Radio 2 listeners usually wake to Zoe Ball ’s familiar voice over the airwaves, but the star has been missing from her Breakfast show for the past few days. On Friday, August 9, Gaby Roslin could be heard welcoming the 6.30am audience instead of the 53-year-old presenter.
This unexpected absence has stretched into this morning’s show too, with Scott Mills taking over for Zoe and joking listeners hadn’t ‘overslept’. The BBC confirmed to Metro.co.
uk that Zoe would be taking time off and planned to return in September but offered no further details. Usually, presenters will give listeners a heads-up if they plan to be off but on Zoe’s last show on Thursday, she simply said: ‘See you at dawn’. Her last shock time off came after her mum’s sudden death in April , 12 weeks after receiving a cancer diagnosis.
‘Good Morning. You weren’t expecting me, were you? Welcome to Monday. It’s Scott Mills,’ the 51-year-old presenter announced.
Aware that his voice might cause panic as Scott usually fills an afternoon slot on the popular BBC radio station. He explained: ‘If you set your alarm every morning to go off at 6.30 and normally Zoe comes on please do not freak out.
You have not overslept. ‘I’m here doing the Breakfast Show do not panic. It’s early.
You aren’t late for work. It’s Monday 12th August.’ Scott gave no further details about Zoe’s absence and the star herself has not given any further information.
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