Radio 1 announces schedule shake-up after Jordan North departure

Jamie Laing, Vick Hope and Katie Thistleton in the BBC Radio 1 studio. Jamie is a white man in his 30s with short blonde hair and wears a black T-shirt. Vick is a black woman in her 30s and has her arm around Jamie, her head tilted to the side as she smiles. She has her long hair tired back in a pony tail and wears an orange velvet crop top and black cardigan. Katie is a white woman in her 30s with shoulder length blonde hair. She wears a blue and white striped oversized shirt and smiles at the camera.BBC Radio 1

Vick Hope says her new Going Home show with Katie Thistleton and Jamie Laing will be "a new era"

By Riyah Collins
BBC Newsbeat

Radio 1 has announced a shake-up to its schedule, weeks after Jordan North's departure from the station.

Katie Thistleton will move to his former drivetime slot from Monday 4 March, joining Vick Hope and Made in Chelsea's Jamie Laing.

Katie says she's "beyond thrilled" to be moving to the show, describing it as "beyond [her] wildest dreams".

DJ Arielle Free will also be swapping early mornings for Thursday evenings, with a new Dance Show.

Her Early Breakfast show will now be hosted by Dean McCullough.

Dean's current afternoon show which he co-hosts with Vicky Hawkesworth will be filled by Matt Edmondson and Mollie King - who will move from their weekend slot.

Matt says he "can't wait" to get started on the new weekday show from July.

"We've been so grateful to have such wonderful and loyal listeners for our weekend show, I can't wait to spend more time with them and my best bud, Matt, during the week," Mollie adds.

Radio 1 say an announcement on who will take over Matt and Mollie's weekend show will come soon.

Radio 1 announced in December that Clara would be stepping down from Future Sounds in March

Vicky Hawkesworth will work alongside Nat O'Leary on a new Radio 1 Anthems show from July, which will go out 10:30-13:00 on Friday-Sunday.

Vicky says she's "so happy to be part of an all-female duo".

But between now and Vicky and Nat's new show starting in the summer, the slot will be filled by RuPaul's Drag Race UK winner Danny Beard.

Last week it was confirmed that Jordan North was moving to Capital where he'll take over from Roman Kemp as Breakfast host.

The shuffle also coincides with Clara Amfo stepping down from her Future Sounds show on 27 March.

Chart Show host Jack Saunders will be taking over the evening slot from April, running Mondays to Thursdays between 18:00-20:00.

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