Harrison announced the end of her 13-year stint on the long-running show in her final Countryfile magazine column. <\/p>
Ellie Harrison has quit Countryfile after 13 years as a presenter on the Sunday evening staple.<\/p>\n
Harrison announced the news in her Countryfile magazine column, in which she explained that her decision to leave had been \u201cdrawn out\u201d and promised that she would see viewers \u201cagain someday\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter 13 years, my final column is a fond farewell to Countryfile \u2013 I\u2019ll miss the people, places and stories,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>
\u201cThirteen-and-a-half years after I arrived four hours early for my first Countryfile shoot, which culminated in me commuting up Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon) to deliver Matt Baker a sandwich of freshly harvested mushrooms, it has come time for me to bid you farewell.\u201d<\/p>\n
She added that her \u201cbond with the programme\u201d had made it an extremely difficult decision to leave, but that she would take \u201call the lessons from these days forward with me on my journey\u201d.<\/p>\n
The column continued: \u201cI\u2019ve come to realise that I don\u2019t need to navigate to a whole new ocean or even a new sea, but to chart a new course somewhere in these waters, raising my three wonderful children, growing our family business and following my own creative calling to produce art of my own making.\u201d<\/p>\n
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