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Adrian Chiles returning to the BBC to co-host weekly 5Live show

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By Gillian West, Social media manager

August 29, 2013 | 2 min read

After famously jumping ship to front ITV’s Daybreak three years ago, Adrian Chiles is set to return to the BBC to present the weekly Friday edition of Drive on BBC 5Live alongside Anna Foster.

In 2010 Chiles left the BBC’s The One Show with then co-presenter Christine Bleakley to host ITV’s re-launched breakfast show. The pair lasted little over a year before being replaced and have since found themselves presenting other ITV offerings, with Chiles presenting the broadcaster’s football coverage and Bleakley co-presenting Dancing on Ice with Phillip Schofield.

Of his return to the BBC and 5Live, where he was one of the first presenters when it launched in 1994, Chiles said: “It’s very exciting to be coming back to Radio 5live. It was a privilege to have been there right at the beginning when it launched, and I'm thrilled to have been asked back.

“It'll be great to tackle news, current affairs and business stuff, as well as sport. All the time I've been away from 5live I've remained an avid fan and it'll be good to be part of it again.”

The station also announced that Christian O’Connell, Jonathan Pearce and Matt Johnson would be sharing hosting duties on sports panel show Fighting Talk, alternating presenting duties on the Saturday morning discussion programme following the departure of Colin Murray, who moved to TalkSport earlier in the summer.

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