Chris Evans ousted his Virgin Radio Breakfast Show co-host Vassos Alexander during a discussion about Dolly Parton on Monday’s programme. The 52-year-old revealed the sports presenter has no idea Dolly Parton wrote the hit ‘I Will Always Love You’, famously sang by Witney Houston. He spilled: “Yesterday we discovered Vas didn’t know that she wrote ‘I Will Always Love You’ he said, ‘No come on seriously’” Attempting to explain himself, the sports journalist interjected: “I thought Whitney had, you know.
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“Cause we played it [Dolly’s version of the song] yesterday and I thought that’s a really good cover of the Whitney song.”
As members of the team burst into laughter, Chris offered up some background information about Dolly Patron’s music career.
He explained how the country superstar had written ‘I Will Always Love You’ the same day as her hit 'Jolene'.
Making light of Vassos’s limited knowledge of the singer, the father-of-five added: “This is like homeschooling.
“You should be paying for this, so I’ve taught you countries are singular and people of the country or people’s are plural.
“Now, you’re learning a little bit about Dolly Parton.