Susanna Reid returned to BBC Breakfast to pay tribute to co-host Bill Turnbull following his death aged 66. Featuring alongside Mr Turnbull's other colleagues from over the years in a tribute on the BBC, Ms Reid said that Mr Turnbull had been like the "father of BBC Breakfast".
She said: "He mentored everybody on the programme, he was like the father of BBC Breakfast. He taught me everything, he taught so many of us everything about journalism, about television and about being a decent person in this industry... he was kind, compassionate and wise and a great friend and I loved every minute of being with him, I'm going to really miss him."
His former co-host Louise Minchin recalled how Mr Turnbull had been a "stickler for grammar" and praised the work he had done to campaign to raise awareness about prostate cancer, following his own diagnosis in 2017. Ms Minchin, who first appeared on the broadcaster’s flagship morning news show in 2001, said farewell to BBC Breakfast in September 2021, while Mr Turnbull signed off from the sofa in 2016 after 15 years.
