Scott Mills is planning to sue the BBC after he was sacked over a historic police probe involving sexual assault allegations with an underage boy, according to reports.
The DJ is said to have enlisted leading lawyers as he prepares a legal case following his shock axing from the Radio 2 breakfast show.
Mills is understood to be claiming that he disclosed the full details of the investigation, including the accuser’s age, to BBC executives years ago when the matter first emerged, reports The Mirror.
The BBC claimed Mills was sacked after “new information” came to light.
But sources close to the presenter say he will argue the issues had already been fully raised with Radio 1 management at the time.
Mills was sacked by the BBC from his job presenting the most popular breakfast show in the UK at the end of March, shortly before it emerged the Metropolitan Police had launched an investigation into the 53-year-old in 2016.
The allegations of serious sexual offences involving a teenage boy under 16 were alleged to have taken place between 1997 and 2000.
In the days after his sacking , Mills released a statement through his lawyers saying he had been the subject of “rumour and speculation” since he was fired, and that he “co-operated fully” with the police investigation into allegations of a historical sexual offence.
The investigation was dropped due to a lack of evidence.
Mills has been dropped from a number of shows and roles since details of the investigation emerged.
He was removed from the line-up of the Ibiza Symphonica summer concert because of the “serious nature” of allegations against him.
Channel 4 announced it would not show the final episode of The Great Celebrity Bake Off For Stand Up To Cancer, which features the DJ as a celebrity contestant, because of allegations against Mills – saying the show would be replaced by an alternative episode.
Following his sacking, Mills stepped back from his role as an ambassador for MS Society UK while children’s cancer charity Neuroblastoma UK decided to “part ways” with Mills, who had been a patron since 2021.
He has also been dropped as the host of the BBC’s new Race Across The World spin-off podcast.
Friends are said to have rallied around the DJ following his dismissal, with insiders claiming he has been left devastated by the fallout.
A source told The Mirror: “Friends are very worried about him.”
