Mark Goodier revealed as Steve Wright’s BBC Radio 2 Pick of the Pops replacement following DJ legend’s tragic death

Mark Goodier has been unveiled as Steve Wright’s BBC Radio 2 Pick of the Pops replacement following the DJ legend’s tragic death.

The legendary radio host was found dead in his home on February 12, aged 69 – four years after his ex-wife died during Covid-19, leaving him ‘extremely withdrawn’.

It has now been confirmed that Mark will take over Steve’s Saturday afternoon session from July as the show progresses.

In a press release he said: ‘It’s an honor to host the iconic Pick of the Pops, although I wish it was under happier circumstances as I was friends with Steve for almost forty years.

“I can’t wait to reminisce with Radio 2 listeners as we revisit two years of their lives, playing some of the greatest records ever made.”

Steve had hosted Sunday Love Songs and Pick of the Pops on the channel until his death.

It was claimed he became extremely withdrawn and stopped dating after his ex-wife died during Covid.

Locals living near the DJ’s £2million flat where he was found dead said it had ‘completely shut down’ after the pandemic.

Neighbors told us The sun he stopped drinking in the area and believes the sudden death of his ex-wife Cyndi Robinson at the age of 65 in July 2020 hit Wright hard.

The couple divorced ‘out of the blue’ in 1999 after 27 years of marriage, during which they had two children together: Lucy and Tom.

Wright’s son, Tom, was living in Los Angeles but revealed he was returning to Britain to care for his father before his death.

A neighbor said Wright had stopped going out in recent years after the country emerged from the Covid pandemic.

‘He was a different person. even before his radio show ended,” they said, “he was extremely withdrawn.”

The legendary radio host was found dead in his home on February 12, aged 69 – four years after his ex-wife died during Covid-19, leaving him ‘extremely withdrawn’.

It has now been confirmed that Mark will take over Steve’s Saturday afternoon session from July as the show progresses (L-R Mark Goodier, Emma Freud, Steve Wright and Nicky Campbell pictured)

It is claimed that Wright was in talks to host his own TV show, 18 months after being replaced on radio by Scott Mills.

His friend of 40 years, publicist Gary Farrow, said he believes Wright “died of a broken heart” after being “devastated” when he lost his popular Radio 2 afternoon slot in 2022.

But Tom has now spoken out about his gratitude for being given the chance to bond with his father in his final days.

In a moving post on social media, the grieving son said: ‘It meant a lot to me that I was able to get to know my father in a way that I had never experienced in the months before he died.

“I will cherish every moment we shared and every memory we made.

“I just hope I can make him proud and build on his legacy with kindness and love.”

It was claimed that Steve became extremely withdrawn and stopped dating after his ex-wife, Cyndi Robinson, died during Covid. They are depicted on their wedding day

He added, “This made every battle worth it to spend this time with him before we lost him.”

Just two days before his father passed away, Tom reported that he had returned to Britain to spend a week with him before receiving his MBE awarded in the New Year Honors list.

He said he hopes to one day find solace in recordings of his father’s radio broadcasts.

Tom wrote about the loss of both his parents: ‘Thank God I’m sober because this would have killed me right away even a few years ago after losing my mother in the same way to the pandemic without seeing him before he passed . flying back to take care of the old blight.”

Wright was found dead in his £2million flat on Monday morning after paramedics were called to an ‘incident’, MailOnline revealed.

Emergency services rushed to the star’s home in Marylebone, central London, just after 10am on February 12, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

His ‘unexpected’ death is not being treated as suspicious and a report is being prepared for the coroner, police said.

The radio personality presented programs for BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 for more than four decades.

A spokesperson for the London Ambulance Service told MailOnline: ‘We were called at 10.07am on Monday February 12 to reports of an incident.

“We have sent a number of resources to the scene. Very sadly, one person was pronounced dead at the scene.”

DJ Steve Wright arrives for the 2003 Sony Radio Awards