NO MORE EARLY STARTS! Celebrity Big Brother’s James Whale quits BBC radio show ‘to have a lie-in’
The veteran broadcaster has been at the helm of the breakfast show since 2013
JAMES Whale has quit his BBC radio show so he can have more lie-ins, it was announced this morning.
The veteran broadcaster has stepped down as host of BBC Essex’s Breakfast Show after almost three years at the helm.
In a tweet posted by the station, it announced: “BREAKING: @TheJamesWhale to leave BBC Essex. His last breakfast show will be tomorrow morning.”
A follow-up tweet then said: “James is leaving BBC Essex to pursue other media interests & have a lie in!”
The 65-year-old said in a statement: I’ve had a brilliant time at BBC Essex and broken some very important stories. I will miss the listeners who’ve rung me every morning but it’s time to do something different.”
Louise Birt, the managing editor of BBC Essex said: “I’d like to thank James for the shows he has done and we all wish him success in whatever he does next.”
Retweeting the posts from BBC Essex, James also responded to fans who wished him luck and asked about his future plans as one wrote: “Good luck with whatever the future brings #itsonlyrockandroll.”
He replied, “But I like it.”
RELATED STORIES
He then responded to a fan who asked him, “Leaving or been told to leave??” and said: “No leaving @BBCEssex but not BBCRadioKent.”
Another one also suggested he’d been fired to which James wrote: “No, not this time mate.”
James currently hosts the “Something for the Weekend” show on the station on Saturday mornings from 10am to 2pm.
He first became a household name in the late Eighties with The James Whale Radio Show, which aired on ITV through Yorkshire Television.
In the mid-Nineties he hosted The James Whale Show on TalkSport but he was sacked in 2008 after urging his listeners to elect Boris Johnson as Mayor of London.
This summer, James became the sixth person to be evicted from the Celebrity Big Brother house.
Got a story? email [email protected] or call us direct on 02077824220