- Alan Brazil left his talkSPORT listeners wondering where one earth he was
- The presenter usually hosts a breakfast show from 6am and was due to do so
- However, after being spotted in a Cheltenham bar yesterday, he was a no-show
Alan Brazil amused talkSPORT listeners by not turning up for his Cheltenham Festival build-up this morning – a day after being spotted in a bar at Prestbury Park.
Brazil was supposedly meant to lead listeners through all the talk ahead of the final day of action of the festival.
But Chris Evans was forced to step in and initially fill the silence after Brazil was nowhere to be seen, with Shebahn Aherne later control of the airwaves.
Ray Parlour and Dean Saunders were also on hand with Aherne to cover for the truant chatterbox. They joked that he was still in bed.
Jamie O’Hara, the former Tottenham player who works on talkSPORT’s Sports Bar show, quipped that it was a ‘shambles from the big man’.
‘Waking up to a Alan Brazil no show is exactly the start of the day I needed, I’ll see if I can find him at Cheltenham later on today, shambles from the big man,’ he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Parlour claimed Brazil texted him at 4.30am saying he needed a lie-in.
Evans had been preparing to take the mic for his regular breakfast show on Virgin Radio but was snatched up by talkSPORT bosses to fill in at the start of the show.
He said: ‘Well has he made it? Ermm, no is the answer, not thus far at least.
‘I’m really sorry about this talkSPORT massive but it’s Chris Evans here from Virgin Radio.
‘So if you have seen Alan Brazil in the last 24 hours, where have you seen him, where was the sighting, what time was it as well?
‘If you don’t know what you’re looking for, Alan Brazil is robust by nature and robust by character.
‘Also missing in action this morning, we’ve got Ray ‘Party’ Parlour, he’s nowhere to be seen, we haven’t seen Dean ‘Deano’ Saunders for a while, Ally ‘Goldenballs’ McCoist, no, he’s nowhere to be seen either.
‘So if you see any of these characters, we need to know where they are because they need to be back here on the show.’
While he has been undertaking his broadcasting duties this week, Brazil has also been enjoying the revelry at Cheltenham.
Raceday TV presenter Emma Jones found him at Cheltenham on Thursday after a two-day search – and where else would he have been besides the Guinness Village?
‘We’ve found him. I’ve been looking for you,’ she said.
‘Really? It’s my lucky day!’
Jones laughed and continued: ‘This is my first time at Cheltenham, I asked everyone what I needed to do and they said find Alan Brazil.
‘It has been my mission for two days. Mission accomplished!’
Perhaps his absence from the show this morning will prompt yet another search.
One user on X joked: ‘Death, taxes and Alan Brazil being a no show on talkSPORT Gold Cup day.’
Another user posted a picture with Brazil seemingly at Cheltenham, although it is not clear from when.
One wrote: ‘Alan Brazil not turned in, genuinely thought he was making the full week.’
Olivia Martin is a dedicated sports journalist based in the UK. With a passion for various athletic disciplines, she covers everything from major league championships to local sports events, delivering up-to-the-minute updates and in-depth analysis.
