Andi Oliver has revealed that she has not forgiven Chris Moyles and would still like to kill him, 25 years after his horrific treatment of daughter Miquita Oliver.
The TV chef, 62, recalled how the DJ, 51, ran a phone-in on his Radio 1 show asking listeners if they’d ‘s**g’ the T4 host who was only 16 at the time, while he was 26.
A furious Andi told The i Paper that she has never confronted the DJ, whom she ‘loathed’ about the incident and that he’d likely ‘back peddle’ as she compared his misogynistic behaviour to a ‘drunk racist’.
She said: ‘Miquita [who is now 41]was 16 and he had a phone-in on his show of: ‘Would you shag her?’ On Radio One. I wanted to kill him. I still kind of do. There aren’t many people I loathe who I’ve never met, but I’d do time for that man’.
Asked about confronting him she said: ‘He’d backpedal a lot, but I don’t care. It’s like when people say: “Oh, I didn’t really mean to call you a n****r, I was drunk”. Yeah, well, I don’t become a racist when I’m drunk. It just means you let it out’.
Before adding: ‘So I don’t care if it was the Noughties, when there was that awful lad culture where it was acceptable to talk about women like that’.
Andi Oliver, 62, has revealed she has not forgiven Chris Moyles and would still like to kill him, 25 years after his horrific treatment of daughter Miquita Oliver
The TV chef recalled how the DJ, 51, ran a phone-in on his Radio 1 show asking listeners if they’d ‘s**g’ the T4 host who was only 16 at the time, while he was 26
‘Miquita was 16 and he had a phone-in on his show of: ‘Would you shag her?’ On Radio One. I wanted to kill him. I still kind of do’ Miquita aged 16 on T4 with Simon Amstell in 2001
Andi also said that she believed her daughter wasn’t supported properly by the broadcasters she worked for at such a young age and said there was no duty of care.
Daily Mail has contacted Chris Moyles’ representatives and BBC for comment.
It comes after Charlotte Church recalled the ‘gross’ treatment she suffered as a famous singer after getting a record deal as an opera singer aged 12, as she also hit out at Chris.
Talking on the Sink The Pink Pop Tart podcast in 2021, the mother-of-three, now aged 38, said: There was a countdown to me losing my virginity.’
She claimed: ‘[There was] a countdown then Chris Moyles talked about it on Radio one. It was all a bit gross really.’
‘We’ve come a certain way but there’s a long way to go in terms of feminism and equality but there’s bigots everywhere and hopefully we can heal them all. Maybe some of them will just have to die out.’
In 2002 Chris claimed on-air that he would take the virginity of Charlotte when she reached 16. He was aged 28 when he made the remark.
He told listeners on his afternoon show that he wanted to ‘lead her through the forest of sexuality now that she had reached 16’.
A furious Andi said that she has never confronted the DJ, whom she ‘loathed’ about the incident, and that he’d likely ‘back peddle’ as she compared his misogynist behaviour to a ‘drunk racist’ (Chris pictured 2000)
Before adding: ‘So I don’t care if it was the Noughties, when there was that awful lad culture where it was acceptable to talk about women like that’ (pictured with Miquita in 2023)
Andi also said that she believed her daughter wasn’t supported properly by the broadcasters she worked for at such a young age and said there was no duty of care
The BBC claimed at the time the comments made in February were an example of the DJ’s cheeky humour.
A spokesperson for the BBC told Daily Mail at the time: ‘Like all parts of the organisation we adhere to the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and take our duty of care for our audience, contributors and employees very seriously.’
An insider told Daily Mail: ‘The incident described took place over 19 years ago and under no circumstances would any similar language or behaviour be tolerated at the station in 2021.’
At the time, the Broadcasting Standards Commission upheld the complaint of a listener who said Moyles’ remarks were inappropriate.
The BSC Standards Panel said it noted Moyles was well known for his near-the-knuckle approach ‘but took the view that the explicit sexual content and humour had exceeded acceptable boundaries for the time of transmission’.
It was not the first time that the controversial DJ had fallen foul of the broadcasting watchdog.
Chris was found to have ‘exceeded acceptable boundaries’ 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 female caller.
It comes after Charlotte Church recalled the ‘gross’ treatment she suffered as a famous singer after getting a record deal as an opera singer aged 12, as she also hit out at Chris (pictured on her 16th birthday in 2002)
Charlotte said: ‘We’ve come a certain way but there’s a long way to go in terms of feminism and equality but there’s bigots everywhere and hopefully we can heal them all. Maybe some of them will just have to die out’ (Chris pictured)
Will Young has also said he was ‘aghast’ when Chris Moyles conducted a ‘rampage of homophobia’ against him while he was a Radio 1 DJ
In January 2010, when Moyles was earning £500k a year, he made reference to the gay singer Will Young’s birthday by singing Young’s first hit, Evergreen, in an effeminate voice.
He mocked: ‘It’s my birthday today, gonna wear my new dress tonight. And I smell nice. I’ve had a shower and I’ve shaved my legs.’
He then gave a rendition of Young’s hit Leave Right Now: ‘When you saw me years ago you didn’t know, but now I’m the gayest fella you probably know. Mmm, I like to wear a silly hat, I get camper by the hour.’
Will told The Times: ‘It still makes me feel sad in a way, because it did affect how important I felt my sexuality was, and because I didn’t stand up for myself.
‘So even though I was like, ‘Oh, it doesn’t matter’, it did, actually. It was really bad. Really bad.’
In 2006, Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry appeared on his show.
The American clashed with him after he impersonated what he described as a ‘big, fat, black guy from Brooklyn’.
An unimpressed Berry asked Moyles: ‘Are we having a racist moment here?’
That same year, he was censured by Ofcom after referring to some women listeners as ‘dirty wh***s’.