Broadcasting watchdogs have upheld complaints against Radio 1’s Chris Moyles after he joked he would sleep with Charlotte Church on the singer’s sixteenth birthday. Back in February he told listeners he wanted to "lead her through the forest of sexuality now that she had reached 16".
While the BBC said the comments were Moyles' style of humour and were not meant to be taken seriously, the Broadcasting Standards Commission agreed with a listener who said the remarks were inappropriate. It noted Moyles was known for his "near-the-knuckle" approach, but it felt "the explicit sexual content and humour had exceeded acceptable boundaries for the time of transmission". It’s not the first time Moyles has annoyed watchdogs – he got into trouble after making offensive comments about an actor's wife on his Radio 1 show two years ago, and while at Capital the BSC upheld a complaint about his "aggressive and sexually suggestive" comments to a young female caller.
In the same report the BSC disagreed with complaints about BBC news presenter Peter Sissons' "insensitive" handling of the Queen Mother's death were rejected. Sixteen viewers complained to the BSC about an interview Sissons undertook with the Queen Mother's niece, the Hon Margaret Rhodes, on the night of the death, saying it had been "conducted with due reverence and respect and would have been unlikely to have offended the majority of the audience". But the BSC did not hold up the complaint.