Articles about BBC Radio 1

16 May 2013
Radio 1 breakfast DJ Nick Grimshaw loses nearly a million listeners in six months 16 Gay Radio 1 breakfast DJ Nick Grimshaw has lost nearly a million listeners since taking over from Chris Moyles last year, Rajar audience figures show.
1 May 2013
BBC Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw: ‘I’d like to eventually have children’ 4 Radio 1’s Nick Grimshaw says he was initially rejected by the station for work experience, and admits he would like to have children one day.
24 April 2013
Interview: Scott Mills on love, marriage equality and Eurovision 2013 2 In an exclusive interview with PinkNews’ Laurence Watts, BBC Radio 1 DJ Scott Mills talks about finding love, his future career plans and presenting this year’s Eurovision on BBC Three.
25 March 2013
First trans woman BBC Radio 1 presenter launches programme tackling prejudice 7 BBC Radio 1's first trans woman presenter Paris Lees, will launch a new programme tackling prejudice across the UK in an "open and honest' way.
22 February 2013
Interview: BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ Adele Roberts shares her Big Brother coming out story + BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ Adele Roberts has been interviewed by PinkNews’ Scott Roberts about a documentary she is presenting this weekend on the subject of coming out.
31 January 2013
Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw sees drop in breakfast show audience 11 Gay BBC Radio 1 host Nick Grimshaw has pulled in the lowest audience for the station's breakfast show for almost seven years during his first months in the job.
19 October 2012
Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw says he enjoys using Grindr for pranks 14 Nick Grimshaw, Radio 1’s new breakfast show presenter, apparently is a fan of Grindr, and is said to have used the gay dating app with his best friend during filming for his TV shows.
15 October 2012
UK: Transgender ex-Broadmoor patient talks of Jimmy Saville abuse 37 A transgender man, who was a former patient of Broadmoor Hospital, has spoken of being sexually abused by the veteran entertainer Sir Jimmy Savile.
7 October 2012
Sandi Toksvig: I was groped on air during the 1980s by a ‘famous individual’ 42 Gay comedian Sandi Toksvig, one of the country’s most prominent radio and TV stars, has told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that she was groped while broadcasting in the early 1980s.
24 September 2012
Madonna no longer hip for Radio 1, says DJ Scott Mills 36 In an exclusive interview with PinkNews.co.uk, gay BBC Radio 1 afternoon presenter Scott Mill says the ‘Queen of Pop’, Madonna is no longer a cool artist for the station.
24 September 2012
Nick Grimshaw debuts on Radio 1 breakfast show 3 Nick Grimshaw has today taken to the airwaves on Radio 1’s flagship breakfast show and in the process has now become one of the country’s most high-profile gay broadcasters.
24 September 2012
Interview: Radio 1′s Scott Mills talks ageing, Madonna and his new book. 13 Scott Mills, BBC Radio 1’s veteran afternoon presenter, TV host, and all-round nice guy has exclusively spoken to PinkNews.co.uk about his new autobiography entitled Love You Bye.
17 September 2012
Video: Radio 1 unveils new trailer ad for Grimmy 6 Several celebrities are helping out Radio 1’s new breakfast show presenter Nick Grimshaw, in a promotional video for the station.
6 September 2012
Radio 1′s Scott Mills says Chris Moyles is ‘not homophobic’ 11 Afternoon Radio 1 host Scott Mills has dismissed suggestions that the station’s departing breakfast show presenter, Chris Moyles, has anti-gay beliefs.
18 August 2012
Radio 1′s Grimmy confirms he’s gay and would like to date Frank Ocean 64 Nick Grimshaw, the new host of Radio 1’s flagship breakfast show, has spoken about his sexuality for the first time in an in-depth interview to the Guardian newspaper.
10 February 2011
TV preview: Scott Mills explores homophobia in Uganda 56 In a BBC Three programme to be broadcast next week, gay Radio 1 presenter Scott Mills travels to Uganda to find out about life for gay citizens.

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