JEZZA'S THE WRIGHT MAN
Jeremy Vine will replace Matthew Wright on The Wright Stuff
BBC presenter Jeremy Vine will replace Matthew Wright on The Wright Stuff in September.
The host announced he was quitting the Channel 5 show last month.
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Bosses have opted for Radio 2 host and Points of View host Jeremy, 53, to front a new look show in an announcement made today.
The show will be renamed for the first time in 18 years.
Jeremy said: “Matthew Wright has built a brilliant show that’s a big part of the British TV landscape. I’m delighted to be carrying on all the conversations he has started, with all the guests he’s made me feel I know over the years.
"Radio 2 has a beautiful editorial overlap with the serious but accessible agenda of this show. I am proud to be Channel 5’s choice to front it.”
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Ben Frow, director of programmes for Channel 5 said: “Jeremy Vine is a brilliant broadcaster whose supreme ability to make challenging stories accessible to a wider audience, not to mention his intellect, energy and wit, makes him the perfect choice to present our daily current affairs show.
Jeremy joins the likes of Michael Palin, Michael Portillo, Bettany Hughes, Sian Williams and BAFTA-winning Jane McDonald on the channel.
"This high calibre of talent across our news, documentary, current affairs and factual output demonstrates the evolution of the Channel 5 content slate. I’d like to thank Matthew Wright, who has helped make the show such a success for nearly two decades.”
Former I’m A Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here! Matthew, 52, announced on air he was stepping down after growing tired of rows with producers.
A source told the Sun at the time: “Matthew has been unhappy for a while and there’s been furious rows.
“After so long in the job, he’d started to flat out lose his temper when producers didn’t let him get his way.”
In a statement he said: "I feel it's time to depart and try my hand at something new."
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He insisted the reason why he left the show was because of the strain it was having on his marriage with wife Amelia.
Replying to a question from panellist Anne Diamond, Matthew said: "There's not a lot to say, but you know better than most the demands of getting up for a daytime show.
"I'm up at 3 o'clock in the morning these days. I go to bed at half 7. Eighteen-and-a-half years of it... Mrs Wright, we pass like ships in the night and you're looking around like at some point you've got to have a change."
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