playnet and their game World War II Online, and in August 2002, began his research, reporting, and tracking of MMOG subscription numbers, which has become a standard of reference both inside and outside the MMOG industry. In November 2004 his work was moved to its own dedicated website, MMOGCHART.COM. The site has not been updated since May 2008.

Woodcock currently lives in San Jose, working as an independent game consultant and analyst for the MMOG industry. He is a member of the IGDA, and has spoken on game industry topics at trade shows such as the Austin Game Conference.

Public speaker

"What the Market Research Tells Us - Where MMOs are Going and How Are we Going to Get There" (Speaker), ''Austin Game Conference'', September 6, 2006

"Building Massively Multiplayer Games on a Budget" (Panelist), ''Austin Game Conference'', September 10, 2004

"Massively Multiplayer Games on a Shoestring Budget" (Panelist), ''Austin Game Conference'', September 11, 2003

Works

"An Analysis of MMOG Subscription Growth", MMOGCHART.COM, 2002 - 2008

"Confessions of an MMOG Cross-Dresser", ''The Escapist'' #77, December, 2006

"Is Rape Wrong on Azeroth?", ''The Escapist'' #69, October, 2006

"IGDA 2004 Persistent Worlds Whitepaper", contributor, January, 2005

"Illusions of Reality", ''Quanta'' #3, February, 1990

''Grimtooth's Traps Too'', December 1982, Flying Buffalo Computer-Conflict Simulation, contributor, ''The Catastrophic Keyhole'', ISBN 0-940244-78-0

References

MMOGCHART.COM (Bruce Woodcock's website)

Biography at ''Austin Game Conference'' website

"Network Appliance's Knight of the Message Boards", July 3, 2000 - Profile of Woodcock in ''Business Week''

"Race to build Stormreach" by Hiawatha Bay, ''The Boston Globe'', June 8, 2005

"Can Mickey and Frodo revive virtual worlds?" by John Borland, ''CNET News.com'', May 31, 2005

"Everything You Need to MMO" by Evan Shamoon, ''Game Developer Magazine'', Volume 12 Number 4, April 2005

"Student of the Game" by Daniel Morris, ''PC Gamer'', Issue 12 Number 4, April 2005

"Massively Multiplying Online Games Face Age of Cannibalization" by Steve Smith, ''Electronic Gaming Business'', August 25, 2004

"Multiplayer Online Games: Let in the Cannibals" by Steve Smith, ''Electronic Gaming Business'', April 7, 2004

"Interactive Multi-User Computer Games" by Dr. Richard Bartle, December 1990 (Woodcock is interviewed during his early TinyMUD days.)

Category:1970 births Category:People from Franklin County, Missouri Category:Video game critics Category:MUD developers Category:Living people

name	Sir Bruce Forsyth CBE
birth name	Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson
birth date	February 22, 1928
birth place	Edmonton, Middlesex, England
other names	''Brucie'', ''Brucey'', ''Bruce Johnson'', ''Bruce Forsyth Johnson'', ''Boy Bruce, ''the Mighty Atom'', ''Mr Entertainment'', ''Sir Brucie'', ''Sir Brucey''
occupation	Television presenter, Game show host, Comedian, Dancer, Singer
years active	1939–present
spouse	Penny Calvert (1953–1973, divorced)Anthea Redfern (1973–1979, divorced)Wilnelia Merced (1983–present)
children	5 daughters, 1 son }}

Sir Bruce Joseph Forsyth-Johnson CBE, (born 22 February 1928), commonly known as Bruce Forsyth, or Brucie, is an English TV personality. He became known through the series ''Sunday Night at the London Palladium'', going on to present television series such as ''The Generation Game'', ''Play Your Cards Right'', ''The Price Is Right (UK)'', ''You Bet!'' and ''Strictly Come Dancing'', the last of which he presents with Tess Daly.

Early life

Forsyth was born in Edmonton, London, the son of Florence Ada (née Pocknell) and John Thomas Forsyth-Johnson. His family owned a car repair garage in Victoria Road, Edmonton, and as members of the Salvation Army his parents played brass instruments and his mother was a singer. His great grandfather Joseph Forsyth Johnson (1840–1906) was a landscape architect who worked in Russia, Ireland and the United States. His great-great-great-great grandfather William Forsyth (1737–1804) was a founder of the Royal Horticultural Society and the namesake of the plant genus ''Forsythia''.

"Boy Bruce, the Mighty Atom"

Forsyth attended The Latymer School. After watching Fred Astaire in films at age eight, he trained in dance in Tottenham and then Brixton. He started in show business aged 14, with a song, dance, and accordion act called "Boy Bruce, the Mighty Atom." His first appearance was at the Theatre Royal, Bilston, with ''The Great Marzo'' at the top of the bill. Forsyth made his television debut in 1939 as a child, singing and dancing on a talent show introduced by Jasmine Bligh, probably an episode of ''Come and Be Televised'' (BBC, 1939), broadcast from Radiolympia.

Post Second World War theatre

Forsyth continued to perform through the Second World War, even after the death of his Royal Air Force pilot brother John in 1943 over Turnberry, Scotland. After the war, with the goal of joining Moss Empires theatres, he spent years on stage with little success and travelled the UK working seven days a week, doing summer seasons, pantomimes and circuses, where he became renowned for his strong-man act.

In 1958 an appearance with the comedian Dickie Henderson led to his being offered the job of compère of Val Parnell's weekly TV variety show, ''Sunday Night at the London Palladium''. He hosted the show for two years, followed by a year's break, then returned for another year. His schedule of stage performances, which continued throughout the 1960s, forced him to give up the job of host.

In 1968, he played alongside Julie Andrews in the musical movie ''Star!'', a biopic of stage actress Gertrude Lawrence. In 1976, he appeared on ''The Muppet Show'' where he took on the famous duo of Statler & Waldorf.

Game show host

Forsyth's next success was ''Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game'' (BBC1, 1971–1977, 1990–1994) which proved popular and attracted huge Saturday evening audiences. It was on this show that Forsyth introduced his "The Thinker" pose, emulating Rodin's sculpture, appearing in silhouette each week after the opening titles. This pose is reminiscent of the circus strong-man attitude. He also wrote and sang the theme for the show "Life Is The Name of the Game."

He left the BBC in 1978 to present ''Bruce Forsyth's Big Night'', which was also transmitted on Saturday evening, but on rival broadcaster ITV. However, the show was not a success and lasted just the one series. He was replaced on ''The Generation Game'' by Larry Grayson. Forsyth remained with ITV, hosting the game show ''Play Your Cards Right'', which was the UK version of the US original ''Card Sharks'' (1980–87, 1994–99 and a brief period in 2002 before the show was cancelled due to low ratings).

In 1986, he went to the United States to host a game show on ABC, ''Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak'', which ran for 65 episodes from January to April that year. Forsyth starred in the Thames Television sitcom ''Slinger's Day'' in 1986 and 1987, taking over a role played by Leonard Rossiter. His television appearances since the 1960s have included variety, comedy and light entertainment shows.

He was the original host of ''You Bet!'' (1988 to 1990) before the show reached mainstream success under the stewardship of Matthew Kelly. Forsyth fronted the third version of ''The Price Is Right'' (1995 to 2001). Forsyth's unsuccessful gameshows include ''Takeover Bid'' (1990 to 1991), ''Hollywood Or Bust'' (1984), ''Bruce's Guest Night'' (1992 to 1993) and ''Didn't They Do Well'' (2004). During the 1970s Bruce featured in the "Stork Margarine" adverts on television and then during the 1980s and 1990s he appeared in advertising for the furniture retailer Courts, in which he dressed as a judge.

Forsyth celebrated his 70th birthday in 1998 and appeared in a week-long run of his one-man show at the London Palladium, culminating in a 90-minute edition of ''Sunday Night at the London Palladium'' live on ITV. In 2000, Forsyth hosted a series called ''Tonight at the London Palladium'', which revived the original format. The show was not picked up for a further series.

Comeback

In 2003, and again in 2010, Forsyth was a guest presenter on the news and satire quiz show, ''Have I Got News For You''. During the first of these appearances, he presented a parody of his ''Play Your Cards Right'' format entitled ''Play Your Iraqi Cards Right''. He has been co-presenter of ''Strictly Come Dancing'' since 2004. On 20 March 2010, Forsyth's interview on the autobiography-interview programme ''Piers Morgan's Life Stories'' was aired on ITV.

On 7 April 2010, Forsyth become one of the first three celebrities to be subjected to the British version of the American institution of a comedy roast, on Channel 4's ''A Comedy Roast''. Forsyth was the subject of the BBC genealogy series ''Who Do You Think You Are? (British TV series)'', broadcast on 19 July 2010.

In 2011 Forsyth released a collection of songs on CD called ''These Are My Favourites''. He chose the songs for their personal and musical importance. Including a duet with his granddaughter Sophie Purdie. ''These Are My Favourites'' also includes a recording of Paper Moon with Nat ‘King’ Cole.

Tributes and honours

On 27 February 2005, the BBC screened ''A BAFTA Tribute to Bruce Forsyth'', to mark the entertainer's 60 years in show business. Forsyth had a bronze bust of himself unveiled at the London Palladium in May 2005. The sculpture was created by his son-in-law, and is on display in the theatre's Cinderella Bar.

He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1998 and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2006 New Year Honours. His showbiz awards include Variety Club Show Business Personality of the Year in 1975; ''TV Times'' Male TV Personality of the Year, in 1975, 1976, 1977 and 1978; and BBC TV Personality of the Year in 1991.

In 1987, a fan club was created - The Great Bruce Forsyth Social Club. They would later go on to assist Forsyth in singing his opening number "It's Never Too Late" at his Audience With show. Bruce repaid this favour by adding the society to his busy schedule in June 1997, and appeared at their 10th AGM in Plymouth, and also mentioned them in his autobiography.

In December 2007, his catchphrase 'Nice to see you, to see you, nice' was voted the most popular UK catchphrase by the British public. On 24 February 2008, the BBC featured an 85-minute programme celebrating the star's 80th birthday, entitled "Happy Birthday Brucie!"

In 2008, he was made a Fellow of BAFTA. In 2009, he was awarded the ''Theatre Performers Award'' at the annual Carl Alan Awards. Hosted by the International Dance Teachers' Association, the awards are voted for by the leading dance organisations in the United Kingdom and recognise those who have made an exceptional contribution to the world of dance and theatre.

He received a Royal Television Society Lifetime Achievement Award on 17 March 2009. On 26 January 2011 he received the National Television Awards special recognition award.

He was made a Knight Bachelor in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to entertainment and charity. This followed a years-long public campaign to award Forsyth a knighthood. His investiture, by the Queen, took place on 12 October 2011 and he became Sir Bruce Forsyth-Johnson CBE.

Personal life

From 1953 to 1973, Forsyth was married to Penny Calvert, with whom he had three daughters: Debbie, Julie and Laura. According to his autobiography, he dated Miss World 1964 Ann Sidney during her reign and in a 2009 interview, Kathy Kirby claimed to have been Forsyth's lover and that he proposed marriage. From 1973 to 1979, he was married to Anthea Redfern, who had been the hostess on ''The Generation Game'' with whom he had two daughters: Charlotte and Louisa. Asked to judge the 1980 Miss World competition, he fell in love with fellow judge, the 1975 Miss World, Wilnelia Merced; they married in 1983, and have one son together, Jonathan Joseph Forsyth Johnson (born 1987). By his six children, he has eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Due to his love of golf, his main residence is at the Wentworth Estate adjacent to the Wentworth golf course near Virginia Water in northwest Surrey. A childhood supporter of Arsenal, when the team's stadium was taken for air-defence searchlights during the Second World War, matches were played at Tottenham Hotspur's White Hart Lane ground, so he became a supporter of both clubs. His daughter Julie was a member of the Pop Group Guys 'n' Dolls. She later formed the duo "Grant & Forsyth" with her husband Dominic Grant who had also been a member of Guys 'n' Dolls.

Forsyth has his own company, ''Bruce Forsyth Enterprises Ltd'', based in Surrey, to run his day to day monetary affairs.

Television and film

''The Bruce Forsyth Show'' ''Frankie and Bruce'' ''Star ''Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?'' ''Red Peppers'' ''Bedknobs and Broomsticks'' ''The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins'' ''The Generation Game ''The Muppet Show'' ''Disco Bruce'' ''Bruce Forsyth's Big Night'' ''Play Your Cards Right ''Bruce Forsyth's Hot Streak'' ''Magnum, P.I. ''Bruce and Ronnie'' ''You Bet!'' ''Takeover Bid'' ''The Price is Right (UK) ''An Audience with... ''The Game (1998 film) ''Tonight at the London Palladium'' ''Have I Got News for You'' ''Bruce Forsyth Host'' ''Strictly Come Dancing'' ''The Generation Game ''Have I Got News For You'' ''Who Do You Think You Are? (British TV series) ''The Rob Brydon Show'' National Television Awards

Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes
1957–1961	''Sunday Night at the London Palladium''	Himself
1966	|	Host	TV
1966 1975	|	Himself	TV
1968	(film)	Star!	Arthur Lawrence
1969	|	Uncle Limelight
1969	|	George Pepper	TV
1971	|	Swinburne, Bookman's henchman	Film
1971	|	Avarice Segment
1971–1977 1990–1994	Bruce Forsyth and the Generation Game'' ||	Host	TV
1976	|	Himself	TV
1978–1980	|	Himself	TV
1978	|	Host	TV
1980–1987 1994–1999 2002–2003	Bruce Forsyth's Play Your Cards Right'' ||	Host	TV
1986	|	Host	TV
1986	Magnum, P.I.: A Little Bit of Luck...A Little Bit of Grief'' ||		TV
1988	|	Himself	TV
1988–1990	|		TV
1990–1991	|		TV
1995–2001	Bruce's Price is Right'' ||	Himself	TV
1997	An Audience with Bruce Forsyth'' ||	Host	TV
1998	The Game'' ||		Film
2000	|	Himself	TV
2003	|	Guest Appearance	TV
2003	|	Himself	DVD / Guest appearance on ''Have I Got News for You'' DVD
2004 – present	|	Host	TV
2007	The Generation Game: Then Again'' ||	Host	TV
2010	|	Guest Appearance	TV
2010	Who Do You Think You Are?'' ||	Guest Appearance	TV
2011	|	Guest	TV
2012	|	Guest (With Ant & Dec)	TV

Discography

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
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''Both Sides of Bruce (Live)''		* First Studio album	* Released: 1977	* Label: Warner Bros. Records	—
''Come Get It!''		* Second Studio album	* Released: 1979	* Label: Pye Records	—
''Mr. Entertainment''		* Third Studio album	* Released: 19 March 2007	* Label: EMI Records	—
''These Are My Favourites''		* Fourth Studio album	* Released: 7 November 2011	* Label: EMI Records	58

References

External links

"Traveller, Tom Grundy, honouring Forsythe around the world"

Bruce Forsyth 80th birthday tribute on itv.com

Tribute to Forsyth at British Classic Comedy website

Category:1928 births Category:English entertainers Category:English television presenters Category:Knights Bachelor Category:Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Category:English people of Scottish descent Category:English game show hosts Category:Living people Category:People from Edmonton, London Category:Strictly Come Dancing Category:English television personalities Category:People educated at The Latymer School

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name	Chris Moyles
birth name	Christopher David Moyles
birth date	February 22, 1974
birth place
occupation	Broadcaster
years active	1990–present
partner	Ana Boulter (1999–2002)Sophie Waite (2002–2010) }}

Christopher David Moyles (born 22 February 1974) is an English radio and television presenter and author, who currently presents ''The Chris Moyles Show'' on BBC Radio 1 and ''Chris Moyles' Quiz Night'' on Channel 4.

Born in Leeds, he attended Mount St Mary's Catholic High School in Leeds and volunteered to work at WBHS (Wakefield's Broadcast to Hospitals Service). He has worked at various radio stations including Radio Luxembourg (under the pseudonym Chris Holmes) and Capital FM. Moyles moved to BBC Radio 1 in 1997 and has remained there ever since, presenting the early breakfast show, a Saturday morning show, the drive time show and currently, the breakfast show. On 7 September 2009 he became Radio 1's longest serving breakfast presenter. Moyles has become famous for his irreverent broadcasting style on Radio 1 and has been embroiled in numerous controversies, including homophobic and sexist accusations, due to statements he has made on the air and in the press. Despite that, Moyles' regular audience figures averages 8 million listeners per annum, and remains one of the more popular presenters on BBC Radio 1.

He has achieved various Radio awards, and has helped raise money for charity by taking part in challenges, aired on T.V on behalf of Comic Relief. He has recorded a parody album and written two autobiographies. He frequently appears on television having appeared on Hotel Babylon, a celebrity version of Dale's Supermarket Sweep, Top Gear, The Charlotte Church Show, The F-Word, The Friday Night Project, The One Show, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, Richard & Judy and The New Paul O'Grady Show. In 2009 he launched his own show, ''Chris Moyles' Quiz Night'' for Channel 4 which is currently in its fifth series.

Career

Pre-Radio 1

Chris Moyles was born on 22 February 1974 in Leeds and was educated at the Mount St Mary's Catholic High School in Leeds. While at school, he began his broadcasting career at WBHS (Wakefield's Broadcast to Hospitals Service), a voluntary staffed hospital radio station in the West Yorkshire city.

He then started out at local station Aire FM as an assistant for DJ Carl Kingston. During this time, he was also a presenter on Radio Top Shop in the Leeds Briggate branch. After hosting his own Saturday Evening Show on Aire FM (and occasionally serving as a stand-in presenter), he was then employed as a presenter at Radio Luxembourg in 1992, until the station closed.

In 1993, he gained a job at The Pulse of West Yorkshire, presenting the evening show from 7–10 pm. He remained there until early 1994 when he was dismissed for comments made about the station's previous programme controller. Moyles subsequently turned up at Signal 1 in Stoke-on-Trent – again presenting ''The Evening Bit'' from 7–10 pm. In 1995 Moyles was heard on the Chiltern Radio Network, presenting the evening show from 7–10 pm, before taking on the late show from 10 pm–1 am. This show was simulcast on Horizon Radio, Chiltern Radio, Severn Sound and Northants 96.

In 1996, Moyles joined London station Capital FM hosting his weekend show 'The Late Bit', which went out on a Friday & Saturday evening, and covering for other DJs. It was at Capital that Moyles fell out with fellow DJ 'Doctor' Neil Fox. After declining the offer of presenting the breakfast show on rival station Kiss 100, Moyles joined Radio 1 in July 1997.

Radio 1

Moyles was voted one of the Faces for 97 by SKY magazine and presented his first show on Radio 1 on 28 July 1997, hosting the 4–7 am Early Breakfast show – soon called ''The Early Bit''. In May 1998, his work was recognised with the award of the Silver Sony Awards DJ of the Year, and he was styling himself as 'The Saviour Of Early Morning Radio'. Within the year Moyles was promoted to a Saturday breakfast, then Saturday mid-morning slot from 10 am–1 pm. At Radio 1, he has presented most of his shows with David "Comedy Dave" Vitty, who worked behind the scenes at the station prior to Moyles' arrival.

After standing in regularly for Kevin Greening and Zoe Ball on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show, Moyles's next promotion came in October 1998 when he took control of the drivetime show from 4–5.45 pm. The show was extended to 3–5.45 pm in February 2001. Moyles has co-presented the show from 1998, with his sidekick.

On 5 January 2004, Moyles started presenting Radio 1's flagship programme ''The Breakfast Show'', switching places with Sara Cox. He had been appointed to increase the ratings for the show and did so, putting on an extra 1,000,000 listeners to the audience in the first quarter of 2004. After a successful first year, Moyles was awarded 'DJ of the Year' by readers of ''The Sun''.

By 2005, Moyles and his team had succeeded in hugely increasing the morning audience, with his programme's audience swelling to 6.5 million. This was coupled with an increase in the overall Radio 1 audience share. With 895,000 listeners in London in the third quarter of 2005, he succeeded in overtaking Johnny Vaughan to take the position of the capital's most listened to youth breakfast show. Moyles's audience rating's continued to increase each week and led to him winning a gold Sony Radio Award in 2006 for best entertainment show.

With the release of the RAJAR listening figures on 3 August 2006, Moyles had added a further 470,000 listeners to the Breakfast Show, taking the average listenership up to 6.79 million. On 10 May 2007, RAJAR figures confirmed that Moyles had increased his listening figures to 7.06 million, breaking the seven million barrier for the first time with the station having 10.55 million listeners overall. Moyles again increased his audience to 7.72 million as of 1 May 2008 slightly narrowing the gap between him and Terry Wogan, the current highest rated radio show in the UK. The station's overall listener figure is now over 11 million.

On 12 May 2008 ''The Chris Moyles Breakfast Show'' won its second Sony radio gold award for 'best breakfast show'. At this time he was given another half hour on his show going from 7 am–10 am to 6.30 am–10 am.

On 7 September 2009 Moyles became the longest serving breakfast presenter on Radio 1, breaking the record previously set by Tony Blackburn.

In March 2011, Moyles and on-air radio personality Dave Vitty beat the record for the longest continuous Radio 1 show, on Radio 1's Longest Show Ever with Chris Moyles and Comedy Dave for Comic Relief. Between 16 and 18 March they beat both Simon Mayo's 1999 record of 37 hours and the 'Radio DJ Endurance Marathon (Team)' Guinness World Record by broadcasting for 52 hours for Comic Relief initially raising £2.4 million, and with an audience of 2.84 million, it was the most popular live BBC Red Button radio feature ever. The event raised a final total of £2,821,831.

On 1 July 2011 it was announced that Moyles will remain within the BBC until at least 2014, ending speculation that he would move to a commercial rival. This would allow the presenter to reach his 10-year anniversary on The Chris Moyles Show. It is estimated that the deal is worth £1 million.

The Chris Moyles Show

''The Chris Moyles Show'' is the current BBC Radio 1 breakfast show in the UK, and has been since Chris Moyles became the station's breakfast show presenter on 5 January 2004. From 2004 to 2007, the show was broadcast 6:55–10:00 am each weekday, but since 15 October 2007 it has started from 6:30 am. It is the longest running Radio 1 breakfast show in the station's history. On 1 July 2011 it was announced that Moyles had signed a contract to keep him on the show until 2014 making it a decade on the breakfast show.

The team

Comedy Dave (Dave Vitty) has worked with Moyles longer than any other team member; and currently is the self appointed "Director of Comedy" for the show. The rest of the team include the show's news reader Dominic Byrne, sports reader Tina Daheley, producer Aled Haydn Jones; Day producer Freya Mehta and assistant producer Matt Fincham. Moyles's friends also contribute to the show such as "Longman" (until 2007) and "Rob DJ". Presenters such as Andi Peters, Davina McCall Keith Chegwin and impressionist Jon Culshaw, contribute, albeit infrequently. Roy Walker appears as "Roy" the voice of the daily quiz show "Car Park Catchphrase".

Features

;Car Park Catchphrase : Two listeners in their cars have to guess a catchphrase answer from an anecdote-style clue.

;Tedious Link : This feature was carried forward from Moyles' afternoon show and is a parody of Jo Whiley's now defunct feature ''Tenuous Link''. Comedy Dave plays one song, first explaining how this song is linked to the last show's feature song with a deliberately ramshackle and vague succession of linking 'facts', some real and some ludicrous.

;The Golden Hour : A well-established feature, previously on Radio 1 from 1973 to 2001. For the first half, records are played that all charted in the UK Singles Chart in a certain year and listeners are invited to ''guess the year''. The second half are random songs chosen by each member of the team.

;Rob DJ's Monday Night Pub Quiz : The team play a 5-question pub quiz against each other. The questions are taken from a real pub quiz run the previous evening by one of Chris's friends, Rob DJ, in their mutual home town of Leeds. Running totals of each team member's recent scores are kept and analysed. Listeners are able to play along via SMS, Facebook and Twitter. It is played on the tuesday morning show.

;Classical Class: In this feature the team talk over classical music. It was designed to be a relaxing wake up in the morning.

Radio 1's Longest Show Ever

On 28 February 2011, it was announced that Moyles and Vitty would attempt to beat the record for the longest continuous Radio 1 show in aid of Comic Relief. The previous record of 37 hours was set by Simon Mayo in 1999.

Moyles and Vitty began their record attempt on the morning of 16 March 2011. At the beginning of the show, Moyles announced that they would attempt to break the Guinness World Record for "Radio DJ Endurance Marathon (Team)" and attempt to continuously broadcast for 51 hours 30 minutes. At 19:30 on 17 March they were joined by Simon Mayo who held the previous record and also revealed that they had raised £1,009,033. Moyles and Vitty were presented with a cake by Radio 1 controller Andy Parfitt.

On Friday 18 March 2011 at 08:30 Chris Moyles and Comedy Dave broke the Guinness World Record for the 'Longest Marathon Radio DJ (team)' and by the end of the show (at 10:00), they had hit the 51 and a half hour mark. The duo opted to 'round it off' by going to 10:30 and thus set a new record of 52 hours. In doing, so they raised a final total of £2,406,648 for Comic Relief, which is an average of £46,282 for each hour they were on air. During the attempt the duo were joined by many celebrity guests including The Wanted, Chipmunk, Jimmy Carr, Craig David, Katy Perry and Ricky Gervais. The grand total has since increased to £2,821,831 and with an audience of 2.84 million, the event was the most popular live BBC Red Button radio feature ever. 3.8 million people watched on the Radio 1 Website.

Work outside radio

BT Red Nose Climb and Speaking Clock

Moyles was one of a team of celebrities who climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for Comic Relief reaching the summit on 7 March 2009. He was joined by his show's producer, Rachel Mallender and BBC Radio 1 controller, Andy Parfitt. Also on the climb were Girls Aloud members Cheryl Cole and Kimberley Walsh, Fearne Cotton, Ben Shephard, Gary Barlow, Ronan Keating, Denise Van Outen and Alesha Dixon. He recorded a parody song around this time to promote the climb, mentioning all the names of the people that were also taking part – it was based on Lily Allen's "The Fear", and was called "(A month off of) The Beer".

From 3 February – 23 March 2009, Moyles was joined by Kimberley Walsh, Cheryl Cole, Gary Barlow, Ronan Keating and Fearne Cotton to help raise money for charity by reading the time on the Speaking Clock.

Voice work in film

Moyles has provided his voice and/or likeness to a number of films and games. His face was used in ''24: The Game'', and his voice can be heard in the films ''Wimbledon'', ''War of the Worlds'' and ''Robots''. In some of these films, his voice was only used for the UK version.

Television presenter

Moyles has branched out his work into television. In 2002, his own Five show, ''Live With Chris Moyles'', ran five shows a week for 13 weeks. Chris was replaced by Christian O'Connell, before the programme was shelved altogether.

He and sidekick Dave Vitty had their own TV show, also entitled ''The Chris Moyles Show'' like their current Radio 1 show, which was aired from 1998–99 on the now-defunct UK satellite and cable channel UK Play.

Moyles voiced the fourth and final series of Sky One show ''The Villa'' and has occasionally presented ''Top of the Pops''. He has also worked for the Comic Relief and Children in Need charities on their telecasts.

Moyles has presented a number of episodes of ''Big Brother's Big Mouth''. Daily Mirror journalist Rob Leigh once said of his ''Big Brother's Big Mouth'' presenting that "Chris Moyles may be Marmite for the ears on radio but never quite nails it on TV, even with his relative star power". He also presented ''The Big Breakfast'' on Channel 4 several times between 2000 and 2002.

On 24 October 2011, The Metro announced that Moyles would be presenting a new dating show, The Love Machine, alongside Stacey Solomon for Sky. Moyles confirmed this on his radio show that morning.

Chris Moyles Quiz Night

Moyles launched a new show on Channel 4, called Chris Moyles' Quiz Night on 22 March 2009. The show consists of Moyles alongside three other celebrities partaking in a traditional pub-style quiz. The original series had the four competing to win an item that belonged to Moyles but this has since developed into a more traditional quiz with the loser singing karaoke-style at the end of the show.

The opening show received poor viewing figures attracting just 6% of total audience for the timeslot. It was continued for a second series between 26 February and 11 April 2010, a third series following between 1 November and 22 December 2010 and fourth between 15 July and 2 September 2011. The show is currently in its fifth series.

Other television appearances

Moyles appeared on the ITV show ''The X Factor: Battle Of The Stars'' and had minor success. He was voted out of the show on 4 June 2006 in the semi-final. Following this appearance, stories in the ''New Statesman'' and ''The Sun'' both reported that Moyles was looking to relaunch his television career; rumours suggested that he had been offered his own show by ITV. Moyles has spoken of a desire to transfer the format of his radio show to the T.V, but otherwise has thus far stayed clear of a conventional TV format.

Moyles played himself in an episode of the drama ''Hotel Babylon'' which aired on 15 February 2007 and appeared on a celebrity version of ''Dale's Supermarket Sweep'' that broadcast on the same day. He has appeared as a guest on numerous British television shows, including the ninth series of ''Top Gear'', ''Never Mind The Buzzcocks'', ''The Charlotte Church Show'', ''The F-Word'', ''The Friday Night Project'', ''Richard & Judy'' and ''The New Paul O'Grady Show''.

In 2008, Moyles appeared on the Brit Awards to present the award for the best live act, and appeared in the BBC documentary series ''Comedy Map of Britain''. He has appeared on Channel 4's ''Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack'' TV programme as well as an appearance as a team captain on the Channel 4 show ''Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong'' and on 18 July 2008 he appeared on Jimmy Carr's show on Channel 4, ''8 out of 10 Cats''.

On 23 February 2009, Chris was the guest on BBC One's ''The One Show'' to promote the BT Red Nose climb of Mount Kilimanjaro. He appeared again on the show on 26 February 2010 to talk about and promote the second series of ''Chris Moyles' Quiz Night''. In July 2009, he featured in an episode of the genealogy documentary series ''Who Do You Think You Are?'' on BBC One where he explored his Irish ancestry. He visited Ireland and Belgium, where his great grandfather fought and died in World War One. On the programme Moyles discovered that his last name means ''bald servant'' from the Irish "''Ó Maolmanach''". He also co-presented Children in Need Rocks Manchester in November 2011. Moyles appeared on the quiz show The Million Pound Drop along with Andi Peters in February 2012, they won £25,000 to divide between their chosen charities

Autobiography

Moyles' autobiography, ''The Gospel according to Chris Moyles: The Story of One Man and His Mouth'' was released by Ebury Press on 5 October 2006.

On 4 October 2007 a follow-up book ''Chris Moyles: The Difficult Second Book'', published by Ebury Press, was officially released. ''The Difficult Second Book'' was released in paperback on 1 May 2008. Stewart Lee, on his own programme ''Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle'', commented that the title of the book suggests "a degree of irony and self-awareness largely absent from the text itself" and then went on to deconstruct and mock the book's contents.

Presenting style

Moyles relies on his team members and audience participation for his show's games and quizzes and for other sources of comedy. He is renowned for his sharp manner, quick temper and put-downs. It is this approach which most commonly leads to criticism of Moyles. It has also caused him to become involved in numerous controversies related to perceived offensive statements. However, Moyles generally accepts counter-attacks in the same manner and routinely derides himself for being overweight and so forth, often in the lyrics of jingles. Due to his fascination with radio, Moyles regularly discusses the process of making the show, often spoofing clichéd radio practices. Many of his show's features are homages to or exaggerations of other radio features.

Parody songs

In December 2000, he parodied the Eminem song "Stan" that was No.1 in the charts at the time, with a seasonal Christmas themed variation called "Stanta", instead. It became one of the most popular requested parodies, and was often played more than once during the course of a show.

In October 2004, Moyles and ''The Chris Moyles Show'' team replaced U2's "Vertigo" at number one in the UK Official Download Chart with their download-only charity song "Dogz Don't Kill People (Wabbitz Do)", under the name 'Mouldie Lookin' Stain'. The song was a spoof of Goldie Lookin' Chain's "Guns Don't Kill People Rappers Do" (itself a spoof rap song) and proceeds went to Comic Relief. At the time of its release, it was the fastest selling download on UK charts.

Moyles has parodied several Kaiser Chiefs songs under the name "The Kaiser Chefs". These include "I Predict A Diet" (Parody of I Predict a Riot) and "Donny" (Parody of Ruby). Chris and Ricky Wilson of the Kaiser Chiefs (both Leeds United fans) said they had accidentally given Doncaster Rovers fans an unofficial anthem with "Donny" after Doncaster Rovers beat Leeds United 1–0 in the 2008 League One Play Off Final.

During the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, Chris organised a parody of England World Cup songs, to ridicule the number of songs there were out at the time. Listener favourite "Jose – The Special One" a parody of "Rosé" by The Feeling, was written on team manager José Mourinho's departure from Chelsea and was banned after Chelsea FC complained to the BBC (although subsequently played repeatedly on his show and on Radio 5 Live). He made a parody of "We Have Got to Zero Baby", a take on Enrique Iglesias's "Hero", which describes how his football team, Leeds United, managed to claw back a 15-point deficit in League One in only 5 games. In November 2007, he used Hoosiers – "Goodbye Mr A" for "Goodbye Mr. M" where he sings about the Ex-England football manager Steve McClaren being sacked.

Often Moyles will pick a track because of the silliness of its lyrics, for instance "Smile" by Lily Allen was parodied by Moyles's invention "Silly Allen", in a song called "Piles" and Natasha Bedingfield's "I Wanna Have Your Babies" written by Comedy Dave and performed in May 2007. In the same month, he performed a parody of Hellogoodbye's hit "Here (In Your Arms)" called "Beer In My Arms" in which he describes how much he really dislikes the song, calling it 'daft'. Moyles also covered Puretone "Addicted to Bass" with "Addicted to Plaice", which covers the subject of being addicted to fish. In September 2007, he performed "Suicidal" a parody of the UK number one Sean Kingston's "Beautiful Girls", in which he talks about how the song makes him feel suicidal and wonders why it reached number one.

Although of 2008, UK's chart no.1 Basshunter was renamed "Chuffhunter" in which he mocks the song and those that would buy it, Kylie Minogue's "Bow Wow Wow" and a re-write of the Estelle song "American Boy", named "Somerset Boy". In the past, he has parodied include Billie Piper's "Honey to the Bee" as "Guinness For Me", All Seeing Eye's "Walk Like a Panther", Will Smith's "Gettin Jiggy Wit It", and McFly's "All About You" as "He Don't Use Shampoo". Moyles has also written Baked Beans, a parody of Same Jeans by The View, and "Lunch in this Pub", originally the Usher single "Love in this Club". One of his recent parodies, "No Hair" – sung by "follicly-challenged" newscaster Dominic Byrne – is a cover of Jordin Sparks's "No Air (ft Chris Brown)".

Another two of Moyles' recent parodies are "Lorry Driver" which is a cover of Britney Spears' song "Womanizer" and "The Boy Does Plenty" by "Adrian Dixon", originally a song by Alesha Dixon, both of which are written by 'Comedy Dave' Vitty.

In March 2009 Moyles released a parody song called "Dreaming of Debbie McGee". The song was about a man who has recurring dreams of the assistant on ''The Paul Daniels Magic Show''. Comedy Dave wrote the song, and Paul Daniels asked for it to be made into an MP3 file after hearing it on air. It was a parody of the Kings of Leon song "Revelry". In April 2009, McGee recorded a reply which was played on air and was a parody of the same song called Dreaming of Moylesy.

Moyles released "Waterproof" in July 2009, a parody of the La Roux song "Bulletproof". This song has an approved record deal to be used on a parody album, should Chris wish to do so.

Moyles has released an album entitled ''The Parody Album''. Recording began in September 2009, and the album was released on 23 November

The official Moyles Parody Album game entitled Parody Island was released to help promote the album and allow players to hear snippets from his new album

''The Chris Moyles Show'' was credited with the debut of the unofficial England World Cup Song, written and performed by Chico Slimani a parody of his hit single "It's Chico Time" and originally named "It's England Time. Slimani recorded the single after having a 'vision' that England won the 2010 World Cup and that in the celebrations, commentators made reference to his song. The single debuted, Monday 8 February 2010.

Controversies

Moyles has come into conflict with the Broadcasting Standards Commission and Ofcom. These have occurred during his time at both Capital FM and Radio 1. For example, these regulatory bodies upheld complaints when Moyles threatened Dr Fox in October 2002 with the claim that "I'm gonna tear his head off and poo down his neck"; and also in early 2002, when he said "he would take the virginity of Charlotte Church", when she reached sixteen.

When he first arrived at Radio 1, John Peel took an instant dislike to Moyles and accused him of being a "DLT-in-waiting". Moyles retorted that Peel was a "Kenny Everett-in-waiting, because Kenny Everett’s dead and it’s only a matter of time before John pops his clogs".

In September 2008, Moyles, along with other British radio presenters, was criticised for on-air promotion of drinking to excess.

Sexism

In February 2006, Moyles apologised, along with the BBC, after swearing when speaking to a caller live on air. He made the outburst while teasing a mother-of-three from Newcastle during an on-air feature which her children had interrupted. "You've got three kids from some fuckin'..." he blurted out, before apologising profusely for his mistake.

The BBC issued six apologies, adding that such mistakes could occur during live broadcasts such as Moyles' show. The BBC was later cleared by broadcasting regulator Ofcom over the incident.

In July 2006, communications watchdog Ofcom found Moyles in Breach of rule 1.5 of the Ofcom Broadcasting Code Rules for an incident in which he referred to female listeners as "dirty whores". A listener objected to an item in which the presenter discussed people who urinated in the shower. He considered that the presenter’s reference to women who did this as “dirty whores” was unacceptable at this time of the morning.

On 5 June 2008, when former Spice Girls singer Melanie Brown was on the programme, much to his enjoyment, she consensually let him fondle both of her breasts live on air, to which he gave a running commentary of the precise topography of each. It arose from his enquiry into whether her breasts had been surgically enhanced.

Pay

Alongside a number of other Radio 1 and Radio 2 presenters, Moyles crossed a strike picketline in 2005. BBC staff were striking over recently announced job cuts. A report by the BBC Trust on 2 June 2008 revealed that Moyles was paid £630,000 in 2007. However, Moyles revealed in September 2009 that he took a 20% pay cut three months earlier, quoting the reason "I want to work at the BBC, which is trying to save some of its gazillions". On 22 September 2010 Moyles spoke out on air about not being paid by the BBC in two months.

Homophobia

Moyles was accused of homophobia in May 2006, when he rejected a ringtone by saying "I don't want that one, it's gay", live on air. This led to a number of complaints to the BBC. They argued that the use of the word gay in this context was homophobic. The BBC governors said that Moyles was simply keeping up with developments in English usage.

The programme complaints committee said that, "The word 'gay', in addition to being used to mean 'homosexual' or 'carefree', was often now used to mean 'lame' or 'rubbish'. In describing a ringtone as gay, the DJ was conveying that he thought it was 'rubbish' rather than 'homosexual'. Moyles was not being homophobic." The panel acknowledged, however, that this use of the word 'gay' in a derogatory sense could cause offence to some listeners and counselled caution on its use.

Subsequently in June, LGBT charity Stonewall marched with placards demanding the dismissal of Moyles during Europride in London. According to Stonewall, “Chris Moyles is not helping young LGBT people struggling to come out through his comments.” Stonewall gave Moyles the award of "Bully of the Year" at their annual Stonewall Awards that same year.

Those defending Moyles have noted that Aled Haydn Jones, his show's producer who has worked with Moyles since 2001, is openly gay. He was quoted in The Guardian by Stonewall chief executive Ben Summerskill as saying "Yeah, I'm homophobic, I don't like the gays. Sorry, it just does my head in. We have a token gay on the show!" In his book ''The Difficult Second Book'', Moyles says that he was responding to another article with sarcasm, and was subsequently quoted out of context.

Moyles was censured by Ofcom following eight complaints made after a broadcast on 20 January 2009 in which he told listeners it was the birthday of Will Young and then went on to sing "Evergreen" and "Leave Right Now!" in a high pitched and effeminate voice, changing the lyrics to references to Young's sexuality. Ofcom stated that the language used could have been "interpreted by listeners as promoting and condoning certain negative stereotypes based on sexual orientation" and whilst acknowledging the intention was to be humorous in their opinion it could have been perceived as hostile and pejorative. The media regulator also said in their view that because of the show's breakfast time slot that attracts a young audience it had the potential to encourage children to discriminate against others based on their actual or perceived sexual orientation and ran the risk of being imitated on the playground causing "unnecessary distress".

Auschwitz

On 20 January 2009, Moyles made comments on his radio show regarding the family history programme ''Who Do You Think You Are?'' and the Holocaust. Referring to his trips while filming the programme, Moyles said "I went off to Ireland and other places to film and unlike a lot of the ''Who Do You Think You Are?'' shows I didn't go to Auschwitz. Pretty much everyone goes there whether or not they're Jewish. They just seem to pass through there on their way to Florida". Celebrities featured on ''Who Do You Think You Are?'' including Stephen Fry, Jerry Springer and Natasha Kaplinsky, have traced their family histories back to Jews murdered by the Nazis during the Second World War. The BBC released a statement: “Anyone who listens to the Chris Moyles Show will know he has an irreverent style. However, we regret that on this occasion his comments were misjudged and we are speaking to Chris and his team about them.”

N-Dubz behaviour

On 12 January 2010, hip-hop trio N-Dubz appeared on the Chris Moyles Show on BBC Radio 1. The show received a text message from a female listener saying that band member Dappy was "vile" and "a little boy with a silly hat" and that N-Dubz were "losers". Dappy secretly copied her phone number from the studio console and sent abusive and threatening text messages to the woman the following day including one telling her she was "gonna die!". Moyles said of the resulting criticism: "I feel let down by him, I've supported them and said, 'Do you know what, N-Dubz aren't just a bunch of dippy chavs, they're really good.' So for him to go and do something like that is a bit rubbish."

Personal life

Moyles dated former children's TV presenter Ana Boulter for three years, but the couple split in 2002. The same year he met Sophie Waite, and the couple dated for eight years. The relationship ended in September 2010.

Discography

Studio albums

''The Parody Album'' (2009) UK Chart #17

Awards and tributes

Moyles has won several Sony Radio Awards: Silver in 1998; Gold in 2006; nominated in 2007: Gold in 2008; Bronze in 2009; Silver in 2010; Bronze in 2011

He was voted "Best DJ" by readers of ''The Sun'' newspaper and readers of ''Loaded'' magazine.

In 2007 the rugby league team Featherstone Rovers named their ground after him. Traditionally known as Post Office Road, it was renamed via a sponsorship deal as the Chris Moyles Stadium. On 7 July 2007 Moyles appeared as a presenter at the UK leg of Live Earth in Wembley Stadium in London.

In March 2011, Chris Moyles and David Vitty broke the Guinness World Records for Worldwide Longest Marathon Radio DJ (Team). They totalled 52 consecutive hours on air and raised £2,622,421 for Comic Relief

Bibliography

References

External links

The Chris Moyles Show BBC Radio 1

''Chris Moyles Quiz Night'' on channel4.com

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