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<\/p>\nDJ Scott Mills has been sacked by the BBC, it has emerged.<\/p>\n
The Radio 2 star, who has been with the BBC for nearly three decades, had his contract terminated at the weekend, following an allegation relating to his “personal conduct”.<\/p>\n
The 53-year-old was taken off air on his Radio 2 show last Tuesday, while the BBC assessed the claims.<\/p>\n
A BBC spokesperson said: “While we do not comment on matters relating to individuals, we can confirm Scott Mills is no longer contracted and has left the BBC”.<\/p>\n
Mills – who ranked 11th on last year’s list of the BBC’s highest-paid stars – took over the breakfast show from Zoe Ball in January 2025.<\/p>\n
He signed off his last show on Tuesday, 24 March, saying: “Back tomorrow,” but on Wednesday morning, DJ Gary Davies presented the show.<\/p>\n
Although still titled “The Scott Mills Breakfast Show,” Mills’s photo has been replaced with a photo of Davies, and the schedule says “Gary Davies sits in…” Davies has not directly addressed the reason for Mills’s absence while hosting the show.<\/p>\n
‘Sudden’ and ‘unexpected’ news<\/p>\n
An internal email, sent by Lorna Clarke, director of music at the BBC, told staff: “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
News of Mills’s sacking led the 12pm news bulletin on Radio 2, while Jeremy Vine, whose show followed, said he was “taken aback by the story,” but had “no further information” than was provided in the bulletin.<\/p>\n
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\n Scott Mills pictured last month. Pic: PA<\/p>\n
A radio star, with TV credits and forthcoming podcast<\/p>\n
Growing up in Southampton, Hampshire, Mills started out in local radio as a teenager. Quickly working his way up, he presented on commercial stations around the country before joining the BBC in 1998 as host of the Radio 1 breakfast show.<\/p>\n
He went on to present weekend slots for the station and then an early evening show while providing maternity cover for Sara Cox. The show was renamed The Scott Mills Show when Cox did not return.<\/p>\n
In 2022, Mills joined Radio 2, replacing Steve Wright in his weekday afternoon slot. He’s also presented other shows on the station, commentated on the Eurovision Song Contest and hosted a weekend show on Radio 5 Live.<\/p>\n
Appearing on several soaps and dramas in the 2000s, Mills had minor acting roles in Hollyoaks, Casualty and River City, and appeared as himself on shows including Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Supermarket Sweep and Mastermind.<\/p>\n
In 2014, Mills appeared on Strictly Come Dancing, in 2016 he won a celebrity special of Robot Wars and in 2024 he won BBC’s Celebrity Race Across The World with his partner Sam Vaughan. The couple got married shortly after filming the show.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n His last TV appearance was in a Traitors-themed sketch on Comic Relief earlier this month.<\/p>\n Mills earned between \u00a3355,000 and \u00a3359,999 according to the corporation’s last annual report.<\/p>\n He had been due to present a new Race Across The World podcast – Race Across the World: The Detour – billed as “coming soon,” and support Boyzone on their Two For The Road gigs in June.<\/p>\n This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly.<\/p>\n Please refresh the page for the fullest version.<\/p>\n You can receive breaking news alerts on a smartphone or tablet via the Sky News app<\/a>. You can also follow us on WhatsApp<\/a> and subscribe to our YouTube channel<\/a> to keep up with the latest news. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DJ Scott Mills has been sacked by the BBC, it has emerged. The Radio 2 star, who has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-503432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503432","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=503432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}