Chris Moyles I’m a Celeb: Who is Leeds radio and TV presenter Chris Moyles, one of the latest celebrities to appear on I’m a Celebrity 2022?

The presenter, who hails from Yorkshire, has worked in the broadcasting industry since 1990. Aside from presenting, Chris has also appeared in ITV’s The X Factor: Battle of the Stars, This Morning and Celebrity Juice, Top Gear, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, The Charlotte Church Show, Richard and Judy, The Friday Night Project, Brit Awards, Big Brother: Celebrity Hijack, 8 Out of 10 Cats, The One Show and Children In Need.

The latest TV show he is set to appear in is the 2022 series of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! He will be joining pop icon Boy George, Coronation Street star Sue Cleaver, Hollyoaks star Owen Warner, TV presenter and property expert Scarlette Douglas, former England rugby player Mike Tindall, TV presenter and journalist Charlene White, England Lioness Jill Scott, comedian Babatunde Aleshe and TV personality Olivia Attwood.

Here is everything you need to know about Chris Moyles.

Early life and career

Chris Moyles was born in Leeds to Chistopher, a postman and housewife Hannah Veronica Moyles, who is originally from Dublin, Ireland.

He attended Mount St Mary’s Catholic High School, where he first began his broadcasting career at Wakefield’s Broadcast to Hospitals Service (WBHS), a volunteer hospital radio station.

Following his time there, Chris moved to his local radio station Aire FM, where he was an assistant to DJ Carl Kingston and became a presenter on Radio Top Shop in the Leeds Briggate branch. After he hosted his own Saturday Evening Show on Aire FM, he was then picked up by Radio Luxembourg where he was the presenter in 1992 until the station closed.

A year later, he got a job at the Pulse of West Yorkshire, where he presented the evening show from 7pm to 10pm and worked there until early 1994, when he was fired for comments he made about the station’s previous programme controller.

From there, he turned up at Signal 1 in Stoke-on-Trent and again presented The Evening Bit segment from 7pm to 10pm. He was again dismissed by the station’s programme controller.

He published his first autobiography in 1995, where he referred to the previous station’s programme controller he worked with as a ‘spineless b******’.

He also worked as a presenter on the Chiltern Radio Network from 7pm to 10pm before moving on to the late segment from 10pm to 1am. This show was also on Horizon Radio, Chiltern Radio, Seven Sound and Northants 96.

From 1996, Chris joined the London station Capital FM, where he hosted his weekend show ‘The Late Bit’ which aired on a Friday and Saturday evening and he covered for other DJs.

A year later, he turned down an offer to present a breakfast show on rival station Kiss 100 to join Radio 1. There he was a regular stand-in for Kevin Greening and Zoe Ball on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show and was then promoted to take control of the drivetime show from 4pm to 5.45pm. This show was extended by an hour to 3pm to 5.45pm in February 2001.

In January 2004, Chris got his own show on Radio 1’s breakfast programme called The Chris Moyles Show, where he switched places with Sara Cox. His show was implemented to increase the ratings for the show and succeeded in doing so, attracting an extra 1,000,000 listeners to the audience in the first four months of 2004.

After 15 years of presenting on Radio 1, Chris left the radio station in July 2012 and was subsequently replaced by Nick Grimshaw.

It was announced in September 2015 that Chris would return to radio on the newly re-branded Radio X, which was previously called XFM, where he would host the new Chris Moyles Show.

The segment began at 6.30am and ended at 10am and in April 2016, an additional pre-recorded show would be included on Saturday mornings from 8am to 11am which would feature clips from the week, interviews with studio guests as well as fresh content.

Throughout his career, he has been called out in numerous controversies relating to homophobic comments, Auschwitz and tax avoidance.