The latest Rajar listening figures, for the third quarter of this year, revealed the Radio 1 breakfast presenter Nick Grimshaw has lost 1.1 million listeners since the show was last presented by Chris Moyles.
Comedian and The Last Leg presenter Adam Hills launched a tirade against Hopkins, who he described as a "professional s**t stirrer", over her response to the Ebola crisis.
Typically, last-minute presenters are expected to address a specific issue or concern.
Speaking on the Channel 4 chat show The Last Leg, the presenter joked that learning about the country's anti-gay stance had made her inclined to "hate all Russians".
As I flip from channel to channel, the question becomes inescapable: why have all these people flown here from all over the world to do all this stuff and why is the BBC using every last commentator and presenter it employs – I bet even Tony Gubba's out there somewhere – to show it all to me at 11 o'clock on a Sunday morning?
The last time two presenters dared to step out of line – Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand – they were relegated to relative purgatory (ITV, in Ross's case).
The climax of the evening was, of course, the award for Best Picture, though it was not what Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan the leading players in "Fifty Shades Darker," and co-presenters last night would call a climax.
Today it is less common to see Radio 1 DJs hop from the BBC to commercial radio, but before the proliferation of stations in the last 20 years presenters such as Kenny Everett, Alan Freeman, Dave Cash, Tommy Vance, Roger Scott, Adrian Love and Richard Skinner all switched between Radio 1 and Capital.
