★★★ Don't worry Ken Bruce fans - Vernon Kay's first Radio 2 show proves he's a safe pair of hands ✒️ Nick_Duerden
. This made headline news, because Bruce’s show was the most popular in the UK. Whoever replaced him had shoes to fill.
If there wasn’t quite as much speculation over his likely successor as there is with the new James Bond, it did come pretty close. In the end, the Beeb played it safe. They appointed Vernon Kay, a stalwart of TV entertainment programmes – and a regular Radio 2 voice already, with several breakfast show cover stints under his belt.
“The adventure, let it begin,” he said in that rich Bolton voice of his that sounds like Bovril dunked in champagne. He followed U2 with Chic and Harry Styles, adamant that that business-as-usual memo will be both preserved and maintained. Kay is, of course, a very different proposition from Bruce. Where the latter purred like a Rolls-Royce, his successor, even at 49, still sounds like a boy racer on a dodgem that’s broken free of its confines.– his is a presentation style that suggests he’s doing jazz hands while he talks – and it felt here as if he might suddenly cry out “Hi de hi!” at any moment. Which, if nothing else, would play quite nicely with the Radio 2 demographic.
It’s unfair to judge him on his inaugural show, of course, especially when he spent so much of it reading through good luck messages from, essentially,“We’ve got an absolute stack to get through, and we will get through them,” he said, accurately. He read out best wishes from truckers and tractor drivers, from members of his own family.
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