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Jeremy and Tim Vine's pretty vacant past

Tim and Jeremy Vine
Tim and Jeremy Vine: no Sex Pistols. Photograph: Brian J Ritchie/ITV

They are the third most famous brothers in British broadcasting. But Jeremy and Tim Vine have been keeping a shocking secret. Growing up in Cheam, Surrey, the BBC presenter and his comedian brother formed a pop-punk band called The Flared Generation. It was all going so well, until Smash Hits magazine described them as "the most unfashionable punk band in the country". The pair tell all in the latest issue of Saga magazine, as faithfully recorded in the Daily Express's diary column.

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