DJ Chris Evans lost for words
RADIO 2’s Chris Evans was forced to take a back seat yesterday when he lost his voice 12 minutes into his show.
The DJ, who has a sore throat, croaked that he was going to play a Taylor Swift song before telling his nine million listeners: “These are the first words I have said in 24 hours. We were waiting to see what would come out and it’s obviously not much.”
But the show went on with sports presenter Vassos Alexander taking the microphone and Evans, 47, contributing an occasional quip.
“Chris is basically telling me what to do and I am his voice this morning,” Vassos said, describing himself as a “ventriloquist dummy”.