was forced to address his Radio 2 colleague Scott Mills' sacking on his Tuesday show.
Mills was sacked six days after being .
Last night, the Daily Mirror The case was dropped around seven years ago due to a lack of evidence.
Vine, who hosts a daily Radio 2 show dissecting the days headlines, summed up his Tuesday show 'in four words: payments, allegations, sari, seagulls' after inviting listeners to message in with their thoughts on Mills' shock sacking.
'Scott Mills sacking has left a lot of people very confused. What do you make of it? I'd love to know?' he said at the top of the show.
Jeremy Vine opened his Radio 2 show on Tuesday by admitting that his the sacking of his BBC colleage Scott Mills 'has left a lot of people very confused'
'We heard the news just before 12 yesterday here at Radio 2, it came as a complete shock to those of us who work at the station, the presenter of our Breakfast Show, Scott Mills, had been sacked over allegations, we're told, related to his personal conduct.'
'The sacking was with immediate effect. He was actually off the Breakfast Show since last Tuesday, Gary has been sitting in. Then there was an email sent to staff here yesterday in which the Director Of Music Lorna Clarke acknowledged that the news would shock us as well as you at home.'
Another senior broadcaster at the BBC has said there is 'total shock' at the corporation after Mills's sacking.
There were apparently 'audible gasps' from staff as they were told on Monday morning in an email from BBC director of music Lorna Clarke.
Several stars who have spent time with him described him as 'kind and generous' and that friends are 'devastated' for him.
He was also described by a radio colleague as 'hugely popular' internally.
'It is not like the BBC to act so fast', a household name broadcaster told the Daily Mail.
Another source claimed that wild rumours are flying around Broadcasting House about the reason for his sacking.
'No suspension period or prolonged investigation does not bode well', another insider said.
The teenage boy who accused Scott Mills of serious sexual offences in the 1990s was under 16 at the time, it was revealed today.
Scotland Yard has also confirmed the Crown Prosecution Service rejected the case due to a lack of evidence and their investigation into the broadcaster was closed in 2019.
Mills was sacked six days after being hauled off air following his final Radio 2 breakfast show last Tuesday leaving his friends and colleagues at the BBC shocked; pictured: Scott Mills, Emma B, Jeremy Vine, Dermot O'Leary, Alan Carr, and Sara Cox
The Daily Mail can also reveal that the complainant may have been inspired to speak out again this year due to the new Huw Edwards docu-drama.
Two sources have said that within the BBC it is being claimed that the unnamed man may have gone to the corporation due to the huge publicity surrounding Martin Clunes starring as Huw Edwards in Power: The Downfall Of Huw Edwards.
Former police officer and now investigative journalist Mark Williams-Thomas said police contacts confirmed to him that Mills was interviewed by the Met in 2018 - in a spin-off investigation from Operation Yewtree.
Mr Williams-Thomas helped expose Jimmy Savile and his work led to the police investigation against Savile and others including Rolf Harris.
He told the Mail today: 'The police were swamped with allegations post-Savile and as a result it let to high profile stars being named [by complainants], one of these was Scott Mills. He wasn't charged - but was allowed to continue working'.
The BBC is refusing to say why he was sacked other than that it was related to his 'personal conduct'. The corporation is now under pressure to explain what they knew about Mills' brush with police and when.
Mills joined BBC Radio 1 in 1998 from Heart 106.2, where he started in 1995 after working in local radio in Hampshire, Bristol and Manchester. He left the BBC after 28 years yesterday.
A source has claimed that the director general at the time of the police probe, Tony Hall, did not know about the allegations.
One BBC executive in London told the Daily Mail today that there's a real belief amongst bosses at the corporation that the timing of Mills' sacking and the release of the Edwards drama was 'not a coincidence'.
'The Huw Edwards drama showed that there could be a reckoning', they said.
Another senior broadcaster at the BBC added that this claim that the Edwards drama was the 'spark' is swirling around Broadcasting House.
The BBC declined to comment on the claims.
Last night the Daily Mirror reported the decision to fire Mills came after a 2016 police investigation into 'serious sexual offences' against a teenage boy.
The BBC declined to comment on why he was not suspended or sacked at the time and why they have fired him almost a decade later.
