Dan Walker left viewers thinking they were seeing things on Monday, when he joined Susanna Reid on Good Morning Britain, hours ahead of his scheduled debut on Channel 5. And plenty of those watching urged ITV to nap him up as a full time presenter.
There was widespread shock a few months ago when, months after long-serving Louise Minchin quit BBC Breakfast, Dan announced he'd be doing the same thing, to switch channels for a new role on the broadcasting rival. Dan said it was "a huge decision," not only to quit his Breakfast job, but the BBC completely, for the unexpected career move, as viewers were totally blindsided by the news.
Last week, ex Football Focus and Strictly star Dan confirmed that his Channel 5 start date was Monday, June 6, so it came as surprise to those who were up bright and early to tune into Monday's GMB, that he was on there to join another former BBC presenter, Susanna Reid. Pre-empting people's reaction to him being on the ITV show, Dan took to Twitter on Sunday evening to post: "First day of my new TV life tomorrow and it will start in a very strange way… on @GMB. S."
