Louise Minchin praises friend Carol Kirkwood over 'exciting' move away from BBC Breakfast
express.co.ukLouise Minchin has a history of news presenting on the channel, while her BBC Breakfast co-host Carol Kirkwood presents the weather.
Louise took to Twitter today to show support for her colleague as she teased plans for a new book project away from the broadcaster."Here's a clue!" weather girl Carol teased, releasing an image of herself holding a copy of her forthcoming novel, The Hotel On The Riviera.The title comes hot on the heels of the star's previous title Under A Greek Moon, which the synopsis has labelled "the perfect escapist read".Carol is already a Sunday Times bestselling author, but, naturally, that didn't stop Louise, who left BBC Breakfast last year, from offering her encouragement."Whoop, whoop, how exciting!" she tweeted in reply.When creating the theme for the book, Carol may have taken her inspiration from her own childhood, as her parents owned a hotel in a Scottish village.She had grown up in a house "just down the road" from the Morar hotel, which she previously revealed to former colleague Bill Turnbull on the Paws and Claws podcast."We used to go up there every single day with mum or dad," she reminisced of her rural childhood."In the highlands, we only had one shop, it was tiny in those days," she elaborated, adding: "[although] it is different now."It was a very free and easy childhood."Now it looks as though Carol is creating another escapist novel, but the hotel where it is set, on the balmy French Riviera, looks likely to be considerably warmer than the one her parents owned.Louise's message of praise on her Twitter account, which was also accompanied by congratulatory messages from other BBC stars, including Dan Walker, would not have been unexpected for fans of the show.The two struck up a.
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