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Welcome back, Zoe... Let's just hope you're here to stay this time! Review by JANE FRYER

And Zoe Ball , the BBC 's highest paid presenter - on nearly £1million a year - has been off on extended unexplained leave, leaving the BBC scrabbling to fill her prime-time breakfast slot.

Zoe Ball , the BBC ’s highest paid presenter – on nearly £1million a year – has been off on extended unexplained leave (pictured back in Radio 2 studio on Monday) There are also fulsome thanks to her valiant stand-ins who’ve had to miss their own shows and cancel holidays, love for her ‘gorgeous’ audience, and chat about how thrilled she is to be back. Of course, if poor Zoe, 53, has been having a mid-life wobble and needed some compassionate leave, it would be completely understandable – her mother, Julia Peckham (pictured) died earlier this year after a horribly short battle with pancreatic cancer.

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