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Doctor Foxed By Chart Axing
Mike_Diver by Mike Diver December 9th, 2003
Neil (née Doctor) Fox is leaving the commercial radio chart show, the Woolworths sponsored Hit 40 UK.

Show producers called the DJ/Pop Idol judge "too cheesy" and too old, and were planning to axe Fox before he quit himself to concentrate on television work.

Fox not only appears on ITV's Pop Idol, but also runs his own production company. He told reporters that something had to give eventually, and that thing is the chart show.

Squeaky T4 presenter June Sarpong is tipped to replace Fox.



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