Jamie Theakston ‘thrown off’ motorbike on return to Heart radio post-cancer
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video. Up Next. Radio presenter Jamie Theakston revealed that he was flung from his motorcycle on his first day back at the office following cancer treatment.
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The 54-year-old underwent four months of gruelling treatment after he was diagnosed with stage 1 laryngeal cancer in September 2024 which involved three separate surgeries. After his triumphant announcement last week that he was officially cancer-free, he reunited with Heart presenters JK and Amanda Holden for their morning show on Friday.
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On Monday, January 20, he had his official first show back and reflected on admitted the journey there was not all smooth-sailing, literally. On air, he told listeners he was ejected from his motorcycle on his commute to the station. ‘If Mr Bean had his first day back at work after four months, this is probably how it might have gone,’ he joked, explaining that it was an extra lock on the vehicle which had ‘thrown him’.
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‘Last night I left my motorbike out on the street because I thought “I want to get away really easily and quickly this morning”. Because I was leaving it on the street I thought I should probably leave an extra bike lock on it, just in case,’ he explained.
Unfortunately, he ‘completely forgot’ about it and ‘as he shot off it clanged into the forks of the bike and threw me off’. Luckily, he made it out of the potentially disastrous accident unscathed, with Amanda joking that neighbours with ring doorbells should ‘send over the footage’.
