Chris Sawyer
@ahchrissawyer
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Freelance fun monger. Dorset knob. Former producer, Radio 1 Breakfast. Queer AF.
London, UK
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Wait, HOW am I only just finding out now that Barcelona has an evil twin town next door called BADalona??
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Now... before say this. I am VERY tired. But...
I just heard the new
@the1975
song in the Radio 1 playlist meeting and it crumpled me into a little heap on the floor.
Contractually not allowed to say what it sounded like, but it made me feel like I was 15 years old and in love
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I made a spelling mistake at work today.
But I apologised in the exact same place I made the mistake, so everyone forgave me. The end.
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And where do you think the best spot would be for the Christmas tree in the three-story-high aircraft hanger of a building at Stratford station?
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If anyone knows this women... an open invite to come on Radio 1 Breakfast tomorrow to tell everyone YOU’RE OK PLEASE GOD?!
@gregjames
@BBCR1
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You can come out now Meghan
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A day we hoped would never come.
Long Boi is dead.
Rest in peace, Britain’s tallest duck.
He lives on in the lives of the many he touched, and pecked. Some, impressively, as high as the waist.
Hear
@gregjames
and
@RoisinHastie
’s response to the news on the thread below.
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Imagine my smug face reading all the news stories about
@gregjames
not showing up for the show yesterday, knowing we’d done this lunacy
#WhosGotGreg
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How about some behind the scenes stuff from
@BBCR1
's
#HideAndSeek
?
There are some stories to tell: including bits about a broken ankle, a forged email, a big air traffic control problem, and the issue of
@daisyjarrett
's glasses. Plus some really geeky facts. Lesssssgo...
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Leaving BBC Radio 1 for the last time! You’ve all made me feel very special today.
I’m going to turn my phone off the very second I’ve posted this and disappear for a few days to catch up on five years of sleep.
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Hope the Qatari’s enjoyed that closing montage of their beautiful World Cup, soundtracked by… a gay, HIV positive, man, singing about the Power Of Love. 🌈 ✌🏻
Beautifully done,
@BBCSport
👏
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Best accidental discovery of my life:
THE WIGHT LINK FERRY'S HORN IS IN THE SAME KEY AS THE DROP IN FISHER'S 'LOSING IT'
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK
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Just found out that someone I know went to the pub tonight “cos they thought they’d take the risk”.
THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS YOU DICK!
You don’t risk yourself... much... you risk the chain of thousands of people you could go on to infect before you realise you have it.
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The Radio 1 website has apparently become sentient and decided by itself to erase today’s show.
I’m on an email chain with about 50 very technical people and no one knows where it’s gone. Hopefully fixed soon. If not,
@gregjames
will come round and perform it for you in person.
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Me over compensating with jolliness as I arrive at work at 5am.
Me: “Are you well??”
Them:
Me: “...I thought you were!”
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Here's
@SimonGCooper
doing the most intense tech support of his life with
@onedirection
(from my Snapchat: c.saw)
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Have you ever thought about making a huge jigsaw and talking about it on the radio for six days??
If you have, you might find this useful!
SECRETS FROM BEHIND THE SCENES AT THE
@BBCR1
GIANT JIGSAW
Includes sharks, out of control TikTokers, and a few confessions from me.
🧵
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In Sarah’s kitchen waiting for the pasty.
An army escort for the pasty there. Like you do.
Just after I took this a chef turned up from the local hotel offering to help cook it.
Bloody hell she better like it.
#PassThePasty
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We have... once again... bitten off more than we can chew
🗺
@GregJames
is seeking one person from every country in the world to help him deliver this message from the whole of humanity:
#UpYoursCorona
!
We need YOUR help. Want to represent your country? Apply here:
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Hi new Spanish friends. This is me, come follow 😈
Barcelona / Badalona
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It’s my last week at Radio 1!
I’ve been involved with more nonsense than I ever thought it would be possible to fit into a quick 15 years.
Friday will be my last show with Greg and the Breakfast team before I run off to a whole new world of mischief.
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THEY ARE GOING TO BUILD A LONDON ONE OF THESE OUTSIDE MY LIVING ROOM WINDOW.
I’m going to become entirely unhinged.
“I’m sorry I can’t come into work today the giant lego head has been winking at me all night”
The Sphere in Las Vegas might be the best $2.5 billion dollars ever spent.
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Felt like the beginning of another (rubbish) chapter this morning, so
@gregjames
started the show with a reminder of what we think our job is right now.
Mainly: keeping you company and playing clips of funny dogs. Glad to be of service!
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I fear that after approximately 23,000 episodes, Pointless may have run out of questions.
They’re current doing, I shit you not, this picture round:
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Lots of people thought I was leaving the
BBC to work for a much-loved friend of Radio 1 who's got a big show with a rival broadcaster. And they were right!
Hope you enjoyed tonight’s Late Night Lycett!
@joelycett
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We love you
@grimmers
!
This post from his best pal
@msaimeephillips
sums up the lovely man so wonderfully. Please take a moment to have a read!
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Me: excited to turn up in my fave jumper
Tom: why have you come dressed as Newscast?
@TomGaneCFM
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Not saying I was tired this morning, but I managed to say Balfour Beatty when I meant Barack Obama
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SO.... we had:
@gregjames
chatting with a lion called Wallace
- Calvin Harris talking about problem vegetables
- a brand new Coldplay song
- and the Red Arrows doing a display on bikes, WITH SMOKE.
If you’ve ever met me you known I’m just about the happiest man alive right now.
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Calling any Radio 1 fans still awake. This is an important one.
@gregjames
is more broken than you can imagine. And he was keen to keep cycling! Safety guys have called stop.
We're struggling to do the same route in a 4x4.
Tweet him and let him know he's a hero.
GREG to 70205
Day 3 is over for
@gregjames
@sportrelief
#pedaltothepeaks
Frustrating but you can’t beat Mother Nature
#SafetyFirst
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Did some maths earlier. We reckon
@gregjames
has had around 1,450 listeners chat on the phone with him this year. One THOUSAND four hundred and fifty!
And then there’s the 100,000s who have text or tweeted.
Thank you for making us all love radio even more a year on.
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In case you've not been watching This Morning, Miriam Margolyes has just boshed a Cornetto while being interviewed
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NOW THE MAYOR IS INVOLVED!
Hi Mr Mayor.
I just got back from Barcelona so I should come to Badalona and do a like for like comparison. Can you put me up for a few nights??
All I need is a bed for the night and 24/7 security in case my new enemies there find me.
🖐Hello
@ahchrissawyer
! I'm the mayor of Badalona, a wonderful city I'd love you to meet. You'll definitely love its welcoming people ♥️
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Lads, I got a gay sex scene on the breakfast show!
#ItsASin
!
@gregjames
@alexander_olly
@russelldavies63
"There's a lot of in time thrusting" 😳
@Alexander_Olly
& Lydia West tell
@GregJames
about their new show by
@russelldavies63
, It's A Sin. It may not be one to watch with your parents 😂
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The BBC is like…
“we ask of you but two things: stand in front of tanks; and read really long questions about the history of Crufts dog show without fluffing your lines.”
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A year since one of the proudest moments of my life when we finally got that fucking pasty to Sarah’s house.
Here’s a forgotten highlight when it met some top lads at a farm park:
“The pasty now, making its final journey, borne by Radio 1 listener Louise, escorted by Lance Corporal Logan & Lance Corporal Mbuga of the Royal Regiment Of Scotland, and followed by the piper of Newmachar.”
If you missed the show this week this is impossible to explain, sorry.
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One more before bed.
Here’s the moment from 5am today when we turned on the new studio for the very first time.
When we left at 7pm the night before it was still in bits (lol) so we genuinely had no idea if it would work or what it would look like.
@gregjames
@daisyjarrett
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Very excited to see more of
@BBCSimonMcCoy
with his head in his hands. He's stupidly agreed to chat to
@gregjames
and
@piffleandwhimsy
about the brilliant DUA LIPA VERSUS THE BBC NEWS THEME mash up.
Live on the BBC News Channel at 3:20pm.
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SLEEP. For a short while.
Please enjoy that I spent the morning taking hostage selfies. Like the annoying American tourist in a disaster film who gets everyone killed.
#R1EscapeRoom
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Many things coming up on Radio 1 Breakfast With
@gregjames
this morning but nothing will be as good as playing the audio of this out.
WHERE CAN WE BUY A BIG FLAPPY WOBBLY MAN?
I won one of those blow up things at
@BongosBingo
and this was the result.. I can’t even
@_AshleyWills
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What do you think this dog is saying?
I think he’s saying “BAAAAAHRINGDEH!”
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4pm today, Radio 1.
A really really stupid plan of ours begins.
God I’m excited. And terrified.
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Happy 26th birthday to
@gregjames
!
If you need him he’s on his second bottle of Bailey’s outside Frank’s cafe (Lady Gaga’s favourite coffee house).
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Just had
@5SOS
in with
@scott_mills
. One of the boys forgot their hat. Silly sausage. Anyone know which one?
http://t.co/7OlNjZgQvy
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Fully aware that I’m strange, but i’m missing the agony of working through a fucker of a hangover, the horror of festival signal and the smell of sweaty portacabin.
#BigWeekend
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Genuinely quite overwhelmed by the number of lovely good luck messages coming our way this evening. Especially those from our supposed rivals in commercial radio.
There’s a whole generation of kids who only need one good link to fall in love with radio. Who cares which station?
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Oh. And SORRY NOT SORRY for wearing a waistcoat:
Right. That's enough from me. STOP SHOWING OFF CHRIS. Can you tell I'm proud of all this and the amazing team??
What do you reckon? Should we do
#HideAndSeek
again?
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My most important job of the day involved tearing up some post it notes
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If you want to learn about trans people's lives, the way to do it is to listen to trans people.
I'm proud to be in the process of learning from
@shonfaye
,
@StephanieHirst
,
@parislees
,
@junodawson
and more.
Please: speak to, read, or watch something by a trans person today.
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Two years of Radio 1 Breakfast today, and everything’s just the same as when we started!
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Driving through a deserted highland pass, listening to Bon Iver's 8 Circle (we lost FM signal, sorry
@AnnieMac
), and suddenly seeing
@gregjames
ahead of us on his bike.
Actually quite an emotional moment in my life of media shallowness. This is something else up here.
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#blackouttuesday
I think if you shout about going away for a day of reflection you should also shout about what you reflected on when you come back.
These aren’t the only questions I’ve thought about today, but they are a selection that I could make work for Twitter:
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If you asked January Me to explain this picture I don’t think I’d know where to start
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Also… WHAT?!
Sergi, we’re gonna need more on this. Is it a boozy monkey with Charles Darwin’s head?? Big Badalona energy.
@ahchrissawyer
You should know that the citizens of Badalona have long been trying to invoke 'the evil one'. The one who will bring chaos on earth.
No joke
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YES TO THIS!!
EXPLODING INTO MANY BITS with pride for
@wgsfoster
@daisyjarrett
@NicholaNtim
@liamhadleyy
@RoisinHastie
@sophie_ellis_
@JJShreeve
@ichaloner
and
@gregjames
Best New Show at The Radio Academy Awards for Radio 1 Breakfast!
#arias
I chatted some shit.....
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Let's all take a sec to uokhun
@gregjames
. Look at the shoes. I'm hoping he a) WINS tonight B) doesn't get changed.
http://t.co/uSaenk6UrB
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BRACE BRACE BRACE! A joke is coming to get us and there’s nothing we can do about it.
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“Arriving right now iiiiiiis...” 🤔
“And arriving right now isssss...” 🧐
We all know
@BBCSimonMcCoy
is TV’s best newsreader, but he’s really earning the big bucks today.
They’ve got him playing “spot the world leader in a car.”
But... TINTED WINDOWS.
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Went on a date on Friday.
I was stood at the bar as he walked in and got a BAD ODD LOOK.
Turns out the woman stood next to me had some Valentine’s day flowers. They’d leaked and dribbled perfectly between my legs making it look like I’d pissed myself.
THANKS HUN
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Weird how “sociallydistancedofcourse” is just one word now
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I got news! Quite short notice for you, but in ONE MINUTE'S TIME I take over producing
@gregjames
's show on
@BBCR1
. Will try not to break it
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This is SO GREAT.
We’ve* actually done something smart with a Smart Speaker!
Say “Alexa, ask the BBC to play What’s My Age Again” and you’ll suddenly be INSIDE OUR SHOW, chatting to
@gregjames
.
*not me, some very clever people I work with
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Three years of Breakfast stupidity complete! ✅
Three years of thinking of the silliest thing we could do and doing it anyway.
Thank you if you’ve come with us. If so, I imagine you feel as tired as we do. SORRY/CHEERS!
(This is me and
@wgsfoster
then, today and always.)
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Briefly lost my shit on here yesterday while delirious from the post-vaccine sweats.
All fine though... no one really noticed.
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Post breakfast show trip away. What an honour to be here!
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Gregathlon: Pedal To The Peaks starts tomorrow. Greg's supporters club have just arrived in Snowdonia.
Special signs all along the motorway saying "SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS AHEAD". So that's nice.
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SORRY. WHY AREN’T WE ALL TALKING ABOUT THIS CLIP FROM EARLIER?!
David Cameron confides in Holly and Phil that he was so cross about the Brexit Bus he lost all self control...
Instantly in my top 10 slips ever. Up there with “but ☝️ he’s gay”.
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What do you do when you love the England team but hate the horrible homophobia in football? Go watch it at G.A.Y.! 🏴 🏳️🌈
Lovely Gareth would approve.
This England team are incredible role models. I hope they’ve made everyone, not just the classic lads, feel able to enjoy this.
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Ok, some updates as this has got a little wild.
Firstly, I have a lot of enemies now. I, for one, am delighted to welcome my new legion of haters.
Consensus seems to be that I avoid Badalona for a while.
@ahchrissawyer
they are just warning you that if you ever go to Badalona, be careful because you can get stabbed
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Here they all are:
Danny 🥟
Bryn ⛴
Mike 🚚
Sean 🚛
Oscar 🎢
Kate & Nicola 🐑
Tanya 🚶🏼♀️
Guy 🚘
Jon 🚴🏻♂️
Tom 🚛
Richard 🔐
Mike ⛷
Keri, Isaac & his mates 🎂
Kirsten 🚈
Louis 🚛
Andy 🚂
Katrina & Mitch ⚽️
Simon 🚖
Tim 🚛
Brook🚙
Louise 🚗
AND Sarah! 🏴
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This is incredible.
@scott_mills
and
@Chris_Stark
actually sobbing as they chat here.
They always share a lot on air… but on radio you have to hold some stuff back to stay sane. Now with, only a few weeks left on Radio 1, they let you in on what really makes them who they are.
What an amazing week it has been! Spending it with one of best mates in Newquay for
@BBCR1
This week me and
@chris_stark
had a sit down and had a Sunset Chat, no-filter love letter to Radio 1 and each other as co-hosts and friends ❤️
Listen here:
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Whichever Megabus employee got this through; we see you, we adore you.
Oh my god jesus look at what this Megabus is called
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I've been treated to an early listen to
@samfendermusic
's album...
...SO... turns out... we once forced a guy who's maybe written the album of the year to chase a sheep named after himself round a field. PROUD OF HIM AND US AND EVERYONE.
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Can we all agree that Rihanna shouldn’t know what Boots is?
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