Zoe Ball's future career teased as presenter 'sparks bidding war over TV return'

BBC Radio 2 presenter Zoe Ball announced that she's leaving her meal amusement adjacent period and there's present speculation implicit a imaginable TV instrumentality pursuing her departure

Presenter Zoe Ball is reportedly being eyed up by rival companies implicit a imaginable instrumentality to TV, pursuing the quality that she's leaving her BBC Radio show adjacent month.

Zoe, 54, announced her upcoming departure from BBC Radio 2's meal amusement earlier this month. The quality came conscionable months aft her extended absence implicit the summer, pursuing her precocious parent Julia Peckham's death successful April.

The vigor big told fans successful her connection that she had "decided it's clip to measurement distant from the aboriginal alarm telephone and commencement a caller chapter," though has assured that she volition inactive enactment with the vigor station successful immoderate capableness aft her exit. There's present speculation that she could prosecute TV projects erstwhile she leaves the amusement adjacent month.

The Sun reports that Zoe is acceptable to relaunch her on-screen vocation adjacent year, adding that ITV and Netflix are some thought to beryllium eyeing her up already. The outlet has suggested that there's present a "bidding war" implicit her TV instrumentality and teases that she whitethorn extremity up with much projects extracurricular the BBC.

A root told the outlet: "The 'life's excessively short' mantra she seems to beryllium adopting doesn't conscionable widen to leaving the gruelling occupation of doing the Radio 2 Breakfast Show, it present includes looking astatine going backmost to her TV roots.

"After all, she sees her contemporaries similar Claudia Winkleman, Tess Daly, and Davina McCall appearing connected prime-time shows. It seems there's ne'er been a amended clip to beryllium a fifty-something pistillate successful TV presenting, and Zoe already brings with her a immense following."

Zoe roseate to fame much than 3 decades agone arsenic a presenter, fronting shows similar SMart, Live & Kicking and Top of the Pops successful the 1990s. She nevertheless pursued opportunities arsenic a vigor big during the decennary excessively and successful caller years has go known for enactment connected BBC Radio.

She's appeared connected assorted TV shows implicit the years though, including presenting Strictly Come Dancing companion amusement It Takes Two for the BBC from 2011 to 2020. More recently, she hosted ITV endowment amusement Mamma Mia! I Have a Dream past twelvemonth and is simply a formed subordinate connected Celebrity Gogglebox.

Announcing her departure from her BBC Radio 2 meal amusement recently, Zoe told fans: "Ok you beauteous bunch, I person immoderate news. After six years of amusive times alongside you each connected the Breakfast 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 world 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. I'm going to miss my astonishing Prod Squad who I adore. Already missing Mike, I'm going to miss Tina and Richie. They've each go similar household to me, similar you lot. But I won't miss the 4am alarm call, if I'm wholly honest. So my past Breakfast amusement volition beryllium with you connected the 20th of December and past its precocious kicks each the mode to Christmas, gang.

"I'm not going to beryllium a stranger, I'm staying successful the Radio 2 unit and household due to the fact that it's an astonishing household - arsenic we saw past week with Paddy's fantastic Children successful Need challenge- and I'll person much quality connected that successful the New Year. I conscionable privation to accidental I'm truthful grateful to my unthinkable brag ladies, to Helen and Laura and Lorna and Fiona, they person ever been truthful supportive of maine particularly successful this occupation and peculiarly this year, truthful convey you ladies."

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