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I haven't played many games recently but am very excited about the release of Grand Theft Auto 4 today - as were a lot of Early Breakfast listeners.
This photo is one of Jo Whiley's computer that she uses at home.
For legal reasons I should point out that this isn't her actual computer. But it is what I imagine it looks like.
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I need to get my skates on and organise something for the Early Breakfast tent. I said I would have one at Radio 1's Big Weekend this year - and I will - but I'm just not sure what will happen in it just yet...
Unless I manage to lure him in (no idea how) - I VERY much doubt Fatboy Slim will make it...
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This morning's Open Letter was for Kelly Brook - who has split her engagement with Billy Zane - and is back on the market!
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The new leader of Newsreader Idol is Tom Bateman who managed to read his tongue twisters in an amazing 43 seconds.
The final is on Early Breakfast tomorrow - good luck everybody.
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This morning I spoke to Jenna who was disallowed the word 'brap' in a game of Scrabble at the weekend.
I'm sure that they will put it in the dictionary soon.
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There was a shock revelation this morning. Word reached me that Anna Lee and Leon Robins from Newsbeat were in cahoots about the tongue twisters in Newsreader Idol, so I have struck them both off.
This leaves Adrian Pearce (pictured) in the lead with a time of 1 min and 7 seconds.
There will be 2 more rounds of Newsreader Idol at 0430 and 0530 tomorrow.
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This morning I exclusively announced that there will be an additional live music arena at this year's Big Weekend... The Early Breakfast tent.
Full details are still to be confirmed - watch this space.
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This morning I confessed that I get a little bit excited when the stationery cupboard is refilled in the office.
On the show today, I found out that I was not alone.
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Yet another cracking Free For All Friday today - for those who don't know it is where I open the Radio 1 phonelines and take calls straight to air, letting you talk about whatever you want.
Topics this morning ranged from new born babies to fog lights.
Listen again to the show here - Free For All Friday is 40 minutes in.
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My poor Mum - she still hasn't got the hang of leaving voicemails on mobile phones, as I proved this morning.
Listen again to Friday's show here. Mum's blunderous voicemail is just over 2 hours in.
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Welcome back! This morning I wrote an Open Letter to Richard and Judy who have signed a massive deal with UKTV.
Maybe they will take me up on my offer.
Listen again to Thursday's show here. The Open Letter is 50 minutes in.
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Yesterday I saw a man on the train home who hadn't bought a ticket.
He wouldn't admit defeat and was protesting that it cost too much.
He really should have conceded defeat I think...
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Yesterday, Jo Whiley was wittering on again about how I've broken 'her' studio.
I've had enough of this - she should be on the back foot after her 'prank calling' antics.
Sleep with one eye open, Jo.
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Much as I love EastEnders - I've even made a cameo appearance in it - yesterday it had an awful scene involving a party in Dot's house.
Here's hoping that they sort the plotlines out soon, as, for me, Bianca isn't really bringing much to the table at the moment!
This photo is from when she used to have good plots.
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After I said this morning that I didn't like £2 coins, a caller told me that 'they' were getting rid of £5 notes and that £5 coins were to replace them in general circulation.
Luckily, Newsbeat were able to confirm that this is not the case.
Phew.
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Congratulations to my sister who has just had a baby girl... which makes me an uncle for the first time!
Poor child.
By the way of illustration, here is a photo of perhaps the world's most famous uncle, Uncle Albert.
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I went to watch the London Marathon yesterday and tried to catch a glimpse of Chappers who was running it.
I failed - though I did see Gordon Ramsey and Amanda Holden.
Chappers completed the course in just under 5 hours. I take my hat off to him.
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This morning I discussed the merits of reheating food the next day.
It seems that EVERYONE agreed with me that takeaway food (especially) tastes better the next day.
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This morning, as per usual, I had a random selection of callers on Free For All Friday.
One lady caller wanted to know why make up sometimes looked better in the morning after you'd slept in it, rather than on the night before.
I confess, I have no idea a) whether this is true or not and b) what the answer is.
So, in the meantime, here's a photo of Jeremy Spake dresed as a clown.
Have a nice weekend!
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Despite having a lot of free time during the day, I still have no internet, my gas company are messing me about and the electricity company still haven't sorted out my direct debits!
What the **** is going on with customer service?!
I'm going to speak to my colleagues at Watchdog I think.
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In two week's time I am doing Early Breakfast live from a service station - and this morning I struck upon an idea... News Idol.
I think I might run some sort of talent competition among the Newsbeat presenters to see who wants to come to the services with me.
They don't get out much.
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Yesterday morning on the London Underground I saw a man in his 50s, in a suit, with a laptop and briefcase.
Nothing strange there, you'd think... but he was listening - at high volume - to Scooter.
Old people and techno don't mix.
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This morning I called a tarot line before the show. The lady I spoke to said I was has going to have communications problems.
At 0400, Radio 1's text message server stopped working.
Coincidence, or spooky?
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Pete Doherty has been jailed for 14 weeks.
That is all I need to say. I added the bars to this photo myself, by the way.
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Every Monday, Newsbeat don't bother coming in, so I've been reading the news myself every Monday morning from the papers.
This morning, I thought I should enlist some help, so called a newsagent in Cardiff to help.
Unfortunately, Zara, the lady I spoke to, only had a lads mag to hand...
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Blackburn and England star David Bentley is addicted to vacuuming and cleaning according to reports this morning.
So, I wrote him an open letter to offer him some advice.
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Yesterday lunchtime, Mariah Carey came into Radio 1 to record an interview with Scott Mills... and if you look closely at this photo, you'll see me peering out the window at her as she leaves the building.
I should get out more.
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The debate raged on this morning as to whether it is OK for groups of men to go and get a massage together.
I'm saying no.
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This morning I confessed I failed my driving test first time around with 3 major faults.
I thought that was bad until someone texted in to tell me that they were so nervous during their text that they had to pull over to have a dump.
Classy.
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This is Calvin Harris - you know him from Acceptable In The 80s?
Well, he's not happy with the whole Heathrow Terminal 5 business at the moment as they've lost his bag and it has all his new songs on it.
So, this morning I wrote him an open letter to try and cheer his woes.
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This morning I asked if it was a bad thing to give your other half a present that you'd bought at half price or on Buy One Get One Free.
Most people seemed to think that it's the thought that counts.
Ahhhh.
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Does it ever disturb you when delays on trains are blamed on a 'person under a train?'
Just a thought. Is that too much information?
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A friend of mine had £1500 stolen from his card in one transaction at a petrol station.
I asked this morning how it was possible to spend that much in one go.
Apparently, it is easier than you think.
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This morning I wrote an Open Letter to Bruce Jones AKA Les Battersby. He's having some trouble getting more work...
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Prompted by an article in a magazine you get with the Sunday papers - I had a discussion on air this morning about whether club DJs get as many ladies as they would lead you to believe.
It seemed to me like they may be exaggerating a little.
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This morning, the Open Letter was written for Gok Wan.
Jo Whiley absolutely loves Gok, you know.
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Helen does the travel every weekday on Five Live and I spoke to her on this morning's show to help me decide which service station to do Early Breakfast from in a few weeks.
I can't believe it's been given the green light! Thanks to everyone who signed the petition.
I love you all.
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Incredibly this morning on Free For All Friday, one caller said he was by a factory cooking up dog food - and was tempted by the smell.
Other brands of dog food are available, by the way.
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I went to see Kelly Clarkson in Hammersmith in London last night and she was absolutely brilliant.
I think I might need to get a digital camera though, as I think this photo from my phone doesn't really do the gig justice.
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Incredibly this morning I sparked a nationwide debate a) about the price of tinned tomatoes and b) about songs tenuously related to tomatoes.
I didn't mean to do this, it just happened.
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No, that isn't the wrong caption for this photo.
Last night, ITV1 decided to move Harry Hill's TV Burp to 2330 to make way for a Heather Mills documentary.
This meant I didn't get to see my favourite TV show this week.
I'm not happy.
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This morning I felt the need to write an open letter for Beth Ditto.
She decided to do an impromptu strip tease in a London club.
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This is BBC newsreader Simon McCoy. He made a bit of a blunder right at the end of the news on Saturday night.
Bless him.
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This morning I sang quite an offensive song to my landlady who has cut off my broadband.
She was moaning about paying the line rental or something, so it's an internet cafe for me from now on.
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This morning on Free For All Friday, one listener called to apologise as he thought he had just run over the Easter Bunny.
I don't think this is the Easter Bunny in this photo, but it's a nice one of Rolf anyway.
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This morning my producer decided to put a note on my back with an offensive word on it.
If it wasn't so funny, I would have fallen out with him.
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I said this morning that I thought Madonna was too old to like Timbaland.
Think about it, thought.
She is.
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Apparently her bum is too big for America, so I wrote her a letter - if she wants to do a cookery segment on my show - we've got more than enough room!
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I told a cashier they'd given me too much change. 'Good lad' or 'Soft lad'?
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This is Tom Bateman, he reads my half five news. Today he decided to wear an incredible shirt the colour of a highlighter. Suffice to say he's never got lucky in it!
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This is a photo from one of today's papers labelled as 'Fearne and Reggie'. It's certainly 'Fearne' but that ain't 'Reggie!'
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Yesterday I did nothing much apart from eat cheese and watch Midsomer Murders - and found out this morning that I wasn't alone.
LOADS of listeners had boring weekends too.
It's not all rock and roll here at Radio 1!
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This morning I was concerned to read about Harry Puffer's smoking habit. So I offered him a few words of advice this morning.
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As per usual it was as suitably random selection of callers on this morning's Free For All Friday.
There was a raging debate about petrol prices which I wasn't really prepared for.
I don't think Nicky Campbell on Five Live has much to worry about...
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Another topic discussed today was smoking outside bars and pubs - and as to whether or not this might lead to birds getting lung cancer.
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I'm hooking up with Chappers and Dave later at a mystery location to run a mile for Sport Relief.
Hopefully we'll be running so fast the photos will all be a blur, like this one.
I'll report back tomorrow!
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I'm having real issues with weird people on public transport in London at the moment.
Last week someone sat next to me, despite the entire carriage being empty (unlike this one).
What do you do when that happens?!
Listen again to Thursday's show here - I talked about his about 1 hour and 20 minutes in.
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Yesterday morning I had a bit of a bad incident involving a waitress, some scrambled eggs and some tears.
If you want to hear the tale, listen again here. It is just after two hours in.
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Today The Budget is announced - and I was talking this morning about the Chancellor's massive eyebrows.
See, they don't really suit his head, do they?
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Matt is the BBC's (and the UK's) premier Forecaster Broadcaster when it comes to weather.
I spoke to him this morning at the BBC Weather Centre to find out the latest on the brewing storms.
Secretly, he loves a bad weather day!
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Here's a webcam shot from this morning.
Someone had left a 'Caution! Men At Work' sign in the studio.
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This morning, as usual, at 0430 I had to read the news as Newsbeat don't come in.
Today, though, I enlisted the help of Radio 2's Colin Berry to do a report for me.
Thanks Colin.
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Over the weekend I listened to Desert Island Discs on Radio 4. Liz Smith (AKA Nana from The Royle Family) chose her favourite songs - and one of them was "In The Mood."
Regular listeners will know that is the song I play every morning just after 0400 for everyone to 'Flash! Flash!' their lights to.
I don't know why, either.
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This morning's Free For All Friday was interesting - as ever!
I never thought I would be asked if a fellow Radio 1 DJ had false teeth!
Listen again to Friday's show here. Free For All Friday is around 40 minutes in.
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Also on Free For All Friday, a controversial viewpoint was expressed by a listener about disabled parking spaces. I disagreed with him.
That's the nature of the beast, you never know what topic will get thrown up at 0440 on a Friday!
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Incredibly I found out today that my producer doesn't like still water.
Cordial is fine, as is sparking water. But still water - no.
I thought this was odd - until lots of listeners agreed.
How odd.
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This morning's MP3 game participant was a lady teacher - who also happened to be naked!
I wonder did she look like this teacher?
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This morning I asked for your support for an idea I've had. I want to do the show from a service station one morning.
I got hundreds of texts of support for it. I'll keep you updated with my plans.
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This is the March photo from my Cliff Richard calendar.
It hangs above my desk in the Radio 1 office.
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As I have mentioned before, London is the most unfriendly place in the world.
Just don't get caught out when someone speaks to you... when they are not speaking to you - and they are just using their hands free. Oops.
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About time, really. This morning's open letter was to Jordan.
What a mess...
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