BBC Radio 2 star Sara Cox is the new breakfast show host after landing the job in the wake of Scott Mills being sacked
She was always the favourite to land the Radio 2 breakfast show, now Sara Cox has been announced as the new host of the nation’s biggest radio show.
She takes over from Scott Mills, who was axed amid a sex scandal which happened more than 30 years ago, involving an underage boy. The Mirror revealed this month how Scott was sacked after not disclosing the age of the teenage boy to the BBC at the time. A file was sent to the CPS but there was not enough evidence for a charge.
Sara, who currently hosts the station’s weekday teatime show, will start this summer on the breakfast show, which is the UK’s biggest radio programme, with 6.5million listeners each week. Sara said: “There are not enough adjectives to really sum up how I’m feeling about being trusted with such an iconic show but let’s start with ecstatic, honoured and incredibly chuffed.
“It’s been a dream to host the Breakfast Show since I joined Radio 2 and it feels like a bit of a full circle for me. I’ve had the most glorious seven years of my career on Teatime so thank you to my brilliant Teatime listeners who hopefully will join me at Breakfast for excellent music and all my usual nonsense plus some superstar guests. I honestly can’t wait to wake the nation up with the biggest most fun breakfast show ever.”
Helen Thomas, Head of Radio 2 said she was “delighted” with the appointment. “Sara is adored by her millions of listeners at Teatime, and having regularly deputised in the slot, I already know she’ll build a brilliant rapport with the Breakfast audience and get the nation going each morning with her trademark warmth and humour. She captured the hearts of the country last November, raising a staggering £11.5m for Children in Need on her Great Northern Marathon Challenge and thoroughly deserves this gig. I can’t wait to hear her first show.”
Sara has plenty of experience when it comes to breakfast show presenting, having fronted the Radio 1 early bird programme from 2000 to 2003, having first joined the youth station as presenter of a Saturday lunchtime show. Over the next 11 years Sara presented various shows across the network, including the weekday afternoon show, a weekend afternoon show and weekday mornings.
She joined Radio 2 in 2011 as a stand-in for the main presenters and launched Sounds of the 80s in 2013. In May 2018, she was a contender for the breakfast show job but lost out to Zoe Ball and instead started out on the teatime show, which proved so popular it was extended from two to three hours in 2022.
In November last year, Sara completed Sara’s Great Northern Marathon Challenge, walking and running 135 miles in five days from Kielder Forest in Northumberland to Pudsey in West Yorkshire. She raised £11.5 million for Children in Need, capturing the hearts of the nation along the way.
Last month Sara was honoured with the Audio Presenter of the Year prize at the Broadcasting Press Guild Awards. Her replacement on the teatime show, which runs from 4-7pm, will be announced in due course.
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