{"id":564911,"date":"2026-07-23T21:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/564911\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T21:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T21:41:23","slug":"miquita-oliver-apologises-to-fearne-cotton-over-awful-past-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/564911\/","title":{"rendered":"Miquita Oliver apologises to Fearne Cotton over \u2018awful\u2019 past remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miquita Oliver has apologised to Fearne Cotton after she was sacked from BBC Radio 1 for making an \u201cawful\u201d comment about her.<\/p>\n

Oliver, 42, was let go from her radio job in 2005 following an interview with NME where she was asked how she would improve Top Of The Pops and replied that the programme should get rid of Cotton.<\/p>\n

Speaking on her Miss Me? podcast, Oliver became emotional as she recounted the story to her co-host, Jordan Stephens.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cI would like to tell the story of me and Fearne Cotton.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo basically, when I was 20, I did something really awful that I was really ashamed of for a long time.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did an interview in NME and I wasn\u2019t very nice about her at all.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was awful about her, and I was fired from Radio 1 because of it, so I lived in a lot of consequence.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t like each other\u2026 I don\u2019t even think she didn\u2019t like me but because I\u2019d been so awful about her, I think she stayed away from me.\u201d<\/p>\n

A few years later, Cotton began dating Oliver\u2019s T4 co-host Steve Jones and the pair would see each other \u201call the time\u201d.<\/p>\n

Oliver said: \u201cWe were civil but it was a little bit uncomfortable, but it was OK.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen we just sort of didn\u2019t see each other.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"King\u2019sOliver spoke negatively about Cotton in a 2005 interview (Yui Mok\/PA)<\/p>\n

Oliver told how Cotton reached out to her after she watched the Miss Me? podcast.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cLast year, she sent me a message on Instagram when I was having a f****** awful time.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe said, \u2018hey Miquita, I just watched a clip of you talking about how the press used to refer to you and it resonated deeply\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just wanted to say thank you for opening up about it. Sending love\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tearing up, Miquita added: \u201cI didn\u2019t mean to be awful to her.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was unkind and it wasn\u2019t me.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat message was really healing for me.<\/p>\n

\u201cI sent her so much love back and I knew she\u2019d just been through a divorce and was on this new journey.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018I wish you so much f****** luck on your new chapter.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was all love.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo actually, me and Fearne Cotton are fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"DavidOliver lost her job on Radio 1 as a result of her comments (Suzan Moore\/PA)<\/p>\n

A clip of the podcast was shared on Instagram and Cotton commented: \u201cBeyond grateful for how we\u2019ve reconnected.<\/p>\n

\u201cMakes me very happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oliver\u2019s mother, chef and broadcaster Andi Oliver, commented: \u201cI am so proud of you and your honesty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Oliver rose to fame while presenting Channel 4\u2019s Popworld with Simon Amstell from 2001 to 2006.<\/p>\n

She later presented T4 from 2006 to 2010.<\/p>\n

Cotton presented Top Of The Pops from 2004 until it ended in 2006.<\/p>\n

She now presents her own podcast, Fearne Cotton\u2019s Happy Place.<\/p>\n

Cotton announced she had separated from her husband, Jesse Wood, in December 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miquita Oliver has apologised to Fearne Cotton after she was sacked from BBC Radio 1 for making an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":564912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60],"class_list":["post-564911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564911","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=564911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}