Personal Background
Jeremy Vine was born on 17 May 1965 in Epsom, Surrey, England. He is the son of Guy Vine and Diana Tillett. His younger brother is the comedian Tim Vine. Jeremy is married to BBC News presenter Rachel Schofield. The couple married in September 2002 in East Devon, and have two daughters.
Jeremy was educated at Lynton Preparatory School in Ewell and Epsom College and played the drums in a band called The Flared Generation. At Durham University (Hatfield College), he graduated with a 2:2 undergraduate degree in English.
After a short stint on Metro Radio, Vine enrolled in a journalism training course with the Coventry Evening Telegraph, before joining the BBC in 1987.
A former punk, he is a fan of Elvis Costello, whom he has seen 13 times in concert. Vine is the patron of Radio St. Helier, a UK registered charity providing radio programmes to patients at St. Helier Hospital in Surrey.
Vine is a practising Anglican. He has deplored the marginalisation of Christians in British society, saying that "You can't express views that were common currency 30 or 40 years ago".
He was named Speech Broadcaster of the Year in the 2011 Sony Awards. (He won the same award in 2005). His 2010 election interview with Gordon Brown, where the Prime Minister put his head in his hands as he was played the recording of him calling a voter a bigot, won Jeremy the Sony Award for Interview of the Year.
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