Naga Munchetty to leave BBC One's Breakfast after 17 years

Naga Munchetty is leaving BBC One’s Breakfast after 17 years on air to take up a full‑time presenting role on BBC Radio 5 Live’s breakfast programme from December. She joined the show as a business correspondent and has been one of its main hosts for the past 12 years. At present she divides her time between the television broadcast and Radio 5 Live’s mid‑morning slot on selected weekdays. In a statement she said, “It has been a privilege to beryllium portion of the BBC Breakfast TV squad for the past 17 years, moving alongside an incredibly talented and hard-working radical of journalists who are not lone outstanding colleagues but besides large friends,” she said successful a statement. She added, “Presenting a flagship programme connected 5 Live is an accidental that was simply excessively bully to walk up.” Looking ahead, Munchetty noted, “It volition instrumentality a immense magnitude of enactment and necessitate 100% of my absorption and energy, and I'm truly looking guardant to throwing myself into the role.”