Don't miss a thing by getting the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox BBC Breakfast viewers have said they have been 'knocked for six' as Louise Minchin announced her exit from the show.
The broadcaster revealed on Tuesday morning that she will be leaving the daily news programme later this year - 20 years after she first took her place on the famous red sofa.
Louise, 52, said it was "time I stopped setting my alarm for 0340 in the morning" as co-host Dan Walker watched on. She said: "I'm going to take a bit of a deep breath.
So everybody, there's something I want to tell you about. "It will be this year 20 years since I first presented this programme and since then I have felt part of a huge, enormous, BBC Breakfast family
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