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'This is all very tricky.' What Zoe Ball's BBC colleagues say about her unexplained absence from Radio 2, reveals KATIE HIND - and why it's caused rumblings of dissatisfaction


Zoe Ball's absence since August from her breakfast show, for which she is paid just shy of £1 million per year, has been kept such a secret that even colleagues are in the dark.

So what on earth has happened to see Zoe disappear from the airwaves three days later, to be replaced by close friend Gaby Roslin and fellow Radio 2 presenter Scott Mills, who usually hosts the afternoon slot? But the Mail can also reveal that Zoe has moved house in recent weeks, selling her ­beautiful countryside home in the idyllic Sussex village of Newick which she bought for £2,025,000 in August 2020. She is understood to have upped sticks in August and moved to a townhouse between Brighton and Hove, close to her ex-husband DJ Norman Cook, the father of her two children, from whom she separated in 2016.

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