Scott Mills Lost BBC Job, Honorary Degree at Risk

0:00It's April 4th. Welcome to Entertainment and Celebrity News today, powered by AI, I'm Corey with the story. Scott Mills, the 53-year-old DJ, just got sacked from the BBC after wrapping up his last Radio 2 Brexit show. Now he's staring down another hit. South Hampton's Solent University might strip him of his honorary Doctorate of Arts, which they handed out back in. November 2009. Earlier this week, six days after going off air, the BBC pulled the plug, tying it to a 2016 police probe into serious sexual offenses against a teenage boy from 1997 to 2000. That case got dropped seven years back for lack of evidence. Inside the BBC, its total shock staff got an email from Music Director Lorna Clark, saying Mills left suddenly after years on Radio 1 5 Live. Radio 2 and TV. Minors are reeling, too, with no word yet on Breakfast Show plans. His eye-player shows vanished, a plaque at Fleet Services on the N3 got yanked, and he's

1:02out as co-host on the race across the world detour. Podcast, replaced by Tyler West. They won the Celebrity Spin-Off last year with his husband Sam. Meanwhile, Mills is off Eurovision commentary for 2026 semis and final, Sarah Cox steps in. The uni scrutiny panel meets later this month, and looks set to recommend yanking that degree, leaving his rep in the dust.