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Adrian Chiles on Daybreak: I sat there like a bag of potatoes

The show was axed after it struggled to take off with viewers.
The show was axed after it struggled to take off with viewers. The show was axed after it struggled to take off with viewers.

Adrian Chiles has said he knows why Daybreak was not a success – he is “hopeless” in the mornings.

Chiles and his Daybreak co-presenter, Christine Bleakley, were dropped a little over a year after the ITV early-morning programme first went on air.

It was later replaced by Good Morning Britain.

According to the Daily Mirror, Chiles tells BBC show I’ll Get This: “I failed abominably. I’m just hopeless in the mornings.

Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley (
Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley ( Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley (Yui Mok/PA)

“I can exist, I don’t mind being up – I just don’t like talking to anyone. I looked miserable, I was sullen, I sat there like a bag of potatoes.

“And I dragged everyone down with me the minute I walked in at 5am.”

Of leaving his job on The One Show, he says: “We were pulling in five million viewers and had Roger Moore asking to come on.

“But you don’t learn from success, you learn from failure.”