Radio 2's Tina Daheley - 'I used to wash Kylie Minogue's hair'

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She’s notched up 16 years with the BBC and has hosted TV shows including Crimewatch, Points Of View and BBC Breakfast, but Tina Daheley says the role she’s most proud of is that of mum. “This sounds corny and clichéd, but becoming a mum has empowered me to say no, because for a decade I just said yes to everything,” Tina, 43, explains. “It was just constant.

I’d do Breakfast in the morning, then record a podcast, then do both the 6pm and 10pm news, then head to Manchester the next day for more filming. “Now I have a much better work-life balance.

Anything I say no to means I can say yes to something else. ”We don’t talk enough about how much of an impact becoming a parent has on you, but I wear being a mum very openly.” Tina has a two-year-old daughter, Athena, with her fiancé of five years, Kane William-Smith, and gets up early to read the news on the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show. “My partner works from home, so that helps.

He’s phenomenal,” she says. “I will sneak out in the morning, making as little noise as possible while they’re both asleep. “But being a parent is tough.The hours at work are still brutal and there’s the perpetual mum guilt.