Greg James asks for Nurofen at Oxford wedding after 8-day bike trip

The BBC Radio 1 host has been partaking in a 1,000km charity cycle on a tandem bike across eight days, raising more than £4m in the process.

During some of the journey, the 40-year-old was joined by the Prince of Wales and, while on TV’s Comic Relief last week, he said that he had “never held on more tightly”.

Mr James joked: “Can you imagine what would have happened to me if he fell off? It would have been the end – maybe the end of Comic Relief.”

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Radio 1 presenter Greg James with the Prince of Wales. (Image: James Watkins / BBC / PA Wire)

Now, the radio host has spoken more about the ride on this morning’s Breakfast Show (Monday, March 23) on BBC Radio 1.

Mr James revealed he attended the wedding of his producer in Oxford just after the concluding cycle over the weekend and asked train passengers for Nurofen on the way.

“It was important as it was the wedding of the century,” he said.

“It was producer Helena’s wedding on Saturday in Oxford, and I just sat on the train and got myself there.”

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Radio 1 presenter Greg James with the Prince of Wales. (Image: James Watkins / BBC / PA Wire)

His co-star Matt Edmondson then added: “There was a lot of talk before it, like ‘surely he’s not going to actually make it’ because you had just been cycling for eight days solid.”

Mr James replied: “I really wanted to go because Helena’s obviously amazing and loads of Radio 1 people were there anyway, so it was really fun.

“I was on the train, and there was a couple next to me who said, ‘Saw you on the telly, how’s the legs?’, and I actually asked them for Nurofen.”

Mr Edmondson and fellow host Mollie King laughed as the 40-year-old revealed he had also cycled to the train station that day.