Jo Whiley reveals she made a secret cameo in Love Actually

Jo Whiley has stunned fans by revealing she made a secret cameo in one of Christmas’ most iconic films.

While the DJ may be best known for her radio presenting and music knowhow, she has shared she made a secret appearance in the festive classic Love Actually.

Jo , 60,shared the tale while taking part in a festive quiz on her Dig It podcast with Zoe Ball, 55, with the duo also joined by their daughters for the Christmas challenge.

During the show, Jo revealed that Love Actually fans can actually hear her voice when she plays a radio DJ, and introduces the iconic scene where Prime Minister David dances around 10 Downing Street to Jump by The Pointer Sisters.

Kickstarting the question, Jo said: ‘I actually do the voice of the DJ in this particular scene,’ before Zoe declared: ‘You do! You’re in Love Actually!’

The admission left Zoe’s daughter Nelly, 16, stunned with Jo then reciting part of her famus line: ‘So that’s what the girls were just saying, a golden oldie for golden oldie, this one’s for Prime Minister, and it’s Hugh Grant.’

A visibly shocked Nelly said: ‘Oh my God, I never realised that it’s you!’

Jo’s daughter India, 33, added: ‘Definitely the coolest thing you’ve never done,’ while her sister Coco, 17, agreed.

Zoe said: ‘That IS the coolest thing you’ve ever done.’

In the famous scene, Love Actually fans hear Jo’s voice as she introduces The Pointer Sisters’ track, saying: ‘It’s almost enough to make you feel patriotic, so here’s one for our ‘a**e-kicking Prime Minister.

‘I think he’ll enjoy this. A Golden Oldie for a Golden Oldie,’ with the PM then launching into an unlikely dance to the classic track.

Despite becoming known for his role as the dishy PM in Richard Curtis’ rom-com, Hugh himself previously admitted he fond it ‘quite excruciating.’

‘I saw it in the script and I thought, ”Well, I’ll hate doing that,” he told Diane Sawyer in the ABC News special The Laughter & Secrets of Love Actually: 20 Years Later. ‘I didn’t fancy doing the dance at all, let alone rehearsing it.’ 

‘He kept saying no,’ writer and director Richard Curtis – who appeared alongside him in the interview – then joked.

‘I think he was hoping I’d get ill or something and we’d say, ‘Oh, well, what a shame, we’ll have to lose that dancing sequence.’

Richard went on to say that Hugh was ‘grumpy’ the day they filmed the dance scene, but ‘it was a contractual obligation’ that he follow through.

Hugh then quipped: ‘A contractual guillotine, yes! And I’m out of rhythm, by the way, especially at the beginning when I wiggle my ass.’

Richard added that he was pleased with how Hugh really committed to the scene, joking: ‘I thought, ”That’s agonizingly embarrassing. He’s just perfect.”’

Hugh later said that he came up with the idea of having the Prime Minister’s secretary catch him dancing around. 

‘And to this day, there’s many people — and I agree with them — who think it’s the most excruciating scene ever committed to celluloid.

‘But then some people like it!’