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Chris Moyles Show Transphobic Feature Claim Fact-Checked

“Chris Moyles had a feature where they'd deepen the voice of one of the female producers and called her tranny Rachel or something like that.”
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Confidence: High Checked on May 23, 2026

Summary

Available information on Chris Moyles’s shows lists regular segments such as “Buzz Off” with team member Rachel, but there is no record of a feature that deepened a female producer’s voice and referred to her with a trans‑phobic term. The claim is unsupported by reputable sources.

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theguardian.com
  • Chris Moyles | The Guardian

    The revamped XFM, featuring the likes of Chris Moyles – and wall-to-wall Supergrass and Kasabian – is aimed squarely at the lads.

  • Chris Moyles can dish it out, but he can't take it | Elisabeth Mahoney | The Guardian

    Moyles seemed astonished that a live news programme would have such documents, suggesting that hosting the show must be a "doddle" when you are told "the questions to be used in the interview and what the answers are going to be". I had listened to the first half-hour of today's show, to see how Moyles would come back from that extraordinary first half-hour yesterday – an uncomfortable listen, and one that would make the headlines for rather different reasons than we usually associate with the controversial self-styled Saviour of Radio 1.

bbc.com
en.wikipedia.org
  • The Chris Moyles Show - Wikipedia

    The feature consisted of Moyles playing a song from his personal CD collection, and three members of the team (usually Dave, Aled and Rachel) would "Buzz Off" when they wanted the song turning off. Audience participation consisted of a fourth vote, with the vote being "Buzz Off" if less than ...

  • Chris Moyles - Wikipedia

    In some of these films, his voice was only used for the UK version. Moyles has branched out his work into television. In 2002, his own Channel 5 show, Live with Chris Moyles, ran five shows a week for 13 weeks. Moyles was replaced by Christian O'Connell, before the programme was cancelled. He and sidekick Dave Vitty had ...

mirror.co.uk
nme.com
  • NME Cover Feature: Inside Chris Moyles' Controversial Return To Breakfast Radio

    There was the aforementioned crack at vlogging, with Moyles documenting his adventures in Hollywood and Norwich, interviewing the likes of Peter Andre and dissecting S Club 7 performances: “Oh, my failed YouTube attempt, as it got dubbed.” There was also controversy with Moyles publicly outed as being part of a tax avoidance scheme. “I didn’t break the law, and I paid it anyway,” he states. For a man who’s never been shy of the sound of his own voice, Moyles’ return to radio is exactly where you imagine he wants to be, especially seeing as various attempts at a television career have never taken off (see box left).

gbnews.com
walesonline.co.uk

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