Claudia Winkleman to step down from hosting her BBC Radio 2 show next year

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Claudia Winkleman has announced she will be stepping down from hosting her BBC Radio 2 show in March 2024.The presenter has had her own show on a the popular radio network for the past three years, taking to the airwaves every Saturday from 11am until 1pm.She says she is "incredibly grateful" to all of her colleagues, and taking over her timeslot in April next year will be comedian Romesh Ranganathan, who currently hosts a show on the station from midnight to 1am on Saturdays.Speaking about her exit, Claudia said: “I absolutely love Radio 2 and it’s been a privilege to host the Saturday morning show for three years.“I will miss our amazing guests, our brilliant listeners and the one and only Sally Traffic.“The truth is my children are growing up inordinately fast so I have decided to follow them around at home before they leave for good."The presenter continued: "I’m incredibly grateful to everyone who works on the show, I will continue to visit with badly made biscuits and will pester the bosses to present the odd special.“I couldn’t be happier that Romesh is taking over Saturday mornings on Radio 2.“He is brilliantly laugh out loud funny, and I’ll listen every single week as my kids beg me to leave them alone.”Ranganathan said: “In my many years working as a maths teacher thinking ‘what would happen if I gave this up’, I never imagined I’d be sandwiched between Dermot O’Leary and Steve Wright on the UK’s most popular radio station every Saturday morning.“I’m grateful to Claud for wanting to spend more time with her kids, and enabling me to spend less time with mine, and I look forward to finding out what the nation is up to at that time, as well as speaking to some familiar faces.