Tim Lovejoy tells Chris Moyles what he considered their 00s feud

They were two of the biggest names of the 00s, with millions of fans tuning in to their hit shows.

But there was a time when ex-Soccer AM host Tim Lovejoy, 56, and former Radio One star Chris Moyles, 50, didn’t always see eye to eye.

And the pair recalled their feud in a far from frosty interview this week after the launch of the Mail’s brand new football podcast Soccer A-Z.

The weekly show sees Lovejoy reunite with ex co presenter Helen Chamberlain – with the first episode already topping Apple’s podcast chart days after it was released.

Speaking on Moyles’ Radio X show, Lovejoy said he first heard that he’d ‘slagged him off’ when in the Soccer AM office.

Tim Lovejoy (left) and Chris Moyles (right) joked about their so-called feud in the 00s in a far from frosty interview on Radio X this week 

Pictured (right) in 2004, Moyles said he cannot remember how his so called ‘feud’ with Tim Lovejoy (left with Helen Chamberlain) began in the early 00s

Recalling how he then became the victim of a couple more barbs, the presenter said: ‘I remember going out in Swansea…and I remember this girl coming up to me and going “are you alright?”

‘And I was like “yeah why?” and she goes “Chris Moyles has really been having a go at you on radio.’

 Lovejoy, who hosted Soccer AM for over a decade, continued: ‘In those days you (Moyles) were so massive, the ratings for that show were huge

‘ I thought it was brilliant like his ratings are massive and he’s talking about us, we couldn’t believe it and so I just sort of carried on the rivalry a bit.’

He added that despite the feud’s appearance: ‘I used to love it’

However, Moyles, who now hosts a show on Radio X was shocked by the recollection, asking the podcast hosts to remind him exactly what he had said.  

Moyles said: ‘I swear on my mothers life I don’t (remember) but I didn’t see Soccer AM so I can’t have been slagging you off for Soccer AM.’

Joking as they discussed the chain of events, Moyles remained stubborn that he had never seen Soccer AM and therefore it couldn’t have been him that started the beef between the broadcasters. 

 Moyles and Lovejoy later appeared on the former Soccer AM’s Sunday morning show Something for the Weekend in 2010

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Lovejoy said: ‘Honestly I wouldn’t have started that again because it’s not in my nature’. 

He added: ‘The first time I was like really shocked but I was sort of half shocked because obviously I’m getting slagged off on the biggest radio show but then half of me was going this is kind of cool?’

Moyles, who was known for making fiery comments on the radio in the 00s said: ‘It got so bad that I just didn’t like going out anywhere because I didn’t want to bump into somebody because I wouldn’t know if i’d slagged them off or not.

Lovejoy, who also presents Channel 4’s Sunday Brunch said: ‘It was like that back then It was kind of like the wild west , all the broadcasters having a go at each other and everything’.

On eventually squashing their beef, Lovejoy said the pair bumped into each other at a sporting event and began to talk. He left thinking Moyles was ‘such a nice bloke’.  

The Mail’s new football podcast this week bumped Gary Lineker’s show off the top of the charts with its first episode.

Soccer A-Z, which has reunited the Soccer AM legends Lovejoy and Chamberlain,  ended the stranglehold of Lineker’s The Rest Is Football on Apple’s podcast charts.

It has now reached number one in both the sports and overall Apple podcast charts.

Lovejoy and Chamberlain are joined on the show, weekly on Wednesdays, by former Soccer AM sidekick ‘Tubes’, real name Peter Dale, YouTuber Robbie Knox, as well as ‘Sheephead’, AKA Joe Worsley.

DMG Head of Podcasts Jamie East said: ‘Having the biggest podcast in the UK with a brand new show is what it’s all about – the rest is football, but we’re Soccer A-Z!

‘I’m delighted for Tim, Helen and the whole podcast gang who’ve worked tirelessly to bring this to life.’