{"id":476689,"date":"2026-03-15T09:27:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/476689\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T09:27:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T09:27:11","slug":"jo-whiley-apologises-to-fellow-bbc-star-for-not-supporting-her-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/476689\/","title":{"rendered":"Jo Whiley apologises to fellow BBC star for \u2018not supporting\u2019 her | Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/jo-whiley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jo Whiley<\/a> apologised to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/fearne-cotton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fearne Cotton<\/a> for &#8220;not supporting&#8221; her more during her time on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/bbc\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> Radio 1.<\/p>\n<p>The presenter, 44, took over the station&#8217;s weekday mid-morning show from Whiley, who moved to weekends.<\/p>\n<p>Whiley described how she was unaware of how difficult Cotton was finding the transition behind the scenes, as she faced criticism from listeners.<\/p>\n<p>During an interview on her Dig It podcast with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/zoe-ball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zoe Ball<\/a>, Whiley told Cotton: &#8220;I was oblivious, that was the worst thing. I guess I had moved on to my next thing, and I didn\u2019t realise what you were going through.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jo Whiley apologised to Fearne Cotton for &#8220;not supporting&#8221; her more during her time on BBC Radio 1.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-476689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}