Wainwright also broke news of national importance, including the Brexit result in 2016 and the London bombings in 2005.<\/p>\n
“I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it, but I’ve had a good innings and I do genuinely believe that every generation has to move on, make way for somebody else to do it and I think that time has come for me now,” she said.<\/p>\n
Listeners messaged and called into the breakfast show, presented by Mike Zeller, as the pair reminisced about Wainwright’s career.<\/p>\n
One said: “I’ll miss your heavenly voice and no nonsense approach to life. Thanks for the years of excellent broadcasting.”<\/p>\n
Others said they would “miss Heather’s excellent news reading and banter” and said her “shoes will be hard to fill”.<\/p>\n
Zeller, who worked with Wainwright on the show for about 10 years, told her: “The whole thing has been brilliant, your whole career has been brilliant, working with you has been wonderful.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wainwright also broke news of national importance, including the Brexit result in 2016 and the London bombings in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":416421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-416420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416420","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=416420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}