Adele Roberts is leaving BBC Radio 1 after “an incredible eight years”.
Adele Roberts is leaving BBC Radio 1
The radio presenter, 44, is officially departing the station and presented her last programme in May, after being open about her battle against bowel cancer, which she beat in June 2022.
Aled Haydn Jones, the head of BBC Radio 1, said: "She continually goes above and beyond for others and I want to say a huge thank you to her for everything.
"Whether it's key workers during the pandemic on her show, other people's health during her own diagnosis of cancer."
Adele's slot will be taken over by Sam MacGregor and Danni Diston, with the pair set to co-host the new Weekend Breakfast show when it relocates from London to Cardiff.
The former ‘I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here’ star - who first joined the public broadcaster as a presenter on BBC Radio 1Xtra in 2012, before landing Radio 1's Early Breakfast show gig in 2015 - first revealed she had cancer in October 2021.
Adele recently broke a world record when she became the fastest woman to complete the London Marathon with a stoma bag, which she has dubbed ‘Audrey’.
Upon finishing the race, she said: “We got the record. I was like, ‘Oh my gosh did we actually do it?’
“For ages I didn’t know my time because my watch broke and I couldn’t tell because I set off quite late … so I was just really hoping that I’d managed to do it.
“Thank you so much to everybody who was actually in the race, there was so many lovely people on the course and also everybody who came out to cheer even though it was raining.
“We did it, up yours cancer.”
Adele insisted her achievement proved “anything is possible”.
She wrote on Instagram: “We’ve just set a #GuinnessWorldRecord for the fastest marathon with an ileostomy … less then 12 months since I stopped chemotherapy. Anything is possible.
“For those warriors living with cancer, for all the incredible ostomates around the UK and for the heroes of the NHS. That was for you.”