If Des McLean had any reservations at all about whether Adele Cunningham, his new Clyde 1 breakfast show partner, would fit into the team they disappeared when she revealed she almost killed an ex-Rangers star’s pet labrador.

“We asking Adele about her relationship with Jorg Albertz,” says Des.

“And not only was she completely open about it, but she then went on to tell us she nearly killed his beloved pet.

“Right then, George and me knew that she’d be great fun.”

Fun? That’s an understatement. Adele has managed to slot into the Radio Clyde breakfast time like a record needle in a groove.

The 31-year-old is clearly a perfect addition to the laughter parade that is the award-winning show fronted by George Bowie and Des McLean.

The pair are out to find gags all along the way. And Adele knows she has to be prepared to be the butt of the jokes.

“The boys don’t hold back when it comes to telling the world all about things,” she says, grinning.

“But I kind of knew this is the way it would be. So I didn’t mind telling them about Jorg’s dog.

Adele, who has taken over from Sarah Proctor on the breakfast show, once lived with former Rangers footballer Albertz in Hamburg.

One day she took German’s black lab out for a walk in the woods and reckoned it was safe to let it off the leash. But the pooch ran off – and was run over by a car.

The dog lived. But the relationship died.

“The dog went right underneath the car,” admits Adele. “When Jorg came home I had to confess. But it transpired that he loved his dog more than me. It was time to come home.”

Now, there may be some that reckon that the lady from Bearsden has made it onto commercial radio on the back of her model looks and predilection for dating famous men.

Neither of which are true. Adele tried her hand at several careers – she was a beauty therapist, a promotions girl, a barmaid and a nanny, before admitting to herself her dream job was in radio.

“I’d always been fairly obsessed with Radio Clyde,” she recalls. “I realised I had to get in there so I paid for myself to go into a studio and record a demo which I sent off to Clyde boss Paul Saunders. He wasn’t so sure about it. So I came back and had another go. This time, he asked me to come in.

“I started reading the news on the Suzy McGuire Show and from there made it to breakfasts.”

Radio presenters have to be honest. Listeners have an inbuilt radar that can detect a hint of falseness. On that basis, they’ll really take to Adele. She’s an open book.

“I always have been,” she says, smiling. “What you see – or hear – is what you get.”

She’s not all afraid of her private life becoming public.

“I’m single,” she says. “And I’d like to meet someone. And I don’t mind at all that George and Des are on this quest to find me a man. It’s all good fun.”

Adele adds, grinning; “I’m up so early these days (4.30am) if I went on a date with a man we’d have to meet up at three in the afternoon. We’d have to have the snogging at tea time.”

Despite having had a two year relationship with Albertz, Adele laughs off any suggestions she’s keen to re-join the WAG set.

“I was never part of that,” she says. “Jorg was a kind, decent guy. But I paid my own bills. I wasn’t after the lifestyle.”

She wants to get married and have lots of kids.

“And I’d like to say the person I’d like to spend my life with is a person who can make me laugh.”

And put up with someone who goes to bed at 9pm. And walks around a boxing ring holding a round card up in the air while wearing, well, not a lot.

“Yes, George is going to have me hold up the ring cards for his next charity boxing match,” says Adele. “God knows what I’ll have to wear.

“But that’s what I love about this job. It can involve anything. Already, we’re planning trips to Ibiza and Belfast, and I’ll be doing the Great Scottish Run. But I’m up for it all.”