Chris Stark
Chris Stark was Scott Mills' co-host on BBC Radio 1 from 2012 to 2022. He was discovered DJing in Southampton, and became half of one of Radio 1's best-loved double acts until the pair's final show in August 2022. He now co-presents Capital Breakfast with Jordan North and Sian Welby. Here's every show and moment we've written up featuring Chris.
Billie Eilish’s Big Weekend arrival plan escalated into Scott and Chris searching for a pantomime horse costume, while Scott revealed Matt Edmondson had unexpectedly become his source of trouser advice. [...]
With Coventry fever rising, Scott and Chris began generating deliberately ridiculous Big Weekend rumours, including Calvin Harris “entertaining a lover” in Lady Herbert’s Garden, while Radio 1’s forgotten lockers faced a clear-out. [...]
Big Weekend winner Amy asked her boyfriend Joe to choose between their first anniversary in Coventry and the football team’s presentation night, only for “happy wife, happy life” to lose to curry, the Champions League and the lads. [...]
A student’s badly timed break-up inspired Scott and Chris to call for a ban on dumping people just before exams, while Taylor Swift’s honorary doctorate reopened the argument over celebrities getting degrees for free. [...]
Scott complained that Chris appeared all over his social media while barely returning the favour, prompting listeners to confess the unequal ways their partners handled Instagram, lock screens and public affection. [...]
Chris spotted the Queen on her way to open the Elizabeth line, then Ryan and Grant convinced most of the team they were a couple before revealing they were actually brothers from a set of triplets. [...]
After finishing second at Eurovision, Sam Ryder came straight back to Radio 1 and told Scott his two-hour pre-contest phone call had helped convince him to take the opportunity in the first place. [...]
Sam Ryder returned to hear Camila Cabello praise “Spaceman”, while Scott and Chris played Can This Animal Swim? and dug embarrassing lines out of an old Radio 1 book. [...]
Camila Cabello listened to “Spaceman”, praised Sam Ryder’s voice and said Britain had a genuine chance at Eurovision before the quiz introduced Scott to Lord of the Rings hobbit Farmer Maggot. [...]
Scott, Chris, Joel Corry and Radio 1 listeners tried to reproduce Sam Ryder’s enormous “Spaceman” note as Eurovision fever built and the Young Farmers’ old farming remix somehow still filled a dancefloor. [...]