Jeremy Vine, the 61-year-old broadcaster, presenter and journalist, is due to appear on ITV's Love Your Weekend with Alan Titchmarsh on May 24, bringing a familiar public figure back onto television at a moment when his life away from the studio is once again part of the story. For Vine, whose work spans the Radio 2 midday show, the Channel 5 quiz show Eggheads and his weekday current affairs programme on Channel 5, the appearance arrives with a backdrop of family, travel and past hostility that has long shaped how he moves through public life.
Vine married journalist and news presenter Rachel Schofield in 2002 in Tipton St John, Devon, and the pair live in Chiswick, London, with their two daughters, Martha and Anna, born in 2004 and 2006. He has said Sidmouth became his summer place after he got married close by, adding: “It's Sidmouth I come back to. After getting married close by, it became our summer place.”
That personal connection sits alongside a working life that has kept him on air for years. Vine has become one of the most recognisable voices on British broadcasting, while Schofield has her own newsroom background after starting at Radio Newcastle in 1999, contributing to Look North, becoming a correspondent for Radio 4 and later moving to News. The couple even shared a professional overlap in 2020, when Schofield filled in as co-host on his show for a week.
Their marriage also followed an earlier chapter in Vine’s personal life. He was previously married to American banker Janelle Muntz for seven years until 2000, and he described that breakup as “very sad,” saying the two had seen very little of each other over a three-year period because of demanding careers and extensive travel commitments. Vine is also the older sibling of actor and comedian Tim Vine.
His public profile has at times been defined by events far removed from studio television. In 2015, Vine competed in the 13th series of Strictly Come Dancing, and a year later he was involved in a road rage incident while cycling through London. A motorist threatened and hurled abuse at him during the altercation, which led to legal proceedings and ended with the driver receiving a one-month prison sentence for threatening behaviour, driving without reasonable consideration for other road users and driving without valid road tax.
That episode fed into a broader pattern of online abuse that has also shaped how Vine shares his cycling life. He later stopped posting footage of his London journeys after harassment and death threats, saying: “The trolling just got too bad. They had well over 100m views, but in the end the anger they generate has genuinely upset me,” and warning that trolls regularly wanted to see him “crushed under a truck.” He described that as a “very real danger” facing cyclists.
For Vine, then, the ITV booking is not just another daytime television slot. It comes with the weight of a public career that reaches from radio to quiz shows and current affairs, a long marriage and family life rooted partly in Devon, and a history of abuse that has made even a simple cycling clip feel loaded. The appearance on May 24 puts all of that in the background at once, and makes clear why his name still draws attention whenever he turns up on screen.
