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LOUDMOUTH DJ Chris Moyles has risked another backlash from BBC bosses for a bizarre rant at war hero Johnson Beharry live on air.

Victoria Cross holder Johnson, 31, is currently competing on ITV show Dancing On Ice.

Moyles told his Radio 1 breakfast show listeners yesterday that the Lance Corporal would be celebrated no matter how badly he performed.

He said: "It's great that he's alive but look, let's not get carried away.

"This is a very sensitive subject because he's a hero and you cannot say anything negative whatsoever.

"The guy could dump in a bucket and hand it to someone in the crowd and someone would go, 'It's a bit odd but he is a hero'."

Johnson won the VC in 2005 for twice saving colleagues from ambushes in Iraq. He suffered shrapnel injuries to the face and brain.

Moyles, 36 - whose sidekick "Comedy Dave" Vitty is competing on the ice show - also mocked an injury that Johnson had obtained in training.

The hero broke his finger when a skate fell on his hand.

Moyles called the injury "ridiculous", adding: "You're telling me that guy went out to fight for us and came back alive?"

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3369642/Moyles-rant-over-VC-hero-Beharry.html

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Moyles didn't seem to be having the best day on Monday. He went off on a rant about The Biggest Loser too with Davina left trying to defend the show.

If you heard the end part of the of the show though he did a u-turn and was having a serious discussion with her about.

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The Sun yet again demonstrating perfectly well to me why i don't read papers and have very little time for "news". Silly comment that isn't newsworthy being printed to sell a few copies, and i have to say i hold the same opinion about this football nonsense thats been all over the headliner. Reporters lives must be lacking for them to feel the need to waste time and ink like this

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This is pathetic. It wasn't a rant. He was just joking around and he didn't mean any harm or anything.

Yeah, exactly, it was like three minutes of the show, and even then it was just a joke. If you remember some of his rants they're very long. It's just been blow up out of proportion like with a lot of news about Moyles.

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it's a fair comment though, the show is rubbish anyway as the people don't stay in due to their dancing ability anyway, it's just yet another popularity contest, i dunno why the bbc lower themselves to this level.

But at the end it is basically always a deserved winner. It is just for the first few weeks really that it is based on popularity.

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I totally agree with you Franzi. I'm not watching DOI and have absolutely no idea who the man in question is, but there is a ridiculous notion in this country that just because someone has been in the forces, or had a serious illness, or in any other way been given the label of "hero" that you can't say anything negative about them, or that if you do you are some kind of evil monster. Stupid really.

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I'm not watching DOI and have absolutely no idea who the man in question is

Same... :) But even if he is a hero, I don't understand those people who make up such stupid rules like not saying negative things.

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I don't understand those people who make up such stupid rules like not saying negative things.

I remember years ago at school, there was a teacher who was thoroughly p*ssing me off one afternoon, and I had a bit of a bitch about her to some of those in my class. One of the guys turned round with a horrified look on his face telling me I couldnt say that, she had had cancer. Now I know cancer can't be a nice thing for anyone to have to deal with, but to this day I still can't see why this somehow made her immune to me telling friends I basically thought she should just f*ck off.

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