A kind and generous colleague, mornings won’t be the same without Carolpublished at 07:28 BST
07:28 BST
Matt Taylor
BBC Weather
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Carol has been one of my closest friends since the moment I joined the BBC, so much so that my own (now teenage) daughters still refer to her as “auntie” Carol.
She did my initial on-air training, and (metaphorically) held my hand when I first started on Breakfast. One of her first pieces of advice to me was to “be yourself, or the audience will find you out”.
It was a simple but valuable piece of advice that I have lived by, and I can honestly say that Carol has lived by it too.
What you see of Carol on air, you get off air too – an amazingly kind and generous colleague and friend, cheekily naughty, with awful jokes that would make even tumbleweed groan.
The only problem was – on the rare occasions we were on the early shift together – we would always end up behind on our work due to nattering and laughing too much.
Mornings won’t be the same again!
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