Tony Blackburn maybe approaching his 80th birthday but he has no intention of retiring and he wants to keep working as long as possible
Tony Blackburn has vowed to never retire. The radio and TV legend turns 80 later this month but he is adamant he will not be leaving the airwaves, which he has been a fixture on since the 1960s, because he loves his job and it stops him from going “to pot”. In an interview with The Lady magazine, he said: “I've been at the BBC for most of my life because they allow you to be yourself, whereas some other organisations tend to try to mould you. One agent wanted me to do more serious programmes, but I'm not like that. I love music and talking and nonsense and trying to give people a laugh. "I'm still doing it now because I want to, not because I have to. It's exhausting, really, to be so ambitious. But the day I don't think I can do it… (more)