Andi Oliver ‘wants to kill' Radio 1 DJ after lewd comments towards daughter
The TV chef has been in the limelight for many years, and helped her daughter Miquita become a presenter in her youth.
While Andi has said she was happy to give her daughter a leg up in the entertainment industry, she has admitted it came with a lot of downsides.
She added that lewd comments made about Miquita's appearance have stuck with her, and led her to still 'loathe' Chris Moyles, a DJ who hosted a debate asking listeners if they would sleep with her teenage daughter.
Speaking to The iPaper, she spoke about her then-teenage daughter finding fame co-hosting Channel 4's Noughties music show Popworld.
'I was really proud of her,' she said. 'There weren't many 15-year-olds that could step into a national environment like that and be interviewing some of the most famous pop stars in the world with no script, and just doing it brilliantly as well, and being very funny.'
'It was very stressful – to be a schoolkid and suddenly have paparazzi following you, and people talking about whether you're too fat or too thin.'
She then referenced the incident involving radio DJ Chris Moyles: 'Miquita was 16 and he had a phone-in on his show of: 'Would you sh*g her?' On Radio One. I wanted to kill him. I still kind of do.'
She then added: 'There aren't many people I loathe who I've never met, but I'd do time for that man.'
She then speculated what might happen if she confronted him about it today: '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.
'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.'
She added that there wasn't support in place to help her daughter at the time. 'I don't think she was properly supported by any of the channels that she worked for. She was a kid, yet the duty of care wasn't there.'
In 2023, Charlotte Church appeared in Kathy Burke's Channel 4 documentary and spoke about Moyles offering to take her virginity.
'There was this shift where I became fair game,' she said. More Trending
In 2021 while appearing on the Sink The Pink Pop Tart podcast, she said: There was a countdown to me losing my virginity.'
She claimed: '[There was] a countdown then Chris Moyles talked about it on Radio 1. 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.'
Metro has reached out to Chris Moyles and the BBC for comment.
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