Jeremy Vine
- 17 May 1965
- English television and radio presenter and journalist
- He is best known as the host of his BBC Radio 2 lunchtime programme having taken over from Jimmy Young in 2003
- He presents the TV quiz show Eggheads
- He took part in the 13th series of Strictly Come Dancing (2015) and finished in 9th place.
- His brother, Tim is a comedian, actor and writer
- At school he played the drums in a band called The Flared Generation, of which his brother Tim was also a member; Smash Hits magazine described them as “the most unfashionable punk band in the country”
- His radio career started on Durham Hospitals Radio, as a volunteer.
- In 2006 he was announced as Peter Snow’s replacement for presenting the BBC election graphics, including the famous Swingometer.
- He has presented world’s oldest current affairs programme, Panorama and also Points of View
- In 2016 as a cyclist he had a famous run-in with an abusive car driver – the car driver was jailed for nine months for threatening behaviour
- In 2022 he was “knocked out cold for a minute or two” after falling 8 ft, onto grass, from his penny-farthing bicycle.
