Live radio, 30 years, two hemispheres. Host of Australia's first national breakfast show @GOLDFM. NEW BOOK ! UNSCRIPT- Radical Act of Being You pre-order now
Melbourne, Australia
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Cant believe its over. I started to write some words for the end but gave up and trusted that my heart would find the right words. I hope you felt my deep gratitude . You made my dream come true and helped me grow this new one. Thanks for letting me be your mate in the morning
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Daughter been away on camp for a few days. I’m picking her up from school, she can’t wait to see me
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So thats my news. I'm leaving my radio home for the last 12yrs @absoluteradio. I'm heading off to a big new adventure. Tell you what very soon but for now...I have such a heavy heart but its also full of gratitude and love at what I've been lucky enough to have in my life. x
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16 months, 301 shows after leaving the mighty @absoluteradio and a No1 show in the U.K, me and my small band of rebels and misfits get to No1 downunder. Thanks 🙏
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Went to see a friend today who is dying of cancer. A fine and proud Australian and also a huge soccer fan who supports Arsenal. He said today “I hope to be dead by May so I don’t live to see Liverpool win the league”. Now that’s a fan.
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Hey, just a heads up
If anyone in Melbourne is looking for super quick test results just go to the MCG.
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The last 10 minutes of tonights #BluePlanet2 has left me in tears. The whale and her dead baby she's been carrying around for days because of us dumb humans.
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This week I’ve joined a club, it’s the grief one
A world opens up that you don’t really know exists of the funeral planning and choices and conversations you never thought you’d have to have
My mother in law died suddenly at the weekend and she was a very present part of our lives since I married her daughter 26 years ago. I’m a witness to my wife’s journey with all she’s experiencing
Today I went to clear out Jackie’s fridge and it BROKE me. I offered to do this small thing because I thought it would be easy. There was this powerful tenderness and finality to clearing out someone’s fridge
Fridges contain possibilities of dinners to be made and enjoyed. They sustain our lives.
It was the full bottle of milk for cups of tea what won’t now be drink that did it for me
I made a cuppa for her and myself and sat on her couch
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Landed safe and sound in Singapore. As we took off from London late Friday night it all caught up with me and I actually sobbed. It’s been amazing. Awake Sunday morning now to kids already asking when ‘is everything going back to normal?’. x
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Two years ago I walked out on a radio show that me and a best mate took to No1 in the UK. I headed to Australia and Melbourne to start a new life and radio show thinking that would be a good idea. What a dick.
Only… instagram.com/p/B9iuVqCHsNL/…
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What great news! Made up for them both and @RichieFirth deserves a new great show.
New @AbsoluteRadio Hometime show announced - it'll be @bushontheradio & @RichieFirth, while @benburrell takes over on afternoons on.radio.today/2JFO1qp
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Heart wide open after binging entire S3 After Life. Love how @rickygervais doesn't distinguish between drama and comedy. It's very hard to make work like this about grief that's both real, raw and hopeful
it's also very very funny
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Hey. I’ve not been on the show today as last night my mother in law was suddenly taken very ill and my wife and kids have rushed back to England to be at her bedside. I’m keeping miracle minded and she’s in the great care of the NHS. x
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Steve Wright. Just about as good as you can do it
I'm on air right now after 25 years of doing what Steve lit up in in me as a teenager in the 80s. He really did inspire me to do this
I'd never heard a DJ be as funny, subversive, cheeky and with so much warmth.
Thanks Wrighty x
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Oh dear. Click bait tv this at its lowest. Australia, imagine an angry troll under a bridge spewing hate, that’s Katie Hopkins.
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Coming from being told to ‘F*** off home’ and told I was ‘uninvited’, I just want to say thank you to the good hearts ♥️ of Melbourne and Australia.
Today we found out the show was still #1 Breakfast show in Melbourne, and has been for 12 months now
Thanks 🙏 😍
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On the eve that all our worldly goods are packed and shipped to Australia we win one last award. This shabby show of @RichieFirth and mine has won every single award we were eligible for. We made every show with a genuine joy for what we did. I have nothing but gratitude 🙏
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And to all of you who stayed up Sunday night to tune in, I cannot tell you what that meant. You even called the station. Man alive I'm just so humbled that who still give a s***.
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Thanks to the angels who work for the @NHSEngland my mother in law has heart life saving surgery at St Georges. Early days but just want to say thank you @NHSEngland. Always. You the best of who we can be x
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I may be many miles away but I’m thinking of back home right now and what happened a year ago today. I will take a moment to remember the innocent kids and people whose lives were stolen, and their poor families. I still can’t believe it happened. x
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The dog has done two shits in the kitchen as a thank you gift for putting her in a crate and flying her 10k miles and then 3 wks in quarantine #dogkarma
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Maybe I’m a soft touch. But 15yr old daughter was in bits saying goodbye to her bf at the weekend. No idea when they can see each other again. I got her a kitten to cheer her up. We got him yesterday. Meet Larry
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Thanks for all the messages about the @rickygervais interview we did. Many of you saying you hadn’t heard him speak like that before.
This is the full unedited chat we did if you want something to feed your soul
iheart.com/podcast/239-the-c…
#afterlifeseason2
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Friday is my last show of the year. It’s been the most challenging, toughest, unsettling, overwhelming, rewarding, joyous year of my life. Thanks to all the lovely people who still care and get the podcast. I’m humbled. Nothing but deep love and thanks 🙏
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In our chat tomorrow @rickygervais says "I don't distinguish between drama and comedy".
I love how great art, whatever it is, can transform how you feel.
I just got this email from Sharon whose husband Pete died in January. She asked me to pass this onto Ricky.
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My walk tonight. Chatted to my dad 10k miles away wishing I could reach out and touch his hand. When will Skype let us do that? Listened to Crowded House Distant Sun as I drove home missing him and I needed windscreen wipers for tears dropping from my eyes.
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Thanks so much for your messages. Some of us haven’t met but sometimes in darker spots that life throws up we show a compassion for each other. It’s made me feel less alone. Thanks 🙏
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Word reaches me on #RAJAR day back in the U.K. we managed to go out and end the show after 12yrs on a record high. Getting to No1. Well done buddy @RichieFirth and thanks to everyone who tuned in and was part of our radio family and life #chanks
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Hotel has a 3 cd multiplayer so gives you a good idea about the place I booked in one of the most futuristic cities in the world. Family really happy with me. Just loading up the Betamax
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Two days in and the show is No1 podcast in the UK and No7 in Australia. Thanks everyone. It’s early days and to balance that someone texted the show today to say I was the worst possible way to start the day. #yinandyang
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The press destroyed his mum. Are doing the same with his wife. Full power to them for seeing how screwed up the whole thing is. All families are dysfunctional, but then there is the Royal Family
How dare these two self-absorbed whining freeloaders treat the Queen like this?
Who the hell do they think they are? Shameless & shameful.
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Happy New Year 🥳 2018 was some year. Moving my family from one side of the world to another and then starting a radio show. I’m lucky to have had this opportunity and life. Thanks to all of you who’ve supported that. Here’s to 2019 x
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Tuesday 4th of June will mark 1 year of a radio show i started the other side of the world. In a City no one knew who I was or cared. Its been the most challenging and also rewarding thing ive ever done. I guess you sometimes cant have one without the other. I'm grateful x
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This man
For someone telling us they are done with stand up, he's showing more wit and charisma sitting down than many comics have standing up
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So, Australia I'm coming. You are my new home. Please be my friend theage.com.au/entertainment/…
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On a great Australian road trip with the family. Made it along the Great Ocean Road and the Twelve Apostles.
It was such a stunning day and the turquoise vivid high definition colours of the water made one of the kids say in awe “it barely looks real it’s so beautiful”
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My mother in law is stable in ICU and I just need to thank everyone in @NHSEngland for saving her. The nurse who is helping not just her but the family worrrying too. x
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Thinking of so many back in U.K. What a shitshow.
We did well over 100 days of total lockdown in Melbourne and it was tough at times. We are lucky now to be able to enjoy life again and Xmas. To be separated and isolated over Xmas is unimaginable
Sending love x
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Thanks so much for your messages today. Unbelievable. I’m so blown away. It’s a very strange and wonderful time at the moment. We moved out of our family home of 10 yrs today and I had to pull over in a lay-by for a little blub. Then I read your messages with made it worse! x
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Two years ago I left this show with one of my best friends @richiefirth after 12 yrs on Absolute Radio.
The show changed my life and my families. I had nothing but an amazing ride that I am grateful for every day.… instagram.com/p/CAUcxpmH9ZO/…
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My wife lost her dad Friday
Thanks for welcoming me into the family years ago despite me offering little at the time as a suitable boyfriend !
You never made me feel that
Thanks for the chats on life, rock and roll,comedy & books
May the road rise up to meet you.
Bye David x
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Just called my mum 10k miles away and she seems to think despite us both watching the England game live in different time zones she is somehow in a parallel universe
“I won’t text you the result Christian”
“I’m watching it live”
“But..I’ll see it live earlier” #mumchats
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Just walked the dog in a local park in Melbourne and watched a kids football (soccer to the locals) game and felt a little homesick. Tried to struck up some World Cup banter but nothing. In that moment I became that man in the park you see, trying to chat to you. #nomates
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Why do many broadcasters and newspapers give the evil psychopaths who carry out such hate crimes any screen time or column inches. You give them what they want. We don’t need their back story. Only show pics like this guy in Manchester outside a Mosque yesterday
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22 years ago I married my soul mate. Sarah had to lend me the money for my suit and our wedding rings cost $150. She had picked a real playa
I was 25 and mumbling about dreams of being a DJ and doing a sales job I… instagram.com/p/CAgq7NgHome/…
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I’m a little bit teary eyed already. It’s 4am here Melbourne. Kids up in their Pj’s all watching the game. What a goal #CROvENG
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I’d like to apologise to my new Australian neighbours. Yes it was me with a torch looking at your bins. I was just trying to work out what bin day it was tomorrow #newkidontheblock #itsthebluebinday
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It’s hard to fully describe how exciting @oasis were, when they burst into our lives in 1994.
They had it all, killer songs, the high wattage charisma, a genuine air of menace in Noel and Liams relationship, and a real unshakable mission to be the soundtrack to young Brits, who wanted a good time and to live a more exciting life.
Two things I’d like to insist on though if all the reunion talk is true;
1. Don’t worry about any new stuff guys.
2. No one under the age 40 should be allowed to buy any tickets until the rest of us have got ours first.
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Well Sean Hughes. You had one last great punchline. As he was cremated, Smiths play. Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now #RIPSeanHughes
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Birthday today. 12yr old had made a powerpoint presentation for me. Photos of me with my girls since they were babies. Melted my heart.
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Just spent 17 minutes trying to explain to my mum that due to the time difference my show starts at 6am in Melbourne Monday morning which is 9pm for her Sunday. "no, thats impossible".
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Just dropped my daughter at University to begin her new life,hugs,some tears, brave smiles
“What should I do now?”
she asked
“You walk that way, I’ll go the other way, don’t look back”
As I walked away,hiding my tears behind sunglasses, I felt like I was in an Adele song
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My Dog can’t be released from quarantine due to an outbreak of ‘dog flu’. It’s at ‘lockdown’. I imagine the doggie inmates using bowls and running them up and down the bars singing an old blues classic, then fashioning a shiv for a showdown in the yard against the shitzus
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Word to the wise.
The muso bores who saw Bidens speech and are being snide about him walking off to Coldplay and Sky Full full of Stars. Oh you snarks!
It was his late sons favourite song. Beau Biden. Chris Martin kindly sang it as his funeral
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What a ride. Thanks for letting me be your mate in the morning x
The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show - the very best bits of all time!
Don't be sad it's (nearly) over, be glad it happened... @OC @RichieFirth
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For those asking about my dog who is about to fly off to Australia, here she is being carried away like some dog criminal mastermind #seeyontheotherside
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Well kids with iPads I hope you’re happy now. You’ve killed Toys ‘R’ Us. You’ll never know the true excitement of wondering it’s great isles excitedly with some birthday money. An Aladdin’s cave of awaiting adventures with new toys.
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Never voted before in the years I've been loving I'm a Celeb but did last night, for Iain. Already King of The Jungle for me. Coming through all the pathetic crap from some of the others. He's an inspiration for people. I'm #TeamIain
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What a joy to be back on @absoluteradio this morning @daveberry_tweet and the Weasel @RealDysonator
Celebrating 15yrs since I launched the station with powerful @RichieFirth directed by the mad genius @clivedickens
It’s a great station made by people who care
Happy B’day !
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When I was leaving at Heathrow to emigrate the Pilot said to me “I guess this means no more new seasons of Green Wing” #faceoff
A man just came up to me and told me how much he was going to miss me in the mornings, how I have kept him company, how sorry he was to see me go. It was only after he left that I realised he thought I was @OC
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For those asking did i enjoy going back to UK after a y living in Australia. Highlights
1. Seeing mum after 13 mths apart and smelling the top of her head and breathing in the shampoo she always uses
2. Marks and Spencers.
3. Sunday Times
4. Countryside, nobody does it better
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One daughter is yelling, another in tears, all over a game of Ludo. Its not even 10am. Fuck Ludo
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Just got COVID tested. Daughter has sore throat so doing what we should all do right now.
I was shocked to hear how much abuse staff are getting from, I’ll use my words carefully here, f***wits
Thank you everyone doing our tests, and those processing them. You matter to us
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On our 20th Wedding 🎩 Anniversary we had dinner with some people who we are lucky to share our lives with. Thanks Sarah for believing in me. She had to lend me the money for my suit x
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For Rebecca Vardy to call Iain fake is confusing. This is someone with more plastic than all the Kardashians melted down .You can have anxiety and be withdrawn and also loud a bit later. We are many things Rebecca. More compassion, less judging.
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Our wives keep us honest.
No way is Trump and Melania for real. This carry on shows it.
If I behaved like that my wife would come in and call me a dick and to get my shit together and grow the fuck up.
Then one of my mates would call to make sure I got the message
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This was my reaction when I found out we’d gone to No2 in Melbourne in our first 5 months. I have many people to thank, and to those who wrote me off, even bigger thanks 🙏
Radio Ratings Melbourne- GFK 7:
• 3AW market’s biggest mover
• smoothfm win gives Nova FM lock on major markets
• Gold equal #2, breakfast lifts
• Drive: Hughesy & Kate further ahead at Fox, Kennedy Molloy up
Read more: ow.ly/hA2B30mAXnd
#AusRadio #AusMedia #AusNews
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I'm looking at doing a live farewell show. Me and @RichieFirth and @siralexlowe providing some special 'guests'. Not sure whether to book village hall, town hall, or conference centre. Would you come, would be one night only in London #chanks
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Today is 25 years on breakfast radio
If you told 25yr old me in 1998 it would be the ride it's been and end up half the world away in Australia I'd have wept with joy
I have nothing but deep gratitude today for the life I've been able to lead and whats it given my family
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Can't believe its been four years since @RichieFirth and I won the Red Bull Soap Box Race. Genuinely terrifying and thats what made it such a great moment for us. Miss you BA
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I got up at 5am to watch the England game
Holy shit
Nil nil against Scotland (no disrespect...) at Wembly!
Had Kane been on the piss the night before ?
When Southgate took Foden off I almost threw the remote through the tv
NEWS FLASH!
IT
IS
NOT
COMING
HOME
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Just trying to find a phone number in my phone and found one from an old friend who died a few years ago. Took my breath away that it was still in my phone. Cant bring myself to delete it. Silly right? Feels to final
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Steve Wright is why I do and love radio. Hearing him as a teenager lit a spark in me. I didn’t know you could do it like that. Relentlessly funny, warm, innovative and I cannot think of any broadcaster as consistent as Steve
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Just been to my first Australian farmers market. No matter where they are in the world, always got the same stalls and bloody expensive. You get the bees wax stall, Turkish breads the size of a door and a married couple who hate each other selling brownies
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Mother in law
Not seen us for two years
Flown across the world to be with us
34* degrees outside
Currently indoors watching Antiques Roadshow
To be fair, it’s a ripper episode. Victorian era chamber pot
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Good luck to @daveberry_tweet and my man @RealDysonator, they are the chosen ones to replace me and @RichieFirth. I hope they enjoy the show like I have the last 12yrs. Its the best gig in radio.
The King Is Almost Dead. Long Live The King!
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We just had to say a heart shuddering goodbye to Nisha our gorgeous dog
Ever since I was a kid I always wanted a German shepherd and I got the best one ever 10yrs ago. Calling her a ‘dog’ diminishes just what a special soul she was to our family
Just 24/7 unconditional love and ever ready for shenanigans at the drop of a hat and the sound of her lead being gathered.
She was a very special soul mate to our daughters in times of need and even let a cat and small yappy dog into her house without ever showing them nothing but motherly care
I’ll miss her most at 4.30am as we always had a chat before I left for the radio show. The pat of your dogs head and sniff of the top of it is the presence of bliss.
Thanks Nisha for looking after everyone, I’ll see you down the road for more walks and snuggles
C x
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My daughter is preparing a speech on cancel culture and comedy.
She’s quoting @rickygervais
I’m not sure this is a good idea
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My old radio home @absoluteradio were game changers, I loved my 12yrs on breakfast. One way was showing that commercial radio doesn’t need to dumb down at the weekend. They gave a great comedian a show and built it around him and gave him space and time to grow his own tribe
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Never been prouder of my girls. Have asked I wake them when Im getting up tomorrow at 3.40am for the game.
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I'm 44 and won awards and shit this year but I'd give anything to go back to being 9 again on Christmas Eve. Feeling almost sick with excitement of what lay under the tree.
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My last show @absoluteradio and in the UK, will be FRIDAY MAY 18TH
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Your heart 💜 goes out to the kid and Dave Grohl x
Taylor Hawkins' 16-year-old son, Shane, does his father proud as he sits behind the kit for @FooFighters' performance of "My Hero."
#FooFighters #TaylorHawkinsTribute
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