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Jeremy Vine pays emotional tribute to 'humble, gracious, kind and shy' Steve Wright and credits him for saving Radio 2 as legendary DJ dies aged 69: 'One of the greatest, loudest voices in British radio'
Vine was close to tears as he opened his Channel 5 show with a lengthy eulogy for his friend, whose death was confirmed on Tuesday afternoon.
Today's shock announcement has left colleagues 'heartbroken' and prompted an outpouring of emotional tributes from stars such as Ken Bruce, Simon Mayo, Zoe Ball and Vernon Kay. In 1999, he recreated Steve Wright In The Afternoon every weekday on Radio 2, with celebrity interviews and entertaining trivia featured in his Factoids segment, before stepping down in September 2022. 'He was a consummate professional whose attention to detail was always second to none, and he made his guests laugh, he was fair, and he wanted to showcase them and their work in the best possible light, bringing brilliant stories to our listeners', she added.
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