Jeremy Vine has issued a mock apology after having an angry confrontation with a driver that prompted a slew of backlash from motorists online. The BBC presenter was cycling along King Street in Hammersmith, West London, on Sunday when he spotted a black Ford Fiesta pulling out into the cycle lane.
Mr Vine then swerved onto the road whilst sounding his mounted horn, prompting the unimpressed motorist to tell Vine to “f*** off” as he branded him a “typical f****** cyclist”.
The 58-year-old’s original video was shared to social media where it received angry comments from users who claimed Vine was in the wrong.
This has since prompted him to update the video with an “apology”. The clip begins as the Eggheads host wears a 360-degree camera mounted on his helmet.
He loudly toots at the man as he approaches the cycle lane and initially expects to be thanked before the tirade of abuse, reported MailOnline.
The man unleashes his volley of verbal abuse towards father-of-two Vine who records as the motorist then darts the wrong way down a one-way street. The Fiesta puts on the brakes and stops to allow another car to pull out of a junction.
It’s at this point Vine queries: “Why should I share the road with this arrogant clown?” The host of the Jeremy Vine show on Channel 5 says: “I had thought that I was the victim of a bad driver, but having looked at the responses I now realise the driver did nothing wrong at all.
“It was my bad cycling that was to blame and I’m very sorry for any suggestion that the man in that car is a less than perfect driver. It wasn’t my intention to suggest that he was s***e.”
Mr Vine has shot more than 30 clashes with those he calls “petrosexuals” throughout his journeys across London this year.
The presenter shared the updated video yesterday with the caption: “I have now reviewed the footage of the driver who pulled out on me at the junction off King Street. And having read the responses and looked again at the context, I can see that I got this one wrong. Apology at the end.”
His post received more than 500 likes with more than 280 comments from social media users who were quick to offer their thoughts on the incident. One said: “The number of people failing to spot the sarcasm is quite something.”
Another added: “The sarcasm is strong in this one.” A third replied: “I knew what was coming but was not prepared for how well it was delivered.” Another commented: “That would be a fail on a driving test, take their licence off them.”
