Mollie King to present Radio 1 Breakfast Show alongside Matt Edmondson after ‘impressing BBC bosses’
Mollie King will present the Radio 1 Breakfast Show every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, it has been confirmed.
The Saturdays singer has landed the prized job alongside co-host Matt Edmondson after impressing BBC bosses on the pair’s afternoon show.
Mollie and Matt will host the show every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 6am til 10am, while Greg James continues to host Monday to Thursday.
New role: Mollie King will present the Radio 1 Breakfast Show every Friday, Saturday and Sunday, it has been confirmed
Mollie started her DJ career as a guest on Matt’s afternoon show – and she’s been so popular bosses decided to promote her.
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The duo will take over the breakfast show from Alice Levine and her co-host Dev, who will be moving to the 1pm to 4pm slot when the changes start on November 16.
Mollie has gushed of her new role: ‘I’m absolutely blown away to have been asked to host the Radio 1 Breakfast Show every Friday, Saturday and Sunday with Matt Edmondson, my partner in crime!’
‘Partner in crime’: The Saturdays singer has landed the prized job alongside co-host Matt Edmondson after impressing BBC bosses on the pair’s afternoon show
‘I remember the buzz I got when i first walked into Radio 1 as a guest, 10 years ago, and that buzz is still with me now every time I step through the studio doors.’
‘I can’t wait to get started! See you there – bright and most definitely early! I never thought that I’d find something as much as I love singing.’
Mollie found fame as one fifth of girlband The Saturdays in 2007, but was later faced with a change in career following their split seven years later.
Mollie opened up about The Saturdays’ split in an interview with iweekend recently.
She told the publication that the girls parting ways in 2014 had been ‘exactly the same as a break up’, explaining: ‘You do just feel really sad because you think, “God, everything that I’ve grown up wanting to do, I’ve done, so now what?”
Impressed bosses: Mollie has been rising in the ranks at the BBC, pictured here with Breakfast Show host Greg James and fellow DJ Maya Jama presenting the Teen Awards
‘We didn’t want to be one of those bands that fizzled out and you think, “Come on girls, give it up, hang up your dancing shoes.”‘
Despite looking back fondly on her time in the girlband, Mollie seemed hesitant over a reunion as she admitted she doesn’t see The Saturdays re-forming anytime soon.
‘I can’t see it happening in the next couple of years,’ she confessed. Although, she didn’t entirely rule out a reunion, claiming it would be ‘so much fun’ to head back on stage in the future.
Since the band split, the girls have gone on to forge careers for themselves. Frankie Bridge appeared on Strictly Come Dancing, as did Mollie, and has thrown herself into working with a number of charities.
Una Healey has been working on music as a solo artist, as has Vanessa White – who also appeared on I’m A Celebrity – and Rochelle Humes has turned her attentions back to presenting and is set to step in for Holly Willoughby on This Morning to present alongside Phillip Schofield.
Moving on: Mollie found fame as one fifth of girlband The Saturdays in 2007, but was later faced with a change in career following their split seven years later
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