{"id":314632,"date":"2026-02-24T11:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/314632\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T11:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T11:55:10","slug":"tfi-friday-returns-chris-evans-resurrects-popular-1990s-hit-show-on-his-virgin-radio-show-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/314632\/","title":{"rendered":"TFI Friday returns: Chris Evans resurrects popular 1990s hit show on his Virgin radio show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">It\u2019s 30 years since the show first aired, now a version of it is back for Chris Evan\u2019s Virgin Radio show and on YouTube\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chris Evans presented Channel 4's 'TFI Friday' throughout the late 1990s\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/67e69643-d077-4bbe-a2c8-3b1819fda939.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Chris Evans presented Channel 4&#8217;s &#8216;TFI Friday&#8217; throughout the late 1990s<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It was May 1999 and TFI Friday had a Spice Girl in the house. It was Posh Spice herself, Victoria Adams, then just two months shy of her lavish Dublin wedding to David Beckham. She had given birth to her first child, Brooklyn, just 10 weeks before.\u202f<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Host Chris Evans was in typically buoyant mood, and he was determined to deliver an interview to remember. He did just that when he produced a weighing scales and asked Victoria to step on it to see if her post-pregnancy weight was \u201cback to normal\u201d. She looked visibly uncomfortable, but reluctantly agreed to the request. \u201cEight stone,\u201d Evans announced. \u201cIt\u2019s not bad at all, is it?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s 30 years since the show first aired, now a version of it is back for Chris Evan\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146965,93,61,60,6992],"class_list":["post-314632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-chris-evans-actor","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-people-culture-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}