‘Going to miss you’: Viewers react to Brooke Boney’s sudden Today show resignation

Viewers were left shocked when beloved Today show presenter Brooke Boney announced she was leaving the breakfast program after five years.

Viewers has been left shocked with beloved Today show entertainment reporter Brooke Boney’s announcement she is leaving the breakfast program.

In a surprise move, the popular presenter said this morning she was saying goodbye to the show after five years to study at Oxford University in the UK.

Viewers felt bittersweet about Boney’s on-air resignation, taking to social media to express both their well wishes and heartbreak.

“You make the sun shine every day as we watch you here ... congratulations (and) good luck,” one wrote, while another fan commented, “We are all going to miss you. You are an inspiration.”

“Yewwww!! Congrats!! You’re a legend! All the best and keeps smashing it up!” wrote yet another views, with one fan also commenting, “Congratulations Brooke we will miss you but glad we still have time with you before you leave!!! Big shoes to fill.”

Brooke Boney is off to start a new chapter in the UK.

No doubt her Today colleagues were among the most saddened by the news of Boney’s departure, which will be after the Olympics, in August.

“Can I say we’re going to miss you immensely? So much,” newsreader Alex Cullen said. “We love your humour. I’m going to miss that the most. I think you don’t know where the show is going to go sometimes, and you drive that a lot, which is huge. Hasn’t gone yet. No, I know, but I’m just saying we’re going to miss you, OK.”

Boney announced she was resigning from the Today show this morning.

Her Today colleagues Alex Cullen, Karl Stefanovic and Sarah Abo wished her well.

Host Karl Stefanovic was just as emotional when he told her on-air: “It’s a big deal to break away from something as secure as this. Yeah, it is, and it’s to make your dreams come true. And to take that step, to bite it off is a testament to you as a person and says everything about you, and as Alex said, we’ll see you at the Olympics, but we’re going have one big party afterwards.”

Boney is leaving the show to fulfil her lifelong dream of studying at Oxford.

“I settled on the Masters of Public Policy because I thought this is sort of what fits best with my journalistic career thus far,” she said on the show. “I thought if I don’t do this now, then I’m probably never going to. I am at that age where if I leave now and go and study and come back, I’ll still only be 38.”

“That still leaves plenty of time to sort of carve out the next part of what my career is. I’d love to be able to come back and still do things with Nine and figure out what that looks like.”