{"id":692801,"date":"2026-07-15T10:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/692801\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T10:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T10:36:15","slug":"dean-mccullough-and-melvin-odoom-to-leave-bbc-radio-1-in-shake-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/692801\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean McCullough and Melvin Odoom to leave BBC Radio 1 in shake-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Barry, who hosts a popular podcast Saving Grace, said she is &#8220;really excited&#8221; to present a series of shows across the year, starting in September. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;ll be hearing my favourite songs, we&#8217;ll be speaking with some really exciting guests and as always, in true GK Barry style, I promise a lot of humour, chaos and embarrassing stories along the way,&#8221; she added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marlowe will take over from O&#8217;Leary to co-host alongside Vicky Hawkesworth in the    10.30 to 13:00 BST Friday to Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The popular content creator, who narrated BBC Three&#8217;s I Kissed A Girl, previously hosted the Early Breakfast show for a period last summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marlowe said she is &#8220;thrilled to be joining the Radio 1 family&#8221; and hopes to &#8220;captivate your ears, not so much your eyes due to it being radio&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Presenting duo Danny Mylo and Rosie Madison will take over the Early Breakfast slot from McCullough, who said it was &#8220;such a hard decision&#8221; to leave after the &#8220;most incredible 6 years at Radio 1&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northern Irish presenter McCullough, who appeared on I&#8217;m a Celebrity&#8230;Get Me Out of Here! in 2024, thanked the listeners who have tuned in to him over the years but feels it is &#8220;time for a change&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Barry, who hosts a popular podcast Saving Grace, said she is &#8220;really excited&#8221; to present a series of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-692801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692801","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=692801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}