{"id":726625,"date":"2026-08-03T23:06:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726625\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T23:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T23:06:16","slug":"sara-cox-praised-after-personal-revelation-to-sam-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/726625\/","title":{"rendered":"Sara Cox praised after personal revelation to Sam Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The 51-year-old presenter launched her new BBC Radio 2 breakfast show at the beginning of July, taking over the primetime slot between 6.30am and 9.30am from Scott Mills who was sacked earlier this year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Since then she has hosted numerous high profile guests, the first of which was American star Tom Hanks who appeared on her debut show, which was well received by critics.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/26428452.richard-hammond-announcement-near-1-000-speeding-fine-revealed\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Richard Hammond announcement after near \u00a31,000 speeding fine revealed<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Independent gave it five stars, and reviewer Rachel McGrath commented: \u201cAs first shows go, Cox surely couldn\u2019t have hoped for better.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  One of her latest guests was Grammy Award winning singer Sam Smith.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As well as speaking about Smith&#8217;s new single &#8216;Oh mother&#8217;, they also discussed sexual identity.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Entertainment Daily UK reported that Ms Cox said all mothers want a song written about them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Sam Smith (Image: Ian West\/PA Wire)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cEspecially queer kids, gay kids,&#8221; said Smith, &#8220;and their mums have \u2013 well at least I have a very strong, beautiful relationship with my mother&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Cox then said: \u201cI\u2019m proudly one of them by the way, with a queer daughter.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Cox has three children &#8211; two daughters and a son &#8211; and several people responded on social applauding her message.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  One user said: &#8220;Everyone should be able to live the life they are happy and comfortable with.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Another added: &#8220;Let her be what she wants as she will be loved the same way,&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfordmail.co.uk\/news\/26423187.comedy-legend-peter-kay-gives-major-life-update-sara-cox\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Comedy legend Peter Kay gives major life update to Sara Cox<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Others questioned why Ms Cox needed to bring her daughter&#8217;s identity into the chat with Smith.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Though she has never lived in Oxfordshire, Ms Cox is linked to the county having supported Bicester-based charity Auditory Verbal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ms Cox was involved in an appeal for the organisation in 2018, when it was featured on television.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Unfortunately, earlier this year, the charity collapsed with a spokesperson citing &#8220;an increasingly challenging and turbulent environment&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 51-year-old presenter launched her new BBC Radio 2 breakfast show at the beginning of July, taking over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":726626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-726625","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\/726625","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=726625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/726626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}