🧵 A couple of weeks ago I put out this appeal ahead of our programme’s 40th birthday… 📣#BBCBreakfast #BreakfastTime 1/ This is what I wanted to find… The red leather sofa from the very first edition of #BreakfastTime (as it was called back then). The show started on January 17th 1983 at the BBC’s Lime Grove studios in London. 40 years ago today ⏰ 2/

Now and then. Celebrating #BBCBreakfast 40th birthday. Lovely to have original newsreader Debbie Rix and astrologer ⁦@THERussellGrant⁩ with ⁦@sallynugent⁩ and me. And original weatherman Francis Wilson is doing the 40th anniversary weather forecast for us with @carolkirkwood ❄️☃️🌨️ #BBCBreakfast #BBCBreakfastTime

THREAD: Before I sit down on the #BBCBreakfast sofa full-time, I want to thank the colleagues I’ve worked with during many years of standing up. I’ve loved being a news correspondent. I’ll miss my team like mad. Sorry if this is a bit gushing but…RELEASE THE GUSH! I always wanted to be a reporter. When I joined the BBC as a trainee in the early 90s, I couldn’t believe my luck (or choose nice ties). Decades later, the teams in local radio, regional tv and digital are still the powerhouse of everything we produce across the country 🙏