8 Facts About Jeremy Vine

1. In January 2018 Jeremy Vine was one of six male BBC presenters who voluntarily took a pay cut when the gap between men and women's pay at the BBC was revealed.

2. On the fourth week of the contest, after Jeremy Vine danced a jive to Bobby Darin's "Splish Splash", Bruno Tonioli described him as a "Peculiar, off-the-wall artist like Tracey Emin", and Craig Revel Horwood compared him to "a stork that had been struck by lightning.

3. On 10 August 2015, Jeremy Vine was the first celebrity to be announced as taking part in the thirteenth series of the popular BBC One competition Strictly Come Dancing.

4. In 2005, Jeremy Vine won the best speech broadcaster award at the Sony Radio Academy Awards.

5. In September 2018, Jeremy Vine replaced Matthew Wright as the presenter of Channel 5's weekday morning current affairs show, formerly called The Wright Stuff.

6. As of 2014, Jeremy Vine hosted the spin-off series Revenge of the Egghead.

7. In May 2006, Jeremy Vine was announced as Peter Snow's replacement for presenting the BBC election graphics, including the famous Swingometer.

8. In the mid-1990s, Jeremy Vine became familiar with BBC TV viewers as a political reporter, reporting on the modernisation of the Labour Party.