Jeremy Vine and his wife sleep in separate beds – because she can’t cope with the three alarm clocks he sets for 4:30am. The 61-year-old broadcaster has to get up at the ungodly hour to prepare for his morning Channel 5 current affairs TV programme which is then followed by a dash to his BBC Radio 2 afternoon phone-in show.
Because of his ridiculously early wake-up, Jeremy has been banished by his wife Rachel to their spare bedroom throughout the week.
Appearing on the Sort Your Life Out podcast, he said: “I’ve got three alarm clocks. I sleep so deeply. I can’t even tell you. I mean, the alarm clock every morning is a complete shock. It’s like I’m thinking I’m in a nuclear war or something. There’s one that’s a light that comes on, like, you know, a sunrise light. Then there’s one that is like a fire alarm. And then the third one would be like a more insistent, you’ve got to get up now, Jeremy.
“They’re set at 4.41, but then also at 4.30 and 4.36. Is that crazy? My wife said, ‘If you’re going to get up with three alarm clocks at 4.30, you’re going to have to go in the spare room.’ So in the week, I’m in the spare room. And when I say this, in the hearing of my daughters, they always go, ‘Marriage in crisis!’ And I say, ‘No girls, it’s just because I have to have that.’ It’s just got a bed in it and a cupboard.”
View 2 ImagesJeremy Vine during his visit to The Cambridge Union in 2023(Image: Nordin Catic/Getty Images)
Jeremy’s two daughters, Martha, 22, and Anna, 19, still live with their parents. He also recently revealed he spoke to his doctor in a bid to live to 100. The BBC Radio 2 presenter has just turned 61 and has no intention of slowing down or stepping away from his afternoon phone-in current affairs show or his Channel 5 TV programme.
Vine – who is an avid cyclist who shames wayward drivers online – said: “Having turned 60, I went to a doctor and I said, ‘What do I need to do to live to be 100?”
“I just wanted to know just out of interest, am I missing anything. She said, ‘You need to build muscle. When you get to 60, it starts to wither.’
“And this is such a shocking thought. I said, ‘That sounds like an emergency. So what should I do?’ So she said, ‘Get some weights and I’m going to put you in touch with my best friend, who is a trainer online.’
“This is a woman called Natalia De Perez, who’s based in Rio de Janeiro. So three times a week, I’m online on WhatsApp and I’m just pounding out on the weights in the basement.
“But as soon as I say I’ve got a trainer, a Brazilian, for some reason everyone starts laughing. There’s nothing to see, she’s just a Brazilian!”
One of Jeremy’s motivations for living for another 40 years is that he wants to see his two daughters, Martha, 22, and Anna, 19, go through all the stages in life.
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Jeremy is proud that his two kids still live at home with him and their mum, journalist and news presenter Rachel Schofield, and that they are so close to their parents.
He said: “I’ve got teenage daughters, well one is 19 and one is 22 now. They still live at home. And we see them go through their ups and downs in life. And what I like is I do feel they come home and it feels like home. And with my parents, they had the sofa in the living room that was the same sofa for 40 years and if everything was going wrong, you could go and sit on it. And I think we’ve got a sofa. That’s what I’m proud of.”
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