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Zoe Ball has announced connected Radio 2 and BBC Sounds that she has decided to measurement down arsenic presenter of the weekday Radio 2 Breakfast Show successful December.
After six years connected the programme, Zoe, 53, said that she has yet had capable of the 4am alarm calls and is hoping to pb a slower and much relaxed gait of life, and to walk much clip with her family.
She told listeners of her determination conscionable aft 8am this morning, saying she volition beryllium staying with Radio 2 but details of her caller amusement won’t beryllium revealed until the New Year. Her replacement volition beryllium announced successful the adjacent hour, she said.
Sharing the daze announcement unrecorded connected air, Zoe said: "After six unthinkable years connected the Radio 2 Breakfast Show, it’s clip for maine to measurement distant from the precise aboriginal mornings and absorption connected family. It’s been a privilege.
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PA)"I deliberation the world of you listeners and I’m grateful to my bosses present for their support, particularly this year. Huge acknowledgment spell to my awesome squad connected the show, Tina, Mike and Richie, and of people our listeners, with whom I’ve shared immoderate of life’s highs and lows, the good, the atrocious and the daft times.
"My past amusement volition beryllium connected Friday December 20, conscionable 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."
Thanking her listeners she said: "We got done the lockdown unneurotic didn’t we? We’ve shared a hellhole of a lot, the bully times, the pugnacious times, it’s been a batch of laughter and I americium going to miss you cats." Zoe said she would miss her full squad who person “become similar household to me”.
She added: “I won’t miss the 4am alarm call, if I’m wholly honest. My past meal amusement volition beryllium connected 20th December past it’s precocious kicks each the mode to Christmas. I”m got going to beryllium a alien I’m staying with the Radio 2 crew, and I’ll person much quality connected that successful the New Year."
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(Image: BBC))Thanking her bosses, she said they had ever been truthful supportive “particularly this year” - a notation to the bittersweet decease of her parent Julia, which meant she took extended permission to header with her grief.
Zoe archetypal joined BBC Radio successful October 1997 arsenic the co-host of the Radio 1 Breakfast Show with co-presenter Kevin Greening. From October 1998 to March 2000, Zoe hosted the programme solo, the archetypal pistillate to bash so.
She joined Radio 2 successful 2006, presenting documentaries and programmes astir the schedule. From 2009 to 2012, Zoe presented the Saturday aboriginal greeting meal show, returning permanently to Radio 2 successful 2017 arsenic the big of the Saturday day amusement (3-6pm).
In 2018, Zoe undertook The Hardest Ride Home Challenge for Sport Relief successful 2018, which saw her rhythm from Blackpool, the spot of her birth, to her beloved location municipality of Brighton crossed 5 days to rise implicit £1.1m for Sport Relief.
In January 2019, Zoe became the archetypal pistillate to contiguous the Radio 2 Breakfast Show, taking implicit from Chris Evans. During her clip astatine Radio 2, Zoe has interviewed immoderate of the world's astir fashionable entertainers, including Sir Michael Caine, Daniel Craig, Dame Judi Dench, Idris Elba, Hugh Grant, Chris Hemsworth and Kylie Minogue.
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