BBC Radio 1 blunder leaves programme off air and Greg James 'in shock'

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BBC Radio 1 was forced off air on Friday for five minutes on Friday following a huge blunder seeing host Greg James fail his Giant DJ Hunt challenge.Listeners of the popular show were left in silence after the 37-year-old failed to catch fellow DJ Mollie King before the deadline on Friday reports the Mirror.Last week saw BBC Radio 1's Greg James tasked with finding 30 of his fellow radio station DJs who went into hiding for the challenge, in order for the radio schedule to be filled once again.At the beginning of the week, Greg hosted his breakfast show as he was informed the station had been deserted.

He was tasked to find his fellow DJs and given a printout which read: "Greg, every Radio 1 DJ except you is in hiding. You will have no hope of finding them on your own but there are millions of Radio 1 listeners who might just stumble upon them as they go about their days."Greg, your job is to put the Radio 1 schedule back together, one DJ at a time."As the week went on, and with the help of his listeners Greg had found his fellow DJs - however, he fell at the last hurdle when he was tasked with tracking down The Saturdays singer Mollie King, which he had to do before 12pm in order to stop the radio from going off air.And on Friday, with just moments to spare, Greg discovered Mollie had been sailing off the Isle of Wight.

Greg made a dash to another boat in a final desperate attempt to catch up with Mollie - but health and safety protocols stalled his journey.

As he went to board the boat, he was pulled off and fumed: "We haven't got time for a life jacket, the future of the radio station is at stake here"."We're getting stopped by process here," he explained. "Someone's jut told me I've got sign a waiver."Greg faced