TINA Daheley’s BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show replacement has been revealed just a day after she announced she’s quitting.
The newsreader has spent nearly eight years on the programme and was dubbed former host Scott Mills’ “work wife”, but now she’s moving on.
Filling her sizeable shoes is journalist Matt Carter, and he can’t wait to get going.
Writing on Instagram, he said: “Thrilled to finally be able to spill the beans and tell you I’ll be joining a stellar cast of @djsaracox, @theelliebrennan and the fantastic prod team as your newsreader on the NEW breakfast show next month! Big (and very stylish) shoes to fill – wish me luck…
“See you on the 6th!”
The news was well received by listeners and station legends.
Zoe Ball said: “Fantastic news Matthew [heart].”
While OJ Borg posted: “Mate this is wicked! You were wicked when we did breakfast together.”
Tina, 45, told how the role had been “one of the greatest privileges of my life” and admitted it was “humbling” to “deliver the biggest breakfast show in Europe”.
She then made the reveal she is staying in the Radio 2 fold and on Jeremy Vine‘s 12-2pm show over summer.
In an emotional statement, she wrote: “After more than seven years of early alarm calls on Radio 2, I’m stepping away from Radio 2 breakfast.
“It’s been one of the greatest privileges of my life to wake up with you every morning, and humbling to have been trusted to deliver the news on the biggest breakfast show in Europe.”
Tina went on to reminisce about her time with the BBC and said: “My breakfast run ends on Radio 2 but it all started on 1Xtra where I landed my dream job reading the news on Trevor Nelson’s Breakfast Show.
“From there, I spent a decade broadcasting to one in four young people in the UK on Radio 1.
“After 18 years and six back to back breakfast shows (probably a record) in there somewhere, I am looking forward to a lie in”.
Tina, who began her BBC radio career on Trevor Nelson’s show, reads the early-morning news and contributes to lively discussions.
Earlier this year, she went “missing” amid an “awful week” after being struck down by illness.
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She was absent at the same time as her former co-host Scott was pulled off-air.
It was revealed earlier this year that fan-favourite host Scott, 53, had been fired from his Radio 2 Breakfast Show over allegations surrounding his “personal conduct“.
Scott was dismissed after new information about a police investigation about alleged sex offences with a boy aged under 16 in 2018 came to light at the BBC.
As well as losing his role on Radio 2, Mills was also sacked from working on the BBC’s Eurovision coverage and from a new podcast spin off from Race Across The World, which he won the celebrity series of in 2024.
It was revealed shortly afterwards that Sara Cox would take over the sought after Breakfast Show slot earlier this year, with insiders saying the talented star was seen as the “heir apparent” for the job.