Nick Grimshaw shares favourite story of Annie Nightingale at Glastonbury
nme.compassed away on January 11 after “a short illness”. She was BBC Radio 1’s longest-serving DJ, and first female DJ on the station.Now, her fellow Radio 1 colleague Nick Grimshaw has opened up to Annie Mac about his favourite story of Annie Nightingale.
Grimshaw said the story took place in the 2000s, when the DJ was at Shangri-La, Glastonbury Festival.“She ended up chatting to these guys and sitting in the back of an articulated lorry,” Grimshaw began. “They decide to shut the back doors because it’s a bit cold.
They’re chatting and it’s five o’clock in the morning. She’s like [pretends to look at his watch] ‘oooh, I’d better go, it’s early hours now – 8am or 9am or something…’“They open the back doors, and she was in London” Grimshaw told a shocked Mac. “The lorry had been in transit for four hours and no one had noticed who was sat in the back of the lorry.
She was in Ladbroke Grove!”People have been sharing tributes and their own Nightingale stories since the news of her death came out.
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