Charlotte Church recalls the time Chris Moyles offered to sleep with her after she turned 16
Charlotte Church recalled the time Chris Moyles offered to sleep with her after her 16th birthday while she was live on his BBC Radio One show.
Chris, now 49, made the comment after a countdown was started for Charlotte to lose her virginity when she was 15 and Chris was 28. He continues to have his own show on Radio X.
Charlotte landed a record deal as an opera singer at age 12 and released her debut album Voice Of An Angel that year.
And speaking to Kathy Burke about her latest documentary on today’s youth, Charlotte, now 37, said: ‘There was this change where I became fair game.
Charlotte continued: ‘Of course, it wasn’t good. At least he was outdoors. That boys, boys, boys culture was prominent, it was very simplistic, it had no shame, and it was just out there.
“It was NOT good – boy culture was prominent and shameless”: Charlotte Church opened up about the time Chris Moyles offered to sleep with her after she turned 16 (pictured on her 16th birthday in 2002)
Unacceptable: Chris (pictured, aged 28 in 2002) told listeners he wanted to “lead [Charlotte] through the forest of sexuality now that I had turned 16′
Upset: Charlotte told Kathy Burke, right, how she felt in that moment after previously speaking out about her disgust at THAT countdown to losing her virginity
“Whereas now, it’s kind of gotten a little bit more underground and a little bit more dangerous.”
In 2021, Charlotte, a mother of three, told the Sink The Tart Pop Pink Charlotte podcast: There was a countdown to losing my virginity.’
Then Chris Moyles talked about it on Radio One. It was all kind of gross really.
We’ve come a certain way, but there’s a long way to go in terms of feminism and equality, but there are zealots everywhere and hopefully we can cure them all. Maybe some of them will just have to disappear.’
He told listeners on his afternoon show that he wanted to ‘lead [Charlotte] through the forest of sexuality now that she had reached 16’.
The BBC claimed at the time that the comments made in February were an example of the DJ’s cheeky humour.
A BBC spokesperson told MailOnline on Thursday: “Like all parts of the organisation, we adhere to the BBC Editorial Guidelines and take our duty to care for our audience, contributors and employees very seriously.” .
A source told MailOnline: “The incident described took place over 19 years ago and under no circumstances would similar language or behavior be tolerated on the station in 2021.”
Charlotte said: “We’ve come a certain way, but there’s a long way to go in terms of feminism and equality, but there are fans everywhere and hopefully we can heal them all.” Maybe some of them will just have to disappear’ (Chris pictured)
At the time, the Broadcasting Standards Commission upheld a listener complaint that Moyles’ comments were inappropriate.
The BSC Standards Panel said it noted that Moyles was well known for his close-knuckles approach “but felt that explicit sexual content and humor had exceeded acceptable limits for the time of broadcast.”
It was not the first time that the controversial DJ had clashed with the broadcasting watchdog.
Chris was found to have “exceeded acceptable limits” by making offensive comments about an actor’s wife on his Radio 1 show in 2000.
In his previous job at Capital Radio, the BSC upheld a complaint about his “aggressive and sexually suggestive” comments to a young woman who called.
In January 2010, when Moyles was earning £500,000 a year, referenced gay singer Will Young’s birthday by singing Young’s first hit, Evergreen, in an effeminate voice.
She sneered, “Today is my birthday, I’m going to wear my new dress tonight.” And I smell good. I have showered and shaved my legs.
He then performed a rendition of the Young Leave Right Now hit: “When you saw me years ago you didn’t know it, but now I’m the gayest guy you’ll probably know.” Hmm, I like to wear a silly hat, I get caravan by the hour.
Will told The Times in August: “It still makes me feel sad in a way, because it affected how important I felt my sexuality was, and because I didn’t stand up for myself.”
‘So even though I was like, ‘Oh, never mind,’ it actually did. It was really bad. Very badly.’
In 2006, Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry appeared on his show.
The American confronted him after he posed as what he described as a “big fat black man from Brooklyn.”
An unimpressed Berry asked Moyles, “Are we having a racist moment here?”
In the same year, Ofcom censored it after referring to some hearing women as ‘dirty whores’.
Speaking: Will Young said he was ‘appalled’ when Chris Moyles carried out a ‘homophobia riot’ against him while he was a Radio 1 DJ