Today show entertainment reporter Brooke Boney breaks down in tears as she bids farewell to the breakfast program READ MORE: Inside Brooke Boney's rapid rise to success as Today show host By Jimmy Briggs For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:53 BST, 16 August 2024 | Updated: 01:57 BST, 16 August 2024 e-mail View comments Brooke Boney became teary-eyed on Friday as she was given an emotional farewell on the Today show, ahead of her moving to England to study. The news and entertainment reporter, 37, who began working with the Channel Nine breakfast show in January 2019 , was given flowers from her colleagues as she gave a heartfelt statement live on-air. 'I'd like to say thank you to the audience for accepting me.
I'm grateful to every one of you for tuning in every day,' Brooke began. 'It's a privilege to go over to Oxford, but it is even more of one that I have got this much love around me. It makes it difficult to leave.
' The veteran presenter added her appointment on the show was a huge milestone for Indigenous Australians, and thanked the team for taking a chance on her. 'Today was the first breakfast show in the country to put an Aboriginal person on as a full time host. Now it is a very normal thing to do in this time slot, and I'm proud of that.
' Host Karl Stefanovic , 50, then paid tribute to Brooke with some touching words: 'We love you and everything you represent, and how hard you work. You have such an immediate connection with everyone.' Meanwhile, co-host Sarah.