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BBC Breakfast star Victoria Valentine has announced she’ll soon be taking a break from the news programme to pursue a different dream.

The 39-year-old BBC journalist is heading back to university to study a masters course in psychological sciences.

Taking to Instagram, the newsreader revealed: “I wanted to let you in on something I’ve been thinking about and working towards for some time now.

“I am taking a little bit of a break from broadcasting and from the BBC in order to explore something new.

“So I – at the grand old age of 39 – going back to university.”

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She continued: “I am enrolled in a full-time masters course, psychological sciences, which I’ve kind of sold to my parents as a bit of neuroscience with some thinking and feeling stuff attached to it.”

Detailing how she would be studying for at least four years, she went on: “You can probably understand why that would appeal and be something I’m interested in.

“Should that all go well and I’m not terrible at it, I’ll be looking to progress and do a doctorate. Perhaps four years from now you’ll be looking at Dr Valentine.”

She explained she has about a month left on the show and would say goodbye before her exit from the show.

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“I’ve got a month left of the odd shift at BBC News and I’ve got some shifts at BBC Breakfast too,” she continued.

Victoria concluded her Instagram story video by stating: “I’ll be on the red sofa this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, so do join me for that.”

Victoria joined the BBC in 2008 as a senior broadcast journalist, producing business and economic stories for BBC News.

She became a news presenter in 2013, where she reported on bulletins and breaking stories.

Two years later she began to front multiple programmes on BBC World News and has starred as a business correspondent and stand-in presenter on BBC Breakfast.

BBC Breakfast airs daily from 6am on BBC One.

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