Insiders have revealed the BBC plans to air a more conventional highlights package, made up of more match action and serious punditry, with fewer pre-recorded stunts.
Viewers gasped 'I can't believe it!' after Katy Hill spoke to the programme's entertainment editor Richard Arnold, 55, about the children's live instalments being axed.
Blue Peter was once the BBC's flagship - the longest-running children's programme in the world, watched by eight million during its heyday every Monday and Thursday.
Blue Peter was once the BBC's flagship - the longest-running children's programme in the world, watched by eight million during its heyday every Monday and Thursday.
As fans as well as ex-hosts now react to the show's shock shift, MailOnline looks back at some of Blue Peter's most amusing as well as controversial episodes...
After 66 years, Blue Peter is to be taken off our television screens and moved online. Its director confirmed the show's fate, describing the move as 'the end of an era'.