Tina Daheley has announced she is stepping down from the Radio 2 Breakfast Show after more than seven years of early starts on the station’s flagship morning programme.
In a message shared on social media, Daheley said it had been “one of the greatest privileges” of her career to wake up with listeners every morning and deliver the news on what she described as “the biggest breakfast show in Europe”.
Her departure brings to an end a long run of breakfast broadcasting stretching back even further than Radio 2. Daheley reflected on starting her career on BBC Radio 1Xtra, where she read the news on Trevor Nelson’s breakfast programme, before spending a decade on BBC Radio 1 and then joining Radio 2 in 2019 as part of the breakfast team.
Daheley revealed that by the time she leaves Breakfast she will have completed 18 years of breakfast radio and six consecutive breakfast shows, joking that there is “probably a record in there somewhere”. She added that she is now looking forward to enjoying a lie-in.
The presenter paid tribute to incoming Breakfast Show host Sara Cox, wishing her and the team the very best and saying she would be listening while doing the school run.
Although she is leaving the Breakfast Show, Daheley stressed that she is not leaving Radio 2 altogether. Listeners will continue to hear her on the network, including covering the lunchtime programme when Jeremy Vine is away. She also hinted at further projects, telling followers to “watch this space”.
Daheley joined Radio 2’s breakfast team when Zoe Ball took over the programme in 2019, having previously spent many years as a newsreader and presenter across Radio 1, BBC News and BBC television.
Her exit marks another significant change for the Radio 2 Breakfast Show ahead of Sara Cox’s arrival in the presenter chair next month.
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