(*2*)She was additionally an everyday stand-in on Radio 2’s breakfast show throughout Chris Evans’s tenure, and beforehand hosted the Radio 1 breakfast show within the early 2000s.
(*2*)Cox has additionally offered a number of TV programmes for the BBC, together with The Great Pottery Throw Down and ebook evaluation collection Between The Covers.
(*2*)Last yr, she raised £11.5 million for Children in Need by working the size of 5 marathons over 5 days.
(*2*)Cox will turn out to be the station’s second feminine breakfast host, after Zoe Ball. The show’s longest-serving incumbent was Sir Terry Wogan, who offered it for greater than 28 years in complete.
(*2*)A former mannequin, Cox launched her broadcasting profession within the late Nineties, presenting on MTV in addition to Channel 4 reveals The Girlie Show and The Big Breakfast.
(*2*)Radio 2 chief Helen Thomas stated she was “delighted” that Cox was taking on the breakfast show, saying that she “thoroughly deserves this gig”.
(*2*)”Sara is adored by her millions of listeners at teatime, and having regularly deputised in the slot, I already know she’ll build a brilliant rapport with the breakfast audience and get the nation going each morning with her trademark warmth and humour,” she stated.
