Recently-returned-to-Xfm DJ Richard Bacon is recovering after being beaten up in a central London pub where he was celebrating his return to the alternative music station. The DJ was punched unconscious, and left with a broken nose and fat lip, after the incident in the toilets at the Garrick Pub in Charing Cross Road.
A friend told The Mirror: "He was just having a quiet drink with colleagues when he got up to go to the toilet - totally unaware he was being followed. Then these two thugs suddenly pounced on him. It was completely unprovoked and really vicious. It wasn't a mugging - his wallet and mobile phone were still on him when he came round. He's mystified why anyone would do this".
Bacon, who joked after the incident that "at least it's given me some good material for my radio show", added: "The weird thing is that although I was hit 14 or 15 times in the face and body, it didn't actually hurt. I think adrenalin must have kicked in."