Karen Koster is our February cover star.
It is her first sit-down interview since she announced that she would be leaving our television screens.
She announced in November that she would be leaving The Six O’Clock Show.
While clearing out her mum, Brenda’s house shortly after she passed away in 2022, Karen came across all her old VIP shoots which her mum had collected down through the years.
Pouring over them, it came to her then, that she had done enough, that life is short, that kids grow up fast (Finn is 9, JJ, 8, Eve, 5). And so she wrote that resignation letter and with that a new chapter opened.
As we sit down with her, we tell her that she gave us a shock as we thought she was returning!
“I never said I was retiring! I just said I couldn’t be a Virgin Media staff member anymore!” she tells us.
“Being a staff member is a major security, it’s something no one gives up easily so writing that resignation letter was hard. I also had never quit anything in my life before. What I said was, ‘I’m not never going to work again, it’s just I can’t show up four days a week anymore’.”
However, she knew that she wouldn’t be leaving her work-life behind completely.
“I’m not made to be a stay-at-home mum – I think that’s a far harder job than going to work every day. But I did need a bit more flexibility because there’s no working from home when you’re a TV presenter.”
To read our full interview with Karen Koster pick up the February issue of VIP Magazine which is on shelves nationwide right now
