Zoe Ball sparks fresh concern as Scott Mills fills in for another week of radio

Zoe Ball is to overlook one other week of radio as listeners proceed to stay involved. Scott Mills has continued to fill in for the host in her absence.

There was a lot hypothesis round the way forward for the radio presenter after the host took an prolonged go away of absence following the demise of her mum.

Ball’s mom, Julie Peckham, was identified with superior pancreatic most cancers earlier this 12 months. In March, the BBC Radio 2 host revealed she could be taking break day from her breakfast present to take care of her.

However, a month later she shared the information that Peckham had died, aged 74.

Gaby Roslin, who together with Scott Mills, had been stepping in for Ball in her absence, introduced the information on air on 24 April.

Ball, 53, final appeared on her present on 8 August, as she tentatively returned for a quick interval. She had returned 4 days earlier earlier than Mills took over once more.

“What has occurred to Zoe Ball? She’s been off the radio for 5 weeks in complete – no point out of her in any respect the previous few weeks. I hope she’s okay,” wrote one involved fan on X/Twitter.

Her substitute host Mills had advised anxious listeners on 12 August: “For those who set your alarm each morning to go off at 6:30 am and usually Zoe comes on, please don’t freak out.”

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He continued, “You haven’t overslept. For those who’ve simply put us on this morning, it’s Scott Mills in for Zoe for the following few weeks. I’m sending you all my love Zo’, as are the staff.”

Earlier this month, the BBC confirmed her future as a spokesperson for Radio 2 advised The Impartial: “Zoe will return to the Radio 2 Breakfast Present later this month.”

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The BBC Radio 2 schedule suggests she might be again on air from Monday 23 September.

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Listeners had been overjoyed on the information as they wrote, “So blissful she’s been so missed however she’s allowed to have break day and he or she’ll be welcomed again with open arms by her buddies and colleagues and plenty of the general public together with me. I simply adore her.”

In a touching publish on her social media, Ball shared a tribute to her mum as she wrote in April, “Sleep tight expensive Mama. Thanks for educating us the right way 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 presents. we’re bereft with out you however will maintain so tight to one another.”