Jeremy Vine

Jeremy Vine

TV personality and broadcaster who studied English Literature at Durham University, graduated in 1986 and who began his career as a trainee reporter at the Coventry Evening Telegraph in the days of manual typewriters and hot metal presses.

He left to become a BBC news trainee, then a Today reporter, a political correspondent during the nineties working with Jon Sopel, Nick Robinson, Huw Edwards and John Sergeant, and later BBC Africa correspondent based in Johannesburg and a Newsnight presenter.

He didn’t mind when BuzzFeed lampooned his coverage of the Scottish independence referendum in 2014, and was recently at the helm with David Dimbleby and Emily Maitlis for the 2015 and 2017 General Elections.

He signed up for Strictly Come Dancing in 2015, in which his first dance with Karen Clifton was scored “2” by Craig Revel-Horwood.