Jake Humphrey details wife's tearful call after his BBC role announcement sparked backlash

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BBC and Formula One.Speaking to Express.co.uk Jake revealed the backlash he received after getting the presenting role on Formula One and his wife's tearful call after seeing comments online.Jake hosts one of the most popular podcasts at the moment, High Performance, and he became a Sunday Times bestselling author this year for his book, High Performance: Lessons from the Best on Becoming Your Best.The BT Sports presenter mentions in his book how he got his big break with the BBC.Speaking to Express.co.uk about when he found out about the job, he said: "I waited for this big day when I knew the announcement was going to be made and it was Thursday and they were going to announce it at 10 o'clock."At half 10 my phone rang and it was my wife.

I said ‘Hey, how're you? What a day’ and she was in tears."I said, 'What's the matter? She said I’ve just been on the internet and everyone thinks you are going to be s**t, those were her exact words."He continued: "So I said ‘where did you read that?’ and she said on the BBC website."She had gone onto a message board, the BBC used to have like a 606 message forum board and Formula One fans were just saying ‘Who is this guy from kids TV?"Why has he been given the job to present Formula One?

He doesn’t know anything about Formula One, he is going to ruin the sport’."This made Jake realise that he had to make sure his debut on Formula One was to the best of his ability as it would have been a make or break.He continued: "So, when I started Formula One I was standing in the pit lane in Australia, which is a very exposed job."You are standing in a pit lane, with an ear piece you know you are about to go live on air to millions of people back home watching on BBC One."You’ve got a minute.