Nick Grimshaw: #MissMoyles

When I first saw this I thought "Miss Moyles" was a new nickname for Grimmy.
Can we make it so?

PS Guests on his first show included Harry Styles, Justin Bieber and Matt Smith... Hellew!
Were Tom Daley and Lady Gaga busy?

PPS Thought I'd post this photo below as I found it arousing amusing.

Chris Moyles: 2004-2012

Goodbye.
Good riddance.
Good luck Grimmy.
(Even though I'm old and boring and listen to Today).

BBC Radio 1: Good Mornings

Great to hear that Chris Moyles is quitting the Radio 1 Breakfast Show and, greater still, to hear Nick Grimshaw is taking over.
Who better to replace that homophobic boorish bore than this enchanting and excitable probable gayer.
Though is there much other evidence for this probable?
Apart from his presenting style, obvs. 
Asking for a friend.

BBC Radio 1: Sexuality Night

Last night Radio 1's problem programme for the younglings, The Surgery With Aled, was a three hour special, Sexuality Night, given over to "a frank and honest conversation... on a whole range of subjects, like the bond between straight guys, are bisexuals just greedy people, coming out, feeling pressure to conform, what's still out there stopping individuals being who they are, we'll be asking whether anyone is truly 100% gay or straight, and there are only three categories when it comes to sexuality, is this true, and labels, do they help or hinder society when it comes to sexuality..."
Aled (Jones) is Chris Moyles' producer, and a great big gayer to boot - rather surprisingly.
I'll listen to it later, promise - Eddie Mair's not doing PM today. 

BBC Guidelines: On Soaps & Stereotypes

The BBC Trust has just published its revised Editorial Guidelines.
Papers like the Mail are picking up on it post-Sachsgate because of a linep protecting people from "unduly intimidatory, humiliating, intrusive, aggressive or derogatory remarks for the purposes of entertainment."
"This does not mean preventing comedy or jokes about people in the public eye, but simply that such comments and their tone are proportionate to their target."
Wonder where this leaves the morbidly obese homophobic shitbag Chris Moyles?
Here's Section 5: Harm and Offence - Portrayal

5.4.38 We aim to reflect fully and fairly all of the United Kingdom's people and cultures in our services. Content may reflect the prejudice and disadvantage which exist in societies worldwide but we should not perpetuate it. In some instances, references to disability, age, sexual orientation, faith, race, etc. may be relevant to portrayal. However, we should avoid careless or offensive stereotypical assumptions and people should only be described in such terms when editorially justified.
5.4.39 When it is within audience expectations, we may feature a portrayal or stereotype that has been exaggerated for comic effect, but we must be aware that audiences may find casual or purposeless stereotypes to be offensive.

Fagburn thinks this is where programme makers can start tying themselves in knots.
To look at one of the most popular BBC programmes by way of illustration, much of the problem with the gay characters in Eastenders - from Colin and Barry, to Christian and Syed - has been that they seem to have been deliberately crafted not to be "stereotypically gay".
They are not camp, they are not queeny - which also means that they're not very... gay.
They're just blokes who fancy other blokes, "straight-acting straight-looking", "real men" "who just happen to be gay", ie they're rather dull and unconvincing and often somewhat unrecognisable.
Aaron the gay lad in ITV's Emmerdale is the latest variation on this tedious TV tradition.
Give me Coronation Street's stereotypical screamer Sean Tully any evening of the week.
It's an oft made complaint that there are too many gay nellies on telly; Graham Norton, Paul O'Grady, Alan Carr, Gok Wan and Louis Spence.
But none of these are fictional characters - they're like that because that's how they are.