Good Morning Britain star Richard Gaisford has introduced he is stepping down from the ITV programme after having had the “greatest job in TV information” for the final 25 years

A Good Morning Britain veteran is leaving the present.

ITV correspondent Richard Gaisford has stepped down from the hit morning programme after greater than 25 years on ITV breakfast reveals. The broadcaster has been on GMB since its launch in 2014.

In an announcement, he mentioned: “I’ve been privileged to have the very best job in TV information for the final quarter of a century, trusted to take a entrance row seat at historical past making occasions everywhere in the world. I’ve labored with an unbelievable workforce of journalists and digicam operators, broadcasting to a extremely responsive breakfast viewers.

“I am actually enthusiastic about transferring on to new alternatives in a fast-changing media world, beginning one other chapter in my profession.”

Gaisford was inundated with messages of help from GMB viewers following the announcement. One wrote: “What an period Richard? GMB will definitely not be the identical with out you. That’s for positive.

“The consummate skilled. Grateful to your recommendation and help throughout the years. Good luck in no matter ventures lie forward. No matter they’re, I do know, they are going to be a powerful success.”

One other commented: “Delighted and gutted in equal measure. The perfect of luck within the subsequent chapter.” A 3rd echoed: “You’ve got been sensible at Good Morning Britain! We won’t wait to look at you in your subsequent thrilling chapter!”

ITV’s director of reports and present affairs Andrew Dagnell mentioned: “Richard is among the most completed and revered journalists in British broadcasting.

“His work has helped outline what audiences count on from breakfast information – authoritative, human and trusted. Few reporters have lined such a breadth of tales with the identical composure and readability that Richard brings to each project.

“He leaves with the gratitude and admiration of colleagues throughout ITV Information, and I sit up for working with Richard on some thrilling present affairs sooner or later.”

Gaisford will keep at ITV, persevering with his work on present affairs programming. The TV star joined GMTV in 2000, turning into chief correspondent for the programme.

He went on to affix GMTV’s successor Dawn in 2010 and remained chief correspondent for Good Morning Britain when it launched in 2014.

Gaisford was the primary UK broadcast journalist to report reside from Basra, Iraq, in 2003. He has cowl main international occasions, together with the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004, Nelson Mandela’s dying in South Africa, the autumn of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, and the rescue of the Chilean miners within the Atacama Desert.

Gaisford has spent the previous few years reporting reside from Ukraine in the course of the ongoing struggle with Russia.

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