Newsreader Susanna Reid the sexy face of Breakfast is attracting a whole new audience of red-blooded men

Oh, Susanna! The sexy face of Breakfast is attracting a whole new audience of red-blooded men

• Presenter has gained a large fanbase on YouTube and Twitter

By Sara Nathan and Paul Revoir

Last updated at 2:32 AM on 10th December 2011


The BBC Breakfast programme might seem an unlikely time and place for a sex symbol to emerge.

Yet it is attracting a whole new audience of red-blooded males – thanks to presenter Susanna Reid.

Her increasingly racy choice of outfits has ensured a huge following for the curvaceous mother of three on Twitter and YouTube.

Short skirts and plunging necklines are now wardrobe staples for Miss Reid, who is 41 today. And she is clearly delighted with the reaction they provoke. ‘It is always fantastic when people think you look good on air because frankly that is part of the job,’ she told the Mail.

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YouTube favourite: Susanna in a mauve creation on December 9 (left) and on Breakfast on September 30

Miss Reid insists she shops mostly online, normally pays around £50 for her outfits, and has not made a conscious effort to adopt a raunchier look.

However her appearance yesterday in a low-cut mauve wrapover creation caused a chorus of approval on Twitter. One fan wrote: ‘I forgot to say how delicious Susanna Reid looking this morning’. Another commented: ‘Susanna Reid was looking spicy.’ A third added: ‘Yowza. No news is bad news when she’s reading it.’

Miss Reid added: ‘I have not made any particular special effort, but I don’t want to seem ungrateful because it is always nice to hear that people like what you are wearing.

‘Perhaps it is because I am approaching my birthday and I’m in a more celebratory mood.

‘I am not going to be coy, I do most of my shopping online. And at that time of the morning it is important we all make an effort to look colourful and cheerful.’

This week, Matt White tweeted: ‘Tell me the news Susanna Reid, and may I say, what a smashing blouse you’re wearing.’

Miss Reid also has videos dedicated to her on YouTube, with clips of her on BBC Breakfast. Some titles are too lewd to mention, and others are entitled ‘Susanna Reid in a tight black dress and silk shirt’, and ‘Susanna Reid stunning in frilly blue dress.’

Fanbase: Susanna Reid on July 8 (left) and September 9 (right). She has built up an impressive following on YouTube and Twitter thanks to her raunchy look

The newsreader has three young sons with her partner-of-12-years, former sports correspondent Dominic Cotton, who is now the communications director for charity UK Youth.

The couple have three sons together, Sam, 10, Finn, seven, and six-year-old Jack.

Last month, Miss Reid told the Mail that the boys will stay with their father in their south-east London home when BBC Breakfast moves to its new Salford studio – 200 miles north of its current home at BBC Television Centre in West London - and she takes over from Sian Williams.

She admitted: ‘It’s a challenge for everybody. We’re not moving as a family. Dom’s work is in London. The children are at school there.

‘It’s going to mean a long commute for me but I can do it. The best trains take just over two hours. I’ll zip up there, sleep overnight, do the programme, come back to pick the children up from school and zip back. I’ll just stay over for a couple of nights a week.’

Although she is the main breadwinner of the family, she stressed that was not the reason for her move to Salford.

She said: ‘We could survive. I could do other work. But I love working for Breakfast. I love the BBC. If you cut me open I’d have BBC written through me like a stick of rock. Also, the key to our whole family is that we share the parenting. Dominic cooks for the boys, reads bedtime stories and does the ironing and half the washing.’

Miss Reid then insisted: ‘I’ve said I’m going and I’m committed to it,’ she says. ‘It’s definitely going to work out. We’ll make sure it does.’

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BBC Breakfast presenter and mother of three Susanna Reid says she’s proof women can have it all

My career flourished when I had children: BBC Breakfast presenter and mother of three Susanna Reid says she’s proof women can have it all

By Rebecca Hardy

Last updated at 12:03 PM on 19th November 2011

Susanna Reid, 40, whose reputation for inadvertently showing rather too much thigh on the Breakfast sofa has earned her a sizeable male following

Susanna Reid’s seven-year-old son, Finn, is poorly. She’s worried he’s going down with a bug that’s been doing the rounds so has kept him off school. ‘I couldn’t send him in feeling like this,’ she says. The poor chap is the colour of chalk.

Watching Susanna fuss over him, it’s clear she’s besotted with Finn, who has two brothers, Sam, ten, and Jack, six. So how on earth will she cope next year when BBC Breakfast ups sticks to Salford, 200 miles north of BBC Television Centre in west London?

Susanna, 40, whose reputation for inadvertently showing rather too much thigh on the Breakfast sofa has earned her a sizeable male following, was gifted the post of main presenter on the flagship programme after Sian Williams refused to head north, a promotion that surely makes the upheaval more bearable. The boys will stay with their father, Dominic Cotton, in their south-east London home.

‘It’s a challenge for everybody,’ says Susanna, picking her words carefully. The Beeb’s £877 million move is a hot potato, with many staff refusing to go. Sian Williams cited her elderly father in the South and a son in the middle of his A-levels as her reasons to stay. Sports presenter Chris Hollins has refused too, saying, ‘There are lots of women with young children who work on Breakfast… what are they going to do about their children, and their partners’ careers?’ Susanna?

‘We’re not moving as a family. Dom’s work [he’s communications director for charity UK Youth] is in London. The children are at school there,’ she says. ‘It’s going to mean a long commute for me but I can do it. The best trains take just over two hours. I’ll zip up there, sleep overnight, do the programme, come back to pick the children up from school and zip back. I’ll just stay over for a couple of nights a week.’

Crikey, that’s a lot of zipping. What about signal failures? ‘I’m a take-each-day- as-it-comes person. I understand that for lots of people it’s a very big deal. But I have a fantastic job and I’m not going to be precious about it. Perhaps I’ve slightly got my head in the sand.’ Susanna, who also flies to Belfast each weekend to present the religious discussion show BBC Sunday Morning Live, doesn’t employ a nanny.

Instead, she and Dominic share the kids between them with the support of their parents. They’re not married (her decision, not his) and Susanna is the main breadwinner – though she insists this is not the reason for the move. ‘We could survive. I could do other work. But I love working for Breakfast. I love the BBC. If you cut me open I’d have BBC written through me like a stick of rock. Also, the key to our whole family is that we share the parenting. Dominic cooks for the boys, reads bedtime stories and does the ironing and half the washing.’


They’ve been together for 12 years after meeting on BBC Breakfast when Dominic was a sports producer and Susanna a reporter. ‘The first time we went out socially I knew we’d be together. We were having a drink in the pub with some other people and they just kind of disappeared. I said to him, “I know we’re going to have children together.” He said, “We’d better go out on a date then.”’

Gosh, most blokes would have run a mile! ‘Oh, he was up for it,’ she smirks. Within two years, Susanna was pregnant with Sam. Was he planned? ‘Yes,’ she says. ‘We bought a house and had a child. We might not be married but we did other things conventionally. I think Dom would like to be married. His parents have been together for years and are very, very happy. But being married doesn’t guarantee you stay together.’

Career high: Susanna with co-presenter Charlie Stayt on BBC Breakfast

Susanna was nine years old when her own parents divorced. Born in Croydon, the youngest of three children, she says she remembers being told her parents were separating. ‘It was the saddest thing I’d ever heard.’ Susanna remained close to both her management consultant father and her mother, a nurse. However, the aftermath of her parents’ divorce derailed her adolescent plans to go into acting – she was frightened of letting out her bottled-up feelings.

‘I had this nightmare that I’d have to keep plumbing all the emotions that I’d got under control. I didn’t want to sit in auditions weeping.’ Instead, she went to university, where she became involved with the student newspaper and was ‘gripped’ by a passion to become a journalist.

We bought a house and had a child. We might not be married but we did other things conventionally

‘Then I became a BBC person, and have never stopped.’ After a few disastrous love affairs (‘You can make bad choices,’ she says), Susanna had met Dominic and was three months pregnant with Sam when she got her first presenting slot. ‘I was a reporter for BBC News 24 and it was one of those classic moments where one night I was just leaving work at 10.55pm when they realised the presenter for the shift hadn’t turned up,’ she says.

‘I had on my coat and went on air as a presenter for an hour. At one point the editor asked the technician, “Is it going all right?” He said, “Yes, but it would be going even better if she took her coat off.” Shortly after that they needed somebody to launch an interactive service – ‘I said I was pregnant, but I’d still like to do it. My boss, who was a woman, said there wasn’t a problem. My career has flourished since I had children. I went to Breakfast and then had another baby and I’ve been at
Breakfast ever since. My career has got better and better since becoming a mother. I’d thoroughly recommend it.’

When Susanna speaks about her boys she lights up like a Christmas tree. ‘We’re very happy and content being together as a family,’ she says. ‘Friday night is always film night at our house. We curl up together on the sofa. On a Saturday morning we lie in bed doing a Sudoku together. I’m such a fan of just padding around the house. The children make up ninja games and we’re all in the same place, but they also know Mum and Dad go out to work.’

Hmmm, but for most working mums the office is a few miles down the road, not an Intercity Express ride away. ‘I’ve said I’m going and I’m committed to it,’ she says. ‘It’s definitely going to work out. We’ll make sure it does.’ And I’m sure Susanna will try her damnedest. Poor Finn’s been a patient little soul for the past hour or so and wants his mum. ‘My head hurts,’ he says. So she comforts him, as only a mother can.


Susanna Reid is a regular presenter on BBC Breakfast, BBC1, daily from 6am.


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Newsreader Susanna Reid swaps the newsroom for the ballroom to take part in Strictly for Children In Need

Making headlines! Newsreader Susanna Reid swaps the newsroom for the ballroom to take part in Strictly for Children In Need

By Nadia Mendoza

Last updated at 7:47 AM on 16th November 2011



Holly Valance needs to watch her tail as it looks like she has some competition on her hands.

Newsreader Susanna Reid proved she can also be a little vixen on the dancefloor, defying her 40 years in an eye-catching purple dress slit to the thigh, complete with red tassels.

The BBC Breakfast presenter displayed an enviable set of pins and trim figure while taking part in Strictly Come Dancing with professional dancer Robin Windsor for Children In Need.

Career change? Susanna Reid looks like she was born to perform as she dances with Robin Windsor Strictly Come Dancing for Children in Need

Blonde beauty Sophie Raworth gave Reid a run for her money though, with the 43-year-old BBC News at One star threatening to steal her thunder.


The mother-of-three is clearly no stranger to the gym, with her svelte physique and toned biceps on display as she danced with partner Ian Waite.

Making headlines: Sophie Raworth looks ravishing in purple as she dances with Ian Waite

Joining them was Angela Rippon, who originally hosted Come Dancing more than 30 years ago.

And the 67-year-old presenter has not lost any of her fancy footwork, throwing herself into the spirit of their comedy sketch while donning a ruffled black dress and showing plenty of leg.

Rippon famously teased the male population with her slender limbs as she emerged from behind a desk in a Morecambe And Wise TV special in 1977.

Bevvy of beauties: Sian Williams, Sophie Raworth and Angela Rippon appear to have developed a new hobby

Don't pull a muscle! Angela Rippon shows off her flexibility as a host of male dancers hoist her into the air

BBC beauties Sian Williams, 46, and Emily Maitlis, 41, also join the line-up for the cheeky routine.

Perhaps a little sexist, or just in the name of good fun, the performance begins with the ladies sitting bored behind their desks.

Image revamp: Newsreaders are given a sexy makeover for their performance

Sexist? Sian Williams, Susanna Reid, Sophie Raworth and Emily Maitlis wear secretary uniforms for their routine

It's a 10! The reality show is christened with it's new name Strictly News

The theme of the act is titled Strictly News, as they sit behind mock a newsdesk wearing white blouses and pencil skirts - before they turn things up a notch.

As they shimmy out from behind their desks, they are soon joined by some of the Strictly pros, including Windsor and Chelsee Healy's current partner Pasha Kovalev on the BBC One reality show.

Judges: Craig Revel Horwood, Len Wiseman, Alesha Dixon and Bruno Tonioli hold score cards in the shape of Pudsey bear

Before long, the girls have stripped off their boring uniforms and are swanning around like devilish minxes in their sequins.

But the biggest surpise comes when flexible Rippon shows us exactly how supple she is as she's hoisted in the air by the boys and does the splits.

Children In Need airs on BBC1 from 7pm on Friday.

Hosting duties: Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly present Strictly Come Dancing for Children in Need

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