Radio 2 legend Jo Whiley has revealed she had an extremely unpleasant experience interviewing two huge music stars, and that fame had changed one into another “creature”
Jo Whiley said she was made to feel “tiny” and “stupid” by two music legends in a “horrible” interview.
The broadcasting legend who hosts her own Radio 2 evening show has interviewed tons of stars over the years. The radio DJ fronted her long-running Jo Whiley Show on Radio 1 before moving to Radio 2 in 2011.
Sadly, not all of her high-profile interviews have been good, as she’s told fellow radio host Zoe Ball that she had a “horrible” interview with rap legends Eminem and Dr Dre. She opened up about the toe-curling chat on their Dig It podcast when asked if she had ever been star-struck during an interview.
She said: “I remember interviewing Eminem and Dr Dre one time and that was horrible. I’d interviewed Eminem when he was very young and he was very shy and polite.
“He kept calling me ‘ma’am’ all the time and he was really, really sweet and humble. Then a couple of years later he came back on the show but with Dr Dre and the fame had happened and he was just this other creature altogether.
“They were just so playful with me – and can I just say they made me feel so tiny and so stupid.” The mum-of-five admitted that the interview was overall “a really unpleasant experience” as she and Zoe chatted about being star-struck by the rich and famous.
Jo recently insisted she is choosing not to slow down after hitting 60 last month – and reckons big birthdays are “not a big deal”. On turning 60 in July, she told Woman and Home: “Another birthday really isn’t a big deal for me because I don’t see age as important.
“It’s something that you very much don’t want to be a thing, but it becomes a thing because everybody focuses on it and asks you about it constantly.
“It’s a bizarre situation to be in because I’m only another year older than I was last year, and a year younger than I will be next year. There’s an obsession with reaching certain milestones due to your age. People focus on it too much.”
She has admitted she had been plagued with anxiety at the height of her DJing career in the 90s. She told Woman’s Health: “I remember doing one gig and I was just so scared, I thought I can’t go on like this. This is ridiculous.
“It’s ruining my life because I’m just such a ball of anxiety. But then I realised how happy it was making people when I do these gigs and that was a game changer.”
Now 60, Jo is still one of the most sought after DJs in the industry and insisted her milestone birthday, which she celebrated last month, is just the same as any other.
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