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Cant believe its over. I started to write some words for the end but gave up and trusted that my heart would find the right words. I hope you felt my deep gratitude . You made my dream come true and helped me grow this new one. Thanks for letting me be your mate in the morning
Watch two men breaking their hearts wide open live on the radio. We gave it our all. Someone suggested I prerecord the end in case I cried, why? We always tried to be real not radio. x
So thats my news. I'm leaving my radio home for the last 12yrs
@absoluteradio
. I'm heading off to a big new adventure. Tell you what very soon but for now...I have such a heavy heart but its also full of gratitude and love at what I've been lucky enough to have in my life. x
16 months, 301 shows after leaving the mighty
@absoluteradio
and a No1 show in the U.K, me and my small band of rebels and misfits get to No1 downunder. Thanks 🙏
Went to see a friend today who is dying of cancer. A fine and proud Australian and also a huge soccer fan who supports Arsenal. He said today “I hope to be dead by May so I don’t live to see Liverpool win the league”. Now that’s a fan.
The last 10 minutes of tonights
#BluePlanet2
has left me in tears. The whale and her dead baby she's been carrying around for days because of us dumb humans.
This week I’ve joined a club, it’s the grief one
A world opens up that you don’t really know exists of the funeral planning and choices and conversations you never thought you’d have to have
My mother in law died suddenly at the weekend and she was a very present part of our
Landed safe and sound in Singapore. As we took off from London late Friday night it all caught up with me and I actually sobbed. It’s been amazing. Awake Sunday morning now to kids already asking when ‘is everything going back to normal?’. x
Two years ago I walked out on a radio show that me and a best mate took to No1 in the UK. I headed to Australia and Melbourne to start a new life and radio show thinking that would be a good idea. What a dick.
Only…
Heart wide open after binging entire S3 After Life. Love how
@rickygervais
doesn't distinguish between drama and comedy. It's very hard to make work like this about grief that's both real, raw and hopeful
it's also very very funny
Hey. I’ve not been on the show today as last night my mother in law was suddenly taken very ill and my wife and kids have rushed back to England to be at her bedside. I’m keeping miracle minded and she’s in the great care of the NHS. x
Steve Wright. Just about as good as you can do it
I'm on air right now after 25 years of doing what Steve lit up in in me as a teenager in the 80s. He really did inspire me to do this
I'd never heard a DJ be as funny, subversive, cheeky and with so much warmth.
Thanks Wrighty x
Coming from being told to ‘F*** off home’ and told I was ‘uninvited’, I just want to say thank you to the good hearts ♥️ of Melbourne and Australia.
Today we found out the show was still
#1
Breakfast show in Melbourne, and has been for 12 months now
Thanks 🙏 😍
On the eve that all our worldly goods are packed and shipped to Australia we win one last award. This shabby show of
@RichieFirth
and mine has won every single award we were eligible for. We made every show with a genuine joy for what we did. I have nothing but gratitude 🙏
And to all of you who stayed up Sunday night to tune in, I cannot tell you what that meant. You even called the station. Man alive I'm just so humbled that who still give a s***.
Thanks to the angels who work for the
@NHSEngland
my mother in law has heart life saving surgery at St Georges. Early days but just want to say thank you
@NHSEngland
. Always. You the best of who we can be x
I may be many miles away but I’m thinking of back home right now and what happened a year ago today. I will take a moment to remember the innocent kids and people whose lives were stolen, and their poor families. I still can’t believe it happened. x
The dog has done two shits in the kitchen as a thank you gift for putting her in a crate and flying her 10k miles and then 3 wks in quarantine
#dogkarma
Maybe I’m a soft touch. But 15yr old daughter was in bits saying goodbye to her bf at the weekend. No idea when they can see each other again. I got her a kitten to cheer her up. We got him yesterday. Meet Larry
Thanks for all the messages about the
@rickygervais
interview we did. Many of you saying you hadn’t heard him speak like that before.
This is the full unedited chat we did if you want something to feed your soul
#afterlifeseason2
Friday is my last show of the year. It’s been the most challenging, toughest, unsettling, overwhelming, rewarding, joyous year of my life. Thanks to all the lovely people who still care and get the podcast. I’m humbled. Nothing but deep love and thanks 🙏
In our chat tomorrow
@rickygervais
says "I don't distinguish between drama and comedy".
I love how great art, whatever it is, can transform how you feel.
I just got this email from Sharon whose husband Pete died in January. She asked me to pass this onto Ricky.
My walk tonight. Chatted to my dad 10k miles away wishing I could reach out and touch his hand. When will Skype let us do that? Listened to Crowded House Distant Sun as I drove home missing him and I needed windscreen wipers for tears dropping from my eyes.
Thanks so much for your messages. Some of us haven’t met but sometimes in darker spots that life throws up we show a compassion for each other. It’s made me feel less alone. Thanks 🙏
Word reaches me on
#RAJAR
day back in the U.K. we managed to go out and end the show after 12yrs on a record high. Getting to No1. Well done buddy
@RichieFirth
and thanks to everyone who tuned in and was part of our radio family and life
#chanks
Hotel has a 3 cd multiplayer so gives you a good idea about the place I booked in one of the most futuristic cities in the world. Family really happy with me. Just loading up the Betamax
Two days in and the show is No1 podcast in the UK and No7 in Australia. Thanks everyone. It’s early days and to balance that someone texted the show today to say I was the worst possible way to start the day.
#yinandyang
The press destroyed his mum. Are doing the same with his wife. Full power to them for seeing how screwed up the whole thing is. All families are dysfunctional, but then there is the Royal Family
Happy New Year 🥳 2018 was some year. Moving my family from one side of the world to another and then starting a radio show. I’m lucky to have had this opportunity and life. Thanks to all of you who’ve supported that. Here’s to 2019 x
Tuesday 4th of June will mark 1 year of a radio show i started the other side of the world. In a City no one knew who I was or cared. Its been the most challenging and also rewarding thing ive ever done. I guess you sometimes cant have one without the other. I'm grateful x
My mother in law is stable in ICU and I just need to thank everyone in
@NHSEngland
for saving her. The nurse who is helping not just her but the family worrrying too. x
On a great Australian road trip with the family. Made it along the Great Ocean Road and the Twelve Apostles.
It was such a stunning day and the turquoise vivid high definition colours of the water made one of the kids say in awe “it barely looks real it’s so beautiful”
Thinking of so many back in U.K. What a shitshow.
We did well over 100 days of total lockdown in Melbourne and it was tough at times. We are lucky now to be able to enjoy life again and Xmas. To be separated and isolated over Xmas is unimaginable
Sending love x
Thanks so much for your messages today. Unbelievable. I’m so blown away. It’s a very strange and wonderful time at the moment. We moved out of our family home of 10 yrs today and I had to pull over in a lay-by for a little blub. Then I read your messages with made it worse! x
Two years ago I left this show with one of my best friends
@richiefirth
after 12 yrs on Absolute Radio.
The show changed my life and my families. I had nothing but an amazing ride that I am grateful for every day.…
My wife lost her dad Friday
Thanks for welcoming me into the family years ago despite me offering little at the time as a suitable boyfriend !
You never made me feel that
Thanks for the chats on life, rock and roll,comedy & books
May the road rise up to meet you.
Bye David x
Just called my mum 10k miles away and she seems to think despite us both watching the England game live in different time zones she is somehow in a parallel universe
“I won’t text you the result Christian”
“I’m watching it live”
“But..I’ll see it live earlier”
#mumchats
Just walked the dog in a local park in Melbourne and watched a kids football (soccer to the locals) game and felt a little homesick. Tried to struck up some World Cup banter but nothing. In that moment I became that man in the park you see, trying to chat to you.
#nomates
Why do many broadcasters and newspapers give the evil psychopaths who carry out such hate crimes any screen time or column inches. You give them what they want. We don’t need their back story. Only show pics like this guy in Manchester outside a Mosque yesterday
22 years ago I married my soul mate. Sarah had to lend me the money for my suit and our wedding rings cost $150. She had picked a real playa
I was 25 and mumbling about dreams of being a DJ and doing a sales job I…
I’d like to apologise to my new Australian neighbours. Yes it was me with a torch looking at your bins. I was just trying to work out what bin day it was tomorrow
#newkidontheblock
#itsthebluebinday
It’s hard to fully describe how exciting
@oasis
were, when they burst into our lives in 1994.
They had it all, killer songs, the high wattage charisma, a genuine air of menace in Noel and Liams relationship, and a real unshakable mission to be the soundtrack to young Brits, who
Just spent 17 minutes trying to explain to my mum that due to the time difference my show starts at 6am in Melbourne Monday morning which is 9pm for her Sunday. "no, thats impossible".
Just dropped my daughter at University to begin her new life,hugs,some tears, brave smiles
“What should I do now?”
she asked
“You walk that way, I’ll go the other way, don’t look back”
As I walked away,hiding my tears behind sunglasses, I felt like I was in an Adele song
My Dog can’t be released from quarantine due to an outbreak of ‘dog flu’. It’s at ‘lockdown’. I imagine the doggie inmates using bowls and running them up and down the bars singing an old blues classic, then fashioning a shiv for a showdown in the yard against the shitzus
Word to the wise.
The muso bores who saw Bidens speech and are being snide about him walking off to Coldplay and Sky Full full of Stars. Oh you snarks!
It was his late sons favourite song. Beau Biden. Chris Martin kindly sang it as his funeral
For those asking about my dog who is about to fly off to Australia, here she is being carried away like some dog criminal mastermind
#seeyontheotherside
Well kids with iPads I hope you’re happy now. You’ve killed Toys ‘R’ Us. You’ll never know the true excitement of wondering it’s great isles excitedly with some birthday money. An Aladdin’s cave of awaiting adventures with new toys.
Never voted before in the years I've been loving I'm a Celeb but did last night, for Iain. Already King of The Jungle for me. Coming through all the pathetic crap from some of the others. He's an inspiration for people. I'm
#TeamIain
A man just came up to me and told me how much he was going to miss me in the mornings, how I have kept him company, how sorry he was to see me go. It was only after he left that I realised he thought I was
@OC
For those asking did i enjoy going back to UK after a y living in Australia. Highlights
1. Seeing mum after 13 mths apart and smelling the top of her head and breathing in the shampoo she always uses
2. Marks and Spencers.
3. Sunday Times
4. Countryside, nobody does it better
Just got COVID tested. Daughter has sore throat so doing what we should all do right now.
I was shocked to hear how much abuse staff are getting from, I’ll use my words carefully here, f***wits
Thank you everyone doing our tests, and those processing them. You matter to us
On our 20th Wedding 🎩 Anniversary we had dinner with some people who we are lucky to share our lives with. Thanks Sarah for believing in me. She had to lend me the money for my suit x
For Rebecca Vardy to call Iain fake is confusing. This is someone with more plastic than all the Kardashians melted down .You can have anxiety and be withdrawn and also loud a bit later. We are many things Rebecca. More compassion, less judging.
Our wives keep us honest.
No way is Trump and Melania for real. This carry on shows it.
If I behaved like that my wife would come in and call me a dick and to get my shit together and grow the fuck up.
Then one of my mates would call to make sure I got the message
This was my reaction when I found out we’d gone to No2 in Melbourne in our first 5 months. I have many people to thank, and to those who wrote me off, even bigger thanks 🙏
Radio Ratings Melbourne- GFK 7:
• 3AW market’s biggest mover
• smoothfm win gives Nova FM lock on major markets
• Gold equal
#2
, breakfast lifts
• Drive: Hughesy & Kate further ahead at Fox, Kennedy Molloy up
Read more:
#AusRadio
#AusMedia
#AusNews
I'm looking at doing a live farewell show. Me and
@RichieFirth
and
@siralexlowe
providing some special 'guests'. Not sure whether to book village hall, town hall, or conference centre. Would you come, would be one night only in London
#chanks
Today is 25 years on breakfast radio
If you told 25yr old me in 1998 it would be the ride it's been and end up half the world away in Australia I'd have wept with joy
I have nothing but deep gratitude today for the life I've been able to lead and whats it given my family
Can't believe its been four years since
@RichieFirth
and I won the Red Bull Soap Box Race. Genuinely terrifying and thats what made it such a great moment for us. Miss you BA
I got up at 5am to watch the England game
Holy shit
Nil nil against Scotland (no disrespect...) at Wembly!
Had Kane been on the piss the night before ?
When Southgate took Foden off I almost threw the remote through the tv
NEWS FLASH!
IT
IS
NOT
COMING
HOME
Just trying to find a phone number in my phone and found one from an old friend who died a few years ago. Took my breath away that it was still in my phone. Cant bring myself to delete it. Silly right? Feels to final
Steve Wright is why I do and love radio. Hearing him as a teenager lit a spark in me. I didn’t know you could do it like that. Relentlessly funny, warm, innovative and I cannot think of any broadcaster as consistent as Steve
Just been to my first Australian farmers market. No matter where they are in the world, always got the same stalls and bloody expensive. You get the bees wax stall, Turkish breads the size of a door and a married couple who hate each other selling brownies
Mother in law
Not seen us for two years
Flown across the world to be with us
34* degrees outside
Currently indoors watching Antiques Roadshow
To be fair, it’s a ripper episode. Victorian era chamber pot
Good luck to
@daveberry_tweet
and my man
@RealDysonator
, they are the chosen ones to replace me and
@RichieFirth
. I hope they enjoy the show like I have the last 12yrs. Its the best gig in radio.
The King Is Almost Dead. Long Live The King!
My old radio home
@absoluteradio
were game changers, I loved my 12yrs on breakfast. One way was showing that commercial radio doesn’t need to dumb down at the weekend. They gave a great comedian a show and built it around him and gave him space and time to grow his own tribe
I'm 44 and won awards and shit this year but I'd give anything to go back to being 9 again on Christmas Eve. Feeling almost sick with excitement of what lay under the tree.
Just two shows left. I’m humbled and overwhelmed at your messages. Really am. I’ve shown my wife and kids and we’ve all been teary eyed at times. Thank you.