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When Vine boasted to him one day that he'd been the youngest person ever to present Today on Radio 4, Sergeant apparently retorted: "You don't want to be the youngest, Jeremy. You want to be the oldest."Vine writes: "AnotherNew Era 59fifty Hats time I learned he had observed, 'Vine is excellent; his sense of judgment will come'. OnlyYmcmb Snapback Hats the second half counted, obviously."Then there was the Newsnight episode. When Vine was taken on as the third presenter, alongside Paxman and Kirsty Wark, he was asked by the show's editor to keep a low profile when Paxman was around, following several newspaper articles, one of which called him Paxman's 'heir apparent'.
Behind the scenes the comment had caused ructionsWholesale Jordan Hats between Paxman's agent, the BBC press office and the programme. Before long, aPolo Hats diary piece reported that Paxman had referred to Vine as "mini me" behind the scenes, a nickname which stuck.Vine says that at the time he was upset by the whole debacle. "I had thought, this is the best job in the world, but then it all suddenly went wrong for me. But I look back now and I think it worked out brilliantly. I saw him (Paxman) the other day. He popped into my studio because he was in for Steve Wright and he was very friendly.
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