He’s the cycling BBC presenter on a mission to shame the dodgy drivers blighting London‘s roads – a man who has been described as ‘willing to die in defence of the Highway Code.’
Now Jeremy Vine has claimed that the worst drivers are simply not getting enough action, accusing them of having ‘small d*** energy’.
Appearing on Gaby Roslin’s podcast, the 59-year-old broadcaster, who frequently films dangerous motorists with his helmet cam, pushed back against her suggestion that road rage stems from personal struggles.
Roslin said: ‘The people who get angry, someone’s pulled out in front of them and they yell get out the way and they hoot and all that. Whether it’s bicycles or a car or whatever it is. I always say, but you don’t know what happened in their life?’
Vine responded: ‘Do you? Oh gosh.’
‘Yes, you can’t get angry,’ Roslain said. ‘Because they might be rushing because their mother’s not well. Something might have happened to their child.’
Vine replied: ‘That’s how lovely you are because I’m different. I just say that’s what they call small d*** energy. That he’s not getting enough.’
Jeremy Vine has claimed that the worst drivers are not getting enough action in the bedroom, accusing them of having ‘small d*** energy’
Appearing on Gaby Roslin’s podcast, the 59-year-old broadcaster, who frequently films dangerous motorists with his helmet cam, pushed back against her suggestion that road rage stems from personal struggles
This isn’t the first time the TV show host has used sexually charged language when describing motorists — he’s previously referred to them as ‘petrosexuals’
He added: ‘What happens is, all the people who are not getting enough sex lock themselves in small metal boxes and drive around London. That’s fundamentally what’s going on in our society. It’s so lovely of you to take such a positive view of it.’
This isn’t the first time the TV show host has used sexually charged language when describing motorists — he’s previously referred to them as ‘petrosexuals’.
Vine’s reputation as a cycling advocate is well established.
He once submitted four clips in a single day to the police — two for drivers passing too closely, and two for using mobile phones behind the wheel.
‘They’ll all be fined,’ he said, noting he only reports about one in every 200 incidents he witnesses weekly.
His helmet-cam footage regularly sparks viral debates — sometimes over the driver’s actions, other times over his own, such as whether he should be wearing hi-vis gear at night.
It comes as the TV show host’s comments follow controversy on his Channel 5, which show sparked outrage when a guest claimed, ‘Incels aren’t the problem, women are’, and insisted that female behaviour ‘gets worse and worse as time goes on’ during an explosive misogyny debate.
During the programme, Jeremy, Reem Ibrahim and Matthew Torbitt had a conversation with Adam, from Devon, who phoned in.
‘What do you know of incels Adam?’ Jeremy asked.
The guest replied: ‘Most of the time I think it’s just men trying to express themselves and being labelled misogynist because of programmes such as the one now.’
He went on to add that he believes ‘if you want to address the issue of incels, if there is such an issue of incels and it’s not just a label which has been given to a certain group of men, then you need to look at the larger social structures that are causing it’.
