Sara Cox and Vernon Kay go back a long way, and Vernon apologised to his colleague after referring to his fellow Bolton-born presenter’s past life during a BBC Radio 2 segment
Vernon Kay and Sara Cox both hail from Bolton(Image: bbcradio2/TikTok)
Radio host Vernon Kay and his fellow DJ Sara Cox go back a long way. Both of the stars hail from Bolton, Greater Manchester, and both have worked for the BBC for decades.
On the day their impressive Beeb salaries were revealed – Vernon earns between £405,000 and £409,999, while Sara pockets between £320,000 and £324,999 – they had an amusing interaction between their Radio 2 shows.
Sara started presenting the Breakfast Show earlier this month, taking over from the sacked Scott Mills, who topped the salary list with the figures including the year up to March 2026.
Vernon presents the slot after his long-time friend, and begun the handover by addressing her as ‘Coxy,’ the persona linked to her ‘ladette’ days during the 1990s alongside fellow personalities such as Zoe Ball and Denise van Outen.
Speaking on air this morning (Tuesday, July 14), Vernon remarked: “It’s a delight, Coxy,” reports the Express.
Adopting a mock accent, Sara replied: “Hi, buddy. How are you buried Coxy with a bottle of vodka and 10 deck of Marlboro Lights.”
Vernon then enquired: “Has that gone now,” to which Sara confirmed it had. The presenter then described herself as “rebranded and sensible” though acknowledged the “sensible bit is not going well”.
Sara’s lifestyle has transformed significantly since the early days of her career. She’s now a married mother of three with a passion for fitness, having completed last year’s demanding Great Northern Marathon challenge in aid of BBC Children in Need.
She covered an impressive 135 miles across five days, generating over £11million for the charity. Sara’s ‘Coxy’ image is firmly in the past, but Vernon, who shares Sara’s Bolton, Greater Manchester roots, revived it during the handover between their programmes.
Sara has previously expressed her dislike of the term ‘ladette’ because the implication is “we want to be little lads,” according to the Guardian. Her career breakthrough came in 1996 when she presented The Girlie Show on Channel 4, before moving to The Big Breakfast two years later, where she interviewed A-listers including Leonardo DiCaprio, Robbie Williams and Sting.
The term ‘ladette’ was created to describe young women exhibiting laddish behaviour. The Concise Oxford Dictionary defines it as: “Young women who behave in a boisterously assertive or crude manner and engage in heavy drinking sessions.” The expression has largely fallen out of use.
Speaking on Elizabeth Day’s How To Fail podcast, she revealed: “I’ve always hated it. But, I think I just hate it, literally, of that collection of letters, where they’ve cobbled together the word ‘ladette’.
“If they’d have come up with a brand new word, that didn’t have the word ‘lad in it, then it’d be fine. (A word) which meant women spending their own earnings, having fun, going out with their friends, having independence, not being afraid.
“Not worried about being glamorous or feminine or ladylike, but actually just being themselves and having a laugh and being really good mates with other girls and supporting.
“So, the vibe of ‘ladette’ and the fact that they tried to minimise, hold us down a little bit with that, was that: ‘You’re just trying to be like the boys.’ And, we were never trying to be like the boys.”
She also confessed to This Morning the label “makes my toes curl now”. Sara also expressed her gratitude to Vernon for texting her over the weekend following her debut week hosting the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show.
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