Greg James breaks down in tears on day two of 1000km Comic Relief cycle as he thinks about his beloved dad as he recovers from a stroke

Greg James burst into tears on the second day of his 1,000-kilometre Comic Relief loop as he thought about his beloved father, who had suffered a stroke.

The Radio 1 Breakfast DJ, 40, is cycling solo for Comic Relief, starting from Weymouth in Dorset and cycling all the way to Edinburgh.

Greg’s father Alan suffered a stroke during planned heart surgery, just a week before he was due to begin his monumental challenge.

As Greg completed the second day of his loop, he shared that he became emotional as he thought about his beloved father, ‘big Al’, as he approached the finish line.

He said: ‘I feel very happy. I’m feeling a little overwhelmed with all these people showing up at once. I burst into tears as we drove to Blaenavon. It was all a bit much. And I think Sam and Danny were playing Aperture and that meant a little bit too much to me.

‘I just thought… I thought about everything. I just thought about my father, I thought about my mother. It was too much. That’s ridiculous. It must be because of the height.’

Radio 1 Breakfast DJ, 40, cycles solo for Comic Relief, starting from Weymouth in Dorset and cycling all the way to Edinburgh

He continued: ‘Then someone handed me a Welsh flag and I was holding it and I thought about my old grandmother, she’s Welsh. Then I thought about everything and then everything made me cry and I felt really overwhelmed by it all.

‘But the day is over and I can’t believe I actually made it to Abergavenny.’

Greg was seen getting emotional again as he hugged his aunt at the finish line of the day.

Last Friday, Greg canceled a show with his family after his father suffered a stroke during a planned heart surgery.

He later returned to work on Monday and his father confirmed that ‘Big Al’ was doing well and was ‘still with us’.

He said: ‘Thanks to Sam and Danni for Friday as there was a little mishap with Dad. My father is not doing well right now.’

‘I know you’d want me to come back to the show. And he’s still with us, that’s a good thing!’

Greg said his father was ‘fighting hard’ and would take ‘small steps’ towards recovery.

Speaking previously about the difficulties in his programme, Greg said: ‘There’s a more serious video here than I’d like to have here, but I wanted to keep you updated on what’s going on. [been] I’m living the last few days of my life.

Just a week before he began his monumental challenge, Greg’s father Alan suffered a stroke during planned heart surgery.

As he completed the second day of his loop, Greg shared that he became emotional as he thought about his beloved father, ‘big Al’, as he approached the finish line.

Greg got emotional again as he hugged his aunt at the finish line of the day

‘I had a very bad time. My father is not very well. Not good at all. And this is terrible.

‘You may have heard Sam and Danni talking about it on Friday’s Breakfast Show because I wasn’t there. They were very nice about it; They told many of you and if you did, thank you for messaging me. Hugely appreciated.’

He said: ‘It’s nice to feel people’s love in times like these.’

Greg added: ‘For those of you who don’t know what happened to my dad, I’m sorry you found out through my hugely popular social media channels.

‘He had to go, he had heart surgery on the Thursday and I was on the breakfast show on the Thursday because I thought, ‘This is a good distraction.’

‘I always talk about how great radio is at taking you away from your life and things will get worse. It’s good for the listeners, and it’s also good for the people making it. That’s why I was happy on Thursday. “That’s the best place for me,” I thought. I love doing this.

‘Then on Thursday night we unfortunately learned that the operation did not go as planned and he suffered a stroke. This really sucks.’

‘I burst into tears on the way to Blaenavon. Greg said of his feelings during the cycle: It was all a bit much.

Greg said he went to visit his father in intensive care over the weekend.

She thanked the NHS for looking after her father and said: ‘Especially the handsome doctor at his bedside.

‘That’s one of the crazy things about your brain, people and life, right? Sometimes the best thing is to be in a WhatsApp group where you talk about how healthy the doctor is. And that really helped.”

He joked: ‘I hope he doesn’t see this because it’ll be weird next time I come in.’

At the time, Greg said that despite everything that was going on, he was still continuing the Red Nose Day challenge.