Adrian Chiles on Daybreak: I sat there like a bag of potatoes By Press Association December 4 2018, 8:06 am December 4 2018, 8:06 am Share Adrian Chiles on Daybreak: I sat there like a bag of potatoes Share via Facebook Twitter Whatsapp Messenger Linkedin Email Post link https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/entertainment/tv-film/1624170/adrian-chiles-on-daybreak-i-sat-there-like-a-bag-of-potatoes/ Copy Link Adrian Chiles (Nick Potts/PA) Adrian Chiles has said he knows why Daybreak was not a success – he is “hopeless” in the mornings. Chiles and his Daybreak co-presenter, Christine Bleakley, were dropped a little over a year after the ITV early-morning programme first went on air. It was later replaced by Good Morning Britain. According to the Daily Mirror, Chiles tells BBC show I’ll Get This: “I failed abominably. I’m just hopeless in the mornings. Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley (Yui Mok/PA) “I can exist, I don’t mind being up – I just don’t like talking to anyone. I looked miserable, I was sullen, I sat there like a bag of potatoes. “And I dragged everyone down with me the minute I walked in at 5am.” Of leaving his job on The One Show, he says: “We were pulling in five million viewers and had Roger Moore asking to come on. “But you don’t learn from success, you learn from failure.”