Troubled Kershaw, who grew up in Oldham, has been arrested on a number of occasions and has already served a prison sentence for breaking an order banning him from contacting his former partner, Juliette Banner.
Father-of-two Kershaw had been with Juliette for 17 years, until they split in 2006. And in 2007 she won a restraining order against him.
In January he served 44 days of a three-month prison sentence for breaking the terms of the order on the Isle of Man, where the couple had made their home.
And now he claims he is living away from the island in the knowledge that the police from the Isle of Man have a warrant out for his arrest.
During the 90s Kershaw became one of the country's most respected broadcasters.
And after the couple moved to the Isle of Man in 2006 - amid worries about the standards of schools close to their former north London home - he continued to broadcast his show and brought performers to the island for a series of concerts.
But shortly after the move, Kershaw says Juliette discovered he had had a fling while in London, after reading a text message stored on his phone.
After Juliette moved out in October 2006, Kershaw repeatedly tried to convince her to return.
But by July 2007, by which time Juliette had a new partner, there had been a number of disagreements between them and Juliette obtained a restraining order against him.
After a series of breeches of the order, Kershaw was sentenced to three months in prison in January, of which he served just over half.
Speaking of his time in prison on the Isle of Man, he is reported to have said: "It would have made Charles Darwin wince. The place was full of heroin.
"I feel no bitterness or hostility towards the officers in that jail, the majority of whom were very nice and sympathetic. Just about every officer and prisoner said I shouldn't be in there. The majority were in there for drugs offences.
"I was with heroin dealers and men of violence. They realised I was a regular bloke and that I was in there for an enormous injustice.
"The main problem that I had was the sheer, crushing boredom. I read 32 books in 47 days. Unless you go in there you won't understand how boring it is. You are locked up for 22 hours a day.
Just days after his release Kershaw was arrested for breaching the restraining order and at a court hearing he was given a one-year jail term, suspended for two years.
Now he is living in a secret location - reportedly sleeping on friends' floors and sleeping rough - amid fears that the police in the Isle of Man have a warrant out for his arrest.
At one point he was reported as a missing person by his sister. And after contacting police in Derby, in order to be taken off the Missing Person's Register, he says police from the Isle of Man made an attempt to arrest him.
In the interview Kershaw, who says he now has a new partner, says he intends to seek legal advice later this month in order to take the matter forward.
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