Zoe Ball to leave BBC Radio 2 breakfast show

Zoe Ball has announced she is stepping down arsenic presenter of Radio 2's Breakfast Show successful December.

Ball 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."

She volition stay connected the station, and said much quality connected what that would impact would beryllium announced successful the caller year.

Her past amusement volition beryllium connected Friday 20 December, "just successful clip for Christmas with plentifulness of amusive and shenanigans," she told listeners connected her Tuesday show.

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