Vanessa Feltz announces she is to leave BBC radio shows

Vanessa Feltz is leaving her reveals on Radio 2 and BBC Radio London after virtually 20 years on the helm of the latter, she has introduced.

The broadcaster and TV character stated she had “liked each second” of her early-morning programmes however was stepping all the way down to compensate for a “decade’s deficit of magnificence sleep”.

Asserting her departure to listeners, she stated the roles had been “an honour and a privilege”. She is going to current her final Radio 2 Early Breakfast Present on Friday.

In an announcement, Feltz stated: “I've liked each second with my Radio 2 ‘early birds’ and can miss my pretty listeners, jolly good fellows and beloved pals and colleagues at Radio 2 with all my coronary heart.

“Nevertheless, after virtually 12 blissful years, I now have to step all the way down to compensate for a much-needed decade’s deficit of magnificence sleep.

“It’s been an honour and privilege to be the breakfast voice of BBC Radio London for 20 years and, though I’m leaving the present, I’ll proceed to anticipate hugs from my pretty listeners once I see them on the streets of London.”

She added: “I'll take pleasure in a dollop of energy-boosting shuteye to swing from ziplines with my three effervescent grandchildren and frolic with my fiance, Ben, who irritatingly stays 10 years youthful than me.”

Lately launched BBC figures present Feltz was considered one of simply three ladies within the high 10 highest paid on-air expertise, together with her wage of greater than £400,000 placing her in eighth place.

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Earlier than taking up the Radio London breakfast present, Feltz offered a mid-morning phone-in programme on the station for 10 years, and from 2001 hosted a mid-afternoon phone-in present.

The Radio 2 controller, Helen Thomas, stated she needed to “thank [Feltz] wholeheartedly for the hundreds of middle-of-the-night begins she’s made to entertain the Radio 2 listeners”.

Chris Burns, the controller of native audio commissioning, stated of Feltz: “The brightest spark you possibly can ever meet – irrespective of how early it's and what’s happening within the information. To say Vanessa’s voice will likely be missed is an understatement.”

After a two-week break, she's going to cowl Jeremy Vine’s present for a fortnight as deliberate, from 15 August. Her final day of masking Vine, on 26 August, will likely be her closing day at Radio 2, and likewise mark her closing BBC Radio London present.