Returned to #BroadcastingHouse this week after 3 weeks off 🌴 I still find it hard knowing Steve Wright isn’t around, but Elaine Paige is back next week and Vernon Kay gave me a lovely smile and I know in my heart I’d rather work there than anywhere else on the planet ❤️

The Assembly, in which michael sheen 💙 is interviewed by a brilliant group of neurodivergent adults, is an outstanding 30 minutes of TV 💙 Every person featured, every smile exchanged, is life-affirming 💙 The BBC at its punchiest 👊🏾 BBC iPlayer #AutismAwarenessMonth

There’s a 3 week vacancy in the #EPOS Queendom… the host’s role! ❤️ And fabulous is the head that wears the crown… enter Ms Beverley Knight💙! 👑 You are the nun’s guns, have a blast whilst Elaine Paige and I both take a break 🥰 Love, The Show Runner 😘

CONGRATULATIONS to Michael Ball OBE💙… just announced as the permanent new host of Sunday Love Songs 🧡 He is a much loved swan in the BBC Radio 2 flock 🧡 He loves the station, the listeners, and the music 🧡 And Steve loved him, too 🧡

6 years ago today, BBC Radio 2 marked the Royal Air Force’s centenary with ‘Steve Wright’s RAF Love Songs’ 🛩️ It was an idea I pitched, for RAF personnel to celebrate their lives, loves and work with us 🛩️ Public service for those who serve us. Happy memories. Happy Easter 💛

I went to Opening Night: A New Musical for Sheridan Smith 🎭 Because she’s one of the greatest acting talents we have. Because she was AMAZING in #ShirleyValentine last summer. And because I remember when she wasn’t in a position to grace our stages. It’s wonderful to have you back, Sheridan

After 16 years at BBC Radio 2, today is Claudia Winkleman’s last day 😔 Loved working with you, loved listening to you, loved knowing you were with us 🥰 Thank you for adding millions to our box office… we will miss you greatly xxx
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CONGRATULATIONS to Tony Blackburn OBE. who received his OBE at Windsor Castle today 👏🏽 It would be lovely to have a similar photo of Steve Wright, who should have been doing the same 😪 He’d have joked about Febrezing his suit and inking in his hair especially 🥸😘

Because it ramped up with Serious Jockin’ & Love Songs, I always think of STEVE WRIGHT all the more at this end of the week, so I was so pleased today to be sent this reminder of him at Images Nightclub in my hometown of Dover in the 80s. With his fish filleter! #LEGEND So missed

Terry Wogan’s son Mark has taken delivery of a Wogan House plaque from BBC Radio 2 🧡 As he says on Instagram, a little piece of history for the family to keep 🧡 This gives me all the feels… for Terry, Steve Wright, and all the fun we all had there 🥹

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my absolute queen Elaine Paige ❤️ flames since day dot 🔥🔥🔥 and the love and the fun just keep on coming ❤️

If we saw Steve Wright & Gary Davies on TV in the 80s, we used to go into school and laugh about them the next day. 4 decades on, I go weak at the knees if I see Gary in the lift. And Steve I admire and miss every day. Radio 1 Roadshow & Top of the Pops cool forever 🧡

Thinking of Nicki Chapman as she gets behind the wheel of the juggernaut that is Sunday Love Songs this weekend. No one can fill Steve Wright’s loafers… but as it’s one of the most warm-hearted shows on BBC Radio 2, with the loveliest listeners, Nicki is ideal xx

Went looking for Elaine Paige’s pigeonhole today and was informed it’s “by the mural of Jay-Z”. But of course 😆 In settling into Broadcasting House, it’s become obvious that it’s not the building that makes BBC Radio 2… it’s been 7 days of seeing how truly kind people are 🧡

Almost all BBC Radio 2 production staff had moved over from Wogan House already… but this is my first week in London Broadcasting House. 10 out of 10 for looks… but carryin’ across more in my heart than anticipated. A new era indeed 🖤

With love and thanks
at the end of an era

#SteveWright

It’s been a difficult week, but the flood of tributes, and messages, has been a huge comfort. Thank you. Also comforting is the prospect of Liza Tarbuck presenting a special Sunday Love Songs this week. She and Steve were like kindred spirits, so it’s fitting #SteveWright

Too many episodes of The Big Show and Love Songs to remember, two factoids books together, and it all ends one Tuesday afternoon out of the blue. I can’t believe it. Thank you for everything, from the bottom of my heart. You are British radio. And you are Radio 2. #SteveWright

CONGRATS to my brother Will Rickson, long-serving statistician/analyst on Sky Sports ‘Monday Night Football’ ⚽️ It’s just won ‘Best Sports Programme’ at the Broadcast Awards, beating coverage of The World Cup Final & The Ashes! ⚽️🏏 And he loves a show-tune! 💙 #MNF Jamie Carragher

Our last ever week in Wogan House. Goodbye, legend… and thank you for everything… 😢