Zoe Ball has tuned in for her last ever BBC Radio 2 breakfast show, and it’s an emotional one (Picture: BBC Morning Live)
Zoe Ball has shared she’s already cried multiple times this morning and can ‘barely remember [her] name’ as she takes to the air for her BBC Radio 2 breakfast show for the last time.
‘I can barely remember my own name this morning,’ the British DJ, 54, shared after opening her last show with One More Time by Daft Punk.
Quoting adapted lines from Les Miserables’ One Day More, she told listeners: ‘Another day, another destiny, one final show from me, ZB… only joking I’m not going to sing, let’s have some Daft Punk.’
‘We’ve had some tears already,’ Zoe told listeners tuning in for her big farewell to the show after six years, adding: ‘I’ve already had a little cry.’
Zoe seemed overwhelmed as she said, ‘We don’t know quite what to do this morning,’ while talking about her departure, which was announced in November.
Upon announcing her decision to leave her early morning weekday slot, Zoe cited her loved ones as the reason.
She ‘barely knows her own name’ this morning (Picture: BBC/PA Wire)
This weekend, she said she’s flying to see her son Woody, 24, with her daughter Nelly, 14 – who she shares with ex husband DJ Fatboy Slim – while asking listeners for their pre-Christmas plans.
The broadcaster – who became the first woman ever to present the show in 2019 – also shared that she would be having ‘a good old blub’ too.
Zoe also got recorded message from the one and only Kylie, who said: ‘Thank youfor an incredible six years, the nation loves you and I love you. Everytime I’ve been in to see you it’s been so much fun.’
The Spinnin Around hitmaker reminisced how Zoe has been there through some of her biggest moments, like when they chatted before she performed the Glastonbury legend slot in 2019.
The Aussie star also recalled how Zoe was the first person ‘anywhere in the world’ to play her pop megahit Padam Padam.
‘You’re the best. We’re all going to miss you. But goodbye morning alarm. We wish you all the joy and success,’ Kylie added.
Zoe also thanked Oti Mabuse for her ‘gorgeous message’ this morning, that ‘made [her] cry too’.
Scott Mills will take Zoe’s place, having already filled in for the mum-of-two during her unexplained absence earlier this year.
Announcing her departure, Zoe described her stint there as ‘incredible’, despite the ‘very early mornings’.
Telling her listeners about her decision to bow out, she said: ‘I’ve decided it’s time to step away from the early alarm call and start a new chapter.
‘We’ve shared a hell of a lot: the good times, the tough times; there’s been a lot of laughter. And I am going to miss you cats.’
She added she would also miss her colleagues, saying they were ‘like family to [her]’.
The early morning presenter added that the one thing she definitely will not miss is the sound of her alarm going off at 4am.
‘You know I love you all to bits,’ she sweetly told her audience.
In recent months, Zoe has revealed her long-term battles with the chronic health condition, temporomandibular joint disorder, otherwise known as TMJ which causes pain and tenderness in jaw joints.
She’s had a tough year, having lost her mum Julia in April. Zoe described how she was ‘bereft’ but said her mum’s smile and grace would ‘light the stars to guide us’.
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