Paramount UK chief Sarah Rose is leaving at the end of this year to join The Royal Foundation run by Prince William and Kate Middleton.

Rose has sent a note to staff in the past few minutes. She has been President of Channel 5 (now 5) and Regional Lead, UK for Paramount since February 2024. She is a highly-rated UK TV exec who was widely tipped as a frontrunner to replace Alex Mahon as CEO of Channel 4. Instead, she will be CEO of the charitable organization overseen by the future King and his wife, a job she described in her internal staff memo as a “career-defining, unique role which I simply could not turn down.”

A process has commenced to appoint a successor to Rose, which will be overseen by Kevin MacLellan, President International and Global Content Distribution, who will be i

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