Yvette Fielding wants 'Blue Peter' to get a "teatime" slot with a new lineup featuring old and new presenters.
Yvette Fielding has some ideas
The 54-year-old star - who holds the record for the youngest presenter in the iconic show's 64-year history after signing up as at 18 years old in 1987 - has made some suggestions to inject new life into the longrunning BBC children's TV programme.
She told the Metro newspaper's Sixty Seconds column: "I'd change the presenters and I wouldn't put all the young ones together.
"Instead, I'd get a young lady and a young guy and bring back an old presenter alongside them so the families watching would go, 'Oh my God, Peter Duncan is back!' I'd air it at teatime to give it a real shot.
"You'd get plenty of elderly viewers who would still remember Sarah Greene, so how wonderful would it be to see her with a young presenter, and up she goes, scaling the Eiffel Tower!"
The 'Most Haunted' star admitted she was gutted when 'Blue Peter' pulled in zero viewers back in 2017.
She added: "It makes me very sad and I'd love to see down and have a cup of tea with the head of BBC and say, 'You've deprived families, grandparents, aunties and uncles because they'd all sit down with kids and watch a programme that everyone enjoyed. You've deprived the British public of a real institution'.
"They proved the programme onto CBBC and killed it be doing that because ratings plummeted."
Meanwhile, Yvette is still in touch with some of her former co-stars.
She said: "Not WhatsApp, because I don't understand any of it, but an old-fashioned phone call is marvellous.
"Mark Curray recently had his 60th birthday and he threw a fancy dress party. We had to go as someone from the 1960s so my husband Karl and I put on Beatles wigs.
"Peter Duncan went as a hippie and Janet Ellis was there too. We all still get together to celebrate big birthdays."
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