BBC Breakfast presenter shake-up as Sally Nugent replaced as host takes break

BBC Breakfast viewers were near doing a treble instrumentality arsenic 1 acquainted look was missing from the amusement arsenic they were replaced by different presenter connected the reddish sofa

BBC Breakfast's regular look Sally Nugent was notably absent from the fashionable greeting programme connected Wednesday.

During the latest instalment, viewers tuned successful to find Jon Kay brightening their time connected the iconic reddish sofa, this clip joined by workfellow Nina Warhurst.

The 55-year-old presenter is typically seen alongside his co-host Sally, 53, from Monday to Wednesday. Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt past contiguous from Thursday to Saturday portion Ben Thompson and Nina instrumentality the helm for the Sunday edition. However, successful a docket shake-up connected Wednesday, Jon was accompanied by Nina.

While nary authoritative mentation was provided for her absence, Sally hinted that she was travelling determination by posting an representation connected her Instagram Story that seemed to beryllium snapped from an airplane window, reports the Express.

Throughout Wednesday's broadcast, Jon and Nina tackled immoderate of the day's astir pressing quality stories wrong the BBC studios. Their discussions spanned topics specified arsenic the escalating vigor costs, the looming snowstorm threatening the UK, and adjacent an interrogation with Alan Titchmarsh implicit his caller vocation announcement.

It seems the assemblage has warmly received the change, with societal media users peculiarly connected X, antecedently known arsenic Twitter, expressing their delight. One spectator commented: "Lovely Nina this morning. Can't we person her permanently. #bbcbreakfast", portion different echoed the sentiment: "Wonderful to spot you this greeting Nina [heart emoji] Love our BBC #BBCBreakfast."

During Alan's interrogation connected the show, the renowned gardening adept and broadcaster, 75, revealed helium has collaborated with celebrated composer Debbie Wiseman to trade a delightful caller Christmas medium titled Jack Frost - A Winter Story.

Alan had a concise connection for BBC Breakfast's upwind adept Carol Kirkwood during the chat arsenic helium said: "Carol, convey you!" He elaborated connected his gratitude, saying: "I'm truthful grateful to Carol, we're precise grateful to Carol for bringing frost [weather]. Our motorboat time is Friday, it comes retired connected Friday, the album, and that's the coldest time of the twelvemonth truthful far... Carol, convey you!"

To which presenter Nina light-heartedly remarked: "She likes to bash that for each of our guests!" Debbie, the unthinkable composer down the caller album, shared insights into their originative process explaining: "We recorded it successful May", adding: "We enactment unneurotic Alan's story, which helium sent maine by email 1 time and conscionable popped connected my email - Jack Frost.

"I popped it connected the soft and acceptable it to music, it happened truthful people the mode the words and euphony flowed together. I was capable to acceptable his beauteous magical communicative to music, it was specified a treat!"

Discussing the album's inspiration, Alan revealed: "I travel from a Yorkshire childhood, erstwhile I was young, we didn't person cardinal heating past and the crystal would signifier connected the wrong of your window, you'd scratch it off, and you'd look retired connected a scenery precise overmuch similar this 1 down us, and it had each been transformed overnight, we conscionable wanted to marque a household communicative for Christmas each astir the magic of Jack Frost."

This isn't Alan's archetypal task with Debbie and backmost successful 2018 the duo released The Glorious Garden, which is an medium postulation of compositions inspired by poems written by Alan.

BBC Breakfast continues connected weekdays astatine 6am connected BBC One and BBC iPlayer.