Susannah Reid

I feel sorry for a lot of children in this world.

Just heard on the radio she has accepted that very lucrative offer to go over to ITV' s Daybreak. The boys will never be short anything.

Julia Bradbury has defected to ITV as well. Maybe they should have had a word with Christine Bleakley before making the jump?

Does that mean that Lorraine Kelly and Aled Jones are no longer presenting ITV Breakfast? They did not last long.

Julia Bradbury?!!!

I don't think that Daybreak is a very reliable horse to back.

She must have ran out of places to walk to so she's walked there . Or maybe she's fed up of being typecast and wants to sit down for a bit [bunions perhaps??]....

I don't think Julia Bradbury is going to Daybreak. She is doing something similar to her Beeb programmes but on ITV. Hopefully that means more Helen Skelton on the Beeb!

Oh no! When I mentioned Daybreak there I was referring back to Susannah Reid. Sorry to confuse.

It's a camping programme Julia Bradbury will do

The BBC made things difficult when they spent so much of our money relocating to Salford. If people wanted to keep their jobs, like Susannah, they had to do a horrible commute if their children were settled in schools and partners in jobs and they didn't want to move. And I think Strictly takes up so much of a contestant's life that the rest of the family would have to be extremely understanding and well able to cope.
I feel sorry for them all, especially the children. I wasn't on GN so never heard of grandmaminey, but we always like Susannah on Breakfast. It's just a change of job, sometimes the press makes it sound like a defection if people move from BBC to ITV!

Yes, and let's face it, if Susannah's been offered a lot more money and no longer has to commute it makes a lot of sense to take ITV's offer!

Who wouldn't?

I believe one million, but I do not know the length of the contract.

For that sum, I wouldn't quibble about the length of the contract!

Does anybody actually watch ITV during the day ?

The S.O. watches breakfast tv [not at my house, though].

I once put the Alan Titchmarsh Show on by mistake.

Why is it construed as "defection" if a person takes a job with another company at an increased salary? Despitethe false intimacy of coming into our living rooms via our tv sets * we do not own* tv presenters or performers do we? And I am finding a difference in the justification of commenting on Susanna Reid the performer and the DD of one of our fellow grannies. "Slebs" may be viewed as fair game in the media but a person's life is their own business.

Except that I believe she was quoted as saying that the BBC ran through her like a stick of rock. Hostage to fortune there.

i should think that life on ITV, based in London will be easier for her than constantly having to commute to and from London.

There's no point in being loyal to the BBC. Clare Balding reckoned her illness was partly due to the stress brought on by the BBC not renewing her contract a few years ago.

...also, being a woman working on the telly you have to make your money while you've still got your looks; I'm afraid that, unlike men women are still judged on their physical appearance .

but [true] !

Spot on Tegan. Still the case sadly.

I think k it could be safer streetwise to stick with the Bee b. She might have made a big mistake here. Serves her right too.