BBC 無線で通信する 2 legend Steve Wright's gift to charities and his children is 明らかにする／漏らすd in will after his death 老年の 69
Steve Wright left behind just £40,000 in his will with the 大多数 of his 広い地所 存在 gifted to charity.
The BBC 無線で通信する 2 legend died 老年の 69 from a 決裂d ulcer in his stomach at his £2million home in London on February 12, 2024.
He rose to fame in 1980 on BBC 無線で通信する 1, 含むing 前線ing the channel's prime-time breakfast show, before moving to 無線で通信する 2, where he was a constant feature.
But the 星／主役にする DJ's 広い地所 had a 逮捕する value of just £40,623 when he died, with the 甚だしい／１２ダース value rising to just £53,623.
In a generous final gesture, Steve gave £15,000 to 癌 研究 in his will and another £10,000 to the British Heart 創立／基礎.?
The sum that remained - 量ing to little more than £25,000 - was to be 株d between his children, Lucy and Tom.
The will, made just two months before Steve died, directed that his funeral be paid for out of his own pocket と一緒に any 相続物件 税金 or expenses relating to his death.
無線で通信する personality Steve Wright 現在のd programmes for BBC 無線で通信する 1 and 無線で通信する 2 for more than four １０年間s before his death 老年の 69.
Steve Wright was 設立する dead at his flat in Marylebone after paramedics were called to an '出来事/事件'
Friends said that Steve was 'struggling with his health' before his death, but 追加するd the news was 'a 完全にする shock'
Steve joined BBC 無線で通信する 1 in 1980 to host a Saturday evening show before moving on to host Steve Wright In The Afternoon a year later until 1993.
Wright then 前線d the 無線で通信する 1 Breakfast show for a year until 1995, and 完全にするd a stint at 商業の 無線で通信する 駅／配置するs before returning to BBC 無線で通信する 2 in 1996 to host Steve Wright's Saturday Show and Sunday Love Songs.
In 1999, he recreated Steve Wright In The A fternoon every weekday on 無線で通信する 2, with celebrity interviews and entertaining trivia featured in his Factoids segment, before stepping 負かす／撃墜する in September 2022.
Former BBC 無線で通信する 1 host Scott Mills took over the afternoon slot as part of the 駅／配置する's schedule shake-up.
Wright continued to 現在の Sunday Love Songs on BBC 無線で通信する 2 and since October last year, he 現在のd the long-running show 選ぶ Of The Pops, which had 以前 been 前線d by Paul Gambaccini.
His last show was a pre-記録，記録的な／記録するd Valentine's Day 版 of the programme three days after his death. Wright told listeners in his final 調印する-off: 'I'll be 支援する for more love songs next Sunday, ta-da then.'
A 声明 株d by Wright's family at the time said: 'It is with 深い 悲しみ and 深遠な 悔いる that we 発表する the passing of our beloved Steve Wright.
Steve Wright pictured in 1980
The DJ, seen in 2003, was made an MBE for services to 無線で通信する?
He rose to fame in 1980 on BBC 無線で通信する 1, 含むing 前線ing the channel's prime-time breakfast show, before moving to 無線で通信する 2, where he was a constant feature. Pictured: In 1995?
'In 新規加入 to his son, Tom, and daughter, Lucy, Steve leaves behind his brother, Laurence and his father Richard.
'Also, much-loved の近くに friends and 同僚s, and millions of 充てるd 無線で通信する listeners who had the good fortune and 広大な／多数の／重要な 楽しみ of 許すing Steve into their daily lives as one of the UK's most 耐えるing and popular 無線で通信する personalities.
'As we all grieve, the family requests privacy at this immensely difficult time.'
In the year since his death, a bitter 不和 is said to have come between his family as it was 報告（する）／憶測d they fell out after his 年輩の father, 94, married his much younger carer, who was 43 years his junior.?
A source told The Sun: 'It’s all very strange and 明白に raises a lot of questions. He looks like he could be her grandfather. Only nine people …に出席するd the wedding. Laurence was so upset he 辞退するd to go.'
The 出版（物） 報告（する）／憶測s that Steve's brother Laurence Wright was 特に upset with the union, so much so that he 辞退するd to …に出席する the wedding, which took place in September last year at 価値（がある）ing Library in West Sussex.
It is said that the couple live in Richard's £328,000 two-bedroom flat 近づく the seaside town's beach, with the area thought to be a 'bolthole' for the retired community and features a plethora of care homes.
Marta herself 追加するd to The Sun that the 状況／情勢 was 'difficult', 主張するing that she was 'of course' in love with her husband, before 追加するing of Laurence's absence at the wedding that he 'wasn’t here' and was in Spain 'at that time.'
Steve Wright, who? died at the age of 69, pictured in his 記録，記録的な／記録するing studio in 1994?
Superstar George Michael pictured with BBC 無線で通信する 1 DJ Steve Wright
A source の近くに to the couple 株d: 'They 主張する that they are incredibly happy together and are 絶対 in love. Of course the fallout that has been 誘発するd by their marriage is very sad for everyone 伴う／関わるd.
'But as far as they are 関心d, there’s nothing more to it ― they are 簡単に happy to be together. Any suggestion of any nefarious 悪事を働くこと is cruel and utterly without 令状. It is mean and callous, and very hurtful to both Marta and Richard.'
に引き続いて Steve's death, his heartbroken brother 非難するd the BBC 星／主役にする's death on his poor diet and （人命などを）奪う，主張するd that he 隠すd his health problems from his family.
Laurence also shut 負かす／撃墜する （人命などを）奪う，主張するs that the 会社／団体's 決定／判定勝ち（する） to axe him from his long-running 無線で通信する 2 Afternoon Show 与える／捧げるd to his death, 明らかにする／漏らすing the 退役軍人 星／主役にする was 'thankful' for the 残り／休憩（する）.
Speaking to MailOnline, Laurence said: 'He was aware that he could have looked after himself better, in his lifestyle choices. 明白に we all wish he had.
'It's like anyone who doesn't look after themselves over an 延長するd period. The normal stuff - diet, 栄養, 演習, sleep, 強調する／ストレス - he was a very stoic 肉親，親類d of guy 同様に so if he had something wrong with him and he had to go to have some 治療 or go to the doctors, he wouldn't talk about it.
'He was the 肉親，親類d of guy who would just carry on, take care of it, not talk about it, not make a big thing, that 肉親，親類d of stoic sort of 態度.
'That's just how he was - that probably didn't help really, because he wouldn't have help or take advice やむを得ず.'
Steve Wright pictured with fellow 無線で通信する DJ's Tony Blackburn (left), and Paul Gambaccini (権利)
He said Steve didn't feel he should have been 解雇（する）d from his popular show - but needed a break.
Laurence, a director of a company in the 傷をいやす／和解させる th 産業, says his older brother's 傾向 for eating out at restaurants 連合させるd with his 不本意 to talk about さまざまな 'health 問題／発行するs', keeping his family in the dark, were the main factors behind his shock death at the age of 69.?
He said he enjoyed a の近くに 関係 with his brother, who stayed with him on the Christmas Day before his death along with their father.
He said Steve's favourite place to eat out was the RAC club in London, which consists of many restaurants, and he chose to ignore home cooked food because he didn't have the time to 準備する meals, as he was so 消費するd by his 職業.
Laurence explained: 'He probably had the balance of eating out and not so much home cooked [meals].
'He could have done with a bit more balance where you're cooking food yourself from home, but he didn't do that because he was too busy. So hence he would always eat out.
'He wasn't a 大規模な drinker, he just used to drink a glass of ワイン when he ate out but not a 大規模な drinker. He didn't smoke, he used to smoke a few cigars a few years 支援する but doesn't smoke.
'He was just wrapped up in his 職業 to such an extent - and he loved it - that was the important thing for him and other things that we all know is important - he didn't consider that important, which is a shame really.
'Food or 演習 is just something you do to have to live. Whether that had any 影響 on what happened to him 最終的に I don't know.'
