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The 56-year-old took to Twitter earlier today to reveal that his wife was served with a “notice of liability” writ by the group. The incident occurred at the couple’s family home in London, and reportedly a large group of protesters were waiting to “take the street” if Mr Vine’s wife didn’t accept the writ in his absence.
The group allegedly identified themselves as the “resistance” and arrived at Mr Vine’s family home, which he shares with his wife and two daughters.
The radio presenter wasn’t home at the time so the writ was presented to his wife journalist Rachel Schofield instead.
Taking to Twitter, the star told his 771,000 followers that the group had left him feeling “a little unnerved”.
In his initial tweet he wrote: “I’m not at home at the moment, so these guys just served an ‘anti-vaxx writ’ on my wife instead.
“They are angry at the BBC’s #CovidVaccine reporting. They were polite, for which I’m grateful, but coming to my home on a Sunday? And I’m a little unnerved by the heavy breathing too.”
His message was accompanied by a video where a smartly-dressed representative of the group explained that the notice had been served to Mr Vine’s wife, and that they had “explained it was regarding his job at the BBC”.
They also stated that it “went better than expected” in the footage.
The radio presenter followed up his initial post with a second video which was filmed before the doorstepping at his property occurred.
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The radio presenter later took to social media to post additional threats he had received from the group, which he captioned with “these people are perhaps a little more scary than they first appear”.
One of the messages read: “You should be unnerved, mate, this is just the beginning.”
While another person wrote: “Wait till we come with the noose Jeremy…”
A final update was added by Mr Vine at 4.53pm when a third video from the group was posted where a gentleman addresses the situation.
Within the footage, the group’s representative explains that their visit had been acknowledged by the BBC Radio 2 star and that he’d received the notice of liability from his wife “so that he’s been actively served”.
He references Jeremy’s comments of “engaging but not like this” and responds with “you know who I am, you know my name and you probably know where I am”, and asks the star to invite him onto his radio show to discuss things further.
However, Mr Vine appears to be unaware of the man’s identity, as accompanying the message, he wrote “the “breathless man” in the first video is apparently this gentleman. I am afraid I have no idea who he is.”
According to BBC journalist Shayan Sardarizadeh, the gentleman is Michael Chaves, who leads an anti-vax themed channel on an instant messaging platform.
On Twitter, they wrote: “His name is Michael Chaves. Runs an anti-vax channel on Telegram and has been involved in a series of protests outside vaccination centres and homes of doctors, teachers, journalists, etc.
“He was badly ill with Covid just last month yet refused to go to hospital”.
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