Steve Wright’s BBC Radio 2 co-host Janey Lee Grace pays tribute to presenter

Steve Wright's longterm co-host Janey Lee Grace pays tribute to presenterGMB/ITV

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00:00 We'll miss him so much and I'm not surprised that people, I mean on social media he's just

00:05 everywhere and I'm not surprised he was a real broadcasting legend and a proper DJ who and as

00:12 he said he said something interesting there he said I don't just want to play music I want to

00:16 do more than that and he did he was a very very good interviewer as well and he and he got everybody

00:21 at ease that was his secret and he was genuinely a lovely kind man. It's totally true. Jenny Lee

00:28 you were in the studio with him for all of those years and I was saying to you earlier that people

00:35 who came were interviewed by him we loved being interviewed because off camera off off mic in

00:40 private he was the same as when he was on the microphone that that special that fun that human

00:48 warmth that's right isn't it? Yeah he was very he was very funny I mean he could have had another

00:53 career as a comedian easily and sometimes I wish the stuff that we'd been able to say off air had

00:58 been broadcast because it was really really fun but you're right people did love coming in to be

01:04 interviewed because he was so supportive of all the guests and he made it everything everyone feel

01:10 completely relaxed so I'm not surprised and you know the other really interesting thing I was

01:14 thinking about it was that if maybe it was a comedian who had a long tour he would say to them

01:20 You know, if all the tickets haven't sold out, come back on and we'll give it another push.