''The Chris Evans Breakfast Show'' (currently referred to on-air due to sponsorship reasons as ''The Chris Evans Breakfast Show with

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'') is the name given to two versions of a radio programme hosted by broadcaster Chris Evans in the

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. The first was the incarnation of

The Radio 2 Breakfast Show ''The Radio 2 Breakfast Show'' refers to a range of programming on weekday mornings on BBC Radio 2 since the station's inception on 30 September 1967. The show's longest serving host to date was Sir Terry Wogan, who worked on the programme for 2 ...

that aired every weekday morning between 11 January 2010 and 24 December 2018. Evans had taken over from

Terry Wogan Sir Michael Terence Wogan (; 3 August 1938 – 31 January 2016) was an Irish radio and television broadcaster who worked for the BBC in the UK for most of his career. Between 1993 and his semi-retirement in December 2009, his BBC Radio 2 weekd ...

, who ended his stint as the station's morning presenter on 18 December 2009. On 3 September 2018, it was announced by Evans live on air that he would be leaving the network. The show broadcast its final episode on

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on 24 December 2018. On 3 October 2018, it was announced by Evans live on air that

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would take over the slot, with her first broadcast airing on 14 January 2019. Evans meanwhile started the second incarnation of the show on

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that began on 21 January 2019.

Virgin Radio UK version

Evans announced in September 2018 that he would be leaving Radio 2 to move to commercial station

from January 2019. Joining Evans in his move from Radio 2 will be sports reporter

Vassos Alexander Born Vassos Alexander Georgiadis is a British sports reporter, presenter, author and endurance runner. He is currently the sports presenter of '' The Chris Evans Breakfast Show'' on Virgin Radio. Alexander hosts the Parkrun podcast, he is a mot ...

, news and travel reporter

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, executive producer Ellie Davis and several other behind-the-scenes staff.

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will provide weather updates. The show launched on Monday 21 January 2019 and is 30 minutes longer than its previous incarnation. The show is ad-break free due to the all-encompassing sponsorship deal with Sky. In addition to the weekday breakfast show, for his first six weeks on air Evans presented a live Sunday morning programme from 10am to 1pm, titled ''The Chris Evans Ministry of Now with Sky''. The programme ran from 27 January to 3 March 2019. Evans' regular sports reporter Vassos Alexander and featured guest

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joined him each week for the programme. After it ended, it was replaced with a recorded programme featuring highlights from the weekday breakfast show, under the title ''The Best of The Chris Evans Breakfast Show with Sky''. The Chris Evans Breakfast show also broadcasts on Virgin Radio Anthems UK, Virgin Radio Chilled UK and Virgin Radio Groove UK Features Features on the show include: • Good Morning Chris Club • Big Screen Belter • Kids For a Fanfare • Gobsmackers • Absolute Class The show is also available as a podcast every Friday, with highlights from the show from the past week, plus extra content and uncut interviews.

Radio 2 version

History and format

The show replaced the long running

Wake Up To Wogan ''Wake Up to Wogan'' (''WUTW'') was the incarnation of ''The Radio 2 Breakfast Show'' that aired each weekday morning from 4 January 1993 to 18 December 2009. It was the most-listened-to radio show in the United Kingdom, and the flagship breakfa ...

and Evans originally took over the airwaves from

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after the news at 7:00 am but following her departure later in 2010, this was changed to 6:30am (following the news headlines). He always finished with a handover to

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at 9:30am. It was confirmed on 7 September 2009 that Evans would succeed Wogan as he retired as presenter of the breakfast show at the end of that year. On 6 January 2010, it was announced that

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was replaced by

on 25 July 2011. The first three songs played on the first broadcast of the show were

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tracks "

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" and "

Got To Get You Into My Life "Got to Get You into My Life" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, first released in 1966 on their album ''Revolver''. It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney. The song is a homage to the Motown Sound, wit ...

", and

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's " Come Fly with Me". Evans's team of co-presenters on the show included ex-BBC TV newsreader

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who took over from

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in July 2011 and travel reporter

who took over from long-serving travel reporter

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in March 2018. There were also sometimes roving reports from Joe Schmo (aka Joe Haddow) from various locations in the UK.

Features

Features on the show included: * Introduction – Chris introduced the team over the theme from ''

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''. * Good Morning Chris Club – at 6:40am listeners emailed or text in with a reason to be in Chris's "club" and if he thought they should go in, he honked a horn. Background music was the theme from '' Thunderbirds''. * Big Screen Belter – a track featured in a movie at 6:45am. * On This Day – a run-down of significant events from history that occurred on that day read by a celebrity at 7:15am. Background music was the theme from ''

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''. * Kids Get a Fanfare – a child got to tell the nation about something that they're going to do for the first time that day before coming back on the show the following day to talk about how it went (7:25am). * Moira's Golden Oldie (Christmas Golden Oldie) – Moira Stuart read out the request for a classic song selected by a listener after the news at 7:30am. Renamed Moira's Christmas Golden Oldie from the last week of November through till the end of December. * Frontpages – Chris read a selection of stories in the morning papers to the theme from ''

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'' movies at 7:40am. When

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filled in for Chris, he parodied fellow Radio 2 show ''

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'' as Pick of the Papers, with the theme to the show instead of the Indiana Jones movie theme, and when

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filled in for Chris she uses the movie theme opening to Disney/Pixar's 2001 film ''

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'' instead of the Indiana Jones movie theme as well. * Listener Breaking News – Listeners contacted the show with pieces of their own news; Evans read a selection at 8:10am. Usually, this was done over the theme music from ''

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'', but during the summer this was temporarily replaced by an instrumental version of " Summer Holiday" by

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and

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. Previously the theme to ''

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'', and prior to that the theme from ''

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'' were used. * Who's on the Phone? – Most weekdays at around 8:15am, a celebrity was interviewed on the phone to

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a TV show or film that was either on TV during that week or out in cinemas. * Smashers – Two classic songs from a selected decade were played every day after the news at 8:30am. On Monday these are from the 1970s. Tuesday was 1980s, Wednesday was 1990s and Thursday was 2000s. * Mystery Guest/Not So Mystery Guest – Chris conducted a three-minute "interesting, stimulating, and if it calls for it humorous" interview with a guest he had had no prior warning about, to the theme music from ''

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''. Since around 2015, the team had now known about who will be talking, and the segment name changed to make the Mystery Guest a Not So Mystery Guest. * Gobsmackers – two songs selected by a listener that sounded great when played back to back after the news at 9am. * Top Tenuous – listeners' texts and emails with tenuous connections to an event, object or celebrity read to the theme tune to ''

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'' at about 9:10am. * Pause for Thought – a brief reflection with themes of spirituality, religion, giving and faith (mostly of

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, but

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and

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contributors also feature); regular contributors included Reverend Rob Gillion, Rector of Holy Trinity Church and St Saviours who was, at one time, an actor in '' Tales of the Unexpected'', and Muslim editor Sarah Joseph OBE. Other contributors have included the

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and the

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. This segment was carried over from Evans show's predecessor, ''

Wake Up to Wogan ''Wake Up to Wogan'' (''WUTW'') was the incarnation of ''The Radio 2 Breakfast Show'' that aired each weekday morning from 4 January 1993 to 18 December 2009. It was the most-listened-to radio show in the United Kingdom, and the flagship breakfa ...

''. *Good Old Fashioned – Listeners text in "good old-fashioned" greetings for friends and family. These were usually "good old-fashioned" hellos, happy birthdays, or happy anniversaries, read by Chris, Vassos and Lynn to

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's "Las Vegas" (better known as the theme tune from '' Animal Magic'') at the end of the show, before he hands over to

. *The Wrong Bongs – A short-lived feature where Lynn would read out a selection of listener texts that have been sent in correcting the team on facts that were wrong in the previous day's show. After each text, Chris would play a clip of one of the "bongs" from

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. *Head to Headlines – Vassos and Moira each chose three news stories each day, and Evans decides which of the stories is better in three head-to-head rounds per day (~8:25am read to "

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" by

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). *Don't Forget – listeners emailed in a reminder for the day for a friend or relative to be read just before 9:30am to the theme tune from ''

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''. Replaced by the "Good Old Fashioned"s in 2015. *Hello/Goodbye – Listeners would phone up and greet Chris and the team with a 'Hello', only to be met with a 'Goodbye' in whatever tone of voice had been used by the listener, just before 9:30am. Replaced by the "Don't Forget"s in 2012. Whenever Chris was not presenting, a segment called The Half/Whole Wower, featuring non-stop music with a feel-good theme, ran from 8am to 8:30am. Whenever

filled in for Chris, she used "

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" by

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as the theme song; however

did not use it when he fills in for Chris, and

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also did not use it when she fills in for Chris as well. Regular songs played included "

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" played on Mondays after the 8am news, " Get Happy" by

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played on Tuesdays at the same time and "

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" by

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on a Friday also after the 8am news. Also, "

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" by

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was played every Tuesday after the news at 7am. Previous regular songs have included "

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" by

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, played every Monday and "

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" by

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(replacing "

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", also by Davis), played every Friday after the 8am news throughout 2014. Both songs were replaced for 2015 with " The Deadwood Stage" from the film ''

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'' played on a Monday and "

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" also played on Mondays. "

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","

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" by

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and "

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" theme played on a Friday. Until December 2016, " How D'Ya Like Your Eggs in the Morning?" by

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and

Helen O'Connell Helen O'Connell (May 23, 1920 – September 9, 1993) was an American singer, actress, and hostess, described as "the quintessential big band singer of the 1940s". Early life Born in Lima, Ohio, O'Connell grew up in Toledo, Ohio. By the time ...

was played in full on Tuesdays, though an excerpt continued to be used as a daily jingle until the end of the show's run. Sometimes, a re-written version of "

Wake Up Boo! "Wake Up Boo!" is a song recorded by British indie band the Boo Radleys for their fourth album, '' Wake Up!'' (1995). It was by far their biggest hit both in the UK and internationally. The track is an upbeat guitar-pop song about the change from ...

" by

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played as a jingle, as it once did on Evans' Radio 1 breakfast show.

Stand-in presenters

Evans' stand-in presenters included

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Miranda Hart Miranda Katherine Hart Dyke (born 14 December 1972) is an English actress and writer. Following drama training at the Academy of Live and Recorded Arts, Hart began writing material for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and making appearances in va ...

and

Jon Holmes Jon Holmes (born 24 April 1973) is a British comedian, writer, presenter and broadcaster known for his work on such programmes as ''The Now Show'', '' Listen Against'' (for BBC Radio 4), along with both music and spoken word radio. He has ap ...

Richard Madeley Richard Holt Madeley ( born 13 May 1956) is an English television presenter and writer. Alongside his wife Judy Finnigan, he presented '' This Morning'' and the chat show ''Richard & Judy''. Madeley's solo projects include the ITV series '' Fort ...

Ryan Tubridy Ryan Tubridy (born 28 May 1973), nicknamed 'Tubs ' is an Irish broadcaster. He presents ''The Ryan Tubridy Show'' and '' The Late Late Show''. Tubridy previously presented RTÉ 2fm breakfast radio show ''The Full Irish'', which at its end was ...

Patrick Kielty Patrick Kielty (born 31 January 1971) is a Northern Irish comedian and television personality. Background Kielty was born in County Down, Northern Ireland, and grew up in the village of Dundrum. He is one of three sons born to the businessm ...

, and

. In October 2011 the show attracted criticism after Hart and Holmes co-hosted it for a week while Chris Evans was on holiday. The website ''

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'' reported that some listeners were unhappy with the quality of the programme. The BBC issued a statement in response saying, "Miranda Hart is one of the UK's best-loved comedians and BBC Radio 2 felt it appropriate to bring her warmth to its audience for a week. Jon Holmes is a highly experienced presenter from BBC Radio 6 Music ..BBC Radio 2 appreciates if their presentation wasn't to everyone's liking, but feels it's important to be able to bring new talent to its output and hopes its audience understands the importance of maintaining a breadth of content on the network." On 11 April 2013, Evans turned up to work with a sore throat, and ended up losing his voice. Sports Presenter Alexander stood in for Evans.

stood in for Evans the next day and the following Monday, with

taking over on the Tuesday when Ball was also ill. Evans returned on 17 April, revealing he had been suffering from

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References

External links

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Virgin Radio UK version

Radio 2 version

History and format

Features

Stand-in presenters

See also

References

External links