Best news I've had all week - Susanna Reid is to leave #BBCBreakfast

According to this article in the Mail Online Reid has been offered a £1m contract to shift herself over to ITV. This means that I will be able to watch television in the morning again without those sloe eyes staring back at me while the other half of the sofa is reading the autocue. Susanna's matronly knees and rather too tight tops are not what I need with my breakfast coffee.

The Mail's article, in its usual appalling English, also gave me a bit of a laugh because apparently an ITV 'source' said that:

She (Susanna) is seen as more highbrow than previous presenters who fronted breakfast shows, which is exactly the direction ITV want to go in.

It went on to say that:

she is tipped to share the sofa with Ben Shepherd, 39, or Dermot O’Leary, 40, as a co-presenter.

Ben Shepherd reminds me of an overly friendly spaniel which keeps trying to 'have it away' on your leg, while Dermot O'Leary is no doubt a pleasant enough chap but was at his true level with X-Factor.

Well that's another ITV breakfast show doomed to fail, leaving Susanna, several million pounds richer, doing hiking shows in the Fells in a graveyard slot.

Now all I need to make my contentment complete is for the Beeb to get rid of that awful weather presenter who insists on saying "gyood morning" every 15 minutes as if she hasn't said it often enough already.

This overcheerfulness is what makes me peevish right from the start of the day. Why do they need a sofa and two presenters anyway? Is it too much work for one? There is only one for the 6 o'clock and 10 o'clock. And who needs this 'chemistry' stuff anyhow? Come in early, read the news, do the papers, interview a politician on the latest way we are going to be screwed, report on how the landscape is going to be blighted in future, bit of sports news and bugger off home again. And that is it really. So why does it take two?