Ken Bruce blasts BBC over ‘lack of support’ following shock exit as he claims the broadcaster ‘didn’t even mention’ his show

Ken Bruce has criticized the BBC for a ‘lack of support’ following his shocking radio exit.

The 72-year-old presenter had hosted his program on Radio 2 for more than thirty years, when he claimed that the broadcaster had asked him to resign in January 2023.

Now Ken has claimed that his show didn’t get a mention or any kind of promotion when it became the biggest broadcast.

He told The Telegraph: ‘I didn’t want to hoo-ha, so when my show became the biggest show on the radio I didn’t want to say anything about it, but I actually thought the BBC should.

‘I didn’t expect to be carried on a palanquin with people throwing palms in front of me, but I thought, surely that’s worth mentioning? As far as I know this hasn’t been mentioned by the BBC at all. Ever ‘.

A BBC spokesperson declined to comment.

But Ken admitted he needed ‘a little change in his life’ and insisted everything is ‘so good so far’ in his new role at Greatest Hits radio, in tribute to fellow radio star Steve Wright.

The DJ had hosted Steve Wright in the Afternoon on BBC Radio 2 and had also hosted his own show for a number of years, but this was axed in 2022 and he was found dead last month aged 66.

Ken said: “Above all, Steve was a realist. No one likes being taken off a show… but it’s something we all have in the back of our minds.

‘Nothing is forever’.

Just weeks ago it was revealed that the couple had plans to get together to celebrate Steve’s recent MBE award.

Ken told fans that after decades at the BBC, he wanted to continue his career “in a slightly different way over the coming years.”

Steve Wright, who died on February 12, 2024, was stripped of his Radio 2 afternoon show in 2022

In a statement shared on X – formerly known as Twitter – Ken wrote: ‘Totally shocked to hear the news about the great Steve Wright.

We had planned a lunch to celebrate being awarded his well-deserved MBE.

An excellent and innovative broadcaster whose listeners loved him. What a loss for the radio world.’

Previously, the presenter said he was leaving the BBC after three decades in the same place because it was ‘time for a change’ and it felt ‘like the natural culmination of some planning I’ve done’.

“There was a point of saying that I can’t be as excited about all the new music I have to play as I am about the old music.

“And I didn’t want to get on stage where I was bad-mouthing (or pretending to like) some of the music.”

The father-of-six explains: “I definitely thought I had something more to offer. I didn’t want to go backwards for the next three or four years and still be doing the same show, but everyone around me was getting younger and thinking, ‘Am I the old guy in the corner here?’