Sara Cox has thanked her friends for ‘picking me up and dusting me down’ as she celebrated her new role on Radio 2, taking over from close friend Scott Mills.
The DJ, 51, has also replaced sacked presenter Scott on the BBC‘s Eurovision coverage and enjoyed some ‘booze-free bubbles’ with her close pals.
Sharing an update to Instagram, she smiled for a photo while out for lunch with the girls.
Sara captioned the post: ‘Pre-breakfast show announcement booze-free bubbles with the greatest 2 wingwomen I could wish for.
‘Always there to cheer me on or pick me up & dust me down. Thank you for decades of friendship, love, support & lols.’
Sara and Scott have been friends and BBC colleagues for three decades, since they both started at Radio 1 within a year of one another in the late Nineties. Sara was a guest at Scott’s 2024 wedding in Barcelona.
Sara who currently hosts the station’s weekday Teatime show from 4pm to 7pm, will launch her first show this summer after being announced as the new Breakfast Show host last week.
Sara Cox has thanked her friends for ‘picking me up and dusting me down’ as she celebrated her new role on Radio 2, taking over from close friend Scott Mills
She said in a statement: ‘There are not enough adjectives to really sum up how I’m feeling about being trusted with such an iconic show but let’s start with ecstatic, honoured and incredibly chuffed.’
‘It’s been a dream to host the Breakfast Show since I joined Radio 2 and it feels like a bit of a full circle for me.’
‘I’ve had the most glorious seven years of my career on Teatime so thank you to my brilliant Teatime listeners who hopefully will join me at Breakfast for excellent music and all my usual nonsense plus some superstar guests.
‘I honestly can’t wait to wake the nation up with the biggest, most fun breakfast show ever.’
It has also been revealed she will take over Eurovision hosting duties from her former colleague.
Scott has been one of the commentators during Eurovision’s semi-finals, which will air on BBC One in the week leading up to the final, since 2011.
He has most recently been joined by Rylan Clark on the shows, as well as talking listeners through the live Eurovision final on BBC Radio 2.
Sara will instead be taking on the role, after commentating on the semi-finals during a radio show last year, alongside former show commentator Rylan.
The final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 will take place in Vienna, Austria, on May 16, with the two semi-finals taking place on May 12 and 14.
The DJ, 51, has also replaced sacked presenter Scott on the BBC ‘s Eurovision coverage and enjoyed some ‘booze-free bubbles’ with her close pals (pictured with Scott in 2013)
Scott and Sara were close colleagues, with Scott most recently supporting her Children In Need challenge, sharing a gushing tribute to her.
He said in November last year as he posted a snap with Sara: ‘WHAT. A. HERO. so proud of @djsaracox.’
Scott was fired by the BBC for a historical allegation of serious sexual offences.
The allegations he faced are said to have happened between 1997 and 2000, police said, while Scott was in his mid-20s.
Scott was questioned under caution by police in 2018 but the case was rejected by the Crown Prosecution Service in 2019 due to a lack of evidence. The BBC admitted that it knew about the allegations as far back as 2017.
Sources close to the star branded him the ‘nicest man in showbiz’ to the Daily Mail and said friends are ‘very worried for his mental health’ as they admitted they ‘don’t know how he will get through this’.
Another said that his husband Sam, whom he met in 2016 and married in 2024, has been ‘a great source of support’ and is the ‘one thing that is keeping Scott going’.
