A 2002 clip of Chris Moyles offering to take 15-year-old Charlotte Church’s virginity has gone viral prompting calls for a BBC investigation after fellow DJ Scott Mills’ sacking

A clip of radio presenter Chris Moyles offering to take the virginity of then-15-year-old Charlotte Church went viral, prompting viewers to prompt the BBC to launch an investigation.

During a live broadcast on his afternoon show on Radio One in 2002, Moyles, then 27, announced that the young soprano was turning 16, revealing that he wanted to take her virginity.

Five years later in 2007, the DJ appeared on the Welsh singer’s Channel 4 programme, The Charlotte Church Show, and was asked by the presenter to ‘explain your behaviour’.

Moyles said: ‘Yes, you were under 16, yes 15. But you would have been 16 and I offered to take your virginity.’

The crowd started laughing and Charlotte asked: ‘What exactly did you say?’

Moyles said he wanted to ‘guide her through the jungle of sexuality now that she’s 16’ and defended it as a ‘sweet’ offer.

Five years later in 2007, the DJ appeared on the Welsh singer’s Channel 4 programme, The Charlotte Church Show, and was asked by the presenter to ‘explain your behaviour’.

The resurfaced clip comes after Scott Mills (pictured) was sacked by the BBC after it was revealed he was being investigated by the Met over allegations of sexual nature with a teenage boy.

At the time, the broadcasting standards commission condemned Moyles for his comment.

The almost two-decade-old clip has resurfaced online following the Scott Mills saga, in which the Radio Two presenter was sacked from the BBC last month after being accused of serious sexual assault on a child under 16.

Although the allegations date between 1997 and 2000, the complainant first reported them to the Met Police in 2017. Scott was questioned in 2018 but the Crown Prosecution Service dropped the case in 2019.

Viewers of the clip are now calling on the BBC to investigate Moyles, who worked for the corporation between 1997 and 2012 and now hosts a program on Radio X watched by more than a million listeners a week.

One person commented: ‘This was a really tough hour. He exposed her and no one listened. ‘The BBC absolutely needs to investigate this matter.’

Another added: ‘Licence fees have been funding this for years, now it’s all coming out. Why isn’t it investigated?’

While one person wrote: ‘The shame is that this is absolutely no less, this happened, you can see how much this bothered Moyles, fair game for Charlotte to call him out, looks cool, collected revenge in the classiest way possible. Unfortunately, his career is not over.

Photograph of Charlotte on her 16th birthday in 2002

The Welsh singer touched on the moment in a 2023 interview with Kathy Burke for the Channel 4 documentary Growing Up.

Charlotte said: ‘It wasn’t good but at least it was there.

‘This culture of gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen was dominant. It was very simple, it was nothing to be ashamed of, it was there and everyone knew what it was. But now it’s become more underground and more dangerous.’

Chris Moyles and the BBC were contacted.

A spokesman for the broadcaster told the Daily Mail: ‘Chris Moyles has not worked at the BBC for more than 14 years. But there is no situation today where the BBC would tolerate similar language or behaviour.’

In 2023, a spokesman for the BBC said: ‘Like all parts of the organisation, we comply with the BBC’s Broadcasting Guidelines and take our duty of care to our viewers, contributors and staff very seriously.’

The insider added: ‘The incident described took place more than 19 years ago and similar language or behavior will not be tolerated at the station under any circumstances in 2021.’