Jeremy Vine’s now-familiar run-in with motorists on his bike takes a surprising twist as one encounter with a London taxi driver ends in peace with ‘cutting-up’ cabbie then recognising him and the presenter giving him a thumbs up

• The veteran broadcaster, 58, hit out at a taxi driver for allegedly cutting him up
• The encounter mellowed as the cabbie recognised Vine, shouting: ‘Hey Jeremy!’
• Vine tweeted video of the incident, joking: ‘Always wonderful to meet a listener’ 

Jeremy Vine joked it was ‘always wonderful’ to meet listeners of his BBC Radio 2 show after being recognised by a taxi driver who he claims cut him up as he cycled in London.

The veteran radio and TV presenter, 58, was travelling through Kensington when the white Hackney carriage tried to overtake him on the right.

The cabbie then indicated left after pulling a short distance ahead of Vine, suggesting he was about to turn in, prompting the presenter to toot at him with his bicycle-mounted air horn.

But the encounter ended peacefully as the taxi driver recognised the presenter, exclaiming: ‘Hey Jeremy – Jeremy Vine!’

Vine shared a clip of the interaction to his X (formerly Twitter) account – where he regularly shares clips of perceived transgressions as he pedals around the city – and joked: ‘Always wonderful to meet a listener. Even like this.’

BBC presenter Jeremy Vine captured the entire exchange on a 360-degree camera mounted on his helmet. The white taxi can be seen to the right of the image

The taxi overtakes the 58-year-old before indicating left to pull into De Vere Gardens. Vine exclaims: ‘What the hell are you doing, my friend?’ and sounds his air horn

As Vine rolls up alongside the taxi to remonstrate with the driver, the cabbie recognises him and exclaims: ‘Hey Jeremy – Jeremy Vine!’ 

The presenter then flashes the taxi driver a thumbs up as he pulls away from the side of the road, chuckling to himself

The 360-degree helmet camera clip was filmed on the A315 in Kensington, just west of the Royal Albert Hall, and starts by highlighting the taxi as it travels in the outside lane next to Kensington Gardens.

As the taxi moves over and indicates left to pull into De Vere Gardens, Vine mutters: ‘You’re not going to turn in there’.

He then sounds his noisy bicycle air horn and yells: ‘Watch out! Don’t turn here!’

Vine then draws up alongside the cab and asks the driver: ‘What the hell are you doing, my friend? You can’t just pull past me and signal.’

The cabbie replies: ‘I’m really needing to turn’, before calling Vine’s argument ‘nonsense’.

After a moment, he recognises the presenter and yells: ‘Hey Jeremy – Jeremy Vine!’

The argument subsides as Vine says: ‘It’s not how it [overtaking] works – go on, my friends’ before flashing the cabbie a thumbs up.

Vine’s videos of his bouts with drivers often split opinion, with followers divided on whether he is in the right or looking for arguments

Jeremy Vine regularly posts videos of his scraps with motorists on X (formerly Twitter). He films the encounters on a helmet camera that captures events from all angles

The video then zooms in on his outstretched hand and replaces it with a thumbs-up emoji, with a caption that reads: ‘Thumbs up. It’s always good to meet a listener.’

Vine then chuckles as he cycles away, adding: ‘Oh God.’

The presenter later joked online that the driver had recognised him beforehand and had wanted to make the cut in one of his infamous cycling videos.

The clips, which he regularly posts on social media, see Vine regularly blast drivers for carrying out what he says are dangerous manoeuvres in the capital.

Recent films have seen van drivers tell the Radio 2 call-in presenter to ‘f*** off’ after he challenged them on their driving and a London bus driver brand him a ‘terrible person’.

He has also sparred with an Amazon driver who called him a ‘p****’ and a 4×4 driver he caught scoffing a bag of chips and using her phone while at the wheel.

Some of Vine’s 789,300 followers debated the manoeuvre after he posted the clip – with users split on whether the taxi driver had been unsafe.

Vine is an enthusiastic cyclist and has praised the expansion of cycle lanes in London. He is pictured here in 2019 on a Brompton folding bicycle – with a GoPro action camera on his head

Vine has also attracted attention for using a novelty Penny Farthing bicycle whilst out and about. But he had a nasty fall from the Victorian-style velocipede in February 2022

One follower said: ‘Passing a car on the inside while they are already indicating… yea, very sensible.’ 

Issuing a note of caution to Vine, another wrote: ‘How you haven’t been injured. Just chill, back off, we know he was in the wrong but you were putting yourself in danger. You seriously need a road awareness course.’

A third person added: ‘he indicated left but you still tried to undertake him, are you stupid?’

Some, however, believed that Vine was in the right by warning the cabbie off of turning in. 

One defender of the presenter said: ‘It was nice that he recognised you and it ended more light hearted, but he was performing a scary, illegal manoeuvre. Who knows how it could have ended without the horn etc.’

Another wrote: ‘It beggars belief that we still have drivers on the roads who thinks that’s is acceptable. I suspect, though, that many realise it’s wrong and just don’t like admitting they were at fault.’

Elsewhere on the social network, Vine has sparred with malicious trolls who falsely accused him of being the star at the centre of a BBC sex pictures scandal.

Vine suffered a black eye and broke his glasses after being thrown over the handlebars of his Penny Farthing in February 2022. He was wearing a helmet at the time

He told the How To Be 60 podcast that he was knocked out from the fall. But an eyewitness later told him the plummet from the bike had been ‘like something from the Olympics’

Vine later laughed off the incident and even brought it up on his Channel 5 daytime programme – complete with a janky graphic showing how the accident had happened

And the broadcaster has recently spoken candidly about his freak accident on a novelty Penny Farthing bike last year.

Speaking to the How To Be 60 podcast, Vine said he had been riding the bike in a bid to ‘show off’ – a trait he says he shares with comedian brother Tim.

But Vine was catapulted over the handlebars after the bike hit a divot as he rode across a patch of grass.

While he was temporarily knocked out, Vine came away from the accident with just a black eye and a broken pair of glasses.

He told the podcast: ‘I was knocked out, but the person who saw it said it was like something from the Olympics.

‘He said at one point, “You were a star shape and upside down mid-air”.

‘So I hit the ground, I was wearing a helmet but that’s kind of irrelevant.

‘All the air was knocked out of me. I was knocked out.

‘And I couldn’t remember any of it.’

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