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BBC Radio 2 descends into chaos as Vernon Kay's co-star says 'that'll be it' after slip-up

BBC Radio 2's Vernon Kay had to deal with one of his co-stars deciding to "give up" live on air, prompting the presenter to suggest that he could do the same thing.

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Vernon Kay(Image: BBC Radio 2 YouTube)

Legendary BBC Radio 2 presenter Vernon Kay's show descended briefly into chaos on Friday morning after a small slip-up from one of his colleagues slightly derailed the show.

The 52-year-old host stepped in during his long-running show when traffic reporter Jules Lang hit an issue pronouncing a word near the end of her travel report.

The television personality, well known for fronting programmes such as The One Show and Formula E coverage, the final race of which is taking place this weekend in London, leapt in when Jules declared she was "done".

The traffic reporter had been delivering her update on the roads when she faltered over a particular word, before conceding: "That's unlike me."

After suffering several on-air blunders himself, Vernon quipped in response: "It's not unlike this show." Jules shot back shortly after: "It's the beast....That'll be it...[laughing]...I'm done."

Following this light-hearted exchange, Vernon sought clarification from his co-star, asking: "You're finished? Given up?" Jules confirmed she had indeed reached her limit, cheekily responding: "That's it. I've had enough."

Jules' struggle led Vernon to contemplate giving up himself, and getting Jeremy Vine to take to the airwaves earlier than planned. He replied warmly: "I like you Jules, I like you. Imagine if we did that, P Mac...let's just leave it, let's get [Jeremy] Vine in early."

[A person with headphones is smiling and speaking into a microphone in a radio studio with multiple screens and equipment.]

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Vernon Kay broke into mild laughter on BBC Radio 2(Image: BBC)

This isn't the first time Vernon has had to stop a show's segment midway through, after emotions have been heightened. Last month, during an interview with The Script's Danny O'Donoghue, Vernon became very emotional.

Danny, The Script's frontman, was appearing on the show's Tracks Of My Year's section, and started talking about his late bandmate Mark Sheehan. Mark died in 2023 at the age of 46.

During their interview Vernon asked Danny if he'd had "an open forum conversation about how much you loved him" with Mark, who was diagnosed with a condition just before his death, and became emotional in the process of asking that question.

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Vernon Kay has expressed many emotions on BBC Radio 2(Image: BBC Radio 2)

Danny replied: "Yeah. It wasn't as long as you would have liked it to be, because it was quite a short period of time between me finding out and him passing, but we did.

"I look back on it and go, even if we didn't have that conversation, I knew. I've known him since I was 13-years-old, do you know what I mean?"

Vernon became more emotional, as he admitted that Danny's comments and the topic had hit a nerve. He said: "It's got me that.....Give me a minute."

Later, after Danny had comfortingly said, "Oh dude", Vernon said he'd become tearful because of his close relationship with his own friends.

He said: "I just think that, when you have that relationship with a friend, it's special. The reason I broke down is because I've got great mates, do you know? I've got fab mates, and I can't imagine going through what Danny went through with Mark."

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