[SAV1OUR]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2006450615,00.html

Its time for Moyles to do what we want him to do..to suck us all into buying his book..Brilliant!

The book plugs.... - (yes that right BOOK plugs you read it right!) ....will come in handy for all like me who wished they'd won a copy in the competition, its the more personal side of him in the interview today, its panning out to be a very honest self-critique. I am well and truly suckered into buying it, I never wasn't....

[liamgazza]

On the front page it says

Chris Moyles - "Big heart behind the big mouth"

Might make some people finally stop criticizing him...

[Geonosian]

I'll be buying it. I only read before i go to sleep for a bit so will be a bit of a laugh before i crash out. Hang on.....that means i will be going to bed with Moyles AND waking up with him. Scary thought.

[Boboff]

None of the books I have seen have Plugs on them, is there an inbuilt light or something with Chris's ?

[GruntMitchell]

It was quite a nice article in the sun today. I was surpraised to see him in the middle pages this morning when I picked it up. There's a seriously young looking Moylesy in there sitting by his mommy though. Hardly even looks like him! I'm buying the book btw

[Roxy81]

I have had it preordered for weeks and have already warned the boyf that I'll be going to bed with Chris for a few days and not to disturb me - cant wait!

[rickyc]

I will definatly be buying his book

[Andy B]

i will be going to bed with Moyles AND waking up with him.

The book could have it's own jingle, except 'cos my job's boring and I have a long commute and sometimes you need to be in "the office" for a while it'd be..

"Wake up with Moyles, hop on the bus with moyles, fart about for the first 15 minutes at work while you turn your computer on and make a cup of tea with Moyles, go to the loo with moyles, pretend to be working with moyles, go home with moyles, go to bed with moyles, have Chris Moyles based nightmares that leave you in a cold sweat..on your own"

maybe not eh?

[MC]

Here's the article from Monday's Daily Star:

HOW CHRIS WENT FROM HOSPITAL RADIO TO SAVIOUR OF THE UK'S TOP BREAKFAST SHOW

He's the self-proclaimed saviour of Radio One and king of the airwaves. There's no doubt Chris Moyles is at the top of his game. He's interviewed anyone who's anyone. Radio is his life and he's one of the highest-paid DJs in the country. And despite years in the business, Chris has never lost his enthusiasm for the job.

But it hasn't always been a bed of roses for the 32-year-old. Not too many years ago he was just a cheeky young Yorkshire lad living with his parents and dreaming of the big time.

Here, Linda Harrison brings you a rare early glimpse of the man behind the (motor) mouth. And she discovers that he was always destined for greatness.

Chris Moyles isn't the sort of bloke you can forget easily. His personality is almost as big as his waistline.

Something those who hired - and fired - him on the way up remember only too well.

But while his life today is a full-on social whirl of showbiz events and celebs, his youth was far from the glamorous. Born in Leeds on February 22, 1974, into a close-knit family, Chris was brought up with both feet firmly on the ground.

Regular listeners to the show will know that he's still very close to his parents - his mum Vera is Irish and used to drive her son to and from his radio shows when he first started out on hospital radio. His dad Chris is a retired Post Office worker.

Today, both parents regularly set their alarms for 7am to catch their son's breakfast show on Radio One. "Of course they're proud of me. I'm a huge success, " he grins. "I've saved the BBC's ailing pop station and I've been on both billboards down the road from my parents' house.

"And I've been on another one outside Elland Road, home to Leeds United. I know that made my dad proud."

Chris has dreamed of working in radio since childhood and his determination and talent meant he didn't have to wait long. He got his first gig - doing radio in a mental hospital - at the age of 13.

After that he worked at various stations, including Radio Aire in his native Leeds, a stint on the in-store radio for Topshop in Leeds, Radio Luxembourg and Pulse FM, a local station in Bradford. After getting the sack from Pulse, Chris - then 20 - found himself at Signal Radio in Stoke-on-Trent.

And one of the first people to meet him was John Evington, Signal's programme director. John says Chris was always destined to be a success. "Chris certainly made an impact. I had a feeling about him from Day One. "Stars have jagged edges and Chris had plenty of those."

When Chris got the job presenting Signal's evening show, Take That and Blur ruled the charts and Steve Wright was the voice of Radio One's Breakfast Show. John describes Chris as a wild card even then. "Chris was very creative, a nice bloke to have around the place, " says John, 47. "But we had trouble controlling him. He was extremely * and very, very confident."

And then, of course, he got the sack. "Actually, it wasn't like that, " says Cheshire-born John. "He just came to the end of his contract. It was as amicable as these things are. He came to the end of his contract and it wasn't renewed.

"He did a great job for us but he tended to polarise our audience. I suppose it's the same as it is now - you either love him or you hate him. But we always knew Chris would go onto bigger things." John, who recently left Signal after more than 20 years, says Chris wasn't the only celeb to cut his teeth at Signal.

Anthea Turner, 45, started there as the record librarian and even Robbie Williams, 32, went into the newsroom for work experience at the age of 15. "Robbie was fantastic. He had such charisma, " enthuses John. "His dad used to stand outside my office and say, 'My lad's going to be a star.'" John admits he hasn't listened to Chris on Radio One for "quite a while" but he has no regrets about ditching him from Signal. "He was one of the boys, but he wasn't right for Signal.

"Although I like to think I taught him everything he knows, " he grins.

After that came another local radio station, this time in Milton Keynes. Then Chris landed the job of his dreams - at Capital FM. And it was at the London station where he really shone through. "Chris's show was like finding a diamond ring in a pile of s**t, " says Clive Dickens, the man who hired Chris to present the evening shows at Capital in the mid-Nineties.

"He'd worked at lots of local radio stations before he reached us and it was easy to spot his amazing talent. "Chris was never employed for being 'normal'. There was always something different about him."

But if you take on a maverick you have to expect fireworks. "Capital was quite a conservative station and Chris came in like a whirlwind. He was always doing things that got him into trouble." recalls Clive.

"Like if the programme manager asked him not to talk about something, he always would. "He'd go on the air and say, 'Today I'm not allowed to make a joke about McDonald's because they spend a lot of money with us. So I'm going to.'" Sometimes his wild card ways made him enemies.

"Chris wasn't the most popular person with some of the other presenters because he was different, "says Clive. "He was very determined to achieve what he wanted in his career.

"But my perception of Chris is that his on-air persona was quite different from what he was like off-air. He comes across as quite laddy but actually he's quite a modest, self-effacing guy. "He's got this bad-boy image. But if you saw Chris on The X Factor: Battle Of The Stars, that's how he really is - a quite modest and self-effacing guy."

Many former bosses seem to agree Chris's sheer hard work and determination played a major part in getting him where he is today.

Eventually Chris's unique style brought him to the attention of Radio One bosses and he joined the station in 1997, taking on the 4am shift. Within nine months his quickfire pub humour and endless energy ensured he won the Silver Sony Radio Award for DJ of the Year. And from there he's gone from strength to strength - and into the prime breakfast show slot.

Former Capital programme director Pete Simmons, 49, reckons there's just one thing Chris could do to improve his game.

"Chris produced some of the most creative and inventive shows while he was at Capital, " he says. "He'd squirrel himself away in the studio and work hard. I think that was the secret of his success.

"But the early mornings are definitely Chris's downfall - he can't seem to get himself out of bed before 6am.

"Rising early has always been a problem for him. He should do a proper breakfast show, starting at 5am!"

We're not sure what Moylsey would say to that. But we can guess it wouldn't be particularly pleasant.

TOMORROW: Life, love and celeb crushes

[kaykay2]

I WILL BUY THE BOOK MARRY ME CHRIS