{"id":470967,"date":"2026-03-12T06:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470967\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T06:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T06:14:10","slug":"liza-tarbuck-leaves-radio-2-saturday-show-after-14-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/470967\/","title":{"rendered":"Liza Tarbuck leaves Radio 2 Saturday show after 14 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">BBC presenter Liza Tarbuck is stepping down from her Saturday evening show on Radio 2 after 14 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She announced her departure to fans on Instagram: &#8220;We made 2 hrs [hours] of radio feel like a private members club, that&#8217;s the stuff of dreams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shaun Keaveny, host of The Rock Show, will backfill the slot until the end of March. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Head of Radio 2 Helen Thomas said Tarbuck would be &#8220;hugely missed&#8221; and &#8220;we wish her the very best of luck for the future&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Every Saturday evening, Liza created a truly magical, fantastical world,&#8221; Thomas said. &#8220;She was beloved by everyone at the station and all her listeners, and the door at Radio 2 will always be open for her.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC presenter Liza Tarbuck is stepping down from her Saturday evening show on Radio 2 after 14 years.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-470967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}