{"id":254157,"date":"2026-01-27T12:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/254157\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T12:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T12:48:07","slug":"weather-presenter-carol-kirkwood-to-leave-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/254157\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather presenter Carol Kirkwood to leave BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Weather presenter Carol Kirkwood has announced that she is leaving the BBC, after more than 25 years. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Kirkwood joined the corporation in 1998 and has been named best TV weather presenter at the Television and Radio Industries Club Awards on nine separate occasions &#8211; including every year from 2012 to 2017, since when the category has been dropped.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The presenter announced the news on the BBC Breakfast sofa, where she told presenters Jon Kay and Sally Nugent that she&#8217;s leaving in April. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;I&#8217;m going to spend more time with Steve, my gorgeous husband&#8221;, Kirkwood explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weather presenter Carol Kirkwood has announced that she is leaving the BBC, after more than 25 years. Kirkwood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-254157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}