The Big Breakfast to change direction and work towards a lighter style concentrating mainly on entertainment and humour. The first two presenters were Chris Evans (from 1992 to 1994) and Gaby Roslin (1992 to 1996). At its height in 1993, viewing figures reached around two million per edition, and it was the highest rated UK breakfast television programme. Along with Evans and Roslin, Bob Geldof presented a short-lived political interview slot. His wife Paula Yates interviewed people whilst lying on a bed, and the puppet characters Zig and Zag created morning mayhem in the bathroom with Evans in a slot called 'The Crunch'.
The Big Breakfast famously went over 27 minutes for a game once, with the "Millennium Big Breakfast" actually being commissioned with extra time for Wonga. "The Big Breakfast" used to give out "wonga money" to people when they won money because they didn't want to give it to them on the show. They would give the real thing to them later. Each Friday the two main presenters and the whole crew would gather in the hallway for The Friday Song. The song would look back at events that happened on the show each week The lyrics to the chorus went as follows: ""Singing,