Girl, 7, becomes radio agony aunt

A "straight talking" schoolgirl has become a popular agony aunt at the age of seven after she called her local radio station and advised a listener who wanted to abandon her boyfriend.

The radio station was so impressed which the advice that the caller should go bowling with friends and drink a mug of milk that Elaina Smith has been given a weekly slot to give tips to adult listeners. She has tackled problems ranging from how to abandon boyfriends, relationship breakdown, and smelly brothers.

She said: "I used to want to be a vet when I was younger, but now I want to be on the radio. I really enjoy it and tell my friends about it at school. I say whatever comes into my head and people like what I say."


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Elaina, from Coventry, West Midlands, appears on Mercia FM's breakfast show and helps listeners who write to her each week. The breakfast show host Andy Goulding said: "The advice Elaina offers is laid-back and honest. We have been inundated with people emailing us with their problems since she has been on our show.

"Within a minute of us broadcasting her first slot a woman in hospital phoned in saying how much she enjoyed hearing the little girl's voice. It really cheered her up." When one listener wrote to Elaina asking how she could find a boyfriend, she replied: "Shake your booty on the dance floor and listen to High School Musical."

A girl caller, who asked what she should do about her lazy older brother, was told: "Tell him to get a job and stop watching Loose Women (the television programme." Elaina's mother Karen Harris, 31, said her daughter was "full of confidence and the advice just comes off the top of her head. She absolutely loves it and I see a future for her in radio."