Lauren Laverne to step down from 6 Music breakfast
Lauren Laverne has introduced she is going to step down from BBC 6 Music’s breakfast present, after taking time away for most cancers remedy.
The presenter, who additionally hosts Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, will hand over the programme to Nick Grimshaw, who has been retaining her seat heat since August.
Laverne will stay on the station, nevertheless, taking on the mid-morning slot.
“It has been an enormous honour (and a lot enjoyable) to host the breakfast present for six great years, however it’s time to go the baton on, and to set my alarm just a little later,” mentioned the presenter in an announcement.
“As listeners will know, I had a extremely robust 2024 and frightened at instances that I would not be capable to return to the station I really like a lot.”
She continued: “Throughout my restoration I discovered once more in regards to the energy of music, the individuals you encompass your self with and the emotional help and pleasure radio can present.
“I am so grateful to have the ability to get again to doing what I really like and sharing these issues with our sensible listeners each day.”
Mary Anne Hobbs, who at the moment presents 6 Music’s mid-morning present will likely be taking a sabbatical from the station, and can return later within the spring with a brand new present, the broadcaster mentioned.
Laverne, who began internet hosting the breakfast present in 2019, has step by step resumed her broadcasting profession following “profitable” most cancers remedy final 12 months,
She returned to BBC One’s The One Present in November, in addition to Desert Island Discs, final November.
In a publish on Instagram on the time, she thanked the “sensible medical groups who took such nice care of me” and “the hundreds of people that despatched me such lovely and inspiring messages”.
“Most of all [thank you] to my household: my two astounding children and particularly my husband Graeme, who was completely extraordinary all through.”
She mentioned in August her most cancers had been found “unexpectedly throughout a screening take a look at” and urged anybody who was “avoiding a take a look at or laying aside an appointment” to get checked.
She has not specified what kind of most cancers she was recognized with.
Laverne started filling in for Kirsty Younger on Desert Island Discs in 2018, later taking on as everlasting host.
The position has seen her interview the likes of Cillian Murphy, Steven Spielberg, Insurgent Wilson, Delia Smith, Kate Mosse and John Legend.
She has beforehand introduced BBC Two’s The Tradition Present and Channel 4’s 10 O’Clock Stay, and within the Nineties was a singer and guitarist with different rock band Kenickie.
