ITV presenter Susanna Reid has returned to her broadcasting alma mater after appearing on the BBC 11 years after her exit.
The Good Morning Britain host, 54 – who took a small break from the ITV morning show in April – shared her return to behind the BBC news desk on Instagram with a heartfelt caption.
After starting as a BBC News 24 reporter, Reid hosted BBC Breakfast alongside Bill Turnbull and Charlie Stayt from 2003 to 2014, and a stint on Sunday Morning Live from 2010 to 2011.
In 2014, she left the BBC to co-anchor the newly-launched GMB and has rarely looked back.
The TV personality appeared on a panel for Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg with Daniel Kebede and James Harding and posted a delightful snap of the trio.
‘SUNDAY! Always fantastic to be on @bbclaurak back at the BBC,’ she wrote, before reassuring fans she would be back on GMB in the morning.
The regular Sunday morning political commentary show was focused around the views of voters one year one from Keir Starmer’s Labour victory at the general election.
Her fans were delighted to see her back in the BBC studio with one user, suzamayes, commenting that it was a ‘nice surprise’.
‘Plesant surprise,’ Masongrant2370 echoed.
‘Good memories from BBC news back in the days I used to watch you,’ tagopelendo shared.
‘You were brilliant Susanna and it was great to see you on a Sunday,’ barbarajeanharris wrote.
Her commentary on Sunday’s show also sparked some discourse after she suggested Starmer go on I’m A Celebrity in order to increase his popularity among voters.
‘Well I was struck when I heard someone say, “I quite like Nigel Farage because I saw him on I’m A Celebrity”, and I thought perhaps Sir Keir Starmer needs to go on I’m A Celeb in order for voters to know who he is, as the words that seem to be coming out of everyone’s mouth is ‘I don’t know”,’ she told Kuenssberg.
At the time of Reid’s exit from the BBC the show’s editor Adam Bullimore said: ‘BBC Breakfast is a hugely successful programme and Susanna has been part of that.
‘We are sorry she’s decided to leave and wish her the best for the future.’
There had been reports that she had been asked to ‘take a break’ from the Breakfast show amid her split from her partner Dominic Cotton but shortly after she was unveiled as one of the new faces of GMB.
Reid currently hosts every Monday to Wednesday and alternate Thursdays with Richard Madeley.
ITV recently announced a whole host of changes to its daytime programming.
From January 2026, Lorraine will be slashed down to half an hour and only run for 30 weeks of the year, and Loose Women will also only air seasonally.
This means GMB will be increased by an extra hour when Lorraine is off air.
It will be produced by ITV News at ITN with plans to extended their coverage of ‘regional news, agenda-setting investigations, exclusives, and analysis of the biggest stories of the day.’
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