Radio and TV presenter Roman Kemp has said leaving his Capital Breakfast show was “sad” but added that was the “right thing”. The 31-year-old, who is the son of Spandau Ballet bass player Martin Kemp and Wham singer Shirlie Kemp, announced in February that he was stepping down from the radio show, 10 years after presenting his first programme for the station. Kemp joined Capital in 2014 when it was still a London station, before hosting the prestigious The Capital Evening Show in 2016, and he moved to Capital Breakfast in 2017 before the show launched nationwide in 2019.
He told Auto Trader’s Show On The Road podcast: “What led me to leave Capital? ..Sleep.
” The TV and radio star, who has presented on the One Show since 2022 and came third in the 2019 edition of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, explained: “I didn’t really know that I had sleep apnoea until recently. “And then I did these tests and the way the doctor described it to me was, I was running a half marathon in my sleep and not resting. “Because the oxygen intake that I get in my sleep is like 20% of what you would get.
I think leaving Capital for me was a mixture of things. “I’m tired. I need to look after myself a little bit.
“I was trying to spin two careers at once. One is telly and the other is radio. But, on the other hand, there have been days where I’ve felt my lowest, and the radio is the thing that has kept me going.
“I’ve gone through things on air that no one shoul.