Chris Moyles publicly joked on Radio 1 that he’d “take Charlotte Church’s virginity” when she turned 16, which was widely criticized as gross and sexually inappropriate. Charlotte Church later said it made her feel like she became “fair game.”

What he said

  • He said he wanted to “lead her through the forest of sexuality now she had reached 16.”
  • The Broadcasting Standards Commission later said the comments’ “explicit sexual content and humour had exceeded acceptable boundaries.”

Charlotte Church’s reaction

Church has since said the moment was part of a wider pattern of being sexualized by the press and public as a teenager. She described it as “gross” and said it marked a shift where she became “fair game.”

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