She didn’t need to do it. She really didn’t. But here we are anyway, with arguably radio’s safest pair of hands coming in to clean up a mess Radio 2 shouldn’t have allowed to happen in the first place.
This afternoon, Sara Cox has been announced as the new presenter of Radio 2’s Breakfast Show. Headline news, of course, because the Breakfast Show is not just the station’s flagship programme, but also attracts 6.5 million listeners each week.
Cox is understandably thrilled.
“There are not enough adjectives to sum up how I’m feeling about being trusted with such an iconic show, but let’s start with ecstatic, honoured and incredibly chuffed. It’s been a dream to host the Breakfast Show since I joined Radio 2,” she says. “I honestly can’t wait to wake the nation up with the biggest, most fun breakfast show ever.”
Cox, who has been at the station since 2011, is currently on the Teatime slot, where she is unifyingly glorious entertainment, sunny and daft and larky, the perfect vocal accompaniment to the grind of the daily commute. Though she was always frontrunner to replace Scott Mills – who was sensationally sacked back in March over alleged historic sexual offences – it seemed unlikely she’d go for it. Why would she?
You might argue she’s too good for it. She certainly doesn’t need it, and is undeniably busy enough as it is, hosting TV shows, writing novels, occasionally running marathons. What’s left to prove? More pertinently still: why, at the age of 51, would she want to subject herself to a 3.45am alarm call every morning, which every breakfast host insists is a killer?
Cox will replace Scott Mills, who was recently sacked over ‘personal conduct’ (Photo: Stuart C Wilson/Getty Images)And yet her appointment is nevertheless a canny move on the part of the station, and Cox accepting it a gracious one. In a very real sense: phew. Order urgently needs to be reinstated. Mills, formerly of Radio 1, was someone who had long coveted the top slot on 2, and quickly made the show his own after Zoe Ball’s departure in 2024. He oozed Red Coat giddiness and revelled in the kind of cheese Edam enthusiasts might appreciate. But those skeletons in his closet were suddenly (inexplicably?) reanimated, grew flesh, and then went spectacularly full zombie.
The allegations against Mills – of serious sexual offences against a teenage boy who was under the age of 16 – are reported to have happened between 1997 and 2000 (the investigation was closed after the evidential threshold was not met). The BBC has known about them since 2017, so quite how it came to this – and how it came to this only now – has yet to be written into the history books. We are left intrigued, confused, and disappointed.
While Mills is being assiduously etched from BBC history, with old episodes of him hosting Top of the Pops diligently disappearing from BBC Four, let us focus on this more palatable, welcome news: his replacement.
Sara Cox is the best of radio, your mate on the airwaves, and someone who – like interim Breakfast Show host Gary Davies – sounds like she could broadcast 24 hours a day, and never once flag. She is not only that much-needed safe pair of hands, then, but a pro. Mornings require sunshine. She’s a known quantity, and in an enduring career has never once been mired by scandal, which rather makes one wonder whether problematical allegations are the exclusive preserve of men. It’s a theory.
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