Reconstructed

Jonathan Charles, currently competing with Turnbull and Williams, Chiles and Bleakley, and Holmes and The Dolly Birds for a breakfast tv audience, is leaving the BBC in the New Year. Jonathan's main gig has been presenting BBC World four days a week from 0500-0800 (which can occasionally lead to stress), but he's been grafting for the corporation around the world for 20 years.  Boss Helen Boaden says he's driven up European morning audiences - and he'll be a loss to World News, BBC News and the general fun of life.

Despite his business acumen, Jonathan seems to be heading to the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development, which will either be the busiest banking service over the next few years, or dead along with the Euro.  He follows brother Paul into the heady world of PR. Paul fronted for Eurostar and Virgin Atlantic, and now is COO for Lewis PR.