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Chris Evans has reportedly said that he doesn’t want to marginalise any demograhic when he takes over Radio 2′s Breakfast Show in the New Year.

The DJ predicted that there may be an initial dip in the number of listeners of the flagship programme, but that the decrease will be short-lived.

“The audience won’t nosedive. It might go down but it will go up again within a year. We should be back to where Terry was pretty soon – if not further,” Evans told the Radio Times.

“I want kids and grannies. I want to play AC/DC and Matt Monro, Barbra Streisand and Pixie Lott. I don’t want anybody to be marginalised,” he added.

Terry Wogan announced that his “good friend” would be his replacement in September. Evans, 48, said that Wogan was not a hard act to come after, but a “great one”.