Zoe Ball has returned to her BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Present following a six week absence as she requested her listeners ‘what have I missed?’.
The veteran presenter, 53, confirmed on Sunday that she would resumed her position as host of the morning programme following a mysterious absence.
Zoe proved it was enterprise as typical as she supplied her followers a vigorous welcome again saying ‘howdy blissful wanderers, I’ve questioned again’ and telling them she hopes they loved their ‘brat summer season’.
Thanking her stand-in, Scott Miss, for holding the fort, she mentioned: ‘Thanks Scott Mills for taking care of the present for the week – extra on that later. ‘What have I missed? Textual content me! Missed ya!’
The primary music Zoe performed following her return was 1987 hit September by American band Earth, Wind & Hearth.
Zoe Ball has damaged her silence after her six week absence from BBC Radio 2
After the monitor, Zoe quipped that she hadn’t been to Turkey to bear face-altering surgical procedure throughout her break day from air.
Zoe went on to learn out messages from listers who had textual content to fill her in on what she had missed whereas away from her internet hosting job.
Zoe Ball has damaged her silence after her six week absence from BBC Radio 2.
The presenter took to social media on Sunday to verify she is going to return to her flagship present on Monday morning.
She advised followers: ‘Again to breakfast tomorrow morning 6.30.’ She added: ‘@realscottmills 7 @djspoony thanks for placing within the mega shifts.’
Zoe shared an Instagram reel of Disco Bambino’s monitor Odeon (Holdin’ On) as she added the phrases ‘Deliver it’ to the put up and tagged her Breakfast Present group.
The broadcaster, who’s the BBC‘s highest paid feminine star incomes £950,000-a-year, has been absent from her primetime radio slot since August 8 with followers rising more and more involved.
Zoe was advised to ‘take on a regular basis she wants’ following the demise of her beloved mom.
The presenter took to social media on Sunday to verify she is going to return on Monday, reposting a reel of Disco Bambino’s monitor Odeon (Holdin’ On) as she tagged her Breakfast Present group
However the thriller surrounding Zoe’s return continues to deepen amid her unexplained absence, because it’s emerged that she’s bought her countryside dwelling.
The Mail can reveal that Zoe has moved home in current weeks, promoting her stunning countryside dwelling within the idyllic Sussex village of Newick which she purchased for £2,025,000 in August 2020.
She is known to have upped sticks in August and moved to a townhouse between Brighton and Hove, near her ex-husband DJ Norman Prepare dinner, the daddy of her two youngsters, from whom she separated in 2016. They divorced in 2020.
Some counsel that the change is a ‘new begin’ for Zoe, who has been single since she break up from mannequin Michael Reed final yr after five-and-a-half years collectively.
‘Zoe clearly received fed up with life within the nation and wished to maneuver to someplace a bit extra vigorous,’ mentioned a supply with information of her new dwelling.
‘She has grow to be actually engrossed in making her home simply as she needs it and has been fortunately ordering furnishings and shopping for fine details to make it excellent.’
Certainly, Zoe was noticed at Brighton’s Churchill Sq. purchasing centre on Wednesday, with one onlooker describing their shock at seeing her.
‘Everybody has been questioning the place she has been after which there she was, proper in entrance of my eyes,’ they mentioned.
Regardless of a flurry of involved messages on-line from followers, Scott opened Zoe’s present final week with no point out of his absent colleague.
He beforehand despatched a message of help to the star whereas standing in for her on August 12, telling listeners that he was unexpectedly taking up.
‘In the event you set your alarm each morning to go off at 6:30am and usually Zoe comes on, please don’t freak out. You haven’t overslept,’ he advised listeners, including that he can be within the scorching seat for some time.
‘In the event you’ve simply put us on this morning, it is Scott Mills in for Zoe for the following few weeks. I am sending you all my love Zo, as are the group,’ he mentioned.
It comes as Zoe’s son Woody Prepare dinner revealed he is ‘glad to see her smiling by means of robust occasions’ after she was photographed being comforted by ex-husband Norman Prepare dinner, aka Fatboy Slim, exterior a café in Hove on Thursday.
In March, Zoe mentioned she can be taking break day to look after her mom Julia Peckham, who had been recognized with pancreatic most cancers (pictured along with her mom Julia in 2010)
As concern has grown round her unexplained absence – Woody, 23, who Zoe shares with Fatboy Slim – has damaged his silence on his absence.
He completely advised MailOnline: ‘My mum and I wish to maintain our non-public lives to ourselves however I’ll say I’ve stepped up and spent much more time along with her not too long ago as she has at all times been there after I’ve had robust occasions. I am glad to see her smiling.’
Sources near the star advised MailOnline she has been given ‘as a lot time as she wants’ by the BBC, who acted equally when she took break day in March to look after her in poor health mom Julia Peckham who handed away from most cancers a month later.
As Zoe was noticed for the primary time in weeks, BBC bosses are mentioned to be doing ‘every little thing they will’ to assist her return to work when she is prepared.
It comes as Zoe’s son Woody Prepare dinner revealed he is ‘glad to see her smiling by means of robust occasions’ after she was photographed being comforted by ex-husband Norman Prepare dinner, aka Fatboy Slim
Earlier than leaving her present in August, the star loved a vacation to Ibiza along with her son Woody and daughter Nelly and attended Brighton Pleasure.
She then returned to work for 3 days earlier than leaving the present.
The BBC has not supplied any rationalization for her absence, apart from a spokeswoman final week saying she might be again later this month.
Zoe has additionally been unusually quiet on social media along with her final Instagram message posted on August 5.
In March, Zoe mentioned she can be taking break day to look after her mom Julia Peckham, who had been recognized with pancreatic most cancers.
She died in April and the host returned to work on Could 13. Final yr, Ms Ball took three weeks off in Corfu to host Mamma Mia! I Have A Dream for rival ITV.
Zoe has overcome a collection of tragedies and heartbreak that led her to take time away from Radio 2 to give attention to her household earlier this yr.
Zoe’s mum Julia died in April and the host returned to work on Could 13
Within the tribute posted to Instagram (pictured), Zoe advised followers she is ‘bereft’
The BBC icon, 53, introduced in April that her mom Julia had died after a battle with pancreatic most cancers following her prognosis only a month earlier than.
Posting a tribute to her mom on social media, she mentioned: ‘Sleep tight expensive Mama.
‘Thanks for educating us find out how to love unconditionally, to at all times present braveness and empathy, and the way, even within the darkest of days, laughter is the best of items. We’re bereft with out you however will maintain so tight to one another.’
It’s the newest in a string of tragedies the beloved Radio 2 presenter has needed to endure.
Her five-and-a-half yr relationship with Michael Reed not too long ago broke down, and 7 years in the past her accomplice Billy Yates took his personal life in Could 2017.
Mr Yates’s demise got here after the breakdown of Ms Ball’s 18-year marriage to DJ Fatboy Slim, actual identify Regular Prepare dinner.
