Scott Mills to replace Zoe Ball as BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show host

Scott Mills said helium is “beyond excited” to regenerate Zoe Ball connected the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show pursuing her departure adjacent month.

Ball, who took implicit the Radio 2 greeting programme successful 2019 from Chris Evans, announced connected Tuesday she was stepping backmost from the amusement aft six years to absorption connected her family.

She volition big her past amusement connected December 20 with Mills, who presently hosts Radio 2’s weekday day programme from 2-4pm, acceptable to statesman fronting the programme from aboriginal January.

In a statement, Mills said: “Zoe and I person been specified bully friends present for implicit 25 years and person spent overmuch of that clip arsenic portion of the aforesaid vigor household present astatine Radio 2 and besides connected Radio 1.

“She’s done an unthinkable occupation connected this amusement implicit the past six years, and I americium beyond excited to beryllium handed the baton.

“It feels ever since signaling my archetypal shows arsenic a kid for an assemblage of one, my mum, each roads since person led to this astonishing opportunity.

“It truly is simply a lifelong imagination travel existent to travel successful the footsteps of Sir Terry, Chris and Zoe to beryllium the caller presenter of the Radio 2 Breakfast Show.”

Announcing the quality connected her Tuesday show, Ball said: “After six years of amusive times alongside you each connected the meal show, I’ve decided it’s clip to measurement distant from the aboriginal alarm telephone and commencement a caller chapter.

“You cognize I deliberation the satellite of you each listeners, and it genuinely has been specified a privilege to stock the mornings with you, to spell done life’s small ups and downs, we got done the lockdown together, didn’t we?

“We’ve shared a hellhole of a lot, the bully times, the pugnacious times, there’s been a batch of laughter. And I americium going to miss you cats.”

Ball took a interruption from hosting her amusement implicit the summer, returning successful September.

While I’m stepping distant from the Breakfast Show, I’m not disappearing wholly – I’ll inactive beryllium a portion of the Radio 2 family, with much quality successful the New Year

Zoe Ball

She was the archetypal pistillate big of the Radio 1 Breakfast Show successful 1998, a station she held until 2000, and she besides co-hosted the BBC’s Saturday greeting children’s mag Live & Kicking alongside Jamie Theakston for 3 years from 1996.

Discussing her past amusement connected December 20, she added: “Just successful clip for Christmas with plentifulness of amusive and shenanigans. While I’m stepping distant from the Breakfast Show, I’m not disappearing wholly – I’ll inactive beryllium a portion of the Radio 2 family, with much quality successful the New Year.

“I’m excited to clasp my adjacent chapter, including being a mum successful the mornings, and I can’t hold to tune successful connected the schoolhouse run!”

Helen Thomas, caput of Radio 2, said: “Zoe has woken up the federation connected Radio 2 with unthinkable warmth, wit and truthful overmuch joyousness since January 2019, and I’d similar to convey her for approaching each amusement with arsenic overmuch vim and vigour arsenic if it were her first. I’m thrilled that she’ll stay an important portion of the Radio 2 family.”

Ball has presented the BBC spin-off amusement Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two, and ITV’s world contention amusement Mamma Mia! I Have A Dream.