Jeremy Vine hounded out on Radio 2 show

Jeremy Vine: ‘There’s a lot of dog action here.’ Photograph: Christian Sinibaldi

Never work with children or animals, right? Jeremy Vine found himself in a four-legged flap after filling his Radio 2 studio with dogs.

Or, in the words of the lunchtime presenter: “There’s a lot of dog action here.” There certainly was.

“Hi Pluto, do you like being hugged?” he asked a friendly-looking great Dane. It turned out he didn’t, Pluto knocking Vine over with a nudge of his giant head.

.@theJeremyVine just got knocked over by a Great Dane live on the radio pic.twitter.com/qxe7Q8gNMH

— Tim Johns (@timoncheese) April 27, 2016

“Ooh, he’s pawing me!” said Vine as he climbed back off his hands and knees in search of his dignity. It could have been worse – he could have been caught in a lift.