The story drew gasps from the audience at The Charlotte Church Show (Picture: Channel 4/The Charlotte Church Show)
A harrowing clip has resurfaced where Charlotte Church confronted Chris Moyles about the offer he made when she was 15 to take her virginity.
In 2007, DJ Moyles appeared on The Charlotte Church Show, the Channel 4 programme that the singer hosted from 2006 until 2008.
During his appearance, Church brought up a moment from 2002, the year she celebrated her 16th birthday.
‘We haven’t always been so close, do you remember why?’ she asked Moyles, now 52.
‘Well, yeah, but that was, that was, it wasn’t…’ he stuttered in response.
Church, now 40, went on: ‘Why don’t you explain your behaviour Chris, and stop babbling?’
Moyles originally made the comments on his Radio 1 show (Picture: Bonnie Britain/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
‘Right, once you were young…’ Moyles began, before Church interrupted to ask: ‘How young?’
‘You were under 16. And then…’ he stated, to which the host remarked: ‘I call that 15.’
Moyles continued: ‘Yeah, 15, but then you were gonna be 16, and I offered to take your virginity.’
Church looked out at the audience as they gasped in response to Moyles’ admission.
‘What exactly did you say?’ she said, asking Moyles to share the details of his offer,
He replied: ‘Do you know, I think this is actually very sweet. I offered to lead Charlotte through the forest of her own sexuality.’
That lads lads lads culture was prominent,’ Church said years later (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
As the live studio audience laughed, Church shook her head with disapproval. ‘A 15-year-old girl,’ she stressed.
‘No, you were 16,’ Moyles retorted, before claiming that Church had told him that she was 16.
When Moyles made the lewd comments about Church on his radio show in 2002, the Broadcasting Standards Commission said that ‘the explicit sexual content and humour had exceeded acceptable boundaries for the time of transmission’.
At the time, the BBC said that the comments from Moyles were ‘not meant to be taken seriously’.
In 2023, Church opened up on the Channel 4 TV show Kathy Burke: Growing Up about how the controversy had made her feel.
After saying she felt as though she became ‘fair game’ as she was turning 16, she responded to the Moyles clip directly, stating: ‘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.
‘Whereas now, it’s somehow become a bit more underground and a bit more dangerous.’
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