Just months after his friend Scott Mills lost his job, Rylan Clark took the opportunity to praise the former BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show host’s 2024 wedding to Sam Vaughan while on air
Rylan at Scott Mills’ wedding(Image: Instagram/Rylan)
As well as being former colleagues, who worked together on Radio 2 and other BBC shows such as the Eurovision Song Contest semi-finals, Rylan Clark and Scott Mills are good friends. Rylan was also a guest at Scott’s 2024 wedding to his long-time partner, Sam Vaughan.
On his BBC Radio 2 show on Saturday, Rylan reminisced about visiting the Catalonian town of Sitges in Spain ahead of Scott’s wedding in the exclusive Xalet Del Nin wedding venue. The on air discussion came after a Radio 2 listener texted in to say they were visiting Sitges for the upcoming Pride celebrations. Rylan responded: “Have a lovely time out there!
“I’ve only ever been to Sitges once and that was for Scott and Sam’s wedding and oh my God, we just had… I mean, it was the most beautiful wedding ever, but we just had such a lovely time!”
Rylan also showed support for Scott and Sam when the latter broke his social media silence after the presenter’s sacking to mark their two-year wedding anniversary on Instagram. Sam posted a black and white photo of the couple from their wedding day and wrote, “Two years,” alongside a red heart emoji. Rylan responded to the post with several red heart emojis in the comments section.
Shortly before the wedding, Rylan revealed on air that he had organised a surprise for Scott, with Nick Grimshaw and Annie Mac delivering a special message.
Annie said: “Oh my goodness, you’re about to get married,” as Nick chimed in: “Oh my god, congratulations. It’s going to be some party, but do you know what I’m most excited about? It is gonna go off. It is gonna reach new levels?”
When a confused Annie asked “what?”, Nick explained: “The spray tan. It is gonna reach new levels. I can’t wait to see what shade the ‘bride’ goes.” Nick added: “I hope that Scott goes full varnish,” as Annie said: “Well you only get married once, hopefully.”
Scott was sacked from his BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show job in March following allegations about his “personal conduct”.
It emerged that Scott had been questioned by the Metropolitan Police in 2018 over allegations of “serious sexual offences” against a teenage boy under the age of 16.
Police passed the results of their investigation on to the Crown Prosecution Service at the time, who determined the case had insufficient evidence to continue.
The controversy did, however, put an end to Scott’s broadcasting career. During an appearance on ITV’s The Assembly shortly after Scott was fired, Rylan became emotional when asked how he copes when close celebrity friends are “cancelled.”
Without specifically naming Scott, Rylan said: “At the end of the day, if someone’s done something wrong, then I understand why they can’t carry on doing what they’re doing. But I do feel today that we live in a world where people will wanna go for you and cancel you for the sake of just doing it, because they can.” He added that people shouldn’t always believe what they hear or read.
Before the controversy, when Scott faced a wave of online criticism and abuse while filling in for Ken Bruce on BBC Radio 2, Rylan publicly defended his friend on social media, writing: “Scott Mills is an amazing radio host and I’m loving hearing him on our @BBCRadio2. He’s also one of the good’uns. Lay off.”
He did, though, playfully express his “concern” when Scott took over the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show, Rylan teased him about the prospect of making an early start every day, saying: “You really need to be on your game for breakfast, because it’s that time of the morning…
“You could be a little bit tired, you could press the wrong button, your finger could slip, you could say the wrong thing, not that I’m trying to scare you.”
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