Reverend Richard Coles presented the Saturday Live show for 12 years on BBC Radio 4 until he left his role in March.
The broadcaster and former Strictly Come Dancing star has admitted he felt “hurtled towards the exit” as the show relocated from London to Cardiff.
Speaking to Radio Times, he explained: “I felt rather hurtled towards the exit.
“Working for an organisation like the BBC, you devote your energies to it and yet they perhaps don’t always respond with similar devotion.
“It’s a great national institution, and more power to its elbow.
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“It would just be nice if it could distinguish that elbow from its a**e sometimes.”
Rev. Richard, an ex-Church of England parish priest, co-hosted the show with Nikki Bedi who has stayed on to continue presenting Saturday Live.
The star has also appeared on shows such as QI, Have I Got News For You and Would I Lie To You?
He is hoping to make a return to the BBC in the future and signed off his final show thanking listening for “sharing their stories, surprising and moving us, a nosy man could ask for no better job”.
Rev. Richard continues to present his podcast The Rabbit Hole Detectives with archaeologist Dr Cat Jarman and historian Charles Spencer.
Over the series, they chase “the provenance of historical objects both real and metaphorical”.
The BBC said it invited both Nikki and Richard to continue hosting their Radio 4 show in Cardiff.
However as Rev. Richard declined, he was “given space to say farewell to listeners on air”.
It comes after Rev. Richard opened up on finding love again following the death of his long-term partner David Coles in 2019.
He told the Sunday Times how his new partner Dickie Cant made the first move on an online dating app and they enjoyed a first date at a Royal Horticultural Society property.
Rev. Richard explained: “I knew by the end of that lunch that I wanted to see him again. And then it just went very quickly, really.”
He added: “We seem to be very easily alongside each other in our lives.”
Read the full interview with Reverend Richard Coles in this week’s Radio Times, out now.
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