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BBC star quits hit show after four years – and reveals her last show will air this weekend

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A BBC star has quit her show after four years - while revealing her last episode airs this weekend.

Actress and presenter Sarah-Jane Honeywell is best known for working on CBeebies and her BBC radio show.

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Sarah-Jane Honeywell has quit her BBC radio show after four yearsCredit: Instagram
Woman in a light blue sweatshirt in a radio studio.
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The star has presented a weekly 80s and 90s music show on BBC Radio Lincolnshire since 2021Credit: Instagram / @sjhoneywell
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The presenter took to Instagram and explained her reasons for stepping backCredit: Instagram

The 51-year-old revealed her last show on BBC Radio Lincolnshire and BBC Radio Humberside is this weekend.

Taking to Instagram, the presenter wrote a farewell caption to her followers.

She penned: "So sad it's my last 80's & 90's mixed tape show on @bbclincs & @bbchumberside this Sunday - but looking forward to a new chapter!

"No I am not going in to building houses (not getting my Cboobies out either).

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"I just want to spend more time with my own boys Phoenix, Indiana & @aydencallaghan."

Sarah-Jane continued: "I am also steadfastly trying to change the terrible current education system for the performing arts & through the @curioustheatre19 provide more opportunities for underprivileged kids wanting a career in the old showbiz.

"It's a big fight for little old me to take on but my with my new blonde locks I will give my best go!

"I will miss all my regular listeners terribly but like the terminator - I will be back!

"Thank you @bbclincs for giving me a second chance with the BBC... a feat only myself and the great Richard Bacon have managed I think.

Make sure you tune in for my last show 2-6pm this Sunday on @bbclincs @bbchumberside @bbcsounds - let go out with bang old skool disco style!!! Whatever could go wrong."

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One follower commented: "We will be listening xx."

Another added: "Oh NO. Moving onto something new ?. Will miss you."

While a third penned: "Good luck, sarah Jane."

Sarah-Jane was well known to a whole generation of youngsters, fronting shows such as Tikkabilla, Higgeldy House alongside Justin Fletcher and Zing Zillas. 

In 2001, near-naked photos of the children's TV host saw her hitting the headlines for all the wrong reasons.

The former CBeebies host from Nottingham posed topless, lying on a giant plate of food in London’s Trafalgar Square, for a now infamous Peta advert.

Additional shots of her in a skimpy vest pouring Diet Coke over her chest soon ended her kids' TV career. 

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“After that, all the doors were slammed in my face,” Sarah-Jane told Fabulous in 2023.

“I couldn’t get any auditions because people didn’t take me seriously and just passed me off as a children’s TV weirdo. Financially it was an absolute disaster.”

Sarah Jane Honeywell, a Tikkabilla presenter, reads a book with Tamba the puppet.
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She is well-known to a generation for her work on CBeebiesCredit: BBC
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