Good Evans Chris gets some Terry tips
Saturday November 14 2009
HE may have lost his ginger locks, but then former hellraiser Chris Evans is older and wiser as he takes over the mic from veteran broadcaster Terry Wogan and the top job in British radio.
Limerick-born Wogan, pictured right at MasterChef Live in London yesterday, has already imparted some words of wisdom to his successor who will present his popular breakfast show on BBC Radio 2 from January.
"Terry does his thing and I do my thing and I'm just going to go on and be myself," said Evans, pictured left as he signed copies of his new autobiography in Dublin yesterday.
"I've had a big chat with him about it and he's given me some fatherly advice and it's all been very good and very well-spirited," he added.
With a colourful personal and professional life to mine for his book, 'It's Not What You Think', the former 'TFI Friday' host decided the time was right to put pen to paper this year, just as he became a father for the second time.
The book charts his rise from a Warrington council estate to become a multi-millionaire broadcaster and producer -- with a Las Vegas wedding to a then 18-year-old popstar Billie Piper and various drunken benders in between. He also discusses his best memories of Channel 4's 'Big Breakfast' -- he got stuck in the loo after the door handle came off in his hand moments before he was due on set for the first show.
"I see this book as an account of a boy who climbed a glorious mountain and then dug himself a huge black valley for no good reason other than he didn't know what else to do."
- Breda Heffernan
Irish Independent
