Three Top BBC News Presenters Quit Channel After Being Asked To Audition For Their Jobs

Three Top BBC News Presenters Quit Channel After Being Asked To Audition For Their Jobs

Three top BBC News presenters have quit the channel after being asked to audition for their jobs.

David Eades, Joanna Gosling, and Tim Willcox have reportedly taken voluntary redundancy amid the BBC’s plans to merge its international and UK news channels.

Eades has presented his final show already, with Gosling expected to leave at the end of January while Wilcox’s final day is yet to be decided.

The trio have decided not to take part in the recruitment process for a team of six lead presenters for the new channel that will combine the UK’s 24-hour news with BBC World News.

Earlier this month, it was reported BBC News presenters were facing the axe and were asked to prove their skills in a “screen test” to keep their jobs.

Now it’s been reported people are “incandescent” over the “humiliating” recruitment process.

BBC News and BBC World News channels will cut 70 jobs in the UK – including 14 presenters – as the BBC plans to rebrand as a more digitally focused rolling news service in the Spring.

Sources told Deadline the screen tests have been “humiliating” for the veteran TV news anchors.

“I think they [Eades, Gosling, and Willcox] could not face the prospect of having to go through this ignominious process,” one source said.

Another added: “People are incandescent. It’s humiliating — you feel like you’re 21 again and applying for your first job on the BBC.”

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