TV presenter Vernon Kay was left fearing for his job after he made a cheeky remark about his BBC Radio 2 co-star Michelle Visage, who’s mates along with his spouse Tess Daly
BBC Radio 2’s Vernon Kay quipped that he was about to obtain “the sack” after indulging in some playful banter with Radio 2 within the Park co-presenter Michelle Visage who occurs to be mates along with his Strictly host spouse, Tess Daly.
The duo had been broadcasting reside from Hylands Park in Chelmsford for Radio 2’s beloved annual competition, which featured acts together with Marti Pellow, pop star Jessie J and Essex boy Olly Murs.
Michelle, 56, who launched her profession with woman group Seduction earlier than reaching fame as a decide on RuPaul’s Drag Race, had been remarking on the scorching warmth on the venue on Saturday.
Vernon, 51, cheekily replied: “However wherever you’re is at all times scorching,” earlier than telling Michelle to put in writing down his flattery and ship it to herself.
“Put it in an envelope and ship it again dwelling,” he suggested. “Whenever you go dwelling, you possibly can open that envelope. And you understand what it’s going to say? You are scorching,” studies the Mirror.
Realising his flirtatious feedback may need overstepped the mark, Vernon bashfully confessed: “I simply bought fired,” prompting giggles from former Strictly star Michelle.
Whereas Vernon was joking about getting the chop, his radio visitor, comic Josh Widdecombe, was discussing venturing into recent territory. After taking up Phil Daniels’ position for a efficiency of Blur’s Parklife on the competition, Josh boasted that he might fill the boots of the band’s frontman Damon Albarn.
Fearne Cotton was caught on digital camera making an attempt to influence a number of different Radio 2 within the Park employees members to hitch within the enjoyable, making an attempt to encourage some safety personnel to take part within the Macarena routine. Sadly, she solely succeeded in getting “a little bit of a twitch on the finish.”
Vernon appeared in glorious type on the BBC gathering, sharing his sense of reduction following an “anxious” interval at dwelling. In the direction of the tip of final month, he revealed to supporters that he could not “cease crying” after lastly studying his daughter Amber’s GCSE outcomes.
The 51-year-old broadcaster admitted to experiencing “every week of tension” within the run-up to outcomes day, telling colleague Scott Mills: “I am unable to cease crying Scott, I severely cannot cease crying. It is GCSE outcomes day as we speak and we have achieved alright.”
He went on to elaborate on his views relating to the significance of a pupil’s GCSE efficiency: “I believe GCSEs are extra essential than A-levels,” Vernon declared. “As a result of from A-levels onwards, you possibly can type of fudge, you possibly can blag slightly bit since you’ve bought slightly little bit of one thing about you, however GCSEs are robust, it is the primary main step, effectively it is not a step, it is a stride.”
His 15-year-old daughter’s examination triumph left Vernon emotionally moved: “I ain’t gonna lie, the ladies have seen me crying this morning as a result of our eldest filmed, along with her telephone on her lap, Amber getting her GCSE outcomes, and I’ve watched it greater than a dozen instances, and I maintain welling up, so simply permit me as we speak please.”
He admitted that his personal educational efficiency had been subpar, confessing: “I’m holding my fingers up within the studio, my GCSE outcomes [and] my A-levels have been dreadful as a result of I am simply not constructed for learning for exams, I am extra of a sensible individual.”
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