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MOTORMOUTH DJ Chris Moyles will clock up a DECADE on the Radio 1 breakfast show after signing a £1.25million new deal last night.

The 2½-year contract will take the 37-year-old presenter up to New Year 2014 and will end with his tenth anniversary on the show.

The deal, which starts next month, will stun hopeful rivals who have been hoping he would get the chop for years and make way for them.

But Radio 1 bosses were keen for outspoken Chris - who pulls in 7.5million listeners a week - to mark his tenth anniversary and "go out with a bang". An insider said:

"Whatever anyone says about Chris Moyles, he does the numbers and the listeners love him.We've been thinking long and hard about the breakfast show going forward - and all roads lead back to Chris.

"He loves doing the show so it would be daft to take it off him."

A station source added the extension would give them bosses "breathing space" to find a suitable replacement.

While emerging R1 names such as Matt Edmondson and Greg James are seen as possible heirs, they are said to be still too "green". Fearne Cotton, who follows Chris at 10am on weekdays, has also been talked about as a contender. Scott Mills, 37, would love the job - but he will be too old by 2014.

An R1 spokesman said: "We're pleased to confirm that we've signed a new contract with Chris."

R1 boss Andy Parfitt said: "Chris is a real talent and I believe he has a long future ahead of him here at the BBC."

Moyles, who also presents Chris Moyles' Quiz Night on Channel 4, joined the breakfast show in January 2004.

Last year he was criticised by predecessor Chris Evans, who claimed he was too old for the station.

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Great news - if its true. I always have a bit of doubt with Sun sources.

But 10 years on R1 breakfast show would be amazing and would also be the best way to leave. Probably a title that will not be beaten for a long long time

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I'm over the flipping moon. *rolls eyes*

Scott will be too old? Rubbish.

Greg is average. Fearne is annoying in large doses.

Matt Edmondson is too green? Well, he's quite blue actually…

OMASM. Radio presenters are like fruit. Matt is my kumquat and Scott is blatantly my orange.

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[. Scott Mills, 37, would love the job - but he will be too old by 2014.

Ooo... ouch. It's actually a pity he ever wound up at the station at the same time as Moyles, or he would so have been in Brekkie. I can't help feeling that for the future this is something that will be written about over and over.

Anyhow, well done Chris. I've been finding him better again for some months now, with the exception of the New Toughest Radio Quiz.

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Really hope this is true, hopefully Chris will make some sort of comment about it on the show on Monday. I assume that Chris and Dom will be continuing with him and extending their contracts as well as they're both show regulars and freelance?

with contenders like fearne cotton, i'd rather keep moyles there until he's 70.

Couldn't agree more.

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Sorry to burst all of your bubbles - but the Guardian article I read yesterday about this issue made no mention of him 'remaining on breakfast' until then. It simply tied him to the corporation. If they wanted, they could easily push him off to weekends, even Radio 2 or somewhere.

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Where else would they move him to? Radio2 probably hates him, he would probably do well on an all-talk show but there's not really any slots for him and he'd have to do more serious stuff with it. I know he CAN go more serious when he needs to but his style is more light-hearted, also there's no real reason to move him while he's still doing so well.

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At the end of the day, if the BBC wanted to move Chris from that slot the only real person who would be good in it would be Scott, but with other things going on is it really likely that he would be available for a permanant breakfast show? I'm thinking with his DJ work in particular.

Ok so Dave and Dom from the current breakfast team do DJing at nights occassionally but I don't think it has much of an effect on the show as they are part of a team rather than being the main presenter like Scott is.

On the whole the listeners like him (apart from those who don't like him and havent worked out that if you don't like something you don't listen to it so they're the only real idiots in this situation) and the show is still good so there really is no reason at all to move Chris and/or the team anywhere else.

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