TV host Ranvir Singh says she was left sitting in a park in tears with her toddler after being told ITV no longer wanted her. The TV favourite has opened up about the most challenging time of her professional career after risking it all by leaving the BBC.
She says ITV bosses told her she wasn't part of their future plans a year after she left her BBC job and moved to ITV. But she is now one of the channel's most popular stars on Good Morning Britain, also filling in for Lorraine.
Speaking on the Sliding Doors podcast, she told host Jennie Becker about the moment she thought she had thrown it all away. Ranvir, said: "I had a very secure job with BBC job with a pension and everything.
"I got headhunted to go to ITV. So I give up this whole secure life at the BBC and my friends and my life in Manchester to move to London, essentially, for a contract.
"It was a two-year contract. But I always remember being in the newsroom at the BBC and looking up at the little television and thinking, 'I want to know what it's like to be there [on a national]."
She added: "I'm there, 15 months into the job. The programme gets a whole rebrand and I'm not a part of their plans. I found out at 10 o'clock in the morning and by 10.30am and email had gone out."
Ranvir said: "There's me crying in a park with my little son and my phone rings and it's John Stapleton - a long-term GMTV presenter."
"He told me not to complain, carry on turning up and to do my job."
He offered Ranvir a Saturday presenting job and a week later she also got to present a show on Sundays. Less than two months later, she received a call to present the News at Ten on Fridays.
Ranvir has been a presenter on Good Morning Britain since its launch in 2014. She is also a regular presenter on ITV News.
