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Zoe Ball's BBC Radio 2 replacement is revealed after presenter announces she's taking time away from show following devastating family news


The Radio DJ, 53, said she and her family were going through 'tough times' amid her mother Julia Peckham's diagnosis but praised her for being 'brave'.

She also took the time to thank her friend Gaby Roslin for stepping in for her in recent weeks, and suggested that the presenter, 59, would be covering her future shifts too. She also took the time to thank her friend Gaby Roslin for stepping in for her in recent weeks, and suggested that the presenter, 59, would be covering her future shifts too (pictured in October) In a 2013 interview with The Mail on Sunday, Zoe told how after her parents split up, she lived with her father and step mother.

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