Neil Fox may once have killed a man. But this is no Felix Dennis-style confession, rather a discovery that the DJ and former Pop Idol judge made about a previous life while filming for the ITV1 paranormal show Have I Been Here Before?. It turned out Fox had. "It was a celebrity regression thing and I ended up in my mind going back to the middle ages," recalls Fox, who believes he was genuinely hypnotised. "I was in somebody's castle - apparently I was in love with the local earl's daughter and he didn't want her to see me because I was just a travelling minstrel. So me and my bunch of merry men stormed his castle and I put an arrow through him."
Which may be somewhere close to what Fox felt like doing five years ago when he missed out on the show he had always seemed destined to present - the Capital Radio breakfast show. Then the station's long-serving drivetime DJ, Fox seemed to be the front-runner to take over from Chris Tarrant, only for management to choose Johnny Vaughan. Back then he called management's running of the station "appalling". Now he is rather more relaxed. "I had wanted to leave Capital for quite a time. I don't know whether I would have taken it," Fox says.
The pair know each other well - their wives went into business together with a shop on Kings Road in west London. Fox's wife, Vicky, was a shoe designer and a former protege of Jimmy Choo. She has retrained as a yoga instructor. "She is unfeasibly supple," volunteers Fox, rather unnecessarily. But if Park will be one of the key radio executives to watch over the next few years, then so will another of Fox's former colleagues - Tim Davie, the BBC's newly appointed director of audio and music, who was marketing chief at Pepsi when Fox presented the Sunday-afternoon Pepsi Chart Show.
Which may be somewhere close to what Fox felt like doing five years ago when he missed out on the show he had always seemed destined to present - the Capital Radio breakfast show. Then the station's long-serving drivetime DJ, Fox seemed to be the front-runner to take over from Chris Tarrant, only for management to choose Johnny Vaughan. Back then he called management's running of the station "appalling". Now he is rather more relaxed. "I had wanted to leave Capital for quite a time. I don't know whether I would have taken it," Fox says.
The pair know each other well - their wives went into business together with a shop on Kings Road in west London. Fox's wife, Vicky, was a shoe designer and a former protege of Jimmy Choo. She has retrained as a yoga instructor. "She is unfeasibly supple," volunteers Fox, rather unnecessarily. But if Park will be one of the key radio executives to watch over the next few years, then so will another of Fox's former colleagues - Tim Davie, the BBC's newly appointed director of audio and music, who was marketing chief at Pepsi when Fox presented the Sunday-afternoon Pepsi Chart Show.
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