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Chris Moyles should leave the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show following his on-air rant about not being paid, according to Radio 2 broadcaster Chris Evans.

Speaking to Richard Bacon on Five Live, Evans - host of Radio 1's breakfast show from 1995 to 1997 - said: "It's time for him to leave".

"Chris has got to go somewhere else," said Evans, who now hosts the Radio 2 breakfast show.

The 44-year-old said Moyles's tirade showed he had "lost perspective".

"Why do you think you have the right to hijack a BBC microphone to make that complaint?" he said of Moyles's recent claim he had not been paid for two months.

Evans went on to suggest Moyles should move into the commercial sector, potentially to Capital Radio if the London-based station goes national as proposed.

"I think he'll go to commercial radio, he'll get a massive pay packet, and I think he'll do very well.

"You've got to leave while there's still some heat around," Evans said of 36-year-old Moyles, whom he claimed was "way out of the demographic" of Radio 1's target audience.

Moyles is Radio 1's longest-serving breakfast host, having occupied the position since January 2004.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11540802
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To be honest, even if he really hasn't been paid, it's not as if he can't get by on that salary..

Though I don't think he really had the right to go ranting about his job like that anyway..

Yeah but think about being in the position of not being paid what you've earned for 2 months... try it. You'd be p****d off too.

and who says he had no right. It sounded to me like a last resort after he'd already tried to deal with it quietly and behind the scenes, and it's only as a result of this that something has been done.

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Who would do a better job at breakfast and what would make a better breakfast show? I'm not sure who would tbh but I dont think Scott is the answer tho unless he had Chappers back

Actually that's a good point. He needs Chappers or at least someone else with similar qualities and humour for the show to be really worth it. He used to be great filling in on breakfast when he had Chappers and Laura and even Chappers and Beccy.

Seems the formula for an ideal Scott Mills team is Scott + 1 nuts girl who's willing to do crazy stuff for the show + 1 Guy with dry humour/sarcasm... Sadly only 2 of those things are present right now.

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I remember Moyles putting it into perspective during the 'rant' (right fair, it wasn't much of a rant was it?!). He said he was considering not going in to do that show that morning, and why should he if they aren't paying him? But he said its not the listeners fault, so why should they take the brunt!

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He sounded like a boring BBC executive going on about the age demographic. I think most people in the 16-25 age group would much rather listen to Moyles who's quirky, witty, funny and outrageous than one of the new breed of slick, politically correct, boring presenters like Fearne Cotton etc.

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