Charlotte Church recalls the time Chris Moyles offered to sleep with her after she turned 16

Charlotte Church has recalled the time Chris Moyles offered to sleep with her after she turned 16 while live on his BBC Radio One show. 

Chris, now aged 49, made the remark after a countdown to Charlotte losing her virginity was launched when she was aged 15 and Chris was a 28-year-old. He continues to  have his own show on Radio X. 

Charlotte famously got a record deal as an opera singer aged 12 and she released her debut album Voice Of An Angel that year. 

And talking to Kathy Burke on her latest documentary about the youth of today, Charlotte, now 37, said: ‘There was this shift where I became fair game.

Charlotte continued: ‘Of course, it wasn’t good. At least it was out in the open. That lads lads lads culture was prominent, it was very simplistic, it was unashamed and it was just out there.

Unacceptable: Chris (pictured aged 28 in 2002) told listeners that he wanted to ‘lead [Charlotte] through the forest of sexuality now that she had reached 16’ 

Upsetting: Charlotte told Kathy Burke, right, about how that time felt to her after previously talking about her disgust over THAT countdown to her losing her virginity was launched

‘Whereas now, it’s somehow become a bit more underground and a bit more dangerous.’

Back in 2021, mother-of-three Charlotte told the Sink The Pink Pop Tart podcast Charlotte: There was a countdown to me losing my virginity.’

‘Then Chris Moyles talked about it on Radio one. It was all a bit gross really.’

‘We’ve come a certain way but there’s a long way to go in terms of feminism and equality but there’s bigots everywhere and hopefully we can heal them all. Maybe some of them will just have to die out.’ 

He told listeners on his afternoon show that he wanted to ‘lead [Charlotte] through the forest of sexuality now that she had reached 16’. 

The BBC claimed at the time the comments made in February were an example of the DJ’s cheeky humour. 

A spokesperson for the BBC told MailOnline on Thursday: ‘Like all parts of the organisation we adhere to the BBC’s Editorial Guidelines and take our duty of care for our audience, contributors and employees very seriously.’ 

An insider told MailOnline: ‘The incident described took place over 19 years ago and under no circumstances would any similar language or behaviour be tolerated at the station in 2021.’

Charlotte said: ‘We’ve come a certain way but there’s a long way to go in terms of feminism and equality but there’s bigots everywhere and hopefully we can heal them all. Maybe some of them will just have to die out’ (Chris pictured)

At the time, the Broadcasting Standards Commission upheld the complaint of a listener who said Moyles’ remarks were inappropriate.

The BSC Standards Panel said it noted Moyles was well known for his near-the-knuckle approach ‘but took the view that the explicit sexual content and humour had exceeded acceptable boundaries for the time of transmission’.

It was not the first time that the controversial DJ had fallen foul of the broadcasting watchdog. 

Chris was found to have ‘exceeded acceptable boundaries’ by making offensive comments about an actor’s wife on his Radio 1 show in 2000.

In his previous job at Capital Radio the BSC upheld a complaint about his ‘aggressive and sexually suggestive’ comments to a young female caller.

In January 2010, when Moyles was earning £500k a year, he made reference to the gay singer Will Young’s birthday by singing Young’s first hit, Evergreen, in an ­effeminate voice.

He mocked: ‘It’s my birthday today, gonna wear my new dress tonight. And I smell nice. I’ve had a shower and I’ve shaved my legs.’

He then gave a rendition of Young’s hit Leave Right Now: ‘When you saw me years ago you didn’t know, but now I’m the gayest fella you probably know. Mmm, I like to wear a silly hat, I get camper by the hour.’

Will told The Times in August ‘It still makes me feel sad in a way, because it did affect how important I felt my sexuality was, and because I didn’t stand up for myself.

‘So even though I was like, ‘Oh, it doesn’t matter’, it did, actually. It was really bad. Really bad.’

In 2006, Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry appeared on his show.

The American clashed with him after he impersonated what he described as a ‘big, fat, black guy from Brooklyn’.

An unimpressed Berry asked Moyles: ‘Are we having a racist moment here?’

That same year, he was censured by Ofcom after referring to some women listeners as ‘dirty wh***s’. 

Speaking out: Will Young said he was ‘aghast’ when Chris Moyles conducted a ‘rampage of homophobia’ against him while he was a Radio 1 DJ