Former party boy Nick Grimshaw has moved from radio to TV with a new show – which sees him walking in Northumberland
NICK GRIMSHAW is taking the scenic route as he navigates his post-Radio One career.
I can reveal the former DJ, famous for his all-nighters and being drinking buddies with Kate Moss, is filming a new BBC show with celebrity guests that is all about walking.
Indeed, Grimmy has filmed himself traipsing around the Northumberland countryside for eight hours to give him enough content for the series, which has been given the imaginative working title, Walking With.
He explains: “I had to spend the day in Northumberland and I’ve never been there before, I must have walked for about eight hours and all I had to do was carry a camera on a stick and film myself chatting away.
“It was like a therapy session with myself.”
Each episode will feature a different celebrity, but the show is certainly a huge contrast to his partying days at Radio 1.
Oldham-born Grimmy left the station in August after 14 years, nearly six of which were at the helm of the coveted Breakfast Show.
He was planning to take six months off to “consider my options” but clearly couldn’t turn down a nice long walk in the fresh air, which would have cured some of those epic early-morning hangovers prolonged by being behind a mic.
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He’s also revealed his mum Eileen turned down the chance to appear alongside him on Celebrity Gogglebox, in which he regularly stars with niece, Liv.
It is a shame as, according to Grimmy, she sounds great value.
He adds: “She says that she wouldn’t like to be in front of the camera. I take her everywhere with me when I can.
She came to see me DJ at NoMad on Sunday night.
“It was for an afterparty at London Fashion Week and she didn’t get back to mine until 2.30am.
“It’s mad and she is 78.”
They make them tougher up north.
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