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Mary Anne leaves Radio 1
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 26 July 2010
One of our favourite Radio 1 DJs has announced she’s leaving the nation’s favourite to pursue other projects. Presumably being lumped together in the same group as fellow Radio 1 femaler Fearne Cotton just got too much for poor old Mary Anne Hobbs. You can’t blame her. I mean, Annies Mac and Nightingale may be cool, but not cool enough to detract from the shear embarrassment of being associated with the Cotton.
Anyway, I possibly digress. Announcing her decision to leave the BBC station via MySpace, Mary Anne said on Friday: “Yesterday I resigned from BBC Radio 1, after an amazing multi-dimensional fourteen year career. The great freedoms the BBC have given in me as a broadcaster, have allowed me to help break so many confrontational artists as diverse as Slipknot and Skream, and of course, the whole genre of dubstep in recent times. My current experimental show is in peak condition, it’s never been stronger. And although it’s a very emotional decision to leave the show that I love so much, it’s also an optimum moment to bow out, at the very top of my game”.
Looking forward to life after Radio 1 – she’ll actually leave in September – Hobbs continued: “I will continue to DJ live, work in film, and curate at Sonar festival in Barcelona I have also accepted a new job mentoring and teaching students at the University of Sheffield’s Union Of Students radio station, TV station and the newspaper that operate out of their superb Forge Media Hub, which presents me with a really exciting new challenge”.
