Vernon Kay says it 'winds me up' after being told he 'shouldn't be doing that' at 51

Presenter Vernon Kay passionately hit back at people who tell him he should not be going to nightclubs in his 50s.

The BBC Radio 2 star, 51, has been DJing in clubs for two decades, and he confessed to being frustrated by those who judge him for still doing it. He said: “I think when you’re 50 you’ve really got to focus on the things that you enjoyed when you were younger.

“It gets my back up when people say: ‘You’re 50 and you still go to clubs?’ I’m like: ‘yeah, of course I do,’ because that’s where the life force of all generations is at.”

Defending his hobby, he told The Sun’s Fabulous magazine: “If you go to a nightclub, you see everyone, it's not just young people. You see a great mix of people enjoying good music.

“And it just winds me up when people say: 'You shouldn't