See more Daily Mail on Google - save us as a Preferred SourceBy MARC BAKER Published: 23:33 BST, 6 June 2026 | Updated: 23:51 BST, 6 June 2026
Radio and TV star Jeremy Vine has revealed he is too afraid to talk openly about his belief in God while at work at the BBC – in case it is seen as contentious.The BBC Radio 2 presenter rarely mentions his religion but in a new interview he said: 'I definitely have a faith. Christ is probably who he said he was. I just so rarely say that in a BBC building. I just feel it is so contentious to say that.'I think the Bible stories are incredible and if it was a hoax I want to know who wrote it and I will follow them instead.'Vine, 61, who has worked for the corporation for almost 40 years, added: 'My parents were religious. Very much. My mother is still going strong.'She has recently turned 87. Recently, she had someone knock on the front door who could have been scamming her.'We were a bit concerned but he was basically taken in by her and told about the Bible for three hours.'I think by the time he left he was traumatised so he is never coming back. But my parents properly lived it. They were very dedicated to their local parish church and their lifelong friends.'The broadcaster was speaking on the BBC Radio 3 show Private Passions, which airs next Sunday. In a new interview, Jeremy Vine said he does not talk openly about his faith at the BBC in case it is seen as contentious The BBC Radio 2 presenter, 61, who has worked at the corporation for almost four decades, was raised a ChristianHe told host Michael Berkeley how he was raised a Christian by his parents while growing up in Surrey.He added: 'I do think when I look at them, they are fundamentally about grace and kindness and it's a powerful example but it is also somewhat a forbidding one because the whole of my life I thought "I can never be as good as them".'In 2017, Vine said he would be 'the worst evangelical ever', adding: 'There were verses in the Bible I really struggled with.'You must love the Lord with all your heart and mind and soul and strength and there's nobody in the world who does that.'Vine has also spoken in the past about how he lost his faith during his teenage years.
