Reid top Breakfast presenter
IT has just celebrated 30 years after it first enticed people away from their cereals with presenters Frank Bough and Selina Scott.
But a new poll suggests that today’s stars of BBC Breakfast, which began January 1983, are far more popular than its founding hosts.
Current presenter Susanna Reid has been named the most popular presenter of the show in a survey.
Reid, 42, who is well known for her coolness on air – she recently apologised after an engineer was heard to blurt out a four letter word – pulled in more votes than the rest of the top ten combined.
Second in the radiotimes.com survey was Sian Williams, who left the show last year.
Reid drew 52% of the votes, with Williams taking 12%, while Bill Turnbull pulled in 8% as fans chose from more than 40 presenters. The late Jill Dando was seventh and Jeremy Bowen, now the BBC’s Middle East editor, was eighth.
Reid said: “I am honoured to have earned the respect and appreciation of Breakfast viewers. I feel lucky even to be on the list of those brilliant presenters who have hosted this programme over the past 30 years.”
But Scott, who started her TV career newsreading for Grampian, is only ninth and there’s no room on the Top 10 couch for the likes of Bough. Even David Icke, who gave up presenting to become a soothsayer only squeezes home in 10th.
Tim Glanfield, radiotimes.com editor, said: “Susanna Reid is undoubtedly the host most viewers want to wake up to.”