The Ginger Whinger

The lynch mob are out and they are after Chris Evans wanted dead or alive!  When you work the other side of the glass you can forget quite how rabid the listeners can be. The passionate way we listen to the radio can be demonstrated this week by dear old, fairly harmless, Richard Allinson who is sitting in for Chris Evans on Radio 2 Breakfast.  Here are some of the comments left on the Daily Mail site:

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I am so missing Chris this week . Richard Allinson is dull,dull, dull. I sat in a traffic jam yesterday for an hour and needed to turn to local radio as I was loosing the will to live listening to him drone on.

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Always liked Richard Allison. Easier on the ears than the ginger whinger.

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I have to agree, I listened to Richard yesterday morning and it was superb.

Chirs Evans is a real waste of space with his hello goodbye nonsense when passing over to Ken Bruce.

I have reverted back to the radio 1 breakfast show since old Tel bit the dust, rather than listen to Evans.

The BBC has a duty to listen and not preach to their listeners. Listen BBC , we pay your wages, so please put Chris on the graveyard shift at 3:00 to 6:00am and do us all a favour.

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Evans bombed when he took over breakfast on Virgin 1215. He ruined the morning show trying to be a "shock jok" but he's never been as good as Howard Stern only a poor shade of him.
Eventually he made the drivetime slot his own and it was quite good listening.

But who on earth can replace Wogan at breakfast?

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And so it goes on and on 278 comments so far.  What you can pick up from the Daily Mail readers is that Chris seems to be polarising the audience - he appears to be a marmite presenter - you either love him or hate him.  The RAJAR's will show whether it was a good move to put Evans at breakfast.