Scott Mills to kick off his Radio 2 Breakfast Show

Scott Mills is kicking disconnected his BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show arsenic helium takes implicit permanently aft the exit of Zoe Ball.

The Eastleigh-born DJ is taking connected 1 of the BBC’s flagship vigor shows, which airs from 6.30am to 9.30am, and nether Ball has been the biggest British meal programme connected radio.

Ball near successful December and Mark Goodier and Gaby Roslin person sat successful to contiguous the programme temporarily.

Before taking the helm connected Monday, Mills admitted helium was a “a small spot excited, and nervous”, and said it was going to beryllium “all alteration astatine Radio 2 HQ”.

Mills added successful a Radio 2 teaser released past week that newsreader Tina Daheley and postulation and question newsman Ellie Brennan would articulation him connected the show, on with celebrated guests, and said they had “booked a choir to bash the jingles”.

He was sent champion wishes successful an Instagram video by US vocalist Katy Perry, who said she hoped to conscionable him successful October – erstwhile she performs astatine London’s O2 arena – and successful the comments conception by presenters Angellica Bell and Davina McCall.

Mills has been entertaining vigor listeners crossed the state for decades, opening his vocation aged 16 astatine a section commercialized presumption successful Hampshire.

He has hosted immoderate of the BBC’s biggest shows, including joining BBC Radio 1 successful 1998 and becoming a big of the station’s aboriginal greeting meal show.

Mills presented a assortment of programmes connected Radio 1 earlier launching his fashionable eponymous amusement successful 2004, which aired betwixt 1pm and 4pm, and aboriginal fronting The Official Chart Show from 2018.

Chris Stark joined arsenic a co-presenter connected the Scott Mills show successful 2012 and the brace became fashionable acknowledgment to a fig of humorous segments including Innuendo Bingo.

During his clip connected Radio 1, helium picked up the Audio and Radio Industry Awards (Arias) champion euphony amusement entertainment prize successful 2021 and was nominated again successful 2022.

Mills has besides co-hosted Saturday greeting shows connected BBC Radio 5 Live with Stark, and has presented the Eurovision Song Contest, commentating alongside Rylan Clark, arsenic good arsenic sitting successful for Ball.

He moved to BBC Radio 2 successful 2022 to instrumentality implicit the weekday day 2pm to 4pm slot from seasoned presenter Steve Wright, who died past year.

Last year, Mills won BBC world amusement Celebrity Race Across The World with his hubby Sam Vaughan, aft trekking crossed South America with constricted funds.

Mills has besides appeared connected Channel 4’s Gogglebox with Eurovision prima Sam Ryder and had a stint connected Strictly Come Dancing with nonrecreational spouse Joanne Clifton.

In 2022, helium completed a 24-hour treadmill challenge, raising much than £1 cardinal for BBC Children In Need.

Mills is 1 of the BBC’s biggest paid stars, with a wage of £315,000 to £319,999 successful 2023/24, according to the corporation’s yearly study published successful July.

This was up from £300,000 to £304,999 successful the erstwhile period.

Ball was the BBC’s highest-paid pistillate presenter successful 2023/24 with a wage betwixt £950,000 and £954,999, ranking her 2nd connected the database of top-earning endowment down Gary Lineker.

She took implicit from Chris Evans successful January 2019.

According to assemblage probe assemblage Rajar, an mean of 6.28 cardinal radical tuned successful to her amusement each week betwixt July and September past year.

This was the biggest assemblage for immoderate meal programme successful the UK, supra Jamie Theakston and Amanda Holden’s Heart Radio show, Today connected Radio 4 and Greg James connected Radio 1.

Later connected Monday, Trevor Nelson is picking up Mills’s erstwhile weekday 2pm to 4pm slot.