Steve Morton Latest Celebrity News & Gossip

After over 40 years on our airwaves, radio fans were dealt a heartbreaking blow on Tuesday 13 February, when the BBC announced the death of DJ Steve Wright, who had famously helmed programmes on Radio 1 and Radio 2, as well as fronting tv shows such as Top of the Pops. And now, in an exclusive chat with OK!, Steve's colleague Jo Whiley has opened up on dealing with feelings about her own mortality. However, the one thing she’s not concentrating on and that is slowing down.

It’s been 30 years since DJ Jo Whiley first landed on BBC Radio 1, co-presenting The Evening Session. Now aged 58, she’s in a new phase of her life; preparing for an empty nest, enthusiastically gardening (she’s a little obsessed with growing pumpkins), and dealing with feelings about her own mortality.The one thing she’s not concentrating on, though, is slowing down. “As long as I enjoy it and people still want to dance to the songs I play and hear my voice, I’ll carry on,” she tells us.

When 17-year-old Jo Whiley set off for somewhere called Glastonbury after a raucous sixth form party, she had no idea the festival would come to define her next four decades. In the early 80s, Jo was studying for her A-levels and had plans to train as a speech therapist. What actually happened was rather different — and much more glamorous, in a muddy sort of way.