- Alan Brazil failed to show up for his talkSPORT breakfast present on Friday
- The presenter often hosts a breakfast present from 6am and was due to take action
- However, after being noticed in a Cheltenham bar yesterday, he was a no-show
TalkSPORT radio presenter Alan Brazil has laughed off strategies that he missed his breakfast present on Friday as a result of he went AWOL on an all day drinks bender on the Cheltenham Festival.
Brazil advised MailOnline numerous causes for his absence after followers crammed social media with drink-related theories for his no-show.
The excuses he gave included him being too drained after an extended week, having a foul knee, having a foul chest, and having caught a bug from assembly so many individuals which wore him down.
In mitigation, he added that he had already accomplished an additional shift this week anyway.
The massively in style presenter appeared very eager to dismiss rumours of him having taken the time without work with a hangover after ingesting an excessive amount of on the competition, dubbed St Patrick’s Thursday by organisers.
Alan Brazil was pictured, left, at Cheltenham Festival on Friday after he allegedly ‘went AWOL’
In truth he denied drink being the reason for his absence no fewer than 5 occasions.
But he then conceded: ‘I simply had a couple of pints of Guinness yesterday with some nice firm. I’m positive’.
He added it ‘wasn’t unhealthy publicity’ for the present and that he did not really feel it essential to apologise to TalkSPORT bosses.
He additionally appeared to trace that his spouse first discovered about his absence from the breakfast present when she tuned on this morning and he wasn’t on it.
In a long-winded clarification, Brazil mentioned: ‘There was no huge drinks bender. I used to be simply drained after coming down right here on Sunday.
‘It’s been an extended week. Also my knee is enjoying up after numerous strolling about. There’s numerous strolling about wants accomplished right here with so many individuals to satisfy.’
He went on ‘I’ve additionally acquired a poor chest and it is simply now popping out and I really feel simply ‘argh’.
‘It’s not Covid or something. I simply meet so many individuals on this job – particularly right here at Cheltenham. So I simply acquired a bug that is all and it simply wears you down for this which is an extended week.
Brazil stunned talkSPORT listeners by failing to show up for his talkSPORT breakfast present – however he was noticed in a bar at Cheltenham yesterday!
‘So the underside line is that I’m positive – I’m actually good. Tales that I used to be ingesting an excessive amount of yesterday are only a load of nonsense, a load of nonsense, a load of nonsense. It’s acquired nothing to do with booze. I simply had a couple of pints of Guinness yesterday with some nice firm. I’m positive, aside from this limp.
‘After this I’m going dwelling to Suffolk then I’m going out to the French Alps on Sunday for per week.’
He added: ‘All this ingesting an excessive amount of is a load of nonsense. I imply that, it is nonsense. I’ve simply been regular.
‘I heard the present this morning’ he began off saying, then he corrected himself and mentioned: ‘My spouse was listening and she or he advised me all about it.’
‘They have been positive on the present this morning. Shebahn (Aherne) is nice. She acquired her huge probability (taking on) in order that was good. So respect. I really like all that.
‘It’s not unhealthy publicity. I missed a day and it’s my fault. I haven’t got to express regret to the bosses. I’m not saying I’m too huge for that (saying sorry). I’m not too huge to express regret to the bosses.
‘I labored Monday and Tuesday of this week. And I do not often do this. So I’ve already put an additional shift in. So I’m positive.’
Earlier within the day it was reported that Brazil amused talkSPORT listeners by not turning up for his Cheltenham Festical build-up this morning – a day after being noticed in a bar at Prestbury Park.
Trainer Dylan Cunha shared a photograph with Brazil, proper and Parlour, centre left, within the afternoon
Fans speculated on social media that Brazil’s absence had been a deliberate PR stunt
Brazil was supposedly meant to guide listeners by means of all of the discuss forward of the ultimate day of motion of the competition.
But Chris Evans was compelled to step in and initially fill the silence after Brazil was nowhere to be seen, with Shebahn Aherne later management of the airwaves.
Ray Parlour and Dean Saunders have been additionally available with Aherne to cowl for the truant chatterbox. They joked that he was nonetheless in mattress.
Jamie O’Hara, the previous Tottenham participant who works on talkSPORT’s Sports Bar present, quipped that it was a ‘shambles from the large man’.
‘Waking as much as a Alan Brazil no present is strictly the beginning of the day I wanted, I’ll see if I can discover him at Cheltenham afterward at the moment, shambles from the large man,’ he wrote on X, previously Twitter.
Parlour claimed Brazil texted him at 4.30am saying he wanted a lie-in.
Evans had been getting ready to take the mic for his common breakfast present on Virgin Radio however was snatched up by talkSPORT bosses to fill in initially of the present.
Brazil often presents his breakfast present from 6am however was nowhere to be seen on Friday
He mentioned: ‘Well has he made it? Ermm, no is the reply, not up to now not less than.
‘I’m actually sorry about this talkSPORT huge nevertheless it’s Chris Evans right here from Virgin Radio.
‘So if in case you have seen Alan Brazil within the final 24 hours, the place have you ever seen him, the place was the sighting, what time was it as properly?
‘If you do not know what you are in search of, Alan Brazil is powerful by nature and strong by character.
‘Also lacking in motion this morning, we have Ray ‘Party’ Parlour, he is nowhere to be seen, we have not seen Dean ‘Deano’ Saunders for some time, Ally ‘Goldenballs’ McCoist, no, he is nowhere to be seen both.
‘So in case you see any of those characters, we have to know the place they’re as a result of they should be again right here on the present.’
While he has been enterprise his broadcasting duties this week, Brazil has additionally been having fun with the revelry at Cheltenham.
Raceday TV presenter Emma Jones discovered him at Cheltenham on Thursday after a two-day search – and the place else would he have been moreover the Guinness Village?
‘We’ve discovered him. I’ve been in search of you,’ she mentioned.
‘Really? It’s my fortunate day!’
Jones laughed and continued: ‘This is my first time at Cheltenham, I requested everybody what I wanted to do they usually mentioned discover Alan Brazil.
Sports Bar presenter Jamie O’Hara joked that it was a ‘shambles from the large man’
‘It has been my mission for 2 days. Mission achieved!’
Perhaps his absence from the present this morning will immediate one more search.
One consumer on X joked: ‘Death, taxes and Alan Brazil being a no present on talkSPORT Gold Cup day.’
Another consumer posted an image with Brazil seemingly at Cheltenham, though it’s not clear from when.