Susanna Reid returned to 'BBC Breakfast' on Friday (02.09.22) to remember her late co-host Bill Turnbull.
Susanna Reid returns to BBC Breakfast to pay tribute to Bill Turnbull
The 51-year-old star - who presented the programme from 2003 to 2014, before moving to ITV - paid tribute to her late pal Bill, who passed away this week aged 66, five years after being diagnosed with prostate cancer.
Speaking on the show, she said: "He really was the best. He was the funniest, he was the kindest, he was the most supportive and he was the most generous. That's no disrespect to any of my other former and present TV husbands!
"Bill really was the person who taught me everything.
"I think everybody on the programme working there now would acknowledge he was a mentor, he gave excellent advice, you wanted to meet his high standards and most of all he was just great fun to work with."
Earlier in the day, 'Good Morning Britain' presenter Susanna paid an emotional tribute to Bill live on the ITV show.
She said: "He threw himself into [work] and was a stickler for it when he was doing it.
"But for him the most important thing in his life was home, was family, was his wife Sesi and his children, was his dogs, his bees. Everything for Bill was in perspective.
"He very much lived with his cancer, didn't he? He lived every moment that he could. I think we all feel robbed that there was only five years between the diagnosis and losing him. I especially feel for Sesi, his wife and his children and his family today."
Bill guest hosted 'GMB' alongside Susanna in February 2020, and he returned to the show in May 2021.
Speaking about his guest presenting stints on the programme, Susanna said: "When he crossed channels and became a guest presenter on 'Good Morning Britain', it was just like old friends reuniting."
Former 'BBC Breakfast' host Louise Minchin also returned to the show on Friday to remember Bill.
She said: "There's one thing that's been really emotional to me in the last 24 hours and just standing here today, there's a key example.
"Bill was very private about his family and his lovely wife and his children, for which he was so proud. But he took that brave decision to talk about his diagnosis of prostate cancer and it saved lives.
"I'm standing here today with a cameraman called Bernard who went and got checked because of what Bill said. He had an aggressive form of prostate cancer, it was caught, he had an operation and he's here with me because of Bill.
"I loved working with Bill, and I love what we've all said about him. He was just so funny. He had that mischievous, naughty, wicked sense of humour. And sometimes you'd see the glint in his eye and you'd go, 'Oh, no, I'm gonna go' and once I'd gone, there was no stopping."
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