{"id":246103,"date":"2026-01-22T12:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/246103\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T12:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T12:37:07","slug":"sara-cox-gets-bbc-radio-2-presenter-to-wear-norwich-city-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/246103\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Cox gets BBC Radio 2 presenter to wear Norwich City shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Sara Cox presents the teatime show on BBC Radio 2, which is one of the most popular slots on the radio station.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  During Wednesday&#8217;s airing, Strictly Come Dancing competitor, Escape to the Country presenter and radio DJ, Richie Anderson, was forced to wear a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eveningnews24.co.uk\/sport\/norwich-city\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Canaries<\/a> shirt after failing a music challenge &#8211; a hard pill to swallow for a West Brom super fan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Sara Cox and Richie Anderson, wearing a Canaries shirt after his beloved West Brom lost 5-0 on Tuesday (Image: @djsaracox)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Philippe Clement&#8217;s side beat the Baggies 5-0 and climbed out of the Championship relegation zone for the first time since October.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Cox shared the picture with her 660,000 Instagram followers with the caption: &#8220;Poor Richie&#8217;s forfeit for failing the teatime musical challenge on BBC Radio 2 was to wear a Norwich City Football Club shirt &#8211; not easy for a West Bromwich Albion super fan, especially after Tuesday night&#8217;s 5-0 bashing.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She added that she had corrected the score after her fans pointed out an error.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Anderson responded: &#8220;As you can see, I&#8217;ve had a lot of sympathy today at BBC Radio 2 after West Brom&#8217;s result (on Tuesday).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I lost a quiz and this was my forfeit.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sara Cox presents the teatime show on BBC Radio 2, which is one of the most popular slots&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-246103","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-music","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}