{"id":355130,"date":"2026-03-30T12:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/355130\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T12:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:15:08","slug":"scott-mills-sacked-from-bbc-radio-2-over-personal-conduct","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/355130\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott Mills sacked from BBC Radio 2 over ‘personal conduct’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following morning Gary Davies started the show saying he was “in for Scott Mills”.<\/p>\n

News of his departure was first reported by The Mirror., external<\/a><\/p>\n

In an email sent to staff this morning, Lorna Clarke, director of music at the BBC said: “I know that this news will be sudden and unexpected and therefore must come as a shock. <\/p>\n

“Not least as so many of us have worked with Scott over a great many years, across a broad range of our programmes on R1, 5Live, R2 and TV. <\/p>\n

“I felt it was important to share this news with you at the earliest opportunity.<\/p>\n

“Of course, it will also come as a shock to our audience and loyal breakfast show listeners too. I will update everyone with more information on plans for the show when I’m able to. While I appreciate many of you will have questions, I hope you can understand that I am not going to be saying anything further now.”<\/p>\n

At the start of Jeremy Vine’s show on Radio 2 at midday, Vine said he was “taken aback by the story” and that he had “no further information” about it.<\/p>\n

Mills, 53, joined Radio 2’s weekday schedule in 2022 when he replaced Steve Wright as the host of the afternoon slot.<\/p>\n

In 2025 he provided TV commentary on BBC One for the semi-finals of Eurovision with Rylan.<\/p>\n

He was last seen on TV in a Traitors skit during Comic Relief.<\/p>\n

Prior to his work on Radio 2, he worked on Radio 1, which he joined in 1998. He hosted Radio 1’s Official chart between 2018 and 2022, replacing Greg James.<\/p>\n

He also hosted a weekend show on BBC Radio 5 Live and appeared on Strictly Come Dancing in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The following morning Gary Davies started the show saying he was “in for Scott Mills”. News of his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-355130","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\/355130","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=355130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}