Vanessa Feltz has given fans an insight into her brand new YouTube show she's compared to an "adult version" of The Big Breakfast.
The 64-year-old broadcasting legend's series called At Home With Vanessa will debut in August after her Channel 5 daytime show was axed.
She's currently building a brand new studio at her London-based home where the presenter will interview celebrity guests from the comfort of her own bed in a nod to her famous Big Breakfast segment from the 90s.
'Grown-up Big Breakfast' at Feltz Towers
Speaking to the Daily Mirror, Vanessa explained: "It's going to be a kind of grown-up Big Breakfast-ish all shot at my house, which I call Feltz Towers. It's my actual house where I really live. I've lived there 24 years and there's a studio under construction right now."
"It's going to be shot in my kitchen, in my bathroom, in my bedroom, on the staircase and all over the house really. It's a Victorian Gothic folly so it's got a sort of Juliet balcony and I might well be on the balcony to greet my guests calling over the edge of it."
"It's got a mezzanine floor, which you have to climb up a ladder to get to, and the landing alone has got five different kinds of wallpaper so I hope it will look sort of very vibrant, fun and interesting in the way that the house really does."
From The Big Breakfast to Channel 5 axe
Vanessa replaced Paula Yates on Channel 4's morning show The Big Breakfast in 1996, presenting a regular item where she interviewed celebrities whilst lying on a bed, and in 1999 she moved to the BBC to host The Vanessa Show.
In 2025, she began hosting a rebooted version of Vanessa on Channel 5 as part of daytime talk show spin-off Jeremy Vine but she learned last month that her beloved programme had been axed and the final episode aired on Friday, July 17.
"I think they're saving money by putting on movies they already own instead and there are cuts everywhere in TV, it's not only me," said Vanessa, speaking on behalf of BetWright Casino. "I'm just a minuscule part of this huge thing which is devastating for absolutely everyone because people have given their lives to this business."
"I'm not the only shocked and blindsided person, certainly not, but I do what I've always done in life, which is just keep calm and carry on because what else can you do?"
A looser, more unpredictable format
Focusing on her new project, the presenter continued: "I hope At Home With Vanessa lends itself to a show that isn't just people sitting on a sofa looking very formal, talking about something in a very formal way. I hope it's kind of looser, more fun and more unpredictable than that."
"There's going to be lots of behind the scenes and lots of what's going on while we're getting ready to show it. It's going to be a pacier, livelier, a bit more unexpected and a bit more unpredictable than the usual sort of chat show. That's what I'm hoping anyway."
"I remember my very first day in The Big Breakfast house and I just thought 'oh my God what have I wandered into?'. There were some live chickens scuttling down the stairs, there were producers falling out of windows and exploding volcanoes."
"I'm not saying it'll be exactly like that but it was certainly a vibe and a really good fun thing to be part of. You never knew what was going to happen when and who was going to do what where. It was very unusual television and quite sort of boundary breaking."
"Television is very expensive when you make terrestrial TV. The cheapest kind of TV you can make is people sitting still in one studio talking whereas for YouTube, it's a bit different because it's different costs and a different vibe altogether."
