What Zoe Ball's Radio 2 colleagues really make of her absence from breakfast show

Zoe Ball, 53, has been distant from her BBC Radio 2 amusement for six weeks and immoderate of her colleagues person claimed to person been near successful the acheronian astir the crushed for her absence

Radio presenter Zoe Ball has been away from her Breakfast Show slot for six weeks and immoderate of the colleagues she sees regular are said to beryllium successful the acheronian astir the crushed for her absence.

The much-loved broadcaster, 53, past appeared connected her BBC Radio 2 amusement connected August 8 and since then, she has been replaced by different presenters including Scott Mills and Gaby Roslin. Zoe is acceptable to instrumentality to her meal amusement adjacent Monday, though she is yet to talk retired connected her instrumentality herself.

Little has been said astir the crushed for Zoe's abrupt absence, with 1 root connected Zoe's squad telling reporters: "This is each precise tricky." While Zoe's lad Woody broke his silence connected the enigma past night, telling a reporter: "My mum and I similar to support our backstage lives to ourselves but I volition accidental I person stepped up and spent a batch much clip with her precocious arsenic she has ever been determination erstwhile I've had pugnacious times. I'm gladsome to spot her smiling."

And successful the meantime, her fans person taken to societal media to explicit their concerns for the star, who is the BBC's highest-paid pistillate with an yearly wage of £950,000. Some person speculated that the presenter has been struggling aft her parent Julia Peckham abruptly passed distant from crab successful April.

Others person said Zoe, who according to the Daily Mail precocious moved location aft selling her Sussex countryside location which she bought for implicit £2million successful August 2020. She is said to person moved to a townhouse betwixt Brighton and Hove, which is adjacent to wherever her ex-husband DJ Norman Cook lives. Earlier this week Zoe was seen for the archetypal clip since taking her permission from Radio 2 with Norman.

There person besides been suggestions that moving location represents a "new start" for Zoe, who divided from her exemplary fellow Michael Reed past year. A root told the Mail: "Zoe evidently got fed up with beingness successful the state and wanted to determination to determination a spot much lively."

Zoe's lack has nary uncertainty sparked an outpouring of interest astatine Radio 2, wherever she has been a regular dependable since 2006.

One of the presenter's colleagues told the Daily Mail that Zoe is 1 of the hardest moving presenters astatine the station, connected aerial 5 days a week from 6.30am to 9.30am. They told the Mail: "Zoe's amusement is similar a tv show, really. Guests inactive really spell into the workplace alternatively than person a speedy chat connected Zoom truthful she has to beryllium afloat contiguous and look the part.

"She is up truthful aboriginal and she has a agelong travel in. She is up astatine 3am, and travels into London. You comparison that to immoderate of the different BBC employees, they person a mates of shows each week and spell location again. We person been precise acrophobic astir her and anticipation that she is OK."

Yesterday, we reported that Zoe was seen with a radical of people - including Norman Cook - extracurricular a cafe successful Hove, connected Sunday. Eyewitnesses accidental the broadcaster stayed determination for conscionable implicit an hour. Photos amusement her chatting and laughing with the radical earlier walking on the beachfront.

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