Charlie Wolf
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Charlie Wolf (born 12 April 1959) is a British-based radio talk-show host and disc jockey, originally from Boston. Wolf used to be on TalkSport on Saturday and Sunday from 1am to 6am, following Mike Dickin.
Wolf also used to host Red FM (Ireland)'s Cork Talks Back show, which is currently hosted by Victor Barry. For a short period Wolf did both jobs and would fly from Cork to London and back on Ryanair. Wolf is Jewish although a Mormon convert. In the 1980s, he was a DJ for the pirate radio station Laser 558, broadcasting from MV Communicator, based in international waters.
Wolf continues to air his views in a weekly column in London-based community newspaper The Jewish News. Wolf has also temporarily returned to the radio airwaves to host two shows a week on Shalom FM, an RSL (Restricted Service Licence) radio station which will continue broadcasting until November 25th in North West London.
[edit] Controversies
During his Talksport show on December 4, 2005, Wolf described Rachel Corrie, an American peace activist who had been killed by an Israeli military bulldozer, as "scum." In its bulletin dated January 23, 2006, Ofcom ruled this comment to be in breach of the "Generally Accepted Standards" section of the Broadcasting Code and stated it was "seriously ill-judged".
[edit] Quotes
- It's not talkSports – it's talkSport. People just think I say talkSports because of the sibilance!
- Hey, I'm in with the Highgrove Set.
- In some ways, death was the best thing that could have ever happened to her. (of Princess Diana)
- America does it bigger and better.
- We're gonna find them and we're gonna smoke them.
