Carol Vorderman’s high-profile replacement on LBC radio show confirmed

Vanessa Feltz is replacing Carol Vorderman connected her LBC Sunday slot.

The 63-year-old erstwhile Countdown prima precocious announced she has discontinue her vigor show aft suffering from burnout from moving 7 time weeks ‘for arsenic agelong arsenic I tin remember’.

She ended up hospitalised overnight with scans revealing nary underlying issues, and truthful Carol taken the health scare arsenic a ‘warning sign’ to dilatory down.

Vanessa, 62, joined LBC successful May fronting her ain Saturday day show, and she has been confirmed for a caller role.

She said: ‘I can’t hold to beryllium a play assignment to perceive to. I’m looking guardant to holding Britain’s biggest and astir spirited speech with my beauteous LBC listeners each Saturday and Sunday afternoon.’

LBC’s elder managing exertion Tom Cheal paid tribute to the mode the presenter has settled into LBC implicit the past fewer months.

He added successful a statement: ‘Vanessa has rapidly made her people connected the LBC docket since she joined the presumption successful May.

‘She is simply a genuine, straight-talking and incisive broadcaster who has proved incredibly fashionable with LBC listeners and knows what truly matters to them, truthful we are excited to denote her caller Sunday show.’

Taking to Instagram earlier this month, Carol revealed she had chopped backmost her moving hours to conscionable weekdays.

‘After moving 7-day weeks for arsenic agelong arsenic I tin remember, I yet burned retired conscionable implicit 2 weeks agone and I ended up overnight successful hospital,’ she told her followers.

‘Luckily, aft galore scans and checks, we cognize that I don’t person immoderate underlying wellness issues whatsoever.

‘So, aft a due talking to from my household and my buddies, I’ve taken the wellness scare arsenic a informing motion to dilatory down somewhat and person decided to chopped my enactment backmost to weekdays for now.

‘It pains maine to person to bash it, but I’ve decided not to transportation connected with my Sunday amusement connected @LBC.’

She teased that this determination isn’t the extremity of her clip astatine LBC – which started successful January – determination could beryllium much projects successful the future.

‘The bully quality is that I’ll inactive beryllium portion of the LBC household (they’re a bully family) from clip to clip – truthful basal by for much details,’ she added.

In summation to her broadcasting work, Carol has progressively turned to governmental activism, including criticising the erstwhile Conservative government, and publishing her publication Out Of Order: What’s Gone Wrong With Britain And One Woman’s Mission To Fix It.

Meanwhile, Vanessa started her vocation arsenic a writer earlier joining The Big Breakfast, and aboriginal fronting shows for the BBC, arsenic good arsenic appearing connected the likes of Celebrity Big Brother.

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