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From filling in for Tarrant to lording it over London with his Magic breakfast show, revenge is sweet for Foxy.
October 2001: Having been at Capital since 1987, and having built a career as one of the station's most popular DJs via the Sunday afternoon chart show, hit40uk, and various evening and afternoon slots (including drivetime), Neil Fox (aka Dr Fox, then Foxy) tries to broaden his career options when he becomes a judge on the TV show Pop Idol.
March 2005: He's back at his day job and when the Capital breakfast show host, Chris Tarrant, goes part-time, Fox fills in. When Johnny Vaughan is made Tarrant's successor in 2003, Fox says he's considering his position, but stays in his drivetime show for 18 months.
May 2006: But when he does jump ship, he joins a station, Magic 105.4, very much on the up. It proves difficult early on for Fox, now hosting the station's breakfast show, to overtake Vaughan at Capital or even Jamie Theakston's rival breakfast show on Heart - but Rajar figures for the first quarter of 2006 show that Magic is now London's most listened-to station for the first time ...