Zoe Ball is leaving her BBC Radio 2 breakfast present after six years.
The 53-year-old, who just lately misplaced her mom to most cancers, will current her final present on Friday, 20 December.
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Ball leaves Wogan Home together with her alternative, Scott Mills. Pic: PA
She mentioned she was leaving to concentrate on household, however will stay a part of the Radio 2 workforce and can give additional particulars subsequent 12 months.
” I believe the world of you all, listeners, and it really has been such a privilege to share the mornings with you, to undergo life’s little ups and downs, we bought by way of the lockdown collectively, did not we?
“We’ve shared a hell of a lot, the good times, the tough times, there’s been a lot of laughter. And I am going to miss you cats.”
Scott Mills will exchange Ball on the breakfast present following her departure subsequent month.
“Zoe and I have been such good friends now for over 25 years and have spent much of that time as part of the same radio family here at Radio 2 and also on Radio 1,” he mentioned.
“She’s done an incredible job on this show over the past six years, and I am beyond excited to be handed the baton.”
Hugging outdoors the BBC constructing on the day of the announcement, Ball mentioned she was “really chuffed for my mate and really excited about it”.
Ball was the primary feminine host of each the BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 breakfast reveals, beginning on the Radio 1 breakfast present in 1998, and taking up her present Radio 2 function from Chris Evans in 2020 after he left the present.
She took a break from internet hosting her present over the summer time, returning in September.
Forward of her stint in radio, Ball – who’s the daughter of kids’s presenter Johnny Ball – co-hosted the BBC’s Saturday morning youngsters’s journal present Reside & Kicking alongside Jamie Theakston for 3 years from 1996.
She has two youngsters, Woody and Nelly, together with her ex-husband, DJ and musician Norman Prepare dinner, recognized professionally as Fatboy Slim.
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Ball mentioned in her announcement her final present in the direction of the tip of December shall be “just in time for Christmas with plenty of fun and shenanigans”.
“I’m excited to embrace my next chapter, including being a mum in the mornings, and I can’t wait to tune in on the school run!”
Helen Thomas, head of Radio 2, mentioned: “Zoe has woken up the nation on Radio 2 with incredible warmth, wit and so much joy since January 2019, and I’d like to thank her for approaching each show with as much vim and vigour as if it were her first. I’m thrilled that she’ll remain an important part of the Radio 2 family.”
Mills, 51, bought his first presenting function aged simply 16 for an area station in Hampshire, and went on to current in Bristol and Manchester, earlier than becoming a member of BBC Radio 1 in 1998.
He is beforehand labored as a canopy presenter on Radio 2, however that is his first everlasting function on the station.
