The popular Brit, host of GOLD FM breakfast, will in June release the book about his journey to Melbourne, titled No One Listens To Your Dad’s Show.“The title comes from literally after a survey day, when we’d gone down in the ratings, some little 13 year-old says to my daughter: No one listens to your dad’s radio show. “I wrote it down straight away, it’s so funny, I thought if I ever do a book that’s what I’ll call it.“I was even being trolled in the playgrounds of Melbourne.”O’Connell describes the memoir as “part book, part therapy”. “It’s about the move here, why I gave up a No.1 show in the UK with three million listeners and threw it all away to move over to the other side of the world with my wife and kids.“To the battleground of what breakfast radio here is.”He says he understands why people weren’t drawn to him initially. He has now led the FM ratings battle for the seventh consecutive survey.“You’ve got a British guy, you don’t know who he is … as one email said in my first week: No one invited you,’’ O’Connell said.“Radio is very intimate, I was going up against very established names like Eddie (McGuire) and Fifi (Box). I was like, oh what have I done, is this a real mistake. The first year and a half was a real baptism of fire.“You fantasise about moving to Australia and then you come here and it’s a stressful time in your life and your dad has a midlife crisis and moves you and you’re the new kid at school with a funny accent.“You look at what’s going in the UK right now, it’s all about stability.“We were talking about going to see sport at the MCG this weekend, I can’t post any more pictures to friends because they just get really angry. They’re where we were a year ago.”
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