Neighbours at Steve Wright’s dwelling inform of shock at star’s loss of life
- BBC Radio 2 presenter was discovered lifeless at his flat near Marylebone on Monday
- Paramedics have been known as to the property following an incident simply after 10am
Neighbours of broadcast legend Steve Wright expressed their ‘large shock’ on the star’s ‘very surprising’ loss of life, as they paid tribute to a ‘genuinely heat and humble man.’
The BBC Radio 2 presenter was discovered lifeless at his £2million flat near Marylebone High Street in Central London on Monday morning.
Paramedics have been known as to the property following an incident simply after 10am.
Tony White, 60, who lived in the identical Victorian block as Wright for nine-years stated: ‘It was an enormous shock, very surprising. He was rather well appreciated and other people thought the world of him.
‘Steve and I shared the identical plumber and I texted him this morning to say how unhappy it was that Steve had gone. He messaged again and stated he’d been left completely devastated and that he hadn’t but taken within the terrible information.
‘Steve was a genuinely heat and humble man. If he noticed you coming down the steps, he’d smile and maintain the entrance door to the block open for you.
The DJ, seen in 2003, was made an MBE for providers to radio
Wright, who has died on the age of 69, in a photograph taken in 1995
‘He’d all the time have a dialog with individuals, there wasn’t any hint of stardom about him, he was only a down-to-earth, regular bloke. He did not have a driver, he received an Uber in every single place.
‘But as a lot as he was an extrovert on the radio, away from the mic he was fairly a quiet, personal individual. He stored himself to himself.
‘We have related surnames so typically we would get one another’s submit. Steve would come down, knock on the door and apologise and say ‘I seem to have your letters Mr White!’
‘We’d have a brief dialog on the door. I’d do the identical if I had his submit.
‘When I first moved right here I’d no concept he lived upstairs. I noticed him within the lobby and needed to double-take.’
Mr White stated he was at work yesterday afternoon when he noticed the information.
Steve Wright, who has died on the age of 69, pictured in his recording studio in 1994
Steve Wright pictured with fellow radio DJ’s Tony Blackburn (left), and Paul Gambaccini (proper)
Superstar George Michael pictured with BBC Radio 1 DJ Steve Wright
He added: ‘By 10am I’m at work so I did not see the ambulance arrive on Monday. The first I knew that Steve had died was after I noticed his image flash up on BBC information at work yesterday. It caught me off-guard considerably, I could not actually consider it.
‘This morning I spoke to the porters who have been current when the ambulance arrived. They have been nonetheless actually shaken up by all of it.’
Another neighbour, who requested to not be named, added: ‘He was a stunning man. I did not see him too many instances.
‘I feel he lived in one of many flats on the higher flooring along with his daughter.
‘I do not know if anybody is within the property for the time being. But our ideas are along with his household.’
It comes as former colleague, Liz Kershaw, slammed BBC bosses for his or her alleged ‘shabby’ therapy of Mr Wright, who she claimed was ‘dumped by the BBC and handled like a tin of beans’.
Her outburst got here as employees at Radio 2 have been stated to be livid at station chief Helen Thomas issuing a press release to pay tribute to the much-loved DJ lower than 18 months after axing his common Afternoon Show and shifting him to a Sunday slot.
It emerged that Wright was discovered lifeless at his £2million London flat on Monday morning after paramedics revealed they have been ‘known as to experiences of an incident’.
Steve Wright pictured in 1980
His surprising loss of life is just not being handled as suspicious, stated police, with a report being ready for the coroner.
A London Ambulance Service spokesperson stated: ‘We despatched plenty of assets to the scene. Very sadly, an individual was pronounced lifeless on the scene.’
A final image of the legendary broadcaster emerged yesterday displaying Wright larking round and taking ‘ironic selfies’ with a good friend in New York.
But the BBC confronted stress to reply questions over how they handled him once they axed his afternoon slot after 24 years.
Wright’s good friend of 40 years, publicist Gary Farrow, stated he was ‘devestated’ to lose his common Radio 2 slot.
Speaking to The Sun, he stated: Steve lives for the present, he completely beloved it – and the listeners beloved him. My view is that he died from a damaged coronary heart.’
Ms Kershaw, who was let go by BBC 6Music in 2022 after 20 years, stated: ‘New administration stated, ‘We’re going to refresh the schedule’. And they deal with individuals like tins of beans on a shelf.
‘I doubt that there was any follow-up, or any pastoral care, or any assist for him.
‘He did not want cash as he has been one of many highest-paid individuals on air however I ponder in the event that they thought-about the way it affected him.
‘There are some individuals for whom fame and a spotlight are their oxygen. And he was a kind of – it was completely his life.’
Ms Thomas discovered herself underneath fireplace with staff ‘enraged’ at her for saying father-of-two Wright was ‘second to none’.
Sources claimed that Ms Thomas ‘ought to have simply stored her mouth shut’ with them branding her assertion as ‘shameless’ and ‘tone deaf’.
