However, after his breakfast show on Tuesday 16 March 2010, he handed his resignation in to the radio station and left with immediate effect, as he prepared to stand as an independent candidate at the 2010 general election.
[3][4] Rhodes was born in Dublin as Thomas "Tommy" Keenan, the son of a dentist, but later moved to England.
He remained on the slot until mid 1995, when Rhodes turned up at BBC Three Counties Radio, presenting a consumer programme five days a week.
In the course of his time on the consumer programme he became well known for his undercover work which won him a number of National Radio Academy Awards.
[7] Stephen Rhodes announced to the press on the afternoon of Tuesday 16 March 2010 that he had quit his radio presenter job to become an independent candidate for the Luton South parliamentary constituency in the general election, following the expenses controversies of the constituency's former MP Margaret Moran.