{"id":659123,"date":"2026-06-26T10:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/659123\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T10:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T10:04:09","slug":"dj-and-presenter-trevor-nelson-taking-a-break-from-work-due-to-health-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/659123\/","title":{"rendered":"DJ and presenter Trevor Nelson taking a break from work due to health issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC DJ and presenter Trevor Nelson has announced he is to take &#8220;a little break&#8221; from all work due to health issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Radio 2 and 1Xtra presenter, who has been off air this week, did not go into detail about his diagnosis but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DaCsA_GsaiA\/?hl=en\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told his Instagram followers, external<\/a> that, on doctor&#8217;s orders, he was now &#8220;concentrating on getting better&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this year, the influential 62-year-old celebrated 30 years at the BBC, where he has championed black music in the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The BBC&#8217;s director of music, Lorna Clarke said: &#8220;Everyone at BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 1Xtra wishes Trevor a very speedy recovery and we all look forward to him returning to his shows whenever he is ready.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nelson, known for his love of R&amp;B, soul and hip-hop, explained: &#8220;I wanted to let my followers, radio listeners and all my Soul Nation party-people know that I&#8217;m going to be taking a little break from my work commitments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Some of you may already have noticed that I&#8217;ve not been on my daily Radio 2 slot this week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He continued: &#8220;After a routine check-up I was advised to have some follow up tests. As a result, I will be taking some further time off.  As I&#8217;m sure you can appreciate with health issues, it&#8217;s important to deal with facts and not speculate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So I&#8217;m concentrating on getting better, being back to 100% me and to getting back behind the mic and the decks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earlier this week, Nelson received a special prize at the Television and Radio Industries Club (Tric) awards, recognising his broadcasting career across radio and television.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC DJ and presenter Trevor Nelson has announced he is to take &#8220;a little break&#8221; from all work&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-659123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659123","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=659123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}