Sue Barker wishes her A Question of Sport departure was ‘handled better’ by BBC

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Sue Barker has said she “regrets” the manner in which her 24 years of hosting A Question Of Sport came to an end. Appearing on BBC Breakfast on Friday, Barker suggested that while the BBC had wanted her to say her departure was her own choice, she was instead replaced as part of a “refresh”. We knew it was going to happen and it was just the way in which it happened and the way it was handled, and the way the BBC sort of wanted me to say that I was walking away from it.” Barker said that she would “never walk away from a job I love”, adding: “I don’t mind being replaced. And I don’t look back on it badly just because of a couple of bad days and then some negative publicity, which I think affected quite a lot of people.” Sue Barker with Matt Dawson and Phil Tufnell on ‘A Question of Sport’ Writing in her forthcoming autobiography Calling The Shots, Barker said that she, Dawson and Tufnell had been shown “so little respect” when their exits were announced that she refused to return to A Question of Sport.