‘I won’t be 99 going in with a carer’ – Tony Blackburn, 82, opens up about retirement and life at Radio 2
legend Tony Blackburn, 81, has no plans to slow down just yet as he prepares to embark on another mammoth UK2 programme is the station's most listened to show on BBC Sounds - Tony insists he'll call it a day the moment standards start to drop.In an exclusive interview with The Sun, he says: "I said, 'if I'm not doing the show as well as you think I could, but I will know that, then I will give it up'.
He says: "I do want to do it as long as I can, because I really, really enjoy Radio 2. I like the people there, and I like the DJs I work with there, because they've all proved themselves, so there's not the competition that you get elsewhere when you're younger."year Tony will hit the road for 28 more dates of his Sounds of the 60s live show.
A heckler at a recent gig joked Tony might not make his next birthday, but he took the morbid gag in his stride. The live shows give Tony the opportunity to work up a sweat and keep active, which he much prefers to going to the gym. "It's so boring. I mean, when I was at Capital Radio, I went into the gym. We had a free membership, and there was always a woman by the side of me on this treadmill, and she looked dreadful, absolutely dreadful, drained, sweating.
"They asked me to do a disco, so I did do a disco in Windsor Castle. But I don't think she had an answer coming back from that. But she was veryThough he immediately quashes any chance of a return for the All Stars version, Tony relished his time in the bush.
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