Zoe Ball's son Woody shares touching tribute to 'mama' as six-year Radio 2 show stint ends

The 53-year-old presenter precocious announced her determination to measurement down from the £950,000-a-year relation to “focus connected family.”

Marking the milestone, Woody, 23, posted a saccharine photograph featuring himself, his 14-year-old sister Nelly, their mum Zoe, and dada Norman Cook, 61. Alongside the snap, helium wrote: "Well done Mama connected a fabulous stint connected Radio 2!"

“Heres to much clip astatine home! Excuse the full household prime can’t find capable crackers with @zoetheball. YOU ARE AMAZING. 4AM is simply a brainsick clip to get up!”

Zoe was speedy to comment, writing: “love you Bear. beyond xxx”.

Ball was antecedently joined to Cook, known arsenic Fatboy Slim, but divided successful 2016.

In an authoritative statement, she 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. I deliberation the satellite of you listeners and I’m grateful to my bosses present for their support, particularly this year.

Ball said her past amusement volition beryllium connected December 20: “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!”

Ball took implicit presenting the greeting programme successful 2019 from Chris Evans and announced her departure connected Tuesday aft six years, saying it was clip for her to “step distant from the precise aboriginal mornings and absorption connected family”.

Scott Mills, who presently hosts Radio 2’s weekday day programme from 2-4pm, volition statesman fronting the programme from aboriginal January.

The broadcaster had antecedently taken a six-week interruption from the amusement implicit the summer, during which Mills stepped successful arsenic her impermanent replacement, earlier her instrumentality successful September, and, successful April this year, announced the decease of her mother, Julia Peckham.

Ball was the BBC’s highest paid, on-air, 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, according to the corporation’s yearly study published successful July.

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 magazine, Live & Kicking, alongside Jamie Theakston for 3 years from 1996.