Former Key 103 breakfast show hosts Mike Toolan and Chelsea Norris have delighted fans by sharing 'reunion' photos from a night out together.
The former Mike and Chelsea in the Morning radio duo sparked nostalgia and calls for them to work together again after they shared photos on social media.
They met up with fellow breakfast show teammates Matt Haslam and Hugh Ferris and Trevor Jordan head of creative at Bauer Media Manchester.
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Chelsea left Castlefield-based Key 103 in June 2016 just nine weeks after she had returned to the show from maternity leave after welcoming her daughter Minnie.
She later said she was told by bosses that the show “wasn’t working and it was time for change."
Chelsea, who had been at the station as breakfast show co-host alongside Mike for 11 years, went on to present the breakfast show for BBC Radio Manchester until February this year.
Mike now presents the 10am to 1pm show for national network Hits Radio after Key 103 was rebranded and entered a new era with owners Bauer Media.
"Great night with old friends x" said Chelsea on her Instagram.
"Always loved you and Mike on the radio - nothing has ever quite been so good xx" said one fan.
"Why I am feeling emotional about this get together," said another.
"Original Key 103 dream team," another told her.
"Please please please host a show or event or anything ..u two together are gold,"another commented.
"Radio has never been the same," said another fan.
And another told her: "This is so lovely, it made me happy. Life’s too short the past is the past. Glad you had a great night."
Mike tweeted with another photo: "These wonderful souls. The Key103 breakfast show from back in the day."
And Trevor said about the reunion: "It’s taken a national pandemic to get this team back together.. 5 years on - This is the @Key103BreakfastShow back together."
After Chelsea's departure Key 103 issued a statement claiming that, while it had chosen to axe her role, it was the presenter’s decision to leave sooner rather than later.
In December 2016 it was announced that she had been replaced by former Emmerdale and Hollyoaks star Gemma Atkinson who joined Mike and Matt in the studio to host the breakfast show.
Just hours later Chelsea told her side of the story and said leaving had 'broke her heart'.
She said in a statement released on Twitter: “I had a year left on my contract at Key in July but after having Minnie they decided the show wasn’t working and it was time for change - it’s true I decided when to go but the option to stay was not there. And what I announced on air was what was best for 'all' concerned.
“The sad fact is - I loved my job and I didn’t want to leave. But you can’t make somebody love you and as soon as they told me - in my heart I knew it was time to go."
In February the following year Chelsea hosted BBC Radio Manchester’s Drive show in the afternoons.
And from March 2018 she presented the breakfast show and was reunited on the airwaves with former Key 103 newsreader Paul Lockitt.
In February Chelsea decided to quit her BBC show following her maternity leave with her son Barney.
Chelsea, who welcomed baby boy Barney in May 2020 with her husband Ben Postma-Tonge, said returning wouldn't be 'right' for her family.
The doting mum said the past 12 months had led her to reevaluate.
Asked if she was coming back, she told her stand-in host Becky Want: "I'm afraid I'm not. I'm not coming back. I'm really sorry."
Chelsea, from Stockport, had made the decision to bring her maternity leave forward because of the coronavirus pandemic.
During her maternity leave she launched her own interiors shop in Bramhall called Minnie and Ted’s, named after her daughter and the family's beloved pet dog.
