Steph McGovern stops daily Channel 4 show so family can get ‘our home back’
TV host joked she may still be wearing slippers when show returns to Channel 4 studio in the coming months
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Your support makes all the difference.Steph McGovern has announced that she is halting her home-made Channel 4 show in order to give her family their home back.
The journalist and presenter, who has a six-month-old daughter, was originally due to host The Steph Show, a new lunchtime programme, from a studio in Leeds.
However, she has been going live from her family living room in Harrogate for the past month because of the coronavirus lockdown.
“As much as I've loved doing a lockdown show at home I never expected it to go on this long,” she tweeted.
“We've decided it's time to have a break and give my family our home back.”
McGovern said she hopes to resume broadcasting from the new studio in the coming months, once they are “safely up and running”. She joked that she “may still be wearing slippers” once the show has moved.
A Channel 4 spokesperson said: “The Steph Show will be back on air later this year when it will be broadcast live from Leeds Dock as always planned.”
McGovern will host the final lockdown version of the show on 7 May.
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