Sylvester Stallone brings 'The Steps' and the Rocky story to Chris Evans

The memoir interview went up alongside a TFI Friday Unplugged episode Stallone joined behind the famous desk, and viewers keep returning to Stallone the writer.

Channel: Virgin Radio UKStory of October 3, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 42,013 views a day, 26 times a normal first day on this channel (1,612).

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A regular video on Virgin Radio UK usually finishes its first day with around 1,600 views and almost no comments. Chris Evans' sit-down with Sylvester Stallone passed 23,000 views in nine hours, and dozens of people had already written underneath it.

Stallone came in to talk about The Steps: A Memoir. The description says the book runs from his years drifting between jobs to global stardom, with room for his long rivalry with Arnold Schwarzenegger, the other great muscle of 1980s action cinema. A short from the same visit has the two men reenacting the negotiations behind Rocky. Stallone wrote that script himself and insisted on playing the lead, and the 1976 film went on to win Best Picture.

That side of him is what the comments keep circling. Several viewers argue he is one of Hollywood's most underrated screenwriters. Others who grew up with his films in the 1970s and 80s write about what the original Rocky meant to them in hard times. Some simply wish the conversation had run longer.

It was not the station's only Stallone hit of the day. Evans also posted a full episode of TFI Friday Unplugged, his revival of the Channel 4 show he fronted in the 1990s, with Stallone joining him at the desk. Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White, Aaron Sorkin, Stephen Graham, Hannah Walters and Ruth Bradley were on the same bill, and Passenger played "Let Her Go". That episode also raced far beyond the channel's usual start, though the one-on-one interview is the video drawing the conversation.

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The numbers

Two Stallone videos in one day, each far ahead of what this radio station's channel normally sees from a new upload.

the video's first day

usual first day here

1,612

this video

42,013

subscribers

237,000

▲ 1,000 in the last 7 days

total views

179,297,575

views per day

274,540

typical day: 246,853

the video

views

23,176

likes

372

comments

53

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Music Vault

246,000

Virgin Radio UK

237,000

BL@CKBOX

221,000

Hellcat Records

215,000

ChvrchesVEVO

208,000

TommyLeeSpartaVEVO

200,000

As of October 3, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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