BBC Breakfast co-host Naga Munchetty is leaving the show after 17 years, and will swap the TV sofa for the presenter’s chair on Radio 5 Live’s breakfast show.<\/p>\n
Munchetty joined BBC One’s Breakfast as a finance reporter and has been one of the main hosts for the past 12 years.<\/p>\n
She currently presents the TV show for three days a week and 5 Live’s mid-morning programme for another three days. From January, she will present 5 Live Breakfast five days a week.<\/p>\n
“It has been a privilege to be part of the BBC Breakfast TV team for the past 17 years, working alongside an incredibly talented and hard-working group of journalists who are not only outstanding colleagues but also great friends,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Presenting a flagship programme on 5 Live is an opportunity that was simply too good to pass up.<\/p>\n
“It will take a huge amount of work and require 100% of my focus and energy, and I’m really looking forward to throwing myself into the role.”<\/p>\n
John McAndrew, the BBC’s director of live and daily news, said Munchetty would be “hugely missed by the millions of viewers who’ve welcomed her into their homes each week”.<\/p>\n
He added: “I’m very pleased that Naga will be staying with the BBC and I wish her the best of luck at 5 Live.”<\/p>\n
Her replacement on BBC Breakfast has not yet been announced, while 5 Live Breakfast will get a new co-host to join Munchetty in the radio studio.<\/p>\n
5 Live Breakfast’s current hosts Rachel Burden and Rick Edwards announced on Tuesday’s show that they will be leaving the programme.<\/p>\n
Burden, who will move to Munchetty’s Monday-to-Wednesday mid-morning slot on 5 Live, said: “After 15 years hosting 5 Live Breakfast, I’ve decided it’s time for a change – and I’m really excited about launching my new show on the station.”<\/p>\n
Edwards, who will remain host of sport quiz Fighting Talk, said he would miss “our wonderful audience”, the team and Burden – who he described as “a colleague who has become a friend, and also a mentor, because she’s so much older than me”.<\/p>\n
He added: “Two things I am of course looking forward to are not waking up at 3.45am, and vaping without fear of violent recrimination.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BBC Breakfast co-host Naga Munchetty is leaving the show after 17 years, and will swap the TV sofa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-715142","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\/715142","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=715142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}