I'm a regular listener to Radio 1, so have therefore cultivated a deep hatred for Jo Whiley and Edith Bowman. Whiley's a namedropping nonentity with the personality of a dishcloth, whose show lasts three hours but has never featured anything remotely memorable (save for a few Live Lounge performances.) Bowman's an intensely irritating woman who relies on faux enthusiasm and screeching catchphrases ("Get in!") when all else fails. Fortunately, someone at Radio 1 has finally realized that a fortysomething mother and a Scottish girl with no discernible talent need replacing...
So, Whiley is being booted to weekend afternoons (1-4pm) with Fearne Cotton replacing her, while Edith Bowman's being kicked to weekend breakfast (7-10am) and replaced by rising star Greg James. Now, I'm not a huge fan of Cotton or James, but both are eminently preferable to their vacuum-talent predecessors, so this is great news. I just wish Radio 1 bosses had ditched Bowman and Whiley about five years ago, or never employed them to begin with.
