Vanessa Feltz announces she is leaving BBC Radio 2

Vanessa Feltz has announced that she is quitting her early morning breakfast show on BBC Radio 2, which she has attended for over a decade.

The broadcaster said she had "enjoyed every moment with my Radio 2 'Early Birds' ", and that her "beloved" would be missed by listeners and colleagues.

But, she said she had to quit "to make up for the sleep deficit repairer of a much-needed decade".

< p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00">Feltz will present his final morning breakfast on Friday.

After a two-week break, she will then cover The Jeremy Vine Show for a fortnight as scheduled, starting August 15.

His last day of Vine coverage, August 26, will be his last day at BBC Radio 2.

Feltz said: "I'm going to enjoy a spoonful energizing sleep for me swinging ziplines with my three effervescent grandkids and frolicking with my fiancé Ben, who remains irritatingly ten years younger than me!"

Vanessa Feltz on the two-show-a-day challenges

Feltz is one of the BBC's highest paid presenters, earning over £400,000 for hosting two daily radio shows on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio London.

Speaking on the Radio 2 breakfast show after Feltz announced her departure, Zoe Ball described her fellow presenter as "still glamorous and probably the person the smartest one I know".

Ball said: "I'm not going to lie, we're all in tears at Radio 2. She was always outrageous and the hardest working girl.

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