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Having joined the Beeb aged just 22 after training New Era Snapbacksas a journalist on the Coventry Evening Telegraph, by 24 he was reporting on Europe for Radio 4's Today programme.His memoir is awash with anecdotes of BBC bigwigs, reporters and political correspondents who would jostle for position.When Vine joined the BBC team atNew Era Hats for sale Westminster, John Sergeant was top dog and had a way of putting people down.He was a master of 'support-sabotage' remarks, of which Vine was sometimes a victim.These things iron themselves out. For me, being the other Jeremy on Newsnight was a kind of non-starter. I don't know why I even did it.
When Vine boasted to him one day that he'd been the youngest person ever to present Today on Radio 4, Sergeant apparently retorted: "You don't want to be the youngest, Jeremy. You want to be the oldest."Vine writes: "AnotherNew Era 59fifty Hats time I learned he had observed, 'Vine is excellent; his sense of judgment will come'. OnlyYmcmb Snapback Hats the second half counted, obviously."Then there was the Newsnight episode. When Vine was taken on as the third presenter, alongside Paxman and Kirsty Wark, he was asked by the show's editor to keep a low profile when Paxman was around, following several newspaper articles, one of which called him Paxman's 'heir apparent'.
Behind the scenes the comment had caused ructionsWholesale Jordan Hats between Paxman's agent, the BBC press office and the programme. Before long, aPolo Hats diary piece reported that Paxman had referred to Vine as "mini me" behind the scenes, a nickname which stuck.Vine says that at the time he was upset by the whole debacle. "I had thought, this is the best job in the world, but then it all suddenly went wrong for me. But I look back now and I think it worked out brilliantly. I saw him (Paxman) the other day. He popped into my studio because he was in for Steve Wright and he was very friendly.
"But then Radio 2 came up and that's a perfectTisa Snapback Hats fit for me. I have a huge respect for Paxman. We'reMonster Energy Hats not really friends, we don't hang out together. But we are certainly friendly."For a long time he didn't really make any friends at the BBC while he was working his way up through the ranks."It's funny, I was just beavering away. ThenLast Kings Snapback Hats when I was on the Today programme, I realised everyone used to go to the pub and it was only after three years on the programme that I realised there was a pub. Then someone wrote this profile about me saying I'd been banned from the Today programme in-house rock band because I was too clean-cut. And I didn't even know there was a rock band.