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Chiles, Bleakley cut from Daybreak?

Bleakley and Chiles set to go separate ways
Bleakley and Chiles set to go separate ways

Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley have reportedly been axed from ITV's morning show Daybreak.

Following dwindling figures, the two are set to leave the breakfast show "within weeks", The Sun reports. A source said "ITV have tried everything to make the show work, but viewers are fed up with Adrian and Christine".

Following the media coverage this morning, Bleakley took to Twitter to say "Morning, what a lovely headline to wake up to. My sarcasm comes across in this tweet I hope x"

The show has seen figures fall as low as 350,000, whereas its main competitor BBC Breakfast averages between 1.5 and 1.7million viewers.

Chiles, 44, and Bleakley, 32, were brought from BBC's One Show to ITV last year but haven't quite connected with morning audiences.

The vision for the show was to replace GMTV when it was first broadcast only 14 months ago. The shake-up will come as former BBC Breakfast editor David Kermode joins the team in December.

Meanwhile, Bleakley has just been announced as the successor to Holly Willoughby, joining the presenting team of Dancing On Ice.

Speaking about the new job, she tweeted "Thank you so much for all your Dancing on Ice good luck messages...Holly is a legend and she's a tough act to try and follow so feeling really nervous but incredibly excited Xx"

An official announcement regarding Daybreak and its team is set to be made on December 1st.

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