BBC Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine has spoken about his decision to no longer post cycling videos on social media after announcing the news to his followers on the weekend
Presenter Jeremy Vine has spoken about his decision to no longer post cycling videos on social media. The radio host has said that “three things came together”, including him having to deal with a backlash over such content.
Jeremy, 59, has been known to prompt discussion on X with footage of himself cycling in London. He’s criticised some motorists and once stated in a post that cyclists “get the blame” for “all the bad driving around” them on the roads. The BBC Radio 2 host however announced yesterday that he won’t be posting cycling videos moving forward. He told his followers that “trolling just got too bad” and suggested that he didn’t want to experience that when he gets a new bike, after sharing that he had his bike stolen recently.
Jeremy has since discussed the situation on BBC Radio 4’s World at One. Speaking to Sarah Montague, he said about his decision: “Three things came together. Firstly, I’ve got a book out, secondly my bike was stolen as you’ve mentioned, and thirdly, Sarah, I do have to deal with quite a lot of incoming, what you would have called flak in the olden days, but now they call it trolling.”
He then read out apparent examples of comments that he has received. One comment that he shared read: “Jeremy, you’re beyond hated. Please only upload another cycling video if it’s you getting run down and hospitalised.”
Jeremy said on the show: “I shouldn’t mind, but in the end I just thought I just want to now switch the narrative. I don’t want to do this any more and in the end it did get to me.”
Later questioned by radio host Sarah over whether his own behaviour had been “militant”, Jeremy said: “If you drive and you’re wanting your kids to be safe on the back, you’re just a sensible person. If you cycle and you’d really rather not have your head crushed by the wheel of a bus, you’re described as militant or radical. No, no – I’m just a safety first kind of a guy.”
The interview comes after Jeremy announced on Sunday that he would no longer post cycling videos on social media. In a post on X, he wrote: “Small announcement. I’m stopping my cycling videos. The trolling just got too bad. They have had well over 100 million views but in the end the anger they generate has genuinely upset me.”
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