Chris Moyles, the self-proclaimed “saviour of Radio 1″, has become a surprising poster boy for women’s rights.

Chris, now hosting a new breakfast show on Radio X, came to the realisation he was a feminist in an interview with free music magazine NME.

Chris Moyles has outed himself as a feminist (John Marshall JM Enternational/Invision/PA)
Chris Moyles has outed himself as a feminist (John Marshall JM Enternational/Invision/PA)

“S***, maybe I’m a feminist,” he said. “My manager is female, my assistant is female, my press person is female and my exec producer is female.”

And he put his new found feminism to good use by calling for an end to the “tampon tax”.

“Why do women have to pay for sanitary products? That’s crazy. That would never happen if it was the other way around!” he said.

He has returned to radio following a three-year absence. He was sacked from the BBC in 2012 in favour of a younger replacement, Nick Grimshaw.

Moyles and his breakfast show replacement Nick Grimshaw in 2012 (BBC/PA)
Chris and his breakfast show replacement Nick Grimshaw in 2012 (BBC/PA)

“I’d kind of said to myself ‘never say never’ about going back. People thought I’d given it all up for good, which I hadn’t.

“They approached me. Be under no illusion that I went knocking on doors for work,” he added.

Chris went head-to-head with his replacement Nick when he began presenting the morning show on Radio X, a rebranding of Xfm, on September 21.

In his first show, Chris took a pop at his radio rival. When Noel Gallagher said his children listened to the BBC presenter, Chris bluntly asked, “Why would you do that to them?”

Chris Moyles
Chris outside the BBC on his final day at Radio 1 in September 2012 (Ian West/PA)

But he was more diplomatic about his replacement in the new interview.

“(The BBC) had to be seen to be making the biggest move they could possibly make to achieve that (younger listeners) because they’d been trying for a while and it’d not happened,” he said. “Still not happened!”

“I think we’ll take a lot of (Nick’s) older listeners and his average age will go down, he’ll get patted on the back and we’ll get patted on the back – everyone’s going to win.

“I don’t think anyone can lose in this scenario. Apart from Capital and Heart,” he added.

Taylor Swift
Chris also admitted he’s a Swiftie (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Chris’s new home is known for a rockier sound than the pop and indie music played on Radio 1 but he dismissed the branding of the station as male-focused.

“It’s b*******. The whole male focused thing came out of the blue. A load of us presenters went out for a beer the other night and everyone who was there was like, ‘This is bulls***, who said this?’

“The weirdest thing is, if that’s what they secretly want to go for, they’re f*****, because my audience was always 50/50 male and female, if not with a slight edge towards females. I don’t think that will change much,” he said.

The full interview is available in Friday's NME magazine (NME)
The full interview is available in Friday’s NME magazine (NME)

Despite the station’s rock music leaning, Chris waxed lyrical about the princess of pop, Taylor Swift.

“I love Tay-Tay, and anyone who says that they don’t is a liar. She writes amazing pop records. I think people assume pop music is crap and they’re wrong. Pop music is popular music and everyone should calm the f*** down,” he countered.

For the full interview pick up your free copy of NME magazine on Friday.