Blackburn returns to breakfast radio

Tony Blackburn is to continue more than four decades in radio with a weekend breakfast show on 102.2 Smooth Radio in London.

He was the first DJ on BBC Radio 1 in 1967 and has since worked across the BBC and commercial broadcasters on radio and television. In 2002 he won I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here.

He will start at Guardian Media Group-owned Smooth on February 16.

Programme controller Gavin McCoy said: "Tony is a consummate professional and an entertainer through and through. We are over the moon he’ll be leading the charge on the weekends."

Blackburn commented: "Smooth Radio is a wonderful station with a growing audience and a music format I love. Doing the weekend breakfast show gives me the opportunity to really enjoy what I’ll be doing and with the team, deliver a great show."