{"id":937656,"date":"2026-10-23T03:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T03:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/937656\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T03:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T03:28:10","slug":"i-want-to-spend-more-time-with-my-baby-sharnelle-vella-quits-abc-melbourne-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/937656\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI want to spend more time with my baby.\u201d Sharnelle Vella quits ABC Melbourne Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                <a href=\"https:\/\/radiotoday.com.au\/category\/whats-new\/\" class=\"tag color-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What&#8217;s New<\/a> October 23, 2026                                                                                            <\/p>\n<p>                                    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Screenshot-7270.png\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSharnelle Vella with Bob Murphy. Image: ABC.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sharnelle Vella has announced she is stepping away as co-host of 774 ABC Melbourne Breakfast \u2013 saying she wants to spend more time with her baby daughter Eve.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vella informed the ABC she won\u2019t be returning from maternity leave to co-host Breakfast alongside Bob Murphy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ve loved my time at the ABC, and I\u2019m grateful to have been offered an opportunity to return,\u201d Vella said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut since becoming a mum to Eve, I\u2019ve realised just how much I want to spend this precious time with her.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEvery parent knows how quickly these early months pass. Right now, I want more time at home with my baby and my family, so I\u2019ve decided to leave 774.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThank you to my colleagues and to everyone who has listened and supported me. It\u2019s been a special chapter, and I\u2019ll always be grateful for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">774 ABC Melbourne Manager Shelley Hadfield said \u201cSharnelle is an absolute superstar and we have loved having her as part of the 774 family. The audience warmed to Sharnelle so quickly and she was inundated with messages of love and knitted baby clothes when she announced she was pregnant. We respect Sharnelle\u2019s decision and we will miss her. We wish Sharnelle and her beautiful family all the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bob Murphy and Richelle Hunt will continue presenting Breakfast for the remainder of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Details about the 2027 774 ABC Melbourne line up will be announced later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New October 23, 2026 Sharnelle Vella with Bob Murphy. Image: ABC. Sharnelle Vella has announced she is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[504043,6972,64,63,21229,447,134,504044,168617],"class_list":["post-937656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-774-abc-melbourne","tag-abc-radio","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-bob-murphy","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-richelle-hunt","tag-sharnelle-vella"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}