[Scratch_Perry]

when I think of Breakfast I very much think of Jon and Sally more than I do Charlie and Naga, because the latter pairing always just feels so awkward and tense to me

I'd like to see GMB get a new permanent male host, but please, not Ed Balls

Interesting comments, thinking of Jon and Sally as Breakfast over Charlie and Naga, despite the latter being the longest-serving presentation partnership in the history of the programme (10 years). Despite the supposed equality between the presentation pairings (Jon & Sally, Monday-Wednesday; Charlie & Naga, Thursday-Saturday), it seems to me that "major" interviews and featured are skewed towards those at the front end of the week; I mean I cannot recall either Charlie or Naga doing those special features on Marcus Rashford and his school meals campaign or Rob Burrow, Doddie Weir (RIP) and other sportsmen diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease and their work fighting it (which Sally was involved with) or interviewing the families of the Nottingham stabbings from last year (which Jon recently interviewed). And I can't recall either Charlie or Naga interviewing the Prime Minister of the day on the programme (Dan Walker interviewed Boris Johnson and Jon Kay has interviewed Rishi Sunak for example. I read somewhere that Charlie "prefers" to work Thursday-Saturday, which on the face of it, is to his detriment as others who had previously worked the back end of the week on the programme; the late Bill Turnbull, Sian Williams, Susanna Reid and Louise Minchin; all moved up to the front end of the week, therefore increasing their profile.

On to GMB and a permanent male host(s) and two names sprung to my mind which I mentioned on another forum. The first one is right under the noses of the PTB, and that's Sean Fletcher, who's been with the programme since the relaunch (after 22 years in the wilderness) in 2014. The other is Simon McCoy; here you have a bona fide journalist and broadcaster who was popular on the BBC News Channel (as it was then) and is no stranger to working with Susanna Reid (on BBC News) or Kate Garraway (Sky News). A flagship news programme like GMB needs permanent presenting partnerships, instead of faffing around with ad hoc presenters.