Sunday Brunch hosts Simon Rimmer and Tim Lovejoy announce huge shake up to Channel 4 show

TV presenters Simon Rimmer and Tim Lovejoy announced a major change for their Channel 4 show Sunday Brunch after 13 years as hosts of the weekend cooking programme

Simon Rimmer and Tim Lovejoy have confirmed a huge shake up to their hit show Sunday Brunch after 13 years.

The presenting duo have been entertaining Channel 4 viewers for over a decade after launching the Sunday show in March 2012. They began hosting the programme when their BBC series Something for the Weekend was axed. Simon and Tim wrapped up their final episode of Sunday Brunch for 2024 today and made an annoucement.

The pair confirmed the show would be returning in the new year, yet with a different timeslot. Sunday Brunch will now air 30 minutes later and run from 10am till 1pm. Currently, the show kicks off at 9:30am until 12:30pm. Fans will still get their full three-hour fix of the cooking show with the change in place.

Simon and Tim said the new schedule will officially start on their next programme on January 5. Sunday Brunch initially ran for two hours from 9:30am and 11:30am. However, bosses were impressed and soon added an extra hour to the show. Spin-off programme Daily Brunch aired in 2014 as well as a Saturday edition, which aired on weekends when major horse racing events took place.

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The show would be renamed as Weekend Brunch and saw Girls Aloud’s Kimberley Walsh step into hosting duties. She would host the show alongside Simon and Tim on-location at various racing events. Tim had to take some time out of the show when he had a back operation, meaning Johnny Vegas filled in.

Earlier this year, Simon revealed to the Mirror how Sunday Brunch isn’t just about celebrating fine food, but also there to help platform up and coming music artists. “I think the older I get, then the more varied my musical tastes go, and we’re very lucky on Sunday brunch that we have such a diverse range of acts [performing on the show] – we really do,” Simon told us.

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“For example, we had Ride on last weekend, who I hadn’t really listened to since the nineties, and they’re got a new album out and it’s fantastic,” the Sunday Brunch presenter continued. “Then equally, you’ll get somebody like English Teacher who were on our playlist and you go ‘Wow! What a fantastic different sound that they’ve got’.

“So my [musical taste] is incredibly diverse and even with things that I was listening to when I was growing up in the seventies, I still like. I still listen to The Eagles in Fleetwood Mac and and ELO So I I find the older I get, the more diverse my musical taste.” Just a few weeks ago, the Sunday Brunch hosts were mocked over the name of a new segment.

Tim told viewers: “Since it’s Spotify Wrapped season we wanted to look back at Simon’s ‘Rimcaps’ and see which dishes have been the most popular online.” He stumbled: “It’s Rimcaps Wrapped… Unwrapped,” Tim stumbled, setting off a wave of giggles. Guest Joe Lycett cheekily said: “Is it wrapped or unwrapped?” and added: “Just to clarify, it’s called Rimcap? And everyone’s OK with that?” Simon responded with a grin: “I’m fine with that, Joe.”