Disgraced DJ DLT is given a job lifeline

PARTIAL rehabilitation for disgraced DJ Dave Lee travis, who is still banned from being shown on TV’S top Of the Pops repeats.

the former radio 1 star has been given a job on a new national radio station.

DLT, now 72, known as the Hairy Cornflake in his broadcasting heyday, was given a suspended sentence after being found guilty of a historic sex offence after a retrial on various charges in 2014.

He has now been hired for a job on United DJs, staffed by veteran former radio 1 and radio Luxembourg DJs.

Fellow former radio 1 DJ Mike read, 70, who will also be presenting on the self- styled ‘ Station of the Stars’ says: ‘We agreed he hadn’t done anything [bad] for years, we can’t judge him, he isn’t working at the moment so we’re having him on board, he’ll be doing a show for us.’