{"source_url": "https://www.radiotimes.com", "url": "https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2019-12-31/bbcs-louise-minchin-quits-social-media-following-online-abuse/", "title": "BBC\u2019s Louise Minchin quits social media following online abuse", "top_image": "https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/3/2019/12/14939219-high_res-bbc-breakfast843-c5c9589.jpg?quality=45&resize=620,413", "meta_img": "https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/3/2019/12/14939219-high_res-bbc-breakfast843-c5c9589.jpg?quality=45&resize=620,413", "images": ["https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/3/2019/07/bbc-top-stars-5f7495f.png?quality=90&resize=620,413", "https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/3/2019/12/riviera-brochure-c7f52c9.png?quality=90&resize=100,100", "https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/3/2019/03/Screen-Shot-2019-03-25-at-09.03.40-b6aca21.png?quality=90&resize=620,413", "https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/3/2019/12/ipso-sq-7800070.png?quality=90&resize=150,150", "https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/3/2017/08/cropped-radiotimes-header-logo-ad1202c.png?quality=90&resize=265,55", "https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/3/2019/08/python-footer-abc7d82.png?quality=90&resize=100,100", "https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/3/2019/12/14939219-high_res-bbc-breakfast843-c5c9589.jpg?quality=45&resize=620,413", "https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/3/2019/04/Screen-Shot-2019-04-09-at-09.44.46-06865a5.png?quality=90&resize=620,413", "https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/3/2019/05/the_jeremy_kyle_show_16-fafc01e.jpg?quality=45&resize=620,413", "https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/3/2019/12/GettyImages-861914138-f2dde7c.jpg?quality=90&resize=620,413", "https://images.immediate.co.uk/production/volatile/sites/3/2019/11/RT-cover-crown-6339ab4.png?quality=90&resize=100,100"], "movies": [], "text": "BBC Breakfast presenter Louise Minchin has quit social media after receiving online abuse.\n\nAdvertisement\n\nThe TV host said that the decision to leave sites such as Facebook and Twitter was \u201ca long time coming\u201d.\n\nGet the latest TV and entertainment news direct to your inbox Thanks! 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For more information about how we hold your personal data, please see our privacy policy.\n\nWriting in wrote in Cheshire Life magazine, She said: \u201cYou might think I am oversensitive (I probably am), and need to grow a thicker skin (I probably do), but the truth is I can read a hundred nice comments about me but it will be the nasty one I will remember, try as I might to shrug it off.\n\n\u201cRecently the level of acrimony on social media reached unnerving levels, with people constantly shouting at each other, whipping up outrage and throwing around wild assumptions.\n\n\u201cI realised, I had had enough of reading it and being drawn into the cycle of negativity.\u201d\n\nMinchin has been a presenter on BBC Breakfast since 2006 and her current co-host Dan Walker has voiced his support of her decision on Twitter.\n\nIf you read some of the bile that comes through it would be easy to see why she made the decision. As Louise said\u2026 \"I was allowing people into my house to shout at me. I decided to close the front door\" ???????????? #BBCBreakfast https://t.co/3DuDSQMfQF \u2014 Dan Walker (@mrdanwalker) December 31, 2019\n\nWalker has been Minchin\u2019s co-presenter since 2016 and often features in her behind-the-scenes Instagram photos.\n\nThe two discussed the story on BBC Breakfast this morning (31st December) and Minchin clarified that she still signs in occasionally but has deleted the apps from her phone.\n\n\"Stepping back\" from social media @louiseminchin tells us why she's been spending much less time online over the festive period.#bbcbreakfast pic.twitter.com/3qCfGQnSOZ \u2014 BBC Breakfast (@BBCBreakfast) December 31, 2019\n\nMinchin added that leaving social media sites meant she has more time to be \u201creading books, watching box sets and actually using my mobile to speak to family and friends.\u201d\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s much better than falling into a rabbit hole of darkness,\u201d she added.\n\nAdvertisement\n\nMinchin is far from the first public figure to quit social media over abuse. 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