Frank Skinner has teased a big radio return with his former co-hosts, six months on from when he was axed from Absolute Radio after 15 years on the channel. The popular comic presented the Saturday breakfast slot The Frank Skinner Show, alongside Emily Dean and Pierre Novellie. Admitting he did not take the news of his axe ‘well’ at the time, many took to social media in the aftermath to shower him with support, and some accused Absolute Radio of being ‘absurdly ageist’ over the move.
Now the beloved comic and Three Lions hitmaker, 67, has teased a comeback with Emily and Pierre, as he posted a picture of the trio laughing over a coffee together and captioned it: ‘Band getting back together?’ Fans were buzzing at the tease, as Instagram user 1000dragonflys commented: ‘Yes!! Please?! Pretty Please?! Your show/podcast left a hole no one can fill – replaying old ones when I need a fix.’ sammygoliightly said: ‘My Saturday mornings aren’t the same. I refuse to listen to Absolute on a Saturday morning.
Come back to us in some way please.’ labrax_survey added: ‘I’ve boycotted Absolute since they canned you mate. What were they thinking?’ The star – having been inducted into the Radio Academy Hall of Fame in December 2015 – said of the axe: ‘I took it well in the way David Tennant took it well as the tenth Doctor when he started to regenerate and said: “I don’t want to go!”‘ Explaining how the conversation went, he said at the time: ‘My m.