I'm surprised they didn't pay to have 'VICTIM' tattooed on Chiles' forehead!
What a pathetically self-obsessed article. Chiles got the hump when he saw Evans as a
'One Show'
rival, so jumped ship - with a nice contract from a deluded ITV.
Brits like nothing better than building people up: putting them on a pedestal, making them believe it's all real - only to knock it from under their feet. If Chiles didn't realise that, then he (or his agent) is more stupid than he makes out.
Sour grapes are usually thrown in the bin: so Chiles is lucky that he's kept his football commentary job for the time being at ITV. The '
mea culpa' attitude won't save the career of Bleakley though: she was stupid enough to follow the £ signs, and I doubt there will be many zeros on contracts after the current one expires.
Daybreak is in the middle of a transformation back into either GMTV or one of the failed breakfast programmes from C4.
Either way, it's dead in the water: it may be better to leave the schedule as it is for the 6-9:25 slot, with kids programmes as they have done over Christmas/New Year.