Amanda Holden to join Jamie Theakston for Heart UK Breakfast
Heart’s new national breakfast show will be presented by Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden when it starts on June 3rd.
Details of Amanda’s appointment were published on Sunday by The Mirror but an official announcement is expected on Monday morning by Global to expand on the details.
RadioToday understands current presenters of Heart’s local breakfast shows across England, Scotland and Wales were told the news on Sunday.
Jamie and Amanda will replace 21 breakfast shows on stations from Exeter to Edinburgh – meaning around 70 presenters and producers being taken away from the slot. Amanda is a replacement for Emma Bunton who left the show last year.
Some breakfast presenters will be leaving the network, and some will move to drivetime, replacing the current drivetime shows.
In addition, some drivetime programmes will be merged into smaller areas as per Ofcom’s changes to the Localness Guidelines.
A networked breakfast show on Heart was first announced by Global on February 26th, and since then, the company’s Capital network has replaced its local breakfast shows with a national programme. The Smooth network will follow before the end of the year.
The programmes being replaced by Jamie and Amanda are:
- Sussex: Tom, Nicola and Jack
- South Coast: Rich and Zoe
- Kent: James and Becky
- Thames Valley: Matt and Michelle
- Bath/Bristol: Ed, Troy and Paulina
- Devon/Cornwall: Matt and Victoria
- Gloucestershire: Myles Galloway
- Wiltshire: Mel and Ben
- Northampton: Ivan and Emma
- Essex: Martin and Su
- Cambridge: Kev and Ros
- Suffolk: Dave and Heidi
- Hertfordshire: Daniel Fox
- WM: Ed and Gemma
- NW: Joel and Lorna
- North Lancs: Danny Matthews
- NE: Justin and Kelly
- Yorkshire: Dixie and Emma
- Scotland: Robin and Adele
- South Wales: Jagger and Woody
- North Wales: Lois and Oli
If you currently work for Global and find yourself looking for new opportunities due to the changes – let us know and we’ll tell the rest of the industry you are available, with a free listing on our “people available” page.
.Heart Breakfast is going NATIONAL on June 3rd.I’m thrilled to finally announce I’ll be hosting what will NOW be the Uk’s biggest commercial Morning Radio show alongside @JamieTheakston I’m excited to be part of the heart FM team! Look forward to waking you all up @thisisheart pic.twitter.com/P7aa4JVGWj
— Amanda Holden (@AmandaHolden) April 28, 2019