{"id":3794,"date":"2021-09-01T12:10:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T10:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1336217"},"modified":"2021-09-01T12:42:20","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T10:42:20","slug":"rick-edwards-announced-as-new-5-live-breakfast-presenter-after-nicky-campbell-departure","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/rick-edwards-announced-as-new-5-live-breakfast-presenter-after-nicky-campbell-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Edwards announced as new 5 Live Breakfast presenter after Nicky Campbell departure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> The former T4 host will take over from long-time presenter Nicky Campbell in November. <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Lauren Morris\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 01 September 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n<p>TV presenter Rick Edwards is set to become the next host of BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast alongside Rachel Burden following the <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/audio\/radio\/nicky-campbell-quits-5-live-newsupdate\/&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot; noopener noreferrer\">departure of Nicky Campbell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Radio 5 Live announced the news on Twitter this morning, confirming that the former T4 host would be taking over from Campbell in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTHIS. IS. EXCITING!\u201d Edwards wrote on Twitter, before adding: \u201cHold on, I have to get up WHEN.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"&quot;twitter-tweet&quot;\" data-dnt=\"&quot;true&quot;\"><p lang=\"&quot;en&quot;\" dir=\"&quot;ltr&quot;\">THIS. IS. EXCITING! <a href=\"\/\/t.co\/xDkIG0vOaV&quot;\">https:\/\/t.co\/xDkIG0vOaV<\/a><\/p>\u2014 Rick Edwards (@rickedwards1) <a href=\"\/\/twitter.com\/rickedwards1\/status\/1433000000968085504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&quot;\">September 1, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><p><em>More to follow\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The former T4 host will take over from long-time presenter Nicky Campbell in November. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":3795,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/rick-edwards-announced-as-new-5-live-breakfast-presenter-after-nicky-campbell-departure.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/rick-edwards-announced-as-new-5-live-breakfast-presenter-after-nicky-campbell-departure-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/rick-edwards-announced-as-new-5-live-breakfast-presenter-after-nicky-campbell-departure-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/rick-edwards-announced-as-new-5-live-breakfast-presenter-after-nicky-campbell-departure.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/rick-edwards-announced-as-new-5-live-breakfast-presenter-after-nicky-campbell-departure.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/rick-edwards-announced-as-new-5-live-breakfast-presenter-after-nicky-campbell-departure.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/09\/rick-edwards-announced-as-new-5-live-breakfast-presenter-after-nicky-campbell-departure.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The former T4 host will take over from long-time presenter Nicky Campbell in November.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/3794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}