BBC Breakfast’s Sally and Nina fight back tears as they address death of ‘brilliant’ co-star
BBC Breakfast’s Sally Nugent and Nina Warhurst fought back tears as they addressed the death of their ‘brilliant’ co-star.
The two women co-hosted today’s show after Jon Kay was missing from the BBC Breakfast sofa.
At one point in the show, they discussed late colleague Bill Turnbull, who passed away last year after a battle with prostate cancer.
His daughter Flora appeared on the show – on what would have been her dad’s 67th birthday – in a video segment discussing how she was training to run the London Marathon in his honour.
She said: “Losing dad was obviously such a big thing for us and our family.
“I think first of all I wanted to have a purpose this year, and to remember Dad in the most purposeful way possible.
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“This felt like I could pay tribute to him in a way that was personal to him, because he ran the marathon a few times, and also to highlight this cause for Prostate Cancer UK.”
After the clip, Sally and Nina discussed what an incredible man Bill was, and Sally in-particular appeared very emotional.
She said of her former BBC Breakfast colleague: “What a man. What a great man, would have been his birthday today.”
Nina gently asked if she had good memories of Bill and Sally said: “Yes, he’s just brilliant to work with. Brilliant to know.
“Very, very kind, very, very wise and as we saw in that piece there, really private, so for him to talk about his health was a really big deal, that’s how important it was to him.”
Nina added: “And a brilliant dad.”
Sally also said: “We really miss him.”
BBC Breakfast airs daily from 6am on BBC One.