Current and former presenters on Smooth include Emma B, Simon Bates, Tony Blackburn, Paul Coia, Kate Garraway, Mark Goodier, Kevin Greening, David Jensen, Myleene Klass, Lynn Parsons, Eamonn Kelly, Andy Peebles and Graham Torrington.
As a national broadcaster, the station's flagship breakfast show was presented by Simon Bates, who left Classic FM after more than a decade to join Smooth.
In addition, Smooth has also played featured one-off specials presented by personalities such as Russell Grant, Denise Van Outen and Dionne Warwick.
[2][3] Mark Goodier also joined Smooth in London in March 2007 to present his first daily radio programme for a decade, which was networked from September of that year.
[10] Fiona Phillips was signed to present a networked Sunday afternoon show from 23 March 2008,[11] but after disappointing audience figures she was dropped from the schedule a year later.
[18][19] Former head of music at GMG Radio Terry Underhill joined the network in 2009, but left in 2011 to take up the position at UTV Media as director of programming.
[28] In January 2012 Graham Torrington joined the station to host his Late Night Love show on Sunday evenings,[29] but left after three months, and was replaced by a syndicated programme from the United States presented by Donny Osmond.
[30] In October 2012 Smooth announced stand-in presenter David Prever would become a permanent host from December, taking over from Lynn Parsons at weekends, who was confirmed as Mark Goodier's replacement on the weekday mid morning show.
[32] From 10 March 2013, Kate Thornton presented The Boots Feel Good Forum, an eight-part series dedicated to health and fitness, which aired on Smooth and its sister station, Real Radio.
[33] In August 2013, Andi Peters was signed up to present a Sunday lunchtime programme, after previously hosting a number of Bank Holiday specials for the station.
[39] On March 22 2016, it was announced that Andrew Castle would leave the Smooth Breakfast Show after two years and was replaced by Absolute Radio DJ Russ Williams.
In October 2017, Gary Vincent, previously of Magic 105.4 FM replaced Chris Skinner as presenter of the Weekday edition of The Smooth Sanctuary.
Denise Van Outen has hosted one-off shows for Smooth, covering for Emma B in May 2011,[43] presenting a special programme on Christmas Eve,[44] and again on Easter Monday 2012.
[46] The astrologer Russell Grant joined the network to present a one-off programme on 27 August (Bank Holiday Monday) featuring some of his favourite songs from the 1960s.
[48] Also over the 2012 holiday season Dionne Warwick hosted a programme in which she talked about her life in music, while Katherine Jenkins had a one-off special playing some of her favourite songs.