{"id":204732,"date":"2025-06-22T09:04:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T09:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/204732\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T09:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T09:04:35","slug":"bbc-breakfast-star-naga-munchetty-left-really-offended-by-colleagues-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/204732\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Breakfast star Naga Munchetty left ‘really offended’ by colleague’s remark"},"content":{"rendered":"

Naga Munchetty has said she was left “really offended” by a comment made by one of her colleagues, in regards to her appointment as a presenter on BBC Breakfast<\/p>\n

Christopher Sharp<\/strong> Trendswatch Reporter<\/p>\n

06:00, 21 Jun 2025<\/p>\n

\"NagaNaga Munchetty said she was “really offended” by a colleague’s remark(Image: Getty)<\/p>\n

BBC Breakfast <\/a>presenter Naga Munchetty<\/a> has admitted she was left in despair over a colleague’s insensitive remark about her career.<\/p>\n

Naga, 50, was speaking on the Second Act with Ateh Jewel podcast when she started reflecting upon the early days of her professional life.<\/p>\n

Naga has been working on BBC<\/a> Breakfast since 2010, and told Ateh that she was told repeatedly by online trolls that she was the \u201ctoken appointment\u201d and a box-ticking exercise.<\/p>\n

She added that this statement came up again when she was talking to an unnamed colleague about how she was initially perceived.<\/p>\n

Naga explained: \u201cIn the early days, I was told repeatedly I was the token appointment, I was ticking a box.<\/p>\n

\u201cI spoke to a colleague not so long ago who was talking to me about different opportunities, and I was talking about how when I got Breakfast, I was seen as the token appointment and they actually said to me, \u2018Well, but you\u2019re not anymore are you? Because you\u2019ve proven yourself in the job\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey didn\u2019t know what they said, and I\u2019m really offended, and I just thought, \u2018I haven\u2019t got time to explain to you what you\u2019ve just said\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"NagaNaga has been open about her adenomyosis diagnosis in recent years<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on the podcast, Naga opened up about her personal battle with adenomyosis <\/a>and what happens when the condition spreads.<\/p>\n

She said: \u201cWhen it’s spread outside the uterus, it goes into the muscle, and so when it grows, it tears the muscle.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s spread into my upper thighs and my lower back, and so that’s when you have [flare-ups]. I now take medication to control, suppress the production of my hormones so that these don’t flare.\u201d<\/p>\n

Naga first started talking about her adenomyosis diagnosis in 2023 and has campaigned for improvements to women\u2019s health <\/a>in the UK.<\/p>\n

\"NagaNaga’s story has been an inspiration to many<\/p>\n

Adenomyosis is a condition that affects the lining of the womb, known as the endometrium, and can grow within the muscular wall of the womb as well.<\/p>\n

Speaking on BBC Radio 5 Live, she described just how painful the condition has been for her. She said: \u201cThe pain was so terrible I couldn’t move, turn over, sit up. I screamed non-stop for 45 minutes. Right now as I sit here talking to you: I am in pain. Constant, nagging pain. In my uterus. Around my pelvis.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes it runs down my thighs. And I’ll have some level of pain for the entire show and for the rest of the day until I go to sleep.”<\/p>\n

Naga is due to appear on an episode of Blankety Blank tonight on BBC One at 8pm.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Naga Munchetty has said she was left “really offended” by a comment made by one of her colleagues,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8818],"tags":[192,15339,381,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-204732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bristol","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-bbc-breakfast","10":"tag-bristol","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-england","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114726218444072968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}