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Chris Moyles has reportedly signed a deal to host a new breakfast show on XFM, rumoured to start in September.
Moyles hosted the coveted breakfast show on BBC Radio 1 for eight years - with peak listening figures at just over 7 million - before leaving in 2012 and being replaced by Nick Grimshaw.
Since leaving the show, Moyles' public profile has become substantially quieter, with a short-lived YouTube series failing to gain more than around 20,000 viewers a week.
Now though, it looks as though he's preparing to jump back into the world of early morning radio. According to a source for The Sun, "It's a massive coup for XFM to be able to sign Chris. He was enjoying not having all of the usual pressures and early starts that come with breakfast radio so bosses were well aware that they had to offer him a great deal to entice him back."
The source continued, "He plans to spend the next two months developing ideas for the new show and how he wants the format to be. Chris will also take a networking trip to LA."
Meanwhile, since his departure, Moyle's replacement Nick Grimshaw has seen a decline in listeners from the BBC Radio One Breakfast show - with the station overall losing 1million listeners in 2015.
XFM's breakfast show has been hosted by comedian Jon Holmes since January 2013.
