BBC Radio 2 host Jo Whiley has shared a heartfelt tribute to her colleague DJ stalwart Steve Wright who has died aged 69.
Wright, best known for fronting Top of the Pops and for hosting various shows on BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 for more than four decades, has been remembered by his family as the “UK’s most enduring and popular radio personalities” in a statement shared on Tuesday (13 February).
As tributes flood in for the late radio host, Whiley shared a sweet anecdote about Wright’s generosity that she said “sums him up”.
Whiley shared a picture of Wright standing next to the BBC Radio logo, as she recalled an occasion when the radio host went out of his way to give her sister Frances – who is a huge fan of Wright’s work – a personalised Christmas present.
“Just this Xmas I asked [Wright] to record a message for my sister Frances who is obsessed with Pick of The Pops and therefore Steve himself.”
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