Tim Davie has declared pride for the BBC team as he speaks out publicly for the first time since his resignation on Sunday.
Speaking outside the corporation's London headquarters, the outgoing director-general lauded "everyone across the BBC doing their thing for the UK".
He added: "Personally I'm here to lead and support them.
"The BBC is going to be thriving and I support every one of the team. I'm very proud of them. Thank you very much."
Mr Davie and BBC News Chief Deborah Turness announced their resignation on Sunday after the broadcaster became embroiled in a row over its impartiality.
On Monday, Ms Turness broke her silence as she addressed reporters outside the BBC central London offices.
The outgoing CEO of BBC News has declared that there is "no institutional bias" in the British broadcaster.
She further claimed that the broadcaster was "had made mistakes" as she addressed journalists outside the organisation's London Headquarters.
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Ms Turness told reporters: "There is no institutional bias. Mistakes are made, but there's no institutional bias."
Her comments came just hours before it was revealed that Donald Trump threatened the BBC with a $1billion lawsuit amid claims the broadcaster edited a speech by the US President.
In letter to the broadcaster, Mr Trump's lawyer, Alejandro Brito, set out a number of demands following allegations it had edited a speech by the President in an episode of Panorama broadcast the week before last year's US election.
The letter, seen by GB News, demands "a full and fair retraction" of the documentary and "any and all other false, defamatory, disparaging, misleading, and inflammatory statements about President Trump in as conspicuous a manner as they were originally published", as well as an apology and compensation.
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Speaking exclusively on The Late Show Live, Donald Trump's lawyer has told GB News his three key demands as the President accosts the lawsuit.
Alejandro Brito shared that Mr Trump was "extremely frustrated" with what he described as "false and defamatory reporting" by the corporation’s Panorama episode.
"The President seeks three things: a full retraction, an apology, and a monetary settlement proposal from the BBC," Mr Brito told Britain's News Channel.
He added that the President will "hold accountable those that engage in and peddle falso information and untruthful statements".
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"He's upset about it for his own benefit and really for the community as a whole," he shared.
Mr Trump responded to the duo of resignations on Sunday, saying top people in the BBC were quitting or being fired "because they were caught 'doctoring' my very good (PERFECT!) speech of January 6th".
"These are very dishonest people who tried to step on the scales of a Presidential election," he wrote.
"What a terrible thing for Democracy!"