Jeremy Vine: Channel 5 host in behind the scenes Eggheads news ‘A relationship developed’

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Jeremy Vine, 55, has admitted that he became fascinated by a famous painting after finding out it was hanging in a gallery near the BBC studio where Eggheads is filmed in Glasgow. The Jeremy Vine Show host was alerted to the masterpiece’s location when Salvador Dalí came up as a question on the game show.

Jeremy explained: “Recording Eggheads was a b****y punishing routine.

“You started at 8am and finished around 8pm but, because of the efficiencies of TV, you’d do five shows a day for 14 days straight, with one day off in the middle.

“Salvador Dalí had come up as a question on the show, and one of the Eggheads said, ‘One of his most famous paintings is round the corner from here at the Kelvingrove [Art Gallery and Museum],’ and so I thought, ‘I’m going to see that the first chance I get.’”

Jeremy then discovered the painting was the artist’s famous work, entitled Christ of Saint John of the Cross, which had sentimental value to him.

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He divulged in this week’s edition of Radio Times: “Amazingly, it turned out to be Christ of Saint John of the Cross.

“It was the favourite painting of an old English teacher of mine and I’d seen a picture of it at his house and never forgotten it.” 

The Channel 5 host recalled: “The room it’s hung in [at the gallery] is quite poky, but that makes it more dramatic and, because your heart would soar on your day off, I was in what could be described as a heightened state when I saw it for real.”

Jeremy went on to describe his connection to the work of art as a “relationship” which led him to purchase a full-scale copy that now hangs in his study.

He revealed: “Without being too obsessive, every Saturday morning over six or seven years whenever I was in Glasgow, I’d go and have a look at it, and a relationship developed. 

“I’m looking at it now.”

The painting also inspired Jeremy’s upcoming book, The Diver and The Lover: A Novel of Love, Sacrifice and the Art of Obsession.

Jeremy became joint chair of Eggheads alongside Dermot Murnaghan in 2008 and went on to become sole chair after the latter left the BBC show in 2014.

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Elsewhere, the presenter showed his 740,000 Twitter how a coronavirus home testing kit effectively works back in April.

Jeremy was quick to point out that the kit was not to test if he had coronavirus, but to see if an individual has already beaten the virus and gained some immunity from it.

The broadcaster captioned the clip: “I have just done a COVID-19 test.

“Note — this is not the ‘have you got it?’ test which the government is having so much trouble sourcing. 

“This is the ‘have you had it?’ test for antibodies. It was a demonstration unit and currently not approved by the government.”

Read the full interview in Radio Times [RADIO TIMES]

In the video, Jeremy explained how he had pricked himself in order to place his blood inside the testing kit.

“They are available in some pharmacists apparently and you put the blood in there,” he explained as Jeremy panned the camera towards the COVID-19 kit.

“The line there means it’s worked and it’s registered with me. I had to put some drops of buffer in there.”

“As you can see I missed the first time,” as he showed specks of blood on his counter.

After he completed the home test, the Channel 5 anchor explained it revealed he didn’t have antibodies but was not 100 per cent convinced of the test’s accuracy.

Read the full interview in this week’s Radio Times – out now.

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