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Metro
08-08-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Kay Burley's Sky News replacement finally revealed
Kay Burley's Sky News replacements have been announced after she left the breakfast show in February. The British broadcaster, 64, sent shockwaves through the nation when she announced her retirement from the channel after 36 years. Speculation has been rife following her exit, and it has now been confirmed that Sophy Ridge and Wilfred Frost have been appointed as the new Sky News breakfast presenters. They will join the show later this Autumn, with an exact date to be announced, as well as a new show name and studio. Ridge, 40, is best known for hosting Politics Hub for the last two years as well as Sophy Ridge on Sunday. During the last UK election, she was the lead presenter during Sky's coverage and was named RTS Presenter of the Year at the RTS Television Journalism Awards earlier this year. Frost, 40, the son of broadcaster Sir David Frost, has filled in for Burley since her departure in February. He has worked for the likes of CNBC and NBC, and earlier this year, he helmed the critically acclaimed documentary series David Frost Vs. Taking to X to share the news, Frost said he was 'insanely pumped' to be stepping in to present the breakfast show. 'I'm insanely pumped about the all-new breakfast show coming soon. Loads of exciting aspects – but top of the list is partnering with Sophy Ridge. 'I know we'll bring the best out of each other and together bring you the very best of Sky News in a fresh, warm and inviting way.' Ridge added: ''Soooo I'm about to find out how many coffees one woman can consume before 7am. Me & Wilfred Frost will be shaking up Sky's breakfast show from later this year, and I can't wait to work together. 'Presenting Breakfast is a massive honour for me and a real pinch yourself moment [heart emoji].' Burley was part of the team that launched Sky News in 1989 under the direction of Rupert Murdoch, and she went on to win the channel a Bafta for her coverage of 9/11. On her final day, she shared some fond memories from her career as well as one particularly 'awkward' moment on air. 'Hard to say farewell, not goodbye, to some fabulous colleagues – and then there was the awkward moment with the cake…' Kay said, referencing the moment she cut into a cake decorated with a picture of the original Sky News team in the accompanying footage. Slicing into the rectangular cake, Kay realised that she was about to 'cut Rupert's head off,' as she and her colleagues collapsed into laughter, and Kay made a detour with the knife. Bowing out of her final ever Sky News Breakfast programme, she said: 'From a standing start to one of the most recognised and valued brands in global news, it's been an honour and privilege to work with some of the best and hardest working teams in the business. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 'News by its very nature is often devastating, and together we've covered so many life-changing events – from the tragic death of Diana, the shocking terror attack of 9/11; the Asian Tsunami; the Concorde air disaster. 'But we've also enjoyed some wonderful high notes too, haven't we – the thrill of London winning the chance to host the 2012 Olympics; a plethora of royal weddings; jubilees and who can forget days and days and DAYS waiting for royal babies to arrive at the Lindo Wing. More Trending 'But after over a million minutes of live TV news – more than anyone else in the world – it's time for me to indulge in some of my other passions – including my love for travel. 'So, after covering 12 separate general elections – including Sir Keir Starmer's victory last year – I am retiring from Sky News – let politicians of every party just rejoice at that news! 'Thank you for waking up and tuning in every morning. I can't tell you how much I have appreciated your support over the last three and a half decades: You're awesome.' View More » Metro has reached out to representatives for Kay Burley for comment Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. MORE: Murder framed as suicide: How a killer's lies were exposed MORE: Sky's Dermot Murnaghan 'mistakenly thought he was being tested for prostate cancer' before stage 4 diagnosis
Associated Press
14-04-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
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Telegraph
23-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
David Frost Vs, review: a welcome reminder of a brilliant interviewer
Last month Mike Parkinson brought his chat show legend father, Michael, back to life via artificial intelligence and a highly dubious podcast. This month, Wilfred Frost brings his chat show legend father, David, back to life via more conventional means – the prestige documentary series. Both sons were gifted an immense body of work to preserve and curate. Parkinson Jr would no doubt agree that David Frost Vs (Sky Documentaries) is the more palatable and successful way to present it. The six-part series (three now, three later in the year) isn't always wholly successful, but when it is, as in its completely spellbinding second episode, it is mighty documentary-making, both cerebral and emotional. Each episode takes a new subject through which we can view Frost, America and Britain, and the world at large during the 1960s and 1970s. First up is The Beatles, then Muhammad Ali, and finishing this three-part run with Jane Fonda. To be reminded of Frost's brilliance as an interviewer (and as the maker of television) is no bad thing, and the copious clips from The David Frost Show et al are wondrous enough to scarcely need a documentary around them at all. At times I longed to just watch him at work – questing, respectful, louche – without interruption. Charting John Lennon's life and career via his interviews with Frost was refreshing, though at times you wondered if the director had forgotten that the programme was supposed to be about Frost. The episode on Fonda is an illuminating take on America and the Vietnam War, but at times it reduced Frost to a keen observer, and little more. The episode on Ali, however, achieves the series' ambitious aim of marrying form and substance, interviewer and interviewee. The intellectual tussle of Frost and Ali's first televised interview in 1968 is remarkable (at one point Frost accepts dead air to allow Ali to get his notes), with Frost pressing the Nation of Islam convert's claim that 'all whites are devils' (this concept ran through their many encounters and received an extraordinary coup de grace in their final interview in 2003). There is mutual respect – dare I say it, even something like love – but Frost is never on the back foot. Yet the episode is also about Black America and the civil rights movement, and its finest moment comes in an interview with Jesse Owens, not Ali. Frost is visibly overcome by the eloquence and grace of Owens, and at one point can only mutter, 'You really are terrific. And what you say is terrific'. If you've never fully appreciated Frost's power as an interviewer, or if time has faded the memory, this series is a captivating reminder. He was the master. Frost floated like a butterfly, stung like a bee.
Sky News
21-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Sky News
Sir David Frost's son: What I learned reviewing broadcast legend's famous interviews
Dad was a showman with great charisma, but he never lost sight of the fact that an interview is about the guest, not the host. That is made clear when you review the 10,000+ interviews he did, as I have done over the last decade since he left us. That theme has been central to the series, David Frost Vs. Six individual films about crucial moments in our recent history, that are still relevant and resonant today, where Dad just happened to have a front row seat, not six films specifically about Dad. His extraordinarily revealing interviews with the likes of The Beatles, Yoko Ono, Muhammad Ali, Jane Fonda, Elton John and Richard Nixon are in part so revealing because they were given time to breathe. Long-form is critical to have a chance of delivering the era-defining conversations that stand the test of time as he did so often. But it takes much more than that. These conversations are deeply personal. I think our films will reveal more than expected about the people and topics we explore because you really feel the words being spoken. Dad understood live television better than anyone and when it came to interviewing, both his guests and his viewers are drawn in because what drove him was a genuine curiosity about people. He never entered an interview with an agenda. He was interested in the person in front of him and what they had to say. But I don't think that is something you can teach or learn. He just genuinely loved people.
