TalkSport has signed former Sky Sports presenters Richard Keys and Andy Gray just a fortnight after the pair were engulfed in a storm over their sexist comments.

Keys and Gray will host a new three-hour daytime show on the station starting next Monday.

They will make their broadcasting comeback less than a month after their unguarded comments brought their Sky careers to an end.

Sky suspended the pair after they were recorded making disparaging remarks about female official Sian Massey. Gray was sacked after further video evidence leaked and Keys resigned after making a public apology in an interview with TalkSport.

Moz Dee, TalkSport's programme director, said their arrival at the station was a "sensational coup".

"The events of the last couple of weeks have been a lesson and has changed them," Dee said.

Keys said it was the "start of something new and very exciting for Andy and myself". Gray added: "It’s an ideal opportunity for Richard and me to do what we do best, and that’s talk about sport.”

While Keys and Gray are best known for their work in front of the camera during two decades of live Premier League coverage on Sky, neither man is a stranger to radio.

Keys is a former sports editor of Piccadilly Radio while retired footballer Gray was a match summariser for Talk Radio at the World Cup in France in 1998, and for Five Live at the Japan/South Korea World Cup in 2002.